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　　2014年8月23日托福口语机经

　　A卷：

　　Task 1: Your university of planning to replace paper books with electronic books, what is the advantage and disadvantage of this plan?

　　Task 2: Do you agree or disagree with the statement that it's easier to teach primary school students than to teach university students.

　　Task 3

　　Modem literature has become more and more popular, so the university has adopted two approaches to enroll more students. The first way is to change small　classrooms into bigger ones, the second way is have more session in the evening.

　　The man disagrees with this. Firstly because it is more convenient to have group　discussions in small classroom, secondly because some students have part time jobs in　the evening, they may lack time to attend the class

　　Task 4

　　Aggressive recruiting

　　The sellers offer discounts during promotion period to appeal customers, then　after big sales they start to charge to make profits.　In the lecture, the professor uses an example of gym to explain how effective the　strategy is. During sales season, members can get free tutoring, but this free policy　stops after a month. Surprisingly, most of the customers continue this service and the　gym actually increases its customer basis.

　　Task 5

　　A girl was in bad mood because she made a vase in ceramic class and was　supposed to hand in on Wednesday but unfortunately she broke it into pieces this morning.

　　Solution 1: glue it together as the pieces are not tiny, but she's afraid that the　professor will discover and give her a low score.

　　Solution 2: make a new one but she has a final test for another course which she really needs to prepare.

　　Task 6

　　The professor talks about two ways how sea bottom dwellers feed themselves.

　　The first way is active method. For example, sea anemone(海葵)camouflages　into plant and parasite on other sea animals and the host will release poisonous　chemicals, so sea anemone can prey easily　The second way is passive method. For example, oysters don't move a lot but　wait for tiny organism sentt by sea water and waves.

　　B卷

　　Task 1: The university dining hall is changing its food service to include more　healthy food with lower calories. What do you think are the advantages and　disadvantages of this change?

　　Task 2: Some people prefer to only take the courses that are related to their　future career, others prefer to take a variety of courses. Which do you think it's　better?

　　Task 3

　　The student suggests the school change a room to a student lounge.

　　Because it's convenient for student to rest and place their textbooks.The man disagrees with this proposal.

　　Task 4

　　Plan fallacy

　　The professor gives an example of finishing his 10-page paper of history class

　　Task 5

　　Problem

　　Student rented an apartment but the kitchen was unavailable.

　　Solution1:

　　Share a kitchen with a friend(inconvenient)

　　Solution2:

　　Buy a meal plan at school cafeteria{cheap and far away)

　　Task 6

　　Animals left their nest after laying eggs. They have to figure out food supply　of their chicks before leaving.

　　The professor talks about 2 ways to make offspring survive without them.

　　The first way is to store at the nest.

　　The second way is to find a place near with a plenty of food.

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