Mena-托福词汇红宝书
1. Talk about a popular gathering
place in your town where people like to
go.
Describe the place and explain why people enjoy
going there.
(2011.5.13;2009.10.24)
In my town, the public park is the popular
gathering place. There are
several reasons why
it’s popular. The first reason is that the park
has a
very big square where senior citizens go
nearly every day to do some
physical exercise.
I can see them every day after dinner, they dance
together energetically. Another reason is that
there is a beautiful lake
beside the park, and
young people, especially those from the
university,
like to sit on the bank, enjoying
the view and having some talk. If the
weather
is fine, beautiful young girls and handsome boys
can be seen sit
side by side.
2. Do
you agree or disagree with the following
statement?
Students benefit more from classes
with a large number of students than
they do
from smaller classes
Use specific examples
and details to support your opinion
I
don’t agree with this statement. I believe
students benefit more from
small classes than
from large classes.. First of all, there are many
students
in a large class and it’s
usually in a big lecture hall. Teachers or
lecturers
will always focus on their own
topic. There aren’t as many interactions in
it
as in a small class. In small classes, students
are allowed to make
discussions. Also,
students can get more attention from teachers and
thus
have more opportunities to voice
themselves. Secondly, in a large class, if
there is a point a student doesn’t understand,
he or she might be left
behind, while in a
small class, teachers give attention to every
student, so
no one will be left behind.
3. The woman expresses her opinion about the
student’s proposal. State
her opinion and
explain the reasons she gives for holding that
opinion.
The student proposes to close
the Campus Coffee house because students
usually don’t use it and the food in the
coffee house is not good. The
woman in the
conversation doesn’t like the proposal. She says
the good
thing about the Coffee House is that
it’s never crowded. So it’s a great
place to
study. She always reads a book or works on a paper
in it. She
even prefers it to the library.
Plus, students can eat while they study there.
She also says that though the food wasn’t
great, it’s a lot better now. The
Coffee House
has got a new manager. Last week she went there
and the
food was delicious. Besides, the new
manager has added a lot of really
healthy food and snack.
4. Using the
example of the macaw from the lecture, explain the
concept
of a flagship species.
A
flagship species is a particular species that
represents a threatened habit
to the general
public. The professor takes Macaw as an example to
explain the concept. Macaw is a beautiful bird
and has colorful features.
It lives in the
rain forest and relies on the trees for food and
nesting. But
the trees have been cut down. So
macaw and a lot of other animals are in
trouble. The populations of animals
drastically declined. Then a group of
people
used macaw to represent the threatened habitat.
They spread the
word about how macaw needed
the help and distribute books with
macaw’s
pictures to the school and other community places.
After that, a
lot of people started to take
actions and contribute money to help set up a
protected land, a special area where no one
could cut down the tree. So,
the number of
macaw and other animals increase.
5.
Briefly summarize the problem the speakers are
discussing. Then state
which solution you
would recommend. Explain the reasons for your
recommendation.
The woman
just moved into a new place to live. But the
problem is that
the new doesn’t have an
Internet connection. She has to do research and
email people everyday. There are two possible
solutions to this problem.
The first solution
is to call Internet companies to install Internet.
But it’s
costly, the woman has to pay for the
service every month. The second
solution is to
use the computer center on campus. The Internet
there is
free. But the woman doesn’t have
classes on campus every day and the
computer
center can get crowded sometimes. I would
recommend the
woman to take the first
solution. Even if installing the Internet will be
costly, it’s absolutely worth it. Since she
has to do research and email
people everyday,
she must need a stable and handy Internet
connection.
After all, computer center is on
campus and it may be crowded.
6. Using
the examples from the lecture, discuss two types
of narrators that
an author of fiction might
use.
The professor talks about two types
of narrator in fiction. The first type is
an
objective narrator. An objective narrator can
describe what the
characters do and say. For
example, if a man and woman is about to take
a
trip, the only information we get from the
objective narrator is what the
characters say to each other and their actions
such as getting on a train
and looking out the
window. It forces the reader to fill in the
information
and to decide what the
conversation might mean. The second type is an
omniscient narrator. An omniscient narrator
knows everything about the
characters. In the
example above, the omniscient narrator knows not
only
what they say and do, but also what they
are thinking. Like, it may tell us
that the
man is nervous because he hasn’t seen his friend
in a long time
and he is worried about whether
his wife will like his friend.
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