新托福TPO口语参考答案——TPO17

1.

Talk

about

a

special

opportunity

that

was

given

to

you.

Explain

why the opportunity was important.

I was given an opportunity to study in the US one summer. This

opportunity

is

very

important

to

me

for

several

reasons.

Firstly,

it was the first time I went abroad. I had imagined going abroad

ever since I was a little kid. I never got a chance until that

day

I

received

a

call

from

an

administrator

in

my

college

telling

me that I was granted the opportunity to study abroad for the

summer vacation.

Secondly, I learned and experienced a lot

from this opportunity. In this exchange program, I was assigned

a

partner

who

was

also

a

college

student

in

the

US.

He

introduced

me to his family, took me out to valley faire and instructed me

how to use Linux in the computer lab.

2.

State

whether

you

agree

or

disagree

with

the

following

statement. Then explain your reasons, using specific details in

your explanation.

Students

should

not

be

allowed

to

bring

cell

phones

(mobile

phones)

into the classroom.

I

totally

don

’

t

agree

with

this

statement

that

students

shouldn

’

t

be

allowed

to

bring

cell

phones

into

the

classroom.

One

important

purpose of cell- phone is that we can reach anyone at any time

anywhere. If students

’

parents need to inform them of some

important

things

and

students

don

’

t

have

mobile

phones

with

them,

parents

will

have

to

come

to

the

classroom

or

call

others

to

reach

the

kids.

This

sounds

pretty

inconvenient

in

a

modern

age.

On

the

other hand, simply bringing cell-phones into classroom won

’

t

disturb

other

students

or

interrupt

the

class.

Students

just

need

to turn their sound off and make the signal to vibration. And if

they receive some urgent phone- calls, they can go out to reply.

3.

The man expresses his opinion about the upcoming change.

State his opinion and explain the reasons he gives for holding

that opinion.

The library is going to change big,

multiperson

study tables

into personal study cubicles in order to eliminate noise in the

library and accommodate more students attending the university.

The man in the conversation thinks the university is making a

mistake. As

for the

first

purpose to

reduce

distraction,

the

man

says if there is no

multiperson

tables in the library, there

will be no place to get together to do group projects. He thinks

instead of changing tables, the university should build meeting

rooms to reduce the noise in the main library hall. As for the

second purpose to accommodate more students, the mans says the

library has no problem with over crowding. He sees empty tables

all

the

time

and

the

woman

always

takes

a

whole

table

for

herself.

The man thinks it

’

ll be a waste of money to build the cubicles

since

the

library

now

is

sufficiently

big

to

hold

more

students.

4.

Explain

the

concept

of

ritualization

using

the

example

of

dogs

discussed by the professor.

Ritualization

is a process in which an animal

’

s behavior that

originally serves a practical purpose develops into one that

communicates

a

specific

message.

The

professor

use

dog

’

s

baring

teeth

as

an

example

to

explain

the

concept.

If

dogs

feel

threatened,

they show their teeth, meaning stay away. Before this dog

’

s

behavior become a recognizable warning, its original purpose is

to avoid biting its own lips. When dogs sense danger, they bite

and

instinctively

bare teeth

to

avoid

biting their

own

lips.

But

other animals over time notice the teeth baring behavior always

came before a dog

’

s going to bite. So they started to read it