2019年5月朗阁新托福口语考题题库

Question 1

A friend needs to take a part-time job in a Spanish restaurant at night which makes her tired and cannot concentrate in the class. Give your advice to your friend. Use details and examples to explain your answer.

Question 2

Your local community center wants to add some new workshops and programs for children, which of the following do you think would be most beneficial for the children’s development?

1. Arts craft workshop

2. Athletic workshop

3. Technology workshop

Question 3

Reading part

Listening part

【学校通知】：

The school plans to shut the gym down.

Reason 1: to update locker rooms and shower facilities;

Reason 2: The students can use an off-campus gym freely;

【学生态度】：The woman disagrees.

Reason 1: It’s unnecessary to shut the whole gym down. They can just shut the area they are working on. And students can change their clothes and take shower in their dorms which are close to the gym.

Reason 2: The off-campus gym is far away from campus. And students are exhausted after working out. So they may not be willing to walk.

Question: Explain the woman’s opinion and why she holds that opinion.

Question 4

Reading part

Listening part

【名词解释】：

Consumer lock-in:

It is a marketing strategy that the manufacturer makes accessories that can only pair with its own products.

【教授举例】：

The professor goes on to demonstrate it using his camera as an example.

He had a brand A camera with which he took lots of pictures and recorded lots of memorable moments. But he accidentally broke the zoom lens. One day he saw a brand B zoom lens with reasonable price and superior performance. He was gonna buy it but found out that it couldn’t fit his camera. Eventually, he had to buy the brand A lens which was much expensive.

Question: 用听力的例子来解释对这个概念的理解。

Question 5

【学生困难】：The girl has a time conflict between her tutoring program and her history class in this semester.

【解决方案】：There are two possible solutions.

First, change her history class to the next semester

Pro: It can continue her tutoring program.

Con: The history class will change from ancient to modern, and she is not interested in it.

Second, ask her classmate from math class to help her

Pro: She can take history classes this semester.

Con: she cannot keep tutoring kids math any more.

Question 6

【讲课要点】：How do plants adapt to harsh environment?

1. Resisting high velocity wind. There’s a kind of bush. It’s only a few centimeters’ tall, very low to ground, so it’s not likely to get blew off.

2. Surviving water shortage. There’s a berry. The waxy skin of this berry makes sure that it will not lose water into air so easily.

Question 1

If one of your friends wants to transfer major from business to music, what advice would you give him?

Question 2

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?

People should be fined if they watch their mobile phones when they are walking on the way or across the road?

Use specific examples and details to support your opinion.

Question 3

Reading part

Listening part

【学校通知】：

Notice: The university is going to cancel the poetry writing class.

Reason 1: few student enrolled in;

Reason 2: The students can take a similar class in the nearby university;

【学生态度】：The man disagrees.

Reason 1: Fewer students means smaller classes, that’s a good thing for students because it offers students enough attention from the professors and that’s very important.

Reason 2: It’s inconvenient, the other university is actually pretty far away like an hour by bus, most students don’t have a car so it’s too difficult for them to commute.

Question: Explain the man’s opinion and why he holds that opinion.

Question 4

Reading part

Listening part

【名词解释】：

Releasers are certain stimuli that can lead animals to do a corresponding behavior.

【教授举例】：

Example 1: Toads love to eat worms. They eat anything that looks like a worm, so if you put a pencil around them and keep moving it at the same time, they will attack the pencil. So the pencils here are like stimuli.

Example 2: Geese protect their eggs. If something is approaching, they use their beaks to throw things onto the nest to protect the baby geese. So round object to geese is like a releaser.

Question: 用听力的例子来解释对这个概念的理解。

Question 5

【学生困难】：The girl wants to study in Germany, but the flight ticket is too expensive to afford.

【解决方案】：There are two possible solutions:

First, put off the timetable

Pro: can get the cheaper ticket

Con: miss the first orientation week in the school

Second, arrive in Berlin first and then take the train

Pro: save money

Con: As she has never been to Germany before, it would be difficult for her to find the way from the airport to the train station.

Question 6

【讲课要点】：The professor talks about two types of memory:

One is called declarative memory, which means a person knows the true fact of a certain thing;

The other one is procedural memory, which means that a person knows how to do a certain thing.

The professor uses the examples of bicycle and sports coach to illustrate these two kinds of memories.