【威学教育】钱梦娟Fancy托福口语TPO-12听力文本
【威学教育】钱梦娟Fancy托福口语TPO-10听力文本
TPO 10Task 3：Now listen to two students discussing the letter.(man) Mary, you’re an art student. What do you think of this letter?(woman) I don’t like the idea.(man) Why not?(woman) Well, first of all, his first point about a lot of people passing through the student center, that’s true, but..(man) But?(woman) But it’s always crowded with people coming and going. It’s n ot good for showing artwork. Imagine you’re standing there, trying to look at the painting, it’s gonna be like a million people walking through. People walking in front of you, blocking your view, distracting you.(man) Hmm. Yeah, I haven’t thought of it.(woman) You won’t be able to appreciate the artwork or get a good look at anything with so much going on, with so many people moving around.(man) Yeah, I see what you mean.(woman) Plus, he’s wrong about the windows.(man) But isn’t it true that it’s good for art to have lots of light?(woman) In a sense, yeah, but that kind of light, all that natural light from windows, that's actually not good, because if it's really sunny out it will be way too bright, if it’s cloudy, it will be way too dark.(man) Oh!(woman) What you want is controlled light, consistent light, the kind you get from electrical light bulb. Think about in an art museum. In an art museum, you’ve got electric lighting and the light is always carefully controlled, always at the same level.Briefly summarize the proposal in the student s letter. Then state the woman s opinion about the proposal and explain the reasons she gives for holding that opinion.Task 4：Now listen to a lecture from a marketing class.(male professor):OK, so I've actually got a few different examples of this. You know, uh, when I was a kid, a character named Action Hero was really popular with my friends and me. We would always watch the Action Hero program on television every week and played games pretending we were strong and powerful as he was. Then pretty soon we began seeing these small Action Hero figures in all the stores. And, well, we all just had to have them. I mean, we've been watching the television show for so long that it seemed only natural to want to own toys, too.Well, I finally grew up and left Action Hero television program and toys behind. But, now, I have a 7-year-old daughter who watches television a lot and also like to play with her toys. And lately her favorite toy is a cute little baby doll with a big round face and lots of curly hair named Rosa. All my daughter’s friends have Rosa dolls, too. And they enjoy going to each other’s houses to play with them. Then a few weeks ago, my daughter came running up to me all excited because she just heard that there is going to be a new television program on every week with the doll, Rosa, as the main character. So naturally she and all her friends have begun watching the show. And it’s already very popular, as popul ar as the toy doll.Using the examples from the lecture, explain the concept of Entertainment Merchandising.Task 5:Listen to a conversation between two students.(woman) Is there a problem with the electricity?(man) Yeah, this storm knocked ou t power all over the city. And they’re saying it might be several hours before we have electricity again.(woman) Oh, no! I have a history paper due tomorrow and I’ve been writing it on my lap top computer and the battery’s running low. I am going to nee d electricity soon. (man) Well, you know, Jefferson City still has electricity. And there’s a library therewhere you can plug in lap top. You could go over there to work on your paper. It’s only about a twenty-minute drive.(woman) That’s a good idea.Of course I’d have to pack up all my stuff and it is raining outside.(man) Yeah, that’s true. Well, why don’t you just ask the professor for an extension? You know, tomorrow when you go to class just ask him if he would give you an extra day to get the paper done. I’m pretty sure he’d agree. You know, with the storm and all.(woman) Yeah, that should be a lot easier. But then he did tell us when he gave us the assignment that he wouldn’t grant any extension.(man) You don’t think he’d grant an excep tion in this case?(woman) I’m not sure. It’s a little risky. He might just say that we shouldn’t have waited until the last minute.(man) Yeah, but, maybe if other students have the same problem you might be able to convince him.(woman) Yeah, I mea n, it’s not our fault that the electricity went out. Hmm…Briefly summarize the woman's problem then state which solution you would recommend. Explain the reasons for your recommendation.Task 6：Listen to part of a lecture in a Psychology class.(female professor)OK, we generally assume that babies can feel only very basic emotions like happiness or anger, that is, the babies just react to things that happen directly to them. However, some new research's suggesting that babies may be able to feel concern for others, to have empathy for others.Now, empathy is a complex emotion. It involves a baby relating to someone else's emotions, not just reacting to things happening directly to them. Let's talk about an experiment that may show that babies could be capable of feeling empathy.OK, for the first part of the experiment, well, um, we’ve always known that babies start to cry when they hear other babies crying, right? One baby in a room starts crying and all the rest join in. We've always assumed that the other babies cry because they were reacting to the noise of crying, that the noise itself was distressing. So, in the experiment researchers play tape recording, a tape of baby’s crying, to another baby. And sure enough, the baby started crying when he heard the sound of other baby’s crying. This was no surprise, of course. And the researchers assumed that the baby cried because of the noise.But the next part of the experiment was surprising. The researchers played the baby a tape of his own crying. Now it was just as noisy, so the researchers expected him to cry. However, this time the baby did not cry. He wasn't upset by the sound of his own crying. Why not? Well, maybe it wasn’t the noise that made him cry before when he heard other baby’s c rying.In fact, maybe noise has nothing to do with it. It could be that the baby felt empathy for the other babies. And that was why he got upset when he heard them crying. Researchers concluded that it is indeed possible that babies feel empathy, concern for others.Using the points from the lecture explain why researchers think that babies may feel empathy.。
【威学教育】钱梦娟Fancy托福口语TPO-23听力文本
TPO23TPO 23Task 3：Now listen to two students discussing the article.(man) Hey, what do you think of this?(woman) You mean the editors’ decision?(man) Right.(woman) I think they are right. It’s the thing to do.(man) Really? Why?(woman) Well, hardly anyone reads that section.(man) You don’t think so?(woman) Not really, I mean, they only cover stories and most people already know about them before they even get around to reading the campus paper.(man) True, if you get the local paper, or use the internet, you already know the major stories.(woman) Exactly, and the coverage’s better. I think we should just stick with campus news and stuff.(man) So do you think what they’re gonna replace with is better?(woman) Definitely, right now, how do you learn about what’s happening on campus? (man) Mostly from posters in different buildings or in the student center.(woman) Right, th e information is everywhere but it’s hard to keep track of it. I see stuff posted but then I forget about it half the time.(man) So you’re saying that with this new section?(woman) You could just cut it out from the newspaper and carry it around and check it anytime and know what’s taking place when and where.The woman expresses her opinion about the plan announced in the article. Briefly summarize the plan. Then state her opinion about the plan and explain the reasons she gives for holding that opinion.Task 4：Now listen to part of a lecture in a sociology class on this topic.(male professor)I have an example from my own life that illustrates this. When I first began my university studies, I became friends with a bunch of art students. They were older and fun and very creative and I thought they were really cool. And they all liked to dress really casually, in T-shirts and jeans and sneakers. That's what they wore all the time, to class, to the library, to dinner, everywhere, T-shirts and jeans and sneakers.So that’s what I started wearing, too . An d I fit right in, and I felt really cool.But then I graduated, moved to Chicago, and got a job. And I started working with some really bright, young people who'd already been working in the company for a few years, who were already handling major responsibilities for the company, really impressive. And sometimes some of us would get together on the weekend, maybe for a concert or a baseball game or something. And at first, I just wear a T-shirt and jeans and sneakers. That was, you know, how I was used to dressing. But I soon noticed that my co-workers preferred to dress up a little bit. The men would wear a nice pair of pants, uh, button-up shirt. The women might wear a fashionable dress and some nice shoes. They dress in clothes a lot nicer than what I was used to wearing.And I started thinking, you know, that looks really classy, really sharp. And so I started to dress the same way they did, you know, nicer, a little more formal. And, I don’t know, somehow my T-shirts and jeans and sneakers didn’t se em as cool anymore.Using the example from the lecture, explain how people's behavior is affected by reference groups.Task 5：Listen to a conversation between two students.(woman) How’s it going, Mike?(man) OK, I’m just trying to figure out wh at to do about this new bus schedule. (woman) New bus schedule?(man) Yeah, I take a bus from campus to my job downtown. I work there Tuesday afternoons, but the bus schedule changed. The bus I was taking is leaving earlier now and I can’t get to it in t ime because I’ve got chemistry class then.(woman) Huh, yeah, they did change the bus schedule sometimes. It’s inconvenient. So what are you gonna do?(man) Well, I talked to my boss and she said I could change my work hours and work at night instead. I’d start late in the afternoon and work till around midnight. And there is a bus that’ll get me down on time.(woman) That sounds good. So you could just take a later bus to your job.(man) Yeah, the only thing is if I worked late at night. I’ll be re ally tired and I have class early the next morning.(woman) Yeah, but do you have any other choice?(man) Well, yeah, another option is just to ride my bike to work after chemistry. I’ll be able to get to work on time so I could keep my same hours. It’s not that far. It takes about 15 minutes.(woman) Hmm, that might be nice plus you get some exercise but it’ll be a bit uncomfortable riding your bike on days when there’s bad weather.(man) Yeah, I’ll have to think about it.Briefly summarize the problem the speakers are discussing. Then state which solution you would recommend. Explain the reasons for your recommendation.Task 6：Listen to part of a lecture in a biology class.(female professor)Now, plants, like animals, and like us for that matter, need nutrients, substances that provide nourishments, to survive, thrive and grow. We get our nutrients from the food we eat. Plants, though, most plants anyway, absorb their nutrients from the soil, right, through their root systems? OK, but th ere are plants that don’t get their nutrients from the soil. The places they grow the soil is bad. So they get their nutrients from insects instead, from trapping and digesting insects. They are called carnivorous plants.Carnivorous plants capture insects in different ways. They have different trapping mechanisms: active traps and passive traps. A plant with an active trap, a good example is the Venus flytrap. The Venus flytrap actually moves to capture its prey or parts of it anyway. Its leaves, it has special leaves that are hinged in the middle the two halves of the leaves open and close sort of like a mouth to catch insects. And on these leaves is a sweet nectar that attracts insects. Insects like the sweet stuff. And when they get lured in and land on the leaf, wham! The leaf springs shut. It’s an active trap. And the insect springs it so to speak. The leaf quickly closes to form a little cage, trapping the insect between the leaves. The Venus flytrap is then able to digest the insect and get its nutrients.But other carnivorous plants, their methods are passive. They don’t have any moving parts to trap things. They have passive traps, like the sundew plant. The sundew plant also produces a sweet nectar that attracts insects. Its leaves are full of little hairs that secrete sweet substance. But what happens when insects land on sundew's leaves to get the sweet nectar? Well, unfortunately for the insects, the hairs on the leaves also produce a super sticky glue-like substance. So an insect get stuck an d can’t fly away.It basically get glued there allowing the sundew to digest it and absorb nutrients.Using the example of the Venus flytrap and the sundew, describe two ways that carnivorous plants get their nutrients.。
托福TPO12听力Conversation2文本+题目+答案解析
为了帮助大家高效备考托福，为大家带来托福TPO12听力Conversation2文本+题目+答案解析，希望对大家备考有所帮助。
托福TPO12听力Conversation2文本 Narrator: Listen to a conversation between a student and a Department Secretary. Student: Hi. Miss Handricks. Secretary: Hi Bret, how are you? Student: I’m fine, except I have a question about my paycheck. Secretary: Sure. What’ up? Student: Well, it’s already been several weeks at the end of the semester and my check was supposed to go directly into my bank account but there haven’t been any deposits. Secretary: That’s odd. Student: Yeah, and I thought graduate teaching assistant will automatically put on the payroll at the beginning of the semester. Secretary: They are. Let’s see did you complete all the forms for the payroll? Student: I filled in whatever they sent me, and I returned like the end of August. Secretary: Hum, well, you definitely should have been paid by now. At least two pay periods have passed since then. Student: I asked the bank and they didn’t know anything. Who should I talk to about this, payroll? Secretary: I’m going to contact them for you. There was a problem in processing some of the graduate students’ payroll paper work. ‘Cause their computer program crashed after all the information was processed. And some people’s information couldn’t be retrieved. Student: Hum. But why didn’t any one let me know? Secretary: I don’t know how they work over there, ‘cause they couldn’t even figure out whose information was missing. And this isn’t the first time, seems like something like this happens every semester. Student: So how do I find out if my information was lost? Secretary: I will contact them tomorrow morning to see if you’re in the system. But you’re probably not. Student: Well, then let me to do…? Secretary: Sorry, but you will need to fill out those forms again and then I will fax them over the payroll office. Student: And then what… Well, what I really need to know is how long till I get the money. I’m already a month behind my bills and my tuitions due soon. Secretary: They’ll get you into the system the same day they receive your paper works. So if you do that tomorrow, you’ll get paid next Friday. Student: That’s a long time from now. Will that pay checking include all the money I am owed? Secretary: It should. I will double check with the payroll department. Student: And another thing, Is there any way I could get paid sooner? I have been teaching all these weeks… Secretary: I know that’s not fair but I don’t think they can do anything; all the checks are computed automatically in the system. They can’t just write checks. Student: But they are the ones that have made mistakes. And they never told me! Woman: I understand how you feel and if I were you, I’d be upset too. I’ll tell you what: when I call them, I will explain the situation and ask them if there is any way you can be paid sooner. But I have to tell you that base on past experiences, you shouldn’t count on it. Student: (Sigh) I understand, thanks. I know it’s not your fault and that you’re doing everything you can. Secretary: Well, what I can do is: make sure that your first check is for total amount the university owes you. Student: That’ll be great! Thank you. I will be on campus about 10 tomorrow morning and I will come by to see you then.。
威学教育托福听力TPO1-34分类整理及难度汇总
TPO25 L2 art history a composer's experience and style in his lifetime
TPO25 L3 art history the process to decipher the hieroglyphic writing in ancient Egypt
Hale Waihona Puke TPO30 L3 astronomy discoveries about whether life existed on Mars
TPO30 L4 art history the evolution of electric guitar
TPO31 L1 art history the ancient Greek's attitude towards music
TPO27 L4 art the theory of primary colors
TPO28 L1 philosophy the theory of foundationalism in philosophy
TPO28 L2 biology birds' ability to recognize themselves in the mirror
TPO32 L4 art an architecturer and her style
TPO33 L1 art theories explaining the construction of the Great Pyramid
TPO33 L2 env science water distribution of the Colorado River
【威学教育】托福听力TPO1-34分类整理及难度汇总
TPO33 L4 art the goal of the Renaissance garden designers
TPO34 L1 art how the Dadaist style is presented in theater
TPO30 L3 astronomy discoveries about whether life existed on Mars
TPO30 L4 art history the evolution of electric guitar
TPO31 L1 art history the ancient Greek's attitude towards music
TPO27 L2 art history factorsresponsbilefor the beautiful tone ofCremoneseviolins
TPO27 L3 biologycomparionsbetween an extinct animal species and modern animals
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TPO32 L1 archeology implications brought about by thedisvoeryof bananas
TPO32 L2 biology relationships among species
【威学教育】Fancy托福口语TPO-20听力文本
TPO20Task 3：Now listen to two students discussing the article.(woman) What on earth is the university thinking?(man) Huh? What do you mean?(woman) Well, those buildings aren’t just used for classes. That’s where my evening study group usually meets.(man) Oh, of course, that’s true. But you could go to the library instead.(woman) Yeah, but the library only has a few rooms that people can use for group meetings which is why classrooms are so convenient. But now, if it’s winter and cold, where can we go?(man) Right! In the middle of winter, forget it! Or even it’s just kind of cold out. (woman) It’d be pretty unpleasant.(man) Oh, but still, they obviously have to do something about the situation.(woman) Oh, I agree. They have to do something but they should find a solution that isn’t so disruptive, to academics no less.(man) Such as?(woman) Well, for one, if they replaced all those old windows, they are so drafty. They let the cold in. And if they insulated the buildings better, these are really old buildings. Charming, but,(man) But not at all energy-efficient, yeah, you're probably right.(woman) There're some really basic improvements they can make that'll make a huge difference in the long term that can solve the problem and still leave us somewhere to study.The woman expresses her opinion about the plan described in the article. State her opinion and explain the reasons she gives for holding that opinion.Task 4：Now listen to part of a lecture on this topic in a business management class.(male professor)OK, so we’ve been talking about starting a business. Let’s say I want to open up a pizza restaurant. Well, I know how tough it is to make a new business succeed. And I want a sure thing, so I contact the big company that owns a chain of pizza places. Let’s say it’s called, “Pizza Town.” And I pay for the rights to call my restaurant Pizza Town and to sell Pizza Town's special, one of a kind, pizza.Now, since everyone has heard of Pizza Town, it's really popular, I don't have to worry about whether people would want to eat my pizza or not, I already know this pizza will sell well because it's a known thing. And that means there's a better chance my business will succeed.Now, in exchange for being able to call my restaurant Pizza Town, I have to agree to run the business the Pizza Town way. And Pizza Town trains me to do this. They show me how to do everything, how to make my pizzas taste like Pizza Town pizzas, how to advertise, even how to make my store look like a Pizza Town.Now, this means that I don’t have a lot of freedom or choice in the way I run my business. But in a lot of ways, this is great for me. After all, Pizza Town’s way generally works. They sell a lot of pizza.Using the example given by the professor, explain how franchising works.Task 5：Now listen to a conversation between two students of biology.(man) Are you still working in Professor Green’s laboratory?(woman) Yeah, he’s been supervising my research on eating behavior in mice.(man) Sounds interesting.(woman) It’s fascinating. I’ve got a few more observations and experiments to do. It’s another three month of work and I’ll start writing my paper.(man) Wow! Sounds like it’ll be a great paper.(woman) Thanks, I hope so. There’s a problem, though.(man) What?(woman) Professor Green has been invited to teach at a university in France for a semester. And obviously, I still need a lot of help with the project.(man) Hum, what are you gonna do?(woman) Well, Professor Green suggested Professor Baker that I can work with another.(man) Oh, I’ve heard of her. Professor Baker is quite famous.(woman) Yeah, but I don’t know her at all. And my research isn’t in her area of expertise. She works with fish, my works on mice, not exactly the best match.(man) Well, you’ll get to know her eventually. And she’s a great biologist. So she’ll still be able to help you even if your topic isn’t exactly her specialty. She may give you some new perspective on your work.(woman) I know, I’m considering it, but still, I’m thinking about asking Professor Green if he could advise me long-distance.(man) That’s a thought! You think he’d do it?(woman) He probably would. But I don’t know if it’s a good idea. I mean, he could always look at my data and read my write-ups through email. But the thing is, he wouldn’t be here to supervise my experiments.(man) Yeah, well, I’m sure you’ll figure out the best thing to do.Briefly summarize the woman s problem, then state which solution you would recommend. Explain the reasons for your recommendation.Task 6：Now listen to part of a lecture in a psychology class.(female professor)When people are in difficult situations sometimes they experience feelings of helplessness, or psychological pain. So what do they do? They unconsciously use a strategy called, defense mechanisms, to protect themselves psychologically from their painful emotions.Oh, let’s say a woman has a pet dog. She’s had this dog for a long time and he’s kept her company and guarded her for years. But one day he runs away. This woman looks everywhere, and asks other people if they've seen her dog. But she just can't find him.Now, she feels helpless and sad because she misses her dog. So she'll unconsciously find ways to deal with her painful feelings.One defense mechanism she might use is fantasy. With fantasy, the woman uses her imagination so instead of just feeling helpless and sad about her lost dog, she invents a happy story in her mind. She might imagine that, uh, a nice family found him and feeds him and that he’s really happy with them. She’ll picture the dog playing,running around, having fun. Because of this fantasy, she doesn't have to feel sad about her dog running away. It's a fantasy, it's not real, but it keeps her pain away.Another defense mechanism she might use is what we call, sublimation. Sublimation is different from fantasy because sublimation isn't about pretending. It's about turning negative emotions into something useful, practical. So, uh, the woman might start a dog training school. That way, by training dogs, perhaps she can help prevent other people's dogs from running away like hers did. In other words, with sublimation as a defense mechanism, the woman redirects her negative feelings about losing her dog into a positive, constructive activity.Using points and examples from the talk, describe the two defense mechanisms mentioned by the professor.。
托福TPO12听力Conversation1文本+题目+答案解析
为了帮助大家高效备考托福，为大家带来托福TPO12听力Conversation1文本+题目+答案解析，希望对大家备考有所帮助。
托福TPO12听力Conversation1文本 Narrator: Listen to a conversation between a student and a professor. Student: So Professor Tibets, your notes said that you want to see me about my heavy-weight paper. I have to say that grade wasn’t what I was expecting. I thought I’d done a pretty good job. Professor: Oh, you did. But do you really want to settle for pretty good when you can do something very good? Student: You think it can be very good? Professor: Absolutely! Student: Would that mean you’d…I could get a better grade? Professor: Oh, sorry! It’s not for your grade. It's…I think you could learn a lot by revising it. Student: You mean, rewrite the whole thing? I really swamped. There’re deadlines wherever I turn in and… and I don’t really know how much time I could give it. Professor: Well, it is a busy time, with spring break coming up next week. It’s your call. But I think that with a little extra effort, you could really turn this into a fine essay. Student : No… yeah…I mean, after I read your comments, I...I can see how it tries to do too much. Professor: Yeah. It’s just too ambitious for the scope of the assignment. Student: So I should cut out the historical part? Professor: Yes. I would just stick to the topic. Anything unrelated to the use of nature image has no place in the paper, all that tangential material just distraction from the main argument. Student: Yeah, I never know how much to include. You know…where to draw the line? Professor: Tell me about it! All writers struggle with that one. But it’ssomething you can learn. That will become more clear with practice. But I think if you just cut out the…emm… Student: The stuff about history, but if I cut out those sections, won’t it be too short? Professor: Well, better a short well-structured paper than a long paper that’s poorly-structured and wanders off topic. Student: So all I have to do is to leave those sections? Professor: Well, not so fast. After you cut out those sections, you’ll have to go back and revise the rest, to see how it all fits together. And of course, you’ll have to revise the introduction too, to accurately describe what you do in the body of the paper. But that shouldn’t be too difficult. Just remember to keep the discussion focused. Do you think you can get it to me by noon tomorrow? Student: Wow…emm…I have so much…er…but I’ll try. Professor: OK, good! Do try! But if you can’t, well, shoot for after spring break, OK? 托福TPO12听力Conversation1题目 1.Why does the professor ask the man to come to her office? A. To check on the man’s progress on a paper he is writing B. To show the man techniques for organizing his time C. To encourage the man to revise a paper he wrote D. To clarify her comments on a paper the man wrote 2.Why does the man hesitate before agreeing to the professor’s request? A. He is not sure his effort would be successful. B. He feels overwhelmed by all his schoolwork C. He is unclear about what the professor wants his to do. D. He does not like to work on more than one assignment at a time.。
托福听力TPO12原文 Lecture 3-智课教育旗下智课教育
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TPO 12 Lecture 3 Music historyProfessor：The word opera means work, actually it means works. It’s the plural of the word opus from the Latin. And in Italian it refers in general to works of art. Opera Lyric or lyric of opera refers to what we think of as opera, the musicaldrama.Opera was commonplace in Italy for almost thousands of years before it became commercial as a venture. And during those years, several things happened primarily linguistic or thematic and both involving secularization.Musical drama started in the churches. It was an educational tool. It was used primarily as a vehicle for teaching religion and was generally presented in the Latin, the language of the Christian Church which had considerable influence in Italy at that time. But the language of everyday life was evolving in Europe and at a certain point in the middle ages it was really only merchants, Socratics and clergy who can deal with Latin. The vast majority of the population used their own regional vernacular in all aspects to their lives. And so in what is now Italy, operas quit being presented in Latin and started being presented in Italian. And once that happened, the themes of the opera presentations also started to change. And musical drama moved from the church to the plaza right outside the church. And the themes again, the themes changed. And opera was no longer about teaching religion as it was about satire and about expressing the ideas of society your government without committing yourself to writing and risking imprisonment or persecution, or what have you.Opera, as wethink of it, is of course a rather restive form. It is the melodious drama of ancient Greek theater, the term ‘melodious drama’being shortened eventually to ‘melodrama’ because operas frequently are melodramatic, not to say unrealistic. And the group that put the first operas together that we have today even, were, they were…well…it was a group of men that included Gallo Leo’s father Venchesil, and they met in Florence he and a group of friends of the counts of the party and they formed what is called the Camarola Dayir Bardy. And they took classical theater and reproduced it in the Renaissance’s time. This…uh…this produced some of the operas that we have today.Now what happened in the following centuries is very simple. Opera originated in Italy but was not confined to Italy any more than the Italians were. And so as the Italians migrated across Europe, they carried theater with them and opera specifically because it was an Italian form. What happened is that the major divide in opera that endures today took place. The French said opera auto-reflect the rhythm and Kevin of dramatic literature, bearing in mind that we are talking about the golden age in French literature. And so the music was secondary, if you will, to the dramatic Kevin of language, to the way the rhythm of language was used to express feeling and used to add drama and of course as a result instead of arias or solos, which would come to dominated Italian opera. The French relied on that what is the Italian called French Word 1 or French Word 2 in English. The lyrics were spoken, frequently to the accomp**nt of a harpsichord.The French said you really cannot talk about real people who lived in opera and they relied on mythology to give them their characters and their plots, mythology, the past old traditions, the novels of chivalry or the epics of chivalry out of the middle Ages. The Italian said, no this is a great historical tool and what a better way to educate the public about Neo or Attallaor any number of people than to put them into a play they can see and listen to. The English appropriated opera after the French. Opera came late to England because alltheaters, public theaters were closed, of course, during their civil war. And it wasn’t until the restoration in 1660 that public theaters again opened and opera took off. The English made a major adjustment to opera and exported what they had done to opera back to Italy. So that you have this circle of musical influences, the Italians invented opera, the French adapted it, the English adopted it, and the Italians took it back.It came to America late and was considered to elites for the general public. But Broadway musicals fulfilled a similar function for a great long while. George Champon wrote about opera, “If an extraterrestrial being or two appear before us and say, what is your society like, what is this Earth thing all about, you could do worse than take that creature to an opera.” Because opera does, after all, begin with a man and a woman and any motion.《音乐史》教授：“歌剧”这个词的意思是“作品”。
【托福听力备考】TPO12听力文本——Lecture 1
【托福听力备考】TPO12听力文本——Lecture 1众所周知，托福TPO材料是备考托福听力最好的材料。
相信众多备考托福的同学也一直在练习这套材料，那么在以下内容中我们就为大家带来托福TPO听力练习的文本，希望能为大家的备考带来帮助。
TPO12 Lecture 1 BiologyNarrator:Listen to part of a lecture in a Biology Class.ProfessorAs we learn more about the DNA in human cells and how it controls thegrowth and development of cells, then maybe we can explain a very importantobservation, that when we try to grow most human cells in a laboratory, theyseem programmed to divide only a certain number of times before they die.Now this differs with the type of cell. Some cells, like nerve cells, onlydivide seven to nine times in their total life. Others, like skin cells, willdivide many, many more times. But finally the cells stop renewing themselves andthey die. And in the cells of the human body itself, in the cells of everyorgan, of almost every type of tissue in the body, the same thing will happeneventually.OK, you know that all of a person’s genetic information is contained onvery long pieces of DNA called Chromosomes. 46 of them are in the human cells,that’s 23 pairs of these Chromosomes of various lengths and sizes.Now if you’ll look at this rough drawing of one of them, one Chromosomeabout to divide into two. You see that it sort of looks like, well actually it’smuch more complex than this, but it reminds us a couple of springs linkedtogether, two coiled up pieces of DNA. And if you stretch them out you will find they contain certain genes, certain sequences of DNA that help determine how the cells of the body will develop. When researchers look really carefully at the DNA in Chromosomes though, they were amazed, we all were, to find that only afraction of it, maybe 20-30%, converts into meaningful genetic information. It’sincredible; at least it was to me. But if you took away all the DNA that codes for genes, you still have maybe 70% of the DNA left over. That’s the so-called JUNK DNA. Though the word junk is used sort of tongue-in-cheek.The assumption is that even if this DNA doesn’t make up any of the genes, it must serve some other purpose. Anyway, if we examine these ends of these coils of DNA, we will find a sequence of DNA at each end of every humanChromosome, called a telomere.Now a telomere is a highly repetitious and genetically meaningless sequenceof DNA, what we were calling JUNK DNA. But it does have an important purpose; itis sort of like the plastic tip on each end of a shoelace. It may not help you tie your shoe but that little plastic tip keeps the rest of the shoelace, the shoe string from unraveling into weak and useless threads. Well, the telomeres at the ends of Chromosomes seem to do about the same thing--- protect the genes, the genetically functional parts of the Chromosome, from being damaged. Every time the Chromosome divides, every time one cell divides into two. Pieces of theends of the Chromosome, the telomeres, get broken off. So after each division,the telomeres get shorter and one of the things that may happen after a while isthat pieces of the genes themselves get broken off the Chromosomes. So the Chromosome is now losing important genetic information and is no longerfunctional. But as long as the telomeres are a certain length, they keep this from happening. So it seems that, when the, by looking at the length of the telomeres on specific Chromosomes, we can actually predict pretty much how long certain cells can successfully go on dividing.Now, there are some cells that just seem to keep on dividing regardless, which may not always be a good thing if it gets out of control.But when we analyze these cells chemically, we find something veryinteresting, a chemical in them, an enzyme called telomerase. As bits of the telomere break off from the end of the Chromosome, this chemical, thistelomerase can rebuild it, can help reassemble the protective DNA, the telomere that the Chromosome has lost. Someday we may be able to take any cell and keep it alive functioning and reproducing itself essentially forever through the use of telomerase. And in the future we may have virtually immortal nerve cells and immortal skin cells or whatever, because this chemical, telomerase, can keep the telomeres on the ends of Chromosomes from getting any shorter.希望这些对你的托福备考有帮助，预祝大家托福考试能取得理想成绩。
托福TPO12 口语文档材料
TPO-121.What is the most efficient type of transportation in your country? Explainwhy you think it is efficient. Include specific reasons or examples.2.Some people believe it's essential for a person's education to learn to playa musical instrument. Others don't believe music education is important.Which view do you agree with? Explain why.3.College Radio Station to Undergo Major Changes?The university is considering making major changes to the college radio station. Changes would include an expansion of the station's broadcasting range, which would allow the radio's programming to reach nearby towns. One goal of the plan is to attract more students to apply to its communications program. Another goal is to provide the university with an extra source of revenue. University officials expect the enhanced radio station to significantly increase the number of listeners, which will in turn encourage businesses to place commercials on the radio.The woman supports the proposal described in the article. Explain why she thinks it will achieve the university's goals.4.Subliminal PerceptionHumans are constantly perceiving visual and auditory stimuli. Sometimes our perception of these stimuli occurs consciously: we are aware of a stimulus and know that we are perceiving it. But our perception of a stimulus can also occur without our awareness: an image might appear and disappear before our eyes too quickly for us to notice that we saw it, or a sound might be too faint for us to realize that we heard it. This phenomenon—the perception of a stimulus just below the threshold of conscious awareness—is called subliminal perception. Experiments have shown that subliminally perceived stimuli can influence people's thoughts and attitudes.Describe what subliminal perception is and explain how the experiment discussed by the professor illustrates this phenomenon.5. The speakers discuss two possible solutions to the woman's problem. Briefly summarize the problem. Then state which of the solutions you recommendand explain why.6. Using the points and examples from the talk, explain how substitute goods and complement goods influence demand for a particular product。
【威学教育】Fancy托福口语TPO-15听力文本
TPO 15Task 3:Now listen to two students discussing the letter.(woman) Hey, Ted, you’re a runner. Did you see this letter in the paper?(man) Yeah, I did, and I use those.(woman) And?(man) I think it’s a terrible idea.(woman) How come?(man) Well, she really hasn’t thought it through. Like, the thing about making them safer, what’s she’s not thinking about is the long-term consequence of running on a hard surface.(woman) What do you mean?(man) I mean, it’s not good for you. It’s too hard on your bones and joints. If you run repeatedly on hard surface, it can lead to injuries or, that’s what I’ve been taught anyway, it’s b etter to run on a soft surface. It does less damage to your body.(woman) Oh, I wasn’t aware of that.(man) Yeah, so actually it wouldn’t be safer. And her second point…(woman) About changing the way they look?(man) Yeah, I don’t think people wil l like it.(woman) So they’d use them less?(man) Yeah, I mean, one of the main reasons people enjoy them now was it's a way of taking a break from the rest of the campus, from buildings and streets and stuff. It’s, you know, a chance like you’re out i n the nature.(woman) Oh, so you wouldn’t bet that effect anymore.(man) Right! It’d be just like you’re on a regular street or sidewalk. It wouldn’t be as relaxing.The man expresses his opinion about the proposal in the student s letter. Briefly summarize the proposal. Then state the man's opinion about the proposal and explain the reasons he gives for holding that opinion.Task 4：Now listen to part of a lecture on this topic in a psychology class.(male professor)For example, I recently read about a case in which a researcher was given two groups of monkeys and he was asked to train these monkeys to pick up a ball and put it in a box, and he was told to record how many hours it took to train each monkey to learn to do this.Now, before he started the training, the researcher was told that one group of monkeys was highly intelligent and the other group was less intelligent. In truth, therewas no difference between them. All the monkeys were actually very similar in terms of intelligence. But the researcher didn’t know that. He thought one group was smarter, so he expected that group would be easier to train.So, what happened? Well, the researcher trained the monkeys to perform the action, and it turned out that, on average, it took him two hours less time to train the supposedly smart monkeys than the supposedly less intelligent monkeys. Why? Well, it turns out that with the supposedly smart monkeys the researcher smiled at them a lot, gave them a lot of encouragement, talked to them a lot, worked hard to communicate with them.But with the monkeys he thought were less intelligent, he wasn’t this enthusiastic, he didn’t try this hard, wasn’t quite op timistic.Explain how the example from the professor s lecture illustrates the experimenter effect.Task 5：Listen to a conversation between two students.(man) Hey, Kerri, what’s the matter?(woman) Well, you know I’m in the choir, right? And we have a concert in anhour,just an hour from now?(man) I know, I’m going, really looking forward to hearing you sing. What’s the trouble?(woman) Well, we’re all supposed to wear white shirts and black pants at the concert. You know, so we all look the same.(man) Right?(woman) Well, I wore my white shirt to dinner and I spilt spaghetti sauce all over it. (man) Oh, no!(woman) Yeah, there’s a huge red stein on it. I can’t wear it for the concert now. It’s the only white shirt I have and there’s no time to go to the store to buy another one. (man) Wow! What are you gonna do?(woman) Well, I just called the choir director and he’s obviously unhappy about all this. But I told him about another shirt I have, it’s not exactly white, not white like the others, sort of off white, sort of cream-colored? And he says it’s OK for me to wear it, but…(man) But it’s not exactly the same color as the others.(woman) Right. I’ll feel kind of funny. Some people in the audience would probably be able to tell.(man) Hmm. Don’t any of the other choir members have an extra white shirt you could borrow?(woman) No, I’ve already asked around. But my roommate has one.(man) Great, use hers.(woman) Well, the thing is, she’s out of town. I’ve tried calling her but haven’t beenable to reach her. She probably wouldn’t mind, but, you know, I’ve never borrowed her stuff before and I really don’t like taking things without asking.Briefly summarize the problem the speakers are discussing. Then state which solution you would recommend. Explain the reasons for your recommendation.Task 6：Listen to part of a lecture in a biology class.(female professor)Birds have some of the best vision capabilities in the animal kingdom. Some birds species have vision that is eight to ten times greater than humans. Overall, a bird’s eyes are extremely important for its survival.One aspect of bird's eyes that plays a role in helping them survive, in other words to find food or to avoid predators, is the position of the eyes in the skull. Some birds have eyes that face forward on the skull, kind of similar to how human's eyes are positioned. Forward-facing eyes allow a bird to clearly see and judge distances because it can focus on objects with both of its eyes, and correctly perceive height, width and depth. One type of bird with eyes positioned in the front of the skull is the hawk. Hawks eat animals like mice. Hawks have such good eye sight that they can spot a tiny mouse in the field from high up in the air. They spot the mouse and swoop down to catch it. Without such good eye sight, they would not be able to spot or catch their food.Other birds have eyes that are located on each side of the skull. This positioning of the eyes can help a bird to avoid predators. Instead of just seeing what’s directly in front, they can see things that are on either side, permitting them to watch for danger in all directions. Imagine a duck wading near the edge of a lake. It needs to spend time eating grasses and insects, but it also is on constant lookout for danger from its predator, like the fox . An eye on each side of the duck’s head allows it to see a fox approaching from eith er side . If it spots a fox, it can then fly away to safety. The placement of the eyes are critical in helping the duck avoid predators.Using the examples in the lecture, explain how the position of birds ’ eyes is critical to their survival.。
【威学教育】Fancy托福口语TPO-16听力文本
TPO 16Task 3:Now listen to two students discussing the letter.Woman: Did you read that letter in the paper?Man: Sure, and though she’s right about the problems, I don’t think what she proposes will do much good.Woman: Really?Man: Yeah. Take her first suggestion: I mean, have you seen the health center Woman: Of course! Why?Man: Well…it’s tiny. It suf fers from lack of space, so, unless they build more treatment rooms or offices or something…Woman: Oh, I see…Man: And also, her second suggestion.Woman: It seems like that’ll help things out…Man: Well…not necessarily …I mean…think about it. A lot of students aren’t even here on the weekends.Woman: That’s true.Man: They leave town and get away; there’s not a lot of people here.Woman: Yeah, like me, I got home probably …at least twice a month.Man: Right, and a lot of us leave campus for the weekend even more often than that.So there’s just not a lot of demand for treatment then. See what I mean?The man expresses his opinion about the student s suggestions that are made in the letter. State the man’s opinion and explain the reasons he gives for holding that opinion.Task 4：Listen to part of a lecture in a psychology class.(man)Now a study was done that illustrated this phenomenon. In the study people were given an ordinary task that everyone has probably done before. They were simply asked to peel potatoes, and to peel as many potatoes as possible in a given amount of time. OK so, some people worked alone, and they were told that the number of potatoes they each peeled would be recorded. Others peeled potatoes together, as part of a group, and they were told that only the total number of potatoes peeled would be recorded. So it would be impossible to tell how many any one person had done.Then researchers compared the results of people who worked alone and those who worked together to see if there was any difference. That is, they took the average score of the people working alone and compared it to the average score of the people working together in a group, and they did discover a difference! It turns out thatpeople working in a group peeled significantly fewer potatoes that people who worked alone.Using the example from the lecture, explain what social loafing is, and how it affects behavior.Task 5：Now listen to a conversation between two students.Woman: Hey Steve, did you get that book on the Russian Revolution that Professor Harper wants us to read?Man: No, none of the bookstores in the campus area had it in stock. They’ll get it in about two weeks.Woman: Hmm…so what are you going to do in the meantime? Remember, that we’re going to be discussing the book starting next Tuesday.Man: I was thinking of placing a rush order with a bookseller on the internet, so I'd have the book in about a day or two.Woman: Yeah, but rush order delivery is expensive. You could easily spend twice as much money for the book that way.Man: I know, but what choice do I have?Woman: Well, since we only have to read a couple of chapters at a time, you're welcome to share my copy for a few weeks. You know, until you can get yours at the bookstore.Man: You mean…you would read the chapters assigned, give the book to me, I’d read those chapters, then give the book back to you to read the next set of chapters, and so on.Woman: ExactlyMan: Thanks! But, what if I don’t get the book back to you in time. Wouldn’t you get behind in your reading?Woman: Yeah maybe. But it s hould work if we’re careful.The students discuss two possible solutions to the man's problem. Briefly summarize the problem, then state which of the two solutions you prefer and explain why.Task 6：Now listen to part of a talk in a psychology class.OK, ever thought about the things that happen to you and what’s responsible for them?We psychologists have a term Locus of Control. Locus of Control refers to...um…where people think control over their lives comes from. Whether it comes from themselves or from somewhere else. People who think that control is in themselves are internals, and people who think it comes from somewhere else are externals.Lets say there are two people going for job interviews. One of them is an internal, she has an internal locus of control. Since she thinks that control comes from within herself, she'll believe that her success and her preparation are really her responsibility.So she’s likely to really work on her interview skills ahead of time. Then, if she gets the jo b, she'll believe it's because she's worked so hard, and if she doesn't get it, well,she’ll probably be disappointed with herself, and uh…try to figure out how she can improve for the next time.OK, and another job candidate is an external, eh perceives other things, say…his interviewers to have more influence, after all, it’s their decision. It depends on what mood their in and, you know, luck. Now, with his external locus of control, his not as hard on himself, so he's more likely to take risks. He might interview for a job that he's not completely qualified for. And if he gets it, he'll think he's really lucky and because he thinks external forces are in control, he might think its because the interviewers were having a good day. And if he doesn't get it, he'll probably blame the interviewers or bad luck rather than look at himself and try to figure out what he could have done better.Using points and examples from the talk explain internal and external locus of control.。
TPO12听力解析
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解析：1m 49 左右 细节题。“they were amazed, we all were,”此句为重点句，大家都对”只有 20%-30%的 DNA 是存在有意义基因”这个结果感到惊讶。其余选项都比较扯淡，无视之。
8. What does the professor say about the DNA in a telomere? A. It causes a cell to begin dividing. B. It separates one gene from another. C. It is genetically meaningless. D. It has no function. 答案：C 解析：2m40s 细节题。教授在 telomere(n.端粒)的定义的下句中指出：“Now a telomere is a highly repetitious and genetically meaningless sequence of DNA, what we were calling JUNK DNA.”其余选项几 乎无关。
【威学教育】钱梦娟Fancy托福口语TPO-8听力文本
钱梦娟Fancy托福口语TPO8听力文本TPO 8Task 3：Now listen to two students discussing the university's plan.(man) Have you read this article? Are they serious?(woman) Yeah, I think so. Why?(man) Well, first of all, a lot of kids aren’t looking for relaxing breaks at lunch time. They like to study while they, especially while they have exams coming up or some assignments they have to get done.(woman) Yeah, that’s true.(man) And now they won't be able to concentrate. This is gonna be very distracting. (woman) Hmm. OK, yeah, I see your point.(man) And second, most students don't like classical music.(woman) It’s certainly not what I listen to.(man) So, are people going to stop listening to their own music?(woman) No!(man) I think people are going to be even more likely to bring their mp3 player, you know, to play their own music and block out the classical stuff.(woman) Yeah, that makes sense.The man expresses his opinion about the university s plan. State his opinion and explain the reasons he gives for holding that opinion.Now listen to part of a lecture from a biology class.(male)There’s a large tropical insect called the Peanut Bug. Yes, like the peanuts you eat. Um, and the Peanut Bugs front wings are colored so they blend in with their surroundings. But its back wings, which are usually closed and hidden, have these bright colorful spots on them. And when the Peanut Bugs are attacked, it suddenly opens its back wings and out pop these bright colors. And that surprises the predator and gives the Peanut Bug a chanceto get away.Um, then you have a butterfly called the morpho butterfly. And parts of the morpho butterfly wings are very shiny. They reflect a lot of sunlight. When this butterfly is resting, this shiny part of its wings is hidden. Now morpho butterflies are often attacked by birds. So when a bird approaches, the morpho flies away. And when the morpho flaps its wings, all the bird can see are flashes of light reflect ed from the morpho’s wings. Those flashes of light make it very difficult for the bird to follow the morpho. And the morpho is usually able to get away.Using the example of the Peanut Bug and the morpho butterfly, explain the concept of revealing coloration.Listen to a conversation between two students.(woman) Hey, Steve, are you ready for classes to start?(man) Not really. There’s still a big conflict in my course schedule.(woman) What's wrong?(man) This is my last semester and I've still got two required courses left to take in order to finish my literature degree.(woman) Ok?(man) I have to take both History of the Novel and Shakespeare or I can’t graduate! Problem is the two courses meet at the same time!(woman) Uh, oh. What are you gonna do?(man) Well, I talked to the professor who’s gonna teach Shakespeare, he said I could do an independent study to fulfill that requirement.(woman) How would that work?(man) I'd read the assigned text on my own, do all the same assignments, and meet with him when I need to, if I had any questions.(woman) Well, that sounds a good way to fulfill the requirement.(man) Yeah, plus it’d be nice to have one-on-one discussions with the professor. It’s just that, well, working on my own like that, I'm kind of concerned I won't be able to motivate myself to get the work done on time. It’s easy to put things off when it’s not an actual class, you know?(woman) Yeah, are there other options?(man) Um, yeah, I found out that the Shakespeare class is being offered at another university about a half an hour from here. That university has a really great literature program and our university will accept their credits, so …(woman) That’s an idea!(man) Yeah, I’m sure it’ll be a good class. And it’d fulfill the requireme nt. Only thing is, you know, I’d have to drive a half an hour to get to the class and then half an hour to come back, three times a week! That’s a lot of time and gas money.Briefly summarize the problem the speakers are discussing. Then state which solution you would recommend. Explain the reasons for your recommendation.Task 6：Now listen to part of a lecture in a business class.(female)Today we’ll talk about how companies determine the initial prices for their products. Uh, by that I mean when they first introduce the products in the market. There’re different approaches and today we’ll discuss two of them. They’re quite different, each with their own advantages.One approach, or strategy, sets the initial price of the product high followed by a lower price at a later stage. Why? Well, when introducing a new product, companies want tobuild a high quality image for it. Products that cost more are believed to be of higher quality. So, during the early stages of the product life cycle, companies can make very high profits from consumer’s willing to pay more for a high quality product, and although consumers know that price will eventually do down, they’re also willing to pay more to get the product sooner. This approach works very well with, oh, innovative high-tech products, for example. Now just think about when video recorders or video cameras or even cell phones first came out. They were very expensive. But then they became much more accessible.Another very common strategy sets the initial price low . Now this happens when the market is already saturates with the product and the strategy is to undercut its competitors. Say, there’s a newly starting computer maker trying to gain market share. So what did they do? Well, they offered a computer at an affordable price, lower than existing brands. By doing this, the company appeals to new consumers who weren’t probably even interested in getting a computer. And, well, of course, to existing consumers who might now be tempted to switch brands. Now how does this company make profits with its low-priced computers? Well, one thing that’s often done is to encourage their customers to buy accessories also manufactured by them, like printers or software, for example.Using the points and examples from the lecture, explain the two pricing strategies described by the professor.。
【威学教育】钱梦娟Fancy托福口语TPO-9听力文本
威学教育|专注雅思、托福等出国考试培训网址：钱梦娟Fancy托福口语TPO9听力文本TPO 9Task 3：Now listen to two students discussing the announcement.(man) Read this announcement?(woman) Yeah, and I disagree. I don’t think it’ll actually help students.(man) Really, why not?(woman) Well, they talked about leadership and organizational skills, but that’s not really the kind of work you do. Like my elder brother’s had the kind of job they’re talking about, and typically you are just there to do the basic tasks like typing or filing stuff, nothing very meaningful.(man) Oh, so you wouldn’t actually learn anything new.(woman) Exactly!(man) I guess I see what you mean. But what about the other point they make? (woman) About this helping us after we graduate? I don't agree.(man) How come?(woman) Well, the problem is that there're lots of other universities in our area that have the same requirement. So there’re lots of other students at these positions.(man) Yeah, I guess I haven’t thought of tha t.(woman) So, even if you take a position like this in a company while you’re still a student, once you graduate the competition for permanent jobs will be impossible. Imean there just won’t be enough jobs available for all of the business graduates in the city that will be looking for full-time work.(man) Hmm, I see what you’re saying.The woman expresses her opinion about the new policy. State her opinion and explain the reasons she gives for holding that opinion.Task 4:Now listen to part of a lecture on this topic in a film class.(male)The other day I went to this great new movie. And one of the scenes in particular I thought was really set up nicely. At the start of the scene, before the action and talking things started, you saw on the movie screen an image of a city. You could tell it was a big city. There were lots of buildings, tall ones, skyscrapers, and the cars and signs on the city streets looked old fashioned, like they were from the past, like the 1940s.The other thing I noticed right away from this first image, just when the scene started, was that the city seemed gloomy. You couldn’t see much because it was, well, it was mostly darkness rather than sunlight. And there was only just little bit of light from street lamps. On top of that, it was raining and kind of foggy.All of these details were together to create a dark, gloomy, mysterious feeling. So then, when the action started and it showed detectives talking to each other in the office, Ialready knew that the office was located in a tall building, in a big city, sometime in the 1940s. And I had a good idea that the events that’d be taking place would be pretty dark and mysterious because of the shot, the image I saw at the beginning of the scene.Using the professor’s example, explain what an establishing shot is and how it is used.Task 5:Listen to a conversation between two students.(man) Hey, Beth, how are things?(woman) Not great.(man) Why? What’s wrong?(woman) I just found out I have to move out of my apartment, like, right away. (man) You’re kidding! Why?(woman) Well, my apartment, it’s in a house, a kind of old house. And now something’s wrong with the water pipes. I think some of the pipes burst or wore out or something. Anyway, we don’t have any water in the house, and apparently it’sgonna take two weeks to fix the problem.(man) So you need to find a place to live for what? two weeks or so?(woman) Yeah, bad timing, huh? With mid-term exams coming up and everything! (man) So you’ve figured out what you’re going to do?(woman) Well, some friends said I could stay at their place. They don’t have an extra bedroom but they said it'd be OK for me to sleep on their living room couch.(man) You could probably handle that for a couple of weeks, right?(woman) I guess so. I mean it’s really nice of them to offer. And it’s free! The only problem is they already have four people living there so it could be a little crowded. (man) And not ideal for studying for mid-terms.(woman) Yeah, too many distractions.(man) Hmm, any other options?(woman) Well, I did find this place. It's a small hotel over on 3rd street right near campus. (man) Oh, right! A lot of kid’s parents stay there when they come for a visit.(woma n) Right. So I could get a room there. They have a weekly rate and it’s pretty reasonable. But, I don’t know..(man) At least at the hotel you'd have a space of your own, you know, so you could get more done.(woman) That’s definitely a plus. But I have to think about it. Even though it’s pretty cheap, it'll still end up costing me some money. And my budget is pretty tight right now.Briefly summarize the problem the speakers are discussing. Then state which solution you would recommend. Explain the reasons for your recommendation.Task 6：Listen to part of a lecture in a biology class.(female)We all know that insects like to eat plants. But some plants are able to develop ways to protect themselves from insects. Today I’m gonna talk about some ways plants defend themselves.Now, some plants have physical features that prevent insects from landing on them. Like the passion plant, for example, its leaves have little spiky hairs all over them. They’re like spikes, sticking out of the plant that are so numerous and dense that they prevent insects from landing on the leaves. Basically there’re just no room for the insects to land. And since insects can’t land on the leaves they can’t eat them. So the little hairs serve as a physical feature that help protect passion plan t from insects.All right! But other plants protect themselves using chemical defenses, like the potato plant. The potato plant is able to release a chemical throughout its leaf system whenever an insect attacks it, st arts eating the leaf. So, say an insect starts eating a potato plant’s leaf, that will cause the plant to react by releasing a chemical throughout its leaf system . The insect swallows this chemical as it eats. And this chemical discourages the insect from wanting to eat more of the plant. How? Well, the substance makes the insect feel full, like it’s already had enough to eat. The insect no longer feels hungry so it stops eating the plant. So, by emitting this chemical, the potato plant protects itself from insects.Using points from the lecture, explain how the passion plant and the potato plant defend themselves from insects.。
托福TPO12口语Task5听力文本+题目+满分范文
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托福TPO12口语Task5听力文本： Listen to a conversation between two students. (man) Hey, Madison, what's wrong? (woman) Oh, I'm just struggling about what to do? I won an award from the Pacific Journalism Institute for an article I submitted, and… (man) Doesn't sound like anything's wrong. (woman) Well, it's a huge honor to win and there's an award ceremony they've invited me to attend which I am super excited about. But, and here's what's frustrating, I've got a philosophy exam that scheduled to end right when the ceremony begins. (man) Uh oh! You're saying you'll just be finishing up taking the exam right when the ceremony starts? (woman) Exactly! (man) But those ceremonies never start on time, they give long introductions, you know, after a general speech or something before they ever get to handing out awards. I'm sure they won't be ready to hand out your award right at the beginning. Just go when you're done with the test. You won't miss anything important. (woman) Maybe,but that’s a bit risky. I don’t want to miss being there when they announce my name. (man) Well, have you talked to you r professor about this? (woman) Dr. Forester? No. (man) Maybe she’ll let you take the test some other time. (woman) True. She lets people reschedule exams sometimes. But she always make them take it a couple of days early, that’ll mean less studying time for me which I’m not thrilled about. (man) Less time to study, Oh! (woman) Like I said, I’m still struggling about what to do. 托福TPO12口语Task5题目： The speakers discussed two possible solutions to the woman’s problem. Briefly summarize the problem then state which of the solutions you recommend and explain why. 托福TPO12口语Task5满分范文： Well, the woman's problem is that she hopes to attend an award ceremony but she has got her philosophy exam exactly before the ceremony. Accordingly, there are two solutions for the woman's problem: first she could try to finish her exam just before the ceremony and hurry to the ceremony just in time; the second solution is that she could talk to the professor to take the test some other time. In such a dilemma I guess she should talk to the professor to get the exam rescheduled and there are two reasons. Firstly, she could try harder studying for her exam exactly from now on, so even if the exam might be rescheduled ahead of time her preparation is even earlier. By studying harder she could get full preparation for both the exam and her attendance of the ceremony that day. Secondly, hurrying to the ceremony would be suffering for both her exam and attendance of ceremony; she could probably get both ruined. So I guess talking to the professor to get the exam time changed is a wiser choice. (186 words) 以上是给大家整理的托福TPO12口语Task5听力文本+题目+满分范文，希望对你有所帮助!。
TPO12阅读与听力文本
TPO12阅读与听力文本TPO12ReadingJane Austen (1775-1817) is one of the most famous of all English novelists, and today her novels are more popular than ever, with several recently adapted as Hollywood movies. But we do not have many records of what she looked like. For a long time, the only accepted image of Austen was an amateur sketch of an adult Austen made by her sister Cassandra. However， recently aprofessionally painted, full-length portrait of a teenage girl owned by a member of the Austen family has come up for sale. Although the professional painting is not titled Jane Austen, there are good reasons to believe she is the subject.First, in 1882, several decades after Austen's death, Austen's family gave permission to use the portrait as an illustration in an edition of her letters. Austen's family clearly recognized it as a portrait of the author. So, for over a century now, the Austen family itself has endorsed the claim that the girl in the portrait is Jane Austen.Second, the face in the portrait clearly resembles the one in Cassandra's sketch, which we know depicts Austen. Though somewhat amateurish, the sketch communicates definite details about Austen's face. Even though the Cassandra sketch is of an adult Jane Austen, the features are still similar to those of the teenage girl in the painting. The eyebrows, nose, mouth, and overall shape of the face are very much like those in the full-length portrait.Third, although the painting is unsigned and undated, there is evidence that it was painted when Austen was a teenager. The style links it to Ozias Humphrey, a society portrait painter who was the kind of professional thewealthy Austen family would hire. Humphrey was active in the late 1780s and early 1790s, exactly the period when Jane Austen was the age of the girl in the painting.ListeningProfessor:The evidence linking this portrait to Jane Austen is not at all convincing. Sure, the painting has long been somewhat loosely connected to Austen's extended family and their descendents, but this hardly proves it's a portrait of Jane Austen as a teenager. The reading's arguments that the portrait is of Austen are questionable at best.First, when the portrait was authorized for use in the 1882 publication of her letters, Jane Austen had been dead for almost 70 years. So the family members who asserted that the painting was Jane had never actually seen her themselves. They couldn't have known for certain if the portrait was of Austen or not.Second, the portrait could very well be that of a relative of Austen's, a fact that would explain the resemblance between its subject and that of Cassandra's sketch. The extended Austen family was very large and many of Jane Austen's female cousins were teenagers in the relevant period or had children who were teenagers. And some of these teenage girls could have resembled Jane Austen. In fact, many experts believe that the true subject of the portrait was one of thoserelatives, Marianne Kempian, who was a distant niece of Austen's.Third, the painting has been attributed to Humphrey only because of the style. But other evidence points to a later date. A stamp on the back of the picture indicates that the blank canvas, you know the actual piece of cloth on which the picture was painted, was sold by a man named William Legg.Record showed that William Legg did not sell canvases in London when Jane Austen was a teenager. He only started selling canvases when she was 27 years old. So it looks like the canvas was used for the painting at a time when Austen was clearly older than the girl in the portrait.。
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1. What is the most efficient type of transportation in your country? Explain why you think it is efficient. Include specific reasons or examplesI think airplane is the most efficient type of transportation in my country because it’s fast and comfortable. It only takes me three hours to fly from Beijing to Chongqing. This saves me a lot of time. I can go to Chongqing in the morning and come back to Beijing in the evening. However, if I take train or bus, it’ll take me at least 20 hours. So it’s very fast to take planes. Also, every time I am on the plane, the flight attendant serves me delicious food and drink, all free of charge. But in a train, the attendants aren’t very hospitable and you have to pay for all the food and beverage even though they aren’t of high quality. So that’s why I think taking plane is comfortable.2. Some people believe it's essential for a person's education to learn to play a musical instrument. Others don't believe music education is important. Which view do you agree with? Explain why.I think it’s essential for a person’s education to learn to play a musical instrument. There are two reasons why I say so. First, learning to play a musical instrument can give a person a way to express emotion. For example, I have a sister who can play the piano. Every time she was happy or depressed, she’d pl ay the piano. Second, learning to play a musical instrument makes a person artsy or develop a person’s artistic talent. Artistic people are more sensitive than normal ones. They can feel something that others can’t feel. They can sense the emotions from what normal people think is a normal scene. For example, Beethoven can compose his Moonlight at night. But I don’t think anybody can make a moonlight at night.3. The woman supports the proposal described in the article. Explain why she thinks it will achieve the university's goals.The university plans to expand college radios station’s broadcasting range so as to attract more students to apply to its program and to provide the university with an extra source of revenue. The woman in the conversation thinks this change will work. She says currently the radio station range is limited to the campus. If they expand the range, there’ll be more programs. Also they will reach a larger audience and this will give students more experience in the real life broadcasting and put them in a favorable position to find jobs. Besides, the woman says this change will benefit the whole university. Since her friend’s university started a similarchange five years ago and make a lot of money out of commercials. They use the money to offer more scholarship and fund projects to renovate new facilities.4. Describe what subliminal perception is and explain how the experiment discussed by the professor illustrates this phenomenon.Subliminal perception is a phenomenon that the perception of stimulus is just below the threshold of conscious awareness and it can influence people’s thought and attitudes. The professor uses an experiment to illustrate this phenomenon. In the experiment two groups of people were asked to watch TV. A picture flashed on the screen. It appears so fast that it’s barely noticeable. The picture is a boy with a birthday cake. But each group is shown to a slightly different version of the picture. One group is shown to a picture in which the boy is angry and trying to throw the cake. The other group is shown to a picture in which the boy is smiling and trying to offer the cake. Later, these two groups of people were shown to a third picture in which the boy is holding the cake without any expressions. The people were asked to describe the boy’s personality. The result is that the group that has seen the angry boy describe him negatively, whereas the group that has seen the smiling boy described him positively.5. The speakers discuss two possible solutions to the woman's problem. Briefly summarize the problem. Then state which of the solutions you recommend and explain why.The woman won an award and is invited to attend the award ceremony. But she’s got a p hilosophy exam that is scheduled to end at the time when the ceremony begins. There are two possible solutions. The first one is to attend the ceremony after taking the philosophy exam since these ceremonies never start on time and give long introductions. So she won’t miss anything important. But she thinks it’s a bit risky and she doesn’t want to miss being there when they announce her name. The second solution is talk to the professor and reschedule the exam. But the professor always reschedule the exam earlier which means less studying time for the woman. I think the woman had better choose the first solution. Since rescheduling exam will reduce her studying time, the second solution will probably harm her score. Even if it’s possible that she’ll miss the announcement of her name, she can still go to the award after the exam.6. Using the points and examples from the talk, explain how substitute goods and complement goods influence demand for a particular productThe demand of a product can be influenced by the price of a related product. The first kind related products are called substitute goods, goods that can be substituted for one and another. They are interchangeable so the increase in the price of one product means the increase in the demand for another. For example, butter and margarine are interchangeable. If the price of butter goes up, people will buy margarine instead. So the increase in the price of butter lead to the increase in demand for margarine. The second kind related products are called complement goods,goods that can’t be used without each other. They c omplement or complete each other. For example, compact discs and disc player are complement products since they should always be used together. So if the price of either product increases, the demand for both will decrease. If the price of CD goes up, the demand for CD will go down. Since CD player complements CD, the demand for CD player will go down too.源于：小马过河相关推荐：2012年11月18日托福写作真题解析2012年11月18日托福口语真题解析2012年11月18日托福阅读真题解析2012年11月18日托福听力真题解析。
托福TPO12听力原文
TPO 12 听力原文Conversation 1NarratorListen to a conversation between a student and a professor.StudentSo Professor Tibets, your notes said that you want to see me about myheavy-weight paper. I have to say that grade wasn’t what I was expecting. Itho ught I’d done a pretty good job.ProfessorOh, you did. But do you really want to settle for pretty good when you can do something very good?StudentYou think it can be very good?ProfessorAbsolutely!StudentWould that mean you’d…I could get a bette r grade?ProfessorOh, sorry! It’s not for your grade. It's…I think you could learn a lot by revising it. StudentYou mean, rewrite the whole thing? I really swamped. There’re deadlines wherever I turn and… and I don’t really know how much time I could g ive it. ProfessorWell, it is a busy time, with spring break coming up next week. It’s your call.But I think with all a little extra effort, you could really turn this into a fine essay. StudentNo… yeah…I mean, after I read your comments, I...I can s ee how it tries to do too much.ProfessorYeah. It’s just too ambitious for the scope of the assignment.StudentSo I should cut out the historical part?ProfessorYes. I would just stick to the topic. Anything unrelated to the use of nature EMITRY has no place in the paper. All that tangential material just distracted from the main argument.StudentYeah, I never know how much to include. You know…where to draw the line?ProfessorTell me about it! All writers struggled without one. But it’s something you can learn. That will become more clear with practice. But I think if you just cut out the…emm…StudentThe stuff about history, but if I cut out those sections, won’t it be too short?ProfessorWell, better a short well-structured paper than a long paper thatpoorly-structured and wanders off topic.StudentSo all I have to do is to leave those sections?ProfessorWell, not so fast. After you cut out those sections, you’ll have to go back and revise the rest, to see how it all fits together. And of course, you’ll have to revise the introduction too, to accurately describe what you do in the body ofthe paper. But that shouldn’t be too difficult. Just remember to keep the discussion focused. Do you think you can get it to me by noon tomorrow?StudentWow…emm…I have so much…er…but I’ll try.ProfessorOK, good! Do try! But if you can’t, well, sure for after spring break, OK?TPO12 Lecture 1 BiologyNarratorListen to part of a lecture in a Biology Class.ProfessorAs we learn more about the DNA in human cells and how it controls the growth and development of cells, then maybe we can explain a very important observation, that when we try to grow most human cells in libratory, they seem programmed to divide only a certain number of times before they die. Now this differs with the type of cell. Some cells, like nerve cells, only divide seven to nine times in their total life. Others, like skin cells, will divide many, many more times. But finally the cells stop renewing themselves and they die. And in the cells of the human body itself, in the cells of every organ, of almost every type of tissues in the body, the same thing will happen eventually.OK, you know that all of persons’ genetic information is contained on very long pieces of DNA called Chro mosomes. 46 of them are in the human cells that’s23 pairs of these Chromosomes are of very lengths and sizes. Now if you look at this rough drawing of one of them, one Chromosome is about to divide into two. You see that it sort of looks like, well actual ly it’s much more complex than this but it reminds us a couple of springs linked together to coil up pieces of DNA. And if you stretch them out you will find they contain certain genes, certain sequences of DNA that help to determine how the cells of the body will develop. When researchers look really carefully at the DNA in Chromosomesthough, they were amazed, we all were, to find that only a fraction of it, maybe 20-30%, converts into meaningful genetic information. It’s incredible; at least it was to me. But if you took away all the DNA that codes for genes, you still have maybe 70% of the DNA left over. That’s the so-called JUNK DNA. Though the word junk is used sort of townies cheek.The assumption is that even these DNA doesn’t make up any of the g enes it must serve some other purpose. Anyway, if we examine these ends of these coils of DNA, we will find a sequence of DNA at each end of every human Chromosome, called a telomere. Now a telomere is a highly repetitious and genetically meaningless sequence of DNA, what we were calling JUNK DNA. But it does have any important purpose; it is sort of like the plastic tip on each end of shoelace. It means not help you tie your shoe but that little plastic tip keeps the rest of the shoelace, the shoe string from unraveling into weak and useless threads. Well, the telomere at the end of Chromosomes seems to do about the same thing--- protect the genes the genetically functional parts of the。
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TPO 12Task 3：Now, listen to two students discussing the article.(man) What do you think of the proposal?(woman) I think it’ll work. I mean, the range of the station now is basically limited to the campus. So it’s basically just a few programs mainly for students.(man) Yeah?(woman) Well, if this proposal goes through there will be more programs and it’ll give the students more professional experience as they expand the programming for a much larger, you know, real-life audience. And stuff like that will give them a better shot at getting a job after they graduate.(man) Of course.(woman) Besides, the whole university will benefit from it.(man) What do you mean?(woman) Well, you know my friend Tony, right? He told me that the radio station at his university did something like this about five years ago.(man) And?(woman) Well, it’s a succe ss! They are making a lot of money out of commercials and they are using it to offer more scholarships and to help fund projects to renovate the facilities of other programs.(man) That sounds really good.The woman supports the proposal described in the article. Explain why she thinks it will achieve the university s goals.Task 4：Now, listen to part of a lecture on this topic in a psychology class.(male professor)Consider this experiment. Two groups of people were asked to watch TV and while they are watching a picture flashed on the screen less than a second, very quickly so it was barely noticeable.The picture was a boy with a birthday cake. Now, like I said, there were two groups and each group saw a slightly different version of the picture. One group got the boy looking angry, in fact, he was actually throwing the cake on the floor. The other group got a picture of the boy smiling, happy, holding up the cake like he was offering it . Same boy, same cake but different emotions expressed in each picture.Everyone was then asked to look at a different image. Now, this is a third image, right? Again, it's the boy and the cake, but this time the image stayed on the screen. In this picture, the boy’s just holding the cake basically no emotion on his face, ev erythingvery neutral.Now, remember, nobody knew they’d already seen a picture of this boy. After a minute, everyone was asked to describe the boy’s personality. Those who’d been exposed to the image of the angry boy, they generally described the boy’s personality negatively. Those who’d earlier seen the happy boy described him, well, positively.Describe what subliminal perception is and explain how the experiment discussed by the professor illustrates this phenomenon.Task 5:Listen to a conversation between two students.(man) Hey, Madison, what’s wrong?(woman) Oh, I’m just struggling about what to do? I won an award from the Pacific Journalism Institute for an article I submitted, and…(man) Doesn’t sound like anything’s wrong.(woman) Well, it’s a huge honor to win and there’s an award ceremony they’ve invited me to attend which I am super excited about. But, and here’s what’s frustrating, I’ve got a philosophy exam that scheduled to end right when the ceremony begins.(man) Uh oh! You’re saying you’ll just be finishing up taking the exam right when the ceremony starts?(woman) Exactly!(man) But those ceremonies never start on time, they give long introductions, you know, after a general speech or something before they ever get to handing out awards. I’m sure they won’t be ready to hand out your award right at the beginning. Just go when you’re done with the test. You won’t miss anything important.(woman) Maybe, but that’s a bit risky. I don’t want to miss being there when the y announce my name.(man) Well, have you talked to your professor about this?(woman) Dr. Forester? No.(man) Maybe she’ll let you take the test some other time.(woman) True. She lets people reschedule exams sometimes. But she always make them take it a couple of days early, that’ll mean less studying time for me which I’m not thrilled about.(man) Less time to study, Oh!(woman) Like I said, I’m still struggling about what to do.The speakers discussed two possible solutions to the woman’s p roblem. Briefly summarize the problem then state which of the solutions you recommend and explain why.Task 6：Listen to part of a lecture in an economics class.(female professor)So, when we talked about the demand for a product, we’re referring to how much consumers want to buy it, right? And often the demand for a product is influenced by its price, the more expensive it becomes the less chance people want to buy it.OK, but that's not the whole story. Sometimes the demand for a product can also be influenced by the price of other related products.First, there are other products called “substitute goods”. If products can be substituted for one another then, um, well, then they are called substitute goods. They are similar enough to be interchangeable. And, uh, the increase of price of one means the increase for the demand of the other. Like, uh, like butter and margarine. They are pretty much used for the same purposes. Margarine’s butter’s substitute and you can bake equally well with either. Well, when the price of butter goes up, it becomes less affordable, and so what do people do? They buy margarine instead, right? So, uh, you see, increase of the price of butter increases the demand for margarine.Now, another instance with the price of one product can influence the demand of another is, uh, is when you have two products that can't be used without each other. Those products we call “compliment goods” They compliment, or complete, each other, if you will. Like compact disks and compact disk players. You need both products in order to use either. So if the price of either product increases demand for both is likely to decrease. And if the price of the CD’s goes up, well, demand for them will do down, right? And because CD’s and CD player c ompliment each other, what will also happen is that the demand for CD player will go down, too.Using the points and examples from the talk, explain how substitute goods and compliment goods influence demandfor a particular product.。