2014年11月29日托福阅读真题回忆

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2014.托福写作真题Grandparents have no use for their grandchildren because the world changed a lot during the past 50 years.2014.1.1.17 北美Do you think classmates or colleagues should work on project in person or by e-mails. Why?2014.1.18In times of economic crisis, local governments often reduce the money they spend in some areas. In your opinion, if a local government is facing economic problems, which of the following areas should it spend less money on? Libraries, public transportation, police.2014. 2.22People who develop many different skills are more successful than people who focus on one skill only.2014.3.1It is often not a good idea to move to a new city or a new country because you will lose old friends.2014.3.2Society has created too many rules for young people.2014.3.15Which do you think is the best way for a student to make friends: joining a sports team, participating in community activities or traveling?2014.3.16It is easier for people to get educated nowadays than in the past.2014.3.22 两套题Younger school children (aged from 5 to 10) should berequired to study art and music in addition to math, language, science and history.Young people are less dependent on their parents than in the past.2014.3.23Students should take at least one year to work or travel before they go to universities? 2014.4.5 北美People in the past are more interested in improving their neighborhood (the area where they live ) than now.2014.4.12 两套题It is more important to have more facilities rather than hire more teachers.The opinions of celebrities, such as entertainers and athletes, are more important to the younger people than they are to the older people.2014.4.19For many businesses to be successful, it must spend a lot of money on advertising. 2014.4.27Your job has more effects on your happiness than your social life does.2014.5.11Spending a lot of time watching sports on TV and following their favorite team will have negative impact o n one’s life.It is better to relax by a movie or reading a book than doing physical exercise. 2014.5.24It is important for government to provide money for things that are beautiful not just for things that are practical.2014.5.25Parents must have strict rules to help their children to be successful.2014.5.31 北美Children are benefited in important ways by taking care of pets.2014.6.14 北美Should government cover the internet fee or should individual pay the internet fee? 2014.6.15Some people prefer to buy new technological devices immediately when they become available. Others prefer to wait until many people have adopted them. Which way do you prefer?2014.6.29To remain happy and optimistic when you fail is more important than achieving access.2014.7.6People should take time to relax with hobbies or physical activities that are different from what they do at work.2014.7.12People should take several different kinds of job before they take a career in a long term.2014.8.16The most important investment for a big company is to improve the efficiency and proficiency of its employees.2014.8.23Young people today are more likely to invest their time and effort on improving the world than young people in the past.2014.8.30The ability to maintain a small number of friends for a long time is more important to happiness than the ability to make new friends easily.2014.9.14Younger school children should be required to study art andmusic in addition to study math, language, science, and history 2014.9.21It is often not a good idea to move to a new city or a new country because of the loss of old friends.2014. 9.27 两套题Visiting museum is the best way to learn about the country.Universities should require all students to learn about foreign cultures as well as their own culture.2014. 10.11Modern agriculture damage the environment, but providing food for the growing population around the world is more important than protecting the environment. (2013.3.22 NA) 2014.10.18It is important to know the events happened around the world even if it is not likely to have an effect on your daily life. (2012.4.28 ML)2014.10.26Because the world is too complex, it is essential for young people to have the ability to plan and organize.2014.11.2People often buy products not because they really need them but because other people have them. (2013.5.11) 2014.11.8 两套题It is important that families regularly eat meals together.Getting advice from friends who are older than you is more valuable than getting advice from friends of your own age. (2009.11.1 CN)2014.11.9Which one influences you most when you make a major purchase? 1. Recommendations from your friends or colleagues.2. Information from media (TV, newspaper, magazine).3. Salesman in the market.4. Decide all by your self without other information.2014.11.15Rather than help their children with schoolwork, parents should encourage children to work independently.2014.11.23Your job has more effect on your happiness than social life does.2014.11.29Some people like to record their experiences by uploading pictures and other information on social-networking websites. Others do not like to create such records. Which way do you prefer? (2013.8.10 NA)2014.12.6The best way for a teacher to help students interested in a subject is to explain that subject will help them outside school.2014.12.13Students nowadays are more interested in politics than in the past.2014.12.14The way a person is dressed in is a good indication of his/her personality.2014.12.21When vote for the leader of student organization or club, honesty is the most important consider. (2013.10.25 NA) 2014.12.27Young people today are more likely to help others than young people in the past. (2013.1.26 CN)2014.12.28It is important for government to provide money for things that are beautiful not just for things that are practical. (2014.5.24 CN)。

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Next Year Marks the EU's 50th Anniversary of the TreatyA. After a period of introversion and stunned self-disbelief， continental European governments will recover their enthusiasm for pan-Europeaninstitution-building in 2007. Whether the European public will welcome a return to what voters in two countries had rejected so short a time before is another matter.B. There are several reasons for Europe’s recovering self-confidence. For years European economies had been lagging dismally behind America (to say nothing of Asia)， but in 2006 the large continental economies had one of their best years for a decade， briefly outstripping America in terms of growth. Since politics often reacts to economic change with a lag， 2006’s improvement in economic growth will have its impact in 2007， though the recovery may be ebbing by then.C. The coming year also marks a particular point in a political cycle so regular that it almost seems to amount to a natural law. Every four or five years，European countries take a large stride towards further integration by signing a new treaty： the Maastricht treaty in 1992， the Treaty of Amsterdam in 1997， the Treaty of Nice in 2001. And in 2005 they were supposed to ratify a European constitution，laying the ground for yet more integration—until the calm rhythm was rudely shattered by French and Dutch voters. But the political impetus to sign something every four or five years has only been interrupted， not immobilised， by this setback.D. In 2007 the European Union marks the 50th anniversary of another treaty —the Treaty of Rome， its founding charter. Government leaders have already agreed to celebrate it ceremoniously， restating their commitment to “ever closer union”and the basic ideals of European unity. By itself， and in normal circumstances，the EU’s 50th-birthday greeting to itself would be fairly meaningless， a routine expression of European good fellowship. But it does not take a Machiavelli to spot that once governments have signed the declaration (and it seems unlikely anyone would be so uncollegiate as to veto it) they will already be halfway towards committing themselves to a new treaty. All that will be necessary will be to incorporate the 50th-anniversary declaration into a new treaty containing a number of institutionaland other reforms extracted from the failed attempt at constitution-building and —hey presto—a new quasi-constitution will be ready.E. According to the German government—which holds the EU’s agenda-setting presidency during the first half of 2007—there will be a new draft of a slimmed-down constitution ready by the middle of the year， perhaps to put to voters， perhaps not. There would then be a couple of years in which it will be discussed， approved by parliaments and， perhaps， put to voters if that is deemed unavoidable. Then，according to bureaucratic planners in Brussels and Berlin， blithely ignoring the possibility of public rejection， the whole thing will be signed， sealed and a new constitution delivered in 2009-10. Europe will be nicely back on schedule. Its four-to-five-year cycle of integration will have missed only one beat.F. The resurrection of the European constitution will be made more likely in 2007 because of what is happening in national capitals. The European Union is not really an autonomous organisation. If it functions， it is because the leaders of the big continental countries want it to， reckoning that an active European policy will help them get done what they want to do in their own countries.G. That did not happen in 2005-06. Defensive， cynical and self-destructive，the leaders of the three largest euro-zone countries—France， Italy and Germany —were stumbling towards their unlamented ends. They saw no reason to pursue any sort of European policy and the EU， as a result， barely functioned. But by the middle of 2007 all three will have gone， and this fact alone will transform the European political landscape.H. The upshot is that the politics of the three large continental countries，bureaucratic momentum and the economics of recovery will all be aligned to give a push towards integration in 2007. That does not mean the momentum will be irresistible or even popular. The British government， for one， will almost certainly not want to go with the flow， beginning yet another chapter in the long history of confrontation between Britain and the rest of Europe. More important，the voters will want a say. They rejected the constitution in 2005. It would befoolish to assume they will accept it after 2007 just as a result of an artful bit of tinkering.Questions 1-6 Do the following statemets reflect the claims of the writer in Reading Passage 1？Write your answer in Boxes 1-6 on your answer sheet.TRUE if the statemenht reflets the claims of the writerFALSE if the statement contradicts the claims of the writerNOT GIVEN if it is possbile to say what the writer thinks about this1.After years’ introspection and mistrust， continental European governments will resurrect their enthusiasm for more integration in 2007.2. The European consitution was officially approved in 2005 in spite of the oppositon of French and Dutch voters.3. The Treaty of Rome ， which is considered as the fundamental charter of the European Union， was signed in 1957.4.It is very unlikely that European countries will sign the declaration at the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome.5.French government will hold the EU’s presidency and lay down the agenda during the first half of 2008.6.For a long time in hisotry， there has been confrontation between Britain and the rest of European countries.Questions 7-10 Complet the following sentencces.Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from Reading Passage 1 for each answer.Write your answer in Boxes 7-10 on your answer sheet.7. Every four or five years， European countries tend to make a rapid progress towards ___________________by signing a new treaty.8. The European constitution is supposed to ______________________for yet more integration of European Union member countries.9. The bureaucratic planners in Brussels and Berlin rashly ignore the possibility of __________________and think the new consitution will be delivered in 2009-10.10. The politics of the three large continental countries， __________________ and the economic recovery will join together to urge the integration in 2007.Questions 11-14 Choose the appropriate letters A-D and write them in boxes 11-14 on your answer sheet.11. Which of the following statemnts is true of Euopean economic development.A. The economy of Europe developed much faster than that of Asia before 2006.B. The growth of European economy was slightly slower than that of America in 2006.C. The development of European economy are likely to slow down by 2007.D. The recovery of European economy may be considerably accelerated by 2007.12. The word “immobilised” in the last line of Section C means ___________.A. stopped completely.B. pushed strongly.C. motivated wholely.D. impeded totally.13. Which of the following statements about the treaties in European countries is NOT TRUE.A. The Maastricht Treaty was signed in 1992.B. The Treaty of Amsterdan was signed in 1997.C. The Treaty of Nice was signed in 2001.D. The Treaty of Rome was signed in 2007.14. The European constitution failed to be ratified in 2005--2006， becauseA. The leaders of France， Italy and Germany were defensive， cynical and self-destructuve..B. The voters in two countries of the Union --France and Holland rejected the constitution.C. The leaders of the EU thought that it was unneccessary to pursue any European policy.D. France， Italy and Germany are the three largest and most influential euro-zone countries.Notes to the Reading Passage1. pan-Enropeanpan-：前缀：全，总，泛pan-African 全/泛非洲的(运动)pan-Enropean全/泛欧的(机构建设)2. outstrip超越，胜过，超过，优于Material development outstripped human development”“物质的发展超过了人类的进步”3. ebb回落跌落；衰退或消减The tide is on the ebb.正在退潮。

2014年11月29日新托福口语预测

2014年11月29日新托福口语预测2014年11月15日考题近几个月托福考试的口语考题为新题加旧题拼盘, 难度较大，考生们备考时需要在用机经作为辅助同时提升自身实力。

2014年11月29日托福考试预测如下。

独立话题重点1. What is your favorite outdoor place to do exercise in a nice day?2.Do you agree or disagree: artists and musicians are important to our society?3. Some people like to have a break or get a job during summer vacation. Others think it is better to take a class. Which do you prefer and wh y?4. University students often feel homesick when they are away from home. What do you often do to deal with homesickness?5.Some people prefer to collect old things like newspaper. Others prefe r to throw them away after they ace used them. Which do you prefer and why?6.Do you agree or disagree with the statement: Government should spend money on projects that encourages the citizens to live a healthy lifest yle.7. Describe a time when you tried to do something that you have never done. Explain what you did and why you did it.8. Describe a good study habit that is different from other students.9. Do you prefer to shop in large grocery department stores or small sp ecialized shops?10.Which of the following do you think the most important for maintaini ng good health? Doing exercise, eating healthy food, or going to bed ea rly?11.What do you think is the most important quality of a working environ ment: good leaders, good colleagues, or flexible time?What quality do y ou think is the most important for a good teacher?12.How to overcome fear of public speaking?13.How to solve the traffic problems?14.Describe a time when you learned a new subject.15.What are some advantages and disadvantages of allowing students to w atch TV in dormitories?16.What are some suggestions for your friend in terms of preparing fora presentation?17.Which technology has the greatest impact on people’s life? Airplane, computer, or television.18.Agree or disagree: Nowadays, young people are more informed about the world events than their parents were before.19.Some people think that employees should wear formal clothes to work. Others think they should wear casual clothes. Which do you think is be tter?20.Do you prefer to make friends who share the same interests or friend s with different interests？21.Some people think children should grow up in big cities. Others beli eve that it is better for children to grow up in small towns. Which do you think is better?22.Some people prefer to go to the same place for a vacation. Others pr efer to go to different places and spend less time at each place. Which do you prefer?23.What do you think is the most significant benefit that internet brin gs to our life? Explain why you think this benefit is important. Please include reasons and details to support your response.24.Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: people live h ealthier lives now than they did 100 years ago? Please use specific rea sons and examples to support your answer.25.Talk about an important decision that you have made. Explain why thi s decision was important for you in details.26.Do you agree or disagree with the statement that it's important for students to study Art and Music in school. Explain your answer in detai ls.27.Describe a person you want to learn more about, explain why you want to know more about this person in details.28.Do you agree or disagree with the statement that all children under the age of 16 should attend school. Explain you answer in details.29.Do you agree or disagree: cell phone changes our lives greatly.30.While traveling, some people prefer to go to new places; others pref er to visit familiar places. Which do you think is better? Explain why.31.Talk about an activity you would like to participate in the near fut ure, explain your answer in details.32.Agree or disagree: it is better to be a member of a team than to bea leader of a team.33.Some people prefer to write journals and take photos when they trave l. Others don’t. Which do you prefer?34.Some people prefer to read paper book. Some people prefer to read el ectronic books on their reading devices. Which do you prefer?35.Some people prefer to solve a challenge by themselves; and others pr efer to depend on other’s help. Which do you prefer?36.What are the advantages and disadvantages of allowing students to ea t in class?37.Describe a job or career that you admire but do not want to take.38.College students should be allowed to keep pets in their dormitorie s.39.Describe a time when you learned a new subject and illustrate the st eps.40.Should children grown up in cities or small town?41.What quality do you think is the most important to be a university s tudent? Highly motivated, hard working, or intelligent?42.Popular celebrities, like singers, actors, athletes are good example s for the young to learn form. Do you agree or disagree?43.Some students prefer to study in a library. Others prefer to study a t home or in dormitories. Which way do you prefer and why? Include reas ons and details in your response.44.Some people prefer to live in a place most of their life. Other peop le prefer to move to different places. Which do you prefer and why? Use specific reasons and examples to support your response.45.Do you prefer to participate in activities alone, or with a team or group?46.Do you prefer finish your work long before the due time?47.When do you prefer to do your assignment, morning or evening?48.Describe an positive experience and the result.49.What kind of food do you recommend to add to food menu on campus caf eteria? Use Examples and details to support your response.综合话题重点重点1Task 3:【个人倡议】有个学生写了封信，认为学校应该将课间时间由10 分钟延长为20 分钟。

20141026托福考试阅读题回顾

新托福阅读考题回顾朗阁海外考试研究中心王婧考试日期2014.10.26Passage 1Title:非蓄水层大致内容第一篇讲雨水落到地面不会直接变成河流水，而是有一系列过程。

土壤不饱和层unsaturated zone的结构分为三层：soil, subsoil and c fringe.前两层不同在于soil有很多比细菌小的微生物，来自于分解后的动植物。

soil之中有大量植物的根。

Subsoil在不同的地方厚度不同。

最下面的是可以透水的C层。

地下水时而漫过它，时而下降，下降的原因是重力。

非蓄水层是水从地表往下渗透以后，不直接通到地下水的一个地层。

水渗透之后在非蓄水层并非完全不可往下渗透，具体渗透与否要看条件。

Passage 2Title:口述诗歌大致内容很久以前诗歌是口头的，这些诗歌很长，最经典的就是伊利亚特和奥德赛，作者是荷马(Homer)。

文章的主旨是探讨伊利亚特和奥德赛的作者到底是不是荷马。

有人认为是后期一些无名但是有文学造诣的诗人收集早期诗歌然后整合而成的。

然后说伊利亚特和奥德赛有很多悠长而重复的句子，不可能是文字稿，同时荷马使用了前人的技巧，而这些技巧又来自前人的前人。

另外一种可能是荷马使用了一些人们熟悉的英雄的故事，加上他收集故事的技巧，每一次的表演都会不同。

这对于现在和未来都很有影响。

然后还说前期荷马口头记录之后他又学会了文学的技巧，然后自己记录下来。

又有人说是其他人记录下来的。

反正不管哪一种，荷马史诗都是很有意义的。

相关阅读：The idea that Homer was responsible for just the two outstanding epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, did not win consensus until 350 BC. While many, such as Gregory Nagy, find it unlikely that both epics were composed by the same person, others, such as W. B. Stanford, argue that the stylistic similarities are too consistent to support the theory of multiple authorship. One view whichattempts to bridge the differences holds that the Iliad was composed by "Homer" in his maturity, while the Odyssey was a work of his old age. The Batrachomyomachia, Homeric Hymns and cyclic epics are generally agreed to be later than the Iliad and the Odyssey.Most scholars agree that the Iliad and Odyssey underwent a process of standardisation and refinement out of older material beginning in the 8th century BC. An important role in this standardisation appears to have been played by the Athenian tyrant Hipparchus, who reformed the recitation of Homeric poetry at the Panathenaic festival. Many classicists hold that this reform must have involved the production of a canonical written text. Other scholars still support the idea that Homer was a real person. Since nothing is known about the life of this Homer, the common joke—also recycled with regard to Shakespeare—has it that the poems "were not written by Homer, but by another man of the same name." Samuel Butler argues, based on literary observations, that a young Sicilian woman wrote the Odyssey (but not the Iliad), an idea further pursued by Robert Graves in his novel Homer's Daughter and Andrew Dalby in Rediscovering Homer.Independent of the question of single authorship is the near-universal agreement, after the work of Milman Parry,that the Homeric poems are dependent on an oral tradition, a generations-old technique that was the collective inheritance of many singer-poets (aoidoi). An analysis of the structure and vocabulary of the Iliad and Odyssey shows that the poems contain many formulaic phrases typical of extempore epic traditions; even entire verses are at times repeated. Parry and his student Albert Lord pointed out that such elaborate oral tradition, foreign to today's literate cultures, is typical of epic poetry in a predominantly oral cultural milieu, the key words being "oral" and "traditional". Parry started with "traditional": the repetitive chunks of language, he said, were inherited by the singer-poet from his predecessors, and were useful to him in composition. Parry called these repetitive chunks "formulas".Exactly when these poems would have taken on a fixed written form is subject to debate. The traditional solution is the "transcription hypothesis", wherein a non-literate "Homer" dictates his poem to a literate scribe between the 8th and 6th centuries BC. The Greek alphabet was introduced in the early 8th century BC, so it is possible that Homer himself was of the first generation of authors who were also literate. The classicist Barry B. Powell suggests that the Greek alphabet was invented c. 800BC by one man, whom he calls the "adapter," in order to writedown oral epic poetry. More radical Homerists like Gregory Nagycontend that a canonical text of the Homeric poems as "scripture"did not exist until the Hellenistic period (3rd to 1st century BC).New methods try also to elucidate the question. Combininginformation technologies and statistics stylometry analyzesvarious linguistic units: words, parts of speech, and sounds.Based on the frequencies of Greek letters, a first study of DietmarNajock particularly shows the internal cohesion of the Iliad andthe Odyssey. Taking into account the repartition of the letters, arecent study of Stephan Vonfelt highlights the unity of the worksof Homer compared to Hesiod. The thesis of modern analystsbeing questioned, the debate remains open.Passage 3Title:海洋捕食大致内容第三篇讲海洋生物如何捕食的。

2014年11月29日托福口语真题回忆

2014年11月29日托福口语真题回忆T1Which one of the following activities do you prefer to do by yourself rather than with a group of people?1.study 2.exercise3.shopping. Please include specific details.T2Do you think government should spend money on saving the endangered animals or the money has to come from private sources?T3The university has decided to offer reference material online because paper, newspaper and journal take up too much space.The man agrees with the decision.First, he thinks the library has no space to keep the books and the school has to expand library by building a new building. But online materials could help solve the problem, which is more economical.Second, students have computer in their dorms and it’s convenient to s earch the material online.T4Vertical migrationMarine stocks migrate up and down in the sea for plentiful food or avoiding predators.The professor gives an example of squid. In daytime, squid are likely to be exposed to predators due to sunlight, so they will hide at the bottom of the ocean because darkness will protect them. But during the night, squid migrate to the surface of the water to search for food and stay until the next morning.T5The woman’s problem is that she sprained her ankle and she couldn’t drive to downtown to do student teaching. There are two solutions. First, she could take a taxi, but it's too expensive. Second, she could get a ride from her friend, but she didn’t want to be a burden of her friend. Her friend said he could study in the coffeehouse to wait her, no big deal.T6The professor talks about two reasons of the increase of the newspaper issue in 19th century.One is because the advance technique.For example, machines were put into use so they could produce more newspaper for people.Second is because they find more source of funding.For example, there existed commercial section on the newspaper so the price of newspaper became low and affordable.。

2014年6月29日托福口语真题回忆(网友版)

2014年6月29日托福口语真题回忆(网友版) 版本一：
口语1：你觉得人生最艰难的时刻是哪个阶段?1、childhood 2、teenage 3、adulthood
口语2：have plan for the future，or 不用对未来考虑太多，做好现在的事
口语3：学校给journalism专业的同学提供去报社实习的机会，抵传统课程的学分。

女生支持，理由1、积累工作经验2、抵学分可以使她们有更多的时间去报社
口语4：priming：people can be affected by previous thoughts and experience.坐公车的两个女人对一个在本子写字的男生不同的看法：一个女的在车上碰见自己的大学同学，回忆起大学生活，她就会以为男生是学生在写作业;而另一个女的在看诗集，所以她以为男生在写诗。

口语5：男生要飞回家，去机场的方式有点问题：1、take train,cheap,direct，但是航班是早晨5点，train 6点半才运行，解决办法是提前一天晚上去。

2、take taxi，expensive 40刀，train才5刀。

口语6：shedding 对植物的好处
1、prevent from damage 举例marple tree 冬天叶子脱落免受冰雪伤害
2、conserve nurtrients 举例avocado trees 果实多shedding 可以给果实提供更多营养。

版本二、。