托福口语话题材料电视机

　　在托福备考的过程中，要想获得新托福口语高分，练习必不可少。我们就开始模仿托福考试，做一些模拟练习吧。下面小编就为大家准备了一系列的托福口语话题材料，希望能为大家的托福备考带来帮助。

　　托福口语话题材料——电视机

　　I. Listen

　　Listen to the text with the help of the following notes.

　　1. it is more convenient ...in search of amusement elsewhere: (对四口之家来说)舒服地坐在家里，有着包罗万象的娱乐节目供选择，当然比外出到别的地方寻找娱乐活动更为方便，更合算了。

　　2. only to discover... disappointing: 最终发现演出是那样令人失望。此处only 表示出乎意料。

　　3. takes no initiative: 没有任何主动性。

　　4. The most distant countries...into one’s sitting -room: 最遥远的国度、最奇异的风俗了情被直接送到人们起居室。

　　5. flickering pictures: 闪烁为定的图像。

　　II. Read

　　Read the following passages. Underline the important viewpoints while reading.

　　1. Why Watch Television?

　　Matthew: Television is undoubtedly a great invention, but one of the main criticisms of it is that people just aren’t selective enough. Lesley, you’ve got a television; how do you pick out the sorts of programmes you want to watch?

　　Lesley: I try and look at the programmes that are on to decide which particular ones interest me, rather than you turning it on at seven o’clock and you leaving it on until half-past eleven when the programmes finish.

　　Matthew: Do you think of television though as a great time-waster?

　　Lesley: I think it can be a time-waster and it depends on how particular people are about what they want to see...Mm, it can just be a sort of total amusement for someone and totally consuming without really considering what it is they’re watching.

　　Matthew: Aha, but how do you prevent it coming into your life and taking over your evenings and at the same time perhaps get... get out of the television some of the sort of best things... best programmes that ... that undoubtedly are on television?

　　Lesley: Well, I suppose one of the problems is... will depend on what a person’s life style is, and that if he has other outside interests which are equally important to him as television, he will then, you know, mm... be more careful about which programmes he wants to watch because he has time which he wants to use for other things.

　　Matthew: Do you think though that ... that in... in a sense television has killed people’s own er...sort of, creativity or their ability to entertain themselves because if they’re bored all they do is just turn on the television?

　　Lesley: Yes, I think that is a danger, and I think that... in fact is what is happening to a lot of people who use it as their ... their main ... um field of amusement and ... because they don’t have other outside interests and even when people come round they’ll leave the television on and not be, you know, particularly interested in talking to them, you know the television will be the main thing in the room.

　　Matthew: Peter, have you a television?

　　Peter: I have, in fact I’ve got two televisions.

　　Matthew: Do you watch them a lot?

　　Peter: Er...no I ...I watch very seldom er... In fact, I find that I watch television most when I’m working which requires nothing of me, then I watch television a lot. When I’ve got more energy left...um ...in my own private time, then I find I do more different things. I do things like um reading, or going out, or working on anything ...my hobbies.

　　Matthew: Do you think though that people can live a perfectly happy life if they haven’t got a television?

　　Peter: Oh yes, I think people who don’t have a television or people who don’t watch television can be expected to be more happy. You can assume I think if they never watch television they are happier people than the people who watch a lot of television, because I think that television goes with the kind of life which leaves you with nothing to spare, nothing left, you have to be given potted, passive entertainment.

　　Matthew: But in that case you...you seem as though you’re completely against television, is that true?

　　Peter: No, it’s not. I ...I have a television in fact, I have two as I said, but er I ... I ... I think there’s a dilemma, a difficult situation. Television in itself is very good; a ... a lot of the information and a lot of the programmes are very instructive, they introduce you to things you may never have though of before or never have hard about before. But in watching, it makes you very passive; you sit for hour after hour and you get very receptive and very unquestioning and it seems to me the important thing in life is to be active, to ... to do things, to think things and to be as creative as possible, and television prevents this.

　　III Consider

　　Does television play a positive or negative role in the modern word?

　　Arguments

　　1. Television is now playing a very important part in our lives.

　　托福备考口语练习题——综合口语题目

　　在托福口语考试中，多数题目都是需要表达出自己的想法。这些题目除了考察考生的表达能力之外，还需要在测试学生的逻辑思维和表达能力。那么如何在托福口语考试中更好的表达出自己的想法呢?

　　题目 Listening Part:

　　Listen to a conversation between two students.

　　(man) Hey, Jennifer. How are things going?

　　(woman) Well, I’m relieved this is the end of semester. But that’s actually part of my problem.

　　(man) What do you mean?

　　(woman) Can you believe this? My computer broke yesterday. So it’s at the shop being repaired. It won’t be read y until the end of n ext week which is when all my papers are due.

　　(man) Why not use the computer lab? They’ve got lots of machines there.

　　(woman) I know. But it gets so noisy there that I can’t keep my mind on my work. I mean, when I’m at a computer, I’m not just typing. I’m thinking! So I need quiet to concentrate.

　　(man) Maybe you can try going in the morning or evening. It might be less noisy then.

　　(woman) Maybe. But this time of year, everybody’s working on papers. It could be crowded even then.

　　(man) Hmm. What about calling back the computer rep air shop to see if they can have your computer read y at the beginning of next week instead? That would still give you enough time to finish your papers by the end of the week.

　　(woman) Oh! I haven’t thought of that! The only problem is the shop is closed today and tomorrow for the long holiday weekend. So it’ll be a few days before I can talk to the

　　题目 Question:

　　The speakers discuss two possible solutions to the woman’s problem. Briefly summarize the problem, then state which solution your recommend and explain why.

　　答案解析：

　　1. Listening key

　　(1.1) Problem: woman needs to finish her paper but computer is broken and being repaired in the shop

　　(1.2) Solution 1: go to the lab to do her work

　　(1.2.1) Pro: plenty of machines to use

　　(1.2.2) Con: it’s crowded; too noisy to concentrate

　　(1.3) Solution 2: wait for her own computer to be repaired

　　(1.3.1) Pro: no need to work amount the crowed in the lab

　　(1.3.2) Con: has to wait after the long holiday weekend to find out

　　范文：

　　The woman’s problem is that her computer is broken and being repaired in the shop, now she can’t finish all her papers in time. There are two possible solutions here. The first one is that she can go to the computer lab to do all the work. The second is waiting for her computer to be repaired. I would use the computer lab to do my work if I were her. First, this way she won’t waste anytime on the weekend, and there is no guaranty that the repair shop can get her computer ready as early as the beginning of next week. Second, she can choose a time when the lab is less noisy to do her work, such as early in the morning or late in the evening.