托福口语不要只限于记录段子 多听多练是关键

　　由于时间的限制和内容组织的完整性，也许在前几次的练习中，时间都是不够用的。所以，有些同学会考虑到为了托福口语考试，记录一些段子进行背诵。但是，这真的是提高托福口语的唯一方法么?想要提高托福口语，还有什么基本的要素呢?下面是小编给大家带来的托福口语不要只限于记录段子，希望能帮到大家!

　　托福口语不要只限于记录段子 多听多练是关键

　　对于托福口语的备考来说，词汇是最最基础内容。很多的同学在开始学习托福口语的时候往往有开口之后无话可说的窘境，其实这个问题可以通过补上我们落下的单词来弥补。如果，还是你已经备考托福有一定的时间，托福词汇量有了一定的提升，再回头比较一下，你是否会发现，自己的表述能力是否有了一定的提升?之前对于题目是根本没有什么想法，而现在听到题目后，就已经可以找到一些关键的词汇了。

　　提高托福口语时候，听力也是关键，这一个问题大家在托福的听力考试中同样也会遇到，我们的建议是听写，而且我们要说的稍微言辞激烈一些，听力的提高必须依靠艰苦卓越的精听来提高。还需要提醒大家的就是，很多同学在备考听力的时候，喜欢利用积累段子的方法，当然这并不是什么坏事。但是，需要注意的是，在准备这些段子的是，关键是需要读而不仅仅是写，你的语音别人听不听得懂，你的轻重缓急和停顿做得到不到位等等。

　　想要提升自己的托福口语成绩，托福考试的模拟测试时必不可少的。所以，在备考过程中，一定要面对电脑，面对计时器不断地熟悉题型，熟悉答题的方法，之后才能够功到自然成。也建议大家在备考进入一定阶段后，使用一些托福考试模拟软件，感受一下托福考试的临场环境。

　　托福口语练习之宠物话题

　　本期为大家整理了托福口语练习常见的宠物话题素材，希望能帮助大家更好的备战托福。

　　Pets Are Good for you

　　The basic meaning of "pet" is an animal we keep for emotional rather than economic reasons. (1) A pet animal is kept as a companion, and we all need companions to keep us feeling happy. But pets offer us more than mere companionship; they invite us to love and be loved. Many owners feel their pets understand them, for animals are quick to sense anger and sorrow. Often a cat or dog can comfort us at times when human words don’t help (2). We feel loved, too, by the way pets depent on us for home, for food and drink. Dogs especially, look up to their owners, which makes them feel important and needed. (3)

　　A pet can be something different to each member of the family, another baby to the mother, a sister or brother to an only child, a grandchild to the elderly, (4) but for all of us pets provide pleasure and companionship. It has even been suggested that tiny pets should be sent as companions to astronauts on space ships, to help reduce the stress and loneliness of space flights.

　　In this Plastic Age, (5) when most of us live in large cities, pets are particularly for children. A pet in the family keeps people in touch with the more natural, animal world. Seeing an animal give birth brings understanding of the naturalness of childbirth of the naturalness of childbirth, and seeing a pet helps a child to cope with sorrow. (6) Learning to care for a pet helps a child to grow up into a loving adult who feels responsible towards those dependent on him. Rightly we teach children to be good to their pets. They should learn, too, that pets are good for us human beings.

　　I. Listen

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

　　1. The basic meaning of "pet" is an animal we keep for emotional rather than economic reasons: "宠物“ 的基本含义是，我们出于感情原因，而不是经济目的而饲养的一种动物。

　　2. when human words don’t help: 人的语言安抚无济于事时。

　　3. Dogs especially, look up to their owners, which makes them feel important and needed: 特别是狗对其主人的尊重使用权他们产生一种举足轻重和不可缺少的感觉。

　　4. A pet can be something different to each member of the family, another baby to the mother, a sister or brother to an only child, a grandchild to the elderly: 对家庭的每一个成员来说，一只宠物有着不同的作用：对母亲来说，它是另一个孩子;对独生子女来说，它则成了一个妹妹或弟弟;老人面前，它又变成了孙子。

　　5. In the Plastic Age: 在这一塑料时代(即指当今塑料制品取代了自杀的生活用品)。

　　6. Seeing an animal give birth brings understanding of the naturalness of childbirth, and seeing a pet die helps a child to cope with sorrow: 观察一只动物的分娩可以帮助人理解婴儿出生的自然过程;而看到一只宠物的死去则可以帮助孩子怎能样面对痛苦。