托福機經2016.01.24口語

Task 1

Which of the following community service would you be more interested in doing and explain why? Cleaning the city park, planting flowers and trees or build a bicycle lane?

Sample response

Honestly, I’ll definitely go for planting trees and flowers because this is something that can actually comfort me mentally. I’ll just do it naturally and spontaneously without forcing myself to participate in those community works that I'm not really into. And I can also switch up from the fast-paced life and try to find a sense of tranquility and chill out a bit.
 On top of that, by planting more greens, I'm actually doing something to protect our mother earth, even though it’s just a tiny step but still makes me feel a sense of achievement and that kinda feeling is indescribable. So I’ll definitely do it because I have a certain and stronger urge and interest of doing so rather than the other two.

Task 2

Do you agree or disagree that the success of a school depends on experienced teachers?

Sample response

　　Alright, let’s back to life, back to reality, experienced teachers can not be the deciding factor to judge whether a school is good or not cuz experienced teachers have been teaching for so many years and they're probably tired of teaching the same old stuff over and over again and for the record, they are not as passionate as new teachers when it comes to teaching. In that case, a school should also hire some new faculty members in order to import some new blood so that students can benefit more from this change and the school, of course, is going to be a very successful school.
　　What’s more, advanced facilities like a spacious indoor gym with all sorts of equipments, fancy and cozy dorms with wifi, and a wider selection of school activities are also really crucial when it comes to the evaluation of a successful school.

Task 3

【提議】Student Letter, 建議學校應該在宿舍樓里放tea and coffee station, 因為節省時間又便宜

【學生議論】女生同意

理由1：因為早上起不來，時間很緊，沒有時間特意去買早餐。只有學校餐廳有茶喝咖啡，宿舍提供的話會更方便。

理由2：因為咖啡廳太貴，這樣更省錢一些。

Sample response

In this reading passage, the student proposes that the university should set some coffee and tea station in student dorms cuz that can be so time efficient and also saves students a lot of money.
　　In the conversation, the woman can’t agree more with this proposal for two reasons. The first reason is that it’s really hard for students to get up early in the morning and they are always in a rush and they don't have time for breakfast. It can be a whole lot easier for them to grab a nice cup of coffee in their dorm buildings and they don't have to go all the way to the dining hall. What’s more, it can also save them a lot of money from buying coffee and tea by doing so. Things in the coffee shop in our campus are always more expensive.

Task 4

【名詞解釋】兩種毫無聯系的生物有可能在不同的環境下進化出相似的feature

【教授舉例】教授舉了兩種動物的例子。一個是非洲的長得像豬的生物，應該是platypus一個是澳洲的體型偏小的生物，應該是echidina. 它倆因為都吃一種昆蟲，中種昆蟲生活在很深很堅硬的mud里面，于是它倆都進化出了long sticky tongue，可以幫助它們從mud里面吃到蟲子而活下來。

Sample response

In this reading passage, it is talking about the animal evolution. After millions of years, animals are changed and evolved to the response of environmental development.
　　In the lecture, the professor gives one example of two animals to illustrate this theory. There is a pig like animal named platypus in Africa and a kind of small animal named echidna in Australia. They both have certain connection of eating the same insect living in the mud which can be so deep and hard. Overtime, they both develop very long and sticky tongues so that they can get the insects out of the mud to survive.

Task 5

【學生困難】男女要一起開車去看play，但是難得突然想起自己還有一門課，所以準備下周再去play. 但是這樣女的就沒有人開車帶她了。

方案一：女生可以開男生的車去。

評價：雖然有駕照，但是沒有開車經驗，不太敢，而且要去的地方也沒開車去過。

方案二：坐公交去。

評價：但是要花兩倍時間，因為有很多站。

Sample response

In this conversation, the woman is facing a problem that the man was supposed to drive her and company her to watch a play, but the man realized that he still got one class to go at the last min so that there would be no one to drive her to the play.
　　So here are two solutions for her. The first one is that the woman can drive the man’s car by herself. Another solution is the woman take a public transportation.
　　I think the woman should definitely choose the first solutions because it’s such an exhausting thing to take a bus, which may cause her a lot of energy and time and most importantly, it is not the cool thing to do. What’s more, life is too short to play it safe, she should definitely jump out of her comfort zone and take chances. It should be fun to do that.

Task 6

In the lecture,  the professor is talking about the contributions of railroad to America and also gives us two examples to illustrate it.
　　The first example is that the business can sell their products to a further place and get more revenue. Like in the past, the business which sells clocks can only sell its clocks to local people. Overtime, as the expansion of railroad, the business can deliver their clocks to the entire country and sell to more people.
　　Another example is to make it possible to transport raw materials like coal. In the south of America, there are no factories due to the missing of coals cuz factories need energy provided by coals. As the expansion of railroad and coal utilization, which can transport coal from other regions to the south so that more and more factories can be built up there.