托福听力十大必背话题(下)

托福听力十大必背话题（下） 文章摘要： 下文是托福听力十大必背段子，从这些段子可以看出托福听力常考话题一般包括校园、历史、 艺术、自然等方面，大家从这个方向去积累一些背景词汇和背景知识，从而提高托福听力正确率。 新动态乐闻携尔留学(粉丝 1.5 万) 托福听力如何备考？托福听力段子中经常会涉及到一些关于艺术或者科学的话题，比 如音乐，电影，名著，天文知识等。不过，有些经典话题会重复出现，下面小编为广大托 福考生整理了托福听力十大必背经典段子，大家如果能掌握这些话题及相关词汇，就会对 托福听力的答题大有帮助。 托福听力段子 7. 文科段子：传媒变迁 Moving away from newspapers, lets now focus on magazines. Now the first magazine was a little periodical called the Review and it was started in London in 1704. It looked a lot like the newspapers of the time, but in terms of its contents it was much different. Newspapers were concerned mainly with news events but the Review focused on important domestic issues of the day, as well as the policies of the government. Now, in England at the time, people could still be thrown in jail for publishing articles that were critical of the king. And that is what happened to Daniel Defoe. He was the outspoken founder of the review. Defoe actually wrote the first issue of the Review from prison. You see, he had been arrested because of his writings that criticized the policies of the Church of England, which was headed by the king. After his release, Defoe continued to produce the Review and the magazine started to appear on a more frequent schedule, about three times a week. It didnt take long for other magazines to start popping up. In 1709, a magazine called the Tattler began publication. This new magazine contained a mixture of news, poetry, political analysis and philosophical essays. 托福听力段子 8. 理科段子：远程教育 -Hi, Lynn. I saw you at registration yesterday. I sailed right through, but you were standing in a long line. -Yeah. I waited an hour to sign up for a distance-learning course. -Distance learning? Never heard of it. -Well, its new this semester. Its only open to psychology majors. But I bet itll catch on else where. Yesterday, over a hundred students signed up. -Well, what is it? -Its an experimental course. I registered for child psychology. All I have got to do is watch a twelve-week series of televised lessons. The department shows them seven different times a day and in seven different locations. -Dont you ever have to meet with professor? -Yeah. After each part of the series I have to talk to her and the other students on the phone, you know, about our ideas. Then well meet on campus three times for reviews and exams. -It sounds pretty non-traditional to me. But I guess it makes sense, considering how many students have jobs. It must really help with their schedules, not to mention how it will cut down on traffic. -You know, last year my department did a survey and they found out that 80 percent of all psychology majors were employed. Thats why they came up with the program. -Look, Ill be working three days a week next semester and it was either cut back on my classes or try this out. -The only thing is: doesnt it seem impersonal though? I mean, I miss having class discussions and hearing what other people think. -Well, I guess thats why phone contacts important. Any way, its an experiment. -Maybe Ill end up hating it. -Maybe. But Ill be curious to see how it works up. 托福听力段子 9. 生活段子：游览沼泽地公园 Welcome to Everglades National Park. The Everglade is a watery plain covered with saw grass thats the home to numerous species of plants and wild life. And one and half million acre is too big to see it all today. But this tour will offer you a good sampling. Our tour bus will stop first at Tailor Slue. This is a good place to start because its home to many of the plants and animals typically associated with the everglade. Youll see many exotic birds and of course a world famous alligators. Dont worry. Theres a boardwalk that goes across the marsh, so you can look down at the animals in the water from a safe distance. The boardwalk is high enough to give you a great view of the saw grass prairie. From there well head at some other marshy and even jungle-like areas that feature wonderful tropical plant life. For those of you whod like a close view of the saw grass prairie, you might consider running a canoe sometime during your visit here. However, dont do this unless you have a very good sense of direction and can negotiate your way through tall grass. We hate to have to come looking for you. You have a good fortune of being here in the winter, the best time of the year to visit. During the spring and summer the mosquitoes will just about to eat you alive. Right now, they are not so bothersome, but youll soon want to use an insect repellent. 托福听力段子 10. 理科段子：地理冒险 Good morning, class. Before we begin today, I would like to address an issue that one of you reminded me of after the last lecture. As you may recall, last time I mentioned that Robert E. Peary was the first person to reach the North Pole. What I neglected to mention was the controversy around Pearys pioneering accomplishment. In 1910, a committee of the national geographical society examined Commodore Pearys claim to have reached the North Pole on April 6th 1909 and found no reason to doubt him. This judgment was actually confirmed by a committee of the US congress in 1911. Nevertheless, Pearys claim was surrounded by controversy. Tins was largely due to the competing claim of Doctor Frederic Cook who told the world he had reached the Pole a four-year earlier. Over the decades Peary was given the benefit of the doubt, but critics persisted in raising questions about his navigation and the distances he claimed to have covered. So the Navigation Foundation spent an additional 12 months of exhaustive examination of doc