托福口语真题(含答案).doc

100430NATask2: Should a city try to preserve its old , historic building or destroy them and replace them with modern buildings?*In my opinion a city must try to preserve its old ,historic building. *Firstly, is that we need to preserve our history, every building has its own historical background, especially that help us to know more about the previous period of history. *Furthermore, the old historic buildings of a city would accentuate a citys culture and characteristic. Beijing is the best example, although a lot of new modern building have been built in this city, the most attractive place of Beijing is still the old historic buildings. *Finally, preserving old historic building also means respecting the previous generations. Thats why I think a city must try to preserve its old ,historic building.100312NATask1: Its important for students to have computers? Explain why computers are important to students.*As a college student I think computer is important in my daily life. *I can use my computer to store important assignments and valuable informations. *I also like use my computer surfing on the internet for learning, shopping, watching movies, listening to musics and so on, computer makes my life more colorful and convenient. *Computer also plays an important role in keeping in touch with my family and friends, charting and sharing emotions together via Internet, which can be the cheapest and fastest way of far-distance communication.Task2: Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?People should state honest opinions even though they are different from other peoples opinions.*Personally, I would be honest all the time because of the following reasons.*Firstly, I believe that honest is one of the most important characters of a person. It helps you build a good reputation among your friends. Everyone likes the honest people.*Secondly, being honest can make life easier. If you tell a lie, you need to make up more and more stories to ensure that it not be exposed.*Whats more, if you keep honest, others will be honest to you. It makes our life happier. There are no more misunderstandings among you and other people.*So, just be honest, just be yourself!110827NATask2: If a high school in your hometown is planning to provide students with an after-school activity. What activity would you like to recommend?*In my opinion, sporting events such as playing ballgames, trank and swimming are good choices.*Firstly, when students participate in sports activities, they can get good exercise and learn life-long habits of keeping mentally and physically fit.*Secondly, sports activities can make students more creativity and problem-solving, and even dealing with the stress they have in their study .*Whats more, Team sports require students to work together to achieve a common goal and remove the focus from the individual to the team. Learning social skill like cooperation which is a valuable skill in all aspects of their life.(Finally, participating in sports activities can teach a student how to juggle school, homework, family life, and learn the importance of priorities and planning.)110319NATask 1:In your opinion, what are some important characteristics of a good school? Use reasons and specific examples to explain why these characteristics are important.*In my opinion, a good school should have following characteristics:*Firstly, it should have good reputation, I mean, the high teaching quality can gurantee that all the students are competitive in the future.*Besides,having advanced facilities is also pretty important, because well-equipped library and computer lab can help the students study in a high effiency.*Finally, the school should have more than enough scholarship funding to allow students study with a high motivation and at the same time creat a good study atmosphere.Task2: What kind of job will you choose? To choose a job through which you can get a lot of money or to choose a job through you can get great personal satisfaction?*Personally, I would like to find a job in which I can get personal satisfaction. *One of the reason is that Im not the kind of people which work just for money. I also dont want to be one of those people who offered much money, but alsost endure high pressure and a lot of over time work. ill goes to work every day for the salary to pay for rent and food. *Further more, just working for the money is not motivating enough for me. If Im not satisfied with what I want I do, it will be easy for me to feel tired and thus give up halfaway. to do something Im passionate about. *In addition, just working for the money sounds really greedy. I dont think I could respect myself if I became that materialistic. If I had the choice between doing something I love and a higher salary, I would choose the former. (characters)110917NATask 1: Describe the person you asked for help once, and explain how you solved your problem.*I could never forget my uncle help me making a decision about my life . *When I was finish the college entrance examination, I have a hard time to choose major in university, my father told me to choose major that have mach more possibility to get a high-paying job, whether I like it or not. My uncle came, he supported me to choose the major I like, he told me that only when you loved the major, you could dedicate yourself into it, and then get happiness and successful. *Now Im a senior student major in geophysics, and get some academic achievements in this field.*I have always been grateful to his help until now.Task 2: Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? The first year students should live with older students.*Personally I agree that the first year students live with older students. *One reason for this is that students who live with older students during their first year can get more socially prepared for life. They can learn what it is like to live away from home and their parents from the older students who have already experienced. *Secondly, old students who study in similar major with the first year students can help them lay a good foundation in their learning by lending them study materials they have used. (study)*In a world, I think the advantage of living with older students for the first year students is outweigh to the disadvantage of it. (*In my opinion, it is better for freshmen living in the same dormitory with students from senior grades. *Firstly Living together offers the students from different grades to communicate more often. This is especially helpful for freshmen. If the freshmen have any problem about study, they could simple go upstairs or downstairs asking for help from their predecessor. *Secondly, it is very convenient for students to make more friends from different grades. It can enlarge their personal relationship.)111217NATask1: Describe one way to improve the system of education in your country. Use specific details and examples to support your opinion.*Currently there are some problems in my countrys education system, which are reflected in the overall weakness of the students capability.* Many students with excellent academic records in university but lack of the ability of dealing with practical problems. I think it would be helpful to increase the training in this aspect by giving students some practical projects to do, so they can learn the skills of solving problems with their knowledge they have learned.Task2: Some people like to reading paper books while others like to listen to audio books. Which do you prefer and why?*Personally, I prefer to listen to audio books. The main reasons are go as follows.*To start with its more relaxing, thats easier for us to stick to. Listening is more comfortable, and its obvious that reading is physically much more tiring than listening.*Whats more, listening to audio book is actually more flexible. I mean its not so limited to time and location as reading is. For example, when Im walking in the street, waiting in a long line or cleaning my room, reding is not an option. 111209NA ATask1: What are the advantages and disadvantages of allowing students to eat in class? Use specific details and examples to support your opinion.*I think school shouldt allow st udents to eat in class. *One important reason is that eating is distractive in the class, it can cause noise and smell, and thus disturb other students from concentrating on what the teacher is teaching.*Additionally, I admit that eating sometimes may help hungry students quickly restore energy so that they can better focus on class. However, I think it disrespectful to eat while someone else is talking. I mean teachers may feel upset if students have snack in front of them.(respect others)*So basically, the disadvantages of eating in class outweigh its benefits.Task2: Some people like to collect old things such as newspapers. Others throw things away after they have used them. Which do you prefer and why?* I think all depends on what the old things are. *I would like to throw away things which are meaningless to me. For example, I often throw or donated some clothes that outdated and buy new ones to replace them, because I like to follow the fashion and new trends.*On the other hand, I prefer collect old things which carry memory and culture with them. Old photos were took with my family or friends, old stamps published in special days, old books that I want to read many times , and so on, all worthy of collection. 120218NATask1: Describe a serious problem that your country is now facing. Explain why this problem is serious.*Personally, I think the overpopulation is one of the serious problem that my country is facing now. *My country have over 1.3 billion people, which is occupied one sixth of worlds population. The overpopulation means limited resources must be divided among a large number of people, so it caused many problems such as crowed conditions in the public area, traffic congestions, employment pressure, and poverty of resources and so on. *So its necessary for my country to control the growth of population now and the future.Task2:. Do you prefer finishing your work once you got them or to wait until the due day, why?*I have the habit of making a schedule whenever I have received a certain task , cause I think trying to finish a task as early as possible has at least two benefits. *First, finishing a task earlier means I woule be relieved from the stress earlier. I hate having to worry about a task every day and Id prefer to work hard and finish everything quickly and enjoy the rest of the days in a trouble-free state of mind. *Second, sometimes there are emergencies I have to deal with like errors I have to correct which might take more time than I expect. So for the sake of safty, I woud not choose to be a last-minute-person.120309NATask1: A university is planning to build a parking lot so students can park their cars. Do you agree or disagree with this plan?*I disagree with the universitys plan to build a parking lot. *The universitys primary focus should be to offer its students access to an excellent education with the best professors, materials, technology, and a safe campus environment. Instead of a parking lot, the university should use those funds to offer sholarships for students, or pay students to work and earn money to help them with their school costs. *Besides, expanding the parking lot would encourage more students to drive to campus, that would add noise around and creat more traffic, students would find the campus parking lot become too congested to park over. Task2: Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? It is not necessary for students to memorize historical data such as names and dates because students can easily find them on the Internet.*I think students should memorize some common historical nemes and dates that reflect and explain major events in a countrys history. *Because, memorizing important historical information allows students to understand societys economic issues, social situations, and political changes. *Also, its important that students remember names of significant leaders and dates of noteworthy events that shaped a countrys history. Sometimes young people dont realize the conflicts, and struggles that others went through to gain rights, recognition,and even freedom. *Therefore, relying totally on the internet to look up historical data doesnt allow students to truly appreciatt the critical contributions of leaders.120420NATask1: If your school has received a large amount of money. Would you like this money to be used for building a school gymnasium or building a science laboratory?*If my university has just been invested, I think it is perfect time to building a science laboratory.*On the one hand, the labs in my university are out of date, and only have ancient equipments to do some simple experiments. If my university dont building the lab any more, We would be lagged behind among the universities in my coutry. *On the other hand, universities have better condition of labs, which can motivate their students to make better progress in chemical or physical or biological experiments, and have possibilities to acquire more academic achievements.Task2: Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Young people should not take part-time jobs because this has a negative effect on their study.*Personalliy, I disagree with the part-time jobs has a negative effect on study. I think the advantages of part-time jobs is outweight the disadvantages.*Firstly, Part time jobs can practice young peoples independent abilities and social communication skills, which can not be satisfied by the academic studies. *Secondly, young people who have much social experiences through part-time jobs would awearness how important and valuabe the oppotunities to study. Which would motivate them to study harder then before.120323NATask1: What kind of food do you recommend to add to the food menu of the campus cafeteria? Use Examples and details to support your response.*Personally speaking, I suggest university cafeteria to add more vegetables and fruits to the food menu.*First of all, vegetables and fruits are rich in nutrients. Such as vitamins and all kinds of minerals which are vital to peoples health. If students want to study efficiently, then it is essential for them to have a healthy body.*Vegetables and fruits are also easy to cook. Like making a salad, what you need to do is simply put some fruit pieces and leaves say, lettuces together and mix it with mayonnaise. It only takes a few minutes to finish the salad.Task2: Some people like to buy new and expensive books while others prefer to buy old and cheap ones. Which would you prefer?*As for me, I would rather buy used books instead of buying new ones. *To start with, used books are cheaper than new books. As a student, I only have limited budget. It would be a big cost to spend money on new books, considering the prices.Yet used books are much affordable for a student.*Furthermore, it is environmentally friendly to buy used books. As we know, papers are made of trees, the decrease of trees can cause serious environmental problems. If people can voluntarily buy used books, few trees will be cut down, then the environmental problems would be solved thereafter.120505NATask1: your university is planing to use electronic books to replace paper books and magazines in its library. What is your opinion about this plan?*I thinks its a great idea to replace paper books and magazines with electronic ones. *Because, its is easier for students to keep thousand of e-books with their portable personal devices, such as laptops, Ipads, ebook-readers.* Also, since electronic materials are often cheaper than print materials, this helps with our universitys limited budget and at the same time protect our environment. *Whats more, students are not allowed to cut off paragraphs from the library books , while electronic sources can be cut, paste or reedit, and organized by key words and phrases, that would greatly reduces the amount of reading, and searching.(convinent)Task2: do you agree or disagree with the following statements? Use specific reasons and examples to support your responds. Government should spend money on some projects to encourage citizens to lead healthier lifestyles.*My firm position is that the government should spend money on projects to encourage citizens to lead healthier lifestyles. *Because it can reduce money spent on insurance and medical care, as well as save lives. *Also, if more individuals have an incentive to do preventive health care, they would enjoy their longevity, and at the same time provide more labour force and fortune to the society.*In a word, government funding to encourage healthier lifestyles is worthwhile.120706NATask1: What are the advantages and disadvantages for young children to play computer games*When it comes to this topic, I can only findout one advantage for young people to play computer games, as we all know that some well designed games canstimulate young childrens brains and develop their intelligence and creativity.*However, as a matter of fact, the disadvantages far outweigh the benefits. *Firstly, young people are easy to get addicted to the games. If they spend too much time playing games, academic and physical problems can be caused. *Furthermore, there are too many unhealthy elements, such as violence, exposed to the kids while playing video games. *So young children should not be allowed to play computer games.Task2: Some people read the instructi