2014年4月12日中国大陆托福考试全真试题英文还原

　　Speaking

　　第一套

　　1、Talk about how cell phones have changed people's life?

　　2、Some people prefer to travel one place for a long time, while others like to travel several places for short time, which one do you prefer?

　　3、R: The university has decided to stop allowing students to ride bicycles on campus in order to prevent from accidents. Also, students on campus will have access to school bus, which can replace the bicycle.

　　L: W: Read this announcement? I do not agree with this. M: Why not? I think there are some accidents, right? W: There truly are, but the accidents mostly take place at night, rather than during the day. Students can avoid that by not riding bicycles or being more careful at night. M: That's true, but the school bus, it would be great for students! W: Oh… I don't think so. There is only one school bus in an hour, waiting for it is quite a waste of time. M: Yeah, I haven't thought about that.

　　4、R: In order to evaluate employees' performance, managers will hire people to pretend to be customers. These hired people are called test customers.

　　L: Well, this happens a lot to restaurants. Let's say a restaurant manager wanted to evaluate the waiters and waitresses in his restaurant. As we all know, you couldn't simply supervise them for tests, they would perform better deliberately. So the manager hired a test customer, somebody who pretended to be a customer, to have a meal in his restaurant. After all, the test customer told the manager about the performance of the waiters and waitresses.

　　5、M: Oh Mary? What's so upset? W: Well, I am busy doing my play these days. So I do not have much time for my course, which caused my bad grades. M: Why don't you drop out of the play? As a college student, you had better do well in your schoolwork. W: Well, but I am not doing the play for fun. Since I am a theater student, I think it would be helpful to my study. M: Then you have to cancel some courses and take them next semester. W: I don't know, but there are only three weeks left this semester. I don't want to start over again.

　　6、Today we are going to talk about a way that will make film characters powerful or weak. The first method is to use low angle. Let's say there is a child looking up at an adult, in this way, the man looks tall and powerful. The second method is using the high angle. It can make the character weaker. For instance, if filmmaker puts a man in a boundless desert, makes him walking alone, the man will appear to be lonely and helpless.

　　第二套

　　1、Talk about how the Internet benefit you.

　　2、The lifestyle of people today is healthier than that of people 100 years ago.

　　3、R: The students on campus will not be allowed to put posters on walls of the student buildings any more. The posters make the walls unattractive. But students can put the posters in the dining hall.

　　L: W: I don't think this is actually gonna work. M: Why not? W: First, the walls become boring without those posters. M: That's true, without these posters, the walls will be less colorful. W: And the dining hall thing… M: Is there something wrong with the dining hall? W: Actually yes. Not all the students eat in the dining hall. Some of them would rather go home or eat outside. For those students, they won't have access to the posters anymore.

　　4、R: Some animals use unique color to protect themselves from predators and scare them away. That is called warning coloration.

　　L: Skunk is a typical example of this kind of behavior. Skunk has black fur and white stripes, and its tail can secrete a kind of liquid. When there is a wolf trying to catch the skunk, it will eject a kind of stinky liquid from its tail. The wolf approaching will find it intolerable and run away. And next time when seeing this black animal with stripes, it will be scared away.

　　5、W: Hey, David. What's wrong? M: I am thinking about going to see a film with my friends and discuss about it. W: Sounds great. M: But my cousin is going to the dining hall to have dinner with me, I don't know what to do. W: Maybe I can take some friends and have dinner with him, you know, more people will help him know more about the university. M: But he is shy in front of others, I'm afraid he will get uncomfortable. W: Then I guess you have to give up the film discussion and watch the film on your own. M: I don't know, but I am really interested in the discussion.

　　6、Sometime people will remember things more quickly and easily. The first kind of reason is that we have previous knowledge. For example, people who do not understand music would have a hard time recalling pieces of songs in the classical music concert he attended one year ago. But for those who are familiar with the music would easily remember the details. The second reason is that the object is unique. It is normal that it is hard to remember people in a big class, but we will memorize unique people easily, such as tall boys or intelligent girls.