5月25日托福真题机经考试回顾解析
5月25日托福真题机经考试回顾解析
写作
独立写作
你认为对长久的友谊最重要的是？
-对方能够出手相助
-对于重要的事情有相同的兴趣和世界观
-他们完全相信彼此
综合写作
阅读：加拿大从沙子当中进行采油
1. 当地社会发展
2. 环保
3. 增加政府税收
听力反驳：托福考试
1. 工人不住在那里，只在那里工作，社会发展不可持续
2. 石油管道可能污染当地水资源
3. 政府只有在油价上涨的情况下才能获得更多的税收
口语
独立口语
学生回忆：
学生都有自己的电脑了，是不是就可以考虑关闭学校的computer lab？
T2校方决定关闭校园频道，学生反对
T3订阅模式
T4一些植物开发出新方法来获取能量：
1.开花早于其他植物；
2.放弃光合作用，依赖其他更大的植物
阅读
R1灵长类动物觅食与能量消耗上的平衡
R2中国的瓷器
R3新奥尔良
R4冰川流动
R5动物的骨骼化石传达的信息
R6古埃及的尼罗河与农业
5月25日托福真题机经考试回顾解析
托福阅读可能会遇到的坑
一般我们做托福阅读，要么先读全段再做对应题目，要么直接看题从头读句子，读到答案出现就选。两种方式都可以用，都可以让人考到满分。第一种方法对勤奋和耐心要求比较高，很多同学会选择第二种。对于第二种方法要强调的是审题要仔细，选的时候，问自己，这个句子和对应的选项真的可以回答问题吗？其实阅读里有很多选项在原文都能找到对应，不能选就是因为答非所问。
我们来看三个例子，第一个是TPO，后两个是真题。
Why is Ganymede different from Callisto? Possibly the small difference in size and internal heating between the two led to this divergence in their evolution. But more likely the gravity of Jupiter is to blame for Ganymede's continuing geological activity. Ganymede is close enough to Jupiter that tidal forces from the giant planet may have episodically heated its interior and triggered major convulsions on its crust.
According to paragraph 6, the differences in how Callisto and Ganymede evolved are most probably due to differences in their
A. size and internal heating
B. distance from Jupiter
C. chemical and physical composition
D. age
这题很多同学会秒选A，因为看到题目问进化差异的原因直接对应到了第二句说是因为size和internal heating。但是要注意题目问的是most可能的原因，第二句话确实是个可能的原因，但能否匹配题目问的最可能呢？勤奋的人往后看一句就能发现后面说更可能是因为引力，引力又跟距离有关，所以答案应该是B。部分托福阅读题确实简单/送分题，但有时候太轻易做出来的话还是需要警惕下。所以如果是采取第二种办法做题的同学，除了要就扣题目，还可以改进的地方是考点句出现了，再往后读一句，确保跟考点句没什么关系就可以放心选答案，如果后面的句子跟题目/考点句有关系的话要么是在解释前面，不影响答案，要么是在转折对前面做反驳，这样看得更全面可以避免被坑。托福阅读
Three traditional methods of fulling were used: a submerged cloth was beaten with the feet, with the hands. or with clubs. One of these is depicted in an ancient wall painting in Pompeii of a man standing in a trough containing water and pounding a cloth with his feet. These traditional methods were still used in Flanders, Italy, and, for a time England. But then, in the eleventh or twelfth century (historians disagree on the precise date), a new method was introduced: two wooden hammers were attached to a drum and a crank was turned to raise and drop the hammers on the cloth. The real breakthrough came when this device was hooked to a water mill (one probably constructed to grind grain). As a result, a single operator overseeing a series of hammers could perform the work that had previously required a crew of fullers-and he could do it much more quickly too.
According to paragraph 2, which of the following developments had the greatest impact on the efficiency of the fulling industry?
A. Putting an operator in charge of a series of hammers
B. Using water mills in the fulling process
C. Designing fulling machines with hammers and cranks that could be turned by hand
D. Employing a single operator to oversee a crew of fullers
这题跟上一题类似。要注意题目问的是最有影响的发展。a new method那句话前面都是讲传统方式，那句话本身算个发展，但体现不出是最有影响的。接着往后看会发现breakthrough突破这个词，这不就稳了，所以最有影响的发展是“when this device was hooked to a water mill (one probably constructed to grind grain)”，就是把前面说的设备跟water mill连在一起利用水力，所以选B。其他答案就算不考虑意思跟原文的出入，起码也是答非所问，C的crank出现在new method句，不是最有影响的发展。A的一个人管一堆锤子出现在最后一句，但最后一句是发展带来的结果（as a result），而不是发展本身。
5月25日托福真题机经考试回顾解析
最后一题更有意思。
Although it was clear to early foresters that suppressing fire would lead to dense thickets of young trees, they felt that this would be a good thing, for reasons that show how their cultural beliefs affected their ecological reasoning. The early twentieth-century United States was a culture that glorified competition. It was commonly believed that competition would produce stronger individuals by eliminating the weak in favor of the mighty. This feeling was encouraged by emerging industrial capitalism and then projected onto the landscape. Foresters reasoned that dense stands of young trees would lead to intense competition for light and water, and that competition in the forest economy, just as in the industrial economy, would create vigorous individuals. Without competition, weaklings would result-or so the foresters reasoned. The opposite turned out to be true, unfortunately. Western conifers --trees with cones and needlelike leaves-do not thin themselves; without fires to thin them, what resulted were not a few big trees but thickets of stunted trees all the same age.
According to paragraph 7, what happened when young trees had to compete intensely for light and water?
A. They developed into stronger mature trees than they would have otherwise.
B. The ones that survived grew more quickly than they would have otherwise.
C. All but a few of them were soon eliminated.
D. They did not develop normally. 托福备考
这题问小树要竞争的后果。会有同学定位到这两句，觉得答案就出现了：Foresters reasoned that dense stands of young trees would lead to intense competition for light and water, and that competition in the forest economy, just as in the industrial economy, would create vigorous individuals. Without competition, weaklings would result-or so the foresters reasoned. 大概就是说竞争以后会有更强的个体出现，没有竞争弱的会留下来。但是要注意两个问题，题目问的是竞争之后会发生什么，而这两句话说的是foresters觉得竞争之后发生的，这些人所认知的就一定是对的，是实际发生的吗？还有注意第二句话作者阴阳怪气的感觉，or so the foresters reasoned，其实作者在下一句就开始吐槽，说不幸的是，正好相反。后面接着说没有他们想要的大树，都是些发育不好的树，所以答案是D。
