新托福TPO口语参考题目答案——TPO10

题目1. Talk about a time when you accomplished something you
didn't think you could do. What did you accomplish? Why did you
think you couldn't do it?
答案When I was a sophomore, I took IELTS. I got 8.5 in Listening
section which is almost the full mark,9. Originally, I didn’t
think I could get above 7 because I couldn’t really follow the
speakers’ speed and my vocabulary wasn’t big. So I wasn’t
confident. But I knew that my weak point was in listening section,
so I listened to the IELTS recordings whenever I had time. When
I was walking along the street, I listened to the recordings. When
I was relaxing, I listened to the recordings. When I was taking
a nap, I listened to the recordings. Besides, I bought a book to
enlarge my vocabulary. I thinkit were these efforts I paid that
helped me get 8.5.
题目2. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
Use details and examples to explain your answer.
答案I don’t think all children should be required to learn a
second language in school. Some children don’t even like to learn
language. They are more interested in playing basketball,
football and other sports. Even if they are required to learn a
second language, they won’t treat it seriously. I had many friends

in junior high who didn’t learn language at all. But they could
play basketball very well and maybe some of them can become
professional players. There is no need to learn a second language
to achieve their goal. Also, many of the children won’t have chance
to use the second language they learned at school, because when
they grow up their job doesn’t need any foreign language skills.
For example, many of my high school classmates now work as clerks
in banks and they don’t need to use foreign language in their
work. Still, they can do just fine.
题目3. Briefly summarize the proposal in the student's letter.
Then state the woman's opinion about the proposal and explain the
reasons she gives for holding that opinion.
答案In the letter, the student proposes to put the artworks in
the lobby at the entrance to the student center, because the center
has many students and is full of natural light. But the girl in
the conversation doesn’t agree with it. For the first point about
many students passing through student center, she thinks the
number of students coming and going is huge, which could be
distracting for people to view the artworks. The center is always
crowded with people. It’s hard to appreciate the artworks with
so many people around. For the second point about natural light,

she thinks it’s not very good. If it’s a sunny day, it’ll be
way too bright. If it’s a cloudy day, it’ll be way too dark.
Instead, the artworks need consistent light like the electric
light in an art museum because the electric light is always
carefully controlled and stays at a same level.

题目4. Using the examples from the lecture, explain the concept
of entertainment merchandising.
答案Entertainment merchandising is a marketing practice using
the brand or image from one product to sell another. The professor
uses two examples to illustrate this practice. The first
example is that when he was a kid, his friends and he liked a
character named Action Hero and they always watched the Action
Hero program on Television and played games pretending to be the
powerful hero. After a time, they started to see small hero figures
in all the stores. They all watched the TV show so long that it
was natural they wanted to buy the toys. The second example is
that his 7-year-old daughter and her friends like a cute little
baby doll named Rosa. One day his daughter told him that a new
TV program with Rosa as the main character would show every week.
Naturally She and her friends all started to watch the television

show which was already popular, as popular as the toy doll.
题目5. Briefly summarize the woman's problem. Then state which
solution you would recommend. Explain the reasons for your
recommendation.
答案The woman has a history paper due tomorrow and she has been
writing it on her laptop, but the electricity went out and the
battery is running low. What’s worse, the electricity won’t be
back before several hours. The man suggests her to go to Jefferson
City. It’s got electricity and there is library where she can
plug in her laptop and it’s only about 20minutes drive. But then
she has to pack up all her stuff and it’s raining outside. Then
the man gives another suggestion that she can just go to ask the
professor for an extension. But the woman says the professor said
he didn’t grant any extensions when he assigned the paper. Well,
I would recommend the girl to drive to Jefferson City. Though she
has to pack her stuff and it’s raining outside, finding a place
to finish her paper is the most important thing to do. As a student,
she has the responsibility to finish the homework. Accident caused
by weather is not an excuse for not finishing homework on time.
题目6. Using the points from the lecture, explain why researchers
think that babies may feel empathy.

答案The professor talks about an experiment testing babies'
empathy. We all know that if one baby cries in a room, other babies
in the same room will cry. Originally, we think it’s because of
the noise of the crying, which means baby is directly influenced
by the noise rather than feel concern for other babies. But in
the experiment, the researchers played a tap recording of a baby’
s cry to another baby, then of course the other baby cries. Then
the researchers played a tap recording of the baby’s own crying
which is equally noisy; however the baby didn’t cry. So baby cried
not because of the noise. It could be that the baby felt empathy
for the other baby. Then researchers concluded that it’s possible
that babies feel empathy, concern, for others