新托福TPO口语参考题目答案——TPO6 - 副本

题目1. Talk about a photograph or painting you have seen that was
memorable. Explain what you liked or disliked about it.


答案I can’t forget the photograph hung on the wall of my
grandparents’ apartment. It’s our big family photo. It was taken
in one Spring Festival when all relatives gathered together. It’
s very hard to unite all the family members since my aunts and
uncles all live in another city. Usually, some uncles or aunts
wouldn’t come back home to spend spring festival. But at that
time, they all came back. In the photo I can see myself standing
at the third row with my parents beside me and all my aunts, uncles
and cousins standing in rows. In the front row sit my grandparents.
They were very happy. We all got our huge smiles on our faces.
It was an unforgettable moment and the photograph captured it.


题目2. Some people have one career throughout their lives. Other
people do different kinds of work at different points in their
lives. Which do you think is better? Explain why.

答案I think having different kinds of work at different points
in lives is better. Life has different stages and in each stage
people might want to do different things. For example, I have a
friend who became a programmer when he just graduated from the
college. After three-years programming, he got bored with it and
wanted to be a designer. Then he changed his job to design the
appearance of computers. After four-year’s designing career, he
suddenly wanted to be a writer. Since he never stopped reading
and he loved novels, he was good at writing stories. Guess what?
Now, he is a freelancer and has published several articles. He
believes he has experienced enough and wants to write something
out. Life is a long, long journey in which we go to many different
places and in each place we do different things.

I think having only one career throughout life is better. Everyone
can make accomplishments if he or she focuses on one thing for
a long time. It’s the cumulative knowledge that helps a person
become excellent in a specific area. If people always change jobs
or careers, they can’t accumulate their knowledge. In other words,
they can’t be experts or specialists. Some of them may even be

lost in society and don’t know what they are good at. I have a
friend who always changed his jobs. He never worked in a company
for longer than a year. He was a salesman, a teacher and an
assistant. He still doesn’t what to do now and is considering
to change his job.

题目3. The woman expresses her opinion about the proposal that
her friend Tim made in his letter to the newspaper. State her
opinion about his proposal and explain the reasons she gives for
her opinion.


答案Tim proposes to shorten the seminar to two hours because most
students can’t concentrate for three hours straight and students
stop learning at the third hour. The woman in the conversation
totally disagrees with the proposal. She says Tim is not a typical
student. He stays up late every night and that’s why he can’
t concentrate in the seminar. But most students aren’t like him.
They all come to seminars with good rests and preparation. Also,
Tim always sleeps in the classes. He doesn’t know that the third
hour of a seminar is the most important part because that’s when

students begin discussions and start to exchange ideas. So the
last hour is the most worthwhile part of a seminar and shouldn’
t be canceled.

题目4. Using the example of the car advertisement, explain what
is meant by implicit memory.


答案Explicit memories are conscious recollections whereas
implicit memories are not conscious. But implicit memories still
have effects on us. The professor in the lecture uses an example
of billboard to explain implicit memory. There are many billboards
along the highway and when drivers drive through, they see those
billboards. They don’t remember all the billboards but the
billboards affect them. Suppose there is a car advertisement with
its name panther above its picture. A lot of drivers passed it
by. Later, when asked whether they remember seeing any car
advertisements, the drivers will say no because they honestly don’
t remember. They don’t have conscious memory of the panther
billboard. But if asked to name an animal starting with a letter
“P”, drivers will say “panther”. So the car billboard had effect

on them.

题目5. The professor proposes two solutions to the problem the
woman describes. Briefly summarize the problem. Then state which
solution you recommend and explain why.

答案The woman’s studying group has got a problem. The members
all become friends and they all joke around instead of studying.
The professor proposes two possible solutions. The first solution
is to change the time they meet. Currently, they meet on Friday
afternoons, but students are exhausted at that time and they all
want to relax and unwind at the end of a week. But the woman says
everyone has already got their own schedule, if they change time,
they may lose members. The second solution is to find a leader.
The leader can set the agenda, email it to everyone else before
the meeting and then make sure everyone is focused on the topic
when they meet. The professor says the woman is suitable to be
the leader. But it sounds like much work to the woman. I would
recommend the woman to take the second solution. If she’s worrying
about the work, she can just be a temporal leader and later let
other members to do the work.

题目6. Using points and examples from the talk, explain the
difference between active and passive attention.


答案Active attention is that we intentionally pay attention to
something, so it’s voluntary. Since it requires efforts, it won’
t last very long. Passive attention is involuntary and lasts
longer than active attention. In the lecture, the professor uses
a biology class as an example. Suppose I am the teacher of the
class and the topic is about frog. If I walk into the classroom
and stand on the podium saying “Frog is kind of animal?” , the
students will force themselves to pay attention to my words but
this active attention won’t last long. The students will be
distracted sooner or later. However, if I take a live frog with
me and show it to the students while talking about it, the students
will be interested and will involuntarily pay attention to my
class. So by taking something unexpected, I make the class
engaging and tap into(utilize, take advantage of) the students’
passive attention.