1、托福真题 2009 年 8 月 22 日及答案解析(总分：30.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、BSPEAKING/B(总题数：6，分数：30.00)1.List one of the advantages for living abroad and explain the advantage with details. Include reasons and details to support your response.（分数：5.00）_2.Which way do you prefer to spend your spare time, reading, thinking alone
2、 or participating in group activities? Why? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.（分数：5.00）_3.Changes on Campus NewspaperThe international section of the campus newspaper will be deleted in the upcoming issue, and the total number of pages keep the same. The new decision has been
3、made because some students complain that there is a lack of campus news reports and relevant illustrations. The upgraded version of the newspaper will add some columns about school issues such as campus activities, scholar interviews and campus photo displays. More illustrations and interviews will
4、be added to help students better understand the news.Question: The woman expresses her opinion towards the universitys decision to make changes on school newspaper. State her opinion and explain the reasons she gives for holding that opinion.（分数：5.00）_4.Reference GroupA reference group is a concept
5、referring to a group to which an individual or another group is compared. It is the group to which the individual relates or aspires to relate himself or herself psychologically. It becomes the individuals frame of reference and the source for organizing his or her experiences, perceptions, cognitio
6、n, and ideas of self.Reference groups provide the benchmarks and contrast needed for comparison and evaluation of group or personal characteristics. Robert K. Merton hypothesized that individuals compare themselves with reference groups of people who occupy the social role to which the individual as
7、pires.Question: The professor uses one example to illustrate the definition of “reference group“. Explain how this example is related to the reading passage.（分数：5.00）_5.Question: Briefly summarize the problem and two possible solutions. Then state which solution you recommend and explain why.（分数：5.0
8、0）_6.Question: summarize the lecture and describe the two types of carnivorous plants.（分数：5.00）_托福真题 2009 年 8 月 22 日答案解析(总分：30.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、BSPEAKING/B(总题数：6，分数：30.00)1.List one of the advantages for living abroad and explain the advantage with details. Include reasons and details to support your
9、 response.（分数：5.00）_正确答案：()解析：One of the benefits I can get from living abroad is that I can develop my independent living ability. First of all, I can improve my life skills to lead a very good life on my own. I have to learn how to cook home-made food, such as pizza, vegetable soup and dumplings.
10、When I am at home, my parents often cook for me. Also, a mature living ability also means that I should develop my social skills, like how to ask the way and how to bargain in the market. In one word, living abroad can help me become more mature.2.Which way do you prefer to spend your spare time, re
11、ading, thinking alone or participating in group activities? Why? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.（分数：5.00）_正确答案：()解析：If I have spare time, I would choose to stay with my friends and have fun. I have many buddies whom I havent seen for a long time and I prefer to have a get-t
12、ogether with my old friends. We like singing, dancing, and would even throw someone into the swimming pool for fun. Also, we can go for a trip together, during which we can take care of each other and take beautiful photos, just like a big family. I still keep the photos when we watched the sun rise
13、 and had a barbeque in the countryside. These memories will accompany me all my life.3.Changes on Campus NewspaperThe international section of the campus newspaper will be deleted in the upcoming issue, and the total number of pages keep the same. The new decision has been made because some students
14、 complain that there is a lack of campus news reports and relevant illustrations. The upgraded version of the newspaper will add some columns about school issues such as campus activities, scholar interviews and campus photo displays. More illustrations and interviews will be added to help students
15、better understand the news.Question: The woman expresses her opinion towards the universitys decision to make changes on school newspaper. State her opinion and explain the reasons she gives for holding that opinion.（分数：5.00）_正确答案：()解析：The campus newspaper recently made a decision to cancel the inte
16、rnational section of the newspaper. The woman strongly approves of the schools idea for the following reasons. First, most students have already known the international news before reading the campus paper, for theyve already seen those reports on the internet or from the television. Second, the wom
17、an thinks it will benefit the students to add some campus reports, because those scattered news theyve heard of can be collected and then can be carried to read anywhere, anytime. 听力原文 M: Have you seen the notice that the school newspaper is making some changes? It will eliminate the international s
18、ection from the paper. W: Sure, and we even had a discussion about it in the dorm. All of us think it is a wise decision. M: Why do you say so? In the new version, we wont have a chance to read global news. W: But few people would read the global news in our campus newspaper, because theyve already
19、learnt the news from the internet or from other media. Often they just skipped the international part and read the school news only. M: I agree. The internet is always the quickest to bring us news. W: Yeah, and with the spare room, we can publish more campus news with vivid illustrations. M: Will i
20、t still be news after we hear about it on campus? W: Some news can be heard of in advance, however, they are just scattered pieces of news spread from mouth to mouth. If the newspaper can collect these pieces of news and make some reasonable analysis, students can cut their favorite news and keep th
21、em in their pockets to read anytime, anywhere.4.Reference GroupA reference group is a concept referring to a group to which an individual or another group is compared. It is the group to which the individual relates or aspires to relate himself or herself psychologically. It becomes the individuals
22、frame of reference and the source for organizing his or her experiences, perceptions, cognition, and ideas of self.Reference groups provide the benchmarks and contrast needed for comparison and evaluation of group or personal characteristics. Robert K. Merton hypothesized that individuals compare th
23、emselves with reference groups of people who occupy the social role to which the individual aspires.Question: The professor uses one example to illustrate the definition of “reference group“. Explain how this example is related to the reading passage.（分数：5.00）_正确答案：()解析：“Reference group“ refers to a
24、 phenomenon when people adjust their behavior according to the way people around him behave. The professor takes himself as an example to illustrate the point. Once he was an art major at college, most of his classmates wore casual clothes like sneakers and jeans, and the professor also followed thi
25、s free-style trend in his college life. After he started to work in Chicago, he found that his colleagues do dress-ups for par- ties. Influenced by his colleagues, the professor started to do dress up and wear fashionable clothes to attend parties. Thats how “reference group“ affects the way he dres
26、ses. 听力原文 M: As mentioned in the textbook, reference group refers to a psychological tendency when people tend to make choices with the reference of some model they admire. I will take my own example to illustrate the point. When I studied as an art major in college, my classmates around always wore
27、 leisure suits, such as T-shirts, jeans and canvas shoes. Affected by this casual style, I spent four-year college life wearing cotton clothes and sneakers. Actually, the whole arts department was following the casual trend and those fancy clothes seem ridiculous to me at that time. Things have chan
28、ged since I started my professional job in Chicago, where I met a group of brilliant youngsters. We had a colorful city life in terms of working during workdays and having parties at weekends. All my co-workers would dress up carefully before the parties; women would put up make-up and dress fashion
29、able clothes and even men would spray some mens cologne. Under their influence, I also started to do some dress-up before going to the parties, and those casual clothes have already been tossed into the closet for all time.5.Question: Briefly summarize the problem and two possible solutions. Then st
30、ate which solution you recommend and explain why.（分数：5.00）_正确答案：()解析：Tom has a time control problem. He could not find an available bus for him to rush to the bar after Chemistry class. The woman came up with two solutions. One is to delay the working hours and the other is to go to work by bike. Pe
31、rsonally, I prefer the latter solution. Postponing the working time means that the man has to get home after midnight, and he will feel exhausted to attend the morning class. Probably he will miss the next mornings class. Also, he can ride a bike to go to work at least in three seasons in a year, an
32、d that will solve most of the problem. 听力原文 W: Hey, Tom, you look worried. What has happened? M: I have some time management problems. W: Tell me. may be I can come up with some plausible solutions. M: Heres the thing, Im supposed to start my job at a bar at 8 p.m., and theres 30 minutes for me to h
33、urry to the bar because the Chemistry class ends at half past seven. W: Then, whats the problem? M: The bus schedule has changed and there is no bus available between 7:30 and 8 oclock. That means I could not arrive at my work place on time. W: Why not explain this situation to your boss and delay t
34、he work time a little bit? M: It may work. However, in that way, I would have to work until the middle of the night and I feel too tired to have the next days morning course. W: Thats true. How about riding a bike to the bar? It will be efficient and convenient. M: Riding a bike will be a nice choic
35、e when we have warm days, however, it will be tough in winter days. When the wind pierced me into the marrow, most of my energy will be lost on the way to work.6.Question: summarize the lecture and describe the two types of carnivorous plants.（分数：5.00）_正确答案：()解析：The lecture talks about the definitio
36、n of carnivorous plants and introduces two types of preying methods: active and passive. Active preying method is applied by plants like the Venus fly. They have two oval lobes on the end of their leaves, where there are three trigger hairs. The lobes wrap the insect tightly when it touches the trig
37、ger hairs. Then, some digestive enzymes will be released to decompose the insects body. The pitcher plant is an excellent example of the passive trap. The plant has tall leaves, and when insects enter the top of a leaf, the slippery plant that points downward would direct the insect further and furt
38、her into the center. Eventually, the insect will fall into the water at the bottom and drown to death. 听力原文 W: Carnivorous plants generally grow in areas where the soil lacks nutrients. These plants have adapted themselves to trap insects as food source in order to supplement what they need to grow.
39、 Carnivorous plants can be divided into three specific groups. There are plants with passive traps, active traps or those that have both. Plants that have active traps include the most famous carnivorous plant, the Venus fly trap. The end of the fly traps leaves looks like two oval lobes joined in t
40、he middle. On the surface of each oval lobe, there are three trigger hairs. When an insect lands on the lobe and touches the hairs, the lobes would fold closed around the insect, and its points would form a tiny cage that traps the insect alive. For the trap to be sprung, the trigger hairs must be t
41、ouched multiple times. That way the plant knows whether what is in the trap is alive. Digestive enzymes are then released into the trap to finish the job. The pitcher plant is an excellent example of a passive trap. The plant has tall leaves, and water and digestive enzymes collected inside these le
42、aves that form a reservoir at the bottom. Insects can be easily attracted to the plant and they would enter through the top of a leaf. As the insect proceeds down the inside of the leaf, small hairs inside the plant that point downward would direct the insect further and further into the center. Whats more, the sides of the leaf are coated with a waxy, slippery substance. Eventually, the insect will fall into the water and drown. As the insect decomposes, it releases nutrients that feed the plant.
