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1、2017年5月托福真题回忆及解析信念和斗志宜聚，懈怠和悲观宜散，我们的斗志因信念而燃起，不懈怠、不悲观，落实每一个知识点。无忧考网搜集整理了2017年5月托福真题回忆及解析，希望对大家有所帮助。2017年5月举行了2场考试，时间分别为5月6日、5月13日。以下内容仅供参考。5月6日托福口语真题回忆：T1The university decides to remodel the dormitory and add a newI suppose most of us would like to have a new study room. There are tworeasons.The firs

2、t reason is it can help us study. Nowadays, GPA becomes moreand more important for college students. Good grades can help us ingetting an ideal job after graduation.First 是逻辑词，让论述结构清晰，简介明了地引出第一个原因，举一个细节例子学习好了有利于找工作。The second reason is during the final exams, an additional study placewill be necessa

3、ry for us. At that time there will be crowds of peoplegetting up early to study in our library. It will be difficult to have a seat inthere. So if we can have an additional study room in our dormitory, it willbe much more convenience when our library is full of people.Second 和 First 一样，作为逻辑词使论述层次更清晰

4、。接着简洁明了概述第二个原因，举第二个例子期末图书馆占不到座位，最好是有个多的学习室。T2All people should be required to stop working and retire by age 65.Do you agree or disagree?Personally, I agree with this proposal. There are two reasons.直接明确地表明支持还是不支持这个观点，然后用平行结构列举两个论点。On the one hand, requiring people to retired at 65 can leave moreopp

5、ortunity to young people. So it will be easier for the young to find aposition.On the one hand，注意逻辑结构，引出第一个原因。用一个例子支持该论点老人强制退休，给年轻人让出更多的工作岗位。On the other hand, being forced to retire at 65 doesnt mean retiredpeople will do nothing and just stay at home. One can develop a newhobby different from his

6、original job. For example, a math professor mayget interested in history after he regains enough time in retirement. Thusmay save people from life-long repetitive work and lead them into abrand new world.On the other hand，与 on the one hand 配套使用，适用于说明两个原因。阐述第二个原因：老人退休以后可以拥有工作之外的爱好，丰富生活。最后举一个例子数学教授退休之

7、后可能会对历史产生兴趣。T3阅读标题：Laundry Room Renovation学生们抱怨空间太小，机器太少，等待时间长，所以决定把 Eastwoodbasement 扩建一下。期间暂时停用，使用 Greenwood 的洗衣机。听力态度：disagree原因 2：Greenwood 要绕过校园。花费的时间很长，尤其是衣服多的，可能需要走好几次，花的时间更长In the passage, the university is going to have the laundry roomrenovated to add more laundry machine and dryers becaus

8、e studentsalways complain about long waiting time when using the laundry room.However, the man thinks it is unnecessary. His first reason is thatstudents pour into the laundry room only at weekends. If they comeduring the weekdays, they dont need to wait for so long. The secondreason is the laundry

9、room will shut up if it begins to be renovated. Andstudents will have to take their laundries far away outside school to getthem washed. It will be very inconvenient.T4定义：开放性的群体，对外来者不封闭的，而是愿意接受新成员的。新成员可能带来在以前群体的知识。听力例子：雌性黑猩猩 chimpanzee 结束青春期后可能选择新的群体，就会带来自己以前学习到的知识和技能。例如一个黑猩猩在以前的的群体里学习到可以用棍子去捅蚂蚁洞，诱使

10、蚂蚁出来以吃的的群体里学习到可以用棍子去捅蚂蚁洞，诱使蚂蚁出来以吃This passage introduces a concept called permeable group. This notionmeans there are certain groups which are welcome to new comers. Andthus will lead to the spread of some useful behavior. In the lecture, theprofessor takes chimpanzee as an example. A female chimpan

11、zee canmove from one group to another. And during its moving, it will teachother group members a practical technique to find food. That is achimpanzee can thrust a stick into the ant hole. The ants will climb on thestick and then the chimpanzee can fetch back the stick and eat the antson it.T5问题: 男生

12、看到一则以比较优惠的价格出售一个品牌鼓的广告，但是距离比较远，天气正冷，他需要乘车前往。优点 1 : 可以多穿点衣服，让自己暖和点。缺点 1 : 车的供暖系统坏掉了，要到下周才去修。解决方案 2 : 租车In the conversation, the man wants to buy a drum from a person wholives an hour away. So he needs a car to get there. He has two solutions.The first one is using the car of his friend. However, it i

13、s winter and thecars heating system has been broken. So it can be very cold this way.The second solution is to rent a car with good heating system but it willbe much expensive. I suppose the first solution is better because even ifthe car has a bad heating system, the man can wear more clothes to ke

14、epwarm. And also in this way, he can save some money for future use.T6例子 1：艺术老师授课的时候反馈时间应在教学期间内，以便学生可以及时练习所给的建议。要点 2：focus on the work, not on the students themselves例子 2：学生如果画的不好，可以给出一些具体的建议，一边学生知道如何进步，比如告诉他色彩有哪些问题，而不是说他是个 bad painter。The professor talks about two characteristics of effective feedb

15、ack. Thefirst characteristic is feedback must be properly timed. For example, in apainting class, teacher should give students feedback before the class isover. So the students can try recommended techniques in teachersfeedback in their painting. The second characteristic is feedback shouldfocus on

16、students work, not on students themselves. For example, if astudent use wrong color in his painting, the teacher should tell him tochange another color in his future painting rather than just tell him he isa bad painter.5月6日托福写作真题回忆：综合阅读: 美国的一种叫 auklet 的海鸟出现了 die-off 的情况。1.可能是由于在发生 die-off 之前的夏天，auk

17、let 的数量激增，导致对于食物的竞争加强，有些 auklet 就饿死了。2.Auklet 可能接触 sea stars 的时候，感染了 sea stars 病毒，导致 Auklet死亡。听力：以上列举的没有一个能够解释 auklet 的 die-off.1.竞争可能会导致一些 auklet 的数量减少，但是不会导致这么多 auklet 的死亡，并且食物和 auklet 之前的平衡没有办法修复。2.如果是少了病毒感染的话，那么 auklet 会带有相应的病毒，但是研究发现，死去的 auklet 上面并没有病毒存在。3.其他的一些以 zooplankton 为食的动物没有发生死亡现象。为什么只有

18、auklet 出现了这个情况，这说不通。解析：The writer presents three reasons to explain why auklets in America diedoff. However, the professor demonstrates a different idea that thesereasons are all unconvincing.To question the first reason presented in the passage that auklets mightdie from starvation because of their

19、 large population and the relativelittle food, the professor points out that the balance between the numberof a species and the food availability could actually be balanced.Therefore, even we assume that auklets would need to compete witheach other for food because the number of them had increased i

20、n theprevious summer and some of them didnt win that competition anddied, the food then would be enough for those auklets that hadremained alive. In this case, they would not completely die out.Another important point showed in the reading material is that aukletsmight be infected by some deadly vir

21、us from sea stars. But the professorpresents a conflicting idea that scientist didnt find this kind of virus inaukletsbody. It is strange that they got infected by virus but didnt hadany in their body. The second reason in the reading passage is wrongagain.Finally, the professor states that zooplank

22、ton still could not be the reasonfor auklets die-off. Because there are other sea animals that also feedon zooplankton but they are not affected. This challenges the thirdtheory made by the writer who says that the drop of zooplanktonsquality caused the die-off of auklets.独立Do you agree or disagree:

23、 It is impossible to always be completelyhonest with your friends?题目分析：同意不同意类中的单一论述题。话题与朋友相关，但是关键词除了friends 之外， impossible, always 和 honest 都提示我们这个题目属于一个抽象类题目。所以我们采用抽象题目具体化的方式展开思路。No matter in the past or at present, it is undeniable that people keepmaking friends through their life time. A large pr

24、oportion of them hold aviewpoint that in order to maintain long-standing friendship with others,we should always be honest with them. This is understandable and inmost cases, commendable. However, after careful consideration aboutfriendship, being completely honest with friends is definitely impossi

25、ble.Here are some reasons and examples to support my view.此题目与 4 月 15 号的独立题目属于同一话题，所以开头段第一句和第二句可以有所借鉴。如果是不同的题目，第三句跟在普遍或是别人的观点之后，也可以有所保留。在表达总观点上，添加确定性的副词增强语气。开头段末尾加上过渡句。First, for the sake of maintaining friendship with others, being honestunconditionally is the last thing in the world we should choo

26、se. Forexample, when a friend is in preparation for a really important Englishspeech competition, it is meaningless to point out that he is not going towin that competition and he is wasting time if he spends time on it, eventhe truth is that he speaks terrible English and has no logic in writing hi

27、sspeech draft. As friends, we should not and cannot say so when we aregiven such situation. If you do choose being honest in this case, thisfriendship will possibly be over and that friends feelings will be hurt sobadly that he may blame you. Alternatively, you can help him practice hisoral English

28、and together with him correct the mistakes in his speechdraft, rather than being so honest that sacrifice your friendship with him.本段的分论点是为了维护友谊，不能一直完全诚实。但是因为此分论点也较为抽象，所以论证部分全部用的举例。在分论点的道理比较显而易见或者是不好说理论证的时候，全部举例不失为一种好方法。Second, considering the characteristic of friendship, sometimes wecannot be comp

29、letely honest with friends in terms of our own issues. Forexample, the password of our bank account should be avoided to tellfriends. And the financial situation is not something we ought to behonest with them. What is more illustrating, the fact that you hate yourboss cannot be shared with your fri

30、ends from work and you thinksomeone you and your friend both know is not a kind person cannot beshared with that friend. The former may very much likely get you be firedand the latter may possibly lead that two people to defriend with you.Similarly, when your break up with your girlfriend, it is unn

31、ecessary to behonest with your friends about the reason. And when you are sick orbankrupt, you cannot tell any friend that you need help. Doing so willonly make your friends leave you unless they are bosom ones who arewilling to sacrifice time and their hard-earned money to help you out. Aswe can se

32、e from above explanation, it is impossible and not beneficial toalways be completely honest with friends.本段的分论点自身的某些事情，不应该也不能够对朋友完全诚实。跟上段一样，论述部分是举例，但是为了跟上一个主体段的论述方法区别开来，采用了归纳法中的举例方式，也就是用一些相关相似的小事实，得出分论点的结论，而非具体举例了。But I am not saying that we should not be honest with friends. Beinghonest is respecta

33、ble and may also bring some benefits to both of thetwo friends and contributes to the friendship sometimes. For example, ifyou points out the shortage of your friend honestly, he may overcomethat shortage and become a better man, which in turn, will enhance yourfriendship with him since he will appr

34、eciate you for this. Unfortunately,things will not always going like this, especially when you haveembarrassed him while being honest with your friend. And regardingpersonal issues, being completely honest with friends sometimes isshowing trust and intimacy; nevertheless, doing so is also filling yo

35、urfriends life with trivial things to deal with. As time goes by, that friendmay feel too exhausted to be friend with your anymore. Then, you willhave no friend to be honest with.辩证段体现辩证思维。All in all, it is stupid to always tell the truth in friendship and doing so is ineffect impossible. Considerin

36、g the particular nature of friendship, beingreserved with friends is more practical and contributable. But lying tofriends is by no means a wise choice and it is better for us to not sayanything rather than lie to them when something is not suitable for themto know.5月6日托福阅读真题回忆：第一段描述 electrotype 这种新

37、兴科技使得杂志能够更快的被打印出来，并使得 Pictorial weekly 这种型号较大的新闻杂志发展起来，该杂志往往有很多的 illustration 插画。第二段描述使得 pictorial weekly 发展起来的第二个关键因素就在于 photography。daguerreotype 这种早期的相片的出现使得早起相片里常见的人像广为流传，能让艺术家在离肖像模特十分远的地方也能够按照杂志里的图片做出画作。 第三段说明照片对于杂志的影响不单单在于提供了插画的主题上，还使得艺术家在创作插画时会模仿早期相片的感觉。因为人们觉得，比起艺术作品，相片更能够传递真实感。第五段说，插画的主题从 co

38、mic变得更为 formality. 虽然 comic 的倾向仍然在部分杂志里有所保留，但是新的趋势是更为注重节制，礼节（propriety ）.2.Emergence-development3.Routinely-often本文共四段。第一段讲了有实验表明当被引入了 predator 的时候，prey就会被 predator 捕食殆尽，然而因为是人为条件下的结果，我们有理由认为在自然环境中并非如此。因为 predator 会失去自己的 food resource 之一，所以会选择将 prey 保留到可持续的水平。第 2 段说明了捕食影响物种分布的第一种方式是 prey switching。在

39、某种 prey 比较少时，就会转向其它的猎物。例如 lynx 和 wolf 是它两个 predator。当 hareshoe 这种新的 prey 被引入当地时，hareshoe 大量繁殖,lynx 的数量也大幅上升。但 hareshoe 随后出现了周期性的上升和下降，而每当其上升时，lynx 的数量上升，而其数量下降时，lynx 就会转而去吃原来是 wolf 的猎物 caribou。因此通过转换，lynx 自己的数量稳定的同时可以让 hare shoe 有时间恢复。第 3 段讲 predator 可能通过阻止更为 voracious 的 predator 来控制 prey 数量。例如有一种鸟栖

40、息在一种树的树顶上，食用一种 bug，该鸟类数量下降的同时发现该 bug 数量也在下降，而树长得比较繁茂。推测虽然这对树不利，但可能是该鸟可以保护该bug 不受到其它更为 competitive 的动物的捕食。第 4 段说明还可以通过reduce pressures between two species 来影响物种的分布。存在两个物种竞争时，一般一种会淘汰另一种，随后占取所有资源。Predator 可以控制两者的数量到较低的水平，使其中较弱的一方不至于被灭绝。词汇题：第一段说商业和科技的结合不仅导致了一些用具和物品的产生，也促进了一些大的系统的发展，例如 20 世纪初美国的电网。电力的采用不

41、仅促进了电力公司的发展，替代了传统的能源，对社会各个方面也有较大的影响。第二段先说电灯的使用更加安全，不易引起火灾，也促进了一些需要精细运作的产业，利用新闻业在晚间可以使用电灯照明。其次说发电机的比起传统的能源来源要更加便利，使得用电力发电的机器操作起来也更加的有效，和 profitable. 第三段说明电网的发展对美国工业的地理分布产生了巨大的影响。原来的能源需要靠近水或煤，但是现在的地点就更为集中在城市，因为城市的电网集中。第四段说明公众用了很长时间决定电力最终归私有而非归国有。导致的结果是城市里的电网系统的高度发展，而 1920s 为止，仍有大片的农村地区是没有电的，因为电力公司认为在这

42、些广袤的区域发展电力是不划算的。5月6日托福听力真题回忆：内容回忆：学生去找 receptionist 说明自己目前做一个研究项目，想去拍一节学生们上课的录像，需要和工作人员确认下时间，学生想知道明天是否可以，工作人员说拍录像之前需要获得学生的同意，也就是需要参与的学生们提前填写一份类似调查问卷的同意书，还有如果要拍摄的话需要提前 3 天左右提交一份已经获得准许拍摄的证明，学生说到，那可能来不及，因为下周就要开始项目了，工作人员还问学生是否就她一个人来负责拍摄工作，学生说还有另外两位同学，工作人员说那还需要提交一份关于费用的申请说明，学生最后总结说这些程序太麻烦了。内容回忆：学生去找 prof

43、essor 谈论关于他做的 Microbeat 相关的项目的费用方面的问题，教授的意思是学生的项目花费有点多，可以适当减少，研究的范围太广了，教授建议学生研究的范围可以聚集在一些小的问题上面，比如校园的水问题上面，不必放在海洋的水方面，还有第二点如果要分析结构的话，可以在一些固定的地方收集样品，并给出了一些可以收集样品的地方，学生最后表示接下去有好多工作要做，会根据建议进行相应的修正的。Lecture1： art history内容回忆：一开始讲述了 conceptual art 的概念，即凡是能够引发人们思考的作品，都是成功的艺术作品，主要介绍了两位艺术家的作品，第一位是Joseph Kes

44、uth 的 one and three chairs ,这个作品中并且没有真的出现chair,但是可以让人们联想到 chair，介绍完一系列的特点之后，教授说了一句good work for JK(后面有考题，问题教授对 KJ 的态度)；第二个艺术家是William Wegman,先说了他的一个作品是 Spelling lesson ，说这个作品和他之前的作品特点不一样，接着说了他的第二个作品是一些关于 dogs dressingin human clothes 的照片，体现了荒诞主义的观点。内容回忆：教授一开始说到电子书可能会改变未来的图书馆但是有些 rarebooks 还是需要保存下来的，

45、书比较容易损坏，很容易受到光线的破坏，空气里的其他一些气体也会破坏书的纸张，举了一个用 seal off 氧气来保存美国宪法文件的例子，接着提问道如何保存 rare books,首先要控制好光线，那么光线的数量要控制到什么程度呢？一个男同学回答到，需要控制到人们能够看见的程度，讲了自己一次参观的经历，因为光线太暗，根本看不清楚书上面写了什么，教授说到，关于控制光线的量是有 guideline,接着有解释了很多情况下guideline 并没有用，最终能够确定光线数量的方式是需要通过一种叫做data-logger 的技术。Lecture3：Child development内容回忆:儿童在很早的时

46、候就会开始模仿成人的行为，但是在这个过程中也会出现 over-imitation，接着给出定义：儿童会把成人演示过程中所有相关和不相关的动作全部模仿，教授以教儿童打开盒子的盖子为例子，说明第一阶段，展示出所有打开盖子必要的动作之后，儿童会照着一样做打开盖子，然后第二阶段，展示出所有打开盖子必要的动作之外还加了一些不必要的动作，但是儿童也会跟着模仿，并不能区分哪些动作是必要的哪些动作是不必要的，接着有位同学提问原因，教授说关于儿童过度模仿的原因有很多，可能是儿童并不能区分出来哪些是必要的哪些是不必要的，及这些动作之间的因果关系。Lecture4：Physical science内容回忆：教授一开

47、始给出了 citizen science 的概念，即一些非专业人士参与从事科学研究项目，接着举了 aerogel 这种来自太阳系之外的物质的例子，说到研究者们会拍摄很多关于这种物质的照片，然后需要去区分是不是这种物质，由于照片很多，工作量巨大，所以需要其他人员协助，这个时候就可以通过一些志愿者来做这件事情，但是这个过程需要有人监督，确保这些志愿者在正确的做这件事情，有个女同学就提问了，那如果我的电脑下载不了一些软件的话，是不是就没有办法参加志愿者活动了，教授说到，有些项目是可以在网站上面进行的，不一定要下载软件，介绍接着说到一个例子，接着有个男同学提问说听起来像是在做生物学的研究，不像地理学，接着教授举了收集 microbes 的例子来说明，表面看起来是在收集 microbes，像是生物学，但其实是在研究低重力下 microbes 相关的情况，所以其实是和天文学相关的。5月13日托福口语真题回忆：T1There is going to have students TV show. which show would youlike to watch. Please Give your reasons.A.Interview school leadersI wil