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托福高分口语必背十大例句

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新托福口语考试是很多中国考生的痛处,那么考生们如何才能在托福口语考试中考出理想的成绩呢?小编在此介绍托福高分口语必背十大例句让同学们参考,希望对各位考生有帮助。

托福高分口语必背十大例句

托福高分口语必背十大例句

asked about the ongoing uproar involving U.S. President Bill Clinton , most people say the affair involves a purely private matter . But many other people regard his actions as deplorable . I personally think the president committed impeachable offences .

当被问及对现在有关美国总统比尔·克林顿的沸沸扬扬的议论有什么看法时,大多数人认为这种暧昧关系纯属私事。但是,还有很多人认为他的行为应当受到谴责。我个人认为总统犯了这些过错,应该被指控。

2. When it comes to the increasing use of motor vehicles in Beijing, some people think that use should be limited. Others argue that the opposite is true. There is probably some truth to both arguments, but emission controls must be instituted regardless of the number of vehicles.

涉及北京机动车使用量增加这一问题,有的人认为应该限制使用。另一些人持相反意见。也许双方的观点都有一定道理,但是,无论车辆多少,必须对废气排放实行控制。

3. There is a general debate nowadays about the problem of itinerant workers. Those who object to the rising migrant population argue that increasing numbers lead to rising crime rates and harm social stability. They believe that strict limits should be placed on migrants entering China’s cities. But people who favor the influx of the cheap labor force, on the other hand, maintain that migrants are needed to support the massive urban infrastructure construction program.

目前,针对流动工人的问题展开了普遍的争论。反对流动工人增加的人认为这会导致犯罪率升高,从而危害社会稳定。他们主张应该严格限制进入中国城市的流动工人。但是,另一方面,支持廉价劳动力流入的人主张,为了支持大规模的城市基础设施建设规划,流动人口是必需的。

4. It is widely acknowledged that extensive deforestation contributed to heavy summer flooding. Experts argue that China must introduce a massive a forestation program. But I doubt whether a forestation alone will solve the problem.

人们普遍认为过度砍伐造成了夏季特大洪水。专家认为中国必须推行大规模的植树造林计划。但我对仅仅植树造林就能解决问题表示怀疑。

5. Most people are of the opinion that wealth provides solutions to all problems. But in spite of the material benefits wealth provides, I believe one should abandon the pursuit of materialism and instead concentrate on the pursuit of happiness.

大多数人认为财富为所有问题提供解决的办法。但是,我认为,尽管财富提供物质上的利益,一个人应该放弃物质至上的追求,而是集中精力追求幸福。

6. Many people believe that capital punishment deters crime. But although criminologists have conducted exhaustive research regarding the subject, little evidence exists to support the claim.

很多人相信极刑能阻止犯罪。但是,虽然刑事学家就这一课题做了详尽的研究,几乎没有证据能支持这种说法。

7. An increasing number of people are joining the”Information Age” via the Internet. In reaction to the phenomenon, some say the Internet has removed barters and provided people with immediate access to the world. But do they realize that rapidly advancing information technology can also lead to intrusions of privacy?

越来越多的人通过互联网进入了“信息时代”。针对这一现象,一些人认为互联网消除了障碍,为人们提供了与世界即时链接的途径。但是,他们有没有意识到迅速发展的信息技术也能导致侵犯隐私?

8. The use of guanxi is a widespread method for conducting business, but is it a wise one? The method is now being challenged by more and more people .

利用关系是做生意的普遍做法,但这种做法明智吗?现在,越来越多的人对这种方法提出了质疑。

9. These days we often hear about the widening gap between the rich and poor. Some argue the developed world has totally ignored the problem. But has it? Close examination fails to bear out the argument.

最近,我们经常听到贫富差距扩大了的说法。一些人认为发达世界完全忽略了这个问题。事实是这样吗?细致的调查无法证实这一观点。

10. We ' re often told that the world is tethering on the brink of destruction . But is this really the case?

我们经常被告知世界处于毁灭的边缘。但事实真是这样吗?

托福口语素材之为师之道

Describe a person that influenced you the most.

今天跟大家分享的这篇文章what makes a teacher?作者是美国小说家约翰·斯坦贝克(1962-1968)诺贝尔文学奖获得者。代表作品:《愤怒的葡萄》(1939)《伊甸之东》《人鼠之间》

It is customary for adults to forget how hard and dull and long school is. The learning by memory of all the basic things one must know is a most incredible and ending effort. Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don’t believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it. (给你看大师如何举例子)School is not easy and it is not for the most part very much fun, but then, if you are very lucky, you may find a real teacher. Three real teachers in a lifetime is the very best of my luck. My first was a science and math teacher in high school, my second, a professor of creative writing at Stanford, and my third was my friend and partner, Ed Ricketts. (开门见山说清楚,作者所遇到的好老师都是谁)

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. It might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

My three had these things in common: they all loved what they were doing. They did not tell, they catalyzed a burning desire to know. Under their influence, the horizons sprung wide and fear went away and the unknown became knowable. But most important of all, the truth, that dangerous stuff, became beautiful and precious.

I shall speak only of my first teacher because in addition to the other things, she brought discovery.

She aroused us to shouting, book-waving discussions. She had the noisiest class in school and she didn’t even seem to know it.(为什么女神如此特别,这里是细节) We could never stick to the subject. Our speculation ranged the world. She breathed curiosity into us so that we brought in facts or truths shielded in our hands like captured fireflies.

She was fired and perhaps rightly so, for failing to teach fundamentals. Such things must be learned. But she left a passion in us for the pure knowable world and she inflamed me with a curiosity which has never left. I could not do simple arithmetic but through her I sensed that abstract mathematics was very much like music. (像爱音乐一样爱数学)When she was relieved, a sadness came over us but the light did not go out. She left her signature on us, the literature of the teacher who writes on minds. I have had many teachers who told me soon-forgotten backs but only three who created in me a new thing, a new attitude and a new hunger. I suppose that to a large extent I am the unsigned manuscript of the high school teacher. What deathless power lies in the hands of such a person. I can tell my son who looks forward with horror to fifteen years of drudgery that somewhere in the dusty dark a magic may happen that will light up the year…if he is very lucky.

托福口语素材之科技与生活

Some people believe that modern technology has made our lives simpler. Others believethat modern technology has made our lives more complicated. What is your opinion?

让我们首先一起来阅读罗素的这篇On science and good life.

既可以积累素材,也可以激发灵感:

There is probably no limit to what science can do in the way of increasing positive excellence. Health has already been greatly improved; in spite of the lamentations of those who idealize the past, we live longer and have fewer illnesses than any class or nation in the eighteenth century. With a little more application of the knowledge we already possess, we might be much healthier than we are. And future discoveries are likely to accelerate this process enormously.

科学在增加美好的积极因素方面所能做的事情,很可能是没有止境的。卫生条件已经得到极大的改善;不管那些怀旧者如何哀叹,与十八世纪任何阶级和民族相比,我们毕竟延长了寿命并减少了疾病。只要把我们已有的知识稍加广泛地应用,我们就会比现在更加健康。未来的发现很可能会极大地加快这方面的进程。

So far, it has been physical science that has had most effect upon our lives, but in the future physiology and psychology are likely to be far more potent. When we have discovered how character depends upon physiological conditions, we shall be able, if we choose, to produce far more of the type of human beings that we admire. Intelligence, artistic capacity, benevolence—all these things no doubt could be increased by science. There seems scarcely any limit to what could be done in the way of producing a good world, if only men would use science wisely.

迄今为止,对我们生活影响最大的当数自然科学,但是在将来,生理学和心理学的影响很可能远在它之上。当我们发现了性格如何依赖于生理条件时,只要我们愿意,我们就能产生出大量我们所称羡的那种人。智力,艺术能力,仁慈---所有这些东西无疑可因科学而增加。只要人们明智地利用科学,在创造美好世界方面所能做的事情,几乎是没有止境的。

There is a certain attitude about the application of science to human life with which I have some sympathy, though I do not, in the last analysis, agree with it. It is the attitude of those who dread what is ‘unnatural.’ Rousseau is, of course, the great protagonist of the view in Europe. In Asia, Lao-Tze has set it forth even more persuasively, and 2400 years sooner. I think there is a mixture of truth and falsehood in the admiration of ‘nature, which it is important to disentangle. To begin with, what is ‘natural?’ Roughly speaking, anything to which the speaker was accustomed in childhood. Lao-Tze objects to roads and carriages and boats, all of which were probably unknown in the village where he was born

关于科学应用到人生这个问题,存在着一种观点,对这种观点,我有些同感,但是最后分析起来,我是不能同意的。 它是那些害怕‘不自然的’东西的人所持有的观点。当然,卢梭是欧洲这一观点的伟大创始人。在亚洲,老子对这一观点的阐述,更是动人心弦,而且要早两千四百年。我认为,他们对于‘自然’的赞美,不过是真理与谬误的混合物,而理清这一问题是很重要的。首先要问,什么东西是‘自然的?’泛泛说来,是说话者幼年时所习惯的东西。老子反对车道和舟车,这恐怕是他所出生的那个村子不知车道和舟车为何物的缘故。

Rousseau has got used to these things, and does not regard them as against nature. But he would no doubt have thundered against railways if he had lived to see them. Clothes and cooking are too ancient to be denounced by most of the apostles of nature, though they all object to new fashions in either. Birth control is thought wicked by people who tolerate celibacy, because the former is a new violation of nature and the latter an ancient one. In these ways those who preach ‘nature’ are inconsistent, and one is tempted to regard them as mere conservatives.

卢梭对这些东西习以为常,所以并不认为它们是违反自然的。但是,假如他在有生之年看见铁路,他无疑会大加指责。服装和烹饪由来已久,大多数提倡自然的人都不提出异议,虽然它们一致反对花样翻新。节育被当成犯罪,而独身则被宽容,因为前者是违反自然的新事物,而后者则古已有之。在所有这些方面,那些提倡‘自然’的人都是自相矛盾的,这只能使人把它们看成是守旧之士。

Nevertheless, there is something to be said in their favor. Take for instance vitamins, the discovery of which has produced a revulsion in favor of ‘natural’ foods. It seems, however, that vitamins can be supplied by cod-liver oil and electric light, which are certainly not part of the ‘natural’ diet of a human being. This case illustrates that, in the absence of knowledge, unexpected harm may be done by a new departure from nature, but when the harm has come to be understood it can usually be remedied by some new artificiality. As regards our physical environment and our physical means of gratifying our desires, I do not think the doctrine of ‘nature’ justifies anything beyond a certain experimental caution in the adoption of new expedients. Clothes, for instance, are contrary to nature, and need to be supplemented by another unnatural practice, namely washing, if they are not to bring disease. But the two practices together make a man healthier than the savage who eschews both.

然而,他们并非一无是处。例如,维生素的发现使人们复而赞成‘自然的’食物。不过,维生素似乎也可由鱼肝油和电光提供,此二者无疑不是人类‘自然的’食物。这个例子表明,如果缺少知识,一种违反自然的新做法也许会带来意想不到的危害,但是当那危害被认识到时,往往可以用某种新的人造物去补救。就我们的自然环境和满足我们欲望的物质手段而言,我认为,有关‘自然’的这套理论,除了证明在采取某种新的做法时应谨慎外,并不能证明别的什么。例如,衣服是违反自然的,如果不想让衣服引起疾病,就需要增加另一种不自然的行为,即洗涤。但是,穿衣与洗涤加在一起却可使人比与此二者无缘的野蛮人要健康。

To respect physical nature is foolish; physical nature should be studied with a view to making it serve human ends as far as possible, but it remains ethically neither good nor bad. And where physical nature and human nature interact, as in the population question, there is no need to fold our hands in passive adoration and accept war, pestilence, and famine as the only possible means of dealing with excessive fertility. The divines say: it is wicked, in this matter, to apply science to the physical side of the problem; we must (they say) apply morals to the human side, and practice abstinence. Apart from the fact that everyone, including the divines, knows that their advice will not be taken, why should it be wicked to solve the population question by adopting physical means for preventing conception?

尊重物质的自然是愚蠢的; 物质的自然应当加以研究,以便使其尽可能地服务于人类的目的,但它在道德上是无所谓好坏的。在物质的自然和人类的天性相互影响的地方,如人口问题,我们无须束手被动地敬畏并接受战争,瘟疫和饥荒为解决过度繁殖的问题的唯一可能的方法。神学家们说,在此事上,应用科学于这一问题的物质方面是罪恶的;我们应当(他们说)应用道德于人的方面,并且实行禁欲。每个人,这些神学家也不例外,都知道他们的劝告无人理睬,撇开这个事实不谈,通过避孕的物质手段来解决人口问题究竟何罪之有?

No answer is forthcoming except one based upon antiquated dogmas. And clearly the violence to nature advocated by the divines is at least as great as that involved in birth control. The divines prefer a violence to human nature which, when successfully pracised, involves unhappiness, envy, a tendency to persecution, often madness. I prefer a ‘violence’ to physical nature which is of the same sort as that involved in the steam engine or even in the use of an umbrella. This instance should show ambiguous and uncertain is the application of the principle that we should follow ‘nature.’

除了这是以古代教义为根据的,尚无别的答案。而且显而易见,这对于神学家所提倡的自然的违反,至少不在节育之下。神学家们宁可选择违反人类天性的做法,而这种做法的成功产生的却是不幸,嫉妒,迫害的倾向和经常性的疯狂。我更喜欢‘违反’物质自然的做法。这是一种类似使用蒸汽机或雨伞的做法。这个例子表明,我们应遵循‘自然’这一原则,它的应用是何等的含混和不确定。

Nature, even human nature, will cease more and more to be an absolute datum; more and more it will become what scientific manipulation has made it. Science can, if it chooses, enable our grandchildren to live the good life, by giving them knowledge, self-control, and characters productive of harmony rather than strife.

(What I Believe, 1925)

自然,甚至人性,将越来越不再是一种绝对的材料,而将逐渐成为科学所造成的东西。科学如果愿意,它能使我们的子孙过上美好的生活,方法是给他们以知识,自制力能产生和谐而非斗争的品性。

托福写作/口语素材:迈阿密

Here we give you the top 5 reasons to make it to Miami.

1

Beaches

The beach tops the list. Miami is a tropical city, making the beach an ideal destination. Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park on Key Biscayne is a favorite spot that ranks among the top beaches in the entire United States.

2

Shopping

It’s shop til you drop in Miami. Collins Avenue has a range of stores to satisfy all your shopping needs. Lincoln Road on South Beach has a farmers market held here on Sundays. Design District, in particular, comes alive after 5pm. In Bal Harbour, shop at the super brand stores which are located in the middle of a tropical garden.

3

Party all-night

It is recognized as a favorite destination of celebrities. The bars on Ocean Drive are popular, and there they serve mojitos in king-sized glasses. If you fancy somewhere more exclusive, head to the roof of the Gansevoort, French Tuesdays and the Delano.

4

Animal life

You’re in for zoo treats in Miami. The Wings of Asia Aviary is a haven for bird lovers. Jungle Island, on one hand, is a theme park where you meet parrots and other exotic birds, plus crocodiles and other nature creatures.

5

The Florida Keys

The Florida Keys allows you to see coral islands from the scenic route that all tourists arriving in Miami take – amazing! It cuts across 40 bridges from Key Largo to the legendary Key West.

Lastly, don’t forget to take in most beautiful sunset views when in Miami.

摘抄:

tropical city:热带城市

ideal destination:理想的目的地

ranks among the top beaches in the entire United States:在整个美国排名靠前的海滩

It’s shop til you drop :购物购到手软

has a range of stores to satisfy all your shopping needs:有很多商店来满足您的购物需求

farmers market:农贸市场

the super brand stores:超级品牌商店

tropical garden:热带花园

a favorite destination of celebrities:一个名人最喜欢的目的地

serve mojitos in king-sized glasses:用超级大杯提供莫吉托

You’re in for zoo treats:你喜欢动物园带来的款待。

is a haven for bird lovers:是鸟类爱好者的天堂

theme park:主题公园

parrots and other exotic birds:鹦鹉和其他奇特的鸟类

crocodiles and other nature creatures:鳄鱼和其他自然生物

The Florida Keys:弗罗里达岛礁

see coral islands from the scenic route:从风景优美的路线观看珊瑚群岛

It cuts across 40 bridges from Key Largo to the legendary Key West.

从基拉到传说中的西礁岛它跨越40个桥梁。

most beautiful sunset views:最美丽的日落

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