托福聽力情景對話的“第三者”

　　備考托福的同學們都知道，每篇Conversation都是一男一女在對話，聊的話題多集中在學術論文、圖書館、課程注冊或是校園生活類的場景。雖然場景不同會帶來詞匯、句子內容上的一些變化，但是基本上來說Conversation是有很明確的“套路”的。大家有沒有發(fā)現(xiàn)，每當兩人對話的時候，聊到另外的一個“別人”或者一些“別人”，經(jīng)常會在這個地方出一道題。最常見的“別人”無外乎某個老師(Professor/Teacher)、某個導師(Advisor/Chair/Instructor)、同學朋友(classmate/roommate/friend/student)、甚至某個家人(Parents/Brother/Cousin)等等。

　　這樣的情境下考試經(jīng)常會出一道題：

　　Why does the professor mention/discuss/introduce XXX?

　　所以，當我們聽Conversation聽到了“第三者”(指任何一個或幾個出現(xiàn)在聽力段子中男女主角之外的人物，大多由男女主角自己提起。)，不能輕易忽略，一定要用心聽清楚當時聊的是什么，最好能用很少的詞把這個例子涉及到的話題簡單記下來。

　　托福Conversation 1

　　Student: The section on dialects, cause…like, that’s the kind of thing that’s always sort of intrigued me, you know? … Well, especially now, cause I’ve got like one roommate who is from the south and another one from New York. And we all talk like totally different, you know?

　　Why is the student interested in learning more about dialects?

　　A. she often has trouble understanding what other students are saying

　　B. she is trying to change the way she speaks

　　C. she is aware that her own dialect differs from those of her roommates

　　D. she spent her childhood various places where different dialects are spoken

　　正確答案：C

　　托福Conversation 2

　　Student: …My chair person told me that if I did independent field research in addition to the assigned work in each course; they would count as intermediate level courses. My classmates, um, some of my classmates, did this for an easy way to meet their intermediate course requirement, but I did it to get the kind of depth in those topics I was going for….

　　Why does the man mention his classmates?

　　A. To explain how he obtained information about field research

　　B. To point out that many students like to do field research

　　C. To show that it is difficult to get intermediate-level credits

　　D. To emphasize his motivation to do filed research in two of his courses

　　正確答案：D (這道題從考點來看的話又是“別人”，又是別的同學跟自己的“對比”)

　　托福Conversation 3

　　Student: Okay. Here’s what happened. Um…I think my professor really miscalculated. Anyway the syllabus was way too ambitious in my opinion. There’re only 2 weeks of classes left in the semester and there are like 6 books on the syllabus that we haven’t even touched.

　　Why is the professor not going to discuss the book by Jane Bowles in the class?

　　A. There is not enough time left in the semester

　　B. Not all of the students were able to get a copy of the book

　　C. The professor miscalculated the difficulty level of the book

　　D. The book was not on the course syllabus

　　正確答案：A

　　通過以上三個例子，大家不難發(fā)現(xiàn)，但凡聽力段子中提到了“第三個人”，一般來說是考點，不然人家為什么要提到這個人呢?提到一個不相關的人，必然有其目的，所以在以后的聽力訓練中，如果聽到了“第三者”，請同學們在你的筆記中，記上一筆，人名以首字母的形式寫出即可，在記一些關于這個人的信息，他的身份，他的主張等與此聽力段子主題相關的話。但是不用特別詳細，記點即可。這樣在做題的時候，當出現(xiàn)與此人相關的考題，大家就不會出現(xiàn)猜答案的現(xiàn)象了。