缎峦懈L力道是有变却无变》中从新托福听力的出题形式、内容与出题原则着手剖析,着重笔墨于新托福听力的内容及出题原则的无变性。本文将与读者从新托福听力的出题形式入手,一同第三分析这有变背后的无变。
新托福听力新增题型之Listen Again是本次变革中最为显眼的听力测试形式。此测试形式之新颖独特处,乃览望国内外海量英语听力考察形式之未见所闻。
顾名思义,所谓Listen Again即在新托福听力考试的某篇文章结束后,其中某一题采取第三复听,然后依据所听来做判断既而回答卷目的形式来考察考生。对新托福考试关注者会发现,早在新托福考试刚浮出水面时,世面上海量剖析文章评论说:新托福听力考试可以听两遍了。大家下如此的概念不可以说不对,但似为偏颇,至少会误导对新托福听力不甚知道的朋友会真的以为整个新托福听力考试可以重复放音听两遍了。这也怪不能关注新托福考试的先驱者。在未见其真面目时,仅依其官方网上透露的内容去揣摩难免会被ETS误导,即使是目前ETS在网上公布的新托福在线测试样题与9月份真的在北美正式投入用的新托福考考试试题也是有差别的。在这里笔者稍做澄清:新托福考试放音过程是一遍完成;只有Listen Again这种新增题型可以第三复听文章中的某一部分,并依据第三回放的这部分回答特殊的问题。
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下面大家看一篇新托福听力样题
Listen to two student discussing a zoology1 course
Now, we can move on to discuss the next part of the chapter, the part of the chapter, the part on land tortoises
Yes. Land tortoises are tortoises that dont live in the water, although they may live near the water. They only come to the water to drink or bathe.
Oh, look here in the book. Heres a picture of one of the 40 kinds of land tortoises.
Land tortoises are the ones that live to such long ages, arent they?
Yes, my favorite part of the chapter was the part that was about how long land tortoises can really live.
How old can they live to be?
Its not really known for sure. There are lots of traditional stories about tortoises that lived for hundreds of years. I do remember hearing, when I was young, about tortoises that were supposed to be one-to two hundred years old.
That couldnt beNo way.
Well, therere a lot of stories, but theres no accurate records, so its impossible to verify whether or not theyre true.
Well, how old is the oldest tortoise on record, do you know?
In the chapter I just read, it said that the oldest tortoise whose age can be verified to some extent is the one known as Marions tortoise.
I read that Marions tortoise was 152 years old.
Actually, I think the book said it was at least 152 years old. It was probably older.
So, theyre not really certain how old Marions tortoise really was when it died. What is truly known about Marions tortoise?
Its certain that a French explorer named de Fresne, Marion de Fresne captured an adult tortoise in 1766, and he transported the tortoise to the island of Mauritius in that same year.
Well, when did Marions tortoise die? Are there authentic2 records?
Historians are satisfied with the authenticity3 of the records that show that Marions tortoise died in 1918.
How do they know it was the same tortoise? Could it have been a different tortoise that died there in 1918?
Tortoises dont occur naturally on Mauritius, so Marions tortoise was the only tortoise on the island of Mauritius.
And so this tortoise had been on the island of Mauritius for 152 years when it died.