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托福听力考试中常用的图书馆场景(一)

2013-09-17

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图书馆场景在托福听力中出现所涉及的内容一般如下:资料种类,书刊状态,相关动词,图书馆各部门名称,图书馆相关政策与服务。下面带大家一起来总结一下图书馆场景中出现的考点……

托福听力考试场景

托福听力的场景对话按人物来分可以分为三类:

一、学生和老师的对话

二、学生和校园工作人员的对话

三、学生和学生的对话。

从内容上来讲,学生和老师一般会讨论一些比较偏学术的内容,学生和学生讨论的话题则比较杂,生活、学术等各种内容都可能涉及到,而学生和校园工作人员的对话则偏向生活化。本文将围绕对话场景中出现频率极高的学生与校园工作人员之一图书馆管理员的对话展开论述,帮助大家了解托福听力中图书馆场景的常见考点,同时帮助即将出国留学的同学们了解国外图书馆的服务与国内的差异。

图书馆场景在托福听力中出现所涉及的内容一般如下:资料种类,书刊状态,相关动词,图书馆各部门名称,图书馆相关政策与服务。下面小马过河托福考试官网就带大家一起来总结一下图书馆场景中出现的考点:

一、资料种类

首先请看以下这段听力原文:

Librarian: Can I help you?

Student: Yeah, I need to find a review. It’s for my English class. We have to find reviews of the play we are reading. But they have to be from when the play was first performed, so I need to know when that was and I suppose I should start with newspaper reviews and…

分析:这是TPO 4 Conversation 1的开头部分,学生直接表明前来图书馆的目的。在笔记过程中开头处开门见山表明主旨内容以及直接目的的语句是一定不能放过的,故其中的review, newspaper review等书刊种类词汇就是必记词汇,同时因果原则告诉我们so后的内容是很有可能出考题的,when…start with也应该出现在我们的笔记中。再看这个conversation之后需完成的第一道题:

Q1. Why does the man need the woman’s assistance? Click on 2 answers.

m He does not know the publication date of some reviews he needs.

m He does not know the location of the library’s video collection of plays.

m He does not know how to find out where the play is currently being performed.

m He does not know how to determine which newspaper he should look at.

根据笔记可选出答案:第一个选项。由此可见,在托福听力的图书馆场景中,所借资料种类的词汇是必须掌握的内容之一。小马过河托福考试官网提醒大家需要掌握的常见资料种类还包括:magazine, periodical期刊,current issue现刊,back issue过刊,reference参考书目,textbook教科书,encyclopedia百科全书,fiction小说等。

在考查资料种类的同时,一些对话也会在所借资料的用途上出考题。

TPO 9 Conversation 2

S: Excuse me. Can you help me with something?

L: I'll do my best. What do you need?

S: Well, I've received a letter in my mailbox saying that I'm supposed to return a book that I checked out back in January, it's call "Modern Social Problems". But because I'm writing my senior thesis, I'm supposed to be able to keep the book all semester.

分析:在原因连接词because之后出现的借书原因就是第一题考点的出处:

Q1. What are the speakers mainly discussing?

m A book that the man is trying to find in the library

m A book that the man already returned to the library

m A book that the man is using to write his senior thesis

m A book that the man lent to his sociology professor

答案显而易见就是第三个选项。提醒同学们一般情况下,在托福听力中学生借书的目的大部分都是写论文或者完成教授的某一项任务。

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