2016年1-3月托福独立口语题库

注意：本题库按照素材划分，请首先浏览同一类项里的所有题目，尽可能选用通用素材

但考试时请注意审题，回答侧重点不同。

物品类：

Book

1.Some people prefer to read imaginative literature like fictions in their spare time，while others prefer to read real literature or nonfictions, such as historical books and biographies. Which kind of books do you prefer, and why?

2.Which of the following kinds of movie do you dislike the most? Action movie, romance movie and science fiction movie. Explain your answer in details.

3.Talk about a book you liked when you were a child, and explain why you liked that book. Use details and reasons in your response.

4.Which of the following is the most effective way of learning: studying from textbooks, having a discussion with a group or reading articles written by others. (三选一)

5.Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? The success of a school largely depends on the resources it has such as textbooks and journals. --- Task 2

6.Which of the following would you prefer as a volunteer in the community - assisting visitors with locating books using computers, reading to young children, or shelving books and magazines? Explain why. Please include reasons and details in your explanation.(三选一)

7.Some people prefer to finish reading a book in one setting.others prefer to read a few pages each time .Which do you prefer?Explain your answer in details.

8.Do you agree or disagree with the statement that young people today are more informed than their parents when they are young?

9.Is it good to see the news every day or regularly?

10.Some universities plan to replace paperbacks and magazines with electronic books. Do you agree or disagree? Include reasons and examples to support your response. --Task2

11.Do you prefer to buy books from bookstore or borrow books from bookstore or library?----Task2

可用TASK 3的电子书素材

12.Describe a news or a story that you are interested in recently. And explain why you think it was interesting.Include reasons and details in your response.

13.Describe a historical event that you’re interested in most. Explain why you are interested in it and want to know more about it. Include reasons and examples to support your response. (Task6学过的艺术史课程-文艺复兴艺术家为什么会创作出更逼真的画作)

14.Describe what your life would be like if you were banned from using your cellphone for a month. Give specific details and examples in your response.

15.Imagine that you have to give up watching TV for one month. What would be the most difficult thing for you and why? Please include reasons and examples in your explanation.

Describe an interesting clothes in your country and explain why it is interesting.

环保类

1.Some countries now take measures to attract a large amount of foreign tourists to their tourism sites. Discuss the advantage and disadvantage of attracting a large amount of foreign tourists to tourism sites, give examples to illustrate your points. ( Environment-- Economy--)

2.Do you agree or disagree with the statement that protecting the environment is as important as economical development.

3.What do you think your government should put investment in:transportation,tourism or environment.

4.What can we do to reduce air pollution? Give examples and details in you answer.

5.Describe a change that happened in your country, and how it has affected people’s life. Explain your answer in details.

6.Some high school students in your community are planning to initiate a program promoting environmental friendliness. What advice would you offer them and why? Please include specific examples and details in your explanation.

7.Our society is now facing very serious environment problems. Choose one approach that you believe to be useful to save our planet.

8.Which of the following program would you like to do: participate in a recycling program; promoting environmental awareness among elementary school children, an agricultural program teaching children how to grow food, or a cooking program teaching children how to make healthy food on their own and why?

9.Which of the following volunteer activities do you think is the most beneficial to the environment, cleaning the city, planting trees or recycling?

旅游类

1.Which of the following activities do you prefer to do with friends? Taking a walk, going to a movie, traveling to another city.

2.Which form of transportation is the most enjoyable? Bicycle, automobile, train?

3.Choose one of the following natural environment and explain why you would like to live there most: mountain, forest, desert, prairie, seashore or somewhere else? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

4.Describe how you met a friend and why you became friends.

5.When having some extra money, some people prefer to save it, others prefer to spend it. Which one do you prefer?

6.Where would like to spend your holiday? City or countryside.

7.If you had the opportunity to travel to the moon, would you choose to go and why? Please use examples and reasons to support your answer.

8.Give Specific details and examples to explain your answer.

9.which do you prefer gather information before travel OR do not gather, just experience yourself there

10.Some people prefer planning in advance, while others would like to concentrate on current task, which do u prefer?

11.Some people like to plan their free time. Other people spend their free time without any plan. Which do you prefer.

12.Instead of always being busy, one should have a relaxed life style. Do you agree or disagree with the above statement? Why or why not? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

13.When you take a trip, do you prefer to just look around,or do you prefer to take pictures and keep a journal on the trip.

课外活动类

1.Do you think it’s a good idea that some schools require students to finish 40 hours of community service each year.

2.Do you agree or disagree with the following statement:

It is essential for students to do some relevant internships before deciding their career.

3.Which of the following groups would you like to join? Campus newspaper, hiking club or dorm improvement committee.

4.Should university education open to everyone or just part of the population?----课堂例题

5.Which of the following three volunteer activities do you like the most: playing games with kids, giving a speech about your interests or major, tutoring kids with their homework.

技能类

1.Which one you will learn: play a piano, swim, and repair a car.

2.Your community center now offers classes on the weekends for free,which of the following class you will choose to take, give a reason to explain your choose.1)A financial course to help you manage money;2)Car maintenance and repair;3)Review of maintenance music.

3.Describe your favorite school subject.Give specific details and examples to explain your answer.

4.our friend plans to go to your country to study but has concern about expenditure, what is your advice for your friends?

5.Describe a skill you are good at, for example，painting or a kind of sport, and explain why it is important to you.Please include specific examples and details in your explanation.

6.Describe the steps, through which you once learned a new subject and explain how you learned it. Please include details and examples in your response.

7.alk about an experience of learning something new. What difficulties do you have to overcome in order to learn it?

8.Talk about a skill that you have mastered but you still want to improve.

9.Some people think that students should attend all the classes, others think students can attend the classes they like, read on their own about the classes they don’t want to attend. Which do you think it's better and why?

人物性格类

1.What quality is the most important to be a university student: highly motivated, hard working, or intelligence?Using details and examples to support you idea.

2.Give reasons why managing time is challenging for university students and why it is important.

3.Describe a person that you look up to as a role model. Explain how this person influenced your life. Include details and examples to support your response.

4.Describe a special friend in your childhood and explain why the friend was important to you.

5.People face many difficulties in life. Which one of the following time period is the most difficult for you? Childhood, teenage hood or adulthood? Give Specific details and examples to explain your answer.

6.Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?It is easier to be a teacher than to be a student?

7.When facing difficult situations, some people prefer to get advice from elder like parents and teachers. Others prefer to get advice from friends of the same age. Which do you prefer and why?Give Specific details and examples to explain your answer.

8.Some people prefer the traditional way of working, like going to the office settings while others prefer to work at home, which one do you prefer and why?

9.Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: It's more effective to work with a group when everyone has their responsibilities and duties.

10.Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: it is better to be a leader in a group than a supporting member? Use examples and details in your explanation.

11.Do you agree with the following statement: people should wear suit instead of casual clothes in working places.

12.Do you agree or disagree with the statement that employees should be prohibited to listen to music at work.

13.When studying aboard, some students prefer to live by themselves or with their friends, others prefer to live with a local family. Which do you think is better.

14.Some people prefer to share a large house with other students, others prefer to live in a smaller apartment alone. Which one do you prefer? Explain why.

15.Do you agree or disagree that children should do housework as soon as they are old enough?

16.Do you agree or disagree with the following statement,it is better to live close to parents than far away from them.

17.Describe time when you are asked to do something you do not want to do,and what happened as a result.

18.Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: people’s personalities change when they grow older.

19.One of your friend is often late for events and appointments, which often makes others angry. what's your advice to help your friend to avoid this problem in the future.

20.Your friend often feels nervous when speaking in front of a large group of people. What suggestions would you give to your friend to overcome this fear?

21.Which do you prefer? A job with a high salary but requires you to take a lot of business trips, or a job with a low salary but does not require you to take business trips.

22.You like salary but move high to other city/low salary but stay in the same city?

23.Do you agree or disagree the following statement and give reasons: Parents should not allow their children to participate any form of sport (football, basketball, ice hock…) in order to protect their health and from any form of injuries.

24.Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?University education is more important than it was in the past.

25.Some people argue people born with natural abilities are more likely to succeed. Other people believe success can be achieved through hard work. What's your opinion?

科技类

1.Nowadays, "quiet cars" can be found on trains, in which people are forbidden to use their cell phones, computers, or talk loudly. What is your opinion about this policy?-- 类似2015-7-12

2.Technology devices distance people far more now than before.

3.Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: Playing computer games is a waste of time.

4.Do you agree or disagree with the following statement:technology has made people's life a lot easier than before?

5.Some teachers likes to give class assignments in person ,others like to give assignments by email,Which do you think is better?Explain why.

6.Some teachers allow their students to ask questions about coursework or assignments by email. Some teachers prefer the students to ask these questions in person.Which do you prefer?

7.Should students today use typing or handwriting to do their assignment ?Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

8.Do you think universities in the future will one day stop giving lessons in classrooms, they might give online courses instead .

9.Do you like to read instructions before you use something or get to know how to use it during the process?

其他类

1.Some universities have decided to force students who cheat at school to leave the school. Do you think if it is a good idea? What are the advantaged and disadvantages? Please include reasons and details in your explanation.

2.If you were given an empty pieces of land,would you rather using it to build a garden or a playground for children?

3.Some people think students should study in the classroom while others believe they should visit the museum or the zoo. Which do you prefer and why?

4.Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: Schools should forbid all junk food, such as hamburger, soda, and sugar on campus and why? Please include details and examples in your explanation.

比较不同类

1.Describe the differences between the two cities that you have been to.

2.Compare the differences between two singers you like. Include specific reasons and details in your explanation.

3.Do you agree with the statement that: Artists and musicians are important to the society.

4.Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: zoos are more beneficial than harmful to animals? Explain why. Please include details and examples in your explanation.

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