如何解答托福综合口语Task5
Task5题型分析
首先，来看一下Task5的题型。
如上图所示：题目中的给出材料为“一段对话”，通常是两名同学就校园内外所遇到的各种不同的困境所进行的相关讨论。每个人的情况不同，也可以登录文都国际教育官网进行一对一的咨询。
讨论中，其中一名遇到困境的同学会首先表述自己的问题，接着在与另一位谈话者的讨论中两人会找出2种解决方案，但每种方案都有不完美的地方，因此各有其优势和劣势。
而考生同学就是要抓住这些考点，才能为回答问题做好准备，而简答的算一下，刚好有7个考点：
(1)遇到的问题;
(2)解决方案—1;
(3)方案1的优势;
(4)方案1的劣势;
(5)解决方案—2;
(6)方案2的优势;
(7)方案2的劣势。
而Task5的题目要求是：首先表述一下其中一人所遇到的困境是什么?其次，表明在材料所给出的两个解决方案中考生自己倾向于选哪一个，并表明自己选择的原因是什么。
在分析完题型后，我们应该来研究一下怎样利用这些信息来进行高效的答题。毕竟每个考生只有60秒的回答时间，如果不加筛选的将所有信息全部奉上，一般情况下是无法完成作答的。
因此，我们必须利用一个有效的逻辑框架来帮助我们思考和回答题目。
我们的答题思路应该是这样的：
Step1: 先叙述谈话者遇到的问题;
Step2: 接着非常简洁地列举一下两个解决方案;
Step3: 做出选择，表明自己倾向的方案;
Step4: 用对角线原则陈述选择的原因。(即：列举自己的优势，以及另一方案的劣势。)
由此可见，我们一旦做出选择后，没必要将所有信息都陈述出来，而只要做到依据对角线原则，答出那些我们需要的原因就可以，即：自己的优点，别人的缺点。
实战分析
下面我们举例来说明：
例：TPO32—Task5
Listen to a conversation between two students.
man：I don’t know about you, but, I’m really looking forward to summer
break.
woman： I can’t even think that far ahead. I’ve got so much to do before the
end of the semester. I’ve been feeling pretty stressed out lately.
man：Why? What’s going on?
woman：Well, I just have so many assignments. I’ve got three major research
papers to do and they all due, basically, at the same time, in two weeks.
man： Wow! Three? That is a lot. And research papers take a lot of time.
woman： Right, and between my job and classes, there just aren’t enough hours
in the day to get them all done.
man： Well, is there anything you could cut from your schedule, I mean, you’re
working part-time in an office in town, aren’t you? Why don’t you just reduce
your hours there for a while, at least till you get the papers done.
woman： Well, I guess I could tell my boss I need to cut back on my hours for
a couple of weeks, uh, but I don’t know, I haven’t been working there very long.
I don’t want to make a bad impression by asking for time off already?
man：What else could you do?
woman： Well, another option is I could get an extension on one of the papers.
I asked one of my professors about it, my History professor, and she said it
would be OK if I handed the paper in a week late. So, I guess I could just
concentrate on getting the other two papers done first.
man： Oh, that’s great.
woman：Yeah, only she said she’d have to take a few points off the grade for
the paper since it would be late, you know, to be fair to the other
students.
man： Oh, that’s a drag. So what are you gonna do?
woman：Uh, I don’t know yet.
在听的过程中，按照“七点法”进行考点分析：
(为了模拟考试状态，此处我们只写关键词)
(1) Problem:
three major research papers / all due at the same time, in 2 weeks/-------
part-time job/ no enough time for the three papers
(2) Solution1:
Tell the boss/ cut back on her hours for a couple of weeks
优势：this is only a part-time job / could ask the boss
劣势：she’s not been working very long. / make a bad impression
(3) Solution2:
Get an extension on one of the papers.
优势：she asked professor / she said it would be ok/ she could concentrate on
the other two papers first.
劣势：the professor would have to take a few points off the grade for the
paper.
有了上面的考点提炼和梳理，我们答题就会显得容易的多。
参考答案
现在，让我们来看一个版本的参考答案：(选solution1)
Sample answer:
The woman in the conversation has got a problem, which is, she has three
major research papers that all due at the same time in two weeks.
Meanwhile, she has a part-time job in an office in town. So there is not
enough time in the day for her to get all three papers done.
Here are two solutions.
The first one is to tell the boss to cut back on her hours for a couple of
weeks.
The second one is to get an extension on one of the papers.
I prefer the first one.
Since this is only a part-time job, and she thinks that the boss would
understand her situation and allow her to cut some hours. And then she would
have enough time in the 2 weeks to concentrate on getting all the three papers
done.
As for the second solution, although the professor has said yes, it is still
not good because to be fair to the other students, a few points would be taken
off the grade for the paper as it would be late. That’s not what she wants.
Based on the reasons above, I prefer the first solution.
