把听力材料当阅读?托福听力备考5大误区解读
托福听力备考误区一 听力当阅读
学生一旦听不懂文章，往往会看着文本来听，很多方法也建议学生这么做。毫无疑问，这样做的直接后果是该文章能听懂了。但是这个听懂的过程是先看懂，音频声音形象的建立只是印证了你的阅读。
托福听力备考误区二 口译练听力
有一个误区，大家经常踩，那就是口译训练并不适用于托福听力。听力并不需要中英文之间的转换能力，很多口译出身的老师会建议听力中做翻译，但我们听懂的步骤是在听到声音形象后理解意思，不需要翻译。
托福听力备考误区三 听写能全面提升听力能力
托福听力能力由三个能力构成，语音识别，语义识别和结构层次，分别对应单词，句子和篇章层面。听写本身只解决语音识别，并不能理解句子意思，或是结构层次。听写不要写下来，第一写下来浪费时间，我经常说，每个方法都能effective，关键去考虑它是否能有efficiency, 你在单位时间的付出是否能收获等量的效果。
因此，听写不要写下来。如果你发现不写下来就听不懂，参看A条，不要把听力做成阅读。强迫自己听。听写要做，但只是一个最基础的工作。如果只做听写，听力永远无法提高，永远，不要忘了语义识别和结构层次。
托福听力备考误区四 所有生词都要听懂
托福听力从不要求考生听懂每一个单词，单词是一个基础量，但我们需要在听不懂的情况下如何理解一个lecture，这是需要做到的，整个课程设计和单词量没有关系，无论你现在水平如何，从另一个视角打开全新听力，结构层次的练习让你无论10分还是25分都能够获得想要的提升。
托福听力备考误区五 笔记胡乱记
托福听力笔记最重要的是结构层次，每个人的笔记都是高度个性化的，笔记只有两个目的，一个是有效定位，一个是理清结构。很多同学发现记了的没有考，考了的没有记。首先尝试记少，从抓一句话的核心词(不可替代词汇，能提示你整句的词汇)，扩展到10s一次停顿，在扩展到1min，逐渐能够抓到层次.。再参考一些核心内容,，抓住考点。
托福听力备考5大误区如上文所述，希望大家在备考托福听力的时候能够避开这些误区，保证备考效率。托福听力提升不仅要提升听力能力，也要提升笔记能力，千万不要把听力材料当阅读来练，笔记一定要记的层次分明，有提示作用。
托福写作模板:大学生选择专业
2016年11月5日托福独立写作题目：
Students should choose the major such as science, technology, and engineering which can help them find good jobs instead of the major which they are interested in.
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题目大意：大学生应该选择哪种专业：能够帮助他们找到好工作的专业(比如科学类，技术类和工程类)VS自己喜欢的专业。此题目波波建议选择感兴趣的专业：理由如下1.学习更有动力 2.从长远来看，更有利于就业。
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2016年11月5日托福独立写作范文
The question of “ what is the most important subject or skill the schools should teach? ” has never failed to attract attention from educators, school administrators and even politicians especially when it comes to subjects like technology, engineering and math. Some argue that students should be encouraged to take such classes rather than the ones they are interested in since they give them a better shot to find jobs. However, personally, I am not in favor of this position based on the following reasons.
Admittedly, it is true that courses like technology, engineering and math are very
technical, most of which can be applied in solving real world issues. However, the exposure that students have to apply these theories are very limited in class. Taking technical oriented classes will not give students a competitive edge to ensure future jobs opportunities, on the other hand, there are enormous benefits for students to take courses that they are interested in.
First off, taking courses that students are interested in can be a great motivation for them to achieve higher goals. Old saying “ interest is the best teacher” remains relevant as it did a century ago. Interest serves as the internal motivation for students to explore in the area that they are interested, on the contrary, if they are forced to take courses for a utilitarian purpose, they might not keep their interest for a long time thus have a lower learning efficiency. Recent study conducted by the Society of Developmental Psychology shows that students will be more enthusiastic and passionate about learning when given the freedom to make their own choices to take classes. Also, giving students the opportunity to choose the classes they are interested in can help them to explore their real interest, thus their potential can be fully tapped before heading off for career options.
Additionally, taking courses students are interested in have enormous practical purposes and they can be a great source of leisure and relaxation. For instance, lots of students like art and music but seldom do they have a chance to learn. Actually, taking art and music classes help to develop creativity and make the students more imaginative. Actually, lots of scientific research in the psychological field shows that early exposure to art and music not only boosts academic achievement but also promotes creativity, self-confidence and school pride. Students who spend more time in learning art and music end up having higher analytical thinking and reasoning skills than those who don’t.
In conclusion, taking courses that students are interested in can be a great motivation for them to achieve higher goals and it can also be a great source of leisure and relaxation.
托福写作模板:工作与社交生活
2016年9月24日托福独立写作真题
Your job has more effects on happiness than your social life does.
题目大意： 你的工作要比你的社交生活对幸福影响更大。此题目涉及到抽象词“幸福”，可能小伙伴们会觉得有些难度，如果大家了解马斯洛的需求层次理论的话，本题目并不难，波波建议大家选择，两者对于幸福有同样的作用，因为工作满足了我们的物质需求，而社交生活满足了我们的社交需求。
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2016年9月24日托福写作范文
There is no denying that happiness originates in the acts of meeting people's various needs. Nowadays some people claim that happiness is more affected by the job they owned than their social life. This is a popular misunderstanding. As far as I am concerned, social life and jobs have the equal role in making people feel happy, because they can respectively satisfy people's different needs.
On the one hand, a decent and well-paid job can provide us with a large amount of money, which could fulfill our material needs and improve our living standards. For example, with adequate financial resources we can live in a spacious and well-decorated house with six bedrooms and eight restrooms. We can travel around the world and visit the Forbidden City inChina, the Liberty Statue inAmericaand the Big Ben inBritain. In addition, such a good deal of money enables us to keep fit by having nutritious diet and mineral water transferred from the water source. Meanwhile, we can hire a personal doctor around the clock in case of any emergence of disease. We do not have to wait for a long time by standing in the long and crowed lines of patients in hospitals. All these things will definitely make us feel happy.
On the other hand, the important role of social life in helping us attain happiness can not be ignored. Confucius, one of the greatest philosophers and educators inChina, once remarked that it is a pleasant thing to meet with a friend from afar, which indicates that friendship is another source of happiness. Participation in social activities will enlarge our social circle and make us make acquaintance with more people. For example, if you are a bookworm, you can take part in readers' association where you will encounter a lot people who share a common interest. Chatting and talking with them will help form a deep friendship and make you have a better mood. The reason underlying the above example is that your need of communicating with others is met by participating in social life.
In conclusion, since happiness depends on the fulfillment of one's need, social life and jobs combines together to make us happy. It is an exaggeration to say that your job has more effects on happiness than your social life.
托福写作模板:通过别人喜欢的书或电影了解一个人
2016年9月11日托福写作真题
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: One can learn a lot about another person from the books and the movies that the person likes.
托福写作模板及参考答案：
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Spending a significant amount of time with someone is necessary to get to know their personalities and temperaments. Sometimes, people can also tell a person’s quality and determine his or her personality by analyzing their behaviors. When it comes to the question of whether one can learn about another person from the books or movies that the person likes, I personally am in favor of this statement based on the following reasons.
First off, by judging from the books or movies or even TV programs that someone like we can tell a person’s interests and hobbies, consequently we can learn more about them. For example, My roommate back in college was really into auto magazines, TV shows and even movies featuring fancy sports cars. At first, I didn’t know him so well to know his hobbies and interests, however, I was sure at that time that he must have been a big fan of cars. Indeed, my judgment was right and he was a car freak, he likes all kinds of vehicles like sedan, SUV, recreational vehicles, etc. It is not an exaggeration to claim that he can tell not only the brand but also the version of a specific vehicle by just checking out the picture of the cockpit of the car. Ultimately, we can tell a person’s hobbies by the movies and books they like.
Additionally, the genre of the books that someone reads says a lot about the person’s character and temperament. Actually, it is natural for someone to shape their characters just because the characters in the novels or movies have a dramatic impact on the person’s behavior and attitude, regardless of the types of the characters like fairy, alien or someone with superpower. For instance, girls who read a lot of romantic novels like Gone With the Wind might be very emotional and very committed to someone they love. For someone who read science fiction novels or watch movies featuring future events and exploration of outer space tend to be very creative and willing to take risks, to be more specific, they might be someone who friends can depend on when they got stuck in some sort of exploration.
For someone who likes to read classics of all times like the works by Jane Austen or Ernest Hemingway, they tend to cherish the simplicities and trivialities in lives.
In a nutshell, by judging from the genre of the book that someone reads, not only can we tell a lot about the person’s interests and hobbies but also the person's character and temperament.
