托福口语：人的成功因素

托福口语考试一直是中国考生最为头疼的一个考试科目，中国考生的托福口语考试成绩普遍偏低。

托福独立口语高分语料库分享:关于成功因素类

在托福口语独立部分中，涉及到成功要素的题目相对比较散，比如在校园里成功是要认真听讲还是积极参与讨论?做生意成功是否需要手机?要成为成功画家是要努力还是天赋?要成功就要上大学?生意要成功必须外向友善?动力、努力和智力哪一个是成功最重要的要素?请大家看下面题目的英文版：

Which of the following quality is the most important for someone to be succesful? Being highly motivated, hardworking or intelligent.

Which do you think is more important quality for someone to have in order to be succesful, taking risks or making safe decisions?

Some people think that one needs to be talented to be an aritist, others believe trainings and hard work is ore crucial for someone to be an artist. Which do you think is more important? Give details and examples in your response.

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement that artists need to be talented to be successful.

Do you agree or disagree with the statement that to be successful, one must study in university.

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement, cellphones are necessary for someone to run a successful business.

Do you agree or disagree with the statement that in order to run a successful business, a person needs to be friendly and ougoing?

Some think that natural talent and ability is more important for an athlete, others think that hard work is more important. What do you think?

Some people speak out in class, others prefer to listen and quietly observe. Which do you think leads to greater success in school?

接下来的语料库主要是关于成功的要素【较为笼统的】，更加微观层面的有艺术家成功、运动员成功、学生在学校如何成功、做生意如何成功。

关于激励Motivation

词组：light up, push oneself, be destructive to s/th, tap the potential, miss out;

没有自我激励的人生就像一个只死鱼一样，那种人生不值得活;人应该不停的点燃内心的火苗把自己推向成功。没有自我激励的话，就是郁郁寡欢、无所事事;更糟糕的是没有办法开发自己的潜力，并措施成功的机会。

Without motivation we're like a dead fish in the water, that kind of life is not worth living. we should constantly light up our internal fire and push ourselves harder to achieve our goals. While the lack of motivation is destructive to oneself, and one will feel depressed, and have a pretty low esteem. To make matter worse, one is not be able to tap the full potential within oneself, thus he or she would miss out the chance to be successful.

关于珍惜“今天”

你不能改变过去,但你可以改变未来。我们应该明白,事情不总是他们期望的方式。当他们犯错误时,他们关注的解决方案,而不是遗憾。俗话说,昨天是历史,明天是神秘的,但是今天是一个礼物,这就是为什么我们称之为礼物。

You can't change the past but you can change the future. We should understand that things don t always work out the way we expect. When we make mistakes, we ought to focus on solutions, not on regrets. As the saying goes, yesterday is history, tomorrow is mystery, but today is a gift, that's why we call it present.

关于艺术家的“成功”

并不是天分造就伟大的艺术家,是努力,坚持,毅力,决心和毅力。并不是每一个伟大的艺术家可以在五岁的时候能做出很好的画作。

It isn't talent that makes great artists, it's hard work, persistence, will power, determination, and fortitude. Not every great artist can draw nice pictures by the age of five.

成功的艺术家不是以天分支撑的,那只是不付出努力的借口。还有其他更重要的因素如能否够寻找社会关系;与同行和导师而不是天赋更重要。

Successful artists aren't underpinned by talent, it is an excuse not to put in the effort that is needed to be a successful artist. There are other more important factors like, to be able to seek out social connections, and build on them. Connecting with peers and mentors is more important than being talented.

必须上大学才能成功吗

Advanced education provides you with the tools you need to be successful in your future career. Not only can you acquire specific knowledge in a particular filed, like economics, physics, and biology, and stuff, you can also get practical experience in relevant areas, like psychological counseling, physical therapy, and even nursing.

高等教育为您提你未来职业生涯成功需要的工具。不仅可以获得特定的知识在一个特定的领域,如经济学、物理学、生物学等等,你也可以在相关领域获得实际经验,如心理咨询,物理治疗,甚至护理。

生意人要不要随和?

能够建立社会和职业关系网,并扩大他们的能力是企业家成功的关键因素,为了实现这个目标,我们需要随和,这样使破冰更容易。

The ability to build up social and professional connections and expand them is the key factor to be a successful business person, and in order to achieve that, one needs to be easygoing, cuz that makes ice breaking much more easier.

托福考试作文范文:人们成功的若干原因

托福考试作文题目：

"When people succeed, it is because of hard work. Luck has nothing to do with success." Do you agree or disagree with the quotation above? Use specific reasons and examples to explain your answer.

参考分析：

指出可能导致人们成功的若干原因：诚实、睿智、幽默;执著;肯于做不喜欢的事情。

托福考试作文范文参考：

There is a humorous saying in English "The grass is always greener on the other side of the valley." The saying is used ironically to point out that there is a temptation in us all to insist that others are more fortunate than we are. This is nowhere more true than on the question of luck and hard work. When faced with the "bad times", we often find comfort in the idea that we are special in our degree of misfortune. I feel that such an attitude is negative, and that it can bring only further misfortune.

Many famously successful people have begun from small origins. Mao was the son of a 【modestly prosperous】 peasant; the explorer Captain Cook was so poor that, as a child, he had to work by day and study by night; many of the affluent Americans of today are the children of the poor immigrants of yesterday. Beethoven, it should be remembered, became deaf before the end of his career. There are many, many more people who have also made genuine, though Jess spectacular, successes against the odds.

Within his own terms, a person who is born into poverty in India is a great success if he manages to own a house in later life. Poverty cannot be reduced by merely complaining and blaming others: no matter how guilty other people are, each individual must reach out to success for himself. Indeed, some economists believe that the world operates by what they call "the rule of the jungle." They believe that in economics a person always attempts to gain profit from his neighbor: that given the chance the poor man would quickly make himself rich by trading to his own advantage.

Also, it is presumptuous to judge another according to his or her apparent fortune. No man can ever truly understand the sufferings of his neighbor. A man who appears comfortably rich may have suffered elsewhere in his life - through the death of a loved one, for example. Retired businessmen have often worked long hours in their youth. Surely, it must be wiser to respect achievement than to deny that anyone has achieved good in the world.

To rely on notions of luck - to believe that life is a kind of lottery - is an attempt to escape reality. Paradoxically, the only time a person can claim that luck is more important than work is when he reflects on his own success. Because of that modesty, the great man then becomes even greater.

托福口语范文:要想成功一定要有敌人

TASK2 - Some people think in order to be successful, one has to make enemies. Do you agree or disagree, and explain why.

2016年12月10日托福口语T2: Do you agree or disagree that to succeed we need to make enemies?

2016年12月10日上午场托福口语Task 2

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement. Sometimes it is necessary for us to have enemies to be successful.

托福口语范文一:

Sample:

I disagree, it’s not necessarily the case. First, there’re many definitions for success. To be successful is to lead a life that you intend to and enjoy, not a life necessarily with a lot of money. Say I feel that my mom is quite successful because she lives a happy life, but she obviously doesn’t have any enemies. And even for the people who are successful in career and with high social status, the effort they’ve spent along the way could be quite legitimate that wouldn’t have induced any serious conflict with others’ interests. Sure there must have been competition, but competition is common in any aspect of life which doesn’t always bring out hostile feelings. So basically I think the statement stands without solid ground.

托福口语范文二:

Task 2参考答案:

Well, I think the sentence holds water in certain situations. There is an old saying goes like, if you have not offended anyone, you wouldn't have achieved anything. To be successful, sometimes, you have to work really hard on your goals, so that means you are really devoted to your dreams, and have little time to consider interpersonal relations or let us say, the complex office politics. It is just impossible for everyone to like you in this world, nor do you have to strive hard to intentionally make everyone likes you. What you need to consider is to be excellent, produce good products and be valuable.

托福口语范文三:

Personally, I think it is necessary to have enemies to be successful. For instance, as a student, if I know I have competitors in terms of academic performance, the peer pressure will motivate me to work hard to finish assignment, work on projects, and even stay up late to prepare for exams. Also, as a professional if I know I have my coworkers as my competitors, I will be more hardworking. I will be more patient to customers so that I can close more deals and make more profits for the company, at the same time I can enjoy a better chance to get promoted.

你的托福口语为什么分数这么低?4个原因为你道出原因

托福口语考试一直是中国考生最为头疼的一个考试科目，中国考生的托福口语考试成绩普遍偏低。

为什么片面追求发音是不合理的备考方式?

让我们来看看另一个亚洲国家——印度的托福考生。发音彪悍的印度学生的托福口语平均分一直稳定保持在23。这足以证明，托福口语真正考察的是语言实际使用能力，换而言之，信息传递【get message across 】的能力。具体体现在独立题目部分能否清晰迅速表达自己观点，综合题部分能否准确接收、记录和转述信息。

而印度学生之所以得到相对较高的口语分值，绝非仰仗语音语调，而是在长期使用英文过程中，养成了和西方人高度一致的用词、语法甚至逻辑思维习惯。

当然，漂亮的发音可以锦上添花，只是鉴于发音的改善相对耗时较长，有些学生从小接触英文时，由于条件限制，师资的发音就不正规，输入了错误的语音语调，改起来就会相当困难，并且，还有一小部分的学生先天生理器官缺陷，对一些音素的掌握会较吃力。

所以，要想在较短时间里，达到23-24分，中国学生完全可以把更多精力和时间，放在话题展开的思路逻辑和语料质量上面，随后做好跟读和模仿，提高流利度，并不断打磨语音语调，方可事半功倍。

我们来看托福口语的题型分类和评分过程:

托福口语的六道题可以分为独立和综合两个类型【Task 1、2 为独立题，Task 3、 4 、5 、6为综合题】

在评分时，考生的答题录音会在经过数码降噪处理后被自动分为三组，分别是Task1&2，Task3&5和Task4&6，即独立任务【第一组】、校园任务【第二组】和学术任务【第三组】;再由经过认证的评分人分别对考生三组任务的录音进行评测，每道题的评分等级由低到高分别用weak，limited，fair和good来标识，最后六道题的总分将被转换为0~30分的标准分，而考生三组题目的最终得分等级，也会标示在电子成绩单上【score report】

关于评分，托福官方指南OG里面明确指出，托福口语6大任务的3项评分准则包括：delivery, language use and topic development,， 即表述、语言使用和话题展开能力，这三项考核并无优先等级，各占三分之一比重。

所以，尽量做到扬长避短，避重就轻就很重要。比如，你的发音不够完美，可以用话题展开和语法、词汇来弥补，而如果你的语法差，但语音语调好，只需要充分发挥这方面优势，并注意逻辑，细节和话题拓展，也同样可以达到不错的分值。

对于口语分数长期偏低的学生，无外乎有以下几种可能：

1.题型掌握不扎实。

很多人完全不清楚独立题是否可以准备，以及如何准备，面对综合题目的一分钟复述，要不要记笔记，如何记笔记，要说出哪些信息、以何种顺序、以及是否要在一分钟内完成，这些基本概念也都非常模糊;还有一个常见的掩耳盗铃的错误是，即便托福口语考试对每道题目的答题时间都进行了限制【45秒和60秒】，很多同学在练习时，依旧不敢或不屑于开计时器，对于语速和时间的把控感很弱，这些错误的理念和练习方法只会让你南辕北辙，离高分越来越远。

2. 发音有硬伤。

比如从小受教育条件所限，接触到的师资本身发音就不标准，一开始就学了错误的发音、语调，在漫长的后端学习过程中，每一次努力的练习，其实都在固化错误的发音，改起来更是难上加难。

3. 独立题语料掌握不扎实。

独立题的现场15秒准备，对大部分同学而言，是很恐怖的大脑断片儿的前奏，所以，要保证现场高品质的输出，一定要在考前搭建自己的专属语料库，考场上的15秒准备时间，是用来将题目和你的语料库进行检索和信息匹配用的，而不是寄希望于有太多不确定性的临场发挥。

4. 综合题环节不会记笔记，对题目要求不清楚，不会抓重点和筛选复述信息，语速和流利度不达标，控时能力弱。

在这里，尤其要强调的是，搭建独立题的语料库是一项庞大的工程，非一朝一夕之功。分论点是否合逻辑，及语言本身是否足够高品质，都需要格外注意。前面也提到，一些题设本身就很复杂，比如：

Do you agree or disagree that 18 year old students are mature enough to vote? 【2015年真题】

你是否同意18岁的学生足够成熟来参加政治投票选举?

Talk about an important political event in your country.

请谈论你们国家的一件重要的政治事件。

Describe a kind of traditional clothing in your country. 【2016年真题】

请描述你们国家的一种传统服饰。

对待这些话题，一定要提前准备。其实，只要方法正确，应试技巧和语言能力完全可以同时提升。

很多人为了能拿到24分，勉强自行去编一些段子，或者背了很多没营养的段子，语言过于简单，内容过于生硬肤浅，浪费了时间和情绪，达不到分数要求，对语言能力更是毫无裨益，着实可惜。

想要积累独立口语常考话题段子，建议通过答题范例积累，同时可以学习答题思路和常用理由。

其实，托福备考，不论口语、听力还是阅读、写作，都是有效扩充词汇、句式，有效提升语言表达能力的契机，选择高品质的素材备考，踏踏实实积累，不要投机取巧，急于求成，努力在练习中，去契合ETS的考核要求，才是王道。