Task1 Which of the following types of book you do not enjoy, science fiction, biography, and history book（另外一种说法是romantic book）? Explain why you do not enjoy it.

解析：这一场仍旧是多选一类的题目，大多数机经的题型压对了，题目是老题。今年考过的五场六份卷子中，第一题多选一类占了4场，建议类题目占两场。多选一类题目*好能提两个到三个分论点，再加论证。论证当中建议使用对比论证至少一次比较有说服力。接下来仍旧可以多练习多选一类题目。

Sample Answer 1:

The type of book that I do not enjoy is science fiction because of the following reasons. Firstly, science fiction is useless for your real life. For example, most people like Harry Potter. They are familiar with the spells and weapons of that magic world, but they cannot use any one of them in the real life. Secondly, reading science fiction may cause the misunderstanding of the real world. People at young age, who are the main readers of science fiction, are hard to tell the real world from the imaginary world.

Sample Answer 2:

The type of book that I do not enjoy is biography because of the following reasons. Firstly, biography is really boring. It is the life story of a certain celebrity. You cannot copy his or her life experiences since the case only represent a small amount of people. Secondly, biography is not objective. You might be misled by the celebrities’ story. Most celebrities choose to cover disadvantages and advocate their advantages.

Sample Answer 3:

The type of book that I do not enjoy is history book because of the following reasons. Firstly, history book is plain and dull. It is even hard for me to concentrate on reading history book for fifteen minutes. Secondly, history book cannot be used in the real life. Things happened in the history are really hard to be used in the real life. It is really wired to apply an event occurred in Qing dynasty to real life because situations are really different.

Task 2 Do you agree or disagree with the following statement:Talking face-to-face in person is a better way to communicate than communicating through emails and by text message

解析：这是今年独立写作的机经原题，练过的孩子应该觉得不难答。

Sample Answer 1:

I agree with that talking face-to-face to communicate is a better way to communicate because of following reasons. Firstly, talking face-to-face can avoid misunderstanding. Take myself for example, I sent an email to my colleague to check some of problems occurred in our history project, but she failed to receive it, which almost caused the failure of our project. Secondly, talking face-to-face can strengthen the relationship between you and your co-workers. It is believed that communicating in person help people understand others better.

Sample Answer 2:

I disagree with that talking face-to-face to communicate is a better way to communicate because of following reasons. Firstly, communicating through emails and by text messages make it easy to correct mistakes you may make in the communication. You see, if you communicate face-to-face in person, you will not be able to erase anything. Secondly, emails and text messages can be evidences when you need to defend yourself in some cases.

Task3

Reading：

做什么Mary Jacobs proposed that the school dining hall should no longer provide junk food.

理由：1. it is healthier to eat just healthy food.

     2.it can help students to save money.

Listening:

观点：The man disagrees with that.

理由：1. They eat a lot of junk food, only eating junk food occasionally won’t do harm to their health, besides, sometimes they really want to eat junk food after finishing a paper.

2. This won’t help them to save money, because students will still buy junk food outside the campus if they cannot buy it from the dining hall.

解析：现在第三题和第四题的阅读时间常增加到50秒，对阅读不好的孩子来说是一个福音。这次第三题出的中规中矩，难度一般。

Task4

Reading:

主题：Rational Ignorance

定义：when people are making less important decision, they won’t research information or think for a long time before they make the decision since it does not worth it.

Listening:

The professor used to compare a lot of information before he bought his car, he collected a lot of information and then decided which car to buy. But yesterday, when he bought the batteries for flashlight, he did not compare or even read the package; he just bought the first one he saw although there were five different brands.

解析：阅读时间增加到50秒，心理学类题，题目略简单，复述听力要用过去式。

Task5

问题：The woman is going to organize the opening for the Spring Concert tomorrow afternoon, but according to the weather forecast, it is going to rain tomorrow.

解决方案：1.The first solution is to move the concert indoors, that is, to have the concert in an auditorium. 优点：N/A 缺点：it is not as fun as having a concert outside.

         2.The second solution is to postpone the concert to the day after tomorrow. 优点：weather can be better 缺点：not many students will be on campus on Sunday afternoon.

解析：题目中规中矩，难度一般。信号词明显。

Task6

参考答案：As for female animals, the mother animals perform better than those non-mother animals, because they have better memories. The professor introduces a experiment to explain this. Some mother rats and non-mother rats are put in a maze to find food. The mother rats tend to find food faster. They can easily remember the only path to get food. This capability is very important for animals to survive, because these mother animals can easily find food for their children and get back home faster to protect their children.

解析：这次的第六题只有一个点一个例子，和大多数的TPO第六题出题不一样，比较接近第四题的出题，没考的同学建议练习tpo1 task6，可以稍稍熟悉一下这种类型的第六题。