TPO (TOEFL Practice Online) 是美国教育考试服务中心(Educational Testing Service，简称ETS)专为参加TOEFL TPO口语第16套Question4答题技巧及模版：
Question: Using the example from the lecture, explain what social loafing is and how it affects people’s behavior.
1、题目关键词： example, social loafing, people’s behavior
2、答题要领：
(1)Briefly state the main idea of the reading passage.
(2)Concentrating on the lecture given by the professor. When orally summarizing the lecture, test takers are supposed to include the main points and some key examples as well.
3、阅读材料要点：
(1) When people work in a group,not everyone is as motivated as others in performing a task since not everyone is held responsible.
(2) the result is that someone is not working as hard as when he works alone and his work is closely measured.This phenomenon is called social loafing.
4、听力材料要点：
(1)2 groups of people were asked to peel potatoes. One group was told that number of potatoes will be recorded by individuals while another group was told that only the total number of potatoes peeled will be recorded.
(2)researchers then compared the number of potatoes peeled by these two different groups and found that the group told that only the total number would be recorded peeled distinctively less potatoes than the other group.
5、模板：
(1) In this set of materials, the reading passage is (the title of the reading passage) and the listening material is a lecture by a professor on the same topic. 当然，如果你觉得你的听力材料的理解率很高也不用谈及阅读材料中的内容。只是第一段说起来实在太easy了。
(2) In the reading passage, the university made an announcement that...本段可以省略，但是前提是你对于听力材料理解率很高，不会时间未到却无话可说了。
(3) In the lecture, the professor...不但要包括主要的观点而且最重要的是要包括教授举出的例子。
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