托福TPO25口语task6题目 Listening Part:
Listen to part of a lecture in a geology class.
(female professor)
Rocks near the Earth’s surface are directly exposed to elements in the environment such as air and water, and also to conditions such as temperature change as well as to living organism. And this exposure to the environment can actually cause even huge rocks to break into smaller pieces. This process is called weathering. Let’s talk about a couple ways weathering occurs.
First of all, rocks are often exposed to water. In cold wet environments rocks can break due to water freezing inside of them. How does this happen? Well, as I am sure you know, when water freezes it expands and over time this can lead to weathering.
Um, imagine a rock with a small opening or crack in it. It rains and water gets into the crack and stays there. Then, at night, the temperature drops and water inside the crack freezes. This growing, expanding ice pushes outward on either side of the crack causing it to get slightly bigger. When this happens again and again, the crack becomes larger and eventually pieces of the rock break off.
OK, weathering can also be caused by plants, by a plant growth. If a plant seed gets blown into the crack of a rock, it may take root. And its root will grow down into the rock. The plant’s roots can cause the rock to break down, uh, fracture. You may have seen this with large trees growing on top of a ro ck, a great example of this. Usually there’s enough dirt in a crack of a rock or on top of a rock to allow a tree to start growing there. As the tree grows over the years, the tree’s roots extend downward into the crack and crevasses of the rock in search of water and nutrients. Over time, the roots get bigger and grow deeper, widening and enlarging the cracks, causing the rock to break apart.
托福TPO25口语task6题目 Question:
Using point and examples from the lecture, explain two ways weathering occurs.
托福TPO25口语task6题目答案解析:
本题属于Task6当中的举例子题。Task6与Task4不同之处在于1)一定是‘一拖二’模式 2)需要根据listening过后提出的问题来回答。很多同学不知道Task6如何开头，实际就像前面所说的，根据问题回答。比如题目问‘using the examples from the lecture, explain two types of …’，回答的时候就以‘There are two types of …’开头。 这道题本身不难理解，如果懂一些简单的生物物理知识就更容易把握。但是lecture中教授语速较快，可能造成笔记混乱或者记不下来。因此要求大家用流程图的形式记笔记，便于逻辑清晰地表达。
托福TPO25口语task6 范文：
The professor explains two ways weathering occurs. Firstly, the exposure to water, which means that the rock breaks because of freezing water inside it which would then expand. To be more specific, if the rains get into cracks, it will freeze due to low temperature. Then the growing expanding ice pushes outward, causing the rock to break off little by little. The second way of weathering happens under plant growth, which means after the plant seeds get down to take a root, it will grow into the rock, causing it to fracture. A good example for it is big trees growing on the top of a rock. They gradually extend down their roots for nutrients and water, as a result, widening and enlarging the cracks they grow and breaking it apart at last.