由于時間的限制和內(nèi)容組織的完整性，也許在前幾次的練習中，時間都是不夠用的。所以，有些同學(xué)會考慮到為了托福口語考試，記錄一些段子進行背誦。但是，這真的是提高托?？谡Z的唯一方法么?想要提高托?？谡Z，還有什么基本的要素呢?下面是小編給大家?guī)淼耐懈？谡Z不要只限于記錄段子，希望能幫到大家!

　　托?？谡Z不要只限于記錄段子 多聽多練是關(guān)鍵

　　對于托?？谡Z的備考來說，詞匯是最最基礎(chǔ)內(nèi)容。很多的同學(xué)在開始學(xué)習托?？谡Z的時候往往有開口之后無話可說的窘境，其實這個問題可以通過補上我們落下的單詞來彌補。如果，還是你已經(jīng)備考托福有一定的時間，托福詞匯量有了一定的提升，再回頭比較一下，你是否會發(fā)現(xiàn)，自己的表述能力是否有了一定的提升?之前對于題目是根本沒有什么想法，而現(xiàn)在聽到題目后，就已經(jīng)可以找到一些關(guān)鍵的詞匯了。

　　提高托?？谡Z時候，聽力也是關(guān)鍵，這一個問題大家在托福的聽力考試中同樣也會遇到，我們的建議是聽寫，而且我們要說的稍微言辭激烈一些，聽力的提高必須依靠艱苦卓越的精聽來提高。還需要提醒大家的就是，很多同學(xué)在備考聽力的時候，喜歡利用積累段子的方法，當然這并不是什么壞事。但是，需要注意的是，在準備這些段子的是，關(guān)鍵是需要讀而不僅僅是寫，你的語音別人聽不聽得懂，你的輕重緩急和停頓做得到不到位等等。

　　想要提升自己的托福口語成績，托?？荚嚨哪M測試時必不可少的。所以，在備考過程中，一定要面對電腦，面對計時器不斷地熟悉題型，熟悉答題的方法，之后才能夠功到自然成。也建議大家在備考進入一定階段后，使用一些托?？荚嚹M軟件，感受一下托?？荚嚨呐R場環(huán)境。

　　托?？谡Z練習之寵物話題

　　本期為大家整理了托福口語練習常見的寵物話題素材，希望能幫助大家更好的備戰(zhàn)托福。

　　Pets Are Good for you

　　The basic meaning of "pet" is an animal we keep for emotional rather than economic reasons. (1) A pet animal is kept as a companion, and we all need companions to keep us feeling happy. But pets offer us more than mere companionship; they invite us to love and be loved. Many owners feel their pets understand them, for animals are quick to sense anger and sorrow. Often a cat or dog can comfort us at times when human words don’t help (2). We feel loved, too, by the way pets depent on us for home, for food and drink. Dogs especially, look up to their owners, which makes them feel important and needed. (3)

　　A pet can be something different to each member of the family, another baby to the mother, a sister or brother to an only child, a grandchild to the elderly, (4) but for all of us pets provide pleasure and companionship. It has even been suggested that tiny pets should be sent as companions to astronauts on space ships, to help reduce the stress and loneliness of space flights.

　　In this Plastic Age, (5) when most of us live in large cities, pets are particularly for children. A pet in the family keeps people in touch with the more natural, animal world. Seeing an animal give birth brings understanding of the naturalness of childbirth of the naturalness of childbirth, and seeing a pet helps a child to cope with sorrow. (6) Learning to care for a pet helps a child to grow up into a loving adult who feels responsible towards those dependent on him. Rightly we teach children to be good to their pets. They should learn, too, that pets are good for us human beings.

　　I. Listen

　　Listen to the text with the help of the following notes.

　　1. The basic meaning of "pet" is an animal we keep for emotional rather than economic reasons: "寵物“ 的基本含義是，我們出于感情原因，而不是經(jīng)濟目的而飼養(yǎng)的一種動物。

　　2. when human words don’t help: 人的語言安撫無濟于事時。

　　3. Dogs especially, look up to their owners, which makes them feel important and needed: 特別是狗對其主人的尊重使用權(quán)他們產(chǎn)生一種舉足輕重和不可缺少的感覺。

　　4. A pet can be something different to each member of the family, another baby to the mother, a sister or brother to an only child, a grandchild to the elderly: 對家庭的每一個成員來說，一只寵物有著不同的作用：對母親來說，它是另一個孩子;對獨生子女來說，它則成了一個妹妹或弟弟;老人面前，它又變成了孫子。

　　5. In the Plastic Age: 在這一塑料時代(即指當今塑料制品取代了自殺的生活用品)。

　　6. Seeing an animal give birth brings understanding of the naturalness of childbirth, and seeing a pet die helps a child to cope with sorrow: 觀察一只動物的分娩可以幫助人理解嬰兒出生的自然過程;而看到一只寵物的死去則可以幫助孩子怎能樣面對痛苦。