2019年TPO1托福口语Task3原文及参考答案
TPO1口语Task3题目： Passage
Letter in the Centerville College News
The administration has announced plans to acquire a new sculpture for campus. We should all oppose this plan. The university’s poor financial condition led it to increase the price for campus housing and tuition by 15% this past year. Surely then it is in no financial position to purchase such
an expensive sculpture. Moreover, just look at the sculpture： several 60-foot long steel plates, jutting out of the earth at odd angles! It’s just so large, it’ll take up all the green space in front of the campus center! This is public space that should be reserved for students to use. Conversation
Now listen to two students discussing the opinion expressed in the letter.
Man： Did you see Paul’s letter in the paper about the new sculpture?
Woman： Yeah, but it was totally unconvincing. His
reasons for opposing the plan are just totally off. I am glad that we’ll finally have some nice art on campus. I’d like to shake the donor’s hand and say “thank you.” Man： What do you mean the donor?
Woman： You didn't know? An anonymous donor is paying the bill for most of the sculpture. Man： Not the university?
Woman： No! His assumptions about who’s paying are all wrong!
Man： Still, I wonder if he has a point about the space it’ll take up?
Woman： Well, you know why Paul is upset. He and his friends are always out there on the lawn right where the sculpture will be, kicking around the soccer ball. Now
they’ll just have to use another part of the campus to play. Man： Oh! So he just doesn't want to have to move.
Woman： Yeah! For him, it’s sculpture versus convenience. Question
Explain why the woman disagrees with the reasons expressed in the letter. Key Points
1. in no financial position
2. large & take up public green space, student use TPO1口语Task3参考答案(范文模板)：
The woman doesn’t agree with the letter’s proposal to boycott the new sculpture purchase on campus. According to the letter, the school is too poor to afford such an
expensive sculpture but the woman says the school doesn’t
have to pay much. Instead, it’s an unknown donorwho’s gonna pay for the artwork. The letter also notes that the sculpture is so large that it takes up too much green space, which
should be kept for student use, but the woman points out that the person who wrote the letter & his friends use that green space to playsoccer, so for him, the sculpture may cause trouble cos they’ll have to go somewhere else to play - it’s hard to say whether it’ll affect other students as well. In fact, the woman’s happy to see some nice art on campus.