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2009年9月20日托福iBT考试口语真题 Question 1 Describe the favorite subject you have studied. Explain why it is your favorite subject. Include reasons and details to support your response. Question 2 Children should be required to help with household tasks as soon as they are old enough to do so. Do you agree or disagree with the above statement? Why or why not? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. Question 3 A Complaint Letter This letter is written to express some dissatisfaction about the schools recent decision. The school has decided to hold a cultural festival in the next week, and the school bus will be cancelled to create convenience for the cultural festival. Personally, I think this decision will have negative influence on college students life. The first reason is that the noise made outside the dorm by the entertainment activity will disturb our study, especially in the revision period for the examination. Also, cancelling the school bus will bring students some inconvenience to commune from their dorm to the school. Question: The woman expresses her opinion towards the complaint letter. State her opinion and explain the reasons she gives for holding that opinion. Question 4 Learning by Observation Learning by observation is an important advantage. That is, the hard lessons learned by one individual can be readily copied by others. Infants can learn what foods to eat, what foods to avoid, what animals are dangerous predators, what animals are preys, and so on. Learning by observation has long been believed to be exclusive to human beings and animals can only learn through training. However, recent studies show that numerous animals have been found to be able to learn from observation, including chimpanzees, dolphins and birds. In fact, they learn faster by observation than by training. Question: The professor uses two experiments to illustrate the definition of learning by observation. Explain how these two experiments are related to the reading