托福听力的场景对话按人物来分可以分为三类:一、学生和老师的对话 二、学生和校园工作人员的对话 三、学生和学生的对话。从内容上来讲,学生和老师一般会讨论一些比较偏学术的内容,学生和学生讨论的话题则比较杂,生活、学术等各种内容都可能涉及到,而学生和校园工作人员的对话则偏向生活化。本文将围绕托福听力真题 对话场景中出现频率极高的学生与校园工作人员之一图书馆管理员的对话展开论述,帮助大家了解关于图书馆场景的托福听力怎么考,同时帮助即将出国留学的同学们了解国外图书馆的服务与国内的差异。
图书馆场景在托福听力中出现所涉及的内容一般如下:资料种类,书刊状态,相关动词,图书馆各部门名称,图书馆相关政策与服务。
一、资料种类
首先请看以下这段听力原文:
Librarian: Can I help you?
Student: Yeah, I need to find a review. It's for my English class. We have to find reviews of the play we are reading. But they have to be from when the play was first performed, so I need to know when that was and I suppose I should start with newspaper reviews and…
分析:这是TPO 4 Conversation 1的开头部分,学生直接表明前来图书馆的目的。在笔记过程中开头处开门见山表明主旨内容以及直接目的的语句是一定不能放过的,故其中的review, newspaper review等书刊种类词汇就是必记词汇,同时因果原则告诉我们so后的内容是很有可能出考题的,when…start with也应该出现在我们的笔记中。再看这个conversation之后需完成的第一道题:
Q1. Why does the man need the woman's assistance? Click on 2 answers.
m He does not know the publication date of some reviews he needs.
m He does not know the location of the library's video collection of plays.
m He does not know how to find out where the play is currently being performed.
m He does not know how to determine which newspaper he should look at.
根据笔记可选出答案:第一个选项。由此可见,在托福听力的图书馆场景中,所借资料种类的词汇是必须掌握的内容之一。天道提醒大家需要掌握的常见资料种类还包括:magazine, periodical期刊,current issue现刊,back issue过刊,reference参考书目,textbook教科书,encyclopedia百科全书,fiction小说等。
n. 会话,谈话