新托福口语考试的task 6 纯粹是听力没有阅读材料，是很多考生认为的难中之难，但是，听力讲座并不完全和真实的讲座一样具有突发性和不确定性，新托福口语考试的讲座，也有一定的出题套路，下面，青岛朗阁就结合真题为大家分析：

　　新托福TPO真题：

　　So, let’s talk about money. What is money? Well, typically people think of coins and paper “bills” as money... but that’s using a somewhat narrow definition of the term.

　　A broad definition is this: money is anything that people can use to make purchases with. Since many things can be used to make purchases, money can have many different forms. Certainly, coins and bills are one form of money. People exchange goods and services for coins or paper bills, and they use this money ... these bills ... to obtain other goods and services. For example, you might give a taxi driver five dollars to purchase a ride in his taxi. And he in turn gives the five dollars to a farmer to buy some vegetables...

　　But, as I said, coins and bills aren’t the only form of money under this broad definition. Some societies make use of a barter system. Basically, in a barter system people exchange goods and services directly for other goods and services. The taxi driver, for example, might give a ride to a farmer in exchange for some vegetables. Since the vegetables are used to pay for a service, by our broad definition the vegetables are used in barter as a form of money.

　　Now, as I mentioned, there’s also a second ... a narrower definition of money. In the United States only coins and bills are legal tender—meaning that by law, a seller must accept them as payment. The taxi driver must accept coins or bills as payment for a taxi ride. OK? But in the U.S., the taxi driver is not required to accept vegetables in exchange for a ride. So a narrower definition of money might be whatever is legal tender in a society, whatever has to be accepted as payment.

　　Using points and examples from the talk, explain the two definitions of money presented by the professor.
 

　　通过观察，不难发现，新托福口语考试中的讲座的主要内容通常情况会在第一句话中体现出来。有时候，教授会非常明显直接地点明话题。

　　在此讲座中，教授就在第一句话中就直接地指出讲座的中心内容—money, 随后的内容围绕着对money的定义展开。整个讲座讲述了money的两种定义，一种是广义的，一种是狭义的。教授首先讲述了广义的钱的定义，并以出租车和菜农的两个具体的例子来解释广义钱的定义内容。随后讲述了狭义的钱的定义，同样，在给出了定义之后，教授依然用出租车和菜农的例子来进行解释。
 

　　有了这样的一个outline后，考生需要提取出来的关键内容为：

　　-- A broad definition is this: money is anything that people can use to make purchases with.

　　-- Coins and bills are one form of money.

　　-- In a barter system people exchange goods and services directly for other goods and services.

　　-- So a narrower definition of money might be whatever is legal tender in a society, whatever has to be accepted as payment.

　　-- In the United States only coins and bills are legal tender-meaning that by law, a seller must accept them as payment.

　　如考生能够抓住以上几句关键句，那么在结合了例子之后，就可以有一份非常完美的新托福口语答案了。
 

　　参考答案：

　　The professor talks about two definitions of money, a broad one and a narrow one. By the broad definition, money is everything with which we can make purchases. For example, coins and bills can be money, because we can use them to buy goods such as vegetables and pay for services such as taxi. But in a barter system, vegetables can be money, because farmers can give drivers vegetables in exchange for a drive. By the narrow definition, in a society, the legal tender is money. For instance, in the US, drivers and farmers must accept dollars as payment. People can use dollars to pay for taxi and buy vegetables because dollar is the legal tender in the US. So, dollar in the form of coin and bill is money.
 

　　此范文逻辑清晰，包含了讲座的各个方面，亦可为考生提供一定的关于定义类新托福口语话题的模板，希望大家做好笔记，认真复习，争取在即将到来的考试中取得理想成绩!

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