托福阅读
阅读第一篇日本建筑演变,说是16 17世纪房子结构简单,都是木制的。人们经常搬家,所以房子也经常拆除建造,不过有些原材料是可以重复利用的。说是当时人们结婚,家里面是不允许离开家很远居住的,所以有时候一家会有两套房子。
到了18世纪,政府权力变大,需要很多人聚集在城市供差遣, 于是便从中国取经。中国都城建造非常雄伟气派,日本领导很喜欢。又到了后来,可移动的房子和固定的恢弘的建筑有了融合,民居还是可移动的,但是政府建筑都是固定的。
托福口语
1. describe a particular strength of the education system in your country.
2. Do you agree that it's necessary to have a mobile phone in order to achieve success in business.
3. Jane Franklin proposed to add fridge in kitchen and a sign-sheet to arrange use time. The boy opposed because the dorm is small and it will need to take other stuffs down if try to add a fridge; students are busy in classes and activities, and may have no plan for when to use kitchen so no need for a sign-sheet- if you really want to use, you can wait for a while if it's occupied.
4. Quality Control Circles. Lecturer gives a example of factory which made metal part for car. The cost of factory is greater than profit. Supervisor held a QCC with workers who work in front line and they pointed that it's because of lack of light that caused workers made mistake which lead to the waste of labor and materials. Company updated the lighting system, and workers made less mistakes. Net profit of factories improved.
5. Boy moved to apartment outside campus and it's twice as expensive as he anticipated. He has two ways: 1 is to find a roommate to split the re...