專家:新托福寫作考情公布

　　the integrated writing task

　　you will read a passage about an academic topic for three minutes, and then you will hear a short lecture related to the topic. then you will be asked to summarize the points in the listening passage and explain how they relate to specific points in the reading passage。

　　this task gives you the opportunity to demonstrate your ability to show that you can communicate in writing about academic information you have read and listened to。

　　as you read:

　　a.  take notes on your scratch paper。

　　b.  look for the main idea of the reading passage. the main idea often has to do with some policy or practice or some position on an issue. or it may have to do with proposing some overall hypothesis about the way some process or procedure works or should work or how some natural phenomenon is believed to work。

　　c.  see how this main idea is evaluated or developed. usually it will be developed in one of two ways:

　　1.  arguments or explanations are presented that support the main position; for example, why there are good reasons to believe that some policy or practice will be beneficial or prove useful or advisable or perhaps why it has been a good thing in the past。

　　2.  arguments or explanations or problems are brought up concerning why some policy or practice or position or hypothesis will not or does not work or will not be useful or advisable。

　　d.  you do not need to memorize the reading passage. it will reappear on your computer screen when it is time to write。

　　e.  note points in the passage that either support the main idea or provide reasons to doubt the main idea. typically the main idea will be developed with three points。

　　as you listen:

　　a.  take notes on your scratch paper。

　　b.  listen for information, examples, or explanations that make points in the reading passage seem wrong or less convincing or even untrue. for instance, in the example just given, the reading passage says that working in teams is a good thing because it gives individuals a chance to stand out. but the lecture says that often everyone gets equal credit for the work of a team, even if some people do not do any work at all. the reading says that work proceeds quickly on a team because there are more people involved, and each person brings his or her expertise. but the lecture completely contradicts this claim by stating that it may take a long time for the group to reach consensus. the lecture brings up the idea that the whole team can be blamed for a failure when the fault lies with only a few team members. this casts doubt on the claim in the reading that teams can take risks and be creative because no one individual is held accountable。

　　朗閣海外考試研究中心專家終極解讀：

　　根據官方的說法，新托福寫作中的“綜合任務”考試的形式比較特殊，要求考生先用3分鐘閱讀一段學術文章，然后再聽一段和閱讀文章內容相關的聽力文章，最后在20分鐘內將兩片文章之間的關系用書面寫作的方式表達出來。這個寫作任務的考試目的事實上對考生日后在國外大學的學術生活很有幫助：考生看到的書本中的內容和教授上課的解釋之間是什么關系呢？支持？相悖？考生要學會分辨和表達。所以，不能單純的為了應考而準備托福考試，應該將其視為出國深造的“前站”。

　　在閱讀和聽力過程中，考生都能得到一張草稿紙供記筆記使用。事實上，合理高效的筆記方法確實是在最后“寫”的過程中能否寫的全面，寫的正確的最關鍵因素之一。但是，記筆記是有技巧的。一般來說，閱讀文章會有一個中心思想和由此中心思想延伸出的三個“點”。而這三個點，又是考生將會在之后的聽力中聽到的將會被支持或者駁斥的。但是在閱讀文章中的三個點，有時是出現在段落第一句，有時是隱藏在文章內容中，需要考生迅速作出判斷，將這三個點盡快提煉出來。而備考技巧充分的考生，將懂得如何在稍后的聽力筆記中將講話者如何支持或駁斥的這三個點的筆記結合在閱讀筆記中，在提筆開始寫之前，已經搭建好了文章的框架，而不用額外的時間再去打寫作文章的草稿。因此，朗閣海外考試研究中心在此可以毫不夸張的說，決定考生綜合寫作命運的，記筆記是至關重要的第一步。

　　在以往的官方指南中，都不曾明確指出閱讀和聽力各有三個點。但是，改革后近四年的考試中，不僅出現的都是三個點，以聽力中的點駁斥閱讀中的點為主要考點。這樣一來，備考時間有限的考生將更加明確綜合寫作的備考方向。三個點在閱讀中用三個段落進行標示，而在聽力的語段中則有各種不同的連接手法來表現這三個點，因此，朗閣海外考試研究中心建議考生要熟悉各類表并列，遞進，列舉等的連接手法，以確定自己能夠將聽力中的三點找出來。正確找到閱讀和聽力語段中的三個點，并且表達他們之間的關系是能否在綜合寫作中得到高分的關鍵。如果這點沒有做到，語法再嚴絲合縫，詞藻再華麗，也無法獲得令人滿意的分數。

　　綜合寫作要求考生描寫的，都是基于閱讀和聽力語段信息的內容，考生不能將自己的觀點加入其中，否則將會因為不符合考試要求而被扣分。

　　朗閣海外考試研究中心特別提示考生，“綜合考試”的考試方法在各類海外語言類考試中都比較少見，要求考生在聽、讀、寫三方面的綜合語言實力。但是考生一般對提煉信息的環節都比較弱，尤其是在考試時間短的情況下，更是會手忙腳亂，導致最后信息表達的錯誤。因此需要找到適合自己的高效記筆記的方法。