2023.7.26线下托福回忆·下午场｜写作新题，“social media influencers”紧跟时事

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摘要：2023.7.26线下托福回忆·下午场｜写作新题，“social media influencers”紧跟时事

2023.7.26线下托福回忆·下午场｜写作新题，“social media influencers”紧跟时事

2023.7.26下午场写作回忆?
Discussion Board
Your professor is teaching a class on sociology. Write a post responding to the professor's question.
In your response, you should do the following.
- Express and support your opinion.
- Make a contribution to the discussion in your own words.
An effective response will contain at least 100 words.

Doctor Gupta:
With the rise of social media, influencers have emerged as popular figures who impact the opinions and behaviors of their many followers. As we study the effects of media, we ought to examine whether these influencers are having positive or negative impacts on society. Influencers shape trends and sway their followers' choices on many topics from fashion to politics. Given their power, in your opinion, do social media influencers generally have positive or negative effects on their followers and society at large? What evidence supports your perspective?

Claire:
Influencers can have a positive impact because they provide their followers with a lot of information and save them time researching topics themselves. Rather than having to read extensively about fashion, politics, or other interests, fans can simply follow influencers to get key information and opinions on those subjects. Influencers conveniently consolidate and share knowledge that would otherwise take followers much time to acquire independently.

Paul:
I disagree with Claire because influencers may exaggerate or misrepresent the truth. For example, an influencer may promote a pair of athletic shoes and claim they perform amazingly, leading many followers to purchase them. However, the shoes may not actually live up to the influencer's hype. Followers can be misled by influencers stretching the truth, whether intentionally or not, about products, political issues, or other topics.?

Integrated Writing
阅读：
湿地中出现的一种植物结构，类似于根，对于这个结构的具体作用有三种猜测：
1）吸收氧气；
2）增加植物的稳定性；
3）释放沼气。

听力反驳：
1. 科学家进行了实验来验证。实验中将这部分植物结构放置在全封闭的含氧环境中，预期如果这个结构是用来吸收氧气的话，环境中的氧气浓度会减少。然而，实验结果显示氧气并没有减少，因此可以推断这个结构并不起到吸收氧气的功能。
2. 许多这种植物结构是沿着地面横向生长的，而不是垂直向上生长，所以它们并没有对植物起到支撑的作用。通常，根系是用来固定植物在土壤中的，并提供支撑。但横向生长方式表明它不是为了支撑植物。
3. 沼气是由有机物在缺氧条件下分解产生的气体，它主要由甲烷和二氧化碳组成。由于沼气对于植物并没有坏处，植物不需要特意释放沼气。

原文参考
READING
Several species of cypress treeswhich can grow in wetlands and shallow water. produce unusual structures called knees.Unlike rootscypress knees grow above the ground. They are strange formations that extend upward from the treesroots into the air.While the function of roots is well establishedthe function of knees is still unclear but scientists have several hypotheses

Oxygen absorption
First, knees may help the trees’roots absorb or take in oxygenPlantroots require oxygen for important cellular functions,and the soil in the watery habitats where cypress trees often grow is low in oxygen.Roots of plants growing in low-oxygen soil must often obtain oxygen from another source.For examplemangrovetreeswhich also grow in soil that is underwater are known for having above-qround roots that absorb oxygen. Like the roots of mangroves, cypress knees may take in oxygen from the air and deliver it to the deeper roots.

Additional stability
Second. knees may help cypress trees stand firmly in the soil making them better able to remain securely in place when exposed to high winds or strong water currents.The fact that the cvpress has knees in addition to a network of roots mav provide additional stability,allowing the tree to anchor itself well in the soilCypress trees may need this additional support due to the softness of the wet soil in which they grow.

Methane release
Finally, knees grow on trees in areas where methane gas exists in the soil.The knees are in direct contact with the soil infused with methanewhich is of no use to trees. Therefore, the function of knees may be to release methane gas from the trees' roots into the air.The fact that measurable amounts of methane have been detected in the air above the knees supports this idea.

LISTENING
Now, listen to part of a lecture on the topic you just read about.You read about three possible functions of Cypress knees but all of these hypotheses are problematic.
First, it seems reasonable that a structure sticking up into the air would help absorb or take in oxygen but researchers tested this hypothesisThey placed cypress knees and tightly close containers with oxygen and measured how the oxygen levels inside the containers changed over time.Surprisingly, they found that the oxygen levels did not change much.This indicated that the knees absorbed very little oxygenIf the function of Cypress knees were to take in oxygenyou would expect the knees to absorb significant amounts of the oxygen in the containers.That did not happen.
Second,the idea that knees help Cyprus trees stay firmly rooted in the soil is problematic too. You see many Cyprus knees are attached to the Cyprus's horizontal roots. Those horizontal roots do not extend down deep into the soil and the knee does not provide any additional stability in that situationKnees can help with stability only if they attach to vertical roots that reach deep into the soil but many knees are not connected to vertical roots at all since the knees are so freguently attached to horizontal roots rather than to vertical ones.It's doubtful that physical support is their main purpose.
Finally, about methane release.This idea is unconvincing for a couple ofreasons.You see although methane is not useful to treesit really does them no harmIt seems unlikely that the trees would develop special features like the knees just to get rid of something that has no negative effectBesides lots of microorganisms live on Cypress knees and it's completelypossible that these tinyorganismsproduce the methane detected around the knees not the knees themselves.

2023.7.26下午场口语回忆?
Task1:
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Parents should discourage their children from pursuing careers in competitive fields where success is not likely, such as professional sports or entertainment.

Task2:
阅读：
学校为了减少图书的损坏，打算让学生不再把参考资料带回家或者宿舍，而只能在图书馆阅读。

听力：女生不同意。
1. 由于无法借阅图书回到宿舍，学生晚上在宿舍进行学术研究时，会导致学习的不便和困扰。
2. 学生通常只借阅图书几天，建议学校可以采取罚款的方式来解决图书损坏问题，而不是完全限制学生从图书馆借书。

Task3:
阅读：
植物在自然环境中所表现出的适应性和生存机制。

听力：
在沙漠中，一些仙人掌选择在大树的遮荫下生长。大树提供了茂密的树冠，可以阻挡太阳的直射光，因此在大树的阴凉下，温度相对较低，有助于植物保持凉爽状态。
大树在生长过程中的落叶会在树下堆积并逐渐腐烂，产生营养物质，丰富树下土壤的营养成分。小植物可以通过根系吸收这些营养，为自己的生长提供所需的养分。

Task4:
提高业务利润的两个方法：
1.减少产品种类和选择：有研究表明，顾客对于有限的选择更有可能做出决策，这有助于提高产品的销售量。因此，专注于少数高销量的产品，可以提高生产效率和销售利润。
2.降低设施和设备的复杂性可以降低机器成本。举例来说，对于制造冰淇淋的公司，可以简化冰淇淋的形状和大小，避免过多繁琐的选择，从而减少生产设备和工艺的复杂性。?

2023.7.26下午场阅读回忆?
1. 欧洲各国的经济发展（历史）
欧洲各国工业的发展情况可以分为两大类别：重工业和轻工业。这两种工业类型在国家之间的发展差异主要取决于资源、技术、经济结构和历史背景等因素。

2. 鱼向陆地生物的进化（生物）
鱼类的鳍（fin）进化成肺（lung）是关于生物进化中的一个重要过程，这导致了一类生物的出现——两栖动物（Amphibians）。?

2023.7.26下午场听力回忆
Conversation:
1. 学生想找暑假的工作，找老师帮忙；
2. 学生想再校内建一个娱乐场所，学生可以喝咖啡，办音乐会等，寻求老师的支持；

Lecture：
1. 艺术类：independent movie，电影历史
2. 天文学：找地外行星，dark matter是产生热量的一种途径；
3. 心理学：false prediction，有提到两个实验（candy & doll），不同年龄孩子的反应；

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