托福口语实例参考（四）

　　Pet

　　The animal: giraffe

　　The reasons you chose the animal:

　　-majestic animal

　　-long tongue and powerful lips

　　-awkward and goofy

　　If I could have a pet, I would have a giraffe. It is the most majestic animal in the world. It is tall and sleek. It bends down gracefully to pick leaves from trees using its long tongue and powerful lips. Its fur coat is the most beautiful found in the desert – a yellow background with large brown circles placed here and there. Despite its grace horns on its head and a somewhat goofy looking smile. To me the giraffe is a paradoxical animal – clumsily and awkwardly beautiful and graceful.

　　TV and film

　　The program: Seinfeld

　　The reasons you chose the program:

　　-funny

　　-mix of characters

　　-everyday situations

　　I like to watch the TV program Seinfeld because it is a funny show about ordinary people like my friends and me. None of the characters on the show are perfect people. Each one takes a turn getting into some trouble on screen. Sometimes they help each other out while other times they just make each feel silly for their mistakes. My friends and I try to see every episode. In fact, we often talk about the most recent episode when we see each other. I can really identify with the show because the characters are so similar to my friends.

　　Music

　　The type of music: rock music

　　The reasons you chose the music

　　- like beat

　　- sound of a generation

　　- music for a better life and a better society

　　I like all kinds of music but if I had to choose one type of music it would be rock. It was the lively beat of change for a whole society. Moreover, one of the leaders of this change was Jimi Hendrix. When I listen to his masterful electric guitar style, I can hear the energy of his generation. The music has a soul and an appealing sound. It has inspired many people to work for a better life for themselves and for a better society around them. Rock music has soul and has stood the rest of time.

　　Book

　　The book: the Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

　　The reasons you chose the book:

　　- identified with the character

　　- challenges of my age group

　　- interesting point of view

　　When I read The Catcher in the Rye, By J. D. Salinger, it was already an old book, but I liked it because I identified with Holden Caulfield, the young man who was the main character. He was not always correct in his judgments about the way life was, although he had strong opinions. I liked to read about how he felt and what he understood. His constant wry observations about what he encounters, from teachers to phonies, capture the essence of the eternal teenage experience of alienation. In many ways, we still have the same challenges in life since the times of The Catcher in the Rye.

　　Subject

　　The subject: math

　　The reasons you chose the subject

　　- difficult to understand

　　- not relevant to my life

　　- no time to catch up

　　My worst subject in school was mathematics. I didn’t understand it as well as other subjects. Furthermore, it was hard for me to see the relevant of math in my life. I just never saw the point of studying so many formulas and equations that seem so abstract. I think I could have been good in math if my teacher were to have taken more time to explain it to me.Maybe I needed a different approach to math. In as much as I was weaker in math, I was stronger in art, literature and even biology so there was balance in my subjects and in my marks. sport

　　The sport: golf

　　The reasons you chose the sports:

　　- good exercise

　　- have fun and relax

　　- play to win

　　I recently took up golf because I though it might be a sport that would be fun and useful. So far, I have discovered that golf requires a lot of time and a lot of walking. This, however, adds to the fun and relaxation of a round of golf. Golf has also taught me to concentrate and to take many factors into account, such as wind and slope. Although I like to play to win,even if I don’t beat my partner, I know I have played well if I have improved my own score. I think by choosing golf I have found a good way to do business in the future as well as have fun learning it now. gift

　　The gift: music box

　　The reasons you chose the gift:

　　- sentimental

　　- thoughtful

　　- useful