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1、新托福考试中最引人注目的变化是增加了口语测试。测试中将采用整体评分的科学评分体系和取自真实语言环境的语料库，考查考生的综合能力。据了解，口语测试部分将有6道试题，考生戴上耳机，通过话筒回答问题，考生的回答经过数码录音，传送到ETS的在线评分系统，进行人工评分。此次口语测试中采用人机对话，考生无法和真正的考官交流，因此一些英语教师认为，对于考生来说这种比较陌生的考试形式可能会给他们带来不必要的紧张。他们建议，考生平时应该练习对墙说话，以便适应临场回答问题时的客观环境。此外，从纠正发音的角度出发，考生最好把平时自己说的话录下来听效果或者跟读磁带模仿标准发音
2、等。abyss: hole so deep as to appear bottomless acquiesce: agree, accept without protest affable: polite and friendly, easy to talk to affliction: distress, suffering affluent: wealthy, abundant agitate: move, shake, stir up ambiguous: having more then one meaning annex: ta
3、ke possession of aqueous: of or like water arduous: demanding great effort, strenuous aroma: quality or surrounding atmosphere considered typical atone: make repayment avarice: greed bellicose: inclined to fighting calisthenics: exercises to develop strong bodies captor:
4、 person who takes sb captive concoct: invent, prepare by mixing together dangle: hand or swing loosely deprive: take away from, prevent from using diligent: hard-working disrobe: undress docile: easily trained or controlled doleful: dismal, mournful fraud: a fault, a
5、 deception gaudy: too bright and showy ghastly: death-like, pale and ill grumble: to complain harass: worry, trouble heretic: very busy; active impediment: sth that hinders (esp. in speech) indigenous: native insatiate: never satisfied intrepid: fearless irate: angry
6、jeopardy: danger leash: control loafer: an idle, lazy person lucrative: profitable lustrous: bright; shining malign: to slander reticent: in the habit of saying little reverberate be sent back, again and again rigor: sternness, strictness, severe conditions rotundity:
7、 state of being round salvage: the saving of property from loss scattered: not situated together shatter: to break into many pieces shunned: avoided, kept away from sketchy: shortly, roughly, quickly sporadic: happening from time to time stifled: suppressed, kept back st
8、rive: to make great efforts, to struggle subse
