写作：

Integrated Task:

Reading: the settlement of European Americans caused the decline of the basin population

1) Those settlers lived on the basin for food

2) Those settlers brought with them horses and cattle that would compete the grassland with the basin

3) Those settlers developed their repeating guns which could kill the basin more effectively

Listening: the reading exaggerates the effect

1) The decline pattern of the basin population was not consistent with the settlement of the European Americans: they began to settle in the east whereas the fall of the basin number started with the west

2) The basin is highly capable of living in harsh and cold areas where those horses and cattle cannot survive because the basin have double-coated fur and particular shapes of head

3) The traditional weapon used by Native Americans are as effective as the new weapon and a skilled arrow shooter could hunt for the basin more efficiently

Independent Task:

Do you agree or disagree?

High school students should take at least one year to work or travel after they graduate and before they enter universities.

Introduction: whether high school graduates should take a gap year before entering college

Agree

Body 1: enrich their knowledge——learn something they would never learn from books——medical practice in a hospital

Body 2: sharpen their communication skills——deal with different kinds of people in work or travel——necessary for university life and future career

Body 3: train how to think critically and independently——the ability to considerate everything and plan well——decide route and make rational decisions when traveling

Conclusion: high school students should work or travel for at least a year to make themselves more knowledgeable, socially-skilled, and highly capable of critical and independent thinking.

总体来说，这次综合写作和独立写作的难度都不太大，特别是独立写作，考察的是学生比较熟悉的教育话题领域中的教育方法，又和生活比较相关，容易组织语言和论点。

口语：

1 Independent Task: Describe a new activity you will do in the future.

比较中规中矩的一道题，是独立口语部分经常会考到的描述事件的题目。

2 Independent Task: Do you agree or disagree? It is better to be a group member than a leader.

仍然是比较保守的讨论方式，在托福独立写作中也有过类似的讨论，如果平常勤于练习的话，这种题目比较容易组织

3 Integrated Task:

Reading: the university is going to set a new course teaching learning skills such as writing methods and research techniques. The course will be taught in small classes.

Listening: the male student supports the plan for two reasons. One is that the course will help students know basic skills like how to write a paper; the other is that smaller classes permit students to have more opportunities to interact with their professors and ask more questions.

4 Integrated Task:

Reading: Composite signaling (interpret animals’ message through a combination of their various behaviors)

Listening: the professor uses his dog’s erecting its ears at different situations to show the concept. The dog was noticed to perk up its ears and bark when it saw a big truck and heard the loud noise; it also erected its ears when it saw the neighbor’s dog. This time the dog also wailed its tails. That means happiness rather than irritation.

5 Integrated Task:

The female student doesn’t have a tent. She has two solutions: either to borrow an old one from her friend or to buy a new one.

第五题比较简单，没有TPO中综合口语部分5的题目复杂，学生可以通过简单叙述和添加建议完成任务

6 Integrated Task:

The two benefits brought about by weeds to crops: to hold the fertile soil and prevent it from being flushed away by water; to prevent the plant from being attacked by insects

The professor uses the coffee as an example.

第六题基本上没有听不懂的词，都比较简单，除了fertile有的学生可能会听不出来，但是根据上下文可以猜出大概意思，所以相对来说比较容易。

总体来说，综合口语部分跟3月22日的综合口语部分相比稍微简单，没有过分复杂的过程叙述，独立口语部分属于常规题目，难度不大。

听力：

1 对话： 学生被告知可以参加一个夏令营项目，并说明与他研究的课题有关。另外告知此学生负责这个项目的教授的一门课可能对其有帮助。同时有另一个跟他同寝室的学生也在这个夏令营中，他们研究的项目有相似之处也有不同。

2 讲座： 生物类——传粉学（palynology）主要叙述了这种学科的作用：how to understand a society, how to date certain events, and how to know the climate change

3 讲座： 生物学——昆虫数量为什么在人们开始建立保护区的时候仍然大幅度下降，主要是举了蝴蝶与蚂蚁共存的例子，为了阐释生物之间相互联系和依赖

4 对话： 一个男生想成立观鸟俱乐部，去学校了解是否可以被批准固定办公室和建立网站，学校管理人员推荐他建立网站和参加一个教授组织的观鸟活动，但是没有批准固定会议室，因为资源比较短缺

5 讲座： 天文学——探索exoplanets的两种方法：探测radio velocity和the chemical of atmosphere

6 讲座： 艺术——追溯了电影早期的发展，提到了两大电影流派的开创者：卢米埃尔兄弟（the Lumiere Brothers）——现实主义流派，梅里爱（Melies）——超现实主义流派

加试：经典加试

对话：女生丢id卡

讲座：神经元细胞

讲座：华兹华斯诗歌

3月23日听力试题并没有出现比较难懂的学术讨论，基本上还都围绕一些常识问题展开话题，略难理解的可能仍然是天文学的问题，这需要学生平时积累相当数量的天文学词汇。

阅读:

1 生物类:远古鱼如何进化成为内陆动物（类似CN2012/09/02）

主要叙述了三个主要原因以及远古鱼的身体特征，使其最终进化为陆地动物

2 历史类：欧洲在1400到1500年经济蓬勃发展的原因

主要叙述了导致欧洲经济发展的三个原因：城市人口激增，自由度大，以及新科技的发展（交通和采矿）

3 考古类： 一个族群Anasazi灭绝的主要原因

主要列举了这个族群灭绝的原因：环境破坏，资源减少，群居生活的不灵活性

总体来说，阅读题的难度并不大，长度适中，属于托福考试经常会考到的几大学术话题，并且并没有太多生词。