TOEFL - Speaking Question 3 |
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Directions: In this question, you will read a short announcement and then
listen to a dialogue on the same topic. You will then answer a question
about them. After you hear the question, you will have 30 seconds to prepare
your response and 60 seconds to speak.
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Narrator: The Alumni Office has issued a notice about a new sports facility. Read the announcement about the new facility. You will have 45 seconds to read the announcement. Begin reading now.
Announcement of New Sports Facility
The Alumni Office of
Central State University is pleased to
announce that construction of a new sports
facility will commence this summer. Due in
part to a very generous grant from a 1974
alumnus, Jason Chitwood, the new facility
will include an indoor basketball court, a
swimming pool, an indoor track, and a
climbing wall. The groundbreaking ceremony
will be on April 7th
with construction to begin shortly
thereafter. The project is scheduled to be
completed by summer of 2009. |
Narrator:
Listen to two students as they
discuss the announcement.
Student 1(female):
Jeez, I can see where the
school’s priorities lie.
Student 2(male):
What do you mean?
Student 1:
After a big donation from an
alumnus, the first thing this school does is announce that it’s upgrading
its sports program. What about the library, or the old dorms, or the science
building?
Student 2:
Well, we already have all those
things. What we don’t have is an indoor track, or a climbing wall, or an
indoor pool.
Student 1:
I don’t see why they couldn’t use
that money to build a new science building or an addition to the library.
Half of the library’s books are in storage. I have to have classes in the
basement of the science building because we don’t have many classrooms.
Student 2:
A new library or science building
might be nice, but after that, they won’t draw in much money. A new sports
facility will bring in basketball ticket money so that the school can do
more things to improve in the future.
Student 1:
But with a new library and science
building, we can entice more students to come to our university and have
more tuition money.
Narrator:
Now get ready to answer the
question.
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The woman is upset that the university is building a new sports facility. The university has just received a large donation of money from a past alumnus, and now the money is going towards sports rather than updating other facilities on campus. The woman thinks this is wrong. She thinks that the money should be used for a new library. She says half of the library’s books are in storage. The woman also thinks that the money should be used for a new science building instead of a new sports complex. She has to have her science classes in the basement of the building because there aren’t enough classrooms. She thinks it would be better to update the non-sports part of the university so that more students will want to come to the university. She thinks the money from new students’ tuition will be more than the money the university will make from building a new sports complex.