| 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 Central State University’s Computer Networking Department has posted a notice. Read the announcement about the new policy. You will have 45 seconds to read the announcement. Begin reading now.
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Network
Sharing Announcement
Due to the recent rise
in the usage of on-line student storage
space, limits and restrictions are being
placed on student spaces. Students are no
longer allowed to share music files or video
files from their on-line campus storage
spaces. Students will have until the end of
next week to remove all such files from
their online spaces. Also, a cap of 50 mb
will be placed on all spaces. Violations of
this new policy will result in deletion of
your space. |
Narrator:
Listen to two students as they
discuss the announcement.
Student 1(female):
Good! Maybe now I will be
able to surf the web at a decent speed.
Student 2(male):
Good? What do you mean?
They are restricting our online access!
Student 1:
Well, all the uploading and
downloading of these files has been taking up bandwidth and disrupting my
usage of the Internet. I’ve been trying to work on my computer science
project on the internet in the dorms, but I can’t get anything done because
everything is so slow.
Student 2:
Well, I guess some restrictions are
ok, but they are limiting our space so much. I think I’m sharing like one or
two gigs of files on my space.
Student 1:
I think 50 mega bytes is plenty of
room to share files with. This storage space was originally intended for
students to share reports and projects with each other to facilitate
learning. But now, people are taking advantage of that by sharing music and
movies and videos so that those of us who actually need to use the Internet
for schoolwork can’t.
Student 2:
I didn’t realize it had become such
a problem.
Narrator:
Now get ready to answer the
question.
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The woman is very happy about the new restrictions that the university is placing on students’ online space. The woman thinks that too many students are using these online storage spaces on the university’s network for things other than studying and are sharing too many non-school related files. She agrees that all this is making the Internet slow. The woman wants to use the online storage space for homework and projects, like she says the university intended this space to be used for, but she can’t because other students are taking advantage of the online space and are sharing really large files like music and movies. The woman also thinks that the size limit of 50mb is a good size and is appropriate for what the space should be used for. She thinks that homework and other online projects should be able to fit within this size.