托福口语第五题全面解析
第五题属于综合口语部分，将听力与口语相结合，考察考生日常校园生活的方方面面。ETS官方在设计题目时，考虑充分，对于第五题和第六题，由于没有阅读文本，考生难以通过阅读进行预测，对听力部分做到心中有数，所以此两题的听力结构基本固定，便于考生抓重点、组织答案。
对于第五题来讲，难度与第三题相当，甚至可以说更为简单化，听力内容基本一致，围绕学生在校园生活中出现的问题进行了讨论，给出均有缺陷的两条建议。听力的开头部分基本都是在阐述问题所在，紧接着会提出第一个解决办法，并对其进行详解，提出不足之处，然后会引出接下来的第二个解决办法，加以阐释，并点明不足。听力结构如此清晰，同学们也不必担心抓不住重点。
托福口语TASK5对话内容实例分析
例如TPO 10Question 5:
1. Student A:
Is there a problem with the electricity?
2. Student B:
Yeah, this storm’s smacked up power all over the city. And they aresaying it might be several hours before we have electricity again.
3. Student A:
Oh no! I have a history paper due tomorrow, and I’ve been writing iton my laptop computer and the battery is running low. I’m going to needelectricity soon.
4. Student B:
Well, you know, Jefferson City still got electricity, and there is alibrary there where you can plug in your laptop. You could go over there andwork on your paper. It’s only about a 20-minute drive.
5. Student A:
That’s a good idea. Of course I’d have to pack up all my stuff and itis raining outside.
6. Student B:
Yeah, that’s true. Well, why don’t you just ask the professor for anextension? You know, tomorrow when you go to class, just ask him if he’d giveyou an extra day to get the paper done. I’m pretty sure he’d agree, you know,with this storm and all.
7. Student A:
Yeah, that’d sure be a lot easier. But then he did tell us when hegave us the assignment that he wouldn’t grant any extensions.
8. Student B:
You don’t think he’d grant an extension in this case?
9. Student A:
I’m not sure. It’s a little risky. He might just say that we shouldn’thave waited until the last minute.
10. Student B:
Yeah, but maybe if other students had the same problem, you might beable to convince him.
11. Student A:
Yeah, I mean it’s not our fault the electricity went out, hm...
该题中，1和2两句话为两人见面的寒暄和回应，问题是在第3句话中提出来的，即The woman needs electricity immediately to finishher paper. 第4句为对方提出的第一个solution并加以解释，紧接着第5句就对该solution提出了质疑，即不足之处。因此对方在第6句中就详细阐述了第二个solution, 7-11句均是围绕第二个解决方案的不足进行的讨论。
大多数第五题的结构都是如此，前两句都是见面的寒暄，会为问题的提出设下铺垫，问题基本都在第三句或第四句中正式提出，随后即是对两个解决办法的讨论。同学们只要能熟悉本题听力结构，即可在做笔记时轻松抓住题点，易分清主次，逻辑更为清晰，回答时也不会出现思维混乱的情况;同时，对于结构的清晰掌握，也可在一定程度上弥补听力能力的不足。
