托福口语：跨题素材的灵活运用

　　托福跨题素材的灵活运用

　　不知道同学们有没有发现，托福题刷多了之后，发现素材其实可以互相通用。托福听力中对艺术史的介绍，包括各种艺术流派(Impressionism/Romanticism) 、知名艺术家(Monet/Van Gogh)、代表作品(Impression Sunrise/Starry Night)等素材都可以拿来回答托福口语艺术类的话题。

　　例如：Do you agree or disagree with the statement that young people should learn how to draw and paint? (2015年1月31日真题。

　　除听力素材外，口语本身的综合口语阅读以及听力文本里，也有很多素材可供大家使用。

　　例如：Some people prefer to buy a product as soon as it is on the market. Other people prefer to purchase a product when it has been in the market for some time. Which do you prefer and why?(2020年8月)

　　这道题看上去只能讲便宜省钱 (Customers can save a lot of money since products on the market for some time are cheaper than the latest version.)

　　但是如果大家还记得TPO8口语部分第二个讲座 (老版Task6新版Task4)的听力文本，你就会发现有很多素材可以用于该题，看下面节选：

　　Today we'll talk about how companies determine the initial prices for their products. Uh, by that I mean when they first introduce the products in the market. They're different approaches and today we'll discuss two of them. They're quite different, each with their own advantages.

　　One approach, or strategy, sets the initial price of the product high followed by a lower price at a later stage. Why? Well, when introducing a new product, companies want to build a high quality image for it. Products that cost more are believed to be of higher quality. So, during the early stages of the product life cycle, companies can make very high profits from consumer's willing to pay more for a high quality product, and although consumers know that price will eventually do down, they're also willing to pay more to get the product sooner. This approach works very well with, oh, innovative high-tech products, for example. Now just think about when video recorders or video cameras or even cell phones first came out. They were very expensive. But then they became much more accessible.

　　根据这段文本，我们可以改编出该题答案：

　　I prefer to purchase a product when it has been in the market for some time because it is cheaper than the latest version. There is a common pricing strategy that many companies set the initial price of the products high followed by a lower price at a later stage when they first introduce the products in the market. In this way, they can build a high quality image so as to make very high profits during the early stage of the product life cycle. For example, innovative high-tech products, like video cameras and cellphones are really expensive in the beginning, but they become much more accessible later on. If customers buy the old version of the product, they are able to cut some unnecessary expenses to save money.