托福听力经典素材精选

　　托福素材，是一个帮助我们练习听力的好工具，下面小编就给大家分享一些经典的'素材，希望大家能够用心学习!

　　一、文学名著

　　Continuing our survey of the 19th century, let’s take a look now at Harriet Beecher Stowe. Now Stowe is best known for her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a book that details the harshness of plantation life in the south. The book was extremely popular in the United States as well as in other countries. Ironically though, for all the attention given to Uncle Tom’s Cabin, it’s far from Stowe’s best work. She did write one other novel about life in the south, but much of her best work has nothing with the south at all. In fact, Stowe’s best writing is about village life in the New England’s states in the 19th century. In recording to the customs of the villages she wrote about, Stowe claimed that her purpose was to reflect the images as realistically as possible. She usually succeeded, for her settings were often described accurately and in detail. In this sense, she was an important forerunner to the realistic movement that became popular later in the 19th century. She was one of the first writers to use local dialect for her characters when they spoke. And she did this for 30 years before Mark Twain popularized the use of local dialect. It makes sense that Stowe would write about New England life, since she was born in Connecticut. As a young woman there, she worked as a teacher. The teaching job helped lead to her first published work, a geography book for children. Later when she was married, her writing helped her support her family financially. Throughout her life, she wrote poems, travel books, biographical sketches and children’s books, as well as novels for adults.

　　二、艺术类音乐

　　It may seem strange that we’re discussing music from a Broadway production in this class, "The Lion King" especially, since it’s based on a popular Hollywood movie. I mean music preformed for Broadway theater in the heart of New York city surely would seem to be in the western tradition of popular music and not have much in common with the music we have been studying in this course, such as gamelan music of Indonesia, or Zulu chants of South Africa, music that developed outside the western tradition of Europe and America. But in fact, musicians have a long-standing tradition of borrowing front one another’s cultures. And this production’s director intentionally included both western and non-western music. That way, some of the rhythms, instrument, and harmonies typical of non-western music contrast with and complement popular music more familiar to audiences in North America and Europe, music like rock, jazz or Broadway style show tunes. So I want to spend the rest of this class and most of the next one on the music from the show "The Lion King" as a way of summarizing some of the technical distinctions between typical western music and the non-western music that we’ve been studying. Now the African influence on the music is clear. The story takes place in Africa. So the director got a South African composer to write songs with a distinctly African sound. And the songs even include words from African languages. But we’ll get back to the African influence later. First let’s turn to the music that was written for the shadow puppet scenes in "The Lion King", music based on the Indonesian music used in the shadow puppet theater of that region

　　延伸阅读：20个托福口语比较句型

　　1. She is no less diligent than her elder sister. 她和她姐姐一样用功。

　　2. One minute too late is no more in time than half an hour (is). 迟到一分钟与迟到半小时同样是不准时。

　　3. His strength is superior to mine. 他的力气比我大。

　　4. Colored people are by no means inferior to white people. 有色人种丝毫不比白人低劣。

　　5. My arrival in New York is posterior to that of my friend. 我比我朋友后到纽约。

　　6. We love truth above everything else. 我们热爱真理甚与一切。

　　7. It is worth next to nothing. 那几乎一钱不值。

　　8. How could he compare with Bill Gates? 他怎能同比尔盖茨比较呢?

　　9. Easier said than done. 说易做难。

　　10. I like that best of all / least of all. 我最喜欢/不喜欢那个。

　　11. I can’t think of a better idea. 我想不出比这个更好的了。