TPO5口語Task3題目:
Passage
Campus Dining Club Announced
Starting this year, the university dining hall will be transformed into The Campus Dining Club for one week at the end of each semester. During the last week of each semester, the dining hall will feature special meals prepared by the university’s culinary arts students. The school feels that this will give students who are studying cooking and food preparation valuable experience that will help them later, when they pursue careers. The university has announced that it will charge a small additional fee for these dinners in order to pay for the special gourmet food ingredients that will be required.
Conversation
Now listen to two students discussing the article.
Woman: Did you see that article?
Man: Yeah, and it sounds like a great idea. It’s really good for students in that program.
Woman: Don’t they cook in class anyway?
Man: Well, yeah, they do. But, my cousin was in the program a few years ago, and she said that it’s very different to cook for a lot of people in that kind of atmosphere than to cook for classmates.
Woman: Why is that?
Man: Well, in class you can take your time, but, cooking for more people, there’s more pressure, I mean, you’re in a rush, people are waiting and it might be easy to make a mistake with all that stress.
Woman: Then I’ll think you are a bad chef, right?
Man: Absolutely!
Woman: So, OK, it’s good practice. But what about the extra cost?
Man: Well, look at it this way. You've eaten at some of the fancier restaurants in town, right?
Woman: Yeah, there are some great places to eat around here.
Man: Well, these students, they’ll be making fantastic meals and it’s gonna be cheaper than going out to one of those restaurants.
Woman: Much cheaper, actually.
Man: So, you know, it’ll be worth it. The meals will be as good as the ones in those expensive restaurants.
Question
The man expresses his opinions about the university’s plan. State his opinion and explain the reasons he gives for holding that opinion.
Key Points
1. valuable experience for career
2. additional fee for ingredients
TPO5口語Task3參考答案(范文模板):
The man endorses the school’s plan to turn the campus dining hall into a dinning club for the last week of each semester. According to the school, cooking majors will benefit from this policy cos by cooking special meals, they gain valuable experience to help them land a job in the future. The man reckons it’s true, saying, according to his cousin, one of the students in the program, even though the students cook in class, cooking for more people is a lot different cos there’s a lot more added pressure. So it’s good practice indeed. The school alsonotes there’s a small additional fee attached to these meals to pay for the special gourmet food ingredients, and the man says it’s worth it, cos if you go out in town to any fancy restaurant, those places would be much more expensive than paying the prices the school is charging for foods cooked by the students, which is as good as meals in those restaurants.