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Microbear

30-25-55 . I felt my answers in first part (listening) were so uncertainty that I planed to quit this test in the middle of the test.  The long dialogues were more difficult than I expected. Fortunately, I did not do that. My raw score is 25/12-28/30. 220-277. Not good, Just Average.

Ok, I will lay some what I can still remember in my mind.

Part 1 (Listening)

I am afraid I should say sorry. I can’t remember too much for that.

One long dialogue is the teacher is talking about the use of leaf.  Saving the water and decreasing toxin from the body of the tree are main uses of falling leaves. Remember one thing, the tree start to fall leaves not because of the surrounding temperature.

Part 2 (Structure)

Same as the above part, it is hard to remember something

Part 3 (Reading)
I met Lots of 插入题 (around 1 per article).Use the words of former person

1)说北美盆地土著原始人的食物.具体说了两种,第一种很详细,从采摘,磨,用斧子把种子壳去掉(有题问斧子是做什么用的),再跟水混成一种食品Y(有题问文章中哪一个给出定义,就是这个食品名Y,).因为不是年年收成好,还要储存,有各种储存方法(有题问文中哪里提到储存方法,点第一段下半段这句).第二种在春天可以采摘生吃,(有题问哪钟植物可生吃).这种植物的叶子可以磨成粉做食品(有题问这个植物的哪部分可以做食物).还有主题题.

2)说有声电影的发展.有声电影的发展有两个阻碍:1)同步性,最初人们用录好的碟片随电影放,但会产生不同步的效果.有人基于一个什么原理发明了装置可以把声音转成光(问这个原理是什么,---是声音转光的基础),另一人发明了胶片可以把转成光的声音和影像synthesis(考了这个词),从此有声电影开始成为主流.

另一个阻碍是当时没有放大器,电影的声音很小,only one person can listen the radio. Later a American invented audio tube,(vacuum tube) 可以放大声音让电影院的人都听见(问audio tube做什么用,还有单词


Words:
patron—consumer
in the rule-usual
prized—valued
primitive-early

The essay :If a person you know will move to your town or city, what he would like and dislike living in your town or city.

Give me more time, I will remember more about the test. I hope I can get score above 260. As you know, some PhD program requires your TOEFL score very high. Usually, 250 is OK.
Happy new year for everyone

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touyuhot

thank you very much!!! 你感觉PP语法和实战语法哪个难?

investdaily

Are u going to apply for Ph.D this year? What major? Hope we can share some experiences.

enjoylife517

thanks a lot! Good luck!

Microbear

I think The grammer in PP is easier than that of real test. But that depends. You know, in the test we are  usually more nervers, which often make you feel that harder.

I will apply Economics PhD, how about you,  investdaily?