Duolingo にも使える TOEFL Integrated Speaking のキーワード。

講義が一度だけ読まれ、内容についての２つの質問に口頭でマイクに吹き込むことで答案を作成する integrated task。今回はこの講義を用いて単語学習を行うと同時に、話の流れをつかむキーワードを追いかける練習を、読み物として行うという挑戦を行います。Duolingo で用いられる単語の出題形式を使うとうまくいきます。

Reliability and Features

Narrator: 

(Lis　　　 ) to part of a (lec    ) in a (busi       ) class.

Female Professor: 

If a (con             ) has to choose 

between two products, 

what (deter      ) the choice?

Assume that someone, a (pur       ), 

is (ch         ) between two products

that cost the same. OK? If people

have a (ch        ) 

(bet       ) two identically priced 

products, which one will they choose? 

They choose the one they think 

is of higher quality, of course. 

But what does it mean 

for a product to be a 

high-quality product? 

Well, business analysts usually 

speak of two major factors of quality

—one factor is (re           ), 

and the other is what we call (fea       ).

So, reliability. What’s reliability? 

Well, a product is (re         ) 

if it works the way we expect it to work, 

if it can go a reasonable amount of 

time without needing (re          ). 

If a product, a car for example, 

doesn’t work the way it should and 

needs repairs too soon, we say it’s 

(un              ). So, product reliability

means, basically, the (ab           ) of 

(        fects) or problems that you 

weren’t expecting. It used to be that 

when people thought about (pro       )

(qua       ), they thought mainly about

(re            ). Today it’s different. People

do still care about (re          ), don’t 

get me wrong. It’s just that 

manufacturing standards are so now

so high that, take cars for example,

today, today’s cars all very (re         ). 

So (re             ) is important, but it’s

not gonna be the deciding factor.

So, if reliability isn’t the deciding

factor any more, what is? 

Features— all those (ex        ), 

the things a product has that (are    )

really (nece         ) but that make it

(     sier) to use or that make it cool:

for (ex           ), new cars today 

are (lo          ) with features like 

electric windows, sun roofs, 

air conditioning, stereos, 

(a     ) (s   ) (fo     ). When people 

are comparing products today, 

they look at features—because 

reliability’s pretty much equal 

cross the board. And that’s why

manufacturers include so many

features in their (       ducts).

英文をコピーしていただき、ワープロソフト等にペーストしていただきますと、実際にタイピング等で文字の入力ができるため、duolingo の単語テスト同様の体験ができます。

これがそのまま TOEFL の力をつけることにも使えます。まさに一石二鳥！

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