TPO 第3套口语 Question 4 重新选题

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Cognitive dissonance

Individuals sometimes experience a contradiction between their actions and their beliefs---between what they are doing and what they believe they should be doing. These contradictions can cause a kind of mental discomfort known as cognitive dissonance. People experiencing cognitive dissonance often do not want to change the way they are acting, so they resolve the contradictory situation in another way. They change their interpretation of the situation in a way that minimizes the contradiction between what they are doing and what they believe should be doing.

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Using the example discussed by the professor, explain what cognitive dissonance is and how people often deal with it

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1、题目关键词： cognitive dissonance, what, how

2、答题要领：

(1)Briefly state the main idea of the reading passage.

(2)Concentrating on the lecture given by the professor.When orally summarizing the lecture, test takers are supposed to include the main points and some key examples as well.

3、阅读材料要点：

(1) individuals may experience cognitive dissonance which means they go through the contradiction between what they are doing and what they believe they should do. (2) One way to resolve the cognitive dissonance is that people will change the way they interpret the contradiction so that the contradiction can be minimized.

4、听力材料要点：

(1)the professor tells about his own story when he was in his high school. He got addicted to video games and as a result , he failed in his chemistry class. He knew he give up video games to focus more on his study but he couldn't give it up.

(2)Then he started to resolve the situation by changing the way he looked at it. He told himself that he didn't want to be chemists so it was ok if he didn't do well on his chemistry class. To study well doesn't mean he has to do well on all of his classes. He just has to do well on classes related to his future career which is sociologist.

5、模板：

(1) In this set of materials, the reading passage is (the title of the reading passage) and the listening material is a lecture by a professor on the same topic. 当然，如果你觉得你的听力材料的理解率很高也不用谈及阅读材料中的内容。只是第一段说起来实在太easy了。

(2) In the reading passage, the university made an announcement that...本段可以省略，但是前提是你对于听力材料理解率很高，不会时间未到却无话可说了。

(3) In the lecture, the professor...不但要包括主要的观点而且最重要的是要包括教授举出的例子。