【PTE學術干貨】最新高頻Retell lecture精析

近期的PTE考試，Retell lecture頻繁出新題，

今天收集了近期最高頻的Retell lecture，讓同學們復習機經時有更多優秀的學術資料，能在考場上更有底氣地回答出retell lecture的答案。

主要內容介紹：

這段錄音是一段關于taxonomy的課程錄音，無難詞，非常好聽懂，偏口語化。老師用美國郵政寄信的方式來

和taxonomy生物分類學做了一個類比。

筆果還原聽力原文：

Welcome to today’s lesson, we are continuing with our study of taxonomy. Taxonomy is how scientists classify organisms into different groups based on the characteristics that they share. So for instance, a good way of thinking about taxonomy is the U.S. postal service. If we want to send a letter to someone, we first start off by addressing it to the nation they are in, by default, we usually assume that’s America, but it doesn’t have to be, it could be England, or Costa Rico or Spain, you put their nation or their kingdom. Then within that Kingdom, you address it to a slightly more specific level, umm, their state, so for instance, South Carolina, would be the same as the … (gibberish…), within that state, you would address it to their city. And then to their street number, the street they live on, and then you would address it to say, their apartment complex, within that complex, you’d address it by their last name to their family. And finally the first name, to the specific person you want to get it to. And in that way, we are able to weed out all the 400 million people we don’t want to send our letter to, in America, and pinpoint the exact person we want the letter to reach. And (in) the same way, scientists use taxonomy, trying to pinpoint a living creature and organism and how it relates to everything else in the world.

聽力詞匯/詞組：

Taxonomy 分類學，分類法Classify 分類Organisms 生物體

Base on … 根據……的基礎

Characteristic 特點

U.S. postal service = USPS 美國郵政

Start off by 一開始做……，從……開始

Addressing 定地址

By default 默認設置

Slightly 稍微

Apartment complex 小區

Weed out 除掉,清除

Pinpoint 精確地找到，準確描述

Retell lecture要點：

1. 描述這段錄音的主要內容：關于分類學和利用美國郵政寄信的類比。The speaker mainly talked about the analogy of Taxonomy and U.S. postal office.

2. 描述taxonomy的定義：

Taxonomy is how scientists classify organism/creatures into different groups based on the same characteristics.

3. 描述postal service 和 taxonomy 的相似之處：

There are many similarities between sending a letter and taxonomy, the speaker mentioned that when we want to send a letter, we address it to the nation, the state, and then more specific level, the city, street, street number, the person’s family name and eventually to the very specific person.

4. 描述taxonomy和sending out letter的用法：

We are able to weed out all 400 million people we don’t want the letter to reach, scientists use taxonomy to pinpoint living creatures and organism in the same way.