上回写到湖北新开PTE考点的时候，大班长就让黑科技的Winnie和Lumia老师报名了新考场的第一天考试。
之所以让两位老师同时去考，是因为本次探题相比于以往，有着两重比较重要的意义。
首先，湖北PTE考场新开，考场环境、考场设备、老师态度、考点交通都是未知数，得有第一批人去吃螃蟹。
其次，最近新题很多，甚至有机构宣称换题季来临，深入考场考一考，才知道所谓“换题季”是否结束。
那么具体情况是什么样子呢？
往下看。
考场点评
2019/7 湖北武汉 湖北大学
具体位置：湖北大学 - 逸夫人文楼3022室；
优点：地理位置好, 交通方便, 地铁四号线湖北大学站D出口，步行5分钟即可到达考点。
一共十个考位，考位比较宽敞，隔音效果比较好，隔音板有经过特别处理。工作人员态度很好，四个老师，两男两女，很nice.
灵魂画手大班长给大家画一个考场考位示意图——
缺点：由于是第一场考试，工作人员的电脑出现了故障，无法核对学生信息，导致开考时间推迟了30分钟。
还有，据黑科技同学反映，武汉考场还是有些状况的，今天就有同学无意外。
比如有12个柜子，只有10台电脑，今天就有两位同学专程飞去武汉考试，结果出现了无试可考的尴尬。
所以想去新考场的同学报名一定要确认好呀，如果地方远最好不要特意过去考试，以免被坑。
不过我们两位老师考试还是很顺利的。考完试后，还能收到考场赠送的小零食和小礼品哦。
考场设备：湖北大学考点已使用新耳机，牌子为Andrea electronics edu-455，同一位置，鼻尖三指的距离，新耳机，录入的声音相对较小。大家考试的时候，要格外注意下自己录入声音的大小。
电脑为HP惠普主机，显示器型号HP n246v，在右上角有标主机大概如图样子，耳机USB插口就是在右侧位置，大概就是下边这一款。
考题回忆和分析-Lumia
Speaking
RA：文本都比较短，生词不多，整体难度不大
Yellow Tulip #3349
How do we imagine the unimaginable? Ifwe're asked to think of an object - say, a yellow tulip - a picture immediatelyforms in our mind's eye? But what if we try to imagine a concept such as thesquare root of a negative number?
Brain #23
The brain is divided into two hemispheres,called the left and right hemispheres. Each hemisphere provided a different setof functions, behaviors, and controls. The right hemisphere is often called thecreative side of the brain, while the left hemisphere is the logical oranalytical side of the brain.
Bookkeepers #5230
A national study into fraud by bookkeepersemployed at small and medium-sized businesses has uncovered 65 instances oftheft in more than five years, with more than $31 million stolen. Of the casesidentified by the research, 56 involved women and nine instances involved men.However, male bookkeepers who defrauded their employer stole three times, onaverage, the amount that women stole.
（听到旁边人考了#4959 Lenientparents，因为他带有感情地读了What areyou talking about?）
RS
#5275
This small Indian state is a land offorests, valleys and snowy islands.
#4165
Even with the permit, finding a parkingspot on campus is almost impossible.
#3419
She was always here, but today, she ismissed.
#4774
To answer such a complex question with asimple yes or no is absolutely impossible.
DI：只遇到了一个简单的柱状图，关于不同种食物的，按最大值最小值说就好
其余全是线图
只遇到了一个简单的柱状图，关于不同种食物的，按最大值最小值说就好，其余全是线图。
#1681原图
RL：
#2213 Happiness
回忆要点：主旨是 happinesscomes from frequency and quality of social relation.
1. the higherthe frequency, more happiness relations include friends and family and others.
2. it's notsure why social relation is correlated with happiness.
3. but there'sevidence that when people feel more satisfied with their social relations, theywill feel happier, in turn, when people feel happier, they will get moresatisfied with social relations
Happy people tend to be social more withfriends and have more interaction between family. Some people wonder if theirsocial activities make them happier or their happy personalities drive them tobe social more with their friends and families.
#103 Performance of boys and girls
You can see that the two charts, each givequite a different picture of the performance of boys and girls in the two keysubjects of Math and English. It shows that in English, girls consistentlyoutperform boys over a period of 6 years, achieving scores about 10% abovetheir male peers. There is quite a different picture when we look at the Mathresults with no real difference between genders in the results. What is theexplanation for these key differences? To answer this question, researcherslook at biological and cognitive factors, and a range of social factors. Theinteraction between these different components in early childhood developmentare seen as maintained and reinforced in the school context. And this leads todistinct gender patterns of behavior and skills with direct consequences forschool performance and achievement. The ultimate uses of this evidence (are) toshow that biological factors, such as patterns of cognitive developments areclosely linked to social factor, such as learned gender categories. Thiscognitive skills are learned both pre-school and subsequently at school,supported by the responses of teachers, creating a reinforcement of patterns.
ASQ：本次没有图片题，复习好机经就够用了
#2475
What do we call the large instrument with88 keys covered by color white and black?
Piano
#5151
How would you describe the process in whichice becomes water?
Melting
#6547
Agriculture is a process which can be realizedby?
Farming
#2180
What kind of book can we find Africa maps?
Atlas
Writing
SWT ：
#3550 American English
American English is, without doubt, themost influential and powerful variety of English in the world today. There aremany reasons for this. First, the United States is, at present, the mostpowerful nation on earth and such power always brings with it influence.Indeed, the distinction between a dialect and a language has frequently beenmade by reference to power. As has been said, A language is a dialect with anarmy. Second, America's political influence is extended through Americanpopular culture, in particular through the international reach of Americanfilms (movies, of course) and music. As Kahane has pointed out, Theinternationally dominant position of a culture results in a forceful expansionof its language.... the expansion of language contributes... to the prestige ofthe culture behind it. Third, the international prominence of American Englishis closely associated with the extraordinarily quick development ofcommunications technology. Microsoft is owned by an American, Bill Gates. Thismeans a computer s default setting for language is American English, althoughof course this can be changed to suit one's own circumstances. In short, theincreased influence of American English is caused by political power and theresultant diffusion of American culture and media, technological advance andthe rapid development of communications technology.
#434 Children watching TV
Why and to what extent should parentscontrol their children's TV watching? There is certainly nothing inherentlywrong with TV. The problem is how much television a child watches and whateffect it has on his life. Research has shown that as the amount of time spentwatching TV goes up, the amount of time devoted not only to homework and studybut other important aspects of life such as social development and physicalactivities decreases.
Television is bound to have its tremendousimpact on a child, both in terms of how many hours a week he watches TV and ofwhat he sees. When a parent is concerned about the effects of television, heshould consider a number of things what TV offers the child in terms ofinformation and knowledge, how many hours a week a youngster his age shouldwatch television, the impact of violence and sex, and the influence ofcommercials.
What about the family as a whole? Is the TVset a central piece of furniture in your home! Is it picked on the moment someoneenters the empty house? Is it on during the daytime? Is it part of thebackground noise of your family life? Do you demonstrate by your own viewingthat television should be watched selectively?
WE：
#3727 Digital media
With the increase of digital mediaavailable online, the role of the library has become obsolete. Universitiesshould only procure digital materials rather than constantly textbooks. Discussboth the advantages and disadvantages of this position and give your own pointof view.
Reading
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#627 Wine and ale
By the Bronze Age, drinking vessels werebeing made of sheet metal, primarily bro//www.58yuanyou.comnze or gold. However, the peak offeasting - and in particular, of the 'political' type of feast - came in thelate Hallstatt period (about 600 - 450 BC), soon after the foundation of the//www.58yuanyou.comGreek colony ofMassalia (Marseille) at the mouth of the Rhine. From that date on, the blood ofthe grape began to make its way north and east along major river systemstogether with imported metal and ceramic drinking vessels from the Greek world.
The wine was thus added to the list ofmood-altering beverages, such as mead and ale, available to establish socialnetworks in Iron Age Europe. Attic pottery fragments found at hill forts suchas Heuneburg in Germany and luxurygoods such as the monumental 5th century Greek bronze krater (orwine-mixing vessel) found at Vix in Burgundy supply archaeological evidence ofthis interaction. Organic containerssuch as leather or wooden wine barrels may also have traveled north into Europe but havenot survived It is unknown what goods were traded in return, but they may have includedsalted meat, hides, timber, amber, and slaves.
#1699 Pinker
In a sequence of bestsellers, including TheLanguage Instinct and How the Mind Works, Pinker has argued the swathes of ourmental, social and emotional lives may haveoriginated as evolutionary adaptions, well suitedto the lives our ancestors eked out on the Pleistocene savannah. Sometimes itseems as if nothing is immunefrom being explained this way. Road rage, adultery, marriage, altruism,our tendency to reward senior executives with corner offices on the top floor,and the smaller number of women who become mechanical engineers all may havetheir roots innatural selection, Pinker claims. The controversial implications are obvious:that men and women mightdifferin their inborn abilities at performing certain tasks, for example, orthat parenting may have littleinfluence on personality.
#5590 Business
One distinguishing feature of business isits economic character. In the world of business, we interact with each othernot as family members, friends, or neighbors, but as buyers and sellers, employers andemployees, and the like. Trading, for example, is often accompanied by hard bargaining,原由网 in whichboth sides conceal their full hand and perhaps engage in some bluffing. And a skilled salespersonis
well- versed in the art of arousing a customer’sattention (sometimes by a bit of puffery) to clinch the sale. Still, there is an "ethicsof trading" that prohibits the use of false or deceptive claims and trickssuch as “bait-and-switch” advertising.
RP
#407
My study of the history of religion hasrevealed that human beings are spiritual animals. Indeed, there is a case forarguing that Homo sapiens is also Homo religious.
Men and women started to worship gods assoon as they became recognizably human they created religions at the same timeas they created works of art.
This was not simply because they wanted topropitiate powerful forces.
These early faiths expressed the wonder andmystery that seems always to have been an essential component of the humanexperience of this beautiful yet terrifying world.
#547 Language
It is wrong to exaggerate the similaritybetween language and other cognitive skills, because language stands apart inseveral ways.
For one thing, the use of language isuniversal-all normally developing children learn to speak at least one languageand may learn more than one.
By contrast, not everyone becomesproficient at complex mathematical reasoning, few people learn to paint well,and many people cannot carry a tune.
Because everyone is capable of learning tospeak and understand language, it may seem to be simple.
But just the opposite is true-language isone of the most complexes of all human cognitive abilities.
FIB-R：有一道题文章第一句是A开头的字母，它是一种waxy substance, 后面失忆了
主要考察语法，时态，及固定搭配，看前后文意思也可以推出答案
#4861 Environmentalists
Although environmentalists have been warning about thissituation for decades, many other people are finally beginning to realize thatif we don't act soon it will be too late. The good news is that more and morebusinesses and governments are beginning to understand that without a healthy environmentthe global economy and everything that depends on it will be seriouslyendangered. And they are beginning to take positive action.
SA-R：本次遇到的考察细节的题目比较多，注意审题，然后回到原文章里找关键句
Listening
听力SST和WFD题目全是高频列表中的，有时间且目标79的同学重点复习高频题目，其他题目也不容忽视；如果考期将近，对于分数要求不是很高的同学，可将复习重点放在高频题目上面，无论有无音频，都要认真复习，思考总结自己的答案。
SST：机经和考试原文还是有些不同，内容点都差不多的
#3509 Faults and earthquake
So faults are breaks in the earth crust, wecan identify them because of the discontinuity in the structure within theearth crust across fault. And earthquake occur on these faults, so varyprocesses by which these faults moves to a large extent is due to earthquakes.So we have a fault plane and the earthquake is so focus on this fault plane andthe earthquake starts at the particular point on the fault plane and we callthat the focus of the earthquake. The rock prorogate out from that point on therupture plain to cover the entire fault plane.
The rupture is in that particularearthquake. We talked about the epicenter of the earthquake a lot. Theepicenter is just the surface projection of the focus of the earthquake. So ifyou wanted to looking at map view where the earthquake was located we would beable to look that into the earth. We would see the focus down some depth in theearth or the epicenter just a point vertically above that focus at the surfaceof the earth. So this is the focus between the faults and the earthquakes.
#6594 Globalization and IT
Well, I would argue that what they will saywas the most important thing to happen in the early 21st century, was themerger of globalization and the IT revolution. The two really fused in a waythat the more IT started to drive more and more globalization, and more andmore globalization started to drive more and more IT. And what that fusion did was take theworld from connected to hyperconnected and from interconnected tointerdependent. These are huge differences of degree that are differences inkind. It happened over the last decade. You are all feeling it in your jobs, inyour universities, in your schools. But no one's really explaining it topeople. Everyone's living this fusion now. The plumbing of the worldfundamentally changed in the last ten years.
#688 Devolution of power
Well, that’s one aspect of what’s called,reducing government — modifying government, to be more precise.
Another aspect of it is what’s called“devolution” — reducing — moving governmental power from the Federal to theState level. And that has a kind of a rationale which you hear all over thetime — place. For example, there was an op-ed a couple of weeks ago in the NewYork Times by John Cogan — Hoover Institute at Stanford, who has pointed outwhat he called a philosophical issue that divides the Democrats from theRepublicans. The philosophical issue is that the Democrats believe in biggovernment and entitlements, and the Republicans believe in getting power downcloser to the people, to the States, because they’re kind of populist types.
Well, it takes about maybe three seconds’thought to realize that moving power down to the States, in funding and so on, isjust moving it away from the people, for a perfectly elementary reason: there’sa hidden part of the system — of the power system that you’re not supposed toknow about, or think about, and that’s private power.
听到旁边人考//www.58yuanyou.com到了languagedeath那道题
FIB-LW
obligate
send
climate
SA-L
#2189 Ask direction
回忆要点：回忆要点：一个学生问另一个学生某门课的教室在哪儿 另一名学生回答了对于这门课教授的印象问是什么印象 我选的是eccentricbut stimulating
HIW：有一个题目最后，错误文本是in partof，读成了because of，点击之后in part整个短语变黄高亮
WFD
#939
I thought it was thrown in the smallmeeting room.
#1422
It is absolutely vital that you acknowledgeall your sources.
#1832 男声，语速很快，再次强调练熟机经的重要性！
That means they have so many strugglingoverlaps.
考题回忆和分析-Winnie
Speaking
RA：出现了一题机经，其它RA题和该题类似，一句话的长度会比较长，所以同学们需要特别注意意群断句。
# 5811 Harzard Assessment
DI ：整体难度不大，考了三题机经，包括饼图，表格图，线图。建议大家考试的时候使用自己平常练习的模板。不要使用自己不熟悉的模板。
1.Agricultural types #4067
（此题考试时有标题：the causes of Brazilian deforestation ）
2.The most common languages #5359
3.Temperature and CO2 #5030
4.还有一题是table 题，三个专业在不同年份的收入
RL ：最近题目还算稳定，特别是长文段的题型，中机经率还是蛮高的，考了两道相对老的机经题。
1. formation of clouds 左边有张类似于ppt 的图 # 3544
2. civilization, 左边有一艘货船的图 # 2220
ASQ ：考了三道鸡精题，不难
1 how many wheels does a tricyclehave? Thress
2 what is the color of the medal that achampion gets？Golden
3 if you want to read tragedies orcomedies, what kind of book do you read? Novels
Writing
SWT：考了两道旧机经题，Plug-in vechile 难度不大，后者相对来说比较难。句子结构较复杂。
# 3547 Plug-in vehicle
# 3738 syllabus ( technology course )
WE：考的是观点题 Create better networks of transport or build more roads, agreeor disagree? 我使用了我们黑科技的班课的套路和模板，使用四段式。第三段有加入反驳对方的观点。
#3611
As cities are expanding, should governmentcreate better networks of public transport available to everyone rather thanbuilding more roads for the vehicle population? To what extent to you agree anddisagree.
Reading
RP：最后两句有所改动, 但表达的意思相似，倒数第二句 their menus xxxx so tantalizing that xxxx attract non-vegetarians，最后一句是以 no doubt that vegetarians 开头的
Vegetarian # 1711
Carbon Detox # 1736
多选单选：难度不大，重点听关键词。同学们需要注意时间分配，切记花太多时间在小题上， 以至于无法完成后面的WFD。
其中一题
Vegetarian # 1711
最后两句有所改动, 但表达的意思和机经相似
倒数第二句 their menus xxxx so tantalizing that xxxx attract non-vegetarians
最后一句是以 no doubt that vegetarians play 开头的
同学需要灵活使用机经，以考试时，看到的为准。
FIB_RW
Fluid. # 424
Impressionist painters # 2176
FIB_L
1 powered
sleek ( 类似于这个发音，以考试听到的为准）
hydrogen
2 #4964
academics
regions
foreshadowed
beleaguered
Predicament
Listening
SST:中机经率也比较高，考了两道老题、一道较新的题。文章难度不大，听的时候按层次来听，重点去听主题和分论点。
1 新题：# 6601
Happy home for dogs
Whatthe basic needs are - eg. nice meals
control - having control on outcomes
getneeds met — achieve things
geta dog - social
interactive stimuliation
its important toprovide stimulation in the animals’ world
然后举例哪些stimulation,nicetoys 等等
But it is not enough for some animals .
2 #3527
wildlife( fish ) in Africa
3 #698
Universities’ competition
MCQ
What are they talking about the currentresidence
a : it is difficult to study
B: not wired with The Internet access
干扰项:
C: not close to the main campus
D noises from other residents
E：the rent is high
HCS
擅长音乐的人, they are better listeners, perform better
Beeb
1 大致内容celebrate XXanniversary,
提到通过什么方式来庆祝partying, eating cakes and beep
有一个混淆项：retribution 惩罚 (排除)
WFD
1. This paper challenged many previouslyaccepted theories. #890
2. While reconciliation is desirable, theunderlying issues must first be addressed. # 1856
3. The placement test of mathematics andstatistics is offered every semester. # 3687
这次考试并没有出现很多新题，反而会把一些老题拿出来考。
题库比较稳定，所以大家不要担心。希望备考的同学把握好时机，考出理想的成绩！
两位老师的回忆就到这里啦！
为了体现黑科技对湖北新考场环境和题目的重视，大班长将这次两位老师的探题回忆和报告都贴出来。
希望原由网能帮到大家。
考试群
为了大家能够更好地交流新考场的考试心得，也方便每个月一起考试的同学能够在一起交流经验，大班长建立了PTE的月度考试群。
只要凭借自己考试的报名截图，PTE大班长会拉你进入黑科技按照考试时间分类的学习社群哦。
群里面有很多同样考试时间的考生，
不论是备考经验交流还是题目方法探讨，都是很方便的。
有兴趣的同学快快加入进来吧！
