2012年3月4日托福考试出现的是北美3月3日的托福考题，并且是一套新题。新东方刘韧老师为同学们带来本次考试的解析。

　　C1：学生找教授谈自己一个paper选题的事情

　　C2：学生找老师谈演一个莎士比亚时期的戏剧，里面的细节都还原莎士比亚时代的特征，商量一些道具问题，火，蜡烛，还有经费，说是不同区票价不一样，还有卖snake

　　L1：体内调节体温的动物和通过气温调节体温的动物

　　Thermoregulation is the ability of an organism to keep its body temperature within certain boundaries, even when the surrounding temperature is very different. This process is one aspect of homeostasis: a dynamic state of stability between an animal's internal environment and its external environment (the study of such processes in zoology has been called ecophysiology or physiological ecology). If the body is unable to maintain a normal temperature and it increases significantly above normal, a condition known as hyperthermia occurs.

　　L2：地理课，讲soil是怎么形成的，分chemistry和physics两种

　　Previously, soil had been considered a product of chemical transformations of rocks, a dead substrate from which plants derive nutritious elements. Soil and bedrock were in fact equated. Dokuchaev considers the soil as a natural body having its own genesis and its own history of development, a body with complex and multiform processes taking place within it. The soil is considered as different from bedrock. The latter becomes soil under the influence of a series of soil-formation factors (climate, vegetation, country, relief and age). According to him, soil should be called the "daily" or outward horizons of rocks regardless of the type; they are changed naturally by the common effect of water, air and various kinds of living and dead organisms.

　　L3：art history 一本书讲达芬奇蒙娜丽萨的微笑的，该书作者还跟另一个艺术家很熟，又讲了点这位艺术家的事，微笑并不神秘。

　　Mona Lisa was among the first portraits to depict the sitter before an imaginary landscape and Leonardo was one of the first painters to use aerial perspective.[29] The enigmatic woman is portrayed seated in what appears to be an open loggia with dark pillar bases on either side. Behind her a vast landscape recedes to icy mountains. Winding paths and a distant bridge give only the slightest indications of human presence. The sensuous curves of the woman's hair and clothing are echoed in the undulating imaginary valleys and rivers behind her. The blurred outlines, graceful figure, dramatic contrasts of light and dark, and overall feeling of calm are characteristic of Leonardo's style. Owing to the expressive synthesis that Leonardo achieved between sitter and landscape it is arguable whether Mona Lisa should be considered as a traditional portrait, for it represents an ideal rather than a real woman. The sense of overall harmony achieved in the painting-especially apparent in the sitter's faint smile-reflects the idea of a link connecting humanity and nature.