【口语】

 

最近30天口语话题TOP15

 

 

Part 1

Part 2&3

1

Work or studies

特别的一餐

2

Home/Accommodation

想去的国家/城市

3

Name

常用的网站

4

Hometown

感兴趣的历史时期

5

Map

陪伴老人

6

Foreign food

童年玩具

7

Plant

有名的运动员

8

Sleep

近来喜事

9

Space travel

街市购物

10

Animals

需改进的公共场所

11

App

有趣的动物

12

Dictionary

省钱

13

Friends

电视节目

14

Rainy days

集中精力

15

Outdoor activities

旅行想法

 

 

以下为本次考试部分高频话题解析:

 

Part 1

1. Study time

What time do you like to study?

 

参考答案:

As for me, I try to study at night when it is quieter as I can be more efficient and productive when there is no noise around me.

 

What's the best time for you to take classes?

 

参考答案:

I would like all my classes arranged in the mornings because I seem to be more quick-minded in the morning, which means I acquire knowledge faster, and on the other hand, I find that most teachers are more clear-minded, which means they can better deliver their classes in the morning as well.

 

Do you like to study alone or with your friends?

 

参考答案:

I think I prefer to study with friends because I could have some discussions with them when I come across something I do not understand. Plus, I believe I won’t give up easily on my study if I have someone who studies with me.

 

Who do you usually study with?

 

参考答案:

Well, I usually study with my best friend who is also my roommate. As we basically go to the same classes every day, we often go to the school library to study in the evening.

 

 

 

 

Part 2 & 3

 

Part 2

 

Describe a piece of old equipment in your home

You should say:

what it is

how often you use it

how long you have had it

and explain why it is important in your home.

 

提示:

此话题属于物品类话题, 所要描述的是“一个家中的老物件”;另外,我们可能使用的主要时态是“Past Tense”“Present Tense” “Present Perfect Tense”;接着,我们预览一下前三个“basic information”,然后思考一下:可否添加拓展信息使我们的整体描述更加生动, 形象,有趣?比如,在描述使用它的频率时, 可以同时说明你在家用这件老物件做什么, 它在家里的价值何在等等。

 

到最后的部分, 我们需要进一步解释说明原因, 告诉考官为什么这是一件重要的老物件。

 

参考答案:

Well, to tell you the truth that we have thrown away quite a number of old equipment and purchased some new ones for our home as we moved 3 times over the past two decades. However, we still keep one old piece in our home, and that is an old chair made of wood.

 

It was my grandpa's favorite furniture before he passed away because he used it quite a lot. I remember it was in 2003 when my parents got that chair for him after we moved to a new apartment with a really nice balcony as my parents wanted him to sit in the chair at the balcony and enjoy some tea and newspapers with sunshine after lunch. So far we've had it for almost 15 years.

 

You know, it is such an important furniture in our home as each time when we see it, it reminds us of our grandpa and those rewarding lectures he gave us. For instance, one of the most meaningful lectures he used to give us is on how to get along well with friends and colleagues, and what he often said was to understand others and tolerate others’ shortcomings whenever any conflicts arise.

 

On top of that, it also reminds me of the time when he used to take care of me while my parents went away for business. And what I love the most about that is he would cook some special dishes for me. Besides, he would also take me to a nearby supermarket for some delicious snacks whenever I asked.

 

 

重点词汇及表达:

pass away 动词短语;去世

EgMary has been feeling rather upset for quite a few weeks after her grandma passed away.

 

②balcony: 名词; 阳台

EgIt seems that her only requirement for renting a new apartment is that she needs it to have a huge balcony.

 

③rewarding:  形容词; 有益的   有助的

Eg: Professor Lee likes to have some rewarding talks with his students because he believes that those talks can benefit students in their life.

 

shortcoming 名词;缺点  缺陷

EgDespite the fact that he has many shortcomings, he is still the most suitable candidate for this position.

 

Part 3题目

 

In your country, where do people usually buy furniture for their homes?

 

参考答案:

Well, I think most people would buy furniture from stores in which they can physically feel and touch the furniture of different styles, fabric as well as colors and then finally decide which one they want to purchase.

 

重点词汇及表达:

physically 副词;身体上的

EgAlthough he looks physically fit, he still suffers from some mental problems.

 

②fabric : 名词; 材质  织物

Eg: Not surprisingly, his only concern is the fabric whenever he needs to shop for clothes.  

 

What factors do people need to consider when buying furniture for their home?

 

参考答案:

Well, I suppose there are quite a number of factors people have to consider when buying furniture, such as the size of the furniture, because they need to make sure the furniture they purchase will fit the space in their home, or the style of the furniture because they also need to make sure that it fits the overall style of most of the furniture at their home.

 

重点词汇及表达:

a number of 短语;一些  许多

EgLocal government has been conducting a number of surveys to make a policy which is aimed to protect the legal right of taxi drivers.

 

②overall : 形容词/副词;整体的  总体的

EgHis parents are pretty satisfied with his the overall performance although he still failed one subject this semester.

 

Why do people like to buy expensive furniture?

 

参考答案:

Well, there must be numerous reasons to explain that, but I think the most common one is that people regard the quality of the furniture as their first priority, which means they believe that those expensive furniture will be more durable than cheap ones.  

 

重点词汇及表达:

priority 名词;优先  优先权

EgAs a mother, her first priority is always her 2 kids, so she quit a well-paid job and went back home to take care of the kids.   

 

durable: 形容词; 耐用的  持久的

EgThey still keep some old equipment at home as those old stuff are really durable.

 

What is the difference between the furniture at home and the furniture in the office?

 

参考答案:

Well, if it is a piece of furniture for home, it is supposed to be quite cozy whenever people use it at home, and its design and style should also fit well with the overall decoration of the home. However, a piece of furniture for an office should always be able to meet people’s certain needs at work.

 

重点词汇及表达:

cozy 形容词;舒适的   舒服的

EgVisitors could sit in those cozy benches for a rest when they get tired in the park.  

 

decoration: 名词;装饰  装修

EgDue to the unique decoration at this Brazilian restaurant, it has been attracting more and more young people since it officially opened.  

 

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【写作】

 

 

A类小作文:

 

题目:

You should spend 20 minutes on this task.

The maps show the campus layout now and a plan for development.

 

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

 

Write at least 150 words.

 

 

 

解题思路:

本次雅思考试的小作文部分考的是关于学校布局变化的地图题。在描写地图的时候,一定要注意表述方位的词或词组的使用。而且也要把这两张地图进行比较,描述出拟议的学校布局和现在的学校布局的区别和变化。并且要注意时态的正确使用。

 

参考范文:

The two maps show the current layout of a school and the plan for its changes. The most noticeable change is projected to be the replacement of many areas of vegetation with teaching buildings and public facilities.

 

At present, a large area of land at the northwest side of the campus is covered with trees. A cluster of many other trees can also be seen at the southwest corner. A rectangular teaching building can be seen in the centre of the map while other buildings and facilities are mainly located at the east. To be specific, three buildings, of which one is for biology and another two are for genetics, lie on the southeast side of the schoolyard; the car park is on the other side of the east.

 

In the future, much of the vegetation is expected to be cut down to make room for new buildings, such as a genetics building and a chemistry building in the northwest; and a triangular vegetation field will be changed into a new staff car park. Meanwhile, the original rectangular building close to the staff car park will be converted to an L-shaped one. What is more, the existing car park would be exclusively used for students and the biology building is likely to be rebuilt into a larger one.

 

Word count: 218

 

重点表达:

①the most noticeable change is … 最明显的变化是……

②is projected to… 预计……

③at the northwest side of … ……的西北边

at the southwest corner: 在西南角落

be mainly located at…:  集中坐落在……

⑥on the other side:  在另一边

⑦vegetation: n. 植被

⑧be converted to: v. 转变成

 

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A类大作文:

题目:More and more people want to buy famous brands of clothes, cars and other items. What are the reasons? Do you think it is a positive or negative development?

 

题型:话题分析与个人看法

 

话题:社会生活类

 

解题思路:本次写作仍旧为报告类话题,在明确题目中给出的现象后,需要分析现象产生的原因,并说明对此现象的态度。注意到题目中使用reasons复数形式,在写作文过程时也要列举多个理由。个人表态部分除了要表达支持或反对,还可以简提一下对立方的主要关注点并反驳或附加条件,以达到更全面的论述说明。

 

参考范文:

Thanks to the globalisation and trade liberalisation in most parts of the world, customers today can always enjoy a wide range of choices when purchasing different kinds of goods or services. And it seems that famous brands are much more favoured by an increasing number of people. There are several reasons for this and I regard the trend as a positive one.

 

Usually, the famous brands stand for renowned prestige, elegant tastes and sumptuous life styles, which exactly fit the psychological needs of those who badly desire the feel of being admired. For these people, famous brands, especially the luxury ones, fabricate an illusion that they are somehow connected with the upper class, owning importance and success as well.

 

Moreover, famous brands always boasts some superior features such as high quality or humanised designs. Therefore, customer loyalty is more liable to be cultivated. Once a client gets used to a certain product or service, he is unwilling to change for an alternative. The iOS operation system can well address the phenomenon, as most iPhone users will not feel at ease when the system is changed to an Android system --- even if the price and functions of the two phones are quite similar.

 

From my perspective, the trend can bring more advantages. Since every person has the right to strive for a happier life, there is no fault for one to try pricey things that makes them satisfied, as long as the payment is legal and will not jeopardise the future life. Companies also earn more money from the trend and in turn stimulate innovations and varieties to keep and enlarge their consumer groups, thus gaining more competence while forming a virtuous cycle with customers.

 

To sum up, whether people buy famous brands to compensate their poor self-esteem or to pursue the high quality of the famous brands, it is justifiable to choose those high-ends on condition that they are within one’s purchasing ability.

.

 

 

重点表达:

trade liberalisation:  贸易自由

prestige: n. 声誉,威望

fabricate: v. 编造,制造

boast: v. 以拥有……而自豪

customer loyalty  顾客忠诚度

jeopardise: v. 危及,损害

virtuous cycle:  良性循环

self-esteem: n. 自尊

 

 

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【听力】

Section 1

新题

Section One

场景

题型

咨询

填空(10题)

内容回忆:露营采购备置物品

 

Completion 1-10

1 5174XCM

2 summer

3 pump

4 bottle

5 plates

6 rubber

7 baseball

8 map

9 Taupo

10 25.50

 

Section 2

新题

Section Two

场景

题型

独白

单选(5题)

配对(5题)

内容回忆:民俗文化旅行

 

单选11-15

11 A

12 B

13 B

14 B

15 C

 

Matching 16-20

16 C

17 D

18 F

19 B

20 G

 

Section 3

新题

Section Three

场景

题型

学术讨论

单选(4题)

多选(6题)

内容回忆:讨论尼日利亚非洲绘画艺术

 

单选21-24

21 B

22 A

23 C

24 B

 

多选25-30

25-26 A C

27-28 B D

29-30 A D

 

Section 4

新题

Section Four

场景

题型

讲座

填空(10题)

内容回忆:介绍三种语言

 

Completion

31 exploring

32 commas

33 standard

34 Greek

35 dominant

36 mixture

37 children

38 limitation

39 advanced

40 rare

 

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【阅读】

 

Passage 1

Dinner of Rome 2000 Years Ago(历史文化类)

新题

文章大意:文章主要讲罗马人的就餐习俗和和宗教的联系,这些就餐方面的文化在文学场景中的体现,以及餐厅、饭桌的布置等。

答案回忆:

1-7 判断题

1 NOT GIVEN

2 TRUE

3 TRUE

4 FALSE

5 FALSE

6 NOT GIVEN

7 TRUE

 

8-13 笔记填空题

8 supply

9 affluence

10 decorative

11 spoon

12 pottery

13 待补充

 

Passage 2

Amateur Naturalists(社会类)

旧题:20161215

文章大意:业余自然爱好者对科学做出的贡献有很重要的价值,但是一些专业人士质疑业余自然爱好者的测量方法的专业性、研究结果的准确度,文章还介绍了业余自然爱好者观察和测量方法的新技术等。

 

答案回忆:

14-19 段落信息配对题

14 B The definition of phenology

15 C How Sparks first became aware of amateur records

16 E Records of a competition providing clues for climate change

17 G A description of using amateur records to make predictions

18 H How people reacted to their involvement in data collection

19 A A description of a very old record compiled by generations of amateur naturalists

 

20-23 填空题

20 beekeeping

21 life circles

22 competition

23 droughts

 

24-26 选择题

24 C

25 D

26 A

 

参考文章:

Amateur Naturalists

You should spend about 20 minutes on Question 14-26 which are based on Reading Passage below.

 

A    

Tim Sparks slides a small leather-bound notebook out of an envelope. The books   yellowing pages contain beekeeping notes made between 1941 and 1969 by the   late Walter Coates of Kilworth, Leicestershire. He adds it to his growing pile of local journals, birdwatchers' lists and gardening diaries, "We're uncovering about one major new record each month,” he says, “I still get surprised." Around two centuries before Coates, Robert Marsham, a landowner from Norfolk in the east of England, began recording the life cycles of plants and animals on his estate when the first wood anemones flowered, the dates on which the oaks burst into leaf and the rooks began nesting. Successive Marshams continued compiling these notes for 211 years.

  

Today, such records are being put to uses that their authors could not possibly have   expected. These data sets, and others like them, ire proving invaluable to ecologists interested in the timing of biological events, or phenology. By combining the records with climate data, researchers can reveal how, for example, changes in temperature affect the arrived of spring, allowing ecologists to make improved predictions about the impact of climate change. A small band of researchers is combing through hundreds of years of records taken by thousands of amateur naturalists. And more systematic projects have also started up, producing on overwhelming response. "The amount of interest is almost frightening," says Sparks, a climate researcher at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Monks Wood, Cambridgeshire.

  

Sparks became aware of the army of "closet phenologists", as he describes them, when a retiring colleague gave him the Marsham records. He now spends much of his time following leads from one historical data set to another. As news of his quest spreads, people tip him off to other historical records, and more amateur phenologists come out of their closets. The British devotion to recording and collecting makes his job easier - one man from: Kent sent him 30 years' worth of kitchen calendar, on which he had noted the date that his neighbour's magnolia tree flowered.

  

D    

Other researchers have unearthed data from equally odd sources. Rafe Sargarin   recently studied records of a betting contest in which participants attempt to guess the exact time at which a specially erected wooden tripod will fall through the surface of a thawing river. The competition has taken place annually on the Tenana River in Alaska since 1917, and analysis of the results showed that the thaw now arrives five days earlier than it did when the contest began.

  

E    

Overall, Such records have helped to show that, compared with 20 years ago, a raft of   natural events now occur earlier across much of the northern hemisphere, from the opening of leaves to the return of birds from migration and the emergence of butterflies from hibernation . The data can also hint at how nature will change in the future. Together with models of climate change, amateurs' records could help guide conservation. Terry Root, an ecologist at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, has collected birdwatchers' counts of wildfowl taken between 1955 and 19% on seasonal ponds in the American. Midwest and combined them with climate data and models of future warming. Her analysis shows that the increased droughts that the models predict could halve the breeding populations at the ponds. "The number of waterfowl in North America will most probably drop significantly with global warming," she says.

  

F    

But not all professionals are happy to use amateur data. "A lot of scientists won't touch them, they say they're too full of problems," says Root. Because different observers can have different ideas of what constitutes, for example, an open snowdrop. The biggest concern with ad hoc observations is how carefully and systematically they were taken," says Mark Schwartz of the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, who studies the interactions between plants and climate. "We need to know pretty precisely what a person's been observing - if they just say 'I noted when the leaves came out', it might not be that useful." Measuring the onset of autumn can be particularly problematic because deciding when leaves change color is a more subjective process than noting when they appear.

  

Overall, most phenologists are positive about the contribution that amateurs can make.   "They get at the raw power of science: careful observation of the natural world," says Sagarin. But the professionals also acknowledge the need for careful quality control. Root, for example, tries to gauge the quality of an amateur archive by interviewing its collector. "You always have to worry things as trivial as vacations can affect measurement. I disregard a lot of records because they're not rigorous enough," she   says. Others suggest that the right statistics can iron out some of the problems with amateur data. Together with colleagues at Wageningen University in the Netherlands, environmental scientist Arnold van Vliet is developing statistical techniques to account for the uncertainty in amateur phenological data. With the enthusiasm of amateur phenologists evident from past records, professional researchers are now trying to create standardized recording schemes for future efforts. They hope that well-designed studies will generate a volume of observations: large enough to drown out the idiosyncrasies of individual recorders. The data are cheap to collect, and can provide breadth in space, time and range of species. "It's very difficult to collect data on a large geographical scale without enlisting an army of observers," says Root.

  

H    

Phenology also helps to drive home messages about climate change. "Because the   public understand these records, they accept them," says Sparks. It can also illustrate potentially unpleasant consequences, he adds, such as the finding that more rat infestations are reported to local councils in warmer years. And getting people involved is great for public relations. "People are thrilled to think that the data they've been collecting as a hobby can be used for something scientific -it empowers them," says Root.

 

Passage 3

Optimistic Research(心理类)

新题

文章大意:人们更倾向于想象美好的未来,乐观的情况更多于悲观的情况,文中讲到了一个实验。

答案回忆:

参考答案:

27-31) 配对题

27. H

28. F

29. A

30. C

31. E

 

32-36) 选择题

32. A

33. C

34. A

35. A

36. C

 

37-40) 判断题

37. NOT GIVEN

38. NO 

39. NO

40. YES

 

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