關(guān)于reading，不論是在p1p2p3哪一個(gè)part，它都是經(jīng)常會(huì)出現(xiàn)的問(wèn)題。然而“Reading helps to relax”，“My favorite book is…” ，這些梗是不是都已經(jīng)滾瓜爛熟了?今天我們要談的是—閱讀的“變化”。開(kāi)始之前，你可以自己先來(lái)想一想，現(xiàn)在人的閱讀方式相較以前有了哪些變化?把你的答案記錄一下來(lái)，再來(lái)看看我們的sample answer吧。

　　Do you think people prefer to read books or magazines?

　　Sample answer：

　　Well, I can’t say this for sure, and I might be generalizing, but a lot of people probably prefer to read magazines. I’m only saying that because the society has sort of advanced into a more technological one, and I feel that people have become accustomed to brief and instantaneous information. I mean, like nowadays people use social media all the time, where information always appears in a short and extracted form. Now this does save a lot of time, but it also leads to a lack of patience of reading a long book these days. That’s why I suppose magazines are perhaps more preferable to read.

　　Vocabularyadvance /əd’vɑːns/ 發(fā)展technological /teknə’lɒdʒɪk(ə)l/ 科技的be accustomed to /ə’kʌstəmd/ 習(xí)慣于brief /brif/ 簡(jiǎn)短的instantaneous /,ɪnst(ə)n’teɪnɪəs/ 即時(shí)的social media /社交媒體/extracted /iks’træktid/ 提取的

　　答題思路

　　(以前-》現(xiàn)在)printed books-》iPads, kindles

　　例: People used to have to carry printed books while traveling, but now more and more people choose to read on iPads or kindles instead.

　　long stories-》short pieces of information

　　如何升級(jí)平淡的“閱讀類(lèi)”回答

　　1. 詞匯替換

　　l 用genre代替type

　　A genre is a particular type of literature, painting, music, film, or other art form which people consider as a class because it has special characteristics.

　　相信很多同學(xué)都認(rèn)識(shí)genre這個(gè)詞啦，在說(shuō)到文學(xué)、電影、音樂(lè)、繪畫(huà)等的種類(lèi)題材時(shí)，都可以用它哦。

　　l 用sci-fi代替science fiction口語(yǔ)中巧用簡(jiǎn)化形式會(huì)讓你更加native和fluent!同理，可以用sitcom來(lái)代替situation comedy.

　　2. 當(dāng)你要說(shuō)一本“非常好的”書(shū)時(shí)，除了用interesting, fascinating,…各種形容詞形容它。其實(shí)還有更好的辦法。

　　l 名詞：page-turner(page+turn er，翻頁(yè)翻到根本停不下來(lái)!)

　　例句：That book is a real page-turner!

　　l 動(dòng)詞：grab me from the first page(第一頁(yè)就把我“抓住”了，意思立馬被吸引住了，從此無(wú)法自拔)

　　例句：Les Miserables grabbed me from the first page.