雅思口语part2话题卡：Describe a book you read that you found useful 描述一本你读过的感觉有用的书

思路点拨：以下思路仅供参考，希望大家根据自己的真实经历编写答案

这道题的难点在于对useful的理解。如果大家将思路局限于各种工具书，可能会不太好拓展。但实际上，任何书都可以是有用的。举例来说，课本的有用之处在于教授了某种知识，历史类的书籍可以帮助我们了解特定的时期，甚至是小说都能够帮助我们理解人性，增加人际交往的技能。只要大家在叙述的时候，说出为什么觉得它有用即可。

题目

Describe a book you read that you found useful

You should say

What it is

When you read it

Why you think it is useful

And explain how you felt about it

参考答案

下面是小编根据具体的题目要求，给出的参考答案：

The book I am going to tell you is a biography of Zhu Rongji. He was China’s prime minister from 1998 to 2003. During his term, he carried out a profound reform on state-owned enterprises, which significantly improved their efficiency, boosted their profit, and laid the foundation of the rapid growth of China’s economy in the following years. Until now, there are still a large number of people honouring him.

我要告诉你的书是朱镕基的传记。他在1998年到2003年间担任中国的总理。在他任期内，他对国企进行了深入的改革，极大地提高了它们的效率，提升了它们的利润，并且奠定了随后几年中国经济快速增长的基础。直到现在，还有很多人怀念他。

Besides describing the hardships and obstacles he encountered when he implemented these reforms, the book also focuses on his upbringing, especially how he grew up from an orphan to the prime minister. The author attributes his success to his diligence. He never gave up studying no matter what the environment was, how busy the work was and how tired he was.

在描述他推行改革时遇到的困难和障碍之外，这本书还关注他的成长经历，特别是他如何从孤儿变成总理的。作者将他成功的原因归结为他的勤奋。无论环境如何，工作多忙，自己多累，他从来都没有放弃过学习。

I read it on my way home. It was quite a long journey and I had developed a habit that before I embarked on the journey, I would browse through the shelves in the bookshop and bought some book that seemed interesting. It was a good way to kill time.

我在我回家的路上读得这本书。那是个很长的旅程。我已经养成了这样的习惯。在上车之前，先浏览下书店的书架，买本看起来有意思的书。这是种很好的打发时间的方式。

The reason why I think it is useful is that it convinced me that success is never won by accident. Every successful individual has made a lot of effort to reach their status. And as a person without any special gift, I have no excuse to be sluggish. Inspired by the prime minister’s experience, I had worked really hard in the following semester and won a scholarship.

我觉得这本书很有用的原因是，它让我确信成功从来都不是侥幸。每一个成功人士都付出了巨大的努力才达到他们现在的地位。作为一个没有任何特殊天分的人，我没有任何理由懈怠。受到总理经历的激励，我在接下来的一个学期里超级努力，赢得了奖学金。