描述一家你喜欢去的咖啡馆或餐厅

如何说满两分钟

是四个节拍，不是四个答案。卡片上的提示只是脚手架——一段自然流过这些提示的讲述，比四个互不相连的回答得分更高。

1. 01它在哪里，是什么样的地方——大小、风格、开了多久。
2. 02你点什么，是不是总点同样的东西。
3. 03氛围和人——认得你的店员、噪音程度、还有谁会去。
4. 04明明有别的选择，你为什么总是回去。

这张卡适合用的词汇

词汇丰富度占你分数的四分之一，而7分的标准明确允许偶尔用错词——一味求稳、只用简单词汇，正是很多人卡在6分的原因。

这张卡的陷阱

一个8分回答，以及它为什么有效

读它是为了看清其中的技巧，而不是背下这些话。考官每个工作日都会听到背诵的答案，这会体现在你的流利度分数上——背诵者的停顿方式和真正在思考的人完全不同。下面的细节都是虚构的，你的回答应该讲你自己的故事。

The place I'd describe is a small Vietnamese restaurant about ten minutes from my office that seats maybe twenty people and has been run by the same family since the nineties. There's no decor to speak of — strip lighting, laminated menus, a television on mute in the corner permanently showing football. The food is exceptional and absurdly cheap, which is the main reason I go, but it isn't the reason I keep going. What keeps me going is that the mother who runs the front has decided, without consulting me, what I like. I stopped ordering about two years ago. I sit down and food arrives. Occasionally it's something I'd never have chosen and it's always better than what I would have picked. I take people there when I want to impress them in a way that doesn't look like trying. I'd be genuinely upset if it closed, and given how little they charge I do worry about that.

拿到这个分数的关键

• “Has decided, without consulting me, what I like”冷幽默、具体又好笑——这种细节只可能来自一个真实存在的地方。
• 它把表面原因和真正原因区分开来，给回答一个两段式结构，而不是一串特征清单。
• 结尾的担忧在没有用任何情绪词的情况下增加了情感分量，这比说“I love it very much”有力得多。

第三部分接下来会问什么

第三部分和你的长篇独白有松散的联系，但问题会变得抽象——问的是一般人，而不是你自己。这张卡之后通常会谈到：

• how eating habits have changed in your country
• whether eating out is becoming more or less common
• the social role of shared meals

如何应对第三部分讨论

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