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你好呀，欢迎收听：英语考试Cat 🐱🐱🐱🐱 Describe a kind of food you eat on a special occasion You should say: • What the occasion is • What the food is • How it is made or where it comes from • Why it is special to you I'd like to talk about a special food that my family always has for the Spring Festival, our most important traditional holiday. This specialty is smoked spicy pork sausages. It's a really well‑known local delicacy from my home province, Sichuan. Making these sausages is quite a process. We use pork that's roughly ninety percent lean and ten percent fat. When I was little, adults would mince the meat by hand, mincing by machine was unheard of. Then we mix into the mince whopping amounts of different spices. Almost everyone from where I come from goes for that classic spicy‑numbing chili flavor. Next, we stuff the seasoned meat into cleaned pork intestines. Subsequently, the sausages are smoked continuously for around half a month. To prepare them for serving, we boil them in water. Once they are cooked through, let cool, and slice-up the sausage fairly thinly., and it's great just by itself or even as an ingredient in any dish that calls for sausage. For me, these smoked sausages are more than just tasty food. Preparing them is a big winter tradition in rural parts of Sichuan. Every household gets busy making sausages ahead of Spring Festival. The air is thick with the aroma of smoked pork, and when I was a child, it was hard not to salivate waiting to eat them around the table. It's one of the most fun childhood memories for me. And even now, I have them at home in the freezer. * local delicacy 当地特色美食 * quite a process 工序相当繁琐 * lean 瘦肉 * mince 剁碎；肉末 * unheard of 闻所未闻 * whopping amounts 大量 * goes for 偏爱 * chili flavor 辣椒风味 * seasoned meat 调味好的肉馅 * pork intestines 猪肠 * subsequently 随后 * To prepare them for serving 准备上桌食用时 * cooked through 煮熟 * let cool 放凉 * slice‑up 切片 * great just by itself 单吃就很美味 * an ingredient 食材 * calls for 需要 * rural parts of 乡村地区 * household 家家户户 * gets busy 忙活起来 * thick with 弥漫着 * aroma 香气 * salivate 流口水 * childhood memories 童年回忆 * freezer 冷冻柜 加拿大Mac老师的一对一雅思课 400 元/小时。包括： * 课前测评 * 线上实时课程 * 配套资料 * 作业批改 * 录播内容 * 全程一对一答疑指导 * 知识星球1年会员（里面有Mac多年来整理的备考资料） 帮助大家少走弯路，更快、更稳拿到目标分数。 往期学生评价。 课程咨询请加微信：EnglishCat996，请备注：雅思课。

你好呀，欢迎收听：英语考试Cat 🐱🐱🐱🐱 Describe a book or film that involves animals. You should say: what the book/film is called what kinds of animals appear in it what the story is about and explain why you like this book or film. I'd like to talk about an animated film that's full of animal characters, and its name is Zootopia. There's a huge variety of creatures featured in this movie, covering both predators and prey. To start with, the two lead roles are Judy, a young rabbit, and her loyal best friend Nick, a witty fox. Her boss at the police station is an ox, and there's plenty of other species throughout the movie: elephants, famously slow sloths, polar bears, and a graceful gazelle, just to name a few. The movie is about Judy, a small-town rabbit whose lifelong dream is to become a police officer in the big city of Zootopia. Back in her town, everyone around her laughs at her dream, since rabbits have never worked as cops before. But she refuses to give up, passes all the tough training, and finally lands a police post. Later, she stumbles upon a mysterious missing-animal case and teams up with the witty fox, Nick, to solve it. Together they uncover a conspiracy that creates conflict between predators and prey, and in the end, they fix the division and bring peace back to Zootopia. The main reason I enjoyed this film is how relatable Judy's journey feels to me. She doesn't come from a privileged background; no one in her family has connections to give her an easy shortcut. Yet she never lets other people's prejudice or self-doubt stop her from pursuing what she dreams to do, and of course, admirably, for doing what she thinks is right. * an animated film 一部动画电影 * a huge variety of 各种各样的 * featured in 在…… 中出现 * predators 肉食动物 * prey 草食动物；猎物 * lead roles 主角 * loyal 忠诚 * witty 机智风趣 * species 物种 * slow sloths 行动迟缓的树懒 * polar bears 北极熊 * graceful gazelle 优雅的瞪羚 * just to name a few 仅举几例 * lifelong dream 毕生的梦想 * cops 警察 * refuses to give up 拒绝放弃 * tough training 严苛的训练 * lands a police post 成功得到警察岗位 * stumbles upon 偶然发现 * missing‑animal case 动物失踪案 * teams up with 与…… 联手合作 * uncover a conspiracy 揭露一场阴谋 * creates conflict between 在…… 之间制造矛盾 * the division 隔阂；分歧 * bring peace back to 为…… 重新带来和平 * relatable 共鸣 * journey 人生经历；历程 * a privileged background 优越的出身 * connections 人脉；关系 * an easy shortcut 捷径 * prejudice 偏见 * self‑doubt 自我怀疑 * pursuing what she dreams to do 追逐自己的梦想 * admirably 令人钦佩 加拿大Mac老师的一对一雅思课 400 元/小时。包括： * 课前测评 * 线上实时课程 * 配套资料 * 作业批改 * 录播内容 * 全程一对一答疑指导 * 知识星球1年会员（里面有Mac多年来整理的备考资料） 帮助大家少走弯路，更快、更稳拿到目标分数。 往期学生评价。 课程咨询请加微信：EnglishCat996，请备注：雅思课。

你好呀，欢迎收听：英语考试Cat 🐱🐱🐱🐱 Describe something you bought that cost more than you expected You should say: • What the item was • When and where you bought it • Why it cost more than you had expected • And explain how you felt about spending that much money and whether you think it was worth it I'd like to talk about a takeaway pizza I bought that ended up costing way more than I'd planned for when I was in the US. First off, the item itself was just a regular to-go pizza. The menu listed the pie at 29 US dollars. But then the restaurant automatically added a mandatory 20 percent tip, which worked out to 5.8 dollars. Altogether, I paid 34.8 dollars for the pizza. It happened when I was in downtown Charleston, and that was back in April this year. I was walking in the city center that morning looking for lunch, so I popped into a local pizzeria. I knew downtown Charleston is a pricey east-coast US city, so I braced myself for slightly higher food prices. Even so, I was caught off guard by just how overpriced it was. The pizza was small for its nearly 30-dollar pricetag. What annoyed me most though, was the compulsory service charge. This was takeaway. Anyway, I placed my order at the cashier, left, and returned half an hour later to bring it to my car. There was no table service, no server checking on me, nothing that justified a 20 percent tip. That surcharge felt like a rip-off. To make matters worse, I’d parked my car in a parking lot a few blocks away while waiting for the food, and parking set me back another 12 dollars on top of everything else. By the time I added up every expense, the whole experience blew my original budget out of the water. I definitely do not think it was worth the total cost. The food tasted fine, but the unnecessary takeaway tipping fee and expensive parking piled up into a ridiculous bill. * a takeaway 外卖 * ended up 到头来 * costing way more 花费远超预期 * automatically added 自动加收 * mandatory 强制 * worked out to 算下来是 * popped into 顺道走进 * pizzeria 披萨店 * pricey 物价高 * braced myself for 做好心理准备 * caught off guard 猝不及防 * overpriced 定价过高 * pricetag 标价 * compulsory service charge 强制性服务费 * placed my order 下单 * at the cashier 在收银台 * justified 合理化 * surcharge 附加收费 * rip‑off 宰客 * To make matters worse 更糟的是 * set me back 使我花费 * on top of everything else 除此之外 * blew my original budget out of the water 彻底超出我原本的预算 * unnecessary 没必要 * tipping fee 小费 * piled up 累积 * ridiculous bill 离谱的账单 加拿大Mac老师的一对一雅思课 400 元/小时。包括： * 课前测评 * 线上实时课程 * 配套资料 * 作业批改 * 录播内容 * 全程一对一答疑指导 * 知识星球1年会员（里面有Mac多年来整理的备考资料） 帮助大家少走弯路，更快、更稳拿到目标分数。 往期学生评价。 课程咨询请加微信：EnglishCat996，请备注：雅思课。

你好呀，欢迎收听：英语考试Cat 🐱🐱🐱🐱 Describe a gift you gave to a friend You should say: When it happened What gift it was Who you gave it to And explain why you chose that gift I'd like to talk about a little gift I bestowed upon my closest friend just last week. It's a tiny ocean-blue car model, sleek and detailed, and I picked that specific shade of blue for a really meaningful reason. I gave this present to my best friend, who has just finished his master's degree and is officially graduating this month. Blue's always been his favorite color, so choosing this colour was a no-brainer when I was shopping for something to celebrate his big milestone. The main reason I settled on a miniature car stems from all the good times we've had together. He's obsessed with driving. Whenever he travels overseas, he'll always rent a car and head off on week-long road trips to explore new places. Back in the day, he actually owned his own car, but he sold it a few years ago. Now, whenever he feels like going for a drive, he still rents a car—and when I was in Singapore, he almost always invited me to tag along. We explored some hidden gems of Singapore and those drives were some of my best memories from studying in Singapore. This is exactly why this little car model struck me as the ideal gift. It wasn't costly, but when I handed it to him, he told me he loved it and that it brought back childhood memories. Hearing that made me genuinely glad, knowing I had picked a present that brought joy to my best friend. * bestowed upon 赠予 * shade of blue 蓝色色调 * meaningful reason 富有意义的缘由 * a no-brainer 轻而易举的事 * milestone 里程碑 * miniature car 汽车模型 / 微型小车 * stems from 源于 * the good times 美好时光 * obsessed with 痴迷于 * travels overseas 海外出行 * head off 出发 * road trips 公路旅行 * Back in the day 从前 * to tag along 一同前往 * hidden gems 小众好去处 * my best memories from 在…… 期间最珍贵的回忆 * struck me as the ideal gift 我觉得这是完美的礼物 * costly 昂贵的 * childhood memories 儿时回忆 加拿大Mac老师的一对一雅思课 400 元/小时。包括： * 课前测评 * 线上实时课程 * 配套资料 * 作业批改 * 录播内容 * 全程一对一答疑指导 * 知识星球1年会员（里面有Mac多年来整理的备考资料） 帮助大家少走弯路，更快、更稳拿到目标分数。 往期学生评价。 课程咨询请加微信：EnglishCat996，请备注：雅思课。