雅思口语高分答案：International news！

　　雅思口语Part2新题：International news，题目要求考生介绍一则最近听到的国际新闻。最容易的方式是选一个故事性的新闻，描述其起因经过结果，加一下细节和评论，这样很容易达到2分钟的效果。如果你选择的新闻的内容本身比较简单，除了介绍在哪里听到，如何听到之外，可以去增加介绍这则新闻的社会背景、前因后果、大家的舆论。

　　Describe a piece of international news you recently heard 国际新闻 (new)

　　You should say:

　　What it was about

　　Where and when you heard it

　　What you are doing when you heard it

　　And how you felt about it

　　Sample Answer高分答案

　　雅思口语新题-International news

　　00:0002:26During this long-standing era of pandemic, which has been ongoing since last year, it is hard to turn on any news channel or check social media without hearing updates about government policies, vaccine progress, or new case announcements. I found the government policies on COVID 19 from the US particularly interesting, because it has been flip-flopping since last year. As far as I remember, at the beginning of last year when the pandemic just started in the US, restrictions on international travel weren’t terribly strict. People from foreign countries, including Ireland and UK, were allowed to travel into the US. It caused chaos at the airports at that time because a lot of Americans scrambled to get back to the US, and my guess is that it also aggravated the pandemic within the US because the international travel could bring in foreign cases. Approaching the end of last year, especially when the COVID-19 virus variants were found in UK, the travel ban on international flights was strengthened – the UK was added to the sweeping restrictions on travel from overseas, a measure aimed at curbing the spread of virus variants.

　　Just in January of this year, when I tuned in to international news channel on my iPhone, I heard then President Donald Trump issued a proclamation rescinding the international travel restrictions for people who have travelled to Brazil, UK and other European countries. Only an hour later, the incoming Biden administration reinstated the same restriction and said it wouldn’t lift an entry ban on most visitors from those countries.

　　I understand this pandemic is all new to us and no countries have much prior experience in handling this situation. Before humans can find any effective cures or vaccines, having a sustained and strict travel restriction is a key measure to curb the spread. People may easily feel relieved once they see some signs of hope and subsequently relax their measures, but I personally think we should not underestimate the battle in front of us. On the other hand, it is funny to see two administrations have very different views on the priorities of the country as well as how to handle the pandemic.

　　思路解析

　　一开始作者介绍目前的国际新闻都和COVID19有关。并且最有趣的是来自美国那边的新闻，因为政府对于COVID19的政策经常变化。

　　作者展开描述从去年开始，美国对于COVID 19 international travel ban 这方面规定的变化已经有2回了。接着引出最近听到一个新闻，在短短一天内这个政策又发生了2次变化。

　　第三段作者讨论了对于international travel ban的个人看法，以及美国政府最近经常变更其国家政策的感受。

　　Language bits高分表达

　　Flip-flop:改变

　　Proclamation: 声明

　　Curb: 抑制

　　Reinstate: 恢复