雅思口语考试结束，很多同学跟老师反映提到了wild animal。很多生活在城市的小朋友，真的很少见到wild animal，但是如果你不是完全的homebody，并且经常进行一些亲近大自然的活动，其实还是有机会跟wild animal亲密接触一下的。
例如城市周边的山上，会偶遇小松鼠之类的“萌物”或者比较惊悚的大蛇;如果跑到长白山，还可以看见东北神兽“傻狍子”;很多人问老鼠算不算wild animal，嗯…… 这个虽然没有家养的耗子，不过我们日常能见到的应该不算纯野生的，毕竟偷的是人类的粮食…… 如果你真的曾经去过非洲大草原或者放养的动物园，那么这种题目肯定难不倒你，不过为了照顾大部分同志们的感受，我们还是先举一个可以发生在所有人身上的例子吧：
I’d like to talk about the time I saw squirrels when I was going hiking in a mountain near my hometown.
I was having a rest with my friends sitting on the ground, and one of them suddenly shouted, “Hey, check it out, a squirrel!” She pointed to a tree, and on a thick branch, there stood still a lovely fat little squirrel holding a huge pine cone.
We were surprised to see that little creature, ‘cause we hardly ever see any wild animals like that, I mean, at least in my hometown.
We were afraid that we would scare it off, so we walked quietly to the tree. And when we got closer, it just got cuter. I mean, we could see clearly that it’s got large sparkling eyes and bushy long tails. And its fur was fluffy and soft. And our guess was that she might be pregnant ‘cause her belly was really huge. And later, we saw another one on a nearby branch. We thought maybe they are a couple and they were storing food for the winter together.
We didn’t take any nuts with us in our bags, all we had were chips and chocolate, so we didn’t feed them. And we just left them alone.
But if it were 10 years ago, I would definitely catch them in a cage so that I could keep them as my pets, not now I believe wild animals are better off in the nature.
对于wild animal话题，在雅思口语Part 3可能会问一些动物保护相关的问题，例如Do you think animals have feelings and rights? 或者Do you think there should be laws to protect the welfare for pets and farm animals? 或者更深入的问题，例如What do you think are some of the benefits to humans from protecting wild animals? 这么看来，wild animal话题不光是雅思口语Part 2的一个大坑，在Part 3还有更烧脑的问题等着大家，所以强烈建议大家提前准备一下思路和需要用到的素材，以防考场上被考官问哭。同志们加油!
作者简介：
朱博，新东方吉林学校雅思口语美女讲师，毕业于985院校大连理工大学，硕士保送一等奖学金。在校期间曾游学美国，任出版社英语出版中心校对四年，工作严谨，活泼开朗，让大家快乐的学习英语。
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