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Funny Break · 趣味解乏 Learn IELTS without losing your mind. Bilingual nonsense, pure relief. Stories · 故事 她三小时没回消息，我一气之下开始学雅思，结果她哭着回来找我 About: Every 5th reading article includes a short bilingual comedy interlude to keep you awake. Look for the 🎭 Fun Break marker inside passages. New standalone stories
Funny Break Directory · 趣味解乏目录You: "Morning, everyone. Quick update from my side — the AML AI model retraining is on track for UAT next Wednesday. We had a minor data pipeline issue yesterday, but the engineering team already fixed it. Any blockers from risk or compliance?" Stakeholder: "Compliance wants an extra documentation
雅思口语情景: 渣打银行AI高级项目经理日常沟通It's a formalised, multi-layered structure. At the top there's an IT strategy committee that aligns technology investments with business goals. Then there are architecture boards that review system design decisions to prevent the bank from accumulating even more technical debt. Below that, change a
雅思口语 Part 3: Information Systems Management 银行信息系统管理深度讨论It's already everywhere, even if customers don't realise it. On the customer-facing side, chatbots handle a huge share of routine inquiries — balance questions, password resets, that kind of thing. Behind the scenes, AI does a lot of heavy lifting: fraud detection in real time, credit scoring, anti
雅思口语 Part 3: Banking AI Systems 银行AI系统深度讨论The first word that comes to mind is legacy. Most large banks are running systems that were designed decades ago — COBOL mainframes, proprietary databases — and you can't just replace them overnight. You have to modernise incrementally while the system is still running, still processing billions of
雅思口语 Part 3: Banking IT Systems 银行IT系统开发深度讨论I think climate change is the frame around everything else — biodiversity loss, ocean acidification, extreme weather — they're all connected. The frustrating thing is that we've known the problem for decades, and the solutions aren't particularly mysterious. What's missing is collective will. We co
雅思口语 Part 3: Environment 环境深度讨论示范On balance, yes — but it's not a simple yes. It's improved material conditions immeasurably: medicine, communication, access to information. But it's also created new problems we didn't ask for — screen addiction, misinformation, the erosion of attention spans. The question isn't whether technology
雅思口语 Part 3: Technology 科技深度讨论示范That's a good question, and I think it's changed over time. Traditionally, university was seen as a place to pursue knowledge for its own sake — to cultivate critical thinking, not just job skills. These days, it's increasingly treated as vocational training: a ticket to a better job. There's press
雅思口语 Part 3: Education 教育深度讨论示范where this place is how you found it what you do there and explain why you like this quiet place The quiet place I want to describe is a small park near the river, about twenty minutes' walk from where I live. It's not famous — most locals walk past it without noticing — but it's become my refu
雅思口语 Part 2: 安静的地方 Cue Card 范文what city you visited when you went there what you did there and explain how you felt about the city The city I'd like to talk about is Kyoto, which I visited last autumn. I'd wanted to go for years, and it didn't disappoint — if anything, it exceeded expectations. I spent about five days ther
雅思口语 Part 2: 去过的城市 Cue Card 范文where you want to go how you know about this place what you would do there and explain why you want to visit this place The place I most want to visit is the Scottish Highlands. I first became curious about it after watching a documentary about the landscape — vast, empty moors, lochs surrounde
雅思口语 Part 2: 想去的地方 Cue Card 范文who this person is what organisation they lead what they are like as a leader and explain why you think they are a good leader The leader I admire is a former manager of mine, Diana, who ran the product team I worked on at a previous company. She's the kind of leader who leads by example rather
雅思口语 Part 2: 优秀的领导者 Cue Card 范文who this friend is how you became friends what you usually do together and explain why you like this friend The friend I'd like to talk about is Lin, someone I've known since university. We were on the same course, but we only became close after we ended up on a group project together — we pull
雅思口语 Part 2: 喜欢的朋友 Cue Card 范文who this family member is what they are like how you know them and explain why you admire them The family member I admire most is my grandmother on my mother's side. She's in her late seventies now, sharp as a tack, and still lives on her own in the small apartment where she raised my mum. Wha
雅思口语 Part 2: 敬佩的家人 Cue Card 范文who this person is how you know them what kind of person they are and explain how they have influenced you The person who's had the biggest influence on me is my university supervisor, Dr. Chen. I first met him when I started my master's degree, and he ended up advising my thesis. He's quite an
雅思口语 Part 2: 影响你的人 Cue Card 范文I'd have to say crisp autumn days — you know, when the sky's clear blue, there's a slight chill in the air, but the sun's still warm on your face. It's the perfect weather for walking outside; neither too hot to be comfortable nor so cold that you have to bundle up. Spring's nice too, but it can be
雅思口语 Part 1: Weather 天气（高频问答示范）▶ Listen to model answers/audio/1c/1c443f893f96236a973a9b6cb940356b78e35b0a4753d9beef227020149cf14a.wav I'm really into photography these days, especially street photography. I usually take my camera out on weekends and wander around the old streets near my neighbourhood. There's something fasci
雅思口语 Part 1: Hobbies & Free Time 爱好与休闲（高频问答示范）▶ Listen to model answers/audio/80/806fd22d2e641f2e724cf54b8e096bb8292aac6dbc2c515a74b7063a4f708b70.wav I'm currently working as a software developer at a fintech company. I graduated about two years ago, so I've just started my career. Before that, I studied computer science at university. I'm
雅思口语 Part 1: Work & Study 工作与学习（高频问答示范）# 雅思词汇课文（35）· The Ethics of Genetic Engineering 基因工程伦理 In 2012, a new tool called CRISPR-Cas9 was announced. Unlike previous genetic techniques, it was cheap, precise and easy to use. Within a decade, scientists had edited genes in human embryos, cured sickle-cell anaemia in adult patien
雅思词汇课文（35）· The Ethics of Genetic Engineering 基因工程伦理（带音频）# 雅思词汇课文（34）· Cultural Globalisation 文化全球化 A teenager in Nairobi listens to K-pop. A grandmother in Lima watches Turkish soap operas. A student in Seoul eats at an American fast-food chain. A novelist in Lagos publishes on a Japanese platform. Cultural globalisation — the flow of ideas,
雅思词汇课文（34）· Cultural Globalisation 文化全球化（带音频）# 雅思词汇课文（33）· The Rights of Gig Workers 零工劳动者的权益 When Maria, a delivery rider in Madrid, is injured on her scooter, she has no sick pay. When Raj, a taxi driver in Toronto, works twelve-hour days, he has no minimum wage. When Wei, a freelance designer in Shanghai, finishes a project, she
雅思词汇课文（33）· The Rights of Gig Workers 零工劳动者的权益（带音频）# 雅思词汇课文（32）· Deforestation and Its Consequences 森林砍伐及其后果 The Amazon rainforest produces roughly 20 per cent of the world's oxygen and is home to one in ten known species. Yet it is disappearing at a rate of about 13,000 square kilometres per year — an area larger than Jamaica. The same
雅思词汇课文（32）· Deforestation and Its Consequences 森林砍伐及其后果（带音频）# 雅思词汇课文（31）· The Future of Democracy 民主的未来 In 1975, only around 30 countries were full democracies. By 2000, that number had doubled. The "third wave" of democratisation swept across Southern Europe, Latin America and Eastern Europe. Political scientists spoke confidently of an "end of
雅思词汇课文（31）· The Future of Democracy 民主的未来（带音频）# 雅思词汇课文（30）· Ancient Medicine and Modern Science 古代医学与现代科学 The Edwin Smith Papyrus, written in Egypt around 1600 BC, describes 48 surgical cases with remarkable accuracy. It distinguishes injuries that can be treated from those that cannot, and prescribes bandages, sutures and splints.
雅思词汇课文（30）· Ancient Medicine and Modern Science 古代医学与现代科学（带音频）# 雅思词汇课文（29）· The Psychology of Advertising 广告心理学 Every day, the average person is exposed to between 4,000 and 10,000 advertisements. They appear on billboards, television, social media, search results and even the screens in our pockets. Yet most of us believe we are not influenced by
雅思词汇课文（29）· The Psychology of Advertising 广告心理学（带音频）# 雅思词汇课文（28）· Climate Refugees 气候难民 When Hurricane Matthew struck Haiti in 2016, it destroyed 90 per cent of the crops on the island's southern peninsula. Farmers who had lived there for generations lost everything. They joined millions of others on the move: people forced from their hom
雅思词汇课文（28）· Climate Refugees 气候难民（带音频）# 雅思词汇课文（27）· Education and Inequality 教育与不平等 Education was once called the great equaliser. In theory, any child, regardless of birth, could climb the social ladder through hard work and schooling. In practice, the link between family background and educational achievement has proven re
雅思词汇课文（27）· Education and Inequality 教育与不平等（带音频）# 雅思词汇课文（26）· The Sharing Economy 共享经济 In 2008, an unemployed designer named Brian Chesky rented air mattresses on his apartment floor to make rent. His startup, Airbnb, is now valued at over 80 billion dollars and operates in 220 countries. The idea — that spare space, skills and assets
雅思词汇课文（26）· The Sharing Economy 共享经济（带音频）# 雅思词汇课文（25）· Ocean Conservation 海洋保护 The ocean covers 71 per cent of the Earth's surface and produces at least half of the oxygen we breathe. It absorbs roughly 30 per cent of the carbon dioxide humans emit. It regulates the climate, feeds billions of people, and contains the largest li
雅思词汇课文（25）· Ocean Conservation 海洋保护（带音频）# 雅思词汇课文（24）· The Invention of Writing 文字的发明 For almost all of human history, knowledge was carried only in the mind. Stories, laws and recipes were memorised and passed orally from one generation to the next. Then, around 3400 BC, in Mesopotamia — modern-day Iraq — something revolutiona
雅思词汇课文（24）· The Invention of Writing 文字的发明（带音频）