雅思口语题目解析：An important historical event

　　Describe an important historical event in your country.

　　You should say:

　　What the event was

　　when it happened

　　How you heard about it

　　And explain why this historical event is important.

　　话题任务分析：历史事件这个话题，实际上难度不大。我们从小到大一直都有学习历史课程。相信谈到重要的历史事件的时候，大家都会有很多的想法：辛亥革命、抗日战争、新中国成立、文化大革命、改革开放等等。这些事件本身就比较重大，考官作为外国人也有所耳闻。所以是大家答题时的首选。而一些相对较小的事件，如奥运会、和美国建交等等，一是考官不太熟悉;二是自己说清楚时需要很多的知识储备，考官因为不太熟悉，听起来也比较费力，所以不建议大家选择。答题重点：首先是要对几个历史事件要有比较准确的翻译如：新中国成立： The founding of the People’s Republic of China.抗日战争：The anti-Japanese war文化大革命： The Cultural Revolution

　　改革开放：the Reform and opening up

　　其次是时态：

　　中国考生常常会混用过去时和现在时，这一道试题在描述具体时间的时候，肯定是要使用过去时态的;但是在谈及具体影响的时候，可能就需要使用现在时，甚至是将来时态了。此外，回答一定要注意条理性，注意条理性，注意条理性。重要的问题说三遍!

　　It's definitely the reform and opening up initiated by Deng Xiaoping soon after the end of the Cultural Revolution, which, I think is also very important but no match of this one. Anyway, the cultural revolution ended in 1976, and the reform and opening up was initiated in 1978. Of course I, like many other young people in China have learned, systematically a lot from our textbooks. But I didn't realize its importance until I have read so many reports and books from various channels, some of them are from famous historians now living and teaching in American or British universities. Therefore the bulk of my understanding of it definitely comes from their reports, lectures, etc.

　　First of all, I want to put the reform and opening up back to the grand narrative of China since 3000 years ago when China first got its name The Empire of the Middle. Ancient Chinese believed that China, or my country, located at the center of the world. Well, this was a narrative, or legend, once held by many nations at the very beginning. However, due to the geopolitical uniqueness, China maintained this legend until the late 19th century when the British Empire and other modern countries invaded China since the 1840s. In no more than 20 years the legend was replaced by one miserable story after another of occupations, of exploitation, of territorial secession. And this strong sense of inferiority lasted for almost eighty or ninety years, until 1949 when Communist party brought the nation together again. And we used another three years to reach a peace deal the the United States in North Korea, and then its the Cultural Revolution. All those events caused a big problem of national identity: who are we? What's the position of China in the world? We asked ourselves questions like this at that time. So there came Deng Xiaoping, a man who once studied in France in his early twenties. He opened the gate of China. He showed the Chinese people that we had been left behind by western countries. He told us, in an indirect way that our governance was not that successful compared to our capitalist enemies. So, what he did basically was to relocate China in this small planet.

　　The second reason, of course, is China's economy. Back in 1978, when China's top leaders were trying their best to dispose of the problems left by the Cultural Revolution, and nobody knows where China should go. It was Deng Xiaoping pointed out the way and said the economic development is the top task and the reform and opening up solved the problem of how to develop economy. And within ten years, well, twenty years, by the end of 1998, China's economy was beyond anybody's imagination. The key point is, no great public turmoil happened in these twenty years, I think this is the importance of the Reform and the Opening up.

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