雅思常見口語：A person influenced you

　　A person who has influenced you

　　Please describe a person who has greatly influenced you

　　You should say:

　　Who the person is (was)

　　How you came into contact with this person

　　How he/she has influenced you and why

　　And you have you say whether this person has influenced others

　　To talk about a person who has influenced me the most, I think there is none other but my father. Working as a government official, he doesn’t appear to be extraordinary in any way, but just working faithfully and peacefully raising his family, never putting his family or children aside. Yet however regular he may look, he is never ordinary to me, because I’ve learned many of the most basic and important life lessons from him: family, responsibility, accountability, faithfulness, vision and fulfilling goals, etc.—he is the first and best teacher in my life. As to influence, people all influence one another in one way or another during their contact. But as to whether my father has influenced other people as much as he does to me, I am not sure. Nevertheless I always hear people in the neighborhood talking about him as a model husband and family head. He must have touched some lives.

　　本題要求考生突出一個對自己影響巨大的人，盡管身邊所有的人都總是無時無刻或多或少地在互相影響著自己。通常考生應該選擇和自己接觸和交流很多的人物，這樣才最有可能對自己產生巨大的影響，例如：父母，老師和朋友。當然，此人也有可能是一位偉大的歷史人物，自己的偶像。但是無論如何，考生要把回答的重點集中在對方對自己的影響上，而絕非次人物的長相或性格等。

　　How do you like people to view you?

　　I’d like people to view me as a determined and strong leader. I need these qualities to be affirmed by people that they can look up to me for leadership.

　　Do you think that people are often influenced by material things (eg. money, car)?

　　As I am purposefully trying to avoid the danger of generalization, I can only tell you that there are definitely some people who are very easily influenced by materials things, while it is also certain that there are people who are not so easily influenced by material things; they often tend to have strong personal values.

　　Do people’s characters change as they get older?

　　People’s characters depend on many things, including their experiences, relationships, health and financial situations. As these things change over time, so we also see people’s character’s change.

　　名師簡介：

　　王毅，中國大陸地區唯一雅思總分滿分得主，美國博代尼大學文化傳播學碩士。新航道英語測試研究中心主任，北京新航道學校雅思閱讀主講，熱愛語言研究，曾廣泛游歷于東南亞各國，并對其部落文化及語言習俗擁有獨到的研究，其英語教師培訓教學工作的專業培訓經歷為其奠定了語言培訓職業生涯的核心基礎，精通多種外語,并對外語的教學與研究有著專注的熱愛與孜孜追求。自2002年以來一直活躍在雅思、托福考試培訓第一線。現為新航道學校的雅思閱讀與托福閱讀主講。由其倡導的PAVE英語教學法、雅思閱讀七點論等多種培訓方法在眾多雅思考生中廣受推崇，其邏輯思辯的授課風格不僅為雅思、托福考生指明了英語學習的方向，同時更為莘莘學子送去了雅思、托福高分的解題秘訣。