“History”这个话题在雅思Part 1已经不算新题了，不过之前都是小打小闹，在Part 1咱们能怼上去几句回答就OK。不过这回，新年新气象啊，考官居然让我们给他科普中国历史课本了…… 太过分了，有没有考虑到我们广大理科考生的感受！但是你懂的，没法跟考官掀桌子，所以让我们默默的打开历史书吧。

开玩笑的！考官不是真的要听中国历史！雅思考试是完全不需要考生具备specialist knowledge的！考官在意的就是你能不能装模作样的来段两分钟的“瞎说历史”，用词如何，语法如何，流利度连贯性如何以及发音咋样。

所以这道题，认真你就输了。如果大家小心翼翼的开始准备“开国大典”之类的话题，恐怕要碰到好多political terms. 所以建议大家讲一些故事性比较强的，如果你把“甄嬛传”在规定时间讲出来，考官也是不会介意的。所以回忆一下我们看过的跟历史有关的电影吧！把这道题目跟movie合并也是个不错的选择。

下面的素材是“烽火戏诸侯”的雅思考试简易版，有些情节可能跟史实有些出入，不过不要在意这些细节，反正我们在规定时间内完成了一个不跑题的素材，考官你咬我啊~

I’d like to share with you an interesting historical event that happened in Xia Dynasty. It’s a story in our history textbook about a stupid king whose name I couldn’t remember exactly. Anyway, this king married a queen who was drop-dead gorgeous, however, there’s one thing that really bugged him, and that is, his queen hardly ever smiled, and that’s how she got the nickname ‘ice queen’. The King racked his brains trying to find a way to make her smile, but failed every time. He even promised that anyone who could put a smile on the queen’s face would get a thousand boxes of gold. One day, someone at the court suggested that the king could light the warning beacons that are normally used to summon armies from surrounding states in times of danger. He explained, the queen must find it hilarious when the nobles arrived and realized they got played. The king thought he had a point, so he took the advice. And the guy was right. The queen did burst out laughing when she saw the nobles hurry to the court only to find that it was a false alarm. If you ask me, the king was so out of line, and the worst part is, he did the same thing several times to please his queen, and finally lost the trust of the nobles. When he was actually in danger, no one came to his rescue.

So you see, it’s kind of a funny and sad history story, and somehow it’s usually told as a cautionary tale of how one beauty can topple a country, which I think is so not fair.  

   对了，回忆是说“重要的历史事件”，我们可以再解释一下它为啥重要（其实所有让我们知道了的历史事件都是有historic significance的啊，不然为什么会被记录下来啊对不对！）：This event serves as a warning for rulers in the following dynasties that national affairs are no laughing matter. I don’t think any national leader would be so stupid as this king, but this story is still a reminder of how silly decisions can destroy a country.