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大家看到5月份口語輪換題中出現的describe a useful skill you learned in a math class from your primary or high school的時候，是不是已經絕望了…… 不光要讓你回憶痛苦的數學課，還逼你說一個學到的有用技能!出題人簡直太殘忍了!不過最近剛好在微博看到個視頻，說不定可以幫到大家。裡面講了數學家利用樂高玩具和影子進行藝術創作，裡面涉及到的數學計算和建模，就可以是我們這個題目中的skill哦：
I learned a pretty awesome skill from my math teacher in high school. He taught us how to create an artwork based on mathematical principles.
Our math teacher is really one of a kind, I mean, normally you might be bored out of your mind in math classes, but in his class, he could always find a way to spice things up and make everything about math intriguing.
It’s like making hand shadow puppets, but instead of using hands, we used small cubes. We carved three different shapes into the three faces that are next to each other, you know, the three faces that share one corner, and when you rotate this cube, you would see the shadows of the three different shapes in turn on the wall.
I still remember how thrilled we were when our teacher showed us how it worked. At fist, the small sculpture looks so abstract, I mean, we didn’t know what it was, but when the light was on, we saw a shadow in the shape of the letter 『A』 on the wall, and then our teacher rotated the sculpture to a certain angle, and magically, the letter 『D』 showed up on the wall. We were like 『wow』, but there’s more, when our teacher rotated the sculpture again, we saw the letter C. That was quite a jaw-dropping performance for a bunch of high school students, you know.
The principle behind it is actually quite simple, but it’s a little bit hard to example without a 3-D model, so I』ll just skip that part. Anyway, after that class, all of us learned how to do this magic trick. I never thought math class could be so entertaining.
這個題目告訴我們要善於利用考官給我們的筆和小紙板，聲情並茂的給考官上一堂生動的數學課，讓他也感受一下出題人滿滿的惡意……
雅思口語語言點解析：
awesome = (especially NAmE, informal) very good, enjoyable, etc. 例如：
I just bought this awesome new CD!
Wow! That's totally awesome!
principle = a law, a rule or a theory that something is based on例如：
The principle behind it is very simple.
There are three fundamental principles of teamwork.
Discussing all these details will get us nowhere; we must get back to first principles (= the most basic rules).
one of a kind = the only one like this = unique 例如：
My father was one of a kind—I'll never be like him.
bored out of your mind = extremely bored
spice something up = to add interest or excitement to something例如：
He exaggerated the details to spice up the story.
Her conversation is always spiced with humor.
intriguing = very interesting because of being unusual or not having an obvious answer例如：
These discoveries raise intriguing questions.
an intriguing possibility
He found her intriguing.
作者簡介：
朱博，新東方吉林學校雅思口語美女講師，畢業於985院校大連理工大學，碩士保送一等獎學金。在校期間曾遊學美國，任出版社英語出版中心校對四年，工作嚴謹，活潑開朗，讓大家快樂的學習英語。
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