墨尔本PTE素材库——Drought Aid

墨尔本PTE素材库——Drought Aid

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这篇文章介绍了Callan，一位昆士兰州的普通农民在去年经历干旱期间的一段经历。当他和家人在干旱和热浪中为农场的生计而挣扎时，一位开着卡车的人给他们送来了一份日常必须的杂货作为援助。这篇报道从Callan的角度来讲解事件，包含了一些常用但中国考生不太会用的单词，大家赶紧练习起来学习咯！

澳大利亚语言学院整理的PTE素材库，旨在帮助各位PTE的烤鸭们在平时练习、复习备考的阶段，除了一些官方的练习题之外，还能有不少的素材可以练习听力、阅读、口语、写作，不同PTE的题型，例如re-tell lecture，例如summarize spoken test 都是各位考生们比较纠结的难点题型。通过这大量的素材练习，大家在考场就能做到熟练作答哦！

这篇文章非常适合给大家练习PTE的难题之一：re-tell lecture~ 一定要拿来练手哦！

【Key Vocabulary】

depressing adj. 令人沮丧的

parched adj. 焦的，炎热的

illuminate v. 照亮，阐明

retreat v. 撤退，退避

scorching adj. 灼热的，激烈的

perspective n. 观点，透视图

compassion n. 同情，怜悯

Full Transcript

Last week marked the launch of Heywire – an ABC competition that encourages young regional people to tell their stories. So to celebrate, we thought we’d check in with one of last year’s winners, Callan. Here he tells the story of the day a stranger arrived at his family’s cattle station with a pumpkin.

There’s nothing more depressing for a farmer than parched land stretching as far as the eye can see. This is the misery that my family have experienced over the last few years.

But there was one moment when this drought-stricken landscape was illuminated by the light of human kindness.

Living in remote north-western Queensland, a hundred kilometres from Longreach, we’re not overly prepared for unexpected visits from strangers. My family and I had just retreated from the scorching heat of the day. I was in the kitchen, mum was in the backyard, when a dusty family wagon rolled up to our front gate and things got even weirder.

Even a suburban family would be suspicious of a man bearing a large vegetable paying an unexpected visit. Out here it seemed even stranger. The pumpkin-bearing man was soon accompanied by his wife and daughter laden with cardboard boxes.

What happened next changed my perspective on not only the drought but on the compassion that our urban cousins have for the struggling agricultural industry. They’d been travelling around regional Queensland delivering packages of supplies to struggling farmers. It wasn’t this $50 package of groceries that my family urgently needed. It was the knowledge that we the farmers were not alone in our struggle against the drought and to know that our city cousins cared about their counterparts in the bush.

This is why I believe actions speak louder than words and compassion speaks louder than actions.

(Source: http://www.abc.net.au/btn/story/s4504178.htm)