「書」題最容易翻車——很多考生選 War and Peace 結果講得空洞、零具體情節。高分解法——挑一本童書或小品，你能講出兩個具體場景，比假裝讀完厚書有說服力得多。
題目卡
Describe a book that has influenced you.
You should say:
- what the book is
- when you read it
- what it is about
- and explain how it influenced you.
POWER 一分鐘筆記
| POWER | 關鍵字 | 中文註 | |-------|--------|--------| | Product | The Little Prince, Saint-Exupéry | 童書反而好講 | | Occasion | age 10, Dad's old paperback | 具體年紀 + 來源 | | What | prince visits planets, meets fox | 1-2 個情節就夠 | | Emotion | confused at first, cried at the fox | 真實情緒最有說服力 | | Reflection | taught me what "tame" means — commitment | 抽象概念 → 生活應用 |
完整範答（290 字）
¹ The book that's influenced me more than any other is The Little Prince by the French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry — which I know sounds like an obvious choice, but I genuinely mean it. ² I first read it when I was about ten years old, in a battered paperback copy that had belonged to my father when he was a first-year student at university in Taichung.
³ On the surface, it's a children's story about a young prince who travels between tiny planets and eventually lands in the Sahara desert, where he befriends a stranded pilot and, later, a wise fox. ⁴ But the book isn't really about outer space at all — it's a quiet, almost sad meditation on what it means to love something, to lose it, and to take responsibility for it along the way.
⁵ The scene that has always stayed with me is the chapter where the fox asks the prince to tame him. ⁶ The fox explains that "taming" means creating ties — becoming important to each other through time and ritual — and that once you've tamed something, you're responsible for it forever. ⁷ I was only ten, and I didn't fully understand it, but I still remember closing the book and feeling that something important had been said that I'd need to come back to later.
⁸ Looking back, that passage shaped how I think about relationships — with friends, with family, even with the elderly rescue dog we adopted last year. ⁹ I realised that caring about someone isn't a feeling you have; it's a commitment you make again and again, often when it isn't convenient. ¹⁰ Whenever I'm tempted to let a friendship quietly fade just because life has become busy, I hear the fox in the back of my head, and that usually pulls me back.
句句解析
- 句 1 (Opening + self-aware 修辭): "which I know sounds like an obvious choice, but I genuinely mean it" — 預先擋掉 "cliché" 的批評，反而顯得真誠。
- 句 2 (When + texture): "in a battered paperback copy that had belonged to my father" — battered 這個形容詞值錢，比 old 精準十倍。
- 句 3 (What — 情節摘要): "a young prince who travels between tiny planets... befriends a stranded pilot and, later, a fox" — 關係子句 + 列舉，一句話整個劇情。
- 句 4 (Pivot to theme): "isn't really about space at all — it's a quiet, almost sad meditation..." — dash 轉折 + 抽象主題詞。
- 句 5 (具體場景): "the chapter where the fox asks the prince to tame him" — 指向具體章節，不是泛泛而談。
- 句 6 (引述關鍵概念): "'taming' means creating ties — becoming important to each other through time and ritual" — 定義性句子，展示 vocabulary。
- 句 7 (真實情緒): "I was ten, and I didn't fully understand it, but I remember closing the book..." — 承認不懂，反而 authentic。
- 句 8 (How it influenced — 具體應用): "even with the elderly dog we adopted last year" — 把抽象啟發連到當下生活。
- 句 9 (格言化): "caring about someone isn't a feeling you have; it's a commitment you make again and again" — 平行結構、對比句，Band 7+ 句型。
- 句 10 (Ending hook): "I hear the fox in the back of my head" — 比喻收尾，餘韻。
Band 7 評分證據
- Fluency: POWER 結構清晰，dash 與連接詞自然串接
- Lexical: battered, stranded, meditation, tame (as metaphor), commitment, fade
- Grammar: relative clauses、isn't-a-feeling-it's-a-commitment 平行句、whenever 從句
- Pronunciation: Saint-Exupéry 發音不用完美，自然帶過
3 個可替換 Hook
Hook A — 勵志非文學
The book that changed how I think is Atomic Habits by James Clear. I picked it up during my first year at university, when my grades were sliding and I couldn't understand why.
Hook B — 中文書（承認是翻譯）
There's a Taiwanese novel called Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin that I read in my late teens. I'll admit the English translation doesn't quite capture the original, but the ideas in it genuinely rewired how I saw myself.
Hook C — 教科書（意外選擇）
This might sound strange, but the book that influenced me most was actually a high-school biology textbook — specifically the chapter on evolution. I know it's not literature, but it genuinely changed how I see the world.
替換原則：不管選哪本，公式永遠是 title + author + 你第一次讀的場景 + 一個具體章節/段落 + 它怎麼改變你的行為。沒有 "it taught me many things" 這種空話。