出去旅游发现自己跟外国人交流有点困难，外加考研复试是有pre环节的，遂打算follow准备六级期间收藏的English Listening Practice 练习听力。同时也想有点东西记录下来，之前打算法觉得写博客有利于反思复盘记录，间接督促自己，于是你看到这篇blog。

文本来源：B1 English Listening Practice - The Beach

This is a subject that most people like,because most people like the beach. But I would say that I'm actually in that small minority of people that don't really love the beach.I'd say that sometimes like going to the beach,but honestly,I prefer other types of terrain.

1. 地形；地势；地带
指一个地区土地表面的自然特征，包括其高低、起伏、坡度、地貌等。

• 例如：The terrain is very mountainous here. 这里的地形多山。

• 例如：a rocky terrain 岩石地带 / rough terrain 崎岖的地形

2. （特定活动或领域的）领域，范围，场所
这是一个比喻用法，指某个活动、知识或讨论所涉及的范围或环境。

• 例如：the political terrain 政治领域

• 例如：The conversation moved into unfamiliar terrain. 谈话进入了陌生的领域。

But I'll get back to there later.Let's talk about all the cool beach activities you can do.First of all,there are a ton of cool sports that can be played in the sand,like valley ball,soccer,football,etc.  I have got to say that even though I'm not all that  crazy about the beach,beach valleyball is one of the sports that I love the most.There are just someting about moving and diving around in the sand that I really like.And I'm fairly tall,so I have the advantage of being able to spike the ball over the net,which is pretty fun.

Soccer and football can also be fun to play on the beach,but for me,I think I prefer to play those sports on normal grass. It's just easier to move around,it's flat and you can play on a bigger filed.So besides sports ,of course，one of the other things that people do on the sand is sunbathe.(我听成understand。。。）

Now this is something that I could never do in a million years ,because I burn super easily.If you put me out in the sun for a few hours,I'd come back looking like a ripe tomato.No joke.I'm sure some of you might say something similar.Some of us get a nice tan when we're out in the sun, and some of us burn badly. I remember one of  my all-time worst sunburns was when I went on a pretty long bike ride wearing a sleeveless shirt. It was kind of cloudy outside,so I don't think I need sunscreen,and boy was I wrong.

sunscreen 防晒霜

My arms were peeling for a long time after that day.

OK,so back to the beach.Let's talk about some of the different water activities now.

Growing up,I did some boogie boarding,which I actually find pretty fun,it just doesn't look as cool as surfing.

If you've never been boogie boarding before, it's when you have a rectangular board and you lie down on it, and when a big wave comes, it pushes you into the shore.

如果你以前没玩过趴板冲浪，那就是：
你有一块长方形的板子，人趴在上面，当大浪来了，它会把你推向岸边。

I've actually been thinking about learning to surf recently,because I've had a few different students who were surfs,and they talked to me about it and made sound it pretty cool.  So maybe I might try it,but I don't think I'd be that good at it.

Besides surfing and boogie boarding,there are also some other more exotic looking activities like kite surfing and windsurfing and some boat activities like jet skiing or sailing. I have been sailing before but on the bay not in the ocean.Sailing is something that would be cool to get into,but it takes a lot of practice,training and dedication,  and so I don't think I'll ever go that route.Alright,so I mentioned earlier that I am not a big beach guy,and that's mainly for two reasons.

The first is the sun.I burn easily.And the second is that if I have free time,I prefer to go to other places like the mountain,the forest,the countryside,even the desert.So it's not that I don't like the beach,I just like other nature places better.But despite that fact,I'd lived close to the beach for most of my life,and I know I am lucky for that.

Alright,so that's all for today.