优秀考生能够运用丰富的词汇，在第二部分无论遇到什么话题都能流利地表达自己的观点，包括福岛核泄漏事件。而且，他们会每天看时事或听新闻，了解世界上正在发生的事情。这意味着当他们拿到第二部分的话题卡时，脑海中立刻会浮现出很多想法。只要经常进行流畅度训练，就能将许多高级词汇运用到句子中，并能够使用各种不同的动词时态和条件句。
在第二部分开始前，考官会先说明题目要求，例如：“And now here’s your topic. I’d like you totalk about a news story that interested you.”
以福岛核泄漏事件为例，考生在话题卡上写下了下面这些单词：
nuclear disaster (核灾难) safety (安全)
radiation – vegetables – traces (辐射——蔬菜——痕迹)
contamination (污染) wind (风)
ocean (海洋) tsunami (海啸)
media (媒体)
A news story1 that real ly impressed me in 2011 was about the nuclear disaster in Japan, inFukushima. Um, I remember2 very clearly that night, when the news came out, I was at a bar inShuang jing, and we started getting news. People were receiving3 news on their phones. Somepeople were trying… onto the net. They were going online, and I know my first reaction was to callmy mum and to ask her to close the windows in the house and also I remember4 texting my bestfriend who has a young brother and, you know5, sort of saying to her, “Hey, you need to checkout what’s happening online. Maybe there’s a nuclear disaster happening in Japan.” And in facthere in China we were lucky. I mean the wind blew a lot of the, um, the radiation6 into the oceanrather than7 towards us here, but even in China they found there had been8 some traces ofradiation in vegetables. But I mean it was an absolutely terrible disaster and the Japanese peoplewere… Actually my dad has been to Sendai. It’s so heavily9 populated… The whole of Japan, it’snot a very big country in terms of landmass, but it’s got a big population, and people wereoverwhelmed10. That tsunami, terrible… The farmers that lived in that area, I mean they couldn’tleave their land because otherwise who would feed their animals and so they just had to kind of sitthere and hope for the best. So it was a terrible disaster, and of course it has made people allaround the world much more cautious about nuclear power… Um, I saw on CCTV 9 that people inEurope11 are worried about nuclear power at the moment too, and they want to get rid of theirnuclear reactors.
