雅思口语part 3范文：没有数据时也能答得清楚

考官问你，你所在国家的人是否比二十年前读得少。你没有任何数据。你只有一种印象，而印象似乎不够用，于是答案在第三个词附近卡住了。

卡住来自一个错误前提。Part 3 不是常识测验，而是一场讨论，考查的是你如何用英语比较、推测和解释。接受这一点的考生会停止寻找统计数字，转而开始回答问题。

本指南会给你数据类问题的结构、让近似表达保持诚实的短语，以及两个基于该结构编写的完整示例答案。这里的问题和答案均为原创练习材料，不是官方题目或回忆题，任何答案都未经过评估，也未给出分数。

为什么 Part 3 的数字类问题考查语言，而非数据

Part 3 会沿着 Part 2 的话题进入更概括、更抽象的讨论，持续四到五分钟。口语按四项同等重要的标准评分：流利与连贯、词汇资源、语法多样性与准确性、发音。四项中没有任何一项是在核查事实。

评分描述展示了实际得分点。7 分词汇资源包括 Effective use of paraphrase as required，7 分流利与连贯包括 Flexible use of spoken discourse markers, connectives and cohesive features。这两行描述的是一个能重新表述问题、标出比较关系并继续推进的考生，而这正是看似无法回答的数据题所邀请的做法。

这并不是允许你编造内容。一个自信却错误的数字会招来你招架不住的追问，而且听起来很单薄，因为背后什么也没有。下面这个诚实结构也更容易维持三十秒。

用三句话思考：范围、方向、原因

每个数据类答案都可以用三句话搭建，而且顺序很重要：先限定主张，让考官知道接下来是哪一类回答。

句子	作用	弱版本	强版本
第一句	限定主张	I don't know.	I don't have figures for that, but I can tell you what I see around me.
第二句	给出方向，而不是规模	It's less.	It's clearly down, though probably not as much as people assume.
第三句	给出一个原因	Because of phones.	Mostly because a phone is what people reach for when they have five minutes.

这大约是二十五到三十五秒的讲话，而且不靠一个数字就回答了问题。如果考官想要更多，第三句话会递给他们一根可以拉下去的线，而这正是你想要的结果：一个你能回答的追问，比一段以沉默收尾的独白更有价值。

保持诚实的近似表达短语

下面这些短语不是填充语。每一个都在告诉听者，你的主张能承载多少分量，而这正是近似与编造之间的区别。

短语	它让你承诺什么	示例
in my experience	你自己的小样本，仅此而已	In my experience, most people I know read on a phone now.
a small share	明显少于一半，但不给数字	Only a small share of the people I know still buy a newspaper.
roughly	一个被追问时你愿意辩护的估计	The number of readers is roughly the same; the format changed.
somewhere between	一个你能说明理由的范围	For people my age it's somewhere between a third and a half of that, though that is a guess from my own circle.
the general direction	只给上升或下降	I'm confident about the general direction, not the size.

两条规则能让这些表达稳妥。模糊化规模，绝不模糊化方向：It has definitely gone down, though I couldn't tell you by how much 比含糊的 maybe it's a bit less 更有力。也绝不要借用权威：如果你说不出研究名称，就不要说 according to a study，因为正是这句话会把诚实回答变成虚假回答。

可重组使用的雅思口语part 3范文

两个原创问题，用三句式回答。每段后面的说明会指出该模式落在哪里。

问题一：Do you think people read less than they did twenty years ago? I don't have any figures for that, so I can only go by what I see. In my experience it's clearly down, but mainly in one specific way. People still read a lot; they just read on a phone, so the amount has stayed roughly the same while the format changed, mostly because a phone is what you reach for when you have five minutes.

问题二：Is it more expensive to be young today than it was for your parents? That's hard to compare directly, because what people spend money on has changed. From what I can see, housing has become much harder and almost everything else has become cheaper, so the answer depends on whether you need somewhere to live. I think that's why the argument never settles: two people can look at the same decade and describe completely different lives.

问题一把范围限定在个人观察，然后给出方向，再解释这个方向。问题二做了稍微更难的事：它承认这个问题没有单一答案，并说明答案取决于什么；这在讨论中是合理动作，读起来像掌控而不是回避。

趋势动词，以及让它们准确的副词

一旦有了方向，动词决定你听起来有多精确，副词决定这种精确是否诚实。

动词	它表达什么	让它保持诚实的副词
上升、攀升	向上移动	steadily 表示逐渐变化，sharply 仅当你能够说出原因时使用
进入平台期、趋于平稳	停止上升，但仍处高位	after a long climb
小幅下降	小幅、暂时的下降	slightly，或 briefly
保持平稳	没有实质变化	more or less，它承认你的看法是近似的
回落	回到较早水平	to where it was
超过	一条线越过另一条线	in the last few years

时态也承载意义。It has risen steadily since the nineties 覆盖一直延续到现在的一段时间；It rose steadily through the nineties 覆盖一段已经结束的时期。名词形式也值得准备好，因为它们让你能变化句子：a steady rise、a slight dip、a sharp fall。把强动词和弱副词搭配，或反过来，是一个本来不错的回答开始听起来像没人写过的新闻报道的最常见方式。

不靠一个数字比较两个群体

比较类问题最容易让人掉进假统计数字里，因为句子结构本身就在邀请你这么做。五个框架可以避开它。

• Young people spend more on rent than their parents did at the same age.
• Older people still read newspapers, whereas younger people mostly read on phones.
• The opposite is true for people who grew up without the internet.
• By contrast, the cost of almost everything else has fallen.
• The gap seems to be widening, though I couldn't tell you by how much.

有一个语法点值得练习：compared with 后接名词，所以 compared with their parents 是对的；而 than 后接从句，所以 than their parents did 是对的。把它们混用，比如 compared with their parents did，是那种在思考论点而不是句子时很容易犯的错误。

八题练习，以及针对编造统计数字的自查

用三句话回答每个问题，出声说，并计时。第一遍目标三十秒，第二遍目标四十五秒。

1. Do you think people in your country read less than they did twenty years ago?
2. Are young people today better at saving money than their parents were?
3. Has the way people shop changed much in your lifetime?
4. Do you think cities are getting more crowded?
5. Is it cheaper to eat at home than to eat out where you live?
6. Do people in your country take more holidays than they used to?
7. Which costs more, owning a car or using public transport?
8. Do you think the number of people learning a second language is growing?

然后对你的录音做自查。任何你无法说明来源的数字，都替换成一个方向。任何百分比都删掉，改说成 more、less 或 about the same。任何 according to 要么补上名称，要么删掉。任何以 Statistics show 开头的句子都整句删掉，因为这是考官听得最多、也最不相信的句子。如果一段录音通过了这四项检查，你就有了一个听起来有信息量、却不含任何无依据数字的答案。

常见问题

在雅思口语 Part 3 中需要给出真实统计数据吗？

不需要。四项评分标准描述的是语言，而一个方向加一个原因就能不靠数字回答问题。编造百分比比承认自己知识的边界更冒险，因为它会制造一个你必须在下一个问题中辩护的主张。

Part 3 的回答应该多长？

三到五句话，大约三十到四十五秒，通常就够了。Part 3 整场讨论有四到五分钟，所以一个过长的回答会占用后面问题所需的时间。回答完就停下，让考官问下一个问题。