IELTS口语第三部分：科技与社会
引人发表强烈观点，又会惩罚强烈观点——平衡的回答总是比危言耸听的回答得分高。
你能否同时容纳两种想法。这里每个问题都有一个显而易见的立场，不加限定地站过去，只会得到一个短而单薄、二十秒就说完的回答。
你可能会被问到的问题
比第一部分回答更长——每题三十到四十五秒。考官可能会反驳你，这正是这个环节的设计。
- Has technology brought people closer together or pushed them apart?
- Do people rely too heavily on their phones?
- Should there be limits on how much time children spend online?
- Will artificial intelligence replace many jobs?
- Is online communication as good as face-to-face?
- Who should be responsible for protecting people's data?
- Has technology made people less patient?
- Do older people struggle to keep up with new technology?
这里如何组织回答
- 选一边，然后立刻说出对它最有力的反对意见。单这个结构就能撑满四十秒，而且听起来深思熟虑。
- 按代际或用途拆分。“It depends whether you mean staying in touch with family abroad or scrolling in the evening”就是7分的句子。
- 避免自信地预测。在这里，留有余地的将来表达——“I'd imagine”、“it could well”——比笃定得分更高。
- 把一个论点落在你亲眼见过的具体事物上。这能让回答不飘在空中。
这个话题需要的表达
第三部分评的是你能否在不夸大的情况下进行概括和推测。这些是在这个领域能起到这种作用的表达。
it cuts both ways
形容真正具有两面性的问题的准确习语
up to a point
部分同意，非常自然
I'd be wary of saying
表明你知道某个说法很强烈
a double-edged sword
常见，但在这个主题里用得恰到好处
it could well be that
留有余地的推测
on balance
用于权衡两面之后得出结论
这个话题的陷阱
发表一篇一边倒的演讲，讲科技如何毁掉社会。
考官常常故意反驳，看你怎么应对。没有任何让步的立场在被质疑时无路可走，而在质疑下卡住，损失比那个观点本身的价值还大。
其中两道题的8分回答
看的是技巧，不是观点——表明立场，按你真正相信的程度加以限定，给出支撑，并正视最有力的反对意见。你的观点完全可以和这些相反，得分照样一样。背诵的第三部分回答比第一部分更容易被识破，因为考官会就你刚说的话追问，而背好的稿子经不起追问。
Has technology made people less social?
Less social in person, more connected at distance, and I don't think those cancel out. The genuine loss is in the weak ties — the person you'd have spoken to in a queue or on a train, who you now don't because you both have a screen. Those interactions seemed worthless and there's reasonable evidence they weren't. What technology has been very good at is keeping strong ties alive across distance. My sister lives four hours away and I know more about her week than I did about my flatmate's twenty years ago.为什么有效拒绝问题设下的二元对立，不用术语就引入了一个真正的概念（weak ties），并用不同的证据分别支撑两个方面。
Should governments regulate social media companies?
I think they have to, and I'm fairly pessimistic about how well it'll be done. The case for it is straightforward — these are the largest publishers in history and they're the only ones with no liability for what they carry. The difficulty is that the people writing the rules generally don't understand the systems, so regulation tends to arrive late and aimed at the previous problem. I'd rather have imperfect regulation than none, but I'd hold expectations fairly low.为什么有效把立场和对它的把握程度分开说明，这是很高明的做法，而且提出的反对意见是程序层面的，而非意识形态层面的。
第三部分的其他话题
练习被反驳
Oliver会像真正的考官那样在第三部分反驳你——不是为了为难你，而是因为在轻微压力下坚持立场正是评分的内容。对着问题清单是练不出来的。第一次测试免费。
本指南依据公开发布的IELTS口语评分标准，用我们自己的话写成。官方原文请参阅 British Council的评分标准。MockLive AI是独立的练习工具，与IELTS、British Council、IDP及Cambridge University Press & Assessment均无关联。