雅思托福干货|雅思口语之描述【书本和阅读】，素材积累＋高分范例

BOOKS AND READING

SPEAKING

In the IELTS speaking test, you will be asked questions about common daily topics, such as technology, education, and health. It is also quite common to be asked about reading and books. In this lesson, I’ll show you some common questions and give some sample answers.

在雅思口语考试中，你将被问到有关常见日常主题的问题，例如技术、教育和健康。关于阅读和书籍的问题也很常见。

BOOKS AND READING: HOW DOES

THIS TOPIC APPEAR IN IELTS?

First of all, I’ll just mention that this topic could pop up in any part of the IELTS exam. I’ve seen it in the listening, reading, speaking, and writing tests.

首先，这个话题可能会出现在雅思考试的任何部分。我在听力、阅读、口语和写作测试中都看到了这一点。

For IELTS speaking, it could appear in any three of the parts, so you need to be aware of that. Here’s how it would generally occur:

对于雅思口语来说，它可能出现在任何三个部分，所以你需要注意这一点。这是它通常是如何发生的。

· Part 1 – simple questions about books and your preferences in terms of reading

第一部分是关于书籍和阅读偏好的简单问题;

· Part 2 – you’ll have to describe a book or a library

第二部分是描述一本书或图书馆

· Part 3 – more abstract questions, perhaps relating to age or gender

Let’s now look in more depth at how reading and books could appear in IELTS speaking.

第三部分是比较抽象的问题，可能与年龄或性别有关。现在让我们更深入地了解阅读和书籍在雅思口语中的表现。

PART 1

In this part of the test, questions about books and reading will be quite basic and mostly about your personal opinions. Here are some sample questions (Q) and answers (A):

在测试的这一部分，关于书籍和阅读的问题将相当基础，主要关注你的个人观点。以下是一些示例问题（Q）和答案（A）的翻译：

· Q: Do you like reading?

· A: Yes, I love reading. I try to read at least one book every two weeks and I frequently read articles from magazines and journals.

Q：你喜欢阅读吗？

A：是的，我喜欢阅读。我尽量每两周至少读一本书，还经常阅读杂志和期刊上的文章。

· Q: Do you prefer fiction or non-fiction?

· A: Hmm. I like them both for different reasons, so I can’t say I necessarily prefer one more than the other. I usually alternate between novels and non-fiction books and I like them equally.

Q：你更喜欢小说还是非小说？

A：嗯。我都喜欢，因为各有不同的原因，所以我不能说我更喜欢哪一种。我通常在小说和非小说书籍之间交替阅读，并且我同样喜欢它们。

· Q: What’s your favourite book?

· A: Well, there are many books that I really like but I suppose the first one that comes to mind right now is Haruki Murakami’s Wind-up Bird Chronicle. I love the complexity and the mixture of realism and surrealism.

Q：你最喜欢的书是什么？
A：嗯，有很多我真的很喜欢的书，但我想现在首先浮现在我脑海中的是村上春树的《发条鸟编年史》。我喜欢它的复杂性和现实主义与超现实主义的结合。

· Q: Do you ever read poetry?

· A: Not often, but occasionally. I liked reading it when I was younger but nowadays I generally don’t find that it appeals to me. However, sometimes I will stumble upon a poetry book that I like and read it for a while.

Q：你读过诗歌吗？

A：不常读，但偶尔会。我年轻时喜欢读诗歌，但现在我发现它并不太吸引我。然而，有时我会偶然发现一本我喜欢的诗集并读一段时间。

· Q: Do you ever go to the library?

· A: There are no libraries where I live, so I don’t go now. However, when I was a child I was often at the library. Now, I buy my books online or in second-hand shops. I also read a lot on my Kindle.

Q：你去图书馆吗？

A：我住的地方没有图书馆，所以我现在不去。但是，当我还是个孩子的时候，我经常去图书馆。现在，我在网上或二手书店买书。我也在Kindle上读很多书。

· Q: Do you prefer reading paper books or digital ones?

· A: I slightly prefer paper books but I’m comfortable reading either. I suppose it depends in part on the type of e-reader. My new Kindle is great but I didn’t much like the older ones, and I can’t stand reading on an iPad or laptop.

Q：你更喜欢读纸质书还是电子书？

A：我稍微偏爱纸质书，但无论哪种我都很舒服。我想这在一定程度上取决于电子阅读器的类型。我的新款Kindle很棒，但我不太喜欢旧款的，我无法忍受在iPad或笔记本电脑上阅读。

TIPS FOR PART 1

You might feel that my answers here were too short, but they’re fine. We don’t need to say a lot at this point in the test. Avoid saying too little, though. You can generally think of your answers like this:

你可能会觉得我在这里的回答太短了，但它们都很好。在测试的这一点上，我们不需要说太多。不过要避免说得太少。你可以这样思考你的答案:

1. Answer the question directly

2. Give a little detail about your answer

1. 直接回答问题

2. 详细介绍一下你的答案

Remember that you’ll have plenty of time to speak at length in parts 2 and 3.

请记住，在第 2 部分和第 3 部分中，你将有足够的时间进行详细发言。

PART 2

An IELTS speaking part 2 question about books would likely revolve around describing a book or describing a library or bookshop.

雅思口语第二部分关于书籍的问题可能会围绕描述一本书或描述图书馆或书店展开。

I have given a detailed guide to describing a book here and you can see the video here: You might also appreciate this guide to IELTS cue cards.

我在这里给出了描述一本书的详细指南，你可以在这里看到这个视频:你可能也会喜欢这个雅思提词卡指南。

PART 3

For part 3, the questions will be a lot more difficult than in part 1. They are often a little abstract and involve “bigger issues” like society, technology, age, and so on. Instead of asking what you like to read, the examiner might ask about reading preferences between young people and old ones, or between men and women.

第三部分的问题会比第一部分难很多。它们通常有点抽象，涉及社会、技术、年龄等更大的问题。考官不会问你喜欢读什么书，而是会问年轻人和老年人，或者男性和女性的阅读偏好。

Here are some examples:

· Q: Do you think that ebooks will one day replace paper books?

· A: No, I don’t think so. However, they might become a lot more popular than they currently are. Ebooks clearly possess great value and as technology advances I think they will become increasingly common, but I think that printed books will continue to have a place. They might change form a little, but people generally prefer them and so I cannot see them becoming obsolete in the near future.

· Q: 你认为电子书有一天会取代纸质书吗？

· A: 不，我不这么认为。然而，它们可能会变得比现在更加流行。电子书显然具有很大的价值，随着技术的进步，我认为它们将变得越来越普遍，但我认为纸质书将继续存在。它们的形式可能会有所改变，但人们通常更喜欢纸质书，因此我认为在不久的将来它们不会变得过时。

· Q: How can children be encouraged to read?

· A: First of all, it’s important that reading is not a chore for them. If children are told that they have to read certain books, they will view it as an unpleasant task and the things they prefer, such as video games, will be the reward for finishing that task. However, this means that they won’t read unless they are forced to. As such, it’s important to let children find the joy in reading and that will typically come from a playful early exposure. I think the best way is having parents read to children when they are young, so that they gain positive associations and come to appreciate this way of enjoying a story.

· Q: 如何鼓励孩子们阅读？

· A: 首先，重要的是要让孩子们觉得阅读不是一项任务。如果孩子们被告知必须阅读某些书籍，他们就会将其视为一项不愉快的任务，而他们更喜欢的东西，比如视频游戏，就会成为完成这项任务的奖励。然而，这意味着除非他们被强迫，否则他们不会阅读。因此，让孩子们在阅读中找到乐趣是很重要的，而这种乐趣通常来自于早期愉快的接触。我认为最好的方法是父母在孩子年幼时为他们朗读，这样他们就会获得积极的联想，并开始欣赏这种享受故事的方式。

· Q: Will libraries still exist in the future?

· A: Sadly, I think that they will become less common, but they still will exist. Although ebooks and the internet will make libraries less important, it is likely that they will have a place in society because they offer various services beyond just borrowing printed books. Libraries loan ebooks, for example, as well as software. They are a place for people without a PC to use one and they do contain information that is not yet online.

·问:未来图书馆还会存在吗?

·答:很遗憾，我认为图书馆会变得不那么普遍，但它们仍然会存在。虽然电子书和互联网会让图书馆变得不那么重要，但它们很可能会在社会上占有一席之地，因为它们提供的服务不仅仅是借阅纸质书。例如，图书馆借出电子书和软件。它们是供没有个人电脑的人使用的地方，它们确实包含了尚未在线的信息。

· Q: There are differences between the sorts of books that appeal to men and women?

· A: Generally, I think there are but of course we should keep in mind that anyone should be free to read anything they want. We can easily see that young boys and girls have major differences in their innate preferences and I think this carries over to adulthood. There is a sort of cliché that women like romantic books and men like action, and this definitely has some truth in it, although obviously many genres are enjoyed by both genders.

· Q: 吸引男性和女性的书籍类型有差异吗？

· A: 一般来说，我认为是有差异的，但当然我们应该记住，任何人都应该自由地阅读他们想读的任何东西。我们很容易看出，小男孩和小女孩在天生喜好上有很大的差异，我认为这种差异会一直持续到成年。有一种陈词滥调说女性喜欢浪漫小说，而男性喜欢动作小说，这确实有一定的道理，尽管显然两个性别都喜欢很多类型的书籍。

TIPS FOR PART 3

Notice that each of my answers was developed. I followed a similar patterns as I did for part 1, but with more explanation:

请注意，我的每一个答案都是经过深思熟虑的。我遵循了与第1部分类似的模式，但做了更多的解释:

1. Directly answer the question

2. Explain

3. Explain further or give example

1. 直接回答问题

2. 解释

3. 进一步解释或者给出例子

It’s worth practising this in order to expand your ideas sufficiently without repetition. You also will want to bring your answer to a natural conclusion, although this is mostly done with tone rather than words.

为了在不重复的情况下充分扩展你的想法，这是值得练习的。你也会想让你的答案得到一个自然的结论，尽管这主要是通过语气而不是语言来完成的。

这一期的分享就到这里啦！

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