在雅思口語考試中，讓考生們對比兩種事物或情景似乎是考官們的“心頭好”。下面我們就來看看對比類問題的居中較好的回答吧！
說到底，對比類問題的實質(zhì)其實就是Make comparison。當你在考場中聽到考官拋出的問題里含有“differences”, “prefer”, “which…”,“changes”, “advantages and disadvantages”等詞匯，你就一定要敏感地捕捉到考官問的是對比類問題了，此時，回答對比類問題的“特技”就要甩出來了。
特技一：比較級
兩者進行比較時，使用比較級算是最基本的“特技”了，比如eating at home is cheaper than eating out. 這種入門級的技巧只要分清楚什么樣的形容詞直接在單詞后面加上-er或是-ier, 而什么樣的形容詞要在前面加上more就行了。
特技二：比較級的修飾
如果你在回答此類問題時，能有意識地使用一些詞匯或是短語來修飾比較級的程度，那你就比其他考生更容易打動考官的心了，比如下面的幾個例句：
1. Eating at home isfarcheaper than eating out.
2. Travelling with others is a lot more fun than traveling on your own.
3. Going to a concert live isway more exciting than watching one on TV.
4. The pace of life in cities is quite a lotfaster than the countryside.
5. Life in the countryside is quite a bitmore laid-back than life in the city.
6. Swimming in the sea is considerablymore dangerous than swimming in a pool.
標注出來的詞匯就是用來表示比較的程度，除了我們常見的表達“much”, 這些用法能讓你的口語脫穎而出！而如果兩者對比的效果不是很強烈，我們可以用到以下的表達：
1. Studying with others isa bitmore enjoyable tan studying on your own.
2. Traveling by coach is slightly more expensive than traveling by train.
3. Newspapers arerelatively more informative than magazines.
4. Photos of people are generally a bit more interesting to look at than photos of scenery.
從以上的例子我們就可以看出副詞的高級之處了。用slightly, relatively這樣的副詞來表示輕微的對比也正是體現(xiàn)了口語表達講究細節(jié)化，具體化！另外，如果大家厭倦了經(jīng)常用”more”來進行比較，我們還可以嘗試去用”less”來替換，增強表達的多樣性，比如下面的四個例句：
1. Watching a concert at home is a lot less fun than going to one live.
2. Life is the countryside is generally less stressful than life in the city.
3. Watching a concert at homeisn’t as fun aswatching it on TV.
4. Mobile phones are generally not as expensive asthey used to be.
特技三：時態(tài)的多樣性
除了比較級，對比類問題的回答還常常涉及到時態(tài)的變化。筆者借用Part3來進行進一步的闡述。Part 3中的對比類問題一般分為五大類：中外、古今、老少、男女、大小。而“古今類”的對比，考生們最容易忽視時態(tài)的先后對比，筆者以下面的三個例句為代表：
1. Most cities noware extremely congested, whereas in the past, there didn’t use to bethat much traffic on the roads.
2.In the past, people used to spend a lot of their free time watching television, whereas nowadays, they are probably spending more time on the internet.
3.In the past, there used to be only a limited variety of restaurants,whereas nowadays, there’s a much wider range of places to eat at.
以上的三個例句中都進行了過去和現(xiàn)在情景的比較，而標注出的表達正是體現(xiàn)出考生對于時態(tài)的精確把握。這點其實在回答此類問題時尤為重要。除此以外，在進行過去和現(xiàn)在的對比時，我們還經(jīng)常運用到的表達有：
1. Cities are a lot more congestedthan they used to be.
2. The air quality in my hometown isn’t as good as it used to be.
3. Life is more stressful than it used to be.
1. Cities have become a lot more congested.
2. The air quality in most cities has gotquite a lot worse.
3. The quality of films in my country has improvedquite a bit.
溫馨提示，口語的表達想要地道、出彩，無需運用多么華麗的詞匯或是復雜的句型，只要細節(jié)化具體化一些，離理性的分數(shù)僅是一步之遙，兩者進行對比的時候，很多學生都會用“…than other…”這樣的句型，比如The service in Haidilao is better than other restaurants. 但是如果你再多走一小步，多用了一兩個簡單的詞匯，你的口語就會更加的地道，比如以下的例句：
1. “…than most otherrestaurants”
2. “…than many other restaurants”
3. “…than a lot of other restaurants”
4. “…than the majority of other restaurants I’ve been to”
對比類問題雖然看似簡單，但想要把簡單的問題回答更出彩，那么就需要下一定的功夫。然后再結(jié)合這篇小tips，相信你會事半功倍的~
