雅思听力真题（Part 3）
Part 3 · 考频：中频
答案：contains a useful tool for visuals
原文定位：There was National Geographic. The thing there that struck me was a facility for creating tailor-made maps. We might like to use that when it comes to presenting our findings
答案：information is not freely accessible
原文定位：Also, I checked out the United Nations website. That one had masses of useful stuff. Only I couldn't get at it;I know. It was for subscribers only, right
同义替换：「not freely accessible」↔「for subscribers only」
答案：some information is missing
原文定位：I looked at the website of an agency called the Energy Information Administration. There were some population statistics there that we could use, but there didn't seem to be any figures for energy use. So that site would only be suitable to a limited extent for our purposes
同义替换：「some information is missing」↔「didn't seem to be any figures for energy use」
答案：too detailed for their purposes
原文定位：There was lots of data, actually. Uh, the only thing is it went into more depth than was necessary for our assignment, and we'd have to collate a lot of the figures to arrive at an overview
同义替换：「too detailed」↔「went into more depth than was necessary」
答案：up-to-date information
原文定位：I also looked on the Central Intelligence Agency website;Hmm, I never had thought of that;Something worth noting, it seemed to be the only place I looked at that had data for this current year
同义替换：「up-to-date information」↔「data for this current year」
答案：useful historical information
原文定位：And I also found stuff on the World Bank site, and that had figures going back quite a long way
同义替换：「useful historical information」↔「figures going back quite a long way」
答案：They will limit the scale of their investigation,They will collect data about two groups of countries
原文定位：I think one thing we've got to be careful about is biting off more than we can chew;But what if we narrowed it down further? I'd be happy with that;twenty countries in all, the top ten consumers of energy in the region and also the bottom ten
同义替换：「limit the scale」↔「narrowed it down」，「investigation」↔「data research」
答案：collecting basic figures,processing the raw data
原文定位：Your math is better than mine, so I'll volunteer to search out all of the raw data we need if you're prepared to do the necessary number crunching;Since the graphics were my idea, I'll take those on. But do you mind doing the text;I'll edit the whole report;as long as you'll agree to look over everything and give it the finishing touches
同义替换：「basic figures」↔「raw data」，「responsible for」↔「volunteer to」，「collecting」↔「search out」