雅思阅读真题答案：龙涎香Ambergris

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雅思阅读真题答案：龙涎香 Ambergris

文章标题    Ambergris 龙涎香     文章大意    关于ambergris龙涎香和amber琥珀

第一段说 ambergris这个东西很久以前就有了，然后说ambergris的用途有 for medicine， spice，用来制作perfume 什么的等等（有题，matching） 然后说但是人们不知道它是从哪里来的，再就是说在古代it worth in weight in gold，当然是贵了。

第二段说 以前人们一直把ambergris和amber当作一种东西。但是有个叫Dick的作者 写了一本书 讲了这两个东西的区别（有题，matching）说ambergris 通常发现在海面或者shore，但是仍然不知道是从哪里来的。 Amber是一种什么东西，与松树pine有关，   然后说了amber的一些特性 hard，transparent， 等等，用来做装饰品， 头饰什么的，  同样 very costly。（有题，matching）

第三段说ambergris是与sperm whale的intestine肠子里的消化digest 某种东西有关。以为intestine会有题，结果没有，提到了马可波罗，好像与这个发现有关（没题，当笑话好了）

第四段就是具体describe ambergris的产生过程了。（summary 题）大意是，sperm whale吃一种东西 叫 beaks of squalid， 肠子就有助消化，但是不能完全消化，就转化成了另一种东西，应该是体内的垃圾。这种垃圾是soft的，会被sperm whale 呕吐出来 be vomited up。 然后这种东西遇到空气就会变硬 harden， 于是就形成了 ambergris了，也解释了为什么ambergris总在海面和shore被发现。

第五段 说人们为了获得ambergris而捕杀sperm whale 导致了濒临灭绝。给了一个数据 说in 20th century， 90% ambergris was made in the processing of killing sperm whale。（有题， TFNG）ambergris was still the most expensive product in the whole body of sperm whale，大意是这样的。 于是人们就开始采取措施保护sperm whale， 在工业生产中采用了很多ambergris的替代品，例如香水制造业中就用了某种东西，代替了ambergris。

第六段 说 sperm whale的数量会有recover的那么一天，没题。    题目类型    Matching

Summary填空

T/F/NG    参考答案    Matching

A only ambergris

B only amber

C both

D neither

·very expensive   C

·use in medicine   A

·use as currency  D

·refers to in a Book written by Dick _x  C

·could be seen through    B Summary填空

ambergris的形成步骤龙涎香是抹香鲸的呼吸道分泌物

·sperm whale 吃下去 beaks of squalid，

·_x be vomited up，

·hardens when exposure on air T/F/NG

·20th century most ambergris was made in the processing of killing of sperm whale。 T

·Ambergris’s cost increased recently。 NG

·ambergris still remains in the perfume making。 F

·关于保护鲸鱼的 F

两招教你突破雅思阅读判断题三大难点

但凡接触过雅思真题或曾经亲历雅思考场的考生大多对TRUE/FALSE/NOT GIVEN (另一种写法为YES/NO/NOT GIVEN)的题型颇有印象，原因有二：

一是此题型在考场上出现频率极高，仅以为例，全年48场雅思考试场场都有此题型的身影;

二是此题型虽然备选项只有三个，答题命中率在理论上比四选一的单选题还高，却颇不容易全盘做对。

下面笔者将带领读者一起来仔细认识与分析雅思阅读判定题的概念、套路、难点和解决之道。

雅思判断题的定义

理解判断题的第一步是理解TRUE/FALSE/NOT GIVEN的定义，逐一分析如下：

TRUE (YES)的定义为the statement agrees with the information/the views (claims) of the writer，即“此说法与原文信息/作者的观点或主张相符”。这里的重点信息在于agree with的概念，此选项并非要求题干与原文的内容一模一样，而只要符合原文信息即可。

举个例子说明，原文句子说“这个女生长得很漂亮”，那么题干说“这个女生长得很好看”或“这小姑娘长相真是还可以”都是与原文信息相符，此时考生要选TRUE (YES)。

FALSE (NO)的定义为the statement contradicts the information，即“如果此说法与原文信息相矛盾和抵触”。这里的重点信息在于contradict一词：contra是“相反”“相违背”的意思，dict则是“陈述”“说明”的意思。也就是说，应选FALSE的题干与原文信息是相矛盾、相违背、相抵触的，原文中给出的已知信息可以直接或经过合理推理否定掉题干的内容。

比如，原文说“这个女生长得很漂亮”，那题干说“这姑娘长得真丑”就是错误的，或者题干说“这位小娘子貌似无颜”，也是错误的。

NOT GIVEN的定义为there is no information on this/it is impossible to say what the writer thinks about this，即“此说法在原文中找不到”或“没法知道作者对此是怎么看的”。许多考生都将此视为最麻烦的一个选项，因为如果不能把整篇文章都看完并且看懂，每个NOT GIVEN的选项都是在惴惴不安的心情中写下的。

NOT GIVEN的情况其实可以分为以下两种：

① 原文中完全没有提及题干所说的相关内容，不过这种完全无中生有的题目比较罕见;

② 原文中提到的相关信息与题干内容不属于同一个范围或性质。

比如题干说“这个女生长得很好看”，而原文中提到的与“此女生”有关的内容是“这个女生是个善良的好孩子，这种情况下，长相和个性虽然都是在描述这个女生，但两者既不一致也不矛盾，此时考生应选NOT GIVEN。

雅思判定题出题套路

判断题的逻辑其实不难理解，但许多考生依然烦恼：看定义貌似懂了，一到做题的时候还是纠结不已。这跟考生的单词量、语法基础、长难句分析能力和思维习惯等方面都有关系。不过总结起来，每个选项的出题还是有一定套路的。

以下笔者来一一详述。

1. TRUE (YES)的出题套路

① 直接说对

“直接说对”指的是题干的意思与原文定位到的句子只是简单的同义替换，考生能直接判断题干所说与原文信息相符。

这样的题目其实是在考查考生的单词量大小，因为题干会使用不同的词汇对原文进行同义替换。

比如题干说long-term medical complaints，原文说chronic illnesses，考生就不但要认识long-term与chronic是同义替换关系，而且要明白medical与complaint组合在一起并不是“医疗投诉、医疗纠纷”这类意思，而是作为一个词组表示“疾病”。

备考此类题目的最好策略就是补充单词和词组。而备考的最好材料莫过于《剑桥雅思考试全真试题集》(以下简称《剑4》《剑5》等)系列。考生多看几篇以往的真题就会发现，有许多词汇和词组会高频地出现在不同题材的文章里，因此仔细研读真题文章中的生词能有效帮助解决词汇的问题。

② 间接说对

“间接说对”指的是有些题干需要根据原文某句话或几句话进行简单推理或综合理解才能判断其是TRUE (YES)。

应对此种情况，考生在读文章时请务必耐心一些，在定位到某句话而不能充分判断时，需根据情况补充上句话的背景信息或追加下句话的进一步信息，进而得出更准确的结论。

以下面这个真题为例。

例1：The survey concluded that one-fifth or 20% of the household transport requirement as outside the local area. (《剑七》Test 2 Passage 3第34题)

原文：Interesting facts regarding transport were found: 95% was on foot; 80% was within the locality; and 70% was related to the collection of water and firewood and travelling to grinding mills.

解析：在定位到的原文句子里，考生虽然不能直接找到题干中的20%，但从原文中可以看出“本地范围内占80%”(80% was within the locality)，就可以推断出“本地范围外有20%”，由此得出本题应选TRUE。

③ 复杂同义表述

“复杂同义表述”指的是题干与定位到的原文句子同义替换更多更复杂，原文的表述方式也更曲折迂回，语序不符合中文读者理解习惯，考生有可能受自身语言能力所限看不出来题干与原文是同义替换。

针对此种情况，考生可以在考场上先跳过此题，集中精力解决其它更有把握的题目，以保证整体得分;也可以在平时备考中注意练习精读分析能力，让自己见多识广，看到多长的句子都心中不怵，能从容应对。

例2：Nineteenth-century studies of the nature of genius failed to take into account the uniqueness of the person’s upbringing. (《剑8》Test 3 Passage 2第19题)

原文：However, the difficulty with the evidence produced by these studies, fascinating as they are in collecting together anecdotes and apparent similarities and exceptions, is that they are not what we would today call norm-referenced. In other words, when, for instance, information is collated about early illnesses, methods of upbringing, schooling, etc., we must also take into account information from other historical sources about how common or exceptional these were at the time.

译文：但是，虽然(19世纪的)这些研究在收集汇总天才们的人生轶事以及他们之间显著的相似和与众不同这些方面颇为引人入胜，然而使用这些证据的困难之处在于，它们并不是我们今天所说的“常模参照”研究。换句话说，例如当我们收集关于早期疾病、儿童抚养方法、学校教育等信息时，我们必须也同时参考来自其他历史记载中的相关信息，考察这些情况在当时究竟是常见还是少见的。

解析：本题的题干是说“19世纪里对天才本质的研究没能考虑到此人养育方式的独特与否”，而从定位到的原文的译文可知，早期的研究确实没有考虑这些儿童养育方法等问题，由此本题应选TRUE。

这是一个利用长难句来考查考生阅读理解能力的典型例子，难度同时在于单词和耐心两处，很多考生都觉得，连读中文译文都有点不耐烦，要理解包含若干陌生单词的英语长句就更难了。

对此，考生最好的应对之道就是培养耐心，认真看。平时认真分析精读长难句，熟悉长难句的句式结构，在考场上就更能轻松地应对。

2. FALSE (NO)的出题套路

① 直接、明显的矛盾和抵触

有的题干与定位到的原文是明显的矛盾抵触关系，此时考生应选FALSE/NO选项。请看下面这个例子。

例3：Current thinking on humour has largely ignored Aristotle’s view on the subject. (《剑5》Test 2 Passage 2第17题)

原文：But modern humour theorists have settled on some version of Aristotle’s belief that jokes are based on a reaction to or resolution of incongruity, when the punchline is either a nonsense or, though appearing silly, has a clever second meaning.

解析：虽然这道题定位到的原文句子生词很多，句子很长，但是对于“Aristotle’s belief that …”后面的东西考生通通不用看。考生需要弄清楚的是，现在对幽默的研究有没有忽略亚里士多德(Aristotle)的观点，有这个原文中的settle on (选定)就可以直接判断出，题干与原文是相互矛盾与抵触的。

② 间接不明显的矛盾和抵触

这种出题思路需要考生根据定位到的原文句子进行推断才能发现题干与原文的矛盾之处。这一题型专门用于对付那些想偷个小懒只找词汇的同义替换而不管整个句子到底在说什么的考生。请牢记：句子永远大于单独的词汇，不能只看单词而不管句子意思或上下文中的衔接关系。来看一个经典例子。

例4：The 1993 Sydney survey involved 289 patients who visited alternative therapists for acupuncture treatment. (《剑4》Test 2 Passage 2第22题)

原文：In 1993, Dr. Laver and his colleagues published a survey of 289 Sydney people who attended eight alternative therapists’ practices in Sydney. These practices offered a wide range of alternative therapies from 25 therapists.

解析：很多考生定位到上述原文句子之后，因为在原文句子中没有找到acupuncture (针灸疗法)这个不认识的词而选了NOT GIVEN选项。然而这里的两句话所给出的内容其实是可以否定掉题干的。从原文的意思可知，1993年悉尼调查里确实有289个病人，这些病人接受了八家诊所由25位治疗师提供的a wide range of (一系列)的治疗。换言之，这289位病人接受了各种治疗，由此可以反推知道他们接受的一定不是任何单一的治疗，而题干则说这289位病人接受的都是针灸疗法这一种，与原文产生矛盾，应选FALSE。

3. NOT GIVEN的出题套路

① 原文和题干的描述性质不同

这种出题思路对考生的英语阅读和理解水平要求都较高，因此按照这种思路出的题往往会让考生感到难以判断。举例说明，冷水与热水是矛盾的，因为它们都在描述“水的温度”这个属性;然而冷水与茶水则既不能说一致，也不能说彼此矛盾：这两者一个在说水的温度，另一个则说水的状态，此时考生应该选择NOT GIVEN。请看下面一个例子。

例5：Plato believed humour to be a sign of above-average intelligence. (《剑5》Test 2 Passage 2第15题)

原文：Plato expressed the idea that humour is simply a delighted feeling of superiority over others.

解析：对比题干与定位到的原文，两者确实都是在说柏拉图对“幽默是什么”的表述，但原文说“幽默是感觉”，题干说“幽默是智商”，感觉和智商的性质不同，但并不彼此矛盾，此时考生应选NOT GIVEN。

② 把观点当事实，或把事实当观点

事实是客观的而观点是主观的，这二者既不一致也不矛盾。“某个人对于某件事怎么想”既不能等同于也不能否定掉这件事的客观定性。同理，客观定了性的某件事未必就意味着特定的某个人也是这么想。考生应该将事实与观点区分开。请看下面这个例子。

例6：The Lumiere Brothers’ film about the train was one of the greatest films ever made. (《剑6》Test 3 Passage 1第7题)

原文：One of the Lumiere Brothers’ earliest films was a 30-second piece which showed a section of a railway platform flooded with sunshine. A train appears and heads straight for the camera. And that is all that happens. Yet the Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky, one of the greatest of all film artists, described the film as a ‘work of genius.’

解析：对比原文和题干，考生应该明白，原文说“最伟大的导演之一安德烈·塔可夫斯基(Andrei Tarkovsky)认为这部电影是天才之作”既不能等同于题干的“这部电影确实是最伟大的作品之一”，也无法否定掉题干的说法，因此此题只能选NOT GIVEN这项。

③ 把原文里出现的两个没有进行比较的内容放在一起比较

这种出题思路主要针对的是某些考生在考试中出现疲惫、马虎的心理，只单纯在原文中找到几个题干里的关键词就匆忙认为都被提及或表述一致，最终因为忽略了整句的意思而导致错选。

例7：Early peoples found it easier to count by using their fingers rather than a group of pebbles. (《剑6》Test 2 Passage 3第40题)

原文：Counting is not directly related to the formation of a number concept because it is possible to count by matching the items being counted against a group of pebbles, grains of corn, or the counter’s fingers.

解析：此题的题干是将用手指数数与用石头数数进行了对比，然而在定位到的原文中却没有进行此种比较。这种“没有比较的比较”算是比较常见的NOT GIVEN选项的出题套路。

难点与解决之道

判断题的难点主要包括以下几点：

考生单词量不足，导致不能正确理解题干和原文

单词量不够并不仅仅是考生在应对判断题时所面临的问题，它是一个在所有英语考试中都令考生头疼的一个根本性问题。积累单词没有什么捷径，唯有少量多次、稳步积累、不断复习、巩固强化。一个人无论记忆力多么超乎常人，也不大可能日背千词、过目不忘。而制订合理的背单词计划，考生哪怕每天只补充10~20个单词，只要坚持下去，日积月累也能收获回报。

考生对单词意思了解不足，导致理解错误

部分考生在背诵单词时只记中文释义，不结合例句来理解，这样即使强记下了单词意思，却往往会导致对单词的意思了解不足。

例如，contemporary一词的释义是“当代的，现代的”，但要注意：不是只有我们的当下才能称为“当代”，任何一个给定时间点都有自己的“当代”，比如，与李白contemporary的人有杜甫，与莎士比亚contemporary的人有伊丽莎白一世女王。如果看到这个单词就将它等同于modern来理解，就有可能因为误解而做出错误选择。

如何避免出现这样的情况呢?

最好的办法莫过于对剑桥雅思真题里的文章进行仔细分析和精读，在语境下真正弄懂单词、词组和固定搭配的用法，储备真正掌握了的词汇来应对考试。

考生读题马虎，过度推理，导致误解了题干或原文句子

这个问题其实最不应该发生在考场上，却往往是考生容易“大意失荆州”之处。举个笔者的学生曾经产生过误解的例子：“Archaeology is a more demanding field of study than anthropology.” 这个题干原本表达的意思是“考古学是一门比人类学更加艰深的研究领域”，笔者的学生却曾将它理解成“考古学比人类学需要做更多的田野调查”，出现这个问题的原因是考生将field与study之间的那个of看漏了。

这样的问题该如何克服?

考生可以通过加大平时的英文阅读量来解决，熟能生巧，读得多了就能准确而快速地理解所读英文的真正意思。

面对阅读中的生词，我们一定要查字典么?

很多学生在做雅思阅读的时候，遇到生单词会习惯性地立马去查字典，总觉得不查就没有办法做题。可考试中我们可是查不了单词的，所以今天我来讲讲猜单词的方法。

通过词的前后缀 (前缀表意，后缀表词性)

E.g：Internet—net是“网”，inter-是有互通，互联的意思，所以Internet是“互联网”;

那么national“国家的”变成international就是“国际的”;

City“城市”变成“inter-city”就是“城际的”。

通过符号来看意思--冒号，括号和破折号表解释说明

E.g：Video recordings avoid these problems to a large extent, but even they have limitations (the camera cannot be everywhere), and …(C4T3P3)

这句话中学生若不明白limitation的含义，完全可以通过括号里面的意思猜到limitation是贬义词，就是不好的，对于理解不理解的到是“限制”的意思对做题没有影响，题目照样能做对。

Typically, children do not end up on the streets due to a single cause, but to a combination of factors: a dearth of adequately funded schools, the demand for income at home, family breakdown and violence.(C4T3P1)

冒号后面即为解释说明什么是a combination of factors，或者简单来说就是有哪些factors，因题目问的是孩子们为什么会沦落街头，那在冒号后面就是作为答题的重要依据了。

Chimpanzees have a “play-face”—a gaping expression accompanied by a panting “ah,ah” noise.(C5T2P2)

破折号在这里解释说明了什么是play-face，简单解释也就是一种expression，那么如果学生能够定位准确，不能理解什么是play-face，对答案的判断也没有任何影响。

特别注意：很多学生分不清连词符和破折号。连词符是短的，并且和单词之间没有空格;儿破折号是长的，且和前后单词有空格。

其实符号在雅思阅读中用来表解释说明的现象非常普遍，只是很多学生在做题的时候并没有意识到出题人的这个考察点，因为非常的细微，一般语法能力还不错的学生其实在不经意间已经用了上述猜单词方法，只是自己没有意识到而已。所以对于基础薄弱的学生，要重点提出，加以总结，让其能够在阅读中应用。

同位语、插入语表解释说明

E.g：Graeme Ritchie, a computational linguist in Edinburgh, studies the linguistic structure of jokes in order to understand not only humor but language understanding and reasoning in machines. (C5T2P2)

本句提到Graeme Ritchie这个人，这个人是谁呢，后面解释说他是a computational linguist in Edinburgh，结合我们所说第一点，不认识computational，但computer应该知道，-al结尾形容词，linguist以-ist结尾，表“...人/家”，后面一个in+大写，猜也知道是地名，所以大概能猜到这个人是电脑方面的一个什么专家。如果能判断到这一点，对后面的判断18题会很有帮助。

特别注意：同位语注意是位置的“位”，也就是说和被解释词在句中的位置是相同的，这类用法多见于解释专有名词(比如人名，地名)，这对于做配对题和一些细节判断题很有帮助;其次要注意的是有时候插入语两边的逗号也会变成两个破折号，其用意相同，完全可以当做两个逗号看待。

表“包含、包括、举例”的

E.g：World science is dominated today by a small number of languages, including Japanese, German and French…(C5T2P3)

这个例子比较简单，但是如果真的不认识languages，完全可以通过Japanese, German and French来猜测其意思，一定是上一级词汇，所以意思是“语言”。也就是说看到include，involve，contain，for example，for instance，such as等表“包含、例如”的词时候，若能认识这些词后面一到两个词的意思，会帮助猜测这些词之前的单词意思，一定是这一到两个词的上义词。

定语从句

E.g：And they are known to have used wooded pulleys, which could have been made strong enough to bear the weight of massive blocks of stone.(C7T4P1)

His talent and devotion to the subject were perceived by his teacher, Thomas Hall, who encouraged him to attend a series of lectures given by the eminent scientist Michael Faraday at the Royal Institution. (C9T1P1)

定语从句本身是修饰作用，但这种句子的修饰其实是在帮助我们理解一个复杂词汇，把不懂得具象化。比如第一句的wooden pulleys不知道，后面大致能明白说是它可以承受巨大重量，那只要理解这个wooden pulleys是个可以承重的东西即可;同理，第二个句子不仅有定语从句，还用到了方法3，Thomas Hall是谁，是his teacher，他怎么了，他鼓励他学生去参加Michael Faraday的课，进一步解释说明了Thomas Hall的身份。

知道一些单词的熟词僻义--通过语境判断意思

这个方法是给英语词汇还不错的学生的，很多学生会有一个困扰是虽然背了很多单词，但好像还是不能看懂文章，这里并不是本文讲解重点，所以不在此赘述，但是其中一个原因就是本来认识的单词却换了意思。

比如在实验类文章中，study不是“学习”的意思，而是“研究”的意思;subject不是“课程、科目”，而是“实验对象”;solution不是“解决办法”，而是“溶液”，比如在C9T1P1中提到purple solution，不可能是“紫色解决办法”吧，所以这里应该明白其有另一个意思。

再比如在天文类文章中orbit是轨迹，但是其还有一个意思是“眼眶”(曾在C5T2P2考过);

还有，pupil是“学生”，但还有一个意思是“瞳孔”。

所以这也是平时在做题中需要总结归纳的要点，要引起重视。

雅思阅读真题答案：龙涎香 Ambergris

篇2：雅思阅读真题及答案：rainwaterharvesting

Reading Passage 1

Title：村庄储存雨水的活动 Rainwater harvesting (旧)

Question types:Short Answer Questions 6

YES/ NO/ NOT GIVEN 8

文章内容：雨水回收系统。一个干旱地区，主要是描述一个村庄发展了一种储水系统进行雨水的收集。

文章分析：

Rainwater harvesting

For two years southern Sri Lanka suffered a prolonged drought, described by locals as “the worst in 50 years”. Some areas didn't see a successful crop for four or five consecutive seasons. Livestock died，water in wells dropped to dangerously low levels, children were increasingly malnourished and school attendance has fallen. Anestimated 1.6 million people were affected.

A Muthukandiya is a village in Moneragaladistrict, one of the drought-stricken areas in the “dry zone” of southern Sri Lanka (斯里兰卡), where half the country's population of18 million lives. Rainfall in the area varies greatly from year to year, often bringing extreme dry spells in between monsoons (季风).But this drought was much worse than usual. Despite some rain inNovember, only half of Moneragala's 1,400 tube wells were in workingorder by March. The drought devastated supplies of rice and freshwaterfish, the staple diet of inland villages. Many local industries closed downand villagers headed for the towns in search of work.

B The villagers of Muthukandiya arrived in the 1970s as part of agovernment resettlement scheme. Each family was given six acres of land,with no irrigation system. Because crop production, which relies entirelyon rainfall, is insufficient to support most families, the village economyrelies on men and women working as day-labourers in nearby sugar-caneplantations. Three wells have been dug to provide domestic water, butthese run dry for much of the year. Women and children may spendseveral hours each day walking up to three miles (five kilometres) to fetchwater for drinking, washing and cooking.

(部分文章节选)

篇3：雅思阅读真题及答案：rainwaterharvesting

Q1-6: 简答题 ( NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS)

1. What is the major way for local people make barely a support of living in Muthukandiya village?

Crop production B段第三行

2. Where can adult workers make extra money from in daytime?

Sugar-cane plantations

3. What have been dug to supply water for daily household life?

Three wells

4. In which year did the plan of a new project to lessen the effect of drought begin?

1998

5. Where do the gutters and pipes collect rainwater from?

roofs of houses

6. What help family obtain more water for domestic needs than those relying on only wells and ponds?

Storage tanks

Q7-14: YES/NO/NOT GIVEN

7. NG

Most of the government's actions and other programs have somewhat failed.

8. YES

Masons were trained for the constructing parts of the rainwater harvesting system.

9. NO

The cost of rainwater harvesting systems was shared by local villagers and the local government.

10. YES

Tanks increase both the amount and quality of the water for domestic use.

11. NO

To send her daughter to school, a widow had to work for a job in rainwater harvesting scheme.

12. NOT GIVEN

Households benefited began to pay part of the maintenance or repairs.

13. NOT GIVEN

Training two masons at the same time is much more preferable to training single one.

14. NO

Other organizations had built tanks larger in size than the tanks built in Muthukandya.

雅思阅读--自答自问的游戏

雅思与其它标准考试(如GRE)不同，它仅考查语言。这对于考试者意味着什么呢?这表明，雅思考试并不考查你的推理能力。

这一规律怎样应用呢?虽然有时你会被问到出题者不会给你提供信息然后让你基于这些信息得出结论。相反，他们给你提供信息并问你这些信息。基本上，他们都是让你重复刚刚给你的信息。答案就在你眼前......一篇文章的主题或为这篇文章选一个合适的标题，但绝大多数的问题都会关注文章中给出的细节信息。你要做的仅是把他提供的信息再重复给他。你不会被要求基于这些信息得出结论。以下面的摘录为例：

“Research in Britain has shown that “green consumers” continue to flourish as a significant group amongst shoppers. This suggests that politicians who claim environmentalism is yesterday’s issue may be seriously misjudging the public mood.” Based upon this passage, you will never be asked a question like:“There has been a continued presence of “green consumers” in the British market because of …”

A. the rise of the Green party.

B. Concern with global warming

C. Fear of Mad Cow Disease

D. Concern with general state of environment

这些答案都没有的文章中出现。所以，雅思考试绝不会问这类问题。相反，他们会问这样的问题：

“Politicians may have “misjudged the public mood” because…”

A. they are pre-occupied with the recession and financial problems.

B. There is more widespread interest in the environmental agenda than they anticipated.

C. Consumer spending has increased significantly as a result of “green” pressure.

D. Shoppers are displeased with government policies on a range of issues.

正如文中所说，政治家们认为消费者不再关心环境问题是他们错误判断了民意。答案显易见。这就是雅思考试的出题方法。正确答案是“B”。

对于此规律也会出现一些例外，我们也发现了一些。但至少现在我们弄清了自己的任务。我们的任务并非掌握或记忆面前的信息，而是了解出题者让我们寻找的信息是什么。因为我们知道可以找得到所有的答案，下面我们要掌握的就是怎样寻找了。如果我们的阅读的同时就知道要找什么，我们甚至可能在知道问题是什么之前就找到答案。

雅思阅读如何“临时抱佛脚”

首先是时间掌控

正确的时间分配可以帮助考生在考场上最大限度的发挥自己的实际水平，提高整体正确率。合理的时间安排，原则上是20分钟一篇。

但是考生都有自己熟悉的话题和有把握的题材。所以，在正式开始做题之前，考生不妨可以通过标题浏览等方式Skim三篇文章，按照自己的实际情况对于三篇文章的难易程度进行定位，确定哪篇文章是自己把握性比较大的，对于这种比较有把握文章一定要保证时间充足，这样有助于整体正确率的提升。但是每一篇文章原则上最多不超过25分钟，否则考生是没有办法有效率的完成40道题目的。

在时间分配这一点上，要特别提醒那些基础比较好的考生。因为此类考生往往更加容易“栽跟头”。雅思阅读文章篇幅较长，之后还有四十道题目需要完成，这就要求考生精读和泛读相结合。需要提别提出的是，文章中的信息有主次之分，那些与考题相关的信息才是考生需要精读的内容。而基础较好的同学往往为了保证正确率会采取全篇精读的方式去完成题目，这样的话就没有办法保证在规定的时间内完成所有题目。

最后需要在时间安排上提醒考生们注意的是，要留取填写答题卡的时间。雅思考试第一场听力考试是有10分钟的时间留给考生填写答题卡的。但是在紧接着的第二场阅读考试中，填写答题卡的时间包含在一个小时考试时间里面。在此，雅思中国网海外考试研究中心的老师们建议考生，分篇填写答案。完成一篇之后就把答案填写在答题卡上，这样可以避免最后完全来不及填写答题卡的情况出现。

正确的做题顺序

除去时间掌控之外，考生们在考场上还要注意的是考试的题型安排。正确的做题顺序可以帮助考生更加有效的完成题目。

雅思学术类阅读现在官网上分为十大题型：

Multiple Choice;Short-answer questions;Sentence Completion;Notes, Summary or Table/Flow-chart Completion;Labelling a Diagram;Headings;Locating Information;Identification of Writer’s Views/Claims or of Information in a Text;Classification;Matching。

这些题型绝大多数题目是细节型的题。一般来说，建议考生按照从大意题到细节题的做题顺序完成整篇试题。也就是说，在考试过程中，如果考生遇到“Headings”这种标准的大意题，当然是需要最先完成的。而其他细节题在考生对于文章大意有所了解的前提下去完成会很容易定位。在此需要特别说明的是最近很流行的细节配对题，一般建议考生安排在其他题目完成之后再去完成，这样考生对于文章的结构和各段的大意都有比较清晰的了解，在这个基础上再去完成细节配对题会节约很多定位的时间，而且正确率也会有所提升。

良好的心理素质

最后要提醒即将考试的“烤鸭”们的就是信心和情绪。良好的心理素质是在考场上正常发挥水平的重要保证。

长期辛苦的备考之后，考生们有理由相信自己会在考场上取得满意的成绩。适当的自信也是阅读速度和解题正确率的保证。另外，有些考生如果碰到的文章是自己不熟悉的领域或不熟悉的题型就会大受“打击”，影响做题情绪。这个是完全没有必要的。要明白有时候文章当中那些生词往往根本不会影响考生做题，属于我们上文所提及的次要信息。所以千万不要让那些次要的内容影响了做题目的情绪，否则就是得不偿失了。

专家题的这三条建议也许不多，但却能够给即将上阵的“烤鸭”们一个很好的提醒和帮助，只要按照老师的建议走下去，再加上自己的努力，相信考生们会考出一鸣惊人的成绩的。

雅思阅读真题及答案：rainwater harvesting

篇4：阅读考试模拟雅思真题及答案

阅读考试模拟雅思真题及答案

20雅思考试阅读模拟试题及答案(五)

Don’t wash those fossils!

Standard museum practice can wash away DNA.

1. Washing， brushing and varnishing fossils — all standard conservation treatments used by many fossil hunters and museum curators alike — vastly reduces the chances of recovering ancient DNA.

2. Instead， excavators should be handling at least some of their bounty with gloves， and freezing samples as they are found， dirt and all， concludes a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences today.

3. Although many palaeontologists know anecdotally that this is the best way to up the odds of extracting good DNA， Eva-Maria Geigl of the Jacques Monod Institute in Paris， France， and her colleagues have now shown just how important conservation practices can be. This information， they say， needs to be hammered home among the people who are actually out in the field digging up bones.

4. Geigl and her colleagues looked at 3，200-year-old fossil bones belonging to a single individual of an extinct cattle species， called an aurochs. The fossils were dug up at a site in France at two different times — either in 1947， and stored in a museum collection， or in 2004， and conserved in sterile conditions at -20 oC.

5. The team’s attempts to extract DNA from the 1947 bones all failed. The newly excavated fossils， however， all yielded DNA.

6. Because the bones had been buried for the same amount of time， and in the same conditions， the conservation method had to be to blame says Geigl. As much DNA was degraded in these 57 years as in the 3，200 years before， she says.

Wash in， wash out

7. Because many palaeontologists base their work on the shape of fossils alone， their methods of conservation are not designed to preserve DNA， Geigl explains.

8. The biggest problem is how they are cleaned. Fossils are often washed together on-site in a large bath， which can allow water — and contaminants in the form of contemporary DNA — to permeate into the porous bones. Not only is the authentic DNA getting washed out， but contamination is getting washed in， says Geigl.

9. Most ancient DNA specialists know this already， says Hendrik Poinar， an evolutionary geneticist at McMaster University in Ontario， Canada. But that doesn’t mean that best practice has become widespread among those who actually find the fossils.

10. Getting hold of fossils that have been preserved with their DNA in mind relies on close relationships between lab-based geneticists and the excavators， says palaeogeneticist Svante P bo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig， Germany. And that only occurs in exceptional cases， he says.

11. P bo’s team， which has been sequencing Neanderthal DNA， continually faces these problems. When you want to study ancient human and Neanderthal remains， there’s a big issue of contamination with contemporary human DNA， he says.

12. This doesn’t mean that all museum specimens are fatally flawed， notes P bo. The Neanderthal fossils that were recently sequenced in his own lab， for example， had been part of a museum collection treated in the traditional way. But P bo is keen to see samples of fossils from every major find preserved in line with Geigl’s recommendations — just in case.

Warm and wet

13. Geigl herself believes that， with cooperation between bench and field researchers， preserving fossils properly could open up avenues of discovery that have long been assumed closed.

14. Much human cultural development took place in temperate regions. DNA does not survive well in warm environments in the first place， and can vanish when fossils are washed and treated. For this reason， Geigl says， most ancient DNA studies have been done on permafrost samples， such as the woolly mammoth， or on remains sheltered from the elements in cold caves — including cave bear and Neanderthal fossils.

15. Better conservation methods， and a focus on fresh fossils， could boost DNA extraction from more delicate specimens， says Geigl. And that could shed more light on the story of human evolution.

(640 words nature )

Glossary

Palaeontologists 古生物学家

Aurochs 欧洲野牛

Neanderthal (人类学)尼安德特人，旧石器时代的古人类。

Permafrost (地理)永冻层

Questions 1-6

Answer the following questions by using NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.

1. How did people traditionally treat fossils?

2. What suggestions do Geigl and her colleagues give on what should be done when fossils are found?

3. What problems may be posed if fossil bones are washed on-site? Name ONE.

4. What characteristic do fossil bones have to make them susceptible to be contaminated with contemporary DNA when they are washed?

5. What could be better understood when conservation treatments are improved?

6. The passage mentioned several animal species studied by researchers. How many of them are mentioned?

Questions 7-11

Do the following statements agree with the information given in the passage? Please write

TRUE if the statement agrees with the writer

FALSE if the statement does not agree with the writer

NOT GIVEN if there is no information about this in the passage

7. In their paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ， Geigl and her colleagues have shown what conservation practices should be followed to preserve ancient DNA.

8. The fossil bones that Geigl and her colleagues studied are all from the same aurochs.

9. Geneticists don’t have to work on site.

10. Only newly excavated fossil bones using new conservation methods suggested by Geigl and her colleagues contain ancient DNA.

11. Paabo is still worried about the potential problems caused by treatments of fossils in traditional way.

Questions 12-13

Complete the following the statements by choosing letter A-D for each answer.

12. This information in paragraph 3 indicates：

[A] It is critical to follow proper practices in preserving ancient DNA.

[B] The best way of getting good DNA is to handle fossils with gloves.

[C] Fossil hunters should wear home-made hammers while digging up bones.

[D] Many palaeontologists know how one should do in treating fossils.

13. The study conducted by Geigl and her colleagues suggests：

[A] the fact that ancient DNA can not be recovered from fossil bones excavated in the past.

[B] the correlation between the amount of burying time and that of the recovered

DNA.

[C] the pace at which DNA degrades.

[D] the correlation between conservation practices and degradation of DNA.

Suggested answers and explanations1. washing， brushing， varnishing 见第一段。

2. handling with gloves / freezing samples ( any one of the two ) 见第二段。

3. losing authentic DNA / being contaminated / contamination ( any one of the three) 见第八段 Not only is the authentic DNA getting washed out， but contamination is getting washed in (答being contaminated或 contamination比较保险)

4. they are porous porous 的意思是多孔的。见第八段 。。。 which can allow water — and contaminants in the form of contemporary DNA — to permeate into the porous bones.

5. human evolution 见第十五段。其中shed light on sth的意思是使某事显得非常清楚，使人了解某事。

6. 4 分别为第四段的an extinct cattle species， called an aurochs，即欧洲野牛，已经绝迹;第十一段 Neanderthal， 是人类学用语，尼安德特人，旧石器时代的古人类;第十四段woolly mammoth和cave bear，其中mammoth是猛犸，一种古哺乳动物。

7. T 见第二段。

8. T 见第四段 Geigl and her colleagues looked at 3，200-year- old fossil bones belonging to a single individual of an extinct cattle species， called an aurochs. 即他们研究的骨化石是一头欧洲野牛身上的。

9. NG

10. F 见第十二段第一、二句话。

11. T 见第十二段末句 But P bo is keen to see samples of fossils from every major find preserved in line with Geigl’s recommendations — just in case. 意即为保险起见，Paabo还是非常希望见到用Geigl建议的'方法保存的化石样本。just in case 的意思是以防万一，就是Paabo对用传统保存处理的化石不放心的意思。

12. A 见第三段。This information就是前一句中 。。。 just how important conservation practices can be (to preserve good DNA)。be hammered之中hammer一词的意思是不断重复强调。

13. D 面信息。需要理解文章各处关于Geigl和她的同事所作的研究。

篇5：雅思阅读动植物类真题及答案：ThePearl

雅思阅读动植物类真题：The Pearl

The Pearl

A

Throughout history, pearls have held a unique presence within the wealthy

and powerful. For instance, the pearl was the favored gem of the wealthy

during the Roman Empire. This gift from the sea had been brought back from

the orient by the Roman conquests. Roman women wore pearls to bed so

they could be reminded of their wealth immediately upon waking up. Before

jewelers learned to cut gems, the pearl was of greater value than the diamond.

In the Orient and Persia Empire, pearls were ground into powders to cure

anything from heart disease to epilepsy, with possible aphrodisiac uses as well.

Pearls were once considered an exclusive privilege for royalty. A law in 1612

drawn up by the Duke of Saxony prohibited the wearing of pearls by nobility,

professors, doctors or their wives in an effort to further distinguish royal

appearance. American Indians also used freshwater pearls from the Mississippi

River as decorations and jewelry.

B

There are essentially three types of pearls: natural, cultured and imitation. A

natural pearl (often called an Oriental pearl) forms when an irritant, such as

a piece of sand, works its way into a particular species of oyster, mussel, or

clam. As a defense mechanism, the mollusk secretes a fluid to coat the irritant.

Layer upon layer of this coating is deposited on the irritant until a lustrous

pearl is formed.

C

The only difference natural pearls and cultured pearls is that the irritant is

a surgically implanted bead or piece of shell called Mother of Pearl. Often,

these shells are ground oyster shells that are worth

significant amounts of money in their own right as

irritant-catalysts for quality pearls. The resulting

core is, much larger than in a natural pearl. Yet,

as long as there are enough layers of nacre (the

secreted fluid covering the irritant) to result in a

beautiful, gem-quality pearl, the size of the nucleus

is of no consequence to beauty or durability.

D

Pearls can come from either salt or freshwater sources. Typically, saltwater

pearls tend to be higher quality, although there are several types of freshwater

pearls that are considered high in quality as well. Freshwater pearls tend to

be very irregular in shape, with a puffed rice appearance the most prevalent.

Nevertheless, it is each individual pearls merits that determines value more

than the source of the pearl. Saltwater pearl oysters are usually cultivated in

protected lagoons or volcanic atolls. However, most freshwater cultured pearls

sold today come from China. Cultured pearls are the response of the shell to a

tissue implant. A tiny piece of mantle tissue from a donor shell is transplanted

into a recipient shell. This graft will form a pearl sac and the tissue will

precipitate calcium carbonate into this pocket. There are a number of options

for producing cultured pearls: use freshwater or seawater shells, transplant

the graft into the mantle or into the gonad, add a spherical bead or do it nonbeaded.

The majority of saltwater cultured pearls are grown with beads.

E

Regardless of the method used to acquire a pearl, the process usually takes

several years. Mussels must reach a mature age, which can take up t0 3 years,

and then be implanted or naturally receive an irritant. Once the irritant is

in place, it can take up to another 3 years for the pearl to reach its full size.

Often, the irritant may be rejected, the pearl will be terrifically misshapen, or

the oyster may simply die from disease or

countless other complications. By the end

of a 5 t0 10 year cycle, only 50% of the

oysters will have survived. And of the pearls

produced, only approximately 5% are of

substantial quality for top jewelry makers.

From the outset, a pearl fanner can figure

on spending over $100 for every oyster

that is farmed, of which many will produce

nothing or die.

F

Imitation pearls are a different story

altogether. In most cases, a glass bead is

dipped into a solution made from fish

scales. This coating is thin and may

eventually wear off. One can usually

tell an imitation by biting on it. Fake

pearls glide across your teeth, while the

layers of nacre on real pearls feel gritty.

The Island of Mallorca (in Spain) is known for its imitation pearl industry.

Quality natural pearls are very rare jewels. The actual value of a natural pearl

is determined in the same way as it would be for other “precious” gems.

The valuation factors include size, shape, color, quality of surface, orient

and luster. In general, cultured pearls are less valuable than natural pearls,

whereas imitation pearls almost have no value. One way that jewelers can

determine whether a pearl is cultured or natural is to have a gem lab perform

an x-ray of the pearl. If the x-ray reveals a nucleus, the pearl is likely a beadnucleated

saltwater pearl. If no nucleus is present, but irregular and small dark

inner spots indicating a cavity are visible, combined with concentric rings of

organic substance, the pearl is likely a cultured freshwater. Cultured freshwater

pearls can often be confused for natural pearls which present as homogeneous

pictures which continuously darken toward the surface of the pearl. Natural

pearls will often show larger cavities where organic matter has dried out and

decomposed. Although imitation pearls look the part, they do not have the

same weight or smoothness as real pearls, and their luster will also dim greatly.

Among cultured pearls, Akoya pearls from Japan are some of the most lustrous.

A good quality necklace of 40 Akoya pearls measuring 7mm in diameter sells

for about $1,500, while a super- high quality strand sells for about $4,500. Size

on the other hand, has to do with the age of the oyster that created the pearl (the

more mature oysters produce larger pearls) and the location in which the pearl

was cultured. The South Sea waters of Australia tend to produce the larger

pearls; probably because the water along the coast line is supplied with rich

nutrients from the ocean floor. Also, the type of mussel common to the area

seems to possess a predilection for producing comparatively large pearls.

G

Historically, the world’s best pearls came from the Persian Gulf, especially

around what is now Bahrain. The pearls of the Persian Gulf were natural

created and collected by breath-hold divers. The secret to the special luster of

Gulf pearls probably derived from the unique mixture of sweet and salt water

around the island. Unfortunately, the natural pearl industry of the Persian Gulf

ended abruptly in the early 1930’s with the discovery of large deposits of

oil. Those who once dove for pearls sought prosperity in the economic boom

ushered in by the oil industry. The water pollution resulting from spilled oil

and indiscriminate over-fishing of oysters essentially ruined the once pristine

pearl producing waters of the Gulf. Today, pearl diving is practiced only as

a hobby. Still, Bahrain remains one of the foremost trading centers for high

quality pearls. In fact, cultured pearls are banned from the Bahrain pearl

market, in an effort to preserve the location’s heritage. Nowadays, the largest

stock of natural pearls probably resides in India. Ironically, much of India’s

stock of natural pearls came originally from Bahrain. Unlike Bahrain, which

has essentially lost its pearl resource, traditional pearl fishing is still practiced

on a small scale in India.

雅思阅读真题答案解析——pearl珍珠

1 A

【原文参考依据-A】第2句话 the pearl was the favored gem of th wealthy during the Roman Empire.在罗马帝国时代，珍珠是深受富人喜爱的宝物。

2 E

【原文参考依据-E】第一句话Regardless of the method used to acquire a pearl,the process usually takes several years.不管用什么方法去获取珍珠，这个过程通常需要几年。所以对应题干中的difficulties.

3 F

4 C

【原文参考依据-c】第一句话The only difference natural pearls and cultured pearls is that the irrtant is a surfically implanted bead or piece of shell called Mother of Pearl.天然珍珠和人工养殖珍珠的唯一差别在于人工养殖珍珠的刺激物是一个通过外科手术植入的珠子或者小块的壳，被称作珍珠母。

5B

【原文参考依据-A】第四句话Roman women wore pearls to bed so they could be reminded of their wealth immediately upon waking up.罗马女人还戴着珍珠上床睡觉，这样她们一觉醒来看到珍珠的时候，马上就能看到自己是多么的富有。

6 J【原文参考依据-A】第6句话 In the orient and PersiaEmpire,pearls were ground into powders to cure anything from heart disease to epilepsy,with possible aphrodisiac as well.在亚洲和波斯特帝国，珍珠被磨成珍珠粉用来治疗从心脏病到癫痫的各种疾病。

7 K【原文参考依据-F】The Island of Mallorca (inSpain)is known for its imitation pearl industry.西班牙的马略卡岛以生产人造珍珠首饰而著名

8F【原文参考依据-F 】Among cultured pearls ,Akoya pearls from Japan are some of the most lustrous.产自日本的珍珠是所有人工养殖珍珠中光泽度最亮的一种。

9C【原文参考依据-F】 倒数第二句 The South Sea waters of Australia tend to produce the large pearls;probably because the water along the coast line is suppliced with rich nutrients from the ocean floor.产自澳大利亚的南海海域的珍珠个头一般更大。

10 D 【原文参考依据-G 末句】Unlike Bahrain,which has essentially lost its pearl resource ,traditional pearl fishing is still practiced on a small in India. 在印度，小规模的传统潜水收集珍珠作业仍然存在。

11 TRUE【原文参考依据-C 】第三句话The resulting core is,therefore,much larger than in a natural pearl.因此，人工养殖珍珠的内核比天然珍珠要大。

12 FALSE 【原文参考依据- F第10句话】In general,cultured pearls are less valuable than natural pearls, whereas imitation pearls almost have no value.总体来说，人工养殖珍珠的价值比不过天然珍珠，而人造珍珠就更没有价值可言了。题目中说养殖的珍珠和天然的珍珠价值是一样的 显然是错误的，所以答案是False.

13 TRUE 【原文参考依据- F 倒数第2句话】 he South Sea waters of Australia tend to produce the large pearls;probably because the water along the coast line is suppliced with rich nutrients from the ocean floor.产自澳大利亚的南海海域的珍珠个头一般更大。

14 NOT GIVEN

雅思阅读技巧之词汇+总结

雅思阅读技巧锦囊一：英语词库

所谓英语词库是英语对英语的词库而非是英语对汉语的词库。每个烤鸭都清楚雅思是国际性考试而非中国性质考试，单词背其中文意思在考试过程中是无效的，题目和文章都没有中文的出现。雅思阅读就是在全文中的找答案，可是你所用定位的词很多时候不会老老实实的坐在原文里等着你，这就需要你具备英语同义词的能力。

比如剑桥6的67页的list of headings 的 key point 2 的首句中managers should ensure that all employees have specific goals and receive comments on how well they are doing in those goals. 与之相对应的答案是establish targets and give feedback 同意词组为：have specific goals等于establish targets，receive comments on how well they are doing in those goals等于give feedback。

雅思阅读技巧锦囊二：ability to paraphrase

Paraphrase意思是用英文的句子或者段落来解释其英文的句子或者段落。对于外语系的孩子来讲这种能力的考试是家常便饭，也就造就了他们的理解能力比非外语系的同学们好很多。这种能力在雅思阅读考试中也是司空见惯的。

例如：剑桥6的43页的判断题10. Cities with high level of bicycles usage can be efficient even when public transport is only averagely good. 很多孩子看见only习惯性判为NO。因为太绝对了。实则不然，答案为YES。对应于原文中two most ‘bicycle friend’ cities considered—Amsterdam and Copenhagen—were very efficient, even though their public transport systems were ‘ reasonable but special.

切记：高分的取得不只是靠技巧，阅读能力的提升非常的重要

雅思阅读必备高分三技能

技能一：拥有扎实的词汇语法基础及背景知识

这里强调的其实是英文基础的重要性。考生想要在考试过程中游刃有余，没有一定的词汇量基本是没有办法达成的。当然我们在考试中可以通过上下文，转折词等等猜测生词的意思。但是，一旦生词量超过一定比例，势必会影响考生的理解。说到理解，在雅思考试中碰到长难句是常有的事情。那么扎实的语法基础也是考生正确理解文章意义的一个重要的必备素质。

除去扎实的词汇语法基础之外，丰富的背景知识也是一名高分考生所必须的。雅思阅读考试人文社科类和自然科学类当中有众多小分支话题，涉及天文、地理、生物、地质、语言学、发展史等等众多领域。为了保证考试时的阅读效率及答题的正确性，考生需要在平时多多查阅相关资料，了解各类文章背景。

技能二：熟悉题型的做题思路和技巧和出题角度

雅思阅读考试的题型多种多样，有细节题，有主旨题，有考察整体理解的题型，也有考察辨别信息能力的题型。

因此，建议想要取得高分的学员，在掌握每种题型的解题技巧的同时，还需要研究的是考试的出题角度，仔细研究各种题型考察的是何种能力。然后有针对性的去锻炼这方面的能力。的雅思阅读考试中，所占比重最大的几类题型为细节配对题、是非无判断题、选择题。之前常考的 List of headings对在去年的考试中所占比例并不大。14年几乎每场考试都有细节配对题出现，那么其实可以反映出雅思考试更加注重考生的细节定位能力以及对于材料的理解能力。

技能三：充分到位的精读和模拟训练是必不可少的

精读是提高分数的唯一法宝。精读的方法是：

用一小时完整的做一个Test三篇文章，然后一篇文章一篇文章的开始精读。

查出每篇文章的所有生词，并要求认知。接着分析文章所有的长难句，翻译整篇文章。

把所有题的出题点在文章里标出来。我们要非常清楚对是为什么对，错是为什么错。精读可以提高同学们的词汇、长难句分析能力以及对整篇文章做题思路的理解。

模拟训练可以提高考生两方面的能力：一是考试答题顺序的安排。二是考试时间的合理分配。

首先是答题顺序的安排。考生并不用完全按照考试文章的顺序来答题。完全可以通过对于标题的浏览来确定文章大意。然后根据自己的熟悉程度来选择文章的先后顺序。

另外，在确定了文章的先后顺序之后，题目的先后顺序其实也是需要进行合理安排的。比如14年很流行的段落细节配对题，虽然经常出现在文章很靠前的位置，但是，无论什么样的位置出现，这种题型都应该放在最后来解决。除了答题顺序之外，考试时间的精确掌控也是考生是否能够取得高分的一个重要因素。雅思阅读考试是个精泛读结合过程，不是所有的文字都需要进行精读的，恰恰那些基础很好有能力有机会考到高分的考生，往往会犯全篇通读的错误，导致最后答题时间不够，没能完成所有的题目而不能取得满意的成绩。

保存并继续

另外要提醒考生注意的是，在平常的模拟考试中就养成是用答题卡的习惯，这样才不至于在考试的时候因为时间不够而出现答题卡不能填写完全的情况。相信很多次的模拟练习之后，考生一定有能力在考试时，用最合理的时间分配进行最佳顺序的答题，最终取得高分成绩。

雅思阅读动植物类真题及答案：The Pearl

篇6：雅思剑12阅读真题Test6Passage1原文及答案

雅思剑12阅读真题Test6Passage1原文及题目

READING PASSAGE 1

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on Reading Passage 1 below.

The risks agriculture faces in developing countries

Synthesis of an online debate

A Two things distinguish food production from all other productive activities: first, every single person needs food each day and has a right to it; and second, it is hugely dependent on nature. These two unique aspects, one political, the other natural, make food production highly vulnerable and different from any other business. At the same time, cultural values are highly entrenched in food and agricultural systems worldwide.

B Farmers everywhere face major risks, including extreme weather, long-term climate change, and price volatility in input and product markets. However, smallholder farmers in developing countries must in addition deal with adverse environments, both natural, in terms of soil quality, rainfall, etc., and human, in terms of infrastructure, financial systems, markets, knowledge and technology. Counter-intuitively, hunger is prevalent among many smallholder farmers in the developing world.

C Participants in the online debate argued that our biggest challenge is to address the underlying causes of the agricultural system’s inability to ensure sufficient food for all, and they identified as drivers of this problem our dependency on fossil fuels and unsupportive government policies.

D On the question of mitigating the risks farmers face, most essayists called for greater state intervention. In his essay, Kanayo F. Nwanze, President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development, argued that governments can significantly reduce risks for farmers by providing basic services like roads to get produce more efficiently to markets, or water and food storage facilities to reduce losses. Sophia Murphy, senior advisor to the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, suggested that the procurement and holding of stocks by governments can also help mitigate wild swings in food prices by alleviating uncertainties about market supply.

_he personal names in the text refer to the authors of written contributions to the online debate.

E Shenggen Fan, Director General of the International Food Policy Research Institute, held up social safety nets and public welfare programmes in Ethiopia, Brazil and Mexico as valuable ways to address poverty among farming families and reduce their vulnerability to agriculture shocks. However, some commentators responded that cash transfers to poor families do not necessarily translate into increased food security, as these programmes do not always strengthen food production or raise incomes. Regarding state subsidies for agriculture, Rokeya Kabir, Executive Director of Bangladesh Nari Progati Sangha, commented in her essay that these ‘have not compensated for the stranglehold exercised by private traders. In fact, studies show that sixty percent of beneficiaries of subsidies are not poor, but rich landowners and non-farmer traders.’

F Nwanze, Murphy and Fan argued that private risk management tools, like private insurance, commodity futures markets, and rural finance can help small-scale producers mitigate risk and allow for investment in improvements. Kabir warned that financial support schemes often encourage the adoption of high-input agricultural practices, which in the medium term may raise production costs beyond the value of their harvests. Murphy noted that when futures markets become excessively financialised they can contribute to short-term price volatility, which increases farmers’ food insecurity. Many participants and commentators emphasised that greater transparency in markets is needed to mitigate the impact of volatility, and make evident whether adequate stocks and supplies are available. Others contended that agribusiness companies should be held responsible for paying for negative side effects.

G Many essayists mentioned climate change and its consequences for small-scale agriculture. Fan explained that ‘in addition to reducing crop yields, climate change increases the magnitude and the frequency of extreme weather events, which increase smallholder vulnerability.’ The growing unpredictability of weather patterns increases farmers’ difficulty in managing weather-related risks. According to this author, one solution would be to develop crop varieties that are more resilient to new climate trends and extreme weather patterns. Accordingly, Pat Mooney, co-founder and executive director of the ETC Group, suggested that ‘if we are to survive climate change, we must adopt policies that let peasants diversify the plant and animal species and varieties/breeds that make up our menus.’

H Some participating authors and commentators argued in favour of community- based and autonomous risk management strategies through collective action groups, co-operatives or producers’ groups. Such groups enhance market opportunities for small-scale producers, reduce marketing costs and synchronise buying and selling with seasonal price conditions. According to Murphy, ‘collective action offers an important way for farmers to strengthen their political and economic bargaining power, and to reduce their business risks.’ One commentator, Giel Ton, warned that collective action does not come as a free good. It takes time, effort and money to organise, build trust and to experiment. Others, like Marcel Vernooij and Marcel Beukeboom, suggested that in order to ‘apply what we already know’, all stakeholders, including business, government, scientists and civil society, must work together, starting at the beginning of the value chain.

I Some participants explained that market price volatility is often worsened by the presence of intermediary purchasers who, taking advantage of farmers’ vulnerability, dictate prices. One commentator suggested farmers can gain greater control over prices and minimise price volatility by selling directly to consumers. Similarly, Sonali Bisht, founder and advisor to the Institute of Himalayan Environmental Research and Education (INHERE), India, wrote that community-supported agriculture, where consumers invest in local farmers by subscription and guarantee producers a fair price, is a risk-sharing model worth more attention. Direct food distribution systems not only encourage small-scale agriculture but also give consumers more control over the food they consume, she wrote.

List of People

A Kanayo F. Nwanze

B Sophia Murphy

C Shenggen Fan

D Rokeya Kabir

E Pat Mooney

F Giel Ton

G Sonali Bisht

Questions 10 and 11

Choose TWO letters, A-E.

Write the correct letters in boxes 10 and 11 on your answer sheet.

Which TWO problems are mentioned which affect farmers with small farms in developing countries?

A lack of demand for locally produced food

B lack of irrigation programmes

C being unable to get insurance

D the effects of changing weather patterns

E having to sell their goods to intermediary buyers

Questions 12 and 13

Choose TWO letters, A-E.

Write the correct letters in boxes 12 and 13 on your answer sheet.

Which TWO actions are recommended for improving conditions for farmers?

A reducing the size of food stocks

B attempting to ensure that prices rise at certain times of the year

C organising co-operation between a wide range of interested parties

D encouraging consumers to take a financial stake in farming

E making customers aware of the reasons for changing food prices

雅思剑12答案解析Test6阅读Passage1

Test 6 Passage 1

Question 1

答案：A

关键词：food production

定位原文：A段第一行：“Two things distinguish food production from all other productive activities: first…”

解题思路：A段提到了食品生产与其他生产活动有两点不同，第一每个人每天都需要食物并且有权享有食物，第二食品生产很大程度上依靠自然。所以A段提到了仅适用于食品生产的特征。

Question 2

答案：B

关键词：farmers in certain parts of the world

定位原文：B段前两句：“Farmers everywhere face major risks… However, smallholder farmers in developing countries must in addition deal with adverse environments, both natural… and human...”

解题思路：B段一开头就提到全球的农民都会遇到极端天气、长期气候变化及价格波动这些问题，后面又提到发展中国家的小农又要额外处理一些问题，包括自然问题及人为问题。题目中的certain parts of the world对应文中的developing countries。

Question 12&13

答案：CD

关键词：improving conditions for farmers

定位原文：H段第一句：“… in favour of community-based and autonomous risk management strategies through collective action groups, co-operatives or producers’ groups…” H段第三句：“collective action offers an important way for farmers to strengthen their political and economic bargaining power, and to reduce their business risks.”I段第三句：“community-supported agriculture, where consumers invest in local farmers by subscription and guarantee producers a fair price, is a risk-sharing model worth more attention”

解题思路：H段第一句提到很多作者及评论员都支持集体形式的自治风险管理策略，建立集体行动小组、合作企业或者生产商小组，H段第三句提到Murphy的观点，即这种集体行动能让农民增强他们在政治和经济上的交涉能力，并且削减他们的市场风险，与C选项对应。I段第三句提到在社区支持的农业中，顾客通过认购的方式投资当地农民，能保证比较合理的价格，这种形式分散了风险，值得更多关注，对应D选项。

雅思阅读常见八大题型做题技巧

1、identify the writer’s overall purpose, target audience, sources etc.

辨识作者的写作目的，目标读者，和文章来源这种阅读技能需要学生从文章的结构、内容、用词通篇考虑。往往对应的是文章最后的一道选择题。一般说来，雅思阅读文章的写作目的一般是介绍某个社会现象，目标读者一般都是普通的具有一定认知能力的非专业性读者，文章都来自一些偏学术化的杂志和书籍。但具体的写作目的目标读者和文章来源要具体分析了。那么同学们平时读一些文章的时候就下意识地问问自己作者为什么写这篇文章，作者希望什么样的人来读这样的文章等等这样的问题，其实问这些问题既是读懂一篇文章的手段也是目的。如果读完了一篇文章还不能回答这样的问题证明可能有些地方确实没读懂。

2、identify and follow key arguments in a text

识别并读懂文章中的主要论述观点这种阅读技能是指从整体去把握一篇文章的结构，并对相应的重要的文章观点进行提炼理解的能力。雅思的阅读文章比较学术性，所以相对与其他的文体而言结构其实是比较容易把握的。但还是需要经过真题文章的仔细分析体会去学习英文议论说明性文字的结构特点，尤其注意体会区别出作者自己的观点和别人的观点，以及先负后正的写法。

3、identify opinions and attitudes as opposed to facts

区分事实与观点态度能够区分文章中的内容是观点态度或者是事实是一个阅读者应该具备的基本技能。如果阅读的时候不分青红皂白都认为是事实，我们就缺失了对文章信息的判断能力，阅读将可能是极其混乱的。人们不只在阅读外语文章的时候会犯这种错误。那么在文章中如果出现一些类似表示观点态度的词(比如maintain, argue)要注意，这些词后面出现的应该就是观点和态度。观点和态度是主观的，不能被证明的。但如果是这样的表达：evidence show, experiment suggest后面跟的就应该是事实，可以被证明的。

4、locate specific information

定位细节信息雅思阅读有一种比较难的题型which paragraph contains the following information考察的就是定位细节信息的能力。这种能力是考察学生能不能在海量的信息里找到你最想找的信息然后进行阅读的能力。这反应了国外大学阅读量巨大的要求。学生不可能每个字都读，得具备这种找到最有价值的一点然后再进行相关阅读的能力。平时训练这种scanning的阅读技能。当然如果对全文结构不做一个skimming也就是大致了解文章结构而大致知道在哪几段中寻找，这种任务基本上是不可能完成的。这也反应了读书的一个基本步骤，拿到一本书我们应该先看目录，知道书的大致结构再由此在最相关的段落中寻找阅读兴趣点。因此这种题型需要skimming+scanning两种阅读技能的结合才能准确快速地解题。

5、extract relevant information

摘取相关信息当定位到最相关的句子之后，雅思阅读考试是希望学生能细致阅读并摘取出相关的信息答案的。而不是像那种不需要读原文就能解出答案。那么平时大家也应该进行相应的精读训练，把一些平时难以读懂的句子仔细通过各种方法真正读懂其意思。当然阅读的时候应该带着问题去有针对性的阅读，搜寻我们想通过阅读得出的最相关的信息。这些阅读技能对应的是雅思绝大部分的细节题：包括填空题，表格题，句子完成题。

6、recognise key points for a summary

辨识概要里面的关键点这两种阅读技能在一定程度上都要求同学们能在阅读的时候区分出主旨和细节，以及主旨里面最核心的关键点。这两种阅读技能往往对应的就是heading题和summary题。要知道往往一篇文章其实都可以用几句话甚至是几个词来概括，那么平时同学们在阅读时一定要随时问自己一个问题：这段话可以用哪一句话概括，这一句话中最重要的一个单词是什么?其他的信息和这个核心句或核心词之间的关系是怎样的?细节和主旨，关键点和其他细节点之间的联系和区别在哪里?如果能回答这几个问题，这个阅读技能你也应该掌握了。但其实掌握了某种阅读技能就意味着你在阅读时要随时使用这种技能，技能不拿来应用又有什么意义呢?

7、group pieces of information in a text in accordance with salient criteria

根据明显的标准对文章中的信息进行归类这种阅读技能反映在题型上就是分类题或者是配对题。作者在论述过程中的很多信息其实是有内在关联的，文章之所以是一个整体就是因为这种关联性。在阅读过程当中要随时问问自己句子之间的关系是什么，信息和信息之间的关系是什么，作者是按照一个什么样的逻辑顺序来展开他的文章的。只有这样你才能真正看出那么多纷繁复杂的信息之间的关系并为它们进行归类。其实这和上文中提到的很多阅读技能一样，既是有效阅读的手段，也是检验你是否有效阅读的工具。

8、extract information from a prose text to put into a diagrammatic representation

从文章中摘取相关的信息填入图表图表在雅思听力，阅读，写作中都会出现。而使用图表来一幕了然地表达相关的文字信息或者用文字信息简洁地表示出图表也是一种非常重要的工作学习技能。因此同学们平时在阅读时候碰到带有图表的文字要留意图表和文字之间的对应关系。

雅思阅读应试技巧及方法

在雅思阅读考试前考生除了需要有扎实的阅读功底，还需要掌握一定的应试技巧和考场临场发挥应变能力。今天小编为大家准备的是雅思阅读应试技巧及方法，希望大家在考试前做一些这方面的功课，不要在考试当天再去临时抱佛脚。

技巧分享

首先考生要明白，雅思阅读考试考察的阅读理解能力和阅读技巧，而不是你能否看懂文章。建议考生多做阅读速读训练，也就是学会扫读和略读。扫读就是根据关键词，定位到相关语段，迅速寻找答案，略读适合应用在雅思阅读题型中的段落标记题，略读能更好的抓住文章的中心句段及关键信息。

文章难易度预判

雅思阅读文章是有难易度的，考生要根据文章难易度合理安排做题时间，本身时间就很紧张，第一篇文章预留10-12分钟，第二篇和第三篇文章难度大预留20分钟，留下5分钟检查答案，基本就差不多了。建议考生在模考时进行计时，精确到每一篇文章的做题时间，先易后难提升做题效率，难题后做，难度大的文章后做。

具体步骤如下：

阅读文章前先扫读题目，根据题型及关键词进行扫读和略读。特征性强的题目先做，遇到需要同义替换或细节题，可放到最后做。按照题目顺序做题，如遇到信息匹配题等乱序题，则考虑放到最后做。

审题重要性

审题是最为关键的，做好审题包括：题型分析、关键词划分、题目意图分析等。根据题型分析，考生可选择做题顺序;而划分关键词则能帮助考生尽快定位文章答案范围;做好题目意图分析也就是掌握文章大意。

雅思阅读临场经验之适当取舍

考试过程中难免会遇到难题，生词和不确定的答案，考生不要过度纠结在题目上，遵循一个原则，能拿到的分一个不能少，难拿的分数尽量拿。不要在个别题目上停留太久，捡了芝麻丢了西瓜。

篇7：剑桥雅思阅读11真题及答案解析(test3)

剑桥雅思阅读11原文(test3)

READING PASSAGE 1

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on Reading Passage 1 below.

THE STORY OF SILK

The history of the world’s most luxurious fabric, from ancient China to the present day

Silk is a fine, smooth material produced from the cocoons — soft protective shells — that are made by mulberry silkworms (insect larvae). Legend has it that it was Lei Tzu, wife of the Yellow Emperor, ruler of China in about 3000 BC, who discovered silkworms. One account of the story goes that as she was taking a walk in her husband’s gardens, she discovered that silkworms were responsible for the destruction of several mulberry trees. She collected a number of cocoons and sat down to have a rest. It just so happened that while she was sipping some tea, one of the cocoons that she had collected landed in the hot tea and started to unravel into a fine thread. Lei Tzu found that she could wind this thread around her fingers. Subsequently, she persuaded her husband to allow her to rear silkworms on a grove of mulberry trees. She also devised a special reel to draw the fibres from the cocoon into a single thread so that they would be strong enough to be woven into fabric. While it is unknown just how much of this is true, it is certainly known that silk cultivation has existed in China for several millennia.

Originally, silkworm farming was solely restricted to women, and it was they who were responsible for the growing, harvesting and weaving. Silk quickly grew into a symbol of status, and originally, only royalty were entitled to have clothes made of silk. The rules were gradually relaxed over the years until finally during the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911 AD), even peasants, the lowest caste, were also entitled to wear silk. Sometime during the Han Dynasty (206 BC-220 AD), silk was so prized that it was also used as a unit of currency. Government officials were paid their salary in silk, and farmers paid their taxes in grain and silk. Silk was also used as diplomatic gifts by the emperor. Fishing lines, bowstrings, musical instruments and paper were all made using silk. The earliest indication of silk paper being used was discovered in the tomb of a noble who is estimated to have died around 168 AD.

Demand for this exotic fabric eventually created the lucrative trade route now known as the Silk Road, taking silk westward and bringing gold, silver and wool to the East. It was named the Silk Road after its most precious commodity, which was considered to be worth more than gold. The Silk Road stretched over 6,000 kilometres from Eastern China to the Mediterranean Sea, following the Great Wall of China, climbing the Pamir mountain range, crossing modern-day Afghanistan and going on to the Middle East, with a major trading market in Damascus. From there, the merchandise was shipped across the Mediterranean Sea. Few merchants travelled the entire route; goods were handled mostly by a series of middlemen.

With the mulberry silkworm being native to China, the country was the world’s sole producer of silk for many hundreds of years. The secret of silk-making eventually reached the rest of the world via the Byzantine Empire, which ruled over the Mediterranean region of southern Europe, North Africa and the Middle East during the period 330-1453 AD. According to another legend, monks working for the Byzantine emperor Justinian smuggled silkworm eggs to Constantinople (Istanbul in modern-day Turkey) in 550 AD, concealed inside hollow bamboo walking canes. The Byzantines were as secretive as the Chinese, however, and for many centuries the weaving and trading of silk fabric was a strict imperial monopoly. Then in the seventh century, the Arabs conquered Persia, capturing their magnificent silks in the process. Silk production thus spread through Africa, Sicily and Spain as the Arabs swept through these lands. Andalusia in southern Spain was Europe’s main silk-producing centre in the tenth century. By the thirteenth century, however, Italy had become Europe’s leader in silk production and export. Venetian merchants traded extensively in silk and encouraged silk growers to settle in Italy. Even now, silk processed in the province of Como in northern Italy enjoys an esteemed reputation.

The nineteenth century and industrialisation saw the downfall of the European silk industry. Cheaper Japanese silk, trade in which was greatly facilitated by the opening of the Suez Canal, was one of the many factors driving the trend. Then in the twentieth century, new manmade fibres, such as nylon, started to be used in what had traditionally been silk products, such as stockings and parachutes. The two world wars, which interrupted the supply of raw material from Japan, also stifled the European silk industry. After the Second World War, Japan’s silk production was restored, with improved production and quality of raw silk. Japan was to remain the world’s biggest producer of raw silk, and practically the only major exporter of raw silk, until the 1970s. However, in more recent decades, China has gradually recaptured its position as the world’s biggest producer and exporter of raw silk and silk yarn. Today, around 125,000 metric tons of silk are produced in the world, and almost two thirds of that production takes place in China.

Questions 1-9

Complete the notes below.

Choose ONE WORD ONLY from the passage for each answer.

Write your answers in boxes 1-9 on your answer sheet.

THE STORY OF SILK

Early silk production in China

Around 3000 BC, according to legend:

- silkworm cocoon fell into emperor’s wife’s 1 __________

- emperor’s wife invented a 2 __________ to pull out silk fibres

Only 3 __________ were allowed to produce silk

Only 4 __________ were allowed to wear silk

Silk used as a form of 5 __________

- e.g. farmers’ taxes consisted partly of silk

Silk used for many purposes

- e.g. evidence found of 6 __________ made from silk around 168 AD

Silk reaches rest of world

Merchants use Silk Road to take silk westward and bring back 7 __________ and precious metals

550 AD: 8 __________ hide silkworm eggs in canes and take them to Constantinople

Silk production spreads across Middle East and Europe

20th century: 9 __________ and other manmade fibres cause decline in silk production

Questions 10-13

Do the following statements agree with the information in Reading Passage 1?

In boxes 10-13 on your answer sheet, write

TRUE if the statement agrees with the information

FALSE if the statement contradicts the information

NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this

10 Gold was the most valuable material transported along the Silk Road.

11 Most tradesmen only went along certain sections of the Silk Road.

12 The Byzantines spread the practice of silk production across the West.

13 Silk yarn makes up the majority of silk currently exported from China.

READING PASSAGE 2

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26, which are based on Reading Passage 2 below.

Great Migrations

Animal migration, however it is defined, is far more than just the movement of animals. It can loosely be described as travel that takes place at regular intervals ?— often in an annual cycle — that may involve many members of a species, and is rewarded only after a long journey. It suggests inherited instinct. The biologist Hugh Dingle has identified five characteristics that apply, in varying degrees and combinations, to all migrations. They are prolonged movements that carry animals outside familiar habitats; they tend to be linear, not zigzaggy; they involve special behaviours concerning preparation (such as overfeeding) and arrival; they demand special allocations of energy. And one more: migrating animals maintain an intense attentiveness to the greater mission, which keeps them undistracted by temptations and undeterred by challenges that would turn other animals aside.

An arctic tern, on its 20,000 km flight from the extreme south of South America to the Arctic circle, will take no notice of a nice smelly herring offered from a bird-watcher’s boat along the way. While local gulls will dive voraciously for such handouts, the tern flies on. Why? The arctic tern resists distraction because it is driven at that moment by an instinctive sense of something we humans find admirable: larger purpose. In other words, it is determined to reach its destination. The bird senses that it can eat, rest and mate later. Right now it is totally focused on the journey; its undivided intent is arrival.

Reaching some gravelly coastline in the Arctic, upon which other arctic terns have converged, will serve its larger purpose as shaped by evolution: finding a place, a time, and a set of circumstances in which it can successfully hatch and rear offspring.

But migration is a complex issue, and biologists define it differently, depending in part on what sorts of animals they study. Joe! Berger, of the University of Montana, who works on the American pronghorn and other large terrestrial mammals, prefers what he calls a simple, practical definition suited to his beasts: ‘movements from a seasonal home area away to another home area and back again’. Generally the reason for such seasonal back-and-forth movement is to seek resources that aren’t available within a single area year-round.

But daily vertical movements by zooplankton in the ocean — upward by night to seek food, downward by day to escape predators — can also be considered migration. So can the movement of aphids when, having depleted the young leaves on one food plant, their offspring then fly onward to a different host plant, with no one aphid ever returning to where it started.

Dingle is an evolutionary biologist who studies insects. His definition is more intricate than Berger’s, citing those five features that distinguish migration from other forms of movement. They allow for the fact that, for example, aphids will become sensitive to blue light (from the sky) when it’s time for takeoff on their big journey, and sensitive to yellow light (reflected from tender young leaves) when it’s appropriate to land. Birds will fatten themselves with heavy feeding in advance of a long migrational flight. The value of his definition, Dingle argues, is that it focuses attention on what the phenomenon of wildebeest migration shares with the phenomenon of the aphids, and therefore helps guide researchers towards understanding how evolution has produced them all.

Human behaviour, however, is having a detrimental impact on animal migration. The pronghorn, which resembles an antelope, though they are unrelated, is the fastest land mammal of the New World. One population, which spends the summer in the mountainous Grand Teton National Park of the western USA, follows a narrow route from its summer range in the mountains, across a river, and down onto the plains. Here they wait out the frozen months, feeding mainly on sagebrush blown clear of snow. These pronghorn are notable for the invariance of their migration route and the severity of its constriction at three bottlenecks. If they can’t pass through each of the three during their spring migration, they can’t reach their bounty of summer grazing; if they can’t pass through again in autumn, escaping south onto those windblown plains, they are likely to die trying to overwinter in the deep snow. Pronghorn, dependent on distance vision and speed to keep safe from predators, traverse high, open shoulders of land, where they can see and run. At one of the bottlenecks, forested hills rise to form a V, leaving a corridor of open ground only about 150 metres wide, filled with private homes. Increasing development is leading toward a crisis for the pronghorn, threatening to choke off their passageway.

Conservation scientists, along with some biologists and land managers within the USA’s National Park Service and other agencies, are now working to preserve migrational behaviours, not just species and habitats. A National Forest has recognised the path of the pronghorn, much of which passes across its land, as a protected migration corridor. But neither the Forest Service nor the Park Service can control what happens on private land at a bottleneck. And with certain other migrating species, the challenge is complicated further — by vastly greater distances traversed, more jurisdictions, more borders, more dangers along the way. We will require wisdom and resoluteness to ensure that migrating species can continue their journeying a while longer.

Questions 14-18

Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage 2?

In boxes 14-18 on your answer sheet, write

TRUE if the statement agrees with the information

FALSE if the statement contradicts the information

NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this

14 Local gulls and migrating arctic terns behave in the same way when offered food.

15 Experts’ definitions of migration tend to vary according to their area of study.

16 Very few experts agree that the movement of aphids can be considered migration.

17 Aphids’ journeys are affected by changes in the light that they perceive.

18 Dingle’s aim is to distinguish between the migratory behaviours of different species.

Questions 19-22

Complete each sentence with the correct ending, A-G, below.

Write the correct letter, A-G, in boxes 19-22 on your answer sheet.

19 According to Dingle, migratory routes are likely to

20 To prepare for migration, animals are likely to

21 During migration, animals are unlikely to

22 Arctic terns illustrate migrating animals’ ability to

A be discouraged by difficulties.

B travel on open land where they can look out for predators.

C eat more than they need for immediate purposes.

D be repeated daily.

E ignore distractions.

F be governed by the availability of water.

G follow a straight line.

Questions 23-26

Complete the summary below.

Choose ONE WORD ONLY from the passage for each answer.

Write your answers in boxes 23-26 on your answer sheet.

The migration of pronghorns

Pronghorns rely on their eyesight and 23 __________ to avoid predators. One particular population’s summer habitat is a national park, and their winter home is on the 24 __________, where they go to avoid the danger presented by the snow at that time of year. However, their route between these two areas contains three 25 __________. One problem is the construction of new homes in a narrow 26 __________ of land on the pronghorns’ route.

READING PASSAGE 3

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27-40, which are based on Reading Passage 3 below.

Preface to ‘How the other half thinks: Adventures in mathematical reasoning’

A Occasionally, in some difficult musical compositions, there are beautiful, but easy parts — parts so simple a beginner could play them. So it is with mathematics as well. There are some discoveries in advanced mathematics that do not depend on specialized knowledge, not even on algebra, geometry, or trigonometry. Instead they may involve, at most, a little arithmetic, such as ‘the sum of two odd numbers is even’, and common sense. Each of the eight chapters in this book illustrates this phenomenon. Anyone can understand every step in the reasoning.

The thinking in each chapter uses at most only elementary arithmetic, and sometimes not even that. Thus all readers will have the chance to participate in a mathematical experience, to appreciate the beauty of mathematics, and to become familiar with its logical, yet intuitive, style of thinking.

B One of my purposes in writing this book is to give readers who haven’t had the opportunity to see and enjoy real mathematics the chance to appreciate the mathematical way of thinking. I want to reveal not only some of the fascinating discoveries, but, more importantly, the reasoning behind them.

In that respect, this book differs from most books on mathematics written for the general public. Some present the lives of colorful mathematicians. Others describe important applications of mathematics. Yet others go into mathematical procedures, but assume that the reader is adept in using algebra.

C I hope this book will help bridge that notorious gap that separates the two cultures: the humanities and the sciences, or should I say the right brain (intuitive) and the left brain (analytical, numerical). As the chapters will illustrate, mathematics is not restricted to the analytical and numerical; intuition plays a significant role. The alleged gap can be narrowed or completely overcome by anyone, in part because each of us is far from using the full capacity of either side of the brain. To illustrate our human potential, I cite a structural engineer who is an artist, an electrical engineer who is an opera singer, an opera singer who published mathematical research, and a mathematician who publishes short stories.

D Other scientists have written books to explain their fields to non-scientists, but have necessarily had to omit the mathematics, although it provides the foundation of their theories. The reader must remain a tantalized spectator rather than an involved participant, since the appropriate language for describing the details in much of science is mathematics, whether the subject is expanding universe, subatomic particles, or chromosomes. Though the broad outline of a scientific theory can be sketched intuitively, when a part of the physical universe is finally understood, its description often looks like a page in a mathematics text.

E Still, the non-mathematical reader can go far in understanding mathematical reasoning. This book presents the details that illustrate the mathematical style of thinking, which involves sustained, step-by-step analysis, experiments, and insights. You will turn these pages much more slowly than when reading a novel or a newspaper. It may help to have a pencil and paper ready to check claims and carry out experiments.

F As I wrote, I kept in mind two types of readers: those who enjoyed mathematics until they were turned off by an unpleasant episode, usually around fifth grade, and mathematics aficionados, who will find much that is new throughout the book.

This book also serves readers who simply want to sharpen their analytical skills. Many careers, such as law and medicine, require extended, precise analysis. Each chapter offers practice in following a sustained and closely argued line of thought. That mathematics can develop this skill is shown by these two testimonials:

G A physician wrote, ‘The discipline of analytical thought processes [in mathematics] prepared me extremely well for medical school. In medicine one is faced with a problem which must be thoroughly analyzed before a solution can be found. The process is similar to doing mathematics.’

A lawyer made the same point, ‘Although I had no background in law — not even one political science course — I did well at one of the best law schools. I attribute much of my success there to having learned, through the study of mathematics, and, in particular, theorems, how to analyze complicated principles. Lawyers who have studied mathematics can master the legal principles in a way that most others cannot.’

I hope you will share my delight in watching as simple, even na?ve, questions lead to remarkable solutions and purely theoretical discoveries find unanticipated applications.

Questions 27-34

Reading Passage 3 has seven sections, A-G.

Which section contains the following information?

Write the correct letter, A-G, in boxes 27-34 on your answer sheet.

NB You may use any letter more than once.

27 a reference to books that assume a lack of mathematical knowledge

28 the way in which this is not a typical book about mathematics

29 personal examples of being helped by mathematics

30 examples of people who each had abilities that seemed incompatible

31 mention of different focuses of books about mathematics

32 a contrast between reading this book and reading other kinds of publication

33 a claim that the whole of the book is accessible to everybody

34 a reference to different categories of intended readers of this book

Questions 35-40

Complete the sentences below.

Choose ONE WORD ONLY from the passage for each answer.

Write your answers in boxes 35-40 on your answer sheet.

35 Some areas of both music and mathematics are suitable for someone who is a __________.

36 It is sometimes possible to understand advanced mathematics using no more than a limited knowledge of __________.

37 The writer intends to show that mathematics requires __________ thinking, as well as analytical skills.

38 Some books written by __________ have had to leave out the mathematics that is central to their theories.

39 The writer advises non-mathematical readers to perform __________ while reading the book.

40 A lawyer found that studying __________ helped even more than other areas of mathematics in the study of law.

剑桥雅思阅读11原文参考译文(test3)

PASSAGE 1 参考译文：

丝绸的故事

世上最昂贵奢华织物的历史，从古代中国直到今天

丝绸是种细软、光滑的布料，产自桑蚕(该昆虫的幼体形态)制作出的蚕茧——即其柔软的保护性外壳。传说中是嫘祖，即大约公元前三千年时期的中国统治者黄帝的妻子，发现了蚕。其中一个故事是这样描述的：当她漫步于自己丈夫的花园之中时，她发现几棵桑树之所以生长遭受破坏正是由于树上的蚕虫。她收集了一些蚕茧并坐下来歇息。正巧在她啜饮着一杯茶时，这些蚕茧中的一粒掉进了热茶中并开始松散成为一根细丝。嫘祖发现她可以将这根丝线绕在自己的手指上。于是，她说服了丈夫允许她在一片桑树林内养蚕。她还设计发明了一种特殊的卷轴来将蚕茧中的纤维纺成丝线，这样它们就能足够强韧以编纺成织物。虽然这个故事中究竟有多少真实成分我们不得而知，但有一点是确定无疑的：丝绸的生产在中国早己存在了数千年之久。

起初，桑蚕业完全是只由女性来进行的，她们要负责种植、收获和纺织。丝绸很快成为了一种社会地位的象征，最早只有皇室成员才有资格穿着丝绸衣物。这些规矩在之后的年月里逐渐变得不那么严苛了，直到最终在清朝(公元1644~19)时期，即使是最低阶层的农民也有资格穿上丝绸了。在汉朝(公元前206~公元2)的某个时期，丝绸的身价昂贵到被用作某种形式的流通货币。朝廷官员的俸禄是用丝绸来支付的，而农夫则用谷物和丝绸来完税。丝绸还被皇帝用作外交礼物。渔线、弓弦、乐器和紙皆由丝绸制作而来。人类最早使用丝质纸的证据发现于一位贵族的墓中，据估计此人大约死于公元168年。

人们对这种异域织物的大量需求最终催生出了现在被称为“丝绸之路”的这样一条一本万利的贸易路线，向西输送丝绸而向东则运来金、银和毛料。之所以叫做“丝绸之路”，正是以其最珍贵的商品而得名，它被视为比黄金更贵重。“丝绸之路”从中国东部一路绵亘6000多公里直达地中海，沿着中国长城的路线，攀越帕米尔山脊，穿过今日的阿富汗并延伸到了中东地区，在大马士革有一个主要交易市场。各种货物从那里再由船运跨过地中海销往各地。很少有商人会走遍整条路线;货物大多是由一系列的中间经手人交接传递的。

由于桑蚕原产于中国，这个国家在许多个世纪里一直是全球唯一的丝绸产地。丝绸制作的秘密最终是经由在公元330~1453年间统治着地跨南欧、北非和中东的地中海地区的拜占庭帝国传到了世界上的其他国家。根据另一个传说，为拜占庭皇帝查士丁尼(Justinian)服务的僧侣们在公元550年将蚕卵藏在空心的竹子手杖里，偷偷带到了君士坦丁堡(即今日土耳其的伊斯坦布尔)。然而，拜占庭人和中国人一样守秘不宣，在很多个世纪里丝绸料子的纺织和贸易都受到帝国的严格把控垄断。然后在七世纪，阿拉伯人征服了波斯，在此过程中掠获了它们的华贵丝绸。丝绸生产由此随着阿拉伯人对非洲、西西里和西班牙的扫荡而传遍了这些地方。西班牙南部的安达卢西亚在十世纪里是欧洲的主要丝绸生产中心。不过到13世纪的时候，意大利则成为了欧洲丝绸生产和出口的领军者。威尼斯商人们到处进行丝绸贸易并鼓励制丝者来意大利定居。甚至是到了如今，意大利北部科莫省加工的丝绸仍然享有盛誉。

19世纪和工业化目睹了欧洲丝绸产业的衰落。更为廉价的日本丝绸，这种货物的贸易得到了苏伊士运河开通的极大推动，是促成这ー衰落趋势的许多因素之一。接下来在20世纪里，新型人造纤维材料，例如尼龙，开始应用在传统上一直使用丝绸的产品中，例如长筒袜和降落伞。两次世界大战切断了来自日本的原材料供应，也扼杀了欧洲丝绸产业。二战过后，日本的丝绸生产再度复工，生丝的制作工艺和品质都有所提升。直到20世纪70年代之前，日本始终是世界上最大的生丝生产者，实际上也是唯一的大规模生丝出口者。但是，在近几十年里，中国逐渐重拾昔日地位，成为全球最大的生丝和丝线生产者和出口国。今天，全世界大约生产125,000公吨的丝绸，其中几乎三分之二的产量出自中国。

TEST 3 PASSAGE 2 参考译文：

大迁徙

动物迁徒，无论如何下定义，都远不只是动物群的移动而已。它可以大致被描述为按照规律的间隔(通常是以年度为循环周期)来进行的旅行，可能会涉及一个种群的许多成员，而且仅仅是在完成了长途跋涉之后才能获得回报。这种行为显示出了遗传的本能。生物学家Hugh Dingle总结出了五条在不同程度上或以不同组合方式，适用于所有迁徙行为的特点。迁徙是旷日持久的长距离运动，将动物们带离熟悉的栖息地;它们往往是沿直线进行，而不是曲折迂回的;它们牵涉到一些与行前准备(例如超量进食)和到达有关的特殊行为;它们需要进行特殊的能量分配。并且还有一样：迁徙中的动物有着一种对更远大使命的格外专注，这使它们不会被任何诱惑转移了注意力，也不会因为任何会让其他动物望而却步的挑战而裹步不前。

一只北极燕鸥，在它从南美洲的最南端飞向北极圈的20,000公里途中，对于一个观鸟者从小船上提供给它的一条散发浓烈气味的美味鲱鱼将会毫不在意。本地海鸥将会贪婪地俯冲下来争食这般馈赠，而燕鸥却会继续向前飞去。为什么?北极燕鸥之所以抗拒了这一分神因素，是因为那时那刻它被一种本能感觉所驱动着，我们人类发现这种感觉十分令人钦佩：它叫做“更远大的目标”。换言之，它下定决心一定要到达它的目的地。这只鸟感觉到它可以稍后再进食、休息和交配。当前它的注意力完全集中在旅程本身上;它的绝对唯一目的就是抵达目的地。去到北极的某个沙砾遍地的海岸，其他北极燕鸥都集结在了那里，这将让它达成那个由进化所塑造出来的更远大目标：找到某个地点、某个时间和一系列环境条件，它可以在其间成功地孵化和养育后代。

然而迁徙是个极其复杂的事件，而生物学家们对它的定义也各有不同，在某种程度上要取决于他们研究的是何种动物。蒙大纳大学的Joel Berger研究的是美洲叉角羚和其他大型陆生哺乳动物，他倾向于使用一个适用于他所研究动物类型的、被他称作简单实用的定义：“从某个季节性栖息区域去到另一个栖息区域然后再回来的往复运动”。这种季节性来回移动的原因通常是为了寻找某些在任何一个区域内都并非全年存在的资源。

但是海洋中浮游生物的每日垂直运动——夜里上浮以寻找食物，白天下潜以躲避捕食者——也可以被视作迁徒。蚜虫的活动也可被认为是迁徙：当一株食用植物上的所有嫩叶都被吃光以后，它们的后代就会飞去另一株宿主植物，没有任何一只蚜虫会回到自己出发的地方去。

Dingle是位研究昆虫的进化生物学家。他的定义比Berger的定义更为细致，列举出了将迁徙行为区别于其他形式动物活动的五条特征。它们考虑到了存在这样的事实情况，例如蚜虫在应该起身踏上它们大行程的时候会对蓝光(来自天空)变得敏感，而在应该下落的时候则对黄光(来自嫩叶的反射)敏感。鸟类在进行长途迁徙飞行之前会大量进食来为自身增脂。(也就是说，Dingle承认每个物种的迁徙行为都存在自身独特之处而彼此各有差异。)Dingle认为，他所下定义的价值在于，它集中关注了角马迁徙与蚜虫迁徙现象的共性，并以此来帮助研究者理解进化是如何导致所有这些共性的产生的。

然而，人类活动正在对动物迁徙产生着有害影响。叉角羚虽然看起来颇似羚羊，但其实二者并无关系，它是新世界(注：New World 是英国人对美洲大陆的旧称;相应地，英美对传统欧洲国家则称之为Old World)里速度最快的陆生哺乳动物。其中一个种群会在美国西部大提顿国家公园的山脉间度过夏天，然后从其山间的夏季牧场沿一条狭窄路径南下，穿过一条河，最后来到平原上。它们在这里熬过最寒冷的几个月，主要靠吃被风吹露出雪面以上的灌木蒿丛度日。这些叉角羚之所以引人注目，在于它们迁徙路线的年复一年从不改变，并且这条路线在三个瓶颈隘口，狭窄难行。如果它们在春季迁徙的过程中不能通过这三个路口中的任何一个，就无法抵达它们水草丰美的夏季乐园;如果它们在秋季再次穿行的时候不能通过路口而向南躲避到这些有风吹袭的平原上，它们就有可能在北方厚厚的雪层中试图过冬而死亡。叉角羚依靠远视能力和奔跑速度来躲避捕食者，一般穿行于平原的开阔凸起地带，在这样的地方它们才能四下张望和撒蹄狂奔。在这些隘口中的一处，两侧林木覆盖的山峦耸立构成了一个V形，留出一条只有大约150米宽的走廊空地，其上还建满了私人住宅。不断的发展正在引发一场叉角羚的生存危机，眼看就要封住了它们的穿越通道。

物种保护科学家们，以及来自美国国家公园管理局和其他机构的一些生物学家和土地管理者们，现在正致力于保护动物的迁徙行为，而不是仅着眼于物种和栖息地的保护。己有一片国家森林将叉角羚的迁徙路径，其中一大部分路程要穿越该森林内部，列为一条受保护的迁徙走廊。但无论森林保护局还是公园保护局都无法操控某个狭窄口的私人土地上到底会发生什么。而且由于另一些物种也会进行迁徙活动，这一挑战变得更加复杂，因为这些影响因素：动物长途跋涉走过的遥远路途、更多的土地管辖权、更多的边境、沿途的更多危险。我们将需要智慧与决心来确保这些迁徙的物种还能再将它们的长途行走活动进行得更长久一些。

TEST 3 PASSAGE 3 参考译文：

《另外那半边如何思考：数学推理探险》前言

A 偶尔，在一些难于演绎的复杂乐章中，会有一些美妙但却容易上手的部分——这些部分如此简单，即使一个初学者也可以演奏它们。数学里也有这样的情况。高等数学中有一些发现并不仰仗专业的知识，甚至并不依赖代数、几何或三角函数。正相反，它们可能最多只涉及一点点算术知识，比如“两个奇数之和为偶数”，再加上常识即可。这本书八个章节中的每一章都能证明这一现象。任何人都能理解这种推理过程中的每一个步骤。

每一章里的思维过程都最多只用到基本算术，有时候甚至连那个也用不上。这样一来所有的读者都将有机会参与一场数学的体验，体会数学的美妙，并逐渐熟悉它那富有逻辑性的然而也是发乎直觉的思考风格。

B 我写这本书的目的之一，就是为那些到目前为止还从未有机会看到和欣赏什么才是真正数学的读者提供一个机会，借此玩味数学的思考方式。我希望展示给读者的，不仅仅是一些引人入胜的发现，而且更重要的还是这些发现背后的思考推理行为。

从以上角度来说，这本书不同于大多数为大众写就的关于数学的书籍。一些书描绘了某些数学家丰富多彩的人生。另一些叙述了数学的重大用途。还有一些虽则深入讲解了数学推演过程，但却假定读者必定在代数运用方面相当娴熟。

C 我希望这本书将能有助于架起一座桥梁，跨越那道臭名昭著的裂隙，从而沟通两种文化：人文与科学，或者我也许应该将之称为右脑(直觉性的)与左脑(分析性的，数字性的)。正如以下书中章节将会展示的那样，数学并不仅仅局限于分析性和数字性;直觉扮演了一个重要角色。那道所谓的鸿沟可以被任何人缩短或完全弥合，部分原因在于我们中的每个人都还远没有充分运用大脑任何一侧的全部能力。为了说明我们人类的潜能，我列举了若干例证：一个结构工程师同时也是一位艺术家，一名电气工程师身兼歌剧演唱家，一位歌剧演唱家发表过数学研究专著，而一个数学家则出版了若干短篇小说。

D 其他科学家们也曾出书向非科学专业人员解说他们的研究领域，但却都不得不省略其中的数学专业知识，即使这些知识构成了他们理论的基石。读者只好全程做一个跃跃欲试而不得的旁观者，而不是加入其中的参与者，因为描述大部分科学领域中细节内容的恰当语言是数学语言，无论话题是膨胀宇宙、亚原子粒子，还是染色体。虽然某个科学理论的大致轮廓可以通过直觉性思维来进行粗略描述，可一旦实体宇宙的某个组成部分最终为人们所理解，对这部分的描述往往还是看起来很像数学课本中的某一页。

E 没有数学专业背景的读者仍然可以在理解数学分析方面走得很远。这本书中给出的细节展示了数学风格的思维方式，这涉及耐心的、一步接一步的分析、实验和深入思考。你在翻动本书页码的时候，会比阅读一部小说或一份报纸时缓慢得多。准备好一支笔和一张纸会有助于你来测试书中理论和展开各种实验。

F 我在写作的时候，脑海中构想了两种类型的读者：有些人本来一直挺喜欢数学的，直到他们被某个不愉快的小插曲转变了看法，通常是在五年级左右;另外一些则是数学狂热爱好者，他们将在整本书内找到许多全新的东西。

这本书同时也能服务于那些仅仅只是想要锻炼自身分析能力的读者。许多职业，例如法律和医药，都需要从业者具备全面、精确的分析能力。每一章都提供了一些可供读者沿一条持之以恒、逻辑严密的思路线索一路探究的练习。数学可以帮你开发这方面的技能，不信请看以下两份大力推荐：

G 一位医生写道：“(数学中)分析性思维加工的训练令我为医学学习做足了准备。在医学领域，一个人在遇到问题时，必须先仔仔细细地分析清楚才能找到解决办法。这个过程与学习数学是类似的。”

一位律师也提出了同样的观点：“尽管我没有任何法律知识背景”——甚至连一门政治科学课也不曾上过，但却在一所顶级的法律学校里成绩优异。我将自己在那里取得成功的很大一部分归功于通过学习数学，特別是各种定理，掌握了如何分析复杂的原理。学过数学的律师们有能力以一种大多数其他律师所无法上手的方式掌握法律原则。”

我希望你能分享我的这一份喜悦，去看简单的、有时甚至是幼稚的各种问题引向非同凡响的解决之道，同时纯理论的发现则能找到意料之外的应用之途。

剑桥雅思阅读11原文解析(test3)

Passage 1

Question 1

答案： tea

关键词： 3000 BC, cocoon, fell into, emperor's wife

定位原文: 第1段第5句“It just so happened that... ” 这些蚕茧中的一粒掉进了热茶中并开始松散成为一根细丝。

解题思路: “3000BC”和“皇帝的妻子”都很好定位，在第一段的第二句中便可看到，但却偏偏没有“掉进”这个信息，直到读者看到第五句中的landed in这个同义表述才能恍然大悟，答案为tea。

Question 2

答案： reel

关键词： emperor's wife, invented, pull out silk fibres

定位原文： 第1段第8句“She also devised a special reel to draw... ”她还设计发明了一种特殊的卷轴来将蚕茧中的纤维纺成丝线。

解题思路： 此题的定位距离上一道题不远，仍是皇帝妻子所做的事。题干说“皇帝的妻子发明了一个 _____ 来拽出丝绸纤维”，读者只需回到原文找到devised这个对invented进行同义表述的单词，即不难发现答案为reel。

Question 3

答案： women

关键词： only, allowed to produce

定位原文： 第2段第1句“Originally, silkworm farming …” 起初，桑蚕业完全是只由女性来进行的，她们要负责种植、收获和纺织。

解题思路：此题基本是考査考生对于solely表示only这个意思的认知。题干说“只有被允许生产丝绸”，根据语法还可推知此空格内需填写名词的复数形式。定位到原文的solely restricted to即可得到答案women。

Question 4

答案： royalty

关键词： only, allowed to wear

对应原文： 第2段第2句“Silk quickly grew into a symbol of status, and originally, only …” 成为社会地位的象征，起先只有皇室才能穿。

解题思路： 此题结构与上一题极其相似，题干说“只有______被允许穿着丝绸”。这次题千里的only一词倒是原词重现在文中，不过却考査考生是否认识be entitled to与be allowed to的同义替换，或者考生也可通过题干中wear与文中clothes的对应确定答案为royalty。

Question 5

答案： currency

关键词： used, a form of, farmers' taxes

定位原文： 第2段第4、5句“Sometime during …” 到汉朝的某个时段，珍贵到被当做一种货币。

解题思路： 此题的题干本身给出信息不多，“丝绸被用作一种形式的______”;考生也可能并不熟 悉a unit of与a form of的同义替换。但好在下一句的例子提到了更多细节：例如，农民交税的一部分就是丝绸。利用“农民交税”这个信息可以更顺利地进行定位，答案为currency货币。

Question 6

答案: paper

关键词: 168AD，made from

定位原文: 第2段最后1句“The earliest indication of … ”人类最早使用丝质纸的证据发现于一位贵族的墓中。

解题思路： 此题中最明显的定位词非168AD莫属。题干说“大约在公元168年发现了用丝绸制作的的证据”，因此考生需要在定位句中寻找某种以丝绸为材质的物品。对比原文indication(此处意即证据) of silk paper可知答案为paper。

Question 7

答案： wool

关键词： Silk Road, westward, precious metals

定位原文： 第3段第1句“Demand for this exotic fabric eventually …” 最终催生了“丝绸之路”的贸易路线，且向西输送丝绸而向东则运来金、银和毛料。

解题思路： 此题题干说“商人们利用丝绸之路向西运送丝绸并运______回来和贵重金属”。定位十分容易，对比原文可知precious metal即文中的gold 和silver，于是答案为另外的物品wool。

Question 8

答案: monks

关键词: hide, canes, Constantinople

定位原文: 第4段前第3句“According to another legend, monks…” 根据另一个传说版本，是为拜占庭皇帝工作的和尚们走私偷运了蚕卵。

解题思路: 此题依然可以利用题干中的数字和大写轻松定位。题干说 “在公元550年，_____把蚕卵藏在手杖里带到了君士坦丁堡”，可以推知此题答案必然身份为人，不过考生需分辨清楚发出smuggled (走私)这个动作的人是一些为拜占庭皇帝工作的僧侣而非在句子中离smuggled这个动词更近的皇帝本人，答案为monks。

Question 9

答案: nylon

关键词: 20th century, manmade fibres, decline

定位原文: 第5段的第3句。“Then in the twentieth century, new ……” 接下来在20世纪里，新型人造纤维材料，例如尼龙，开始应用在传统上一直使用丝绸的产品中，例如长筒袜和降落伞。

解题思路： 此题的定位需先找到“20世纪”这一信息。题干说“ _____和其他人造纤维材料造成了丝绸生产的衰落”，可以推知答案必然为某种具体的人造纤维材料。対比原文只有一种具体人造材料被提及，答案为nylon。

Question 10

答案: False

关键词： Gold, most valuable material, Silk Road

定位原文： 第3段第2句“It was named the Silk Road after... ” 之所以命名为丝绸之路，是因为运输了最贵重的商品，比黄金价值更高的“丝绸”。

解题思路: 原文意思不难理解，丝绸之路之所以名为“丝绸”之路，是以其最有价值的货品(即丝绸)来命名的，还有定语从句进一步澄清“丝绸被认为比黄金价值更高”，与题干信息相悖。

Question 11

答案: True

关键词: Most tradesmen, certain sections of the Silk Road

定位原文: 第3段最后一句“Few merchants travelled …” 基本没有商人走完全程，货物传递都靠很多中间人。

解题思路: 只需认识merchants这个可以用来替换tradesmen的词汇即可顺利定位，而原文内容说很少有商人会走完整条路线，分号后更是换了种方式再表达一遍：商品大多是由一系列中间经手入来传递交接的，与题干内容一致。

Question 12

答案： False

关键词： Byzantines, spread, across the West

定位原文： 第4段第4句“The Byzantines were as secretive…”

解题思路： 文章中说“拜占庭人和中国人一样守秘不宣，在很多个世纪里丝绸料子的纺织和贸易都受到帝国严格的把控垄断”，也就是说拜占庭人并没有积极地把丝绸生产的做法传播出去，而是保守了秘密，与题干信息相反。注意：本段第二句中曾经提及，丝绸制作的秘密确实是经由拜占庭帝国而传播到世界上其他国家去的，但这句表述并不能等同于题干中的“拜占庭人将丝绸生产的做法传遍西方”，因为后者是在说他们出于主动的意愿去传播这种方法，而前者则是陈述事实：无论如何，最终丝绸的生产方法确实是经由拜占庭传播到各地的。二者不能混为一谈。

Question 13

答案： Not Given

关键词： Silk yarn, majority, exported from China

定位原文： 第5段最后两句“However, in more recent decades, China…”

解题思路： 原文只说中国在近几十年成为世界最大的生丝和丝线的生产者和出口国，其产量几乎占全球丝绸产量的三分之二，并没有明确提及在这些产品的构成中，丝线是否占到大多数。

Test 3 Passage 2

Question 14

答案: False

关键词: local gulls, arctic terns, food

定位原文: 第2段前两句“An arctic tern, on its 20,000 km flight…”

解题思路: local gulls 会为了herring 这样的 handouts 而 voraciously 俯冲下来，然而arctic tern却会继续飞行，显然二者在面对食物时表现得并不一样。不考虑有可能很不多不认识的单词，但看while这个提示词又明确强化了是不一样的，与题干信息相悖。

Question 15

答案: True

关键词: expert's definitions, vary, area of study

定位原文: 第3段第1句“But migration is a complex…”迁徙是个复杂的问题，生物学家依据研究的动物不同对定义也各不相同。

解题思路: 只需按照“专家的定义”找到原文中的相应描述即可，答案与题目“专家们对于迁徙的定义往往会根据他们的研究领域而各有不同”为同义表达。

Question 16

答案： Not Given

关键词： very few experts agree, movement of aphids

定位原文：第4段前两句“But daily vertical movements by…”

解题思路: 本题具有一定的迷惑性。“蚜虫移动”这个信息不难定位，原文也以事实陈述的口吻指出：浮游生物和蚜虫的移动确实可以被视为某种形式的迁徙。但此题是一道典型的“将事实与观点相混淆”思路的判断题，题干说“基本没有什么专家认同这个看法”，是明确的“专家观点表达”，与原文的“事实陈述”既不能说是矛盾，也不能说是一致，而是Not Given。

Question 17

答案： True

关键词： aphids' journeys, affected, changes in the light

定位原文： 第5段第3句“..., aphids will become sensitive to blue light (from the sky) when it's time for takeoff on their big journey…” 对蓝光和黄光敏感…….

解题思路：可能未必认识aphids (蚜虫)这个单词，但它在文中作为昆虫名并没有被替换。阅读定位句可知，这种生物确实会在不同的情況下分别对蓝光和黄光更加敏感，也就是“会受到光色变化的影响”，答案为True。

Question 18

答案: False

关键词： Dingle's aim, distinguish

定位原文： 第5段最后一句“The value of his definition, Dingle…”

解题思路: 由于有Dingle这个大写人名，本题定位不难。Dingle的目的在于找到迁徙行为的共性，与题干所表述的“目标在于区分不同物种迁徙行为之间的差异”是两个不同的意思。

Question 19

答案: G

关键词： Dingle, migratory routes, likely

定位原文： 第1段的第4、5句“The biologist Hugh Dingle has identified five…”

解题思路： 题干说“按照Dingle的说法，迁徙的路线往住会______” 回到原文中Dingle这个人名不难找到，route (路线)这个意思却是通过linear和 zigzaggy这两个用以描述“路线”是平直还是曲折的形容词来间接表达的，需要考生认识其中至少一个才能更准确定位。而一旦定位之后确定答案则很容易，为G项：follow a straight line (沿着一条直线)。

Question 20

答案： C

关键词： prepare for, likely to

定位原文：第1段第5句“…; they involve special behaviours concerning preparation…”

解题思路：题干说“为了给迁徙做准各，动物们往往会_____”。prepare这个题干中的定位信息在原文中仅仅改了词性，变成了名词preparation，很容易被找到;而括号里对于“做准备”的举例说明overfeeding也不是困难的词汇，可以轻松得出答案为C: eat more than they need for immediate purposes (吃得比它们当下立刻就需要的要多)。

Question 21

答案： A

关键词： during migration, unlikely to

定位原文：第1段最后一句“And one more: migrating…”

解题思路：题干说“在迁徙过程中，动物们一般不会______”，此题比较有迷惑性，原因在于原文中给出了两个否定性信息：undistracted by temptations 和 undeterred by challenges that would turn other animals aside，分别对应于选项E和选项A。注意：选项E和A所描述内容的方向是相反的。根据题干中的unlikely，可得出答案为A: be discouraged by difficulties，即“不会被困难阻挡”，如果选E的话，则与文意相反。

Question 22

答案： E

关键词： Arctic terns, illustrate, ability

定位原文： 第2段前四句 “An arctic tern, on its 20,000 km flight from …”

解题思路: 题干说“北极燕鸥证明了迁徙中的动物的______能力”。Arctic ton不难定位，但考生需要具备耐心，在第一次找到定位词的句子里没有提供相关解题信息的时候继续向下阅读原文，直到看至第四句时能得出完整信息，答案为E: ignore distractions (忽视那些分散注意力的因素)。

Question 23

答案： speed

关键词： pronghorns, rely on, eyesight, predators

定位原文：第6段倒数第3句“Pronghorn, dependent on distance vision…”

解题思路： pronghorn这个词在文中出现在了两个部位。第一次是在第三段中，只是在介绍Joel Berger 的研究领域时被简短地一带而过，没有展开;第二次则是在文章的后两段中密集出现，此时才是真正说到了其迁徙行为的细节内容，是此部分summary题型对应的正文部分。题干说“叉角羚依赖它们的视力和_____来躲避捕食者”。対比原文中与vision形成并列关系的内容，可得答案为speed。

Question 24

答案: plains

关键词: summer habitat, national park, winter home

定位原文: 第6段第3、4句“One population, which spends the summer in the mountainous…”

解题思路：题干说“某个特定种群(叉角羚)的夏季栖息地是一个国家公园，而它们的冬季家园则位于_____”。“夏季”和“国家公园”这两个信息都不难在文中找到，但包含这两个信息的句子里提供的地点“平原”却不容易被确定为答案，原因在于本句中并没有明确提及“冬季”这个信息。考生需要耐心向下再阅读一句，找到“冬季”的同义替换frozen months，从而用here这个地点指代词来确认，答案为plains。

Question 25

答案： bottlenecks

关键词： route, three

定位原文：第6段第5句“These pronghorn are notable for…”

解题思路：题干说“它们在这两个区域之间的迁徙路线包含三个_____”。其实只需找到文中明确提及“三”这个数目的所指对象即可，答案为bottlenecks。

Question 26

答案： corridor

关键词：problem, construction of new homes, narrow

定位原文：第6段倒数第2句“At one of the bottlenecks, forested hills…”

解题思路：题干说“问题之一来自叉角羚迁徙路线上一条狭长_____上的新建房屋”。本题的难度来自于使用了narrow来同义替换“只有150米宽”这一具体的细节信息，可能会给定位造成一定障碍。而一旦成功定位即可得出答条为corridor。

Test 3 Passage 3

Question 27

答案：D

关键词：assume, lack of mathematical knowledge

定位原文：D段第1句“Other scientists have written books to…”

解题思路：题目：a reference to books that assume a lack of mathematical knowledge; 译文：提到了这样一些书，它们都设定其内容缺失数学专业知识。books所进行的assume是针对书的读者而言，也就是说，它们假设的是“读者并不具有(或者说缺乏)特别深厚的数学知识”，但在英语地道表达中此句并不需要出现readers这个单词，需要考生自行领会。回到原文中，have necessarily had to omit这个表达也清楚地表明这类书籍是“出于必要、不得不省略了”数学相关内容。也就是说，这些书并不是故意对数学专业知识避而不谈，而是考虑到了读者群的具体情况而刻意避免了深入艰涩的数学内容。

Question 28：

答案：B

关键词：not a typical book

定位原文： B部分第2段第1句“In that respect, this book differs from…”

解题思路：题目：the way in which this is not a typical book about mathematics;译文：本书在何种意义上并非一本典型的数学题材相关书籍。此题相対来说比较容易，只需考生看出not a typical book 与 differs from most books 的简单同义替换。

Question 29：

答案：G

关键词：personal examples, helped by

定位原文：G部分

解题思路：题目：personal examples of being helped by mathematics;译文：得到数学助益的个人案例。此题从理解题干或原文的角度来看都并不困难，文章中医生和律师的个人案例无论读懂哪一个都足以帮助解题。但如果考生仅仅只着眼于在文章中寻找某个关键词的同义替换，则无论 personal, example 还是help 都无法找到，反而会遭遇困难。

Question 30：

答案：C

关键词：examples of people, abilities, incompatible

定位原文： C段最后一句 “To illustrate our human potential, I…”

解题思路：题目：examples of people who each had abilities that seemed incompatible; 译文：举例同时具有的各种能力看起来似乎并不协调的人物例子。需灵活理解题干中的incompatible一词，未必一定是“不可兼容的”，也可以泛指“似乎有矛盾、不一致”这样的状态。言下之意，一个人可以既具备这类能力，又同时具有另外一类不同的能力，而看似这两种能力好像不应该同时出现在一个人的身上。原文中列举了四人，每个人都在两个截然不同的领域中有所建树，正是为了表达这样的意思。

Question 31：

答案：B

关键词：different focuses

定位原文：B 部分第2段后3句 “Some present the lives …”

解题思路：题目：mention of different focuses of books about mathematics;译文：提到了不同的数学类书籍的不同关注点。此题从理解题干意思到理解原文意思都不困难。题干属于总结阐述型，而原文则给出细节，具体列举有哪几类着眼点各自不同的数学类书籍。

Question 32：

答案：E

关键词：contrast, other kinds of publication

定位原文：E段第3句“You will turn…”

解题思路：题目：a contrast between reading this book and reading other kinds of publication; 译文：比较阅读此书和阅读其他出版物的不同体验。此题最容易的入手点在于“其他出版物”这个信息，文中的novel和newspaper都能与此构成对应，只需按部就班读到此处信息即可。

Question 33：

答案：A

关键词：whole of the book, accessible to everybody

定位原文： A部分第1段最后一句和第2段第2句“Anyone can understand …”“Thus all readers…”

解题思路：题目：a claim that the whole of the book is accessible to everybody; 译文：声称这本书的所有部分都能让每个人看懂。此题相対比较简单，A部分中无论是看到第一段还是第二段的相关内容，都可比较顺利地得出答案。

Question 34：

答案：F

关键词：different categories, intended readers

定位原文：F部分第1段“As I wrote, I kept…”

解题思路：题目：a reference to different categories of intended readers of this book; 译文：提到这本书的目标读者群的不同类别。本题没有什么难度，定位后可以比较轻松地解题。

Question 35：

答案： beginner

关键词：both music and mathematics, suitable

定位原文：A部分第1段第1、2句“Occasionally, in some difficult musical…”

解题思路：题干说“音乐和数学中都有某些领域是适合于这样的人的”。根据语法可以推知此处应该寻找某种“人”，回到原文中可以迅速、轻松定位“音乐”这个信息，根据So it is...as well的信息也可认定此处确实是音乐与数学并列被提及的答案出处，再通过阅读定位句可得答案为beginner。

Question 36：

答案： arithmetic

关键词：understand advanced mathematics, limited knowledge

定位原文：A部分第1段第3、4句“There are some discoveries… ”

解题思路：题干说“有时候要理解高等数学也只不过需要使用关于_____的一点有限知识就足够了”。考生可以轻松用advanced mathematics回到原文中定位，也不必在看到可能不熟悉的algebra geometry, or trigonometry 担心，根据本句上下文看出它们都是“高等数学”的具体举例内容即可。下一句则以instead和a little 来表明此处列举的内容“并不高深”，对比题干要求可知答案为arithmetic。

Question 37：

答案： intuitive

关键词：as well as, analytical skills

定位原文：A部分第2段最后一句“Thus all readers will…” 或C段第一句 “I hope this book…”

解题思路：题干说“作者意在展示数学除了需要分析技巧外也需要_____思维”。其实在文中两处都可找到答案。第一次是在A部分，虽然没有analytical这个定位词，但有logical这个类似信息，按部就班通读全文完全可以通过此句中的yet对比关系确定答案为intuitive;但如果更倾向于利用关键词analytical skills和as well as这个并列关系来寻找答案的话，更容易的定位出现在C段中，可以直接找到analytical原词，再利用and并列关系可以确定答案为intuitive。

Question 38：

答案： scientists

关键词：leave out, central to their theories

定位原文：D段第1句“Other scientists have written…”

解题思路：题干说“一些由_____写出来的书不得不省略一些对于他们的理论来说至关重要的数学知识”。细读题干可以推知空格内必然是作者、人，此处考査考生是否认识原文中omit一词为leave out词组的同义替换，如果有此词汇基础则可比较轻松地得出答案为 scientists。

Question 39：

答案： experiments

关键词：perform, while reading

定位原文：E段最后两句“You will turn these pages…”

解题思路：题干说“作者建议非数学专业出身的读者们在阅读此书时进行_____”。考生应该不难看出原文中 turn these pages 与题干中 while reading 的同义替换，只是在确定具体答案的时候需要仔细辨別，因为句中给出了两个并列信息，分别是 check claims 和 carry out experiments。 经过对比可知，只有carry out才能与perform对应，因此答案为experiments。

Question 40：

答案： theorems

关键词：lawyer, helped, even more than, other areas

定位原文：G部分第2段第2句 “I attribute much of my success there…”

解题思路：题干说“一个律师发现在其学习法律的过程中学习甚至比其他数学领域知识更有帮助”。根据此信息可以得知空格内必定需要填写某个具体的数学领域。利用lawyer可以轻松定位，仔细阅读定位部分可以知道，只有in particular这个词组之后的内容才有可能是具体数学领域知识，由此得出答案为theorems。

篇8：剑桥雅思阅读真题及答案解析TESTONEPASSAGE1:Tropicalrainforests

Tropical rainforests原文

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-14 which are based on Reading Passage 1 below.

Adults and children are frequently confronted with statements about the alarming rate of loss of tropical rainforests. For example, one graphic illustration to which children might readily relate is the estimate that rainforests are being destroyed at a rate equivalent to one thousand football fields every forty minutes — about the duration of a normal classroom period. In the face of the frequent and often vivid media coverage, it is likely that children will have formed ideas about rainforests — what and where they are, why they are important, what endangers them — independent of any formal tuition. It is also possible that some of these ideas will be mistaken.

Many studies have shown that children harbour misconceptions about ‘pure’, curriculum science. These misconceptions do not remain isolated but become incorporated into a multifaceted, but organised, conceptual framework, making it and the component ideas, some of which are erroneous, more robust but also accessible to modification. These ideas may be developed by children absorbing ideas through the popular media. Sometimes this information may be erroneous. It seems schools may not be providing an opportunity for children to re-express their ideas and so have them tested and refined by teachers and their peers.

Despite the extensive coverage in the popular media of the destruction of rainforests, little formal information is available about children’s ideas in this area. The aim of the present study is to start to provide such information, to help teachers design their educational strategies to build upon correct ideas and to displace misconceptions and to plan programmes in environmental studies in their schools.

The study surveys children’s scientific knowledge and attitudes to rainforests. Secondary school children were asked to complete a questionnaire containing five open-form questions. The most frequent responses to the first question were descriptions which are self-evident from the term ‘rainforest’. Some children described them as damp, wet or hot. The second question concerned the geographical location of rainforests. The commonest responses were continents or countries: Africa (given by 43% of children), South America (30%), Brazil (25%). Some children also gave more general locations, such as being near the Equator.

Responses to question three concerned the importance of rainforests. The dominant idea, raised by 64% of the pupils, was that rainforests provide animals with habitats. Fewer students responded that rainforests provide plant habitats, and even fewer mentioned the indigenous populations of rainforests. More girls (70%) than boys (60%) raised the idea of rainforest as animal habitats.

Similarly, but at a lower level, more girls (13%) than boys (5%) said that rainforests provided human habitats. These observations are generally consistent with our previous studies of pupils’ views about the use and conservation of rainforests, in which girls were shown to be more sympathetic to animals and expressed views which seem to place an intrinsic value on non-human animal life.

The fourth question concerned the causes of the destruction of rainforests. Perhaps encouragingly, more than half of the pupils (59%) identified that it is human activities which are destroying rainforests, some personalising the responsibility by the use of terms such as ‘we are’. About 18% of the pupils referred specifically to logging activity.

One misconception, expressed by some 10% of the pupils, was that acid rain is responsible for rainforest destruction; a similar proportion said that pollution is destroying rainforests. Here, children are confusing rainforest destruction with damage to the forests of Western Europe by these factors. While two fifths of the students provided the information that the rainforests provide oxygen, in some cases this response also embraced the misconception that rainforest destruction would reduce atmospheric oxygen, making the atmosphere incompatible with human life on Earth.

In answer to the final question about the importance of rainforest conservation, the majority of children simply said that we need rainforests to survive. Only a few of the pupils (6%) mentioned that rainforest destruction may contribute to global warming. This is surprising considering the high level of media coverage on this issue. Some children expressed the idea that the conservation of rainforests is not important.

The results of this study suggest that certain ideas predominate in the thinking of children about rainforests. Pupils’ responses indicate some misconceptions in basic scientific knowledge of rainforests’ ecosystems such as their ideas about rainforests as habitats for animals, plants and humans and the relationship between climatic change and destruction of rainforests.

Pupils did not volunteer ideas that suggested that they appreciated the complexity of causes of rainforest destruction. In other words, they gave no indication of an appreciation of either the range of ways in which rainforests are important or the complex social, economic and political factors which drive the activities which are destroying the rainforests. One encouragement is that the results of similar studies about other environmental issues suggest that older children seem to acquire the ability to appreciate, value and evaluate conflicting views. Environmental education offers an arena in which these skills can be developed, which is essential for these children as future decision-makers.

Tropical rainforests阅读题目

Questions 1-8

Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage 1

In boxes 1-8 on your answer sheet write

TRUE if the statement agrees with the information

FALSE if the statement contradicts the information

NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this

1 The plight of the rainforests has largely been ignored by the media.

2 Children only accept opinions on rainforests that they encounter in their classrooms.

3 It has been suggested that children hold mistaken views about the ‘pure’ science that they study at school.

4 The fact that children’s ideas about science form part of a larger framework of ideas means that it is easier to change them.

5 The study involved asking children a number of yes/no questions such as ‘Are there any rainforests in Africa’

6 Girls are more likely than boys to hold mistaken views about the rainforests’ destruction.

7 The study reported here follows on from a series of studies that have looked at children’s understanding of rainforests.

8 A second study has been planned to investigate primary school children’s ideas about rainforests.

Questions 9-13

The box below gives a list of responses A-P to the questionnaire discussed in Reading Passage 1.

Answer the following questions by choosing the correct responses A-P.

Write your answers in boxes 9-13 on your answer sheet.

9 What was the children’s most frequent response when asked where the rainforests were

10 What was the most common response to the question about the importance of the rainforests

11 What did most children give as the reason for the loss of the rainforests

12 Why did most children think it important for the rainforests to be protected

13 Which of the responses is cited as unexpectedly uncommon, given the amount of time spent on the issue by the newspapers and television

A There is a complicated combination of reasons for the loss of the rainforests.

B The rainforests are being destroyed by the same things that are destroying the forests of Western Europe.

C Rainforests are located near the Equator.

D Brazil is home to the rainforests.

E Without rainforests some animals would have nowhere to live.

F Rainforests are important habitats for a lot of plants.

G People are responsible for the loss of the rainforests.

H The rainforests are a source of oxygen.

I Rainforests are of consequence for a number of different reasons.

J As the rainforests are destroyed, the world gets warmer.

K Without rainforests there would not be enough oxygen in the air.

L There are people for whom the rainforests are home.

M Rainforests are found in Africa.

N Rainforests are not really important to human life.

O The destruction of the rainforests is the direct result of logging activity.

P Humans depend on the rainforests for their continuing existence.

Question 14

Choose the correct letter, A, B, C, D or E.

Write your answer in box 14 on your answer sheet.

Which of the following is the most suitable title for Reading Passage 1

A The development of a programme in environmental studies within a science curriculum

B Children’s ideas about the rainforests and the implications for course design

C The extent to which children have been misled by the media concerning the rainforests

D How to collect, collate and describe the ideas of secondary school children.

E The importance of the rainforests and the reasons for their destruction

Tropical rainforests答案解析

答案：FALSE

关键词：media

定位原文：第1段第3句“In the face of the frequent and often vivid media coverage…”;“Despite the extensive coverage in the popular media of the destruction of rainforests…”

解题思路：这两段当中的frequent/vivid/extensive/coverage等词都说明媒体对于热带雨林的现状十分关注，并做了广泛报道。

Question 2

答案：FALSE

关键词：children/classroom

定位原文：第2段第3句“These ideas may be developed by children absorbing ideas through the popular media。”这些观点可能是学生从大众媒体中获得的。

解题思路：这句话证明学生也从大众媒体中吸取有关热带雨林的观点，而并不是只从课堂中得到相关知识。

Question 3

答案：TRUE

关键词：pure/ mistaken

定位原文：第2段第1句“Many studies have shown that children harbour misconceptions about ‘pure’, curriculum science.”

解题思路：这句话是题干的同义替换，学生关键需要掌握“harbour”在这里的意思等于“hold”。

Question 4

答案：TRUE

关键词：framework/easier

定位原文：第2段第2句“These misconceptions do not remain isolated but become incorporated into a multifaceted，but organized, conceptual framework, making it and the component ideas, some of which are erroneous, more robust but also accessible to modification.”

解题思路：解这题的关键是要明白题干中的“easier to change”和文中的“accessible to modification”是同义替换。

剑桥雅思4Text1阅读答案解析Question 5

答案：FALSE

关键词：yes/no

定位原文：第4段第2句“Secondary school children were asked to complete a questionnaire containing five open-form questions.”

解题思路：Open-form指简答题，与yes/no直接矛盾。

Question 6

答案：NOT GIVEN

关键词：more likely than

定位原文：第5段第4句“More girls (70%) than boys (60%) raised the idea of rainforest as animal habitats.”

第6段第1句“Similarly, but at a lower level, more girls (13%) than boys (5%) said that rainforests provided human habitats.”

解题思路： 虽然这两句话分别将男生女生作了比较，但是比较内容并不是关于热带雨林破坏的错误观点，所以此题属于并不存在的比较关系。

Question 7

答案： TRUE

关键词：follow on from

定位原文：第6段第2句“These observations are generally consistent with our previous studies of pupils’ views about the use and conservation of rainforests…”

解题思路：“previous”一词是先前的意思，证明在此研究之前，人们也就学生对热带雨林的看法做了研究，因此本文所提到的调査是在这些研究之后进行的。

Question 8

答案：NOT GIVEN

关键词：primary/second

解题思路：文中直到最末尾也从未提到这项研究是否会继续，所以此题属于无中生有。

Question 9

答案：M

关键词：where/ rainforests

定位原文：第4段第6句“The commonest responses were continents or countries: Africa (given by 43% of children), South America (30%), Brazil (25%).”

解题思路：根据对应句信息可选出答案为M。

Question 10

答案：E

关键词：importance/rainforests

定位原文：第9段第1句…the majority of children simply said that we need rainforests to survive.

解题思路：根据对应句信息可选出答案为E。

Question 11

答案：G

关键词：reason/loss

定位原文：第7段第2句“...more than half of the pupils(59%)identified that it is human activities which are destroying rainforests,...”

解题思路：根据对应句信息可选出答案为G。

Question 12

答案：P

关键词：important/protected

定位原文：第5段第2句“The dominant idea, raised by 64% of the pupils, was that rainforests provide animals with habitats.”

解题思路：根据对应句信息可选出答案为P。

Question 13

答案：J

关键词：uncommon/issue

定位原文：第9段第2句至第3句“Only a few of the pupils(6%)mentioned that rainforest destruction may contribute to global warming. This is surprising considering the high level of media coverage on this issue.”

解题思路：根据对应句信息可选出答案为J。

Question 14

答案：B

关键词：title

定位原文：无

解题思路：从文章第二段开始，一直在围绕孩子对热带雨林容易产生错误的理解，因此本文重点应该放在孩子对热带雨林遭破坏状况的观点上，故要选择一个带有孩子的标题。

雅思阅读--两手都要抓

首先，是如何提高自己英语阅读的基本能力。而这样的能力又主要分为两个层次：词汇的掌握和读句子的能力。阅读基本能力的提升，需要至少2个月的时间，通过给学生专业化的方案指导，将课堂上的学习和课堂后的复习相结合，让其在一个合理的时间规划期内去提升自己的基础能力，达到一个最佳的效果。这也是对于我们老师在教学中要求一直秉持的原则，忌急于求成，囫囵吞枣。

那么怎么去做基础能力提升呢?对于大部分学生而言，词汇的把握是核心。第一、同学们必须去把握阅读部分的高频词，这些词汇是所有同学都必须认真记忆的，按照我们最新的权威数据统计，大概在1000个单词左右，我们也为所有的学员将这些单词做成了独有的单词库，帮助大家以最高效的方式掌握必考词汇;第二、同学们需要掌握好一些近义词或同义词词组，雅思的阅读部分考查就是看同学们对同义词替换的一个把握，这些词组的掌握是同学们获得高分的基础。

我们同样为同学们对这些词组进行了总结和研究。在我们课堂上，我们授课老师会定期抽查同学们对于这2个词汇库的掌握，督促同学们做好词汇的记忆工作。未参加培训的同学不妨可以效仿这样的模式，给自己一些压力和期限，认真做好最基本词汇与词组的积累。

解决雅思阅读的第二方面，就是要掌握好雅思阅读部分解题的关键性技巧。雅思阅读部分共有3篇文章，每篇1000词左右，有40道题目要回答，时间是一小时。如果没有对考试题型有透彻理解，那么很难在这么紧张的时间里去做好题目。因此一定要按照不同考题的特点和对应的能力要求，有的放矢的去准备以及应对。笔者在日常的教学中会指导同学们把握不同题目的做题方法和技巧，一方面要让他们知道为什么要这样去思考，去做题，另一方面告诉他们怎么去灵活变通的去使用技巧。

只有把方法以及如何灵活运用这些方法讲透，学生们才能真正地掌握好、正确使用、自信满满地考取高分。我的小部分学生曾和我透露过这样的困惑，在参加过一些培训之后，考试不理想，但是明明上课的时候听得很爽，只是到考场上做题却犯难。

其实，那正是因为题目的解题技巧没讲透，没讲清楚应该怎么灵活的运用，培训老师没有从考生的角度去思考。我们的模考体系就是考虑到这一点建立健全起来的，通过阶段性测试检验学生有没有真正地听懂，老师有没有认真负责地讲清楚。模考也不断让同学们看到自己阶段性学习成果，从而更有动力。

剑桥雅思阅读真题及答案解析 TEST ONE PASSAGE 1:Tropical rainforests

篇9：雅思听力真题答案

雅思听力真题答案

SECTION 1

一个女生咨询住宿homestay事宜。

1.住址：【14 Hill(s) Road】

2.时间：【After 7 pm / Before 9:30 am / after 9.30】 不确定

3.年龄：【19】

4-5.homestay的要求（两个空）real 【garden】；only one 【guest】

6.英语程度【intermediate】

7.对食物的要求:【vegetarian / vegetable only】

8.最高租房费用Max Rent：【100 pounds per week】开始说60~80后来补充说up to 100

9.注册日期：【23rd March】

10.愿意住在【northwest】

SECTION 2

一次为慈善募捐所作的徒步旅行(charity walking holiday)。6个选择题，4个填空题。

1.选【B ，8天】

2.有个PIE CHART 图表是问题捐款占总比例，平均选【过一半的那个，有55%-65%吧】 前面有干扰

3.募捐的用途选【A，for student】

4.参加者的要求【VERY FIT】（原文是 extremely fit）

5.可以带自己的装备吗? 因为原文说可以靠LOCAL 单位，所以选【B，是只要带some of the own things】

6.后面是个表格题，4个填空。

填每天的安排，第三天valley，第五或六天是visit a ancient temple，第八天是swim in a water fall，第九天是。。。。没记忆，但不难填，传统产品等。

7. spend one day on a 【forest】

8. visit ancient 【temple】

9. swimming in 【park lake / waterfall】

10. visit a weaving 【blanket】

SECTION 3

一个学生和老师的谈话，关于topic，supervisor/department decide，的各个方面的问题的

先是6个选择题；

1.选何种research topic? (选C)

A、是比较POPULAR的'；

【C、长时间感兴趣的；】

2.如何选老师？

选【学院会给你分配DEPARTMENT ALLOCATE】

3.有个问到选学校的原因，应该

选【C】应该选学校会给你research足够好支持support的,而不是声誉或者resource的多少。

4.又是PIE CHART，所有大学的drop-out rate 选【C、60%】；『比50％略多那个。45％只是这个大学的drop -out 率，后面再讲平均的，不可能是45％，但A、75％又太高了』

5.有个获取资料的方法：选【B、上网查】/【talk to a person】{上网查绝对不对，那个教授先就否掉了，然后说可以打

篇10：雅思阅读真题V57

雅思阅读真题V57

第一篇（判断、选择）是说几个人研究蝴蝶，比较难。前几题是T/F/NG，后面是给段意让你选段落，段落大概是十来个，段意只有5，6个，不太好做。最后好象还有两道选择。我一共花了25分钟还做的不理想

passage1.三个科学家研究热带雨林蝴蝶。T/F/NG有六题。各位考过的朋友都分别有几个T几个F呢？然后是配对题个5、6，要求对应文中段落填对应段落号。接下来三个填空。 征集各位答案！

第二篇（选择、配对）是说古钱币的，非常简单。前面几个选择加上后面7，8个MATCHING，我只有一个来不及找了（怕最后一篇时间不够：（ ）

如果再碰到强烈建议先做，搞定十几题心里就有底了啊：）

passage2.关于各国各种古怪的钱币。四五个选择。第一个是问什么钱币通用于19世纪，我在B和D中犹豫，一个是silver coin一个是silver clot吧最后还是选了前者。然后是8、9个配对题，钱币和其性质的配对。

第三篇（判断、简答一个词、选择）是美国人关于运动员如何提高运动成绩的研究，不难。但我只有十五六分钟了，大家知道最后五分钟心理紧张，一般是起不了什么作用的。先是5，6个T/F/NG，然后是四个填空（容易），最后是三四道选择。我因为时间不够，最后做的T/F/NG只好全选F了，呜呜~~~

S3 （28-40）体育运动performance提高 5个TRUE/ FALSE/ NOT GIVE 4 conclusions 3 choice

1．对体育成绩有记录开始于ABOUT 1900，我犹豫半天选对，原句：有记录于EARLY IN 19世纪，1904年的奥林匹克百米成绩是…马拉松是2：55分，而1999年新的记录是2：05，提高了30% 第一段完毕

2．遗传可以FULLY完全解释为什么有些人成绩好，F，原文：遗传是最重要的原因，但也就能占1/3，没一个人能给出完全的.合理的解释，TRAINING弄好了比1/3还强

3.好基因的父母他们自己一定是很出色的运动员 NOT GIVEN，原文：你要是想当好运动员，你一定好好挑选父母。

4.有了记录数据后，很多人可以在很早的年纪就被发现体育特长 T原句：因为有基因数据和国际比赛重奖，所以可以使很早运动员就被发现。

5.最容易提高的成绩来自BURST OF ENERGY，短跑类。NOT GIVEN，没提及，就算有也是马拉松提高的最多。

NO MORE THAN：“1”WORD完成句子

XX教授把体育成绩和什么LINK到一起：GENETICS

XX教授认为什么更重要：TRAINING

XX教授把饮食DIET和什么联系一起：NUTRITIONTH

The key method to create new record is better TRAINING

Simple choice

1有些科学家研究运动员动作，（用录象三维拍摄）在哪方面比较有价值：

选择：运动员FITNESS的够不够 （原句：这种研究可按牛顿某定理得出结论：你跑的还不是最快的速度，因为你的胳膊还没挥到最大程度，不过这种研究的效果不大）

2.这些科学家研究了XX运动员（好象是个跳高的）后，这研究的作用是：explain the Xx’performance a：soften xx’ b：correct xx’ c：forget原句：XX成绩如此出色，他自己也不明白为什么，而体育家分析后发现原来的人们是如何如何做的，而XX是用soften方式得到的好成绩

3.XX教授认为我们目前对成绩原因的认识还在什么阶段：选：BASIC阶段，原文很清楚。

passage3.关于怎样提高运动员成绩的理论。开始5、6个T/F/NG题。然后是一个WORD的填空题，好像有training、injuries 最后三个填空有一个问某教授研究的理论对一跳高运动员的作用，我选explain的作用，还有一选项是cushion the jump.最后一题是问现在人们对运动员的研究在什么阶段，应选basic。

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