雅思阅读预测真题库1参考答案

Flood

C/B/F/A/E/D

Mississippi/London/Netherlands/Berlin/LosAngeles

B/D

Texting the Television

ii/vi/vii/i/v/ix

A/D/C/D/E/A/C/F

Company Innovation

F/C/G/B/F/E

T/NG/F/T

C/A/D

Rainwater harvesting

Corpproduction/sugar-cane platations/Three wells/1998/Roofs of houses/storage tanks

NOT GIVEN/YES/NO/YES/YES/NO/NOT GIVEN/NO

Design Wobby Mats And Foot health

TRUE/FALSE/TRUE/TRUE/NOT GIVEN

C/B/A

anatomy/stress/blood pressure/resistance/pathway

Tea and Industrial Revolution

vi/v/ix/i/ii/iv/vii

NG/T/F/F/NG/T

Seed Hunters

drugs and crops/extinction /pioneers /Sir Joseph Banks /underground vaults

TRUE /NOT GIVEN /TRUE /TRUE /FALSE /TRUE

In any order

A food /

B fuel

The Power of Placebo

A/G/B/H/F/A/D/C

F/NG/T/T/F

Animal Minds:Parrot Alex

NG/NG/F/T/T/F

particularly chosen/chimpanzees/100 English words/avian cognition/color/wrong pronunciation/teenager

Compliance or Noncompliance for Children B/C/C/A/D/F/D/E/A

NO/YES/YES/YES/NOT GIVEN

What Happines is?

B/A/F/C/G/H/E

Candy/definition/catastrophic brain/landscapes or dolphins playing/primitive parts

B

Western Immigration of Canada

ii /iv /x /vi /i /vii /xii

Homesteads/agricultural output /wheat/company/police

force/transcontinental railway

Communication in Science

B/A/C/D/C TRUE/NOT GIVEN/FALSE/FALSE

word choices/colloquial terminology/observer/description/general relativity

Twin Study: Two of a Kind

F/D/E/B/E

Francis Galton/1924/AEF/ABD

Learning by Examples

E/D/A/C

F/T/F/T

less/social/watched/observer/ Nutcraker

Plain English Campaign

T/F/T/NG/NG/F

jargon/gap/do-it-yourself/frustration/first-time

user/legal/courts/consumers

Monkeys and Forests

fruit/(deadly)poisons/leaf nutrients/reproduce/drought

D/F/B/A/C/C/A/D

Pesticide in an India Village

T/F/NG/F

Powder/overnight/neemcake/doubles/organic fertiliser/labor/by 2000/Neem seeds/water purification

Talc Powder

C/C/B/A/B/C

20/foam/waster water/biodegrade/harmful/droplets/lamination and packing/grape growers

Bird Migration

iv/i/ii/vii/x/v/viii

A/B

parental guidance/compass/predators/visible

Corporate Social Responsibility v/viii/iv/vii/i/iii/ii

equal opportunity/internal cost

C/C/A/B

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