雅思阅读考题回顾朗阁官方20150725

雅思考试阅读考题回顾

朗阁海外考试研究中心郑虹考试日期： 2015年7月25日

Reading Passage 1

Title: History of Refrigeration（制冷剂历史）

Question types: 配对题

句子匹配题

文章内容回顾一开始讲述美国没有制冷技术，只能把食物腌制。后来城市化后，需要大量新鲜食物，于是人们开始利用天然冰块冷藏并运送食物。有两个人分别改进了冰块运输技术和冰块切割技术。后来天然冰块越来越少，有人开始利用机械制冷，一开始是铁路技术，有人改进了铁路冷藏技术，于是加州的新鲜水果可以运往各地了。再然后有人改进公路技术，于是可以开始在公路上运送冷藏食物。之后人们发现以前的冷藏剂有毒，于是有人开始开发冷藏剂。最后总结说新冷藏剂虽然对臭氧层有害，但大大促进了冷藏技术在全球的推广。

题型难度分析1-4 配对题

1. 1949

2. 1799

3. 1930

4. 1830

第一篇比较简单，总共只有两种题型，第一种题型比较容易定位，可以在短时间内做完。第二种题型是句子补充完整匹配题，难度比第一种题型大，难定位。

题型技巧分析特殊词匹配题型特点是特殊词不可替换，此题可以用时间直接定位，定位到文章之后，读定位点前后两句话，再回选项找正确答案。句子补充完整匹配题需注意两点：第一，问题给的半句话是和文章定位点同义替换的。第二，此题是句子补充完整，所以句子匹配后需符合整句话的逻辑意思。

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Reading Passage 2

Title: an Alternative Approach of Farming in Honduras 洪都拉斯新农耕方法

Question types: 段落信息匹配题6题摘要填空题5题

多选题2题

文章内容回顾关于洪都拉斯农业耕种。过去人们采用刀耕火种的方式：把一片树林砍伐成平地，半年以后再在上面种植植物，这就造成了土地肥力下降，所以人们就不得不再砍伐新的树林来开辟耕地。后来政府推广了一种新的种植方法：在原耕地上种一种能快速生长的树。优点是不用经常照料，之后把树的叶子砍下来作为肥料，一段时间之后在堆肥的地方挖洞种庄稼进去。

题型难度分析14-19 段落信息匹配题

14. Why does the previous mode of farming need constantly changing places? 选：A（村庄周围的土地资源早已枯竭，农民不得不长途跋涉2-3小时到山上去工作）

15. The new working mode does not care who the operator is. 选：F （农业可以让所有家庭成员都参与，并解释了为什么）

16. a kind of material that must be added 选：F (inexpensive nitrogen, cook fuel)

17. how the new mode of farming (IAC) imitates the process of forest 选：D（一个人发明了这种农耕方式，并说明在自然状态下树叶自然掉落在地上以后可以为土壤增加养分）

18. why farmers have to continue the unattainable farming on the infertile land 选：B（因为土地稀缺）

19. a description of the cost of using this new approach of planting crops 选：C（需要分离出一部分土地来种树，并且要等树长成，但不会影响农民的生计）

20-24 摘要题填空

The government and Dr. Hans promoted the approach of shifting agriculture and recycling of fertilizers without too much 20. attention, because it is lack of 21. light so that weeds and grass will not survive. The pruned branches would be put on the ground to form a thick layer of decomposing 22. leaves. The crops would get nutrients from the 23. holes. This approach poses no risk on farmers’ 24. livelihood. 25-26 多选题

What are the benefits of new approach of farming? 选：A&C

A. More family members are involved

B. This technology will increase new species of local plant

C. The same land can be recycled

D. The new approach requires more labor than the traditional one

本篇文章难度中等，第一个题型是阅读中最难的题型即段落信息匹配。第二个题型是选词填空summary, 比较简单。第三个题型是多项选择题，只要定位准确，也不会出错，而且选项也简单易理解。

题型技巧分析整篇文章三种题型，第一种题型是无序的，果断放到最后做，先做summary题和多项选择题。Summary题注意以下几点：第一，先确定这道summary是对文章几个段落进行概括；第二，选词填空词性大部分是名词；第三，选词填空最重要是分析空格前后的修饰词，回文章找空格前后修饰词的同义词，比如说第20题，那么要找的是否定(without)

修饰的名词。

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剑8 Test 4 Passage 2（体裁相似）Reading Passage 3

Title: Mechanism of Linguistic Change 语言变化机制原理

Question types: 填空题

判断题

长句匹配题

文章内容回顾语言的变化，有几个原因：1. 被别的语言影响；2. 被某些社会阶层影响，高层次的人总是被人模仿，其中又分为中产阶级的影响和小孩学父母不像造成的影响；3. 发音省力造成的影响。

相关英文原文阅读

Mechanism of Linguistic Change

The changes that have caused the most disagreement are those in pronunciation. We have various sources of evidence for the pronunciations of earlier times, such as the spellings, the treatment of words borrowed from other languages or borrowed by them, the descriptions of contemporary grammarians and spelling-reformers, and the modern pronunciations in all the languages and dialects concerned. From the middle of the sixteenth century, there are in England writers who attempt to describe the position of the speech-organs for the production of English phonemes, and who invent what are in effect systems of phonetic symbols. These various kind of evidence, combined with a knowledge of the mechanisms of speech-production, can often give us a very good idea of the pronunciation of an earlier age, though absolute certainty is never possible.

When we study the pronunciation of a language over any period of a few generations or more, we find there are always large-scale regularities in the changes: for example, over a certain period of time, just about all the long [a:] vowels in a language may change into long [e:] vowels，or all the [b] consonants in a certain position (for example at the end of a word) may change into [p] consonants. Such regular changes are often called sound laws. There are no universal sound laws (even though sound laws often reflect universal tendencies), but simply particular sound laws for one given language (or dialect) at one given period.

It is also possible that fashion plays a part in the process of change. It certainly plays a part in the spread of change: one person imitates

another, and people with the most prestige are most likely to be imitated, so that a change that takes place in one social group may be imitated (more or less accurately) by speakers in another group. When a social group goes up or down in the world, its pronunciation may gain or lose prestige. It is said that, after the Russian Revolution of 1917, the upper-class pronunciation of Russian, which had formerly been considered desirable, became on the contrary an undesirable kind of accent to have, so that people tried to disguise it. Some of the changes in accepted English pronunciation in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries have been shown to consist in the replacement of one style of pronunciation by another style already existing, and it is likely that such substitutions were a result of the great social changes of the period: the increased power and wealth of the middle classes, and their steady infiltration upwards into the ranks of the landed gentry, probably carried elements of middle-class pronunciation into upper-class speech.

A less specific variant of the argument is that the imitation of children is imperfect: they copy their parents’ speech, but never reproduce it exactly. This is true, but it is also true that such deviations from adult speech are usually corrected in later childhood. Perhaps it is more significant that even adults show a certain amount of random variation in their pronunciation of a given phoneme, even if the phonetic context is kept unchanged. This, however, cannot explain changes in pronunciation unless it can be shown that there is some systematic trend in the failures of imitation: if they are merely random deviations they will cancel one another out and there will be no net change in the language.

One such force which is often invoked is the principle of ease, or minimization of effort. The change from fussy to fuzzy would be an example of assimilation， which is a very common kind of change. Assimilation is the changing of a sound under the influence of a neighbouring one. For example, the word scant was once skamt, but the /m/ has been changed to /n/ under the influence of the following /t/. Greater efficiency has hereby been achieved, because /n/ and /t/ are articulated in the same place (with the tip of the tongue against the teeth-ridge), whereas /m/ is articulated elsewhere (with the two lips). So the place of articulation of the nasal consonant has been changed to conform with that of the following plosive. A more recent example of the same kind of thing is the common pronunciation of football as foopball.

Assimilation is not the only way in which we change our pronunciation

in order to increase efficiency. It is very common for consonants to be lost at the end of a word: in Middle English, word-final [-n] was often lost in unstressed syllables, so that baken ‘to bake’ changed from [ba:k?n] to [ba:k?],and later to [ba:k]. Consonant-clusters are often simplified. At one time there was a [t] in words like castle and Christmas, and an initial [k] in words like knight and know. Sometimes a whole syllable is dropped out when two successive syllables begin with the same consonant (haplology): a recent example is temporary, which in Britain is often pronounced as if it were tempory.

题型难度分析题型难度中等，三种题型都是细节题，并且题型内部都是按照顺序原则，所需时间短。

题型技巧分析做这三种题型时，注意各个题型内部是按照顺序原则的，但是三种题型放在一起在文章中出现时可能并不是按顺序原则，比如说第一种题型的句子填空第一题在文章第二段，那么第二种题型的第一题可能出现在文章第一段。

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Climate and Country Wealth Why are some countries stupendously rich and others horrendously poor? Social theorists have been captivated by this question since the late 18th century, when Scottish economist Adam Smith argued in his magisterial work The Wealth of Nations that the best prescription for prosperity is a free-market economy in which the government allows businesses substantial freedom to pursue profits. Smith, however, made a second notable hypothesis: that the physical geography of a region can influence its economic performance. He contended that the economies of coastal regions, with their easy access to sea trade, usually outperform the economies of inland areas. Coastal regions and those near navigable waterways are indeed far richer and more densely settled than interior regions, just as Smith predicted. Moreover, an area's climate can also affect its economic development. Nations in tropical climate zones generally face higher rates of infectious disease and lower agricultural productivity (especially for staple foods) than do nations in temperate zones. Similar burdens apply to the desert zones. The very poorest regions in the world are those saddled with both handicaps: distance from sea trade and a tropical or desert ecology. The basic lessons of geography are worth repeating, because most economists have ignored them. In the past decade the vast majority of papers on economic development have neglected even the most obvious geographical realities. The best single indicator of prosperity is gross national product (GNP) per capita – the total value of a country's economic output, divided by its population. A map showing the world distribution of GNP per capita immediately reveals the vast gap between rich and poor nations. The great majority of the poorest countries lie in the geographical tropics. In contrast, most of the richest countries lie in the temperate zones. Among the 28 economies categorized as high income by the World Bank, only Hong Kong, Singapore and part of T aiwan are in the tropical zone, representing a mere 2 percent of the combined population of the high-income regions. Almost all the temperate-zone countries have either high-income economies (as in the cases of North America, western Europe, Korea and Japan) or middle-income economies (as in the cases of eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union and China). In addition, there is a strong temperate-tropical divide within countries that straddle both types of climates. Most of Brazil, for example, lies within the tropical zone, but the richest part of the nation – the southernmost states –is in the temperate zone. There are two major ways in which a region’s climate affects economic development. First, it affects the prevalence of disease. Many kinds of infectious diseases are endemic to the tropical and subtropical zones. This tends to be true of diseases in which the pathogen spends part of its life cycle outside the human host: for instance, malaria (carried by mosquitoes) and helminthic infections (caused by parasitic worms). Although epidemics of malaria have occurred sporadically as far north as Boston in the past century, the disease has never gained a lasting foothold in the temperate zones, because the cold winters naturally control the mosquito-based

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ACADEMIC READING 60 minutes READING PASSAGE 1 You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13 which are based on Reading Passage 1 below. Striking Back at Lightning With Lasers Seldom is the weather more dramatic than when thunderstorms strike. Their electrical fury inflicts death or serious injury on around 500 people each year in the United States alone. As the clouds roll in, a leisurely round of golf can become a terrifying dice with death - out in the open, a lone golfer may be a lightning bolt's most inviting target. And there is damage to property too. Lightning damage costs American power companies more than $100 million a year. But researchers in the United States and Japan are planning to hit back. Already in laboratory trials they have tested strategies for neutralising the power of thunderstorms, and this winter they will brave real storms, equipped with an armoury of lasers that they will be pointing towards the heavens to discharge thunderclouds before lightning can strike. The idea of forcing storm clouds to discharge their lightning on command is not new. In the early 1960s, researchers tried firing rockets trailing wires into thunderclouds to set up an easy discharge path for the huge electric charges that these clouds generate. The technique survives to this day at a test site in Florida run by the University of Florida, with support from the Electrical Power Research Institute (EPRI), based in California. EPRI, which is funded by power companies, is looking at ways to protect the United States' power grid from lightning strikes. 'We can cause the lightning to strike where we want it to using rockets,' says Ralph Bernstein, manager of lightning projects at EPR!. The rocket site is providing precise measurements of lightning voltages and allowing engineers to check how electrical equipment bears up. Bad behaviour But while rockets are fine for research, they cannot provide the protection from lightning strikes that everyone is looking for. The rockets cost around $1,200 each, can only be fired at a limited frequency and their failure rate is about 40 per cent. And even when they do trigger lightning, things still do not always go according to plan. 'Lightning is not perfectly well behaved,' says Bernstein. 'Occasionally, it will take a branch and go someplace it wasn't supposed to go.' And anyway, who would want to fire streams of rockets in a populated area? 'What goes up must come down,' points out Jean-Claude Diels of the University of New Mexico. Diels is leading a project, which is backed by EPRI, to try to use lasers to discharge lightning safely and safety is a basic requirement since no one wants to put themselves or their expensive equipment at risk. With around $500,000 invested so far, a promising system is just emerging from the laboratory. The idea began some 20 years ago, when high-powered lasers were revealing. their ability to extract electrons out of atoms and create ions. If a laser could generate a line of ionization in the air all the way up to a storm cloud, this conducting path could be used to guide lightning to Earth, before the electric field becomes strong enough to break down the air in an uncontrollable surge. To stop the laser itself being struck, it would not be pointed straight at the clouds. Instead it would be directed at a mirror, and from