最新雅思G类阅读真题

最新雅思G类阅读真题

G类阅读

一篇说员工出差的报销问题：不确定能不能报销的先找line manager(可能是其他人这个记不清了）；报销要保存帐单；车票和国内国际机票国内机票只能经济舱国际的可以其他；住宿旅馆要求经常去的地区只能住单位联系的酒店有折扣其他地区3星级或多少钱以下;其他文具啥的费用怎么样忘了

另一篇超市招聘长期员工，面试后给feedback，店内不让查电子邮件，要提供有住址的帐单，其他不记得了

还有一篇说的几个房屋广告：楼层高的那个不适合老人和残疾人; 天花板高的那个有储物空间;附近有学校的适合家庭带小孩;有一个房子下面有双车库，另一个外边有双车库是迷惑项;有个房子internal需要decorate，题目里说需要painting;另一个房子是房间已经update 过了;还有一个房子是很小但是可以扩大，并且有风格特色，忘了是不是前面其中的一个。

第四篇大阅读是鲸鱼唱歌的题，只记得大概，第一部分是选择xx40年xx50年一直到xx80年都有什么成果，第二部分t/f/ng的前几个西岸东岸鱼群的弄得有点晕，后面选择题，问鲸鱼唱歌是小节重复还是主题重复啥的，还问了什么情况下变歌，还有同个海洋的鲸鱼，地理位置近的歌声相近之类的。

G类的作文

小作文向房屋中介介绍自己租房要求到一个英语国家快开始工作了全家要租房子

大作文air travel 越来越便宜有人说是positive 进步有人反对，分析两边给出自己的观点。

经验分享如下：

雅思阅读：速读就是方法

听力和阅读我实在没什么可以分享的,考前从来没复习过,如果说技巧的, 可以介绍一个阅读技巧,因为本人没出来之前A类就考过阅读8.5,所以

有点小经验,大部分同学的问题是读不完,我觉得最重要的千万不要看不懂一句话,就没完没了的读那句话,快速的向后看,通过后面的文章理解前面的，通过问题来猜测文章大意.先通读问题,然后带着问题速读,注意一定要速读原文!!!!

雅思听力：机经少看

听力机井实在不建议大家看,对于要考7的同志门,最好的方法就是提高自己的实力,坚持听新闻,每天xx分钟,就会有很明显的提高,而且对口语很有帮助

如果实在要看机经,我建议大家就看看当中比较古怪的SECTION ,类似于什么大猩猩行为的,主要是对一些生词熟悉。

雅思写作提高：认真研究剑桥范文

我这几次考试练习的很多,也找牛人改过作文,但是总觉得不得要领,后来问过一个考过的朋友,他说他没有去练习,就是看剑桥后的原文。

这到提醒了我,我从来没有好好看过例文,于是我把从1-7的考官范文都找了出来,看一段,默写一段,去体会他们的写法,发现真的有很多平时我们很少用的句型,比如如果我想说"这个观点很有价值" 我会说This view is very valuable, 但是考官会写This view is of infinite value。我发现他们超级喜欢用BE OF 句型。所以认真研究范文对改变我之前的写作思路非常有帮助,所以最后一次到7, 是我唯一一次提前写完了xx分钟~~~,

关于作文的长度,我建议大家,如果有时间,尽量要多写,我的经验是,观点不用很多,但是要扩展的很充分,然后结尾其实很重要,如果结尾只是只简单的重复一下观点,分数不会很高。(个人感觉)

澳洲雅思考试考场的选择

关于考场的选择,我觉得不用太在意,我之后又报了WOLLONGAN 的考试,但是因为这次已经过了,所以没有机会去看看

虽然很多人都说ACL简单,但是却是我最低的一次~~,所以考场真的不是很重要,但是偏远地区真的可能会好点

不过很多人的写作都在NSW得了7 ,但是NSW的口语给的不高(谣传而且,仅供参考)

雅思口语：要重视第一部分的简单问题

最后简单说下口语，我对口语的准备不是很多,基本上是考前看看3G预测,准备一下特别的话题,类似于什么雕塑呀,极限运动什么的。然后就是看见考官别紧张,看着他的眼睛说,不要表现的很像背的...还有不要小看开始的简单问题,非常影响他对你的印象。

好了,希望我的经验对大家有用,能帮助大家尽快突破雅思大关！

不多说了，先介绍一下基本情况：考了三次雅思，阅读分别为8，8，9。除了第一次准备的时候提前一个月开始做剑桥，第二次考得时候提前三天每天做一小时阅读题，第三次，就看了一下所有的题型和注意事项就上场了，可以说后两次阅读基本没复习。别打我，我不是炫耀而是要用事实说明一个道理：阅读能力一旦上来，方法一旦掌握，你就能驾驭阅读部分的考试了，科不科学我不知道反正个人经验如此。个人感觉雅思阅读考试最重要的两个方面，一是阅读考试技巧解题方法的掌握，二是你自己的阅读能力泛读能力预测能力还有阅读纯体力。（其实什么考试的阅读都是一个道理）

从这两个方面努力，两手都要抓！两手都要硬！他们之间的关系与其说是加法，不如说是乘法，技巧×能力，不管哪个方面的提高都会换回明显的回报。

材料：因为去年差不多也是这个时候做了不少杀托题，中间隔了几个月冬天开始烤鸭，因为之间没在读过英文材料，所以提前一个月开始复习时就选了剑桥的4-7，阅读另外还买了一本词汇书---剑桥雅思词汇精选，蓝皮的，胡敏编。还有一本刘洪波的雅思阅读真经1&2。

下面说说怎么用这三本书：

1.剑桥雅思词汇精选，呵呵老师推荐的词汇书，不薄的一本啊，应付雅思考试足够了。里面的词不难，我是完完全全把这本词汇书当做阅读词汇掌握的（阅读词汇：不用拼不用读不用会用，看到了能反映出是什么意思，就算记不起确切意思，也有个词性的概念，褒贬意，指人的还是指物的。有些词我说不出来它到底是什么意思，但是有个感觉，脑子里有个大概的概念）这本书有五分之一生词的人，可以先画出来生词，然后就主要看这些画出来的。多于五分之一的生词，大家可以用杨鹏的xx天搞定GRE单词里面的方法搞定雅思阅读词汇，这个比背GRE词简单不知道哪儿去了。

最后强调：掌握到阅读词汇的程度就好了，大家不需要在词汇这里下太多功夫，雅思阅读词汇要求并不高，不用太过害怕担心。

2. 雅思阅读真经1&2，这本是我一同学介绍给我的，大家要是看这本书的话，一定要注意了：千万不要做题，这本书的题很诡异，不过文章都还不错，觉得自己在泛读方面需要提高的童鞋不要错过，毕竟剑系列的题是有限的，大概只能做一个月，大家可以每天做套剑桥，再加上泛读3篇这里的文章，不过瘾的可以读5篇每天呵呵，泛读是很有趣的，不用弄懂每一句，就像在看科普文章。

最后强调：别做它的题，它的讲解有些我也不很认同，真有读不懂的文章也不用深究，毕竟剑桥系列才是最重要的，要知道所有的别的材料和考试真题都是有差距的，我们只能选择贴近真题的材料练习。练泛读到后来是要掐时间的，有意识的培养自己快速泛读同时抓住重点的能力很重要。有兴趣有时间的可以把不认识的专有名词，没有就算了，不重要。

3 剑桥系列，绝对绝对是我们烤鸭过程中最最亲密的好哥们啊，时间紧的人什么都不做也得看剑系列啊！我以前一个老师说过，准备一个考试最好的材料就是真题，对烤鸭们来说，就是剑系列。4-7是比较适合现在的考试的，再往前的就有点“老”了。配套使用的有剑桥雅思考试全真试题解析，我手上有345的，看有没有方法传给大家。不过这套解析不是官方出版，而是一些中国老师的劳动结果，真有搞不明白的可也看看参考一下，里面也有每篇阅读的译文。

最后强调：真题是少而珍贵的，大家要计划好，留出最后模考用的。做题方法最好也用剑题磨合，弄懂错的原因，总结、想对策并避免下次再犯。剑桥题里的生词是值得我们记忆的，我每次做完一套都会。

1 用1个小时查出生词抄到纸上（大家放心一开始可能有点多但是后来会越来越少）

2 统计这三篇各题型的错误率，拿着正确答案想问什么这么做，画出真是想不明白的去请教别人

3 过两天再回过头去看错误的题，再做一遍看是不是还错

每做完一本剑桥，统计这一本各题型的错误率找出自己最薄弱的题型，统计总结错误原因找出努力方向（因为有生词犯的错误、因为句子语法没读懂句子、根本没找到答案在文中的位置、问题理解失误等等等等），每个人犯的错都不一样，你知道了自己那里犯错，下次一定要注意，该背单词的背单词，没读懂句子的分析语法成分读懂它，没找到答案的加强文章定位能力，思维逻辑差异的努力用老外的方式思考问题。

我的雅思阅读方法与做题技巧：这个我不知道能不能发，我是完全按照教我的老师的方法来的。先读题目，划题目中的重点词，看题目和副标题，读第一段，读完回去题目做出现在第一段的题目，读第二段，读完回去题目做出现在第二段的题目，读第三段，读完回去题目做出现在第三段的题目。我也看了看平行阅读法，里面的方法也还不错。重要的是大家选定了一个方法要不断联系并掌握，这才是考试技巧的意义所在。

雅思题目中的重点词帮助你定位题目在文章中的位置，优先划名词数字专有名词限定时间等等。

雅思各题型的解法大家拿不准可以去看平行阅读法那个讲的还不错，光靠说的我觉得我说不清楚，而且发出来不是道那个老师会不会生气啊，毕竟人家的版权（咦，平时盗版书盗版碟的还没什么感觉，现在总觉得不好，我去问问那个老师，她要是没意见看我有时间会不会写写详细的出来再）

我的个人雅思经验：雅思阅读时间很紧，要注意留出填答题纸的时间，我的解决方法是一加强泛读能力阅读速度，最直击问题根本的结果方法。二做题时拿一个计时器放旁边，读完题目记下时间，读完第一段记下时间，读完第二段记下时间，这样就知道自己到底在哪里费时间了，针对性的去改正。一般来说练到最后读完题目是两分半钟，边读边做题，到文章完成一半时大概是十分钟左右，十八十九分钟时大概能完成一篇文章。但是大家都知道，文章难易和话题熟悉度是会对做题速度有很大影响的，我最后一次考试时阅读有一篇讲撒谎和人的面目表情肌肉活动的关系，这不就是美剧lie to me嘛！太熟悉了，不看文章我都能给你掰上几十分钟，文章做得信手拈来，讲得非常浅显还没lie to me深呢。那次我前两篇文章满打满算每篇十五分钟完成任务，用的后半个小时做了最后一篇，歇了半天。当然，我们不能指着自己遇到的就是熟悉话题，主要还是自己能力的提高和应试的熟练。

还有一点，我的一个老师曾提出“雅思阅读纯体力”的定义，有人可能感觉到，前两篇文章状态还挺好，做到第三篇开始“累了”，速度下降，理解力下降，题做得越来越不顺。排除每篇文章的难易因素，有些人只能集中精力40分钟，再往后思维开始涣散，状态越来越不好。

这就是为什么不做则已，一做我们就要连做三篇或者三的倍数的篇数。烤鸭是个体力活，我们就是要练出“体力”，在考场上，以饱满的精神状态迎接每一篇文每一道题。

自信很重要，有人拿到卷子看到密密麻麻的字瞬间头重脚轻手脚冰凉，汗出的滑的拿不住笔了，结果越急越读不懂，越读不懂越急，终于杯具了。雅思阅读不难，永远是会者不难，只要努力过练习过，一定有成效一定有结果。第三篇做不完也没关系，就算蒙也要把答案都填上去。

听力没上8，不过推荐大家使用王陆老师的点听法和复式听写法，练上一段时间效果明显啊。我的雅思写作口语都一般，不说啥了。

我周围考雅思的人，有总分7.5的7的。阅读单项有8的，听力有8的（我：哈哈我是第一个9分众人：抽打~~~你看谁像你似的考了这么多次我：。。。。。。。），这两项都是短期能提高的，大家要有信心，努力了就会有进步！

祝广大的烤鸭们，做题如有神助，遇到的算是自己熟悉的话题，通篇没有一个生词，变态题目一个没有，童鞋们考试从头笑到尾！

PS:我这里有平行阅读法，剑桥雅思考试全真试题解析345，怎么给大家？

请有问题的同学楼下发帖，我会不时回来看看，哇咔咔我的第一个经验帖哦。

还是那句话，个人经验，偶有错误，仅供参考，找到适合自己的方法才是最重要的。

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