雅思阅读预测真题库6参考答案

T-Rex Hunter

TRUE/FALSE/NOTGIVEN//TRUE/NOTGIVEN/TRUE/FALSE

shin bone/slow walker/cheetah/run fast/blunt/crush

The British Bittern

ii/v/viii/i/vi/iii/iv

1950s/shy/starvation/fish/otter/B

Travel Accounts

Persian wars/allies/geographical knowledge/pilgrimage/Buddhist teachers/colonies/principles/wealthy

D/B/A/C/D/D

Tasmanian Tiger Extinction Is Forever?

striped coat/Australia/4000 years/Tasmania/European(settlers)/captivity E/F/A/D/B/A/C/D

The Ant and the Mandarin

E/G/C/D/B/TRUE/FALSE/FALSE/TRUE/TRUE/NOT

GIVEN/TRUE/NOT GIVEN

Asian Space--Satellite Technology

iv/vii/iii/x/ii/ix

B/D/A

FALSE/NOT GIVEN/TRUE/FALSE

Thomas Harriot --The Discovery of Refraction

x/v/ix/iii/vii

magnification/a prism(prisms)/language/ship design/rainbow refraction(refraction in rainbow)

D/B/E/A

Smell and Memory-Smells Like Yesterday

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

create a story/brain scans/olfactory cortex/spice

Flight from Reality

Navigation and communications/radiation/antennae/smoke

C/D/B/E/A

TRUE/TRUE/NOT GIVEN/TRUE

What Are You Laughing at?

D/B/A/C/B/A/H/F/I/D

FALSE/NOT GIVEN/TRUE

Songs of Stones

NOT GIVEN/TRUE/FALSE/NOT GIVEN/TRUE/TRUE/TRUE Stonemason/Gian Giorgio Trissino/Inigo Jones/Temple(architecture)/Quattro Libri dell’Architettura/benevolent calm

Father of Modern Management

v/iii/ix/i/viii/ii

NOT GIVEN/TRUE/TRUE/FALSE

AE/BD

----------------------------------------------------98 The Innovation of Grocery Stores

D/A/F/C/E

clerk/lobby/galleries/stockroom/customers/shoppers

C/B/C

Coral Reefs

A/C/A/D/E/D

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

B

Charles Darwin’s Theory and Frinches

drought/large seeds/heavy rains/small seeds/wetter weather/smaller bills/medium-sized bills/rice

FALSE/NOT GIVEN/TRUE/FALSE/TRUE

The Secrets of Persuasion

NOT GIVEN/TRUE/FALSE/NOT GIVEN

B/B/B/A/G/D/F/B/I

The Culture of Chimpanzce

H /J /I /K/G

(Inthe) 1960s /Tanzania /(close) observation/observers /(A) culture origin NOT GIVEN /TURE /TURE /FALSE /FALSE

Extinct Giant Deer Survied Ice Age

The Mozart Effect

D/G/B/A/F

short/complex/rats

TRUE/FALSE/FALSE/NOT GIVEN/TRUE

Elephant Communication

hammer/body/toe/Pad/Cavities/trunks and feet/infrasonic/ecology/seimic messages/acoustic communication/mate/ground/A/B

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