雅思阅读题的3大技巧

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下面是小编为大家整理的雅思阅读题的3大技巧,本文共8篇,如果喜欢可以分享给身边的朋友喔!本文原稿由网友“麻了”提供。

篇1:雅思阅读题的3大技巧

阅读大作战 雅思阅读题的3大技巧全总结

第一,积累一定的词汇量。大家要正确认识和有效提高词汇量。建议同学们根据考试选材的常见类别进行相应的专题复习,并运用一定的记单词的技巧,单词量是可以在短期内有效提高的。另外,虽然很多同学的单词量还行,但是单词的词形却没有分清楚,虽然说词形对考试来说不是很重要,但是请大家也不要忽略这个问题,在记单词的时候大家多留点心就把词形的问题解决了。

第二,熟悉背景知识。从语言学的角度来看,雅思阅读其实考察的也有背景知识,建议大家多看看国家地理,探索频道,BBC等节目,多积累一些知识,结合考试的常见题材加以学习,若能持之以恒,必有达成。

第三,熟悉语法。语法就相当于英语的经络,如果经脉不通,隐藏的病症就会郁积的越厉害,发作之时如燎原之势必然一发不可收拾。没有语法的词汇就像是脱缰的野马,散落的珍珠,无法够成一个有力的整体,发挥不了原有的效力,希望大家能够活用语法,判断清楚句子的主谓宾,仔细分析句子的结构。

【雅思阅读高分经验】阅读就像电脑运行大型游戏

做阅读,就像电脑运行大型游戏

作为一个文科生,在看到科技类文章的时候她也特别不乐意,这种文章,你越怕,就越有可能在考试的时候出现,但也没有办法,练习总得做。而且对大多数人来说,也不可能去背那些大量的理科生都不一定知道的英语专业词汇,所以她建议,阅读的时候联系上下文很关键,也许有的时候也不需要联系上下文,只要你能找出来就行,平时没事儿多练练这样的眼力。

由于雅思考试三大块笔试试题都是分开时间的,时间方面是挺紧的。所以其实阅读速度也是很重要的一项阅读能力,从对词汇的掌握熟练度到长难句式的理解,如果这些都能提高,那么阅读速度肯定会上来。

“在考试的时候,首先自己要知道怎么快速进入阅读状态。如果进入状态去读文章,完全是事半功倍。我个人觉得文章难易度是很影响我进入状态的,雅思几乎不会出现觉得太简单的文章,如果我觉得刚刚好的难度我会看的很快,然后就是吸收信息的速度也会很理想。然而这个归根结底还是一个阅读能力的问题。”

阅读部分文章都偏长,考试时间又有限,在谈到阅读能力这个问题,她用了一个非

常有趣的比喻:“就好比运行大型游戏,如果你的电脑显卡不行它就会卡,可是如果你显卡很好它就不卡。

同理要是文章太难,我们读得磕磕绊绊,处理信息速度特别慢,基本进入不了状态。所以总而言之我觉得长度不是关键,难度或者说你对这类型文章的适应度才是关键。如果看得顺的话,文章篇幅长也是没有关系的。”

对她来说,阅读是发挥得比较不错的,平时做题常有觉得时间有点紧的情况,这次很顺利都能做完,主要平时练习的时候总结经验,下次怎么更合理安排时间会有帮助。“同一篇文章会有三种题型左右,也是有不同的难易程度,如果你在前面的文章卡住了不要太着急,后面文章比较简单的题型你要保证拿到。

如果实在是怎么都搞不懂了就跳下一道题,实在是看不懂你冥思苦想也没有什么用,往下做搞不好还能碰到相关信息。时间本来就很紧凑,有时候还浪费在这种其实你怎么花时间也看不懂的题上面是太浪费了。到最后也不知道的话就按照你仅有的线索或者常识蒙吧,反正比空着强。

而且要是抱着消极的情绪做题,那结果肯定也很消极,万一看到不喜欢的题型或者内容也一定请调整心态吧。我个人觉得这个对于阅读水平的发挥影响还是挺大的,有时候你水平就在这儿可是遇到不同的题发挥可能差别很大。”

3类雅思阅读词汇分析讲解

雅思阅读词汇一、考点词汇

所谓考点词汇,就是指雅思阅读中常出现的对句意、题意有着重要影响的词汇。考点词汇是雅思考试中最常出现的高频词汇,也就是说,不同的雅思文章中,这些词汇经常重复出现,并且都有着举足轻重的地位。按照雅思阅读考查点—同义转换的思路,考点词汇主要是动词(verb)、形容词(adjective)或副词(adverb)、以及个别的名词(noun)。如果在平时阅读过程中,注意积累考点词汇并背诵其含义,那么我们在解决阅读问题时就会轻松很多。考点词由于出现频率非常高,因此实际上考点词汇是比较有限的(limited)。我们在记忆考点词汇时,有两个方法是非常好用的。

第一个是渗透衍生词记忆法,就是将常出现的词汇连带它们的衍生词一同记忆,凡是衍生词,都与原词汇属于同一分支,表现为词性不同但意思相连,如define/definition; adjust/adjustment; evaluate/evaluation/evaluative等。建议大家在记忆这些单词时,要渗透进一个思想意识,那就是:当我们遇到一个考点词,如果该词的前半部分字母组合或后半部分字母组合与之前记忆过的某考点词相一致(consistent),那么这个“新词”的含义就一定与“旧词”有着不可分割的关系(connection)。有了这个思想意识,我们就能够将本不熟悉的词变得熟悉、本不敏感的(sensitive)拼写方式变得敏感了。尤其对于非常长的单词,很多同学看到就会觉得是一个完全的新词,其实如果仔细推敲字母组合(combination),就能找出一个与它很相像的旧词。

比如,剑桥五中有这样一篇文章“The Birth of Scientific English”, 其中有一句:It lacked thegrammatical resources required to represent the world in an objective and impersonal way,and to discuss the relations, such as cause and effect, that might hold between complex andhypothetical entities. 其中的grammatical并不是一个陌生的词汇,因为大家都熟悉grammar这个词;还有hypothetical这个词,虽然难度较大,但是我们经常见到hypothesis,因此可以推断hypothetical有“假设”这一层含义。

第二个就是渗透同义词积累记忆法。同义词也是同义转换喜欢考查的部分,比如expansion/development; exaggerate/overstate等。同义词是可以连串记忆的,再加上高频出现、数量有限,因此我们可以通过平时的积累来提高词汇量。

雅思阅读词汇二、常识类词汇

常识类词汇是指在解题时,这类词汇不是考查同义转换,也不是考查范围、程度等考点,而是文章涉及的背景内容,了解这类词的含义有助于利用常识或背景知识来更好地理解文章。常识类词汇较难,也与日常生活中的英语词汇相差甚远,因此是不容易把握的。我们了解这类词就不需要找衍生词、也不需要积累同义词了,只是作为兴趣了解,或是给解题带来更大的把握。这类词汇有:aquaculture/delta/orbitalcortex/morphology/psychic/sea cow等等。那么,我们在练习雅思阅读时,如何判定哪些词汇需要记忆,哪些词汇只要简单了解呢?其实高频考点词的数量是有限的,而以上提到的常识类词汇范围比较广,是每篇文章中涉及的一个背景话题,因此只要大家看到非考点词,并在一篇文章中反复出现、作为一个话题型词汇并且比较生僻,就是常识性词汇了。

雅思阅读词汇三、专业性词汇

专业性词汇与常识类词汇在范围上有交叉的部分,只不过专业性词汇是非常生僻、考生也没有必要去了解的词汇。专业性词汇可以在文中保留自己的原型,不用被追究含义,可以充当定位词的地位,比如剑桥文章中的sulphide/Principia/desalination等等。这些词汇在我们平时积累阅读词汇时就可以视为选择记忆的了。如果大家有兴趣接触,可以尝试去记忆,但是一般情况下这些专业性太强的词汇就不建议考生徒增记忆工作量了。

综上所述,雅思阅读词汇的积累是有选择性的,大家在记忆阅读词汇时,高频的考点词是无法逃避的(unavoidable),这些词汇需要我们非常熟悉地印入脑海并能迅速反应出其含义。但是对于后两类词汇,我们是希望大家能够多记忆一些常识类词汇以便更完整、更透彻地理解文章;而专业性词汇就不要求强化记忆了。有了扎实的词汇功夫,搭配上阅读技巧和解题技巧,我们就能够在阅读考试中取得令自己满意的成绩(score)。

【阅读讲解必看】雅思阅读文章的三类精品结构

为什么要读文章的结构呢?

首先,这是雅思阅读的题型要求。在雅思官方给出的阅读14种题型中,有一种难度较大的题型: 段落信息配对题(Which paragraph contains the following information?)它需要考生读完所有的命题信息点后,去全文搜索命题所对应的段落。这对考生的阅读速度和搜索能力有着极高的要求。通常多数考生全篇撒网,漫无目的地找信息,结果不是“快而不准”就是严重超时。但是,若考生能提前洞悉文章的结构,就能了解命题信息点对应的文章大致范围,如文章靠前 的段落还是靠后的段落?

比如,剑桥5 test 3 passage 3中,有一道段落信息配对题,命题是:how AI might have a military impact. 根据该文章的标题:The Return o f Artificial Intelligence可知,关于命题中AI在军事上的影响应该放在靠后的段落进行说明,那么考生的选择范围至少缩小的一半。若考生没有针对性的全篇覆盖,即使做出题,也是严重超时。

其次,应对定位难度大的题。不能否认的是很多情况下做题不用浏览文章,在备考初期,找命题中的定位词去文中定位,这是烤鸭们必经的首要阶段。但慢慢地,考生明显会感觉到定位难度的加大,如命题中的定位词被同义替换,定位时偶尔出现的乱序情况等等。但试想,若考生在做题前就分析过文章结构,大概能抓住文章的每段的主旨,那么我们就不再是依赖某一两个词来定位,而是用语义来定位,即使出现乱序或者同义替换,我们也能轻松搞定。

最后,文章对应的考题一网打尽,提高速度。考生通常习惯了先读命题再去文章中找需要的相关信息进行解题,殊不知,这是一种比较冒险的做法,因为当定位 简单时这种方法的确最直接有效,但不能排除的是有的题定位难度很大,这时就只有文章结构阅读法才能很好的克服这个问题。

因此为了能将所有题一网打尽,考生应该在做题前快速地分析文章的结构和每段的主旨。结构出来了,作者的写作思路也就呼之欲出了,之后对应的2-4个题型就能得到迅速和准确的定位;此外,再 也不是一道道题去定位,而是整个题型从宏观上一起同时定位,做题的速度自然也得到很大的提升。

因此,想要在雅思阅读中克服难题,提高速度,进而冲高分,做题前一定要耐心地先读文章的结构,这也正解释了为什么在近期出炉的OCG (The Official Cambridge Guide to IELTS)中给出的阅读第一个test tip(P45): Read the passage as quickly as possible (up to three minutes).

那么,雅思文章题材五花八门,内容生硬又专业,要看懂都不容易,如何能在短短的2-3分钟内梳理出文章的架构和作者的写作思路呢?事实上,正是因为雅 思文章的学术性和专业性,其文章结构和形式相对比较固定,于是我们就可以利用这一点来迅速掌握文章的结构了。在此,笔者将给考生们介绍常见的三种雅思文章结构类型。

I. 介绍说明类的文章

这一类文章通常是对某个事物或现象进行的客观描述或介绍,一般考生可以通过其标题来进行判断。具体的结构如下:

i. Introduce an object or a fact

ii. Detailed deions

iii. Significance

无论什么文章,首段通常都是引出主题,用客观描述性的语言来介绍,或者从背景部分切入,之后便是对该事物的具体展开描述了:事情的发展顺序,某个东西的具体特征介绍等等;最后结尾部分通常对该事物所带来了意义进行说明。如剑桥5T1P1 Johnson’s Dictionary, 在前三段交代完约翰逊字典出现的背景后,中间部分侧重交代字典的准备过程和具体的特征介绍,最后的部分描述了该字典给那个时代的社会,国家以及Johnson本人带来的重大意义。

II. 问题解决类的文章

关于问题解决类的文章,在雅思阅读中出现的频率很高,而且具体的结构相对更加固定,其结构如下:

i. Introduce a phenomenon or a problem

ii. Causes

iii. Effects

iv. Measures or future

这一类的文章倾向的是介绍一些消极负面的环境自然类问题,警惕世人引起大家的关注,因此它的几个构成要素也跟明确。同样先引出主题,之后对该现象进行 原因分析,影响分析(通常是负面的影响),鉴于严重的消极影响该采取的相应措施被提出,但如果有的问题暂时没有对策,还有待解决,作者就寄希望于未来。

考生如果对这种结构悉数于心,当碰到剑桥5T4P1的list of headings就能迅速又准确得解答出来。该文章一共10段,分成section A, B, C, 对应的考题是list of headings, 即找出三个小标题分别给A, B, C三个部分。按考试标准时间只有4-5分钟,但考生却要读完整篇文章10段才能解答出三道题,时间上和效率上都是很难达到要求的。这时,大家可以考虑用文 章的结构来解题。该文章的标题是The Impact of Wilderness Tourism, 不难发现该文章是在描述野外旅游给环境带来的负面影响。于是按照上面的具体结构,考生就能快速抓住文章的要点,即原因,影响及措施。题目给出的6个选项中 大家能快速的发现这三个选项:

ii. How local communities can balance their own needs with the demands of

wilderness tourism.

iii. Fragile regions and the reasons for the expansion of tourism there.

v. Some of the disruptive effects of wilderness tourism.

最后按原因,影响,措施的顺序进行排序即可。

III. 实验结果类的文章

第三类文章的具体结构是最为固定的,毕竟实验的过程还是讲究顺序的,如下:

i. Introduce an experiment and its purpose

ii. Subject, methods

iii. Process

iv. Result

v. Analysis

vi. Conclusion

实验类的文章必定先介绍实验的目的,具体受试者和相关要素,然后进入实验的具体过程,最后到最关键的部分,就是对数据的描述和分析,从而得出结论。剑桥真题系列上的是实验类文章几乎都是这样固定的结构。如剑桥5T1P2 Nature or Nurture? 通过阅读每段的首句不难梳理出全篇文章的结构:A段引出实验并介绍实验的目的。B段介绍实验的受试者和相关的准备信息。C段是实验的具体过程。D和E段是数据结果(一个是期望的结果,一个是实际的结果)。FGH三段分别从不同的角度来分析这些结果。最后一段I得出结论。

雅思阅读题的3大技巧全总结

篇2:雅思阅读考场常用3大技巧

1、略读

小站老师认为,通过略读,考生可以很好的掌握文章的主旨内容和行文结构,可以有效帮助学生解决主旨类的考题,并且对文章的脉络有一定清晰的认识。我们可以通过看标题、副标题、首段落、段首句等,抓住句子主干等来找文章大意。

2、定位

定位技巧在雅思考试中的很重要的技巧,生首先需要关注题目中的特殊印刷体,包括数字、大写、斜体和特殊标点等等。其次应当利用考题中的实义名词或名词短语来定位。

3、寻读

训练好寻读的能力,对于提高整个考试的速度有很大帮助,可以在很大程度上减少阅读时间。

雅思阅读题型特点大盘点

雅思阅读题型特点:

1.语言模式

1) 段落(Paragraph)

英美报刊的文章,不管是新闻还是特写,段落短小是一大特点,一个段落往往就是一句话或两句话。一般来讲,英美报刊段落大概由60个单词组成,平均在4行左右。据说,这是专家经过科学实验后总结出来的经验,认为这是适合读者的最佳段落长度。

大多数雅思阅读文章的段落长度也都是在这个范围。但是由于杂志期刊也是考试命题的重要来源,实战中,长度很大的段落也屡见不鲜。

2) 简明(Concise)

报纸的编辑出版受时间限制,一切都是在时间的压力下完成的。因此报纸一般推崇简明的风格。

这种风格的表现主要是:

用词:记者对所报道的题目一般都比较熟悉,因此能够选用恰当的词汇来表达有关内容,包括一些专业词汇。总体上新闻的用词都比较普通,某些反复用到的词出现率很高,如报道政治新闻时常见到president, congress, senator, representative, scandal, vote, bill一类的词。偏爱短词是英美报刊用词的一大特点。

主动语态(active voice):比较例句a) Senator Dole planned to announce his resignation from the Senate.和例句b) To announce his resignation from the Senate was planned by Senator Dole.

时态:一般用现在时而不是过去时表示事件是最近发生的,是新闻而不是旧闻。

肯定句(positive form):比较例句a) He was not very often on time. 和例句b) He usually came late.

2.观点:

英美报刊,尤其是美国报刊,常用“客观”、“公正”来体现新闻报道的价值。即所谓:unprejudiced, unopinionated, uninvolved和unbiased.(不偏不倚,不予评论 ,不加参与,不带偏见)。因而一般作者对于文章探讨的主题是站在比较中立客观的角度去分析的。

这也解释了为什么雅思阅读真题中一旦问到作者态度的时候,答案大部分都是跟中立客观有关。

3.时效性:

雅思阅读文章全部选自英美主流报刊杂志。所以考生在考试中会经常遇到一些时髦话题的文章,像BSE(疯牛病)、911事件、安然公司破产案这样的内容在考试中都出现过。所以大家平时最好能够经常关心时事,积累一些必要的背景知识,这对于考试而言,大有裨益。

4.结构特点:

大多数雅思阅读文章的结构是人们常说的“到金字塔”形式。这是指在一篇文章中,最重要的信息都放在开头部分,尤其是开头的前三段。也就是说,一篇文章的主题(主题句)都出现在前三段。一般我们把这样的段落称为导语段。文章一般把新闻所涉及的人物、时间、地点、过程和结果都交待出来。读者读完了导语段,也就知道了新闻的关键信息。

接下来就是逐步向读者交待事件发生的起因、过程、影响等信息。这是文章的主要部分,但是各种信息并不是平铺直叙的,而是按照它们的重要性先后出现的。与事件直接相关的信息被认为是最重要的,因此位置靠前,然后才是次要的信息。

在这一部分,文章还可以交待消息的来源,并且时常引用记者在采访中得到的有关人士的话,以证明消息的可靠。新闻还可以补充说明一些背景材料,有时不惜重复一些内容。

雅思阅读读文章技巧分析

雅思阅读部分与听力部分相似。在做题时,必须去找准确的信息。因此读者在开始阅读之前就得知道问题是什么。其实并不需要去详读一篇文章,需要做的只是surveying、scan-ning和skimming。

雅思阅读技巧三种读:概读、寻读、扫读。

Surveying——概读。概读一篇文章指的是大概了解文章的大致意思,通过检查文章的组织结构来了解大意。

Scanning——寻读。寻读是指在文章当中找寻诸如一个特定的词、缩写词、日期、数字或首字母缩略词等细节。当Scan(扫描)一篇文章的时候,也是很快地看,但它和浏览不同。扫描是为了寻找某些特定的词句而不是文章的整体;关注的是细节而非主旨。阅读一篇文章时,可能仅仅只为了找一个百分数或者某个特定事件的发生时间,而不是这篇文章的主旨。寻读可以帮助读者更有效地找到这些信息。

Skimming——扫读。扫读指迅速浏览一遍文章,而无需逐字阅读,以了解文章大意。

雅思阅读备考之提高速度的三种方法

一、一揽众山法

适用人群:英语词汇量大,平时经常阅读英语文章或浏览英语网站,语法基础扎实,短期记忆力强,对自己的英语能力非常有信心的考生。

操作方法:拿到阅读试卷后浏览文章标题,然后选定一篇文章开始做题。选定文章后先阅读所有的题目,即13-14道题目,把每一道题目的关键词划出来并进行短期记忆。(注:关键词包括定位词和考点,定位词多以名词为主,考点则多以谓语动词和形容词副词为主)重点记忆一些定位性强的名词。看完题目之后去看文章,从头开始看,按文章的顺序和段落去理解,边看边回忆之前记忆中的定位词,看到了就用笔做一个记号。注意在看的过程中是要以理解文章为主,不要过多的去想题目的内容,主要是看懂文章。看完以后再去看题目,根据文章的内容去做题。如果有雅思阅读文章的内容记不清,就可以利用之前读文章时划出的定位词再回原文看一下然后确定答案。

优点:节省时间,做题速度快

缺陷:挑战考生英语能力和记忆力,并不适用于大部分考生,主要针对一些立志阅读考8分以上的考生。

二、各个击破法

适用人群:英语基础不是非常好,词汇量缺乏,文章对其来说基本看不太懂的考生。

操作方法:拿到阅读试卷后浏览文章标题,然后选定一篇文章开始做题。但是选择的时候要注意题材的熟悉度,可以挑选自己相对还比较熟悉的题材先做。学生在日常的雅思阅读练习中可以熟练自己的拿手题型。选定后就开始审题。审题则是按照题型来看。首选是填空题和判断题,其次是选择和配对题。例如说文章后题型搭配为判断题+选择题+填空题,那么先审判断题这一部分题目,一题一题做,根据判断题的做题方法去做,而且可以利用顺序性去看文章找答案。做完判断题以后再做填空题,利用填空题的标题或第一句话中的名词去做定位,然后用填空题的做题方法去把填空题做完。最后去做选择题,因为选择题对于文章的理解要求比较高,对于程度不太好的考生来说会比较难做。

优点:能尽量保证填空题的正确率,在能得分的题目中保证得分。对于基础不是很好的考生来说是一个既能保证正确率又能相对节约时间的方法

缺陷:时间花费比较多,而且会多次重复阅读文章。

三、怎样提高雅思阅读?融会贯通法很重要

适用人群:有一定的英语词汇量,并参加过培训班,掌握了基础语法知识。

操作方法:拿到阅读试卷后浏览文章标题和文章后的题型,选择自己最熟悉的话题或者有自己最擅长的题型的那篇文章。然后浏览一下题型,确定下题型关注的先后顺序,也是先填空判断,后配对选择。但这种先后并不是绝对的,而是交替的,也就是在重点做填空判断之前已经将配对选择的定位词和关键词划出并记忆,然后在做填空判断时顺带这看看有没有配对题和选择题的定位词出现。如果程度稍好的同学则可以看一段文章,把这段文章中涉及到的各种题型的题目都完成,一段一段解决问题。但是用这种方法的时候要注意时间的把握。

优点:可以相对合理的安排时间去做题,也能保证容易做的题型的正确率。

缺陷:需要考生能随机应变,对不同的题型搭配要有合理的时间分配,可能会造成审题或看文章内容的混乱。

雅思阅读备考:如何提高精准度

一、抓住阅读理解中长句子的主干

雅思阅读文章中复合句较多,句子往往较长,从而使很多考生在读句子的时候,读到后面就忘记了前面,主谓的搭配、动宾的搭配也容易在长难句中迷失了方向。因此,在读到复合句这样的长句子时,大家首先是要抓住其主干部分。明确名词和动词之间的搭配关系,把句子想要表达的主要意思先理顺,然后再看修饰和限定成分,从而在细节上把握完整的意思。下面就给大家举几个分析长难句的例子。例1:剑五-2:Open publication had dangers in putting into the public domain preliminary ideas which had not yet been fully exploited by their “author”.

怎样提高雅思阅读?学生要懂得句型分析,也就是语法知识点的应用。在这个句子中,主语是open publication,与它搭配的谓语动词为had,宾语为dangers;因此这句话首先要表达的意思就是:“公开的出版是有风险的”。进一步分析得知,这种风险在于:putting into the public domain preliminary ideas,“将一些初步的想法公诸于世”;最后以which引导的定于从句来修饰preliminary ideas,在这个从句中,主语是which,谓语是had not yet been fully exploited,所以汉语意思是:“这些初步的想法还未经它们的作者完全发掘出来”。把这三个部分的意思结合起来,我们就发现,这个长句子想表达的意思就是:公开出版有泄密的风险。这个概括出来的意思跟我们第一次抓住的主干想表达的意思其实是一样的,所以我们可以断定,句子的主干足以表达句子意思的大方向。

例2:剑7-1:Unprecedented construction of tens of thousands of monumental engineering projects designed to control floods, protect clean water supplies, and provide water for irrigation and hydropower brought great benefits to hundreds of millions of people.

在这个句子中,关键的解决方法就在于找到与construction这个主语搭配的动词,而接下来的动词有designed/control/protect/provide/brought,很多考生在看到这个句子的时候,发现这个主语和后面的几个动词都无法搭配,因此就翻译不通了。其实这个句子存在许多并列的成分,并列成分在句子中的地位是一样的,因此出现的几个动词不可能都做谓语,而根据汉语意思,主语construction与后面的动词之间能搭配的只有brought,因此主干为Unprecedented construction brought great benefits.意思是:“史无前例的建设带来了巨大的利益”。句子内部的designed to control floods, protect clean water supplies, and provide water for irrigation and hydropower则是一个后置定语来修饰projects。那么,句子的完整意思就是:“为了控制洪水,保护干净水资源以及提供灌溉和水力发电用水,工程师们设计出来成千上万的水利工程,这些史无前例的建筑为百万人民带来了巨大的利益”。这与句子的主干想表达的意思也是相同的。

由此可见,抓住长句子的主干对于理解整句话至关重要,在找主干的过程中,雅思培训中心专家建议大家需要掌握的技巧可以概括为:句子开头的核心名词是主语;与之在意思和主被动关系上合理搭配的动词是谓语;宾语视语境而定。这样,就不难找出句子的主旨了。

二、在分析长句子的过程中,注意略去长句子的修饰

雅思阅读提高,专家认为学生应该尽可能的将自己的长句子分析能力提升上去。在分析长句子的过程中,很多修饰成分干扰了我们对句子主干的把握,其实,很多成分是可以在第一次阅读时被忽略的,忽略了冗长的修饰成分可以更清楚、更完整地掌握句意。那么,什么成分可以第一次遇到就被暂时忽略呢?在阅读文章时,括号、破折号所连接的成分可以被暂时略去,还有明显的从句引导词后面的成分也可被忽略。这些成分并不是不重要,只是大家在找主干、把握句子整体意思时,可以先跳过它们,以防被它们影响理解。文中有这些成分的例如:

剑五-2:Such expansion, which was to take the English language west to America and east to India, was supported by scientific developments such as the discovery of magnetism (and hence the invention of the compass), improvements in cartography and –perhaps the most important scientific revolution of them all-the new theories of astronomy and the movement of the Earth in relation to the planets and stars, developed by Copernicus (1473-1543).

这个句子非常长,中间夹杂着很多的修饰成分或是补充说明成分,在我们第一次读这个句子时,可以先将which引导的内容,括号内的内容,两个破折号之间的内容都省掉,那么我们就找到了主干:Such expansion was supported by scientific developments.意思是:“这些发展被科学的发展所支持”。

篇3:雅思阅读题的3大技巧全总结

阅读大作战 雅思阅读题的3大技巧全总结

第一,积累一定的词汇量。大家要正确认识和有效提高词汇量。建议同学们根据考试选材的常见类别进行相应的专题复习,并运用一定的记单词的技巧,单词量是可以在短期内有效提高的。另外,虽然很多同学的单词量还行,但是单词的词形却没有分清楚,虽然说词形对考试来说不是很重要,但是请大家也不要忽略这个问题,在记单词的时候大家多留点心就把词形的问题解决了。

第二,熟悉背景知识。从语言学的角度来看,雅思阅读其实考察的也有背景知识,建议大家多看看国家地理,探索频道,BBC等节目,多积累一些知识,结合考试的常见题材加以学习,若能持之以恒,必有达成。

第三,熟悉语法。语法就相当于英语的经络,如果经脉不通,隐藏的病症就会郁积的越厉害,发作之时如燎原之势必然一发不可收拾。没有语法的词汇就像是脱缰的野马,散落的珍珠,无法够成一个有力的整体,发挥不了原有的效力,希望大家能够活用语法,判断清楚句子的主谓宾,仔细分析句子的结构。

雅思考试阅读模拟练习及答案

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 , 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 explanations

1. 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4:雅思阅读评分标准及3大答题技巧

雅思阅读评分标准及3大答题技巧分享

雅思阅读答题技巧之一、一揽众山法

适用人群:英语词汇量大,平时经常阅读英语文章或浏览英语网站,语法基础扎实,短期记忆力强,对自己的英语能力非常有信心的考生。

操作方法:拿到阅读试卷后浏览文章标题,然后选定一篇文章开始做题。选定文章后先阅读所有的题目,即13-14道题目,把每一道题目的关键词划出来并进行短期记忆。(注:关键词包括定位词和考点,定位词多以名词为主,考点则多以谓语动词和形容词副词为主)重点记忆一些定位性强的名词。看完题目之后去看文章,从头开始看,按文章的顺序和段落去理解,边看边回忆之前记忆中的定位词,看到了就用笔做一个记号。注意在看的过程中是要以理解文章为主,不要过多的去想题目的内容,主要是看懂文章。看完以后再去看题目,根据文章的内容去做题。如果有文章的内容记不清,就可以利用之前读文章时划出的定位词再回原文看一下然后确定答案。

雅思阅读答题技巧之二、各个击破法

适用人群:英语基础不是非常好,词汇量缺乏,文章对其来说基本看不太懂的考生。

操作方法:拿到阅读试卷后浏览文章标题,然后选定一篇文章开始做题。但是选择的时候要注意题材的熟悉度,可以挑选自己相对还比较熟悉的题材先做。选定后就开始审题。审题则是按照题型来看。首选是填空题和判断题,其次是选择和配对题。例如说文章后题型搭配为判断题+选择题+填空题,那么先审判断题这一部分题目,一题一题做,根据判断题的做题方法去做,而且可以利用顺序性去看文章找答案。做完判断题以后再做填空题,利用填空题的标题或第一句话中的名词去做定位,然后用填空题的做题方法去把填空题做完。最后去做选择题,因为选择题对于文章的理解要求比较高,对于程度不太好的考生来说会比较难做。

优点:能尽量保证填空题的正确率,在能得分的题目中保证得分。对于基础不是很好的考生来说是一个既能保证正确率又能相对节约时间的方法

缺陷:时间花费比较多,而且会多次重复阅读文章。

雅思阅读答题技巧之三、融会贯通法

适用人群:有一定的英语词汇量,并参加过培训班,掌握了基础语法知识。

操作方法:拿到阅读试卷后浏览文章标题和文章后的题型,选择自己最熟悉的话题或者有自己最擅长的题型的那篇文章。然后浏览一下题型,确定下题型关注的先后顺序,也是先填空判断,后配对选择。但这种先后并不是绝对的,而是交替的,也就是在重点做填空判断之前已经将判断选择的定位词和关键词划出并记忆,然后在做填空判断时顺带着看看有没有出现配对题和选择题的定位词出现。如果程度稍好的同学则可以看一段文章,把这段文章中涉及到的各种题型的题目都完成,一段一段解决问题。但是用这种方法的时候要注意时间的把握。

优点:可以相对合理的安排时间去做题,也能保证容易做的题型的正确率。

缺陷:需要考生能随机应变,对不同的题型搭配要有合理的时间分配,可能会造成审题或看文章内容的混乱。附雅思阅读听力评分标准镇楼

雅思阅读小范围预测

文章题目Undergraduate students study dramas

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题材人文社科

题型暂无

文章大意文学专业学生的课程指南,提到了让学生观看英国不同时期剧院中的戏剧, 并列举了不同时期四种剧院的特点。

参考阅读:

Medieval period

Main article: Medieval theatre

By the medieval period, the mummers' plays had developed, a form of early street theatre associated with the Morris dance, concentrating on themes such as Saint George and the Dragon and Robin Hood. These were folk tales re-telling old stories, and the actors travelled from town to town performing these for their audiences in return for money and hospitality.

Renaissance: Elizabethan and Jacobean periods

The period known as the English Renaissance, approximately 1500—1660, saw a flowering of the drama and all the arts. The two candidates for the earliest comedy in English Nicholas Udall's Ralph Roister Doister (c. 1552) and the anonymous Gammer Gurton's Needle (c. 1566), belong to the 16th century. During the reign of Elizabeth I (1558–1603) and then James I (1603–25), in the late 16th and early 17th century, a London-centred culture, that was both courtly and popular, produced great poetry and drama. The English playwrights were intrigued by Italian model: a conspicuous community of Italian actors had settled in London. The linguist and lexicographer John Florio (1553–1625), whose father was Italian, was a royal language tutor at the Court of James I, and a possible friend of and influence on William Shakespeare, had brought much of the Italian language and culture to England. He was also the translator of Montaigne into English. The earliest Elizabethan plays includes Gorboduc (1561) by Sackville and Norton and Thomas Kyd's (1558–94) revenge tragedy The Spanish Tragedy (1592), that influenced Shakespeare's Hamlet.

17th and 18th centuries

Aphra Behn was the first professional English woman playwright.

During the Interregnum 1649—1660, English theatres were kept closed by the Puritans for religious and ideological reasons. When the London theatres opened again with the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, they flourished under the personal interest and support of Charles II. Wide and socially mixed audiences were attracted by topical writing and by the introduction of the first professional

actresses (in Shakespeare's time, all female roles had been played by boys). New genres of the Restoration were heroic drama, pathetic drama, and Restoration comedy. Notable heroic tragedies of this period include John Dryden's All for Love (1677) and Aureng-zebe (1675), and Thomas Otway's Venice Preserved (1682). The Restoration plays that have best retained the interest of producers and audiences today are the comedies, such as George Etherege's The Man of Mode (1676), William Wycherley's The Country Wife (1676), John Vanbrugh's The Relapse (1696), and William Congreve's The Way of the World (1700). This period saw the first professional woman playwright, Aphra Behn, author of many comedies including The Rover (1677). Restoration comedy is famous or notorious for its sexual explicitness, a quality encouraged by Charles II (1660–1685) personally and by the rakish aristocratic ethos of his court.

Victorian era

A change came in the Victorian era with a profusion on the London stage of farces, musical burlesques, extravaganzas and comic operas that competed with Shakespeare productions and serious drama by the likes of James Planché and Thomas William Robertson. In 1855, the German Reed Entertainments began a process of elevating the level of (formerly risqué) musical theatre in Britain that culminated in the famous series of comic operas by Gilbert and Sullivan and were followed by the 1890s with the first Edwardian musical comedies. W. S. Gilbert and Oscar Wilde were leading poets and dramatists of the late Victorian period.[16] Wilde's plays, in particular, stand apart from the many now forgotten plays of Victorian times and have a much closer relationship to those of the Edwardian dramatists such as Irishman George Bernard Shaw and Norwegian Henrik Ibsen.

文章题目Unique golden textile

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题材工业

题型小标题 6+人名配对 4+填空 3

文章大意蜘蛛丝与纺织品。文章讲述了 golden spider 是如何在体内把 Liquid silk

转化为 solid silk 的过程,文章中提到了一些科学家针对蜘蛛做的实验,如 何提高 capacity。在结尾两段讲述了关于 spider silk 的医学应用及市场的 积极前景。

参考答案:

小标题:

i experiment of an old idea

ii lifecycle of Madagascar spiders

iii advances in textile industry

iv resources to meet demands

v physical property of spider silk

vi scientific analysis spider silk

vii work of art

viii importance of silk textile

ix difficult to raise spider in capacity

14. Paragraph A viii

15. Paragraph B v

16. Paragraph C ix

17. Paragraph Di

18. Paragraph E iv

19. Paragraph F vii

人名配对 4:

A. Simon Peers B. Nicholas Godlley C. Blackledge

20. need tremendous spider to make a small amount of spider silk B

21 Scientists want qualities of spider silk for medical use A

22 Scientists make progress to manufacture spider silk C

23 spider silk materials are be of strength A

填空 3:

24. grow silk by introduce genetic material into bacteria and animals

25. Silk come from liquid protein made in a gland inside of bodies.

26. Spider silk spins cause force to make liquid turn to solid silk.

文章题目 British Woodlands

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题材 自然环境

题型 段落细节配对 7+选词填空 7

文章大意 讲的是英国森林的演变利用和最后的管理,大致文章脉络是在人类的入侵之 前英国的植被覆盖情况,工业革命之后,人们对森林的掠夺从以燃烧原料和 建筑材料为目的到了以工业发展为目的,后来人们意识到保护森林的重要, 开始投入人力物力进行保护。

部分答案参考:

段落细节配对:

27 a desc ription of careless working practices that harm woodland F

28 details of landscape prior to human intervention B

29 arguments against cash rewards H

30 a botanical source of evidence for the appearance of primitive woodland B

31 reasons for reduced economic importance of woodland E

32 a reason for recent improvements of woodland management G

33 an implication for people of unhealthy tree A

选词填空:

Evolution of British Woodland

When woodland started to grow after last Ice Age. certain 34. species naturally

dominated certain regions of Britain. People then intervened to reduce the woodland by using grazing animals and methods such as 35. burning and coppicing. An increasing number of trees have been grown to meet the demand of 36. Industry

Situations of woodland in Britain deteriorated due to the use of 37. I and the rigid

38. planting patterns of woodland. Such practices also destroyed the 39.habits G

of animals and other wildlife.

However, in the twentieth century, the state of woodland in Britain has been improved. 40.grants available for fund encourage people to plant trees in good quality.

雅思阅读小范围预测

题目:the nature of yawning

内容:关于打哈欠传染的研究

题型:段落细节匹配5道+特殊词匹配4道+填空4道

题号:20120922

文章大意:讲关于打呵欠传染的研究,主要有三个研究机构开展的研究。第一个机构研究发 现打呵欠是人类冷却大脑的一种方式。后面两个研究发现打呵欠和个人的性格、同情心、专 业背景有关,和性别无关。最后讲了呵欠产生的过程,提到有一种理论讲的是呵欠可能是人类 交流的一种方式,用于提醒同伴你累了需要休息,从而要求对方打起精神应对危险。

部分答案回忆:

14. C imagining leads to yawning

15. D occupation and inclination to yawning

16. A overview of research

17. B body temperature and yawning

18. B disapprove of a theory

19. B not difference in gender

20. C mental disorder 文中定位:autism

21. A the way we breathe 文中定位:inhale

22. B trained yawn more than the untrained

23. bond用来联系人类情感

24 danger危险的时候警示别人

rest特别是需要休息的时候

non-verbal是人类肢体语言的一种

题目:the nature of music

内容:对音乐的研究,介绍音乐历史和音乐对人类的影响

题型:选择4道+段落信息匹配5道+判断5道 参考答案:

25. C定位词:第一段中的 nature of music ,答案:many elements

26. D 定位词:language and music ,答案:STEVE

27. A 定位词:Neanderthals 答案:show reactions

28. C定位词:Neanderthals and homo sapiens 答案:for partners

31 . D 定位词:feature and music ,答案:change in all cultures

32. C 定位词:Mithen ,答案:reference for other people

33. A定位词:precious research ,答案:limited in the range of research

34. E 定位词:power of emotion ,答案:long history

35. B 定位词:reviewer disagrees with Mithen ,答案:modem speech 影响音乐

36. TRUE most discussion ignore physical factors

37. TRUE shared features/small societies/remote areas

38. NOT GIVEN people talk to babies/similar to/Neandethals music

39. FALSE Mithen support Steve

40. NOT GIVEN modem people depend heavily on electronic music

题目:Thomas Young ~The Last True Know一It一All

题材:人物传记

题型:判断7+填空6

参考文章:

A Thomas Young(1773一1829)contributed 63 articles to the Encyclopedia Britannica, Including 46 Biographical entries(mostly on scientists and classicists) and substantial essays on “Bridge,”Chromatics,“ ”Egypt,“”Languages, and“Tides” Was someone who could write authoritatively about so many subjects a polymath, a genius or a dilettante? In an ambitious new biography, Andrew Robinson argues that Young is a good contender for the epitaph“the last man who knew everything” Young has competition, however: The phrase, which Robinson takes for his title, also serves as the subtitle of two other recent biographies: Leonard Warren's life of paleontologist Joseph Leidy (1823一1891) and Paula Findlen's 2004 book on Athanasius Kircher (1602一1680), another polymath.

B Young, of course, did more than write encyclopedia entries . He presented hid first paper to the Royal Society of London at the age of 2O and was elected a Fellow a week after his 2lst birthday. In the paper, Young explained the process of accommodation in the human eye一on how the eye focuses properly on objects at varying distances. Young hypothesized that this was achieved by changes in the shape of the lens. Young also theorized that light traveled in waves and he believed that, to account for the ability to see in color, there must be three receptors in the eye corresponding to the three ”principal colors“ to which the retina could respond: red, green, violet. All these hypotheses were subsequently proved to be correct.

C Later in his life, when he was in his forties, Young was instrumental in cracking the code that Unlocked the unknown sc ript on the Rosetta Stone,a tablet that was ”found“ in Egypt by the Napo leonic army in1799.The stone contains text in three alphabets: Greek, something Unrecognizable and Egyptian hieroglyphs. The unrecognizable sc ript is now known as demotic and, as Young deduced, is related directly to hieroglyphic. His initial work on this appeared in his Britannica entry on Egypt. In another entry, he coined the term Indo一European to describe the family of languages spoken throughout most of Europe and northern India. These are the landmark achievements of a man who was a child prodigy and who,unlike many remarkable children, did not disappear into oblivion as an adult.

D Bom in 1773 in Somerset in England, Young lived from an early age with his maternal Grandfather ,eventually leaving to attend boarding school. He had devoured books from the age of two, and through his own initiative he excelled at Latin, Greek, mathematics and natural philosophy. After leaving school , he was greatly encouraged by his mother's uncle, Richard Brocklesby, a physician and Fellow of the Royal Society. Following Brocklesby lead, Young decided to pursue a career in medicine. He studied in London, following the medical circuit, and then moved on to more formal education in Edinburgh, G6ttingen and Cambridge. After completing his medical training at the University of Cambridge in 1808, Young set up practice as a physician in London. He soon became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and a few years later was appointed physician at St. George’s Hospital.

E Young’s skill as a physician, however, did not equal his skill as a scholar of natural philosophy or linguistics. Earlier, in 1801, he had been appointed to a professorship of natural philosophy at the Royal Institution, where he delivered as many as 60 lectures in a year. These were published in two volumes in 1807. In 1804 Young had become secretary to the Royal Society, a post he would hold until his death. His opinions were sought on civic and national matters, such as the introduction of gas lighting to London and methods of ship construction. From 1819 he was superintendent of the Nautical Almanac and secretary to the Board of Longitude. From 1824 to 1829 he was physician to and inspector of calculations for the Palladian Insurance Company. Between 1816 and 1825 he contributed his many and various entries to the Encyclopedia Britannica, and throughout his career he authored numerous books, essays and papers.

F Young is a perfect subject for a biography - perfect, but daunting. Few men contributed so much to so many technical fields. Robinson^ aim is to introduce non-scientists to Young5s work and life. He succeeds, providing clear expositions of the technical material (especially that on optics and Egyptian hieroglyphs). Some readers of this book will, like Robinson, find Young’s accomplishments impressive; others will see him as some historians have - as a dilettante. Yet despite the rich material presented in this book, readers will not end up knowing Young personally. We catch glimpses of a playful Young, doodling Greek and Latin phrases in his notes on medical lectures and translating the verses that a young lady had written on the walls of a summerhouse into Greek elegiaes. Young was introduced into elite society, attended the theatre and learned to dance and play the flute. In addition, he was an accomplished horseman. However, his personal life looks pale next to his vibrant career and studies.

G Young married Eliza Maxwell in 1804, and according to Robinson, ”their marriage was a happy one and she appreciated his work11 Almost all we know about her is that she sustained her husband through some rancorous disputes about optics and that she worried about money when his medical career was slow to take off. Veiy little evidence survives about the complexities of Young5s relationships with his mother and father. Robinson does not credit them, or anyone else, with shaping Young5 s extraordinary mind. Despite the lack of details concerning Young5 s relationships, however, anyone interested in what it means to be a genius should read this book.

参考答案:

Questions 1-7

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

In boxes 1 -7 on your answer sheet, write TRUE if the statement is true FALSE if the statement is false

NOT GIVEN if the information is not given in the passage

1 The last man who knew everything’ has also been claimed to other people. True

2 All Young articles were published in Encyclopedia Britannica. False

3 Like others, Young wasn’t so brilliant when grew up. False

4 Young talents as a doctor are surpassing his other skills. NG

5 Young advice was sought by people responsible for local and national issues. True

6 Young was interested in various social pastimes. True

7 Young suffered from a disease in his later years. NG

Questions 8-13

Answer the questions below.

Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER from the passage for each answer.

8 How many life stories did Young write for Encyclopedia Britannica? 46

9 What aspect of scientific research did Young do in his first academic paper? Human eye accommodation

10 What name did Young introduce to refer to a group of languages? Indo-European

11 Who inspired Young to start the medical studies? Richard Brocklesby

12 Where did Young get a teaching position? Royal Institution

13 What contribution did Young make to London? Gas lighting

篇5:雅思听力搭配题3大破题技巧

不是难题我不爱 雅思听力搭配题3大破题技巧

审题要清晰

题目共分为三部分,特殊疑问句、题号对应的题干名词、选项。

特殊疑问句是连接题干和选项的桥梁,也是很多同学容易忽略的。如果没能读清楚题干与选项的关系做题时必然会一头雾水,所以千万不要因为赶时间就忽略题目信息。例题剑9 test3 section2 14-18题,What is currently the main area of work of each of the following people?这句话说明题目的意思是:要求我们把题干人名对应的工作选出来。

题号对应的题干名词怎么读?这部分词不需要翻译,只要能够读出发音即可,因为录音当中这部分词几乎会全部的原词重现,想听到并不难。

选项绝对是需要高度警惕的地方,这部分内容是必定要发生同义替换的,所以选项的读法最好是理解意思而不要只盯着原词不放。

听题要集中

听力集中注意力最好的方法就是按照题号的顺序挨个的去定位题干名词,听到之后找到其对应的描述,例如剑九的题目,听到人名之后就要去找有关工作的内容。当听到跟工作相关词出现后迅速反应相似选项。14题Simon的工作是这样描述的:I only concern myself with looking after the mechanical side of things – keeping the trains going.这句话中mechanical和keeping the trains going是重点,两个点都能让我们和选项engine maintenance(发动机维护)联系起来,即使其中一个听不清或不认识,另外一个仍旧能够做题。重要的是同学们不要听一处生词不理解就开始慌,因为考试也有它人性化的一面,只要认真听完同时加入自己的分析还是可以得分的。

适当做笔记,做题过程中能够直接选的最好直接选,没能马上反应过来的可以把听到句子中的重点做笔记。雅思听力的笔记一定要精简,在题目旁边写出重点词,或者用符号标记,一个或两个词的笔记为好,千万不要写的太多,会分散精力影响后面的听的内容。

部分题目可以使用排除法

搭配题分为两种出题形式,一种是选项多于题干的,这时我们的选项通常不会有重复的情况,听出一个就把它从选项当中划掉,为后面题目的快速选择扫清道路。还有一种选项少于题干数目,这种情况选项是必然会被重复选择的,那么考察的就是考生对于选项的理解和区分了。

雅思听力section3得分点套路解析

雅思听力section3与前两个section之间的距离足以用鸿沟来形容,生活和学术隔的跨度还是大到让大部分考生的信心都受挫于此。

究竟为什么section3如此难以攻克呢?

首先从最重要的内容上来讲。Section3的内容主要以学生的课后任务讨论为主,讨论的对象有老师和学生,学生和学生,但是一定有性别上的区分。

那么我们就一定要了解课后任务都包括哪些:

Quiz 小测

Common test常规测试

Essay小论文

Thesis论文

Paper论文

Dissertation论文

Assignment大作业

Case study案例分析

Individual project个人设计

Group project小组设计

Presentation个人演讲

Lab report实验室报告

Final exam期末考试

1、老师vs学生

其中老师和学生的讨论主要是针对学生的作业进行反馈(feedback),从以下方面展开:

论文-

1)准备&要求

-论文字数(考察多位数字)

-截止日期(考察日期以及概念性时间表达,如the end of month)

-调查方法(常考interview/telephone interview/questionnaire)

-参考书目(考察书名,出版社,出版日期)

2)研究题目

-研究原因(常出现时态干扰,即曾经考虑过别的研究题目,但是由于种.种原因没有进行下去,然后进行了这个题目的研究)

-研究问题(常在题干上出现专有名词)

-调查结果(常在结论性路标词之后出现答案,如study show, research indicate…)

-尚存不足(常在转折性路标词后出现答案)

-解决办法(常在对方建议性语句后出现答案,如suggest, advice, recommend, you should…)

作业展示-

1)项目名称

2)调查过程

3)实验说明

4)结论

老师会针对以上内容进行优缺点的逐一点评。在此类对话中,两者针对不同问题会有不同意见,此时以理解老师阐述的内容,往往对应答案信息。

2、学生vs学生

除了老师对学生的作业反馈以外,学生和学生针对作业进行的讨论也是重点,与上面讨论不同的是,在两者讨论过程中,两者都有可能成为答案句的阐述者,因此我们要重点把握的是两个异议的化解点,即当两个人意见达成一致时,才能进行答案的选择。

同时无论在哪种类型的对话中,都要进行性别的区分,如果题干上出现的男生名,那么问问题的往往是女生,反之亦然,这样有助于我们把更多的精力放到回答问题人的身上,增大答对题目的可能性。对于有些不太好区分性别的人名如Spiro,那么就往前后文找his或者her这样的人称代词来断定其性别,同时日常的积累也必不可少。

雅思听力section4得分点套路解析

雅思听力第四个section的难度主要题现在涉猎学科较多,如生物、农业、经济、政治、地理等近30个。这是否就意味着想要攻克section4就要背一本百科全书呢?其实不然,section4虽然场景学术,但是通过观察其答案不难发现,所考察的信息都是非学术的,因此需要大家牢记的是:section 4 是在学术环境下,考察非学术性的信息。

虽然考察的答案信息不是学术性的,但是出题官讳莫如深,没有一定的学术功底,答案不是那么能够轻易挖掘的。究竟需要那些必备技能才能锁定section4的答案信息呢?

1, 甄别专有名词,并忽略

既然section4考察学术场景,学术词汇更是屡见不鲜。很多觉得听section4犹如天书一般的考生,主要都是过分纠结其中的学术词汇,牵扯很多精力,反倒忽略了与之相关的答题要点。如:

1)The floors are made of reclaimed wood 很多同学会纠结reclaimed,反而忽略floors。

2)The researchers may select them according to their income.同样部分同学的精力会放在researcher或者select上。

2, 根据词汇发音,正确拼读词汇的能力

Section4的答案词,难度并不统一,有简单词汇,也有长难词汇。无论难度如何,考生在考试时不一定能够迅速的反映出所有词汇的对应拼写或者没有背到这个词,因此听发音写拼写的能力一定要掌握。常见易错发音对应的字母组合有:

ph/f/,如:physics, pharmacy, telegraph

qu/kw/,如:quiet, require

sh/∫/,如:sheep, ship, shell, cash, rubbish

sion/∫?n/,如:tension, decision, revision, vision

ch/t?;k; ∫/如:chase, technology, chef

th/θ/、/ ?/,如:think, theory, author

SECTION 4 答题要点:三跟两不等

三跟:

1, 跟题干上的专有名词,因为专有名词在音频中不会进行同意替换,但是不需要理解意思,需要在审题时根据发音规律拼读此类词。

2, 跟卷面副标题

副标题将文章分隔成若干小段,有助于帮助考生把握答题节奏。

3, 跟空前副词

空格前副词一般不会进行替换,并常常与答案词一起出现。

常见副词有on, in, at, between, by, about, over, below…等

两不等:

1, 不等空前形容词,并且该形容词与空格是修饰关系。如:

More teams will be formed to work on a particular_________.

其中空前particular被替换成了specific,如果一味在音频中等particular,那么这个空一定就错过了。

2, 不等空前动词,动词也会被同义或近义替换,并且动词还常与动词词组替换,反之亦然。

Analyze data-identify___________,e.g. cause and effect

其中空前identify被替换成了look for,即动词与短语之间的替换。

雅思听力练习技巧:听抄

提高听力最好的方法是“听抄”

同学们听力成绩不高的一个重要原因在于对雅思考试的出题思路不熟悉。因为雅思考试考察的不仅是对主要内容的把握,同时也考察同学们对细节的把握,即‘所听即所答’。这里的两个难点一个是细节往往容易被忽视,特别是没有得到系统训练之前,第二个就是单词的拼写。所以,对于这种以考察细节为主的考试类型最好的训练方法是‘听抄’。

听抄是一种在听写的基础上发展起来的听力训练方法。它包括听写、跟读、重听这三个层层递进的步骤。正确的做法包含三个‘三遍’和一个‘三十分钟’。第一个‘三遍’是指同学们应该在脱离听力原文的基础上以句子为单位把听力材料先听三遍,这个步骤和听写是一样的。第二个‘三遍’是指针对刚才第一个三遍中没有听懂的地方对照听力原文跟读三遍。这往往是同学们忽视的却异常重要的部分,因为这就是对没有听懂的地方的发音和拼写熟悉的过程。最后一个‘三遍’是脱离听力原文把刚才跟读的地方再听三次,很显然最后的这个三次是在发音正确的基础上增强同学们的听力敏感度。相信这三个逐步递进的三遍训练结束后,同学们对于这个语言点就完全可以掌握了。最后的这个‘三十分钟’指的是每天听抄的时间保持在三十分钟比较适宜,即达到了一定的训练强度,又不至于负担过重。

对于听抄的内容同学们又有一个认识上的误区。有很多同学喜欢用英语新闻听力如VOA或BBC或者是新概念英语来练习雅思听力。这两种材料对于练习听力是有很大的帮助的,但是由于雅思听力的内容主要是SURVIVINGENGLISH和CAMPUSENGLISH,主要的场景涉及的是学生的学习生活,如住房场景,图书馆场景,课堂学习场景和研究场景。这些与以上两种听力材料的内容重合性太小,所以往往同学们在以上两种听力材料中积累起来的词汇在雅思听力中的复现率很低,因此对于雅思听力来说它们无疑不是一种高效的复习材料。所以建议同学们就把剑1-剑6的听力内容或是市面上的一些仿真模拟题作为听抄的主要内容。如果还有时间,建议同学们听一些电影听力,以生活为主要题材的一些肥皂剧就是不错的选择,例如《FRIENDS》等。

熟练掌握速读能力和题型定位

另外一个影响同学们雅思听力的主要因素是同学们的读题能力。雅思听力的每个section都会给考生一定的时间读题,而如果能够有效的读题将能在做题过程中提高40%-50%的正确率。而如果想要在读题时间内用精读的方法把每个单词都读完是不可能做到的,所以就需要同学们有选择性的读,快速的读,这就需要同学们培养和熟练掌握速读能力和题型定位法。所谓的速读就是学会抓住一个句子的keywords,简单的来说也就是这个句子的主干,如果从词性上分析,大致包括句子中的名词,动词,形容词这三类。同学们平时可以找一些英语文章,单词难度不要太高,保证90%以上的内容都要能够看懂。这样每天练习10-20个句子,每个句子用扫视的方法,只看关键词,刚开始的时候可以边看边用笔画出来,慢慢可以过渡到只看不画,每个句子争取在2秒内读完。

而所谓题型定位法要根据题型的不同而有针对性的选择读题内容。根据近年来雅思考试的趋势来看,表格填空题,填空题和选择题是考得比较多的三种题型,下面以表格填空题的读题方法为例来解读一下题型定位法。

题型定位法表格填空题解读

1.浏览表格的标题,图例和说明文字。浏览标题的主要目的是为了确定文章论述的主题和场景,如果有熟悉的背景信息作为基础,听的过程就会得心应手很多。

2.浏览表格的横纵轴。所谓的横纵轴是指表格的最上面一行和最左边一列。浏览表格的横纵轴等于对表格的内容进行了分类阅读,为部分内容的预测提供了良好的线索和基础。

3.直接进入出题的空格找关键词,如果空格中没有关键词的题目还一定要注意空格的前后左右。用这些词来进行答案的定位。而对于没有出题的句子在这里就建议大家不要浪费时间来阅读了。

4.进行有效预测。预测一般有两个思路,第一可以通过空格前后的语法和逻辑关系预测所填内容的词性,第二可以通过空格前后和横纵轴的内容预测所填答案的范围。进行了适当的预测后可以让我们在听的过程中有的放矢,找到答案也就不再如大海捞针般艰难了。

下面是剑桥雅思四上的一个实例,让我们一起感受一下题型定位法的效果:

听力立体训练法的周期一般是三个月时间。在这三个月的时间中,横向的听抄和速读练习是应该贯穿始终坚持去做的,而纵向的三个层次可以分阶段来做。第一个月的时间应该以单词突破为主,这里需要强调的一点是雅思的单词不仅要做到会听,还一定要做到会拼写,所以一定要保证三遍以上的循环才行。第二个月的时间应该以场景和题型的突破为主,各个击破并辅之以单词的复习。而最后一个月要进入综合训练的环节,每周完整地做两到三套真题,并且根据做题的情况对单词,场景和题型进行总结回顾式的复习,对于薄弱环节重点突破。

篇6:3大雅思阅读猜词技巧讲解

3大雅思阅读猜词技巧讲解 生词不存在的!

雅思阅读猜词技巧之利用词根词缀

相信很多同学是了解这个方法的,因为“词根词缀记忆单词”这个东东已经被人们鼓吹了很多年了,从老师还是个稚嫩少年的时候就已经听说过这个方法了(那个时候菊花还只是一种花)。实际上,词根词缀法是一个很好地在阅读中猜词的方法。同学们在备考阅读的时候需要掌握一些常见的词缀用以猜词意或判断方向性。我们来看下面的例子(第24题):

题目:

23 Home medical aids

24 Regular amounts of exercise

25 Feelings of control over life

26 Feelings of loneliness

A may cause heart disease.

B can be helped by hormone treatment.

C may cause rises in levels of stress hormones.

D have cost theUnited Statesgovernment more than $200 billion.

E may help prevent mental decline.

F may get stronger at night.

G allow old people to be more independent.

H can reduce stress in difficult situations.

原文:

Maintaining a level of daily physical activity may help mental functioning, says Carl Cotman, a neuroscientist at the University of California at Irvine. He found that rats that exercise on a treadmill have raised levels of brain-derived neurotrophic factor coursing through their brains. Cotman believes this hormone, which keeps neurons functioning, may prevent the brains of active humans from deteriorating.

分析:

利用题干中的信息(regular amounts of exercise)定位到原文(daily physical activity),进而对该段文字进行阅读,发现最后的deteriorate不认识,但是以de-前缀开头,一般都是否定的方向,那么与第五个选项中的decline方向一致,可以确定E为正确答案。

雅思阅读猜词技巧之利用并列关系

阅读中常见的并列关系词有and, or等,并列关系前后连接的词往往具有一定的一致性。我们这里拿or来举个例子,or前后的词常常含义是近似的。因此,如果or连接的前后的词我们有一个不认识,那么可以利用另一个来猜雅思阅读生词。我们来看下面的例子:

例句:

However, the major problems of the travel and tourism industry that have hidden, or obscured, its economic impact are the diversity and fragmentation of the industry itself.

分析:

本句话中,很多同学是不认识obscure的,但是我们一般都认识前面的hidden,并且发现这两个单词由or连接,所以可以推断obscure的意思跟hidden是比较接近的。

雅思阅读考察的是单词的模糊理解而非具体含义,所以很多单词我们了解大概意思、保证阅读可以顺利进行下去即可,不用弄明白确切意思。

雅思阅读猜词技巧之利用同位语

雅思阅读中我们常会看到一个不认识的名词后跟随了一个逗号,逗号后是一个名词短语,这个名次短语就是这个名词的同位语解释。我们可以利用同位语去推测未知名词的含义。我们来看下面的例子:

题目:Marie and Pierre Curie’s research into the radioactivity of the mineral known as 8……… led to the discovery of two new elements.

原文:Turning her attention to minerals, she found her interest drawn to pitchblende, a mineral whose radioactivity, superior to that of pure uranium, could be explained only by the presence in the ore of small quantities of an unknown substance of very high activity. Pierre Curie joined her in the work that she had undertaken to resolve this problem, and that led to the discovery of the new elements, polonium and radium.

分析:通过观察题目,我们发现我们要填的单词处在“a mineral known as ...”这个结构下,说明要填的单词是一种矿物质的名字。那么利用题目中的two new elements定位到原文中,再利用代词往前查找,会找到pitchblende这个词,后面就跟随了我们说的同位语,那么可以确定这就是要我们找的答案。

我们来看看第6题:原文:

The original patent outlined a three-stage process, in which phenol and formaldehyde (from wood or coal) were initially combined under vacuum inside a large egg-shaped kettle. The result was a resin known as Novalak, which became soluble and malleable when heated. The resin was allowed to cool in shallow trays until it hardened, and then broken up and ground into powder. Other substances were then introduced: including fillers, such as woodflour, asbestos or cotton, which increase strength and moisture resistance, catalysts (substances to speed up the reaction between two chemicals without joining to either) and hexa, a compound of ammonia and formaldehyde which supplied the additional formaldehyde necessary to form a thermosetting resin.

分析:很多同学在做这道题时,利用第6题前面的ammonia和formaldehyde定位,在原文中第4句中,我们看到了一个a compound of ammonia and formaldehyde …这个结构,于是就有同学把答案写成了compound。但是我们来看一下,a compound of ammonia and formaldehyde …就是我们之前说的“双标点中的名词短语”,所以它是一个同位语,那么是对谁的解释呢?逗号之前的名词hexa,所以hexa是我们的答案(原文的意思是hexa是ammonia和formaldehyde一起构成的混合物)。至于为什么不能填compound这个词,这是一个解释性的词汇,属于“类别”词,不够具体,而填空题需要填具体的词。

雅思科技用词汇整理

double-edged sword 双刃剑

earth-shaking changes 翻天覆地的改变

energy crisis 能源危机

depletion of resources 能源消耗

milestone 里程碑

sophisticated equipment 尖端设备

technical innovation 科技创新

expediency 权宜之计

scientific invention 科学发明

a heated discussion 热烈的讨论

exhaust gas 废气

opposite forces 负面影响

a fatal breakdown 致命故障

potential hazards 潜在危险

means of transportation 交通方式

transportation tools 交通工具

social status 社会地位

environmentally-friendly resources 环保的能源

alternative fuel 可替代燃料

sustainable development 可持续性发展

scientific exploration 科学探索

雅思考试中常见的教育词汇整理

1.scope of knowledge:知识面

2. comprehensive knowledge :广博的知识

3. distance education :远程教育

4. multimedia teaching:多媒体教学

5. solid professional working experience :扎实的职业工作经验

6. vocational education : 职业教育

7. stress-related illness :与压力有关的疾病

8. the cultural diversity:文化的多元性

9. vocational guidance :职业指导

10. vocational training :职业训练

11. exam-oriented education: 应试教育

12. education for all-round development: 全面发展教育

13. fake diplomas :假文凭

14. compulsory education: 义务教育

15. quality Education :素质教育

16. rote learning :死记硬背

17. student-oriented education :以学生为主体的教育

18. bias of culture: 文化偏见

19. cradle of culture:文化摇篮

20. mainstream culture:主流文化

21. system of education :教育体制

关于动物类雅思词汇总结

zebra 斑马 (zebra crossing斑马线)

Elephant大象

Crocodile鳄鱼

Dolphin海豚

Kangaroo袋鼠

Koala考拉

Rhino犀牛

Falcon猎鹰

Hippo河马

hippopotamus

Shark鲨鱼

Emu食火鸟

Kiwi几维鸟

Kaka橄榄色鹦鹉

kelp海藻

insect昆虫,Mosquito蚊子,mosquito net蚊帐

wasp黄蜂

ape猿猴

donkey 驴

mane(狮子等的)鬃毛

urther羽毛

fur皮毛

horse hair马毛

hard-hoofed硬蹄的,hard-hoofed animal硬蹄动物

breeding繁殖

whale鲸鱼,killer whale杀 人鲸

sheep sheering 剪羊毛

Sheep and cattle畜群

endangered species 频危物种

extinct species 灭绝物种

harmful insects有害昆虫

insects haunting 闹昆虫

fur trade皮毛交易

willow 柳树

篇7:雅思阅读主旨题技巧

雅思阅读主旨题的技巧有哪些为你带来雅思阅读当中一种出现频率为中频的题型的解题方法和技巧。这一类题叫做主旨题,顾名思义就是在选项当中选择全文的中心思想的题型。这一类题型不是考察对于行文细节的理解,而是对于全文整体思路的把握。下面就让我们看一下主旨题的解题技巧。

雅思阅读主旨通常都放在雅思阅读最后一道做的题型。为什么我们要把主旨题放在最后一道做呢?因为主旨题顾名思义是对全文的主题进行一个概括的题型,在我们做其他题型的时候,可能会用到略读或者文中定位的方法,只有将所有题做完后才能更好地概括整个文章的意思。

全文主旨题就是题目要求你说出一篇文章的主旨,即整篇文章的中心意思。这种题型也不常考,在实际考试中要么不考,要么只考一题。

做这种题型要注意下几点:

1. 题目以四选一的形式出现。

全文主旨题都是以四选一的形式出现,题干中常有THE AIM OF THE WRITER(作者写文章的目的)、THE TITLE(文章的标题)、THE MAIN THEME(文章的主旨)。

2. 最后做全文主旨题。

不管全文主旨题是文章的第一题还是最后一题,都在做完该篇文章的其它题目后,再做全文主旨题。这时,常常不需再看文章,即可直接做出来。如果不能确定,则需要看一下原文的第一段及每段话的第一句。一般全文主旨题还是比较简单的。

篇8:雅思阅读主旨题技巧

针对这种类型的题目,我们主要看三句话:首句,第二句以及后一句。基本上的主旨句都会出现在这三句中。如果我们可以通过这三句中的任何一句选择出段落大意,那么剩下的部分就可以略过不读,以节省时间。为什么我们可以断定这三句很多时候可以概括段落大意呢,这是与西方人的写作习惯密切相关的。他们在写作的时候通常使用inductive和deductive两种方法。Deductive即演绎法,也就是先给出一个观点或者概念,然后再举出例子支持自己的观点,即总分的写作方法。在这种段落中,主旨句则为段落的句。但有时候,文章的句会先对上一段内容进行总结,这种情况下,句就成为了承上启下句,主旨句就变成了段落的第二句。另一种常用的写作逻辑为inductive的写作方法,即先举出例子,后提出总结性的观点。在这种情况下,主题句则通常会出现在段落的后一句。因此当我们阅读段落时,应该首先对首句,第二句和后一句进行重点阅读,争取从这三句中找出段落大意。若这三句无法使我们确认段落大意,我们要再注意例子前的总结概括句,表示下定义的主系表结构句子,用细节帮助我们确定答案。

我们以剑七Test 1,Passage 2为例,在这篇文章中,E段首句“At the outset of the new millennium, however, the way resource planners think about water is beginning to change。”Change一词对应i选项中的revision,都是表示改变,剩下的选项没有相关的意思,因此可以通过首句确定段落大意为i. Scientists' call for a revision of policy. F段首句”Fortunately – and unexpectedly- the demand for water is not rising as rapidly as some predicted。”unecpectedly对应选项ix中的surprising,not rising对应downward trend,很容易看出答案为ix. A surprising downward trend in demand for water。G段同理,首句“What explains this remarkable turn of events?”即此段要解释这样一种现象的原因,很容易看到ii中的同意转换词explanation。而D段首句“The consequence of our water policies extend beyond jeopardizing human health。”很明显是在总结上一段的段落大意,即承上启下,这时我们可以通过这句来验证上一个段落的大意,并从剩下的内容中去寻找段落大意。B段虽然给出了答案,但我们还是可以来自己分析一下,B段开头给出的都是新时期我们面临的种.种问题,而后一句“Nearly one fifth of all the electricity generated worldwide is produced by turbines spun by the power of falling water。”为我们指出了这些问题是被如何解决的,即对应Headings中的iii. How a global challenge was met。

因此以后在做list of headings类题目是,一定要仔细看段落的首句,二句以及末句,争取通过这三句话弄清段落大意

以上就是雅思阅读主旨题的技巧有哪些的全部内容。如果对于这种题型还不熟悉的同学可以在剑雅或者雅思模拟题当中找到这类题型,通常都是最后一题,然后按照上面举出实例的解题方法进行解题。在解题的过程中,一定要留意每一段的段首和段尾。

雅思考试阅读技巧:四大方面迅速提升阅读能力

阅读虽然在雅思考试中和其他部分相比算得上是中国考生的强项,但是其实真正想在这部分拿到高分并非易事。那么究竟如何脱颖而出,冲击高分呢?

不难发现,技巧是必需的。 如何在有限的时间内完成3000字的阅读和40道题的答题,这都需要考生熟练地运用各种快速阅读的方法。笔者从事雅思教学以来,发现很多学生对阅读技巧掌握之后,确实可以有很明显的提高。 只是不难发现,单一的使用技巧,却也并不能确保在雅思阅读中就可以独占鳌头。 这还需要考生们在更多的方面去做好充分的准备。除了阅读的技巧外,还需要去掌握四项方面,这样才能真正做到有的放矢。

一、词汇的挑选

一定的词汇量恐怕是做好雅思阅读最基本的前提。 总有学生问道,到底需要记下多少单词才可以考雅思。 常见的理论当然是越多越好,这样就可以扫清所有的障碍。然后就有学生下定决心去记下所有的阅读生词。 这样固好,只是从使用的角度,并不是所有的生词都需要我们去花费大量的精力。那么雅思的阅读词汇是怎么考的,我们看下面一个例子;

Original text: The seasonal impact of day length on physiological responses is called photoperiodism, and the amount of experimental evidence for this phenomenon is considerable.

Statement: There is plenty of scientific evidence to support photoperiodism.

从这个例子中可以看到, 只要认识considerable这个形容词就可以做出判断了,considerable 意思是“大量的”, 和“plenty of”直接形成同义转述,可以判断本题应该是TRUE, 至于本句中了另外一个生词“photoperiodism”并没有影响我们对文章的理解, 就不需要再花精力去记忆了。 鉴于雅思A类阅读中会出现的大量的专业术语,以及平时会很少使用到的古语其实是可以忽略的。 但是一些常用的实词却是需要考生们一定要补充进来的,有时甚至还需要去记下这些词的特殊用法。

二、句型结构的熟练

除了词汇的掌握外,考生们还会碰到这么一种状况:句子并没有出现特别难的生词,甚至是句子中没有生词,可是句子的意思依然不太明确。 这样的句子同样给考生们带来了阅读中的障碍,其实这也是雅思阅读的另外一个考查点: 句子结构错综复杂,长句屡屡皆是。 例:

Original text: Such expansion, which was to take the English language west to America and east to India, was supported by scientific developments such as the discovery of magnetism (and hence the invention of the compass), improvements in cartography and – perhaps the most important scientific revolution of them all - the new theories of astronomy and the movement of the earth in relation to the planets and stars.

Statement: The most important scientific development of the renaissance 点击发音 period was the discovery of magnetism.

雅思阅读美文欣赏:生活中我们最幸福时

In Life,We are Happiest When…

生活中我们最幸福时

A man and his girlfriend were married. It was a large celebration. All of their friends and family came to see the lovely ceremony and to partake of the festivities and celebrations. All

had wonderful time.

The bride was gorgeous in her white wedding gown and the groom was very dashing in his black tuxedo. Everyone could tell that the love they had for each other was true.

A few months later, the wife came to the husband with a proposal, “I read in a magazine, a while ago, about how we can strengthen our marriage,” she offered, “Each of us will write a

list of the things that we find a bit annoying with the other person.Then,we can talk about how we can fix them together and make our lives happier together.”The husband agreed. So each of them went to a separate room in the house and thought of the things that annoyed them about the other. They thought about this question for the rest of the day and wrote down what they came up with.The next morning, at the breakfast table, they decided thatthey would go over their lists.

“I'II start,“ offered the wife. She took out her list. It had many items on it. Enough to fill 3 pages, in fact. As she started reading the list of the little annoyances, she noticed that tears

were starting to appear in her husband's eyes.

”What' s wrong?“ she asked. ”Nothing,”the husband replied, “keep reading your list.”

The wife continued to read until she had read all three pages to her husband. She neatly placed her list on the table and folded her hands over the top of it.

“Now, you read your list and then we'll talk about the things on both of our lists.” She said happily.

Quietly the husband stated, “I don't have anything on my list. I think that you are perfect the way that you are. I don't want you to change anything for me. You are lovely and wonderful and I wouldn't want to try and change anything about you.”

Quietly the husband stated, “I don't have anything on my list. I think that you are perfect the way that you are. I don't want you to change anything for me. You are lovely and wonderful and

I wouldn't want to try and change anything about you.”

The wife, touched by his honesty and the depth of his love for her and his acceptance of her, turned her head and wept.

In life, there are enough times when we are disappointed,depressed and annoyed. We don't really have to go looking for them. We have a wonderful world that is full of beauty, light and promise. Why waste time in this world looking for the bad,disappointing or annoying when we can look around us, and see the wondrous things before us?

对应中文翻译:

一个男人与他的女朋友举行了一场盛大的结婚典礼。

所有的亲朋好友都来参加,分享他们的喜悦,对他们表示祝贺,大家过得很愉快。

身着雪白婚纱的新娘楚楚动人,穿着黑色礼服的新郎英俊

潇洒。大家都看得出来。他们彼此相爱着。

数月后,妻子提议道:“我刚在杂志上看到一篇文章,讲的是如何增进夫妻感情。”她说,“我们各自在纸上罗列出对方的小缺点,然后一起找出解决的办法,这样,会使我们的婚姻生活更融洽。”

丈夫很赞成。于是,他们各自在房间里想对方的缺点。那天余下的时间,他们都在想这个问题,同时也把所想的写了下来。

第二天早上,吃早餐时,他们决定谈谈彼此的缺点。

“我先来吧。”妻子说。她拿出单子,上面都写满了,足有三页纸。开始念丈夫的小毛病时,她注意到他的眼角湿润了。

“怎么了?”她问道。“没什么,”丈夫答道,“继续念啊。”

妻子接着念,念完这三张纸后,她把单子整齐地放在桌上,两手交叉放在上面。

“现在,该你了。你念完后,我们就来谈谈这些缺点吧.”

妻子开心地说道。

丈夫平静地说:“我什么也没写。我觉得你这样已经很完美了,你很可爱,很迷人,我不想让你为我改变什么。”

丈夫的诚实,深沉的爱与包容,深深地触动了她,她转过头去哭了起来。

生活中,很多时候,我们都会感到失望、沮丧和厌烦,但我们不必刻意去寻找这些负面的事情。我们拥有一个奇妙的世界,充满美、光明和希望。当我们环顾四周,就可以发觉这些美好,那又何必把光阴耗费在找寻不快、失落和烦恼上呢?

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