2016年1月30日雅思考试真题回忆
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考试日期:

2016年1月30日

Reading Passage 1

Title:

澳大利亚的当初殖民地

Question types:

判断题6+ Short Answer简答  7

参考答案

判断题:

1. A great deal was known about Tench before  arriving to Australia. FALSE

2. Tench drew pictures of what he saw during his  journey. NOT GIVEN

3. generally treat convicts well  FALSE

4. Tench’s opinion toward Aboriginals remained  unchanged.  FALSE

5. An aboriginals gave Tench food as a gift when  they first met.  NOT GIVEN

6. Tench held unusual opinion in his time. TRUE

简答题:

7. What concrete information proved Tench had a  good education background? Diaries

8. What was used to control convicts Chains

9. Who told Tench to punish Aboriginals? Governor Phillip

10. What activity did they engage on their way to H  River? Food hunting

11. Where did the escaped convicts intend to go? China

12. Where did Tench meet the first aboriginal? Botany Bay

题型难度分析

本篇阅读题型为判断题和短问题简答题,都是细节题目顺序做题,难度适中。

题型技巧分析

简答题Short answer题型要求根据文章回答相应问题,通常以what、which、when、where、who、why、how等提问,往往顺序出题,与填空题做题思路相近。  

解题步骤:1. 仔细看题目要求,如no more than two/three words 2. 确定问句种类并仔细理解问题:一般疑问句yes/no回答,选择疑问句或者wh/how问句具体回答 3. 关注问句中关键词key words,尤其是表示时间、地点、数量的词。4.对应关键词和文章内容,判断是否与原文含义一致,按要求找词回答问题。

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Reading Passage 2

Title:

Making images from space more accessible amateur

Question types:

段落信息匹配4+人名匹配理论5+句子填空3

参考答案

14-17段落信息匹配题:

14. A particular method used to improve the image from Titan.  C

15. What amateur astronomers often see E

16. The development of media used by amateur astronomer.  G

17. The geographic highlights made by Lieken.  C

18-23人名理论匹配:

18. Some experts don’t know how to utilize amateurs’ tools. Ed Flaspoehler

19. Amateur astronomers should be commended.  Lebreton

20. Cooperation between professionals and amateurs would make people  know how exciting the astronomy is. Robert  Milkey

21. The amateurs outnumbered professionals. Ed Flaspoehler

22. The developed technology would help amateur astronomers do  scientific jobs. Robert Milkey

23. Professionals have a better understanding of data than  amateurs.  Lieken

24-26  句子填空题

24. Amateur astronomers send the image through Cassini  spacecraft.

25. Lieken’s group was aware that it might be possible to send more  precise images through facilities located in Arizona  University.

26. The development of technology makes amateur astronomers able to use cheaper digital cameras.

题型难度分析

本篇文章题型难度相对较大,其中段落信息配对题需要考生通读全文,是一种对英语能力考察很全面的题型。

题型技巧分析

Matching中的段落信息匹配题改写力度大并且非常耗时,因此是雅思阅读各类题目中难度较大的题目,这类题目往往以“Which paragraph contains the following information?”为标志,考查考生查找信息以及理解文章的能力。  

题型特点:

1. 绝对乱序 2. 考察细节信息以及同义转换 3. 种类繁多 4. 部分题目有重复选项

解题步骤:

1.      审题并阅读所有题目

2.      画出题目关键词并做出预判

3.      通读段落,依次寻找答案

*人名匹配题小技巧:人名之后出现插入语代表人名是第一次出现;人名多次出现后,姓和名可能分开,也可能用代词指代。建议考生扫读文章先找出所有人名并作标记,然后对应观点理论逐个突破。

相似英文原文阅读

"Image is everything," goes the advertising  adage. A curious twist of that notion emerged following the landing in  January of the European Space Agency's (ESA) probe Huygens on Titan, Saturn's  largest moon. The first images beamed from the probe via the Cassini spacecraft  thrilled scientists but barely inspired most of the public. Peter Hartlaub,  writing in the San Francisco Chronicle, lamented:

While children once huddled in front of their  radios and television sets, waiting for the latest updates on the fates of  heroes such as John Glenn and Neil Armstrong, modern space missions all seem to  end the same way: with indistinct pictures of orange rocks, followed by impassioned  hyperbole from scientist types attempting to convince us how totally awesome  the images are.

Yet, thanks to a few amateur image analysts,  "awesome" images of Titan were available on the Internet within  hours of the release of the raw data.

How did this happen? Were the scientists’ scooped?"  Well, yes and no. It turns out that scientists had meant to release the raw  data but, according to ESA Huygens project manager, Jean-Pierre Lebreton, not  quite so quickly. Apparently the University of Arizona server onto which the  information from Huygens's cameras was upload edwas "made accessible [to  the public] by mistake." The Huygens data were therefore available  before the scientists had a chance even to look them over. And the public was  waiting. Not the public whom, Hartlaub writes, consider "space  exploration… really boring," but a loose-knit cadreof space-imaging  enthusiasts who convene via Internet chat rooms and who showcase pictures on  personal Web pages. One of these Web sites is run by Anthony Liekens, a  doctoral student in biomedical imaging at the University of Eindhoven in the  Netherlands.

Liekens's chat group was anticipating the Huygens  data after they'd read a University of Arizona announcement that raw pictures  would be available soon after the landing. But events unfolded much faster  than Liekens expected. Within hours, his amateur group had used standard image-manipulation  software, such as Photoshop and Terragen, to render ESA's low-resolution gray  scale composites into serene landscapes complete with coastline, clouds and  islands—scenery recognizable to earthlings.

Were the amateurs doing science, or just prettying  up the pictures? Perhaps a bit of both. While the rendered photos were  attractive, interpreting the raw images and using software to create realistic  views of Titan required a sophisticated understanding of image analysis and  some knowledge of planetary science. As the Huygens probe parachuted down to  the surface, the Descent Imager Spectral Radiometer (DISR) designed by scientists  at the University of Arizona captured about 350 triplet images, using three  cameras at different angles and magnifications. These low-resolution images  overlap to create larger mosaics that look rather like aerial photographs.  After compiling mosaics of Titan's surface from the triplets, the amateurs  converted these from two-dimensional monochrome to three-dimensional color.  However, as Liekens himself pointed out, the professionals are best equipped  to render the most realistic views, as they have the expertise to interpret  nonvisual data that may provide clues to features not evident from the DISR  pictures.

In any case, the Titan landscapes ended up widely  distributed across the Internet, although, Liekens noted, "The big media  outlets like CNN and BBC didn't pick it up right away." The pictures first  made their way to "nerd Web sites and blogs" and then filtered across  cyberspace to the media giants.

The rapidity and scope of the images' distribution  gave the strong impression that the amateurs had beaten scientists to the  punch. Lebreton says his team was impressed: "Our scientists here[at  ESA] looked at the images and said, 'Wow, they're beautiful.' Their beauty was  not matched by the images we released."

There seem to be no hard feelings. Lebreton says  the amateurs should be given credit for clearly stating up front that their  embellishments were not necessarily accurate but meant to be enjoyed for what  they represented. In fact, he says ESA is looking to hire some of the amateurs  who worked on the images. Lebreton thinks that the release of the raw data  has been an unexpected public-relations success. ESA officials will meet shortly  to discuss the implications of the unintended experiment for future public  relations.

The implications go far beyond the ESA offices.  These events suggest amateurs are poised to contribute in significant and  unexpected ways. New technology and access to cheap computing promise to dramatically  change the amateur-professional interaction.

Although technology has moved astronomy into the  category of "big science," amateurs still participate extensively.  Astronomy has long been a favorite discipline of amateur scientists (among  whom birding is the most popular), and amateur astronomers are often the  first to detect comets or supernovae. For this reason, professional  astronomers tend to value the contribution of amateurs." Generally, the  attitude [toward amateurs] is positive," says Robert Milkey, executive  officer of the American Astronomical Society, "Many professionals are  eager to collaborate and want to write amateur contributors into research projects  and proposals.… The distinction between professionals and the best-qualified  amateurs is that the professional is paid."

Ed Flaspoehler, president of the American Amateur  Astronomical Association, who has worked as a data-processing consultant  for major corporations, perceives the professional community differently, as  "generally diffident toward amateurs."

"Some professionals view amateurs as a pool  of graduate students who do the work while [the professionals] get the credit,"  he says. "Professionals have not yet figured how to put this [resource]  to good use."

Even if only a small proportion of the estimated  250,000 amateurs in the U.S. want involvement at a higher level, Flaspoehler  noted, that's still a large number compared to the six or seven thousand  professionals. New approaches, such as those demonstrated by Liekens's chat  group, make it possible for greater numbers of amateurs to be involved in more  sophisticated ways.

Milkey thinks that "the technology [now]  coming into the hands of amateurs is capable of doing serious science."  Flaspoehler sees the Huygens imaging chat group as the latest trend in an  evolutionary process. Early amateurs made visual observations, then graduated  to telescopes. In the 1980s, amateurs widely adopted film as are cording  medium. During the 1990s CCD (charge-coupled device) technology became  widespread among observatories and then became affordable to amateurs in the  form of digital cameras. Over the past few years amateurs have adapted digital  cameras to taking astronomical photographs and therefore became involved in  image processing.

Some scientists see that the spread of new, cheap  technology, particularly in information and data management, offers new ways  to interact with the public. One example is so-called distributed computing.  Internet-connected personal computers, while otherwise idle, perform subsets  of calculations that require massive processing power. Starting withSETI@home,  which analyzes radio telescope data to detect extraterrestrial signals, the  use of distributed computing has extended to processing data from laser  interferometers to detect gravitational waves (Einstein@home) and running models  of global climate-change prediction (climateprediction.net) and protein folding  (Folding@home).

"There's a real need for organization to bring  amateurs and professionals together," Robert Milkey remarked. He hopes  that members of the public will see more of what keeps scientists coming to  the observatory or laboratory every day—and have the chance to participate in  scientific research and experience that excitement for themselves-Roger Harris.

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Reading Passage 3

Title:

Expert in musician

Question types:

选择4+判断6+Summary 4

题型难度分析

本篇文章结合选择、判断和总结填空三种题型,多为细节考察,难度适中。

参考答案

选择题:

1. What’s the definition of talent in the first  paragraph  brain structure different from  others.

2. What can we learn from violin players? Not sure the change of brain size is the cause of effect of  practice

3. The result of findings by experts suggest Talent may have little to do with …. 

判断题:

1. Ericsson’s study has influenced other  researchers. NOT GIVEN

2.The other areas have one thing in common. YES

3. Who becomes world scale practice regularly  every day NOT GIVEN

4. Anyone who practiced over 10,000 will become a  talent NO

5.Current learning and cognitive skills support the  practice theory YES

Summary: Receive a lot of practice from  his father,… first symphony at the age of four….not popular…but not inherited.

题型技巧分析

判断题作为雅思阅读的主流题型,一直是让考生较为困惑的一种题型,这种困惑往往来自于中西方文化在思维模式上的差异。西方文化较为侧重证据性,追求思维上的细节对应,因此考生在做题中应逐渐适应这种逻辑方式。可参考以下判断原则:

True: 1. 同义改写 2. 归纳总结

False: 1. 直接相反 2. 原文是多个项目并列但题目是“必须”或者“只有”3. 缺少条件成分

Not given: 1. 内容在原文中无提及 2. 题目范围小于原文范围 3. 比较关系不成立

*判断题应特别注意书写答案的规范性:注意看是YES/NO/NOT GIVEN 还是TRUE/FALSE/NOT  GIVEN, 书写时要大写全拼。

 

选择题是雅思阅读中一种考生熟悉的传统题型,其中主要分为四选一和多选多两种类型。多选多实际上是一种较为简单的题型,因为正确答案数目是已知的(which three/four)而且答案在原文中是集中出现的。四选一在考试中相对较难,因为四个选项的区分度较低,考生往往会出现看哪个选项都像的情况。

推荐解题步骤:

1、找出题干中的核心关键词,尽可能定位到原文中的一个段落。

2、从头到尾快速阅读选定段落,根据题干中的其他关键词以及选项确定正确答案,正确答案往往是对原文词句的改写。

3、对于难题可使用排除法。

注意顺序性:题目顺序和原文顺序基本一致。

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考试日期

2016年01月30日    Task1

类别

Map

题目

The diagram  shows how an office building looks at present and the plan for its future  development.  

Summarize the  information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons  where relevant.

题目翻译

 

该地图显示了一所办公大楼现在的样子和未来的规划图。

选择总结主要信息,并在相关的地方做比较。

要素回忆(图表仅供参考)


写作指导

 

(1)注意时态,需要使用现在时和将来时态
(2)注意“方位”和“变化”类词汇的使用
(3)“现在”一段,“规划图”一段

重点表达式

… located at the West and East of….; at the south of this  building; be converted into;

Before modification, there are….;

… the original kitchen and canteen will have been removed;

… be intended to ….

题目评价

难度中等

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近期考试趋势

2月份重点关注柱状图、表格,并预警流程图。

考试日期

2016年01月30日   Task2

类别

政府类

题目

In some  countries, the government has tried to reduce traffic. For instance, they  imposed a congestion tax during rush hour.

Do you think  this development is positive or negative?

题目翻译

在一些国家, 政府为了缓解交通拥堵采取了一些措施,比如,征收高峰期通行税。

你认为该举措优点大还是缺点大?

写作指导

 

(1)注意时态,不要出现过去时(除非举过去的例子)

(2)可中立,若中立偏一边倒,建议不同意。Possible ideas:

Positive  influences:

a.使人们选择其他交通工具,交通拥挤将有所减轻

b.民众会避开高峰时段出行,减轻交通拥挤

Negative  influences:

a. 可能使高峰期提前或者延迟,拥堵仍然存在

b.对于高峰期上下班的人来说,其经济压力加大

c.长远来看若政府仅仅征税,无其它措施,治标不治本,甚至导致民怨

重点表达

reduce traffic congestion; heavy traffic; apply punishment;  peak traffic hours; push off the normal rush hours till a later time; with  the aim of avoiding being fined; poor road infrastructure; the decline of traffic;  impose restrictions on; the increasing driving cost

题目评价

难度中等

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The best way for the government to solve the traffic congestion  is to provide free public transport 24 hours a day and 7 days a week.

To what extent do you agree or disagree?

近期考试趋势

2月份考试的同学可关注政府类、城市类(建筑、交通、绿化)、生活类(锻炼、饮食),以及科技类题目。

重点关注