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2022年12月10日:雅思阅读题目回顾

时间:2022-12-14 18:12来源:江苏朗阁外语培训中心 作者:jasmine

  P1 深海生物探索

  P2 专注力

  P3 考古

  朗阁讲师点评

  1. 本场考试的难度中等。

  2. 整体分析:涉及生物类(P1)、社科类(P2)、人文历史类(P3)。

  本场考试根据考生的反馈比较常规,但是第三篇较难,和文章专业性有关,很多考生看到考古类的话题有点懵,但是搭配的题型是较简单的填空+判断,因此,考生们不要因为阅读话题不熟悉而产生畏难情绪;另外,备考时要多注意积累阅读各个话题下的词汇。从题型上来看,**篇是填空+判断,***容易出现在P1的题型组合,难度较小,填空题注意定位准确;判断题注意区分NOT GIVEN和FALSE即可;P2出现了配对+填空,配对题也是比较容易在P2出现的题型,其中的人名理论配对相对好拿分,要争取抓住。***后,建议考生在做阅读的时候,先浏览三篇阅读的题型分布、内容背景,预判一下难度等级的优先次序,争取简单文章快速做完,给较难的文章预留时间。

  3. 部分答案及参考文章:

  Passage 1:深海生物探索

  题型:判断+填空

  Passage 2:专注力

  题型:段落细节配对+人名理论配对+填空

  相关参考文章:

  How Well Do We Concentrate?

  A Do you read while listening to music? Do you like to watch TV while finishing your homework? People who have these kinds of habits are called multi-taskers. Multitaskers are able to complete two tasks at the same time by dividing their focus. However, Thomas Lehman, a researcher in Psychology, believes people never really do multiple things simultaneously. Maybe a person is reading while listening to music, but in reality, the brain can only focus on one task. Reading the words in a book will cause you to ignore some of the words of the music. When people think they are accomplishing two different tasks efficiently, what they are really doing is dividing their focus. While listening to music, people become less able to focus on their surroundings. For example, we all have experience of times when we talk with friends and they are not responding properly. Maybe they are listening to someone else talk, or maybe they are reading a text on their smart phone and don’t hear what you are saying. Lehman called this phenomenon “email voice”

  B The world has been changed by computers and its spin offs like smart-phones or cellphones. Now that most individuals have a personal device, like a smart-phone or a laptop, they are frequently reading, watching or listening to virtual information. This raises the occurrence of multitasking in our day to day life. Now when you work, you work with your typewriter, your cellphone, and some colleagues who may drop by at any time to speak with you. In professional meetings, when one normally focuses and listens to one another, people are more likely to have a cell phone in their lap, reading or communicating silently with more people than ever, liven inventions such as the cordless phone has increased multitasking. In the old days, a traditional wall phone would ring, and then the housewife would have to stop her activities to answer it. When it rang, the housewife will sit down with her legs up. and chat, with no laundry or sweeping or answering the door. In the modern era, our technology is convenient enough to not interrupt our daily tasks.

  C Earl Miller, an expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, studied the prefrontal cortex, which controls the brain while a person is multitasking. According to his studies, the size of this cortex varies between species, He found that for humans, the size of this part constitutes one third of the brain, while it is only 4 to 5 percent in dogs, and about 15% in monkeys. Given that this cortex is larger on a human, it allows a human to be more flexible and accurate in his or her multitasking.. However, Miller wanted to look further into whether the cortex was truly processing information about two different tasks

  simultaneously. He designed an experiment where he presents visual stimulants to his subjects in a wax that mimics multi-tasking. Miller then attached sensors to the patients ” heads to pick up the electric patterns of the brain. This sensor would show if ” the brain particles, called neurons, were truly processing two different tasks. What he found is that the brain neurons only lit up in singular areas one at a time, and never simultaneously.

  D Davis Meyer, a professor of University of Michigan, studied the young adults in a similar experiment. He instructed them to simultaneously do math problems and classify simple words into different categories. For this experiment. Meyer found that when you think you are doing several jobs at the same time, you are actually switching between jobs. Even though the people tried to do the tasks at the same time, and both tasks were eventually accomplished, overall, the task look more time than if the person focused on a single task one at a time.

  E People sacrifice efficiency when multitasking, Gloria Mark set office workers as his subjects. He found that they were constantly multitasking. He observed that nearly every 11 minutes people at work were disrupted. He found that doing different jobs at the same time may actually save time. However, despite the fact that they are faster, it does not mean they are more efficient. And we are equally likely to self-interrupt as be interrupted by outside sources. He found that in office nearly every 12 minutes an employee would stop and with no reason at all, cheek a website on their computer, call someone or write an email. If they concentrated for more than 20 minutes, they would feel distressed. He suggested that the average person may suffer from a short concentration span. This short attention span might be natural, but others suggest that new technology may be the problem. With cellphones and computers at our sides at all times, people will never run out of distractions. The format of media, such as advertisements, music, news articles and TV shows are also shortening, so people are used to paying attention to information for a very short time

  F So even though focusing on one single task is the most efficient way for our brains to work, it is not practical to use this method in real life. According to human nature, people feel more comfortable and efficient in environments with a variety of tasks, Edward Hallowell said that people are losing a lot of efficiency in the workplace due to multitasking, outside distractions and self-distractions. As it matter of fact, the changes made to the workplace do not have to be dramatic. No one is suggesting we ban e-mail or make employees focus on only one task. However, certain common workplace tasks, such as group meetings, would be more efficient if we banned cell-phones, a common distraction. A person can also apply these tips to prevent self-distraction. Instead of arriving to your office and checking all of your e-mails for new tasks, a common workplace ritual, a person could dedicate an hour to a single task first thing in the morning. Self-timing is a great way to reduce distraction and efficiently finish tasks one by one, instead of slowing ourselves down with multi-tasking.

  参考答案:

  14.B

  15.E

  16.F

  17.C

  18.D

  19.B

  20.D

  21.A

  22.E

  23.E

  24.email voice

  25.prefrontal cortex

  26.group meetings

  Passage 3:考古

  题型:单选+判断

  考试建议

  1. 从已知信息来看,本场考试的趋势还是延续之前的情况,没有大的变化,阅读速度依旧是影响考生得分的关键,考生平时复习时注意多积累一些太空类、商业类专业词汇,提高自己的阅读速度和效率。下场考试,考生们还是注意首篇出现填空+判断的篇章。第二篇注意出现配对题相关的搭配。课下练习注意时间分配合理,熟练掌握各个题型和篇章搭配类型的定位方法;另外,同时,下场考试注意List of Headings题型可能会出现,重点注意常见段落结构如何区分主次信息,抽象选项和原文信息如何识别出对应点。

  2. 参考剑桥练习:剑13 Test4 Passage 1;剑9 Test1 Passage 2;剑9 Test 2 Passage 2;剑13 Test2 Passage 3;剑14 Test2 Passage3



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