2018年5月24日雅思考试阅读回顾

P1 地震引发的泥石流

P2 塔斯马尼亚虎

P3 天赋

 

朗阁教师邬倩芸点评

1. 本次考试难度中等。

2. 整体分析：涉及自然环境类（P1）、生物类（P2）及社会科学类（P3）。

3. 主要题型：延续近几年考试的重点，第一篇为判断（6）+填空（7）的组合；第二篇考察了填空（4）+人名观点配对（6）+单选（3）；第三篇为段落细节配对（6）+判断（5）+简答（3）的组合。

 

4.P1 地震引发的泥石流

文章大意：描述了由地震引发的一场泥石流灾难，探究其成因及影响。

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5.P2 塔斯马尼亚虎 Tasmanian Tiger

参考文章：

Although it was called tiger, it looked like a dog with black stripes on its back and it was the largest known carnivorous marsupial of modem times. Yet, despite its fame for being one of the most fabled animals in the world, it is one of the least understood of Tasmania's native animals. The scientific name for the Tasmanian tiger is Thylacine and it is believed that they have become extinct in the 20th century.

Fossils of thylacines dating from about almost 12 million years ago have been dug up at various places in Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia. They were widespread in Australia 7000 years ago, but have probably been extinct on the continent for 2000 years. This is believed to be because of the introduction of dingoes around 8000 years ago. Because of disease, thylacine numbers may have been declining in Tasmania at the time of European settlement 200 years ago, but the decline was certainly accelerated by the new arrivals. The last known Tasmanian Tiger died in Hobart Zoo in 1936 and the animal is officially classified as extinct. Technically, this means that it has not been officially sighted in the wild or captivity for 50 years. However, there are still unsubstantiated sightings.

Hans Naarding, whose study of animals had taken him around the world, was conducting a survey of a species of endangered migratory bird. What he saw that night is now regarded as the most credible sighting recorded of thylacine that many believe has been extinct for more than 70 years.

Government and private search parties combed the region, but no further sightings were made. The tiger, as always, had escaped to its lair, a place many insist exists only in our imagination. But since then, the thylacine has staged something of a comeback, becoming part of Australian mythology.

There have been more than 4,000 claimed sightings of the beast since it supposedly died out, and the average claims each year reported to authorities now number 150. Associate professor of zoology at the University of Tasmania, Randolph Rose, has said he dreams of seeing a thylacine. But Rose, who in his 35 years in Tasmanian academia has fielded countless reports of thylacine sightings, is now convinced that his dream will go unfulfilled.

“The consensus among conservationists is that, usually, any animal with a population base of less than 1,000 is headed for extinction within 60 years,” says Rose. “Sixty years ago, there was only one thylacine that we know of, and that was in Hobart Zoo,” he says.

However, Mooney treats all reports on face value. “I never try to embarrass people, or make fools of them. But the fact that I don't pack the car immediately they ring can often be taken as ridicule. Obsessive characters get irate that someone in my position is not out there when they think the thylacine is there."

But Hans Naarding, whose sighting of a striped animal two decades ago was the highlight of “a life of animal spotting", remains bemused by the time and money people waste on tiger searches. He says resources would be better applied to saving the Tasmanian devil, and helping migratory bird populations that are declining as a result of shrinking wetlands across Australia.

Could the thylacine still be out there? “Sure,” Naarding says. But he also says any discovery of surviving thylacines would be “rather pointless". “How do you save a species from extinction? What could you do with it? If there are thylacines out there, they are better off right where they are."

参考答案：

14 black stripes

15 12 million

16 Australia

17 European

18 A

19 D

20 C

21 B

22 A

23 D

24 B

25 D

26 A

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6.P3 天赋

文章大意：在各个行业中有才华的人都备受青睐，例如体育明星、科学家、艺术家，他们都做出了非凡的贡献。但千里马常有，伯乐不常有，选对有天赋的人并非易事，失败的案例也不少。除了天赋，后天的培养也很关键。因此公司在选拔人才时应该采取更有效的措施。

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考试预测

1. 本场考试的题型依旧重点考察填空题、判断题与配对题。无论是近期考情还是最近的几本剑桥，第一篇文章的判断+填空组合出现频率非常高，考生应该运用好定位词以及综合解题法在20min内保质保量地完成。段落细节配对与人名观点配对依旧出现在二、三篇文章中，难度稍高。考生在平时要多加练习配对题，体会其中同义替换的思路，运用好综合解题法提高做题效率。由于连续三场考试没有出现Heading题，下一场考试考到的可能性有所上升。
2. 下场考试的话题可能有关历史文化类、科技类、社会科学类。
3. 重点浏览12-14年机经。

 

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