| 考试日期： | 2012年8月4日 |
| Reading Passage 1 | |
| Title: | Alfred Nobel |
| Question types: |
TRUE/FALSE/NOT GIVEN Table Completion |
| 文章内容回顾 | Alfred Nobel的一生 -三硝酸甘油 |
| 英文原文阅读 |
Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor and industrialist, was a man of many contrasts. He was the son of a bankrupt, but became a millionaire; a scientist with a love of literature, an industrialist who managed to remain an idealist. He made a fortune but lived a very simple life, and although cheerful in company he was often sad in private. A lover of mankind, he never had a wife or family to love him; a patriotic son of his native land, he died alone on foreign soil. He invented a new explosive, dynamite, to improve the peacetime industries of mining and road building, but saw it was used as a weapon of war to kill and injure his fellow men. During his useful life he often felt he was useless: “Alfred Nobel,” he once wrote of himself, “ought to have been put to death by a kind doctor as soon as, with a cry, he entered life.” World-famous for his works he was never personally well known, for throughout his life he avoided publicity. “I do not see,” he once said, “that I have deserved any fame and I have no taste for it,” but since his death his name has brought fame and glory to others. He was born in Stockholm on October 21, 1833but moved to Russia with his parents in 1842, where his father, Immanuel, made a strong position for himself in the engineering industry. Immanuel Nobel invented the landmine and made a lot of money from government orders for it during the Crimean War, but went bankrupt soon after. Most of the family returned to Sweden in 1859, where Alfred rejoined them in 1863, beginning his own study of explosives in his father's laboratory. He had never been to school or university but had studied privately. And by the time he was twenty, he was a skillful chemist and excellent linguist, speaking Swedish, Russian, German, French and English. Like his father, Alfred Nobel was imaginative and inventive, but he had better luck in business and showed more financial sense. He was quick to see industrial openings for his scientific inventions and built up over 80companies in 20 different countries. Indeed his greatness lay in his outstanding ability to combine the qualities of an original scientist with those of a forward-looking industrialist. But Nobel's main concern was never with making money or even with making scientific discoveries. Seldom happy, he was always searching for a meaning to life, and from his youth had taken a serious interest in literature and philosophy. Perhaps he could not find ordinary human love—he never married—he came to care deeply about the whole of mankind. He was always generous to the poor: “I'd rather take care of the stomachs of the living than the glory of the dead in the form of stone materials,” he once said. His greatest wish, however, was to see an end to wars, and thus peace between nations, and he spent much time and money working for this cause until his death in Italy in 1896. His famous will, in which he left money to provide prizes for outstanding work in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology, Medicine, Literature and Peace, is a memorial to his interests and ideals. And so, the man who felt he should have died at birth is remembered and respected long after his death. |
| 题型难度分析 | 第一篇的题型包括是非无判断题和表格题。是非无判断题不管对于基础好还是薄弱的同学，都可以拿分。而表格题属于送分题，也很简单。而文章内容也是大部分同学所熟悉的，因此该篇文章无论从题型还是文章内容都比较简单。 |
| 题型技巧分析 |
是非无判断是雅思阅读中的主流题型，其答题技巧和注意问题为： 1. 答案写法 若要求写TRUE 却写成：T ( × ) true ( × ) True ( × ) YES ( × ) 2. 题目在原文出现的位置：顺序原则 3. 做题时首先要找题目中的考点：即题目中可能说错的部分 接下来考生需要确定定位词（排除考点词）： 而通常作为定位词的有： A. 专有名词、术语、物质名词 B. 时间、数字 C. 归纳句子是关于哪方面信息的（即为定位词或短语） 如何判断： 1. 判断T/Y的情况：1）同义、近义替换 2）归纳总结 2. 判断F/N的情况：100%否认原文 3. 判断NG的情况：根据原文无法100%判断题目T/F（不可利用常识） |
| 剑桥雅思推荐原文练习 | 剑5 Test 1 |
| Reading Passage 2 | |
| Title: | baby mammoth |
| Question types: | Which paragraph contains the following information Matching people with opinions Sentence Completion |
| 文章内容回顾 | 第一段是猛玛象是怎么被发现的，第二段是很多科学家都认为它的灭绝是因为气候的变化。第三段讲猛玛象被送去哪里，谁是第一个研究它的，又邀请了谁一起来研究。第四段是某科学家说这个物种很大程度是因为人类的活动死了很多。第五段是对猛玛象进行了什么研究，比如scan, 然后某科学家认为它死于某病，另一个人又有别的看法。最后一段讲baby mammoth所在的族群又被另外来自south Africa的族群replace了。 |
| 题型难度分析 | 这篇文章的难度比较高，除了段落信息配对，还有人名观点配对题，双配对题使得这篇文章的难度非常高，而且背景知识的缺乏也相应增加了这篇文章的难度。 |
| 题型技巧分析 | Detail Matching细节配对题 分类：人/物体/地点/时间&特点/描述/事件 人名→理论 段落→具体信息 特点：1）A: 当题目为专有名词、术语或物质名词时，题目一般遵循顺序原则 B: 当题目不是专有名词、术语或物质名词，而选项是时，题目一般不遵循顺序原则 2）答案是否会重复使用？取决于NB提示 3）做题方法：A: 当题目为专有名词、术语或物质名词时，根据题目在原文定位，理解原文对应内容并选出答案（着重考察对文章的理解） B: 当题目不是专有名词、术语或物质名词，而选项是时，在文章中把选项中所有的专有名词、术语或物质名词划出，然后在题目中划定位词在文章中定位。 注意：结构阅读法的运用 若某1-2题做不出来，可先做后面的题目，然后再返回来做 |
| 剑桥雅思推荐原文练习 | 剑4 Test 2 |
| Reading Passage 3 | |
| Title: | Four Drive Theory |
| Question types: | YES/NO/NOT GIVEN Sentence Completion Multiple Choice |
| 文章内容回顾 | four drive理论 (acquire, bond, comprehend & defend) 对人类行为的影响。 |
| 题型难度分析 | 本篇文章总体难度相对而言并不高，甚至比第二篇简单。建议考生在考试时不一定要遵循考试所给出的文章顺序。 |
| 题型技巧分析 | 单选 1. 题目在原文中出现的位置：顺序原则 2. 做题方法： 1）当题目中给出具体定位信息时： 根据题干定位题目在文章中的位置，然后把选项和原文内容做比较，排除法选答案。 2）当题目中没有提供具体定位信息时： 在选项中划定位词在文章中定位挨个排除。 |
| 剑桥雅思推荐原文练习 | 剑6 Test 3 |
| 考试趋势分析和备考指导： 本次雅思阅读考试出现了很多是非无判断题和细节配对题。接下来的雅思阅读考试题型很有可能将会出现判断题数量基本不变，配对题继续主流，其他题型绿叶衬红花的特点。所以考生们一定要重视这两种题型的复习。 未来几个月配对题数量将基本不变，依然主流。很多考生觉得配对题难，是因为这种题型的典型特点就是乱序，而且主要靠语言实力解题，只有读懂了才能把题目做对，这就决定了这种题目的难度，而这种题型最符合雅思阅读的考查目的（考查考生们定位所需信息并且理解的能力），因此特别受到考官的青睐。 应对策略：考生要特别注意主流题型的复习，同时也要注意非主流题型的复习，切不可因侥幸心理忽视了某种题型技巧的复习。同时考生们需要把握雅思考试的突出特点，即同近义替换原则，考生们在复习中要加强对同/近义词的掌握，并且加强长句短读的练习，提高阅读速度。 |
