雅思真题剑6Test1阅读Passage1真题及解析.docx

1、雅思真题剑6Test1阅读Passage1真题及解析【雅思真题】剑6Test1阅读Passage1真题及解析READING PASSAGE 1You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on Reading Passage 1 below.AUSTRALIAS SPORTING SUCCESSA They play hard, they play often, and they play to win. Australian sports teams win more than their fair

2、share of titles, demolishing rivals with seeming ease. How do they do it? A big part of the secret is an extensive and expensive network of sporting academies underpinned by science and medicine. At the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS), hundreds of youngsters and pros live and train under the eye

3、s of coaches. Another body, the Australian Sports Commission (ASC), finances programmes of excellence in a total of 96 sports for thousands of sportsmen and women. Both provide intensive coaching, training facilities and nutritional advice.B Inside the academies, science takes centre stage. The AIS

4、employs more than 100 sports scientists and doctors, and collaborates with scores of others in universities and research centres. AIS scientists work across a number of sports, applying skills learned in one - such as building muscle strength in golfers - to others, such as swimming and squash. They

5、 are backed up by technicians who design instruments to collect data from athletes. They all focus on one aim: winning. We cant waste our time looking at ethereal scientific questions that dont help the coach work with an athlete and improve performance, says Peter Fricker, chief of science at AIS.C

6、 A lot of their work comes down to measurement - everything from the exact angle of a swimmers dive to the second-by-second power output of a cyclist. This data is used to wring improvements out of athletes. The focus is on individuals, tweaking performances to squeeze an extra hundredth of a second

7、 here, an extra millimetre there. No gain is too slight to bother with. Its the tiny, gradual improvements that add up to world-beating results. To demonstrate how the system works, Bruce Mason at AIS shows off the prototype of a 3D analysis tool for studying swimmers. A wire-frame model of a champi

8、on swimmer slices through the water, her arms moving in slow motion. Looking side-on, Mason measures the distance between strokes. From above, he analyses how her spine swivels. When fully developed, this system will enable him to build a biomechanical profile for coaches to use to help budding swim

9、mers. Masons contribution to sport also includes the development of the SWAN (SWimming ANalysis)system now used in Australian national competitions. It collects images from digital cameras running at 50 frames a second and breaks down each part of a swimmers performance into factors that can be anal

10、ysed individually - stroke length, stroke frequency, average duration of each stroke, velocity, start, lap and finish times, and so on. At the end of each race, SWAN spits out data on each swimmerD Take a look, says Mason, pulling out a sheet of data. He points out the data on the swimmers in second

11、 and third place, which shows that the one who finished third actually swam faster. So why did he finish 35 hundredths of a second down? His turn times were 44 hundredths of a second behind the other guy, says Mason. If he can improve on his turns, he can do much better This is the kind of accuracy

12、that AIS scientists research is bringing to a range of sports.With the Cooperative Research Centre for Micro Technology in Melbourne, they are developing unobtrusive sensors that will be embedded in an athletes clothes or running shoes to monitor heart rate, sweating, heat production or any other fa

13、ctor that might have an impact on an athletes ability to run. Theres more to it than simply measuring performance. Fricker gives the example of athletes who may be down with coughs and colds 11 or 12 times a year. After years of experimentation, AlS and the University of Newcastle in New South Wales

14、 developed a test that measures how much of the immune-system protein immunoglobulin A is present in athletes saliva. If IgA levels suddenly fall below a certain level, training is eased or dropped altogether. Soon, IgA levels start rising again, and the danger passes. Since the tests were introduce

15、d, AIS athletes in all sports have been remarkably successful at staying healthy.E Using data is a complex business. Well before a championship, sports scientists and coaches start to prepare the athlete by developing a competition model, based on what they expect will be the winning times. You desi

16、gn the model to make that time, says Mason. A start of this much, each free-swimming period has to be this fast, with a certain stroke frequency and stroke length, with turns done in these times. All the training is then geared towards making the athlete hit those targets, both overall and for each

17、segment of the race. Techniques like these have transformed Australia into arguably the worlds most successful sporting nation.F Of course, theres nothing to stop other countries copying-and many have tried. Some years ago, the AIS unveiled coolant-lined jackets for endurance athletes. At the Atlant

18、a Olympic Games in 1996, these sliced as much as two per cent off cyclists and rowers times. Now everyone uses them. The same has happened to the altitude tent, developed by AIS to replicate the effect of altitude training at sea level. But Australias success story is about more than easily copied t

19、echnological fixes, and up to now no nation has replicated its all-encompassing system.Questions 1-7Reading Passage 1 has six paragraphs, A-F.Which paragraph contains the following information?Write the correct letter, A-F, in boxes 1-7 on your answer sheet.NB You may use any letter more than once.1

20、 a reference to the exchange of expertise between different sports2 an explanation of how visual imaging is employed in investigations3 a reason for narrowing the scope of research activity4 how some AIS ideas have been reproduced5 how obstacles to optimum achievement can be investigated6 an overvie

21、w of the funded support of athletes7 how performance requirements are calculated before an eventQuestions 8-11Classify the following techniques according to whether the writer states theyA are currently exclusively used by AustraliansB will be used in the future by AustraliansC are currently used by

22、 both Australians and their rivalsWrite the correct letter, A, B or C, in boxes 8-11 on your answer sheet.8 cameras9 sensors10 protein tests11 altitude tentsQuestions 12 and 13Answer the questions below.Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER from the passage for each answer.Write your answe

23、rs in boxes 12 and 13 on your answer sheet.12 What is produced to help an athlete plan their performance in an event?13 By how much did some cyclists performance improve at the 1996 Olympic Games?READING PASSAGE 1真题解析：篇章构造体裁 说明文主题 澳大利亚的体育成就构造 A段：澳大利亚体育成绩斐然 B段：科技是第一消费力C段：准确测量和数据分析 D段：准确测量和数据分析的实例E段：数

24、据的实际应用 F段：不可复制的成功必背词汇A段fair adj.合理的pro n.职业运发动demolish v.击败；破坏，毁坏 under the eye of 在的注意下rival n.竞争者，对手 body n.团体，机构seeming adj.外表上的(通常事实并非如此) finance v.给提供经费ease n.不费力，轻松 excellence n.优秀，卓越extensive adj.广泛的，涉及面广的 intensive adj.强化的underpin v.以为稳固根底 nutritional adj.营养的B段centre stage 中心地位 squash n.壁球co

25、llaborate v.合作 instrument n.仪器，器械golfer n.打高尔夫球的人 ethereal adj.飘渺的，引申为不实在际的C段come down to(sth.)可归结为 wire-frame adj.线框的second-by-second 每秒的 slice v.划开；切开output n.输出 slow motion 慢动作wringout of 原义为扭，榨取，此处引申为从中(经过努力)获得 side-on 从侧面stroke n.划动，划水tweak v.扭，用力拉 spine n.脊柱world-beating adj.举世瞩目的 swivel v.旋转p

26、rototype n.原型 biomechanical adj.生物力(学)的profile n.原义为轮廓、外形，此处意为模型 velocity n.速度，速率lap n.一圈budding adj.开展中的 spit out 原义是吐出，此处引申为显示出、分析出frame n.帧，画面D段turn time 转身时间 immunoglobulin n.免疫球蛋白unobtrusive adj.不显眼的，不醒目的 present adj.存在的sensor n.传感器 saliva n.唾液embed v.使插入；使嵌入 ease v.减轻，减弱sweat v.出汗，发汗 remarkabl

27、y adv.显著地，引人注目地；非常地experimentation n.实验，试验immune-system 免疫系统的E段complex adj.复杂的 transform v.转换，转变，改变championship n.冠军赛 arguably adv.可论证地(可辩论地)，有理由说地gear v.调整，(使)合适segment n.局部F段unveil v.展示(新产品)；揭开 altitude tent 高原帐篷coolant-lined 流线型散热 replicate v.复制endurance n.耐力；忍受力 encompass v.包含或包括某事物slice v.减少，降低

28、难句解析1. A lot of their work comes down to measurementeverything from the exact angle of a swimmers dive to the second-by-second power output of a cyclist.参考译文：许多工作都涉及详细测量，测量内容包括从游泳运发动潜水的准确角度到自行车运发动每秒功率输出的所有数据。语言点：come down to：归结为；涉及If a complicated situation or problem comes down to something, that i

29、s the single most important thingIt all comes down to money in the end.归根到底，一切都是因为钱。2. No gain is too slight to bother with.参考译文：无论多么微小的收获都值得为之努力。语言点：(1)tooto的用法：表示否认的含义，译为“太以致于不能。本句话虽然短，却因为有no否认词和tooto句型而出现了肯定的意思，因此要格外注意。可以根据“负负得正的原那么直接将原句翻译成肯定的意思，便于理解。(2)gain n.获得 C an advantage or improvement, es

30、pecially one achieved by planning or effort U&C an increase in the amount or level of something U financial profit, especially when this seems to be the only thing someone is interested in The party made considerable gains at local elections.该党派在地方选举中获得许多利益。(3) bother v. 努力做: to make the effort to d

31、o something (not) bother to do somethingHe didnt bother to answer the question. (not) bother about/withHe didnt bother with a reply. (not) bother doing somethingMany young people didnt bother voting.dont/didnt/wont etc. bother Do you want me to wait for you? No, dont bother.Why bother to go abroad w

32、hen there are so many nice places here?3. You design the model to make that time A start of this much, each free-swimming period has to be this fast, with a certain stroke frequency and stroke length, with turns done in these times.参考译文：人们设计一种形式以到达预期的速度，该形式规定了出发时间的长短、每次划水的速率、一定的划频和划距、转身所需的时间等等。注意：代词this和that，these等所指代的东西，需要通过上下文理解掌握。本句话中代词指的是“竞赛形式下所预期的时间、速度等。语言点：(1)stroke(划船，游泳等)一划