1、雅思阅读考题回顾精编雅思阅读考题回顾精编 5月18日雅思阅读考题回顾来源:朗阁培训中心编辑:xm发布日期: -05-27摘要:厦门朗阁培训中心为烤鸭们整理了5月18日雅思阅读考题回顾以及备考建议。考试日期: 5月18日 Reading Passage 1Title:Mobile Phones and Driving 开车接电话的危害Question types:简答题;TRUE/ FALSE/ NOT GIVEN(7题)文章内容回顾有四个实验,第一个实验仿佛是说都以为开车接电话不好,但到底有多不好还不知道,因此就有专家开始做实验,发现确实有212毫秒的误差;第二个实验是说,让实验者repeat
2、听到的东西,发现确实情况更加糟糕;第三个实验是说如果有人跟司机交谈,会不会也造成这种情况,然后实验结果发现如果讨论的是相关话题,司机反而会全神贯注;第四个实验不太清楚。然后最后两段讲这样做了之后的社会效应,和对开车打电话的惩罚。英文原文阅读The scientific literature on the dangers of driving while sending a text message from a mobile phone, or texting while driving, is limited. A simulation study at the Monash Univers
3、ity Accident Research Centre has provided strong evidence that both retrieving and, in particular, sending text messages has a detrimental effect on a number of critical driving tasks. Specifically, negative effects were seen in detecting and responding correctly to road signs, detecting hazards, ti
4、me spent with eyes off the road, and (only for sending text messages) lateral position. Surprisingly, mean speed, speed variability, lateral position when receiving text messages, and following distance showed no difference. A separate, yet unreleased simulation study at the University of Utah found
5、 a sixfold increase in distraction-related accidents when texting.The low number of scientific studies may be indicative of a general assumption that if talking on a mobile phone increases risk, then texting also increases risk, and probably more so. Market research by Pinger, a company selling a vo
6、ice-based alternative to texting reported that 89% of U.S. adults think that text messaging while driving is distracting, dangerous and should be outlawed. The AAAFoundation for Traffic Safety has released polling data that show that 87% of people consider texting and e-mailing while driving a very
7、serious safety threat, almost equivalent to the 90% of those polled who consider drunk driving a threat. Despite the acknowledgement of the dangers of texting behind the wheel, about half of drivers 16 to 24 say they have texted while driving, compared with 22 percent of drivers 35 to 44.Texting whi
8、le driving received greater attention in the late s, corresponding to a rise in the number of text messages being sent. Over a year approximately 2,000 teens die from texting while driving. Texting while driving attracted interest in the media after several highly publicized car crashes were caused
9、by texting drivers, including a May incident involving a Boston trolley car driver who crashed while texting his girlfriend. Texting was blamed in the Chatsworth train collision which killed 25 passengers. Investigations revealed that the engineer of that train had sent 45 text messages while operat
10、ing.On July 27, , the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute released preliminary findings of their study of driver distraction in commercial vehicles. Two studies, comprising about 200 long-haul trucks driving 3 million combined miles, used video cameras to observe the drivers and road; researchers
11、 observed 4,452 safety-critical events, which includes crashes, near crashes, crash-relevant conflicts, and unintended lane deviations. 81% of the safety critical events had some type of driver distraction. Text messaging had the greatest relative risk, with drivers being 23 times more likely to exp
12、erience a safety-critical event when texting. The study also found that drivers typically take their eyes off the forward roadway for an average of four out of six seconds when texting, and an average of 4.6 out of the six seconds surrounding safety-critical events.题型难度分析根据考生反映,第一篇不是很难。题型技巧分析是非无判断题是
13、雅思阅读考试的经典题型,首先应该注意看清是TRUE还是YES, 本篇是TRUE/ FALSE/ NOT GIVEN解题步骤:1. 速读问题的句子,找出考点词(容易有问题的部分)。考点词:比较级,最高级,数据(时间),程度副词,特殊形容词,绝对化的词(only, most, each, any, every, the same as等)2. 排除考点词,在余下的词中找定位词,去原文定位。3. 重点考察考点词是否有提及,是否正确。TRUE的原则是同义替换,至少有一组近义词。FALSE是题目和原文截然相反,不可共存,一般有至少一组反义词。NOT GIVEN原文未提及,不做任何推断,特别多考察题目的主
14、语等名词在原文是否有提及。剑桥雅思推荐原文练习剑4 Test 1 Passage 1剑5 Test 3 Passage 1 Reading Passage 2Title:两种蚂蚁的分类(V090711/V120428旧文)Question types:Multiple Choice;Which paragraph contains the following information;Detail Matching文章内容回顾讲一种蚂蚁和真菌共生。先讲它们的一些基本情况,然后说这类蚂蚁其实也有很多分类,比如说A和B, 然后用一段在讲A和B的区别。然后就有科学家做实验,因为发现了这类共生的真菌基因
15、的独特性正在降低。有个人做实验,但限于当时的分子生物学技术,她没有成功,但指明了一些方向。后来人们发现共生菌有个宿敌,是某种病毒,事实上是病毒驱使共生蚂蚁和细菌成为现在这种情况的。英文原文阅读Ants are social insects of the family Formicidae (pron.:/f?r?m?s?di?/) and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera. Ants evolved from wasp-like ancestors in the mid-Cretace
16、ous period between 110 and 130 million years ago and diversified after the rise of flowering plants. More than 12,500 out of an estimated total of 22,000species have been classified. They are easily identified by their elbowed antennae and a distinctive node-like structure that forms a slender waist.Ants form colonies that range in size from a few dozen predatory individuals l
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