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雅思阅读模拟试题及参考答案

雅思阅读模拟试题及参考答案

雅思阅读模拟试题及参考答案第一篇试题1. 根据文章,下列哪个陈述是正确的?A. 研究显示,电子设备使用对儿童的发展没有任何负面影响。

B. 儿童使用电子设备越多,他们的社交技能就越好。

C. 儿童使用电子设备会导致面部表情能力的退化。

D. 儿童使用电子设备的时间越长,他们的注意力就越集中。

2. 从文章中可以推断出什么?A. 青少年现在比以前更喜欢户外活动。

B. 大多数青少年每天使用电子设备超过五个小时。

C. 电子设备对青少年的学习成绩没有任何影响。

D. 青少年对电子设备的使用并不感到有罪恶感。

参考答案1. C2. B第二篇试题1. 从文章中可以推断出什么?A. 女性企业家比男性企业家更成功。

B. 女性企业家的工作时间比男性企业家更长。

C. 女性企业家通常在家庭和事业之间取得平衡。

D. 女性企业家比男性企业家更有创造力。

2. 根据文章,下列哪个陈述是正确的?A. 女性企业家的成功很大程度上取决于她们的家庭支持。

B. 现代女性企业家比过去更受到鼓励和支持。

C. 女性企业家在创业过程中面临更多障碍。

D. 女性企业家的成功主要归功于她们的教育背景。

参考答案1. C2. C第三篇试题1. 根据文章,下列哪个陈述是错误的?A. 生活在城市中的人更容易受到空气污染的影响。

B. 城市居民的健康状况普遍比农村居民更差。

C. 长期暴露在空气污染中可能导致呼吸系统疾病。

D. 空气质量对人们的心理健康没有影响。

2. 从文章中可以推断出什么?A. 空气污染对于城市居民来说是不可避免的。

B. 空气质量对于人们的生活质量非常重要。

C. 农村地区的空气质量比城市地区好。

D. 空气污染主要由工业排放引起。

参考答案1. B2. B注意事项请注意,以上参考答案仅供参考,具体情况还需根据文章内容进行判断。

雅思阅读考前模拟题附答案

雅思阅读考前模拟题附答案

雅思阅读考前模拟题附答案为了帮助考生更好地备战雅思阅读考试,我们精心准备了一份雅思阅读考前模拟题,并提供了详细的答案解析。

以下是模拟题的内容及答案。

一、多项选择题阅读以下文章,回答问题。

文章:问题:1. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?A. The Internet has no influence on our daily life.B. The excessive use of the Internet leads to negative consequences.C. The Internet is not used for entertainment purposes.答案:B. The excessive use of the Internet leads to negative consequences.二、判断题阅读以下文章,判断句子是否正确。

文章:Technological advancements have significantly changed the way we live and work. Automation and artificial intelligence have replaced many traditional jobs, leading to concerns about unemployment.问题:1. The Internet has no influence on the way we live and work.2. Technological advancements have led to an increase in unemployment.答案:1. FALSE (The Internet has a significant influence on the way we live and work.)2. TRUE (Technological advancements have led to concerns about unemployment.)三、填空题阅读以下文章,完成句子。

雅思考试阅读模拟试题及答案解析一(1篇)

雅思考试阅读模拟试题及答案解析一(1篇)

雅思考试阅读模拟试题及答案解析一(1篇)雅思考试阅读模拟试题及答案解析一 1New evidence has linked a monly prescribed sleep medication with bizarre behaviours,including a case in which a woman painted her front door in her sleep.UK and Australian health agencies have released information about 240 cases of odd occurrences,including sleepwalking,amnesia and hallucinations among people taking the drug zolpidem.While doctors say that zolpidem can offer much-needed relief for people with sleep disorders,they caution that these newly reported cases should prompt a closer look at its possible side effects.Zolpidem,sold under the brand names Ambien,Stilnoct and Stilnox,is widely prescribed to treat insomnia and other disorders such as sleep apnea. Various forms of the drug,made by French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi-Aventis,were prescribed 674,500 times in 2005 in the UK.A newly published report from Australia’s Federal Health Department describes 104 cases of hallucinations and 62 cases of amnesia experienced by people taking zolpidem since marketing of the drug began there in 2000. The health department report also mentioned 16 cases of strangesleepwalking by people taking the medication.Midnight snackIn one of these sleepwalking cases a patient woke with a paintbrush in her hand after painting the front door to her house. Another case involved a woman who gained 23 kilograms over seven months while taking zolpidem. “It was only when she was discovered in front of an open refrigerator while asleep that the problem was resolved,” according to the re port.The UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency,meanwhile,has recorded 68 cases of adverse reactions to zolpidem from 2001 to 2005.The newly reported cases in the UK and Australia add to a growing list of bizarre sleepwalking episodes linked to the drug in other countries,including reports of people sleep-driving while on the medication. In one case,a transatlantic flight had to be diverted after a passenger caused havoc after takingzolpidem.Hypnotic effectsThere is no biological pathway that has been proven to connect zolpidem with these behaviours. The drug is a benzodiazepine-like hypnotic that promotes deep sleep by interacting with brain receptors for a chemical called gamma-aminobutyric acid. While parts of the brain e less active during deep sleep,the body can still move,making sleepwalking a possibility.The product information for prescribers advises that psychiatric adverse effects,including hallucinations,sleepwalking and nightmares,are more likely in the elderly,and treatment should be stopped if they occur.Patient advocacy groups say they would like government health agencies and drug panies to take a closer look at the possible risks associated with sleep medicines. They stress that strange sleepwalking and sleep-driving behaviours can have risky consequences.“When people do something in which they’re not in full control it’s always a danger,” says Vera Sharav of the New York-based Alliance for Human Research Protection,a US networkthat advocates responsible and ethical medical research practices.Tried and tested“The more reports that e out about the potential side effects of the drug,the more research needs to be done to understand if these are real side effects,” says sle ep researcher Kenneth Wright at the University of Colorado in Boulder,US.Millions of people have taken the drug without experiencing any strange side effects,points out Richard Millman at Brown Medical School,director of the Sleep Disorders Center of Lifespan Hospitals in Providence,Rhode Island,US. He says that unlike older types of sleep medications,zolpidem does not carry as great a risk of addiction.And Wright notes that some of the reports of “sleep-driving” linked to zolpidem can be easily explained:some patients have wrongly taken the drug right before leaving work in hopes that the medicine will kick in by the time they reach home. Doctors stress that the medication should be taken just before going to bed.The US Food Drug Administration says it is continuing to “actively investigate" and collect information about cases linking zolpidem to unusual side effects.The Ambien label currently lists strange behaviour as a “special concern” for people taking the drug. “It’s a possi ble rare adverse event,” says Sanofi-Aventis spokesperson Melissa Feltmann,adding that the strange sleepwalking behaviours “may not necessarily be caused by the drug” but instead result from an underlying disorder. She says that “the safety profile [of zo lpidem] is well established”. The drug received approval in the US in 1993.Questions 1-6Do the following statements agree with the information given in the reading passage?In boxes 1-6 on your answer sheet writeTRUE if the statement is true according to the passageFALSE if the statement is false according to the passageNOT GIVEN if the information is not given in the passage1. Ambien,Stilnoct and Stilnox are brand names of one same drug treating insomnia.2. The woman’s obesity problem wasn’t resolved until she stopped taking zolpidem.3. Zolpidem received approval in the UK in 2001.4. The bizarre behaviour of a passenger after taking zolpidem resulted in the diversion of a flight bound for the otherside of the Atlantic.5. Zolpidem is the only sleep medication that doesn’t cause addiction.6. The sleep-driving occurrence resulted from the wrong use of zolpidem by an office worker.Question 7-9Choose the appropriate letters A-D and Write them in boxes 7-9 on your answer sheet.7. How many cases of bizarre behaviours are described in an official report from Australia?A. 68B. 104C. 182D. 2408. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the product information about zolpidem?A. Treatment should be stopped if side effects occur.B. Medication should be taken just before going to bed.C. Adverse effects are more likely in the elderly.D. Side effects include nightmares,hallucinations and sleepwalking.9. Who claimed that the safety description of zolpidem waswell established?A. Kenneth WrightB. Melissa FeltmannC. Richard MillmanD. Vera SharavQuestions 10-13Answer the following questions with NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS each in boxes 10-13.10. How many times was French-made zolpidem prescribed in 2005 in Britain?11. What kind of hypnotic is zolpidem as a drug which promotes deep sleep in patients?12. What can sleepwalking and sleep-driving behaviours cause according to patient advocacy groups?13. What US administration says that it has been investigating the cases relating zolpidem to unusual side effects? Answer keys and explanations:1. TrueSee para.3 from the beginning:Zolpidem,sold under the brand names Ambien,Stilnoct and Stilnox,is widely prescribed to treat insomnia and other disorders such as sleep apnea.2. FalseSee para.1 under the subtitle “Midnight snack”:Another case involved a woman who gained 23 kilograms over seven months while taking z olpidem. “It was only when she was discovered in front of an open refrigerator while asleep that the problem was resolved”。

详细解答雅思阅读模拟试题

详细解答雅思阅读模拟试题

详细解答雅思阅读模拟试题试题一:词汇理解(20分钟)阅读以下段落,然后回答问题。

段落:问题:1. What is the main idea of the paragraph?2. According to the paragraph, what are the advantages and disadvantages of the Internet?{content}试题二:长篇阅读(40分钟)阅读以下文章,然后回答问题。

文章:The Impact of Social Media on Teenagers问题:1. What is the main topic of the article?2. According to the article, what are the potential negative effects of excessive social media use among teenagers?{content}试题三:信息匹配(20分钟)阅读以下段落,然后匹配每个段落与其主题。

段落:1. The Internet has changed the way we access information. We can now find answers to our questions with just a few clicks.2. Social media platforms often promote unrealistic lifestyles and beauty standards, which can lead to feelings of inadequacy and pressure among users.主题:A. The advantages of the InternetB. The disadvantages of the InternetC. The impact of social media on teenagersD. Online privacy concerns{content}答案解析试题一答案解析1. The main idea of the paragraph is to discuss the role of the Internet in our daily lives and the challenges it poses.试题二答案解析1. The main topic of the article is the impact of social media on teenagers.2. The potential negative effects of excessive social media use among teenagers mentioned in the article are low self-esteem, depression, and addiction.试题三答案解析1. Paragraph 1 matches with theme A (The advantages of the Internet) as it discusses the ease of accessing information online.2. Paragraph 2 matches with theme C (The impact of social media on teenagers) as it discusses the negative effects of social media on users' self-image.3. Paragraph 3 matches with theme D (Online privacy concerns) as it discusses the issue of personal data collection and privacy.希望以上解答对您有所帮助,如有任何疑问,请随时提问。

雅思阅读练习题(打印版)

雅思阅读练习题(打印版)

雅思阅读练习题(打印版)题目一:环境变化对生物多样性的影响问题:1. 环境变化对生物种群的总体影响是什么?2. 为什么某些物种能够适应环境变化而其他物种则不能?3. 人类活动如何影响生物多样性?4. 保护生物多样性的措施有哪些?题目二:教育对个人发展的重要性问题:1. 教育如何影响个人的职业发展?2. 教育对于社会经济发展的作用是什么?3. 为什么终身学习是现代社会的一个重要趋势?4. 教育不平等问题如何解决?题目三:城市化进程中的挑战问题:1. 城市化给环境带来了哪些挑战?2. 城市化如何影响社会结构?3. 城市化进程中,政府应如何平衡经济发展与居民生活质量?4. 城市化对农村地区的影响有哪些?题目四:健康生活方式的重要性问题:1. 健康生活方式对于预防疾病的作用是什么?2. 为什么运动是健康生活方式的重要组成部分?3. 健康饮食的重要性体现在哪些方面?4. 如何克服不良生活习惯,培养健康的生活方式?题目五:科技在教育中的应用问题:1. 科技如何改变传统的教育模式?2. 在线教育与传统教育相比有哪些优势和劣势?3. 科技在教育中应用的挑战有哪些?4. 如何确保科技在教育中的有效应用?题目六:气候变化的全球影响问题:1. 气候变化对全球经济的潜在影响是什么?2. 气候变化如何影响农业和粮食安全?3. 应对气候变化的国际合作现状如何?4. 个人和社区如何参与到应对气候变化的行动中?题目七:社交媒体对人际关系的影响问题:1. 社交媒体如何改变人们的交流方式?2. 社交媒体对青少年心理健康的影响是什么?3. 社交媒体在社会运动中的作用有哪些?4. 如何平衡社交媒体的使用与现实生活的联系?题目八:旅游业对经济和文化的影响问题:1. 旅游业对当地经济的促进作用是什么?2. 旅游业如何影响文化遗产的保护?3. 旅游业对环境的负面影响有哪些?4. 可持续旅游的概念及其重要性是什么?请根据以上题目进行阅读练习,注意理解文章主旨,掌握细节信息,并能够回答相关问题。

雅思阅读模拟试题

雅思阅读模拟试题

雅思阅读模拟试题雅思阅读模拟试题精选阅读是雅思考试中非常重要的部分,很多考生阅读成绩不是很理想,在这方面考生们既要加强自己的词汇量和语法知识,同时也要多加练习。

Education PhilosophyAIn 1660s, while there are few accurate statistics for child mortality in the preinduslrial world, there is evidence that as many as 30 percent of all children died before they were 14 days old. Few families survived intact. All parents expected to bury some of their children and they found it difficult to invest emotionally in such a tenuous existence as a newborn child. When the loss of a child was commonplace, parents protected themselves from the emotional consequences of the death by refusing to make an emotional commitment to the infant. How else can we explain mothers who call the infant or leave dying babies in gutters, or mention the death of a child in the same paragraph with a reference to pickles?BOne of the most important social changes to take place in the Western world in 18th century was the result of the movement from an agrarian economy to an industrial one. Increasingly, families left the farms and their small-town life and moved to cities where life was very different for them. Social supports that had previously existed in the smaller community disappeared, and problems of poverty, crime, sub-standard housing and disease increased. For the poorest children, childhood could be painfully short, as additional income was needed to help support the family and young children were forced into early employment. Children as young as 7 might berequired to work full-time jobs, often under unpleasant and unhealthy circumstances, from factories to prostitution. Although such a role for children has disappeared in most economically strong nations, the practice of childhood employment has hardly disappeared entirely and remains a staple (主要的)in many undeveloped nations.COver the course of the 1800s, the lives of children in the Unites States began to change drastically. Previously, children in both rural and urban families were expected to take part in the everyday labor of the home, as the bulk of manual work had to be completed there. However, establishing a background the technological advances of the mid-1800s, coupled with the creation of a middle class and the redefinition of roles of family members, meant that work and home became less synonymous(同义的)over the course of time. People began to buy their children toys and books to read. As the country slowly becamemore dependent upon machines for work, both in rural and in urban areas, it became less necessary for children to work inside the home. This trend, which had been rising slowly over the course of the nineteenth century, look off exponentially after the Civil War, with the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. John Locke was one of the most influential writers of his period. His writings on the role of government are seen as foundational to many political movements and activities, including the American Revolution and the drafting of theDeclaration of Independence. His ideas are equally foundational to several areas of psychology. As the father of “British empiricism,” Locke made the first clear and comprehensive statement of the “environmental position” and, by so doing, became the fatherof modern learning theory. His teachings about child care were highly regarded during the colonial period in America.DJean Jacquesd Rousseau lived during an era of the American and French Revolution. His works condemn distinctions of wealth, property, and prestige. In the original state of nature, according to Rousseau, people were "noble savages", innocent, free and uncorrupted. Rousseau conveyed his educational philosophy through his famous novel Emile, in 1762, which tells the story of a boy's education from infancy to adulthood. Rousseau observed children and adolescents extensively and spoke of children's individuality, but he based much of his developmental theory on observation in writing the book, and on the memories of his own childhood. Rousseau contrasts children to Developmental Psychology in Historical Perspective adults and describes age-specific characteristics. Johan Heinrich Pestalozzi lived during the early stages of industrial revolution, he sought to develop schools would nurture children's development. He agreed with Rousseau that humans are naturally good but were spoiled by a corrupt society. Pestalozzi's approach to teaching can be divided into the general and special methods. The theory was designed to create an emotionally healthy homelike learning environment that had to be in place before more specific instruction occurred.EOne of the best documented cases of all the so-called feral children concerned a young man who was captured in a small town in the south of France in 1800, and who was later named Victor. The young man had been seen in the area for months before his final capture - pre-pubescent, mute, and naked, perhaps 11 or 12 years old, foraging for food in the gardens of the locals and sometimes accepting their direct offers of food.Eventually he was brought to Paris, where itwas hoped that he would be able to answer some of the profound questions about the nature of man, but that goal was quashed very early. Jean-Marc-Gaspard Itard, a young physician who had become interested in working with the deaf, was more optimistic about a future for Victor and embarked on a five-year plan of education to civilize him and teach him to speak. With a subsidy from the government, Itard spent an enormous amount of time and effort working with Victor. He was able to enlist the help of a local woman, Madame Gu erin, to assist in his efforts and provide a semblance of a home for Victor. But, after five years and despite all of his efforts, Hard considered the experiment to be a failure. Although Victor had learned some elementary forms of communication, he never learned the basics of speech, which, for Itard, was the goal. Victor's lessons were discontinued, although he continued to live with Madame Gu erin until his death, approximately at the age of 40.FOther educators were beginning to respond to the simple truth that was embedded in the philosophy of Rousseau. Identifying the stages of development of children was not enough. Education had to be geared to those stages. One of the early examples of this approach was the invention of the kindergarten (“the children’s garden”)- a word and a movement created by Friedrich Froebel in 1840, a German-born educator. Froebel placed particular emphasis on the importance of play in a child's learning. His invention, in different forms, would eventually find its way around the world. His ideas about education were initially developed through his association with Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi. Froebel spent five years teaching at one of Pestalozzi's model schools in Frankfurt, and later hestudied with Pestalozzi himself. Eventually he was able to open his own schools to test his educational theories. One of his innovative ideas was his belief that women could serve as appropriate educators of young children - an unpopular view at the time. At the age of 58, after almost four decades as a teacher, Froebel introduced the notion of the kindergarten. It was to be a haven and a preparation for children who were about to enter the regimented educational system. A cornerstone of his kindergarten education was the use of guided or structured play. For Froebel, play was the most significant aspect of development at this time of life. Play served as the means for a child to grow emotionally and to achieve a sense of self-worth, the role of the teacher was to organize materials and a structured environment in which each child, as an individual, could achieve these goals. By the time of Froebel’s death in 1852, dozens of kinde rgartens had been created in Germany. Their use increased in Europe and the movement eventually reached and flourised in the United States in 20th century.Questions 28-31The reading passage has seven paragraphs, A-EChoose the correct heading for paragraphs A-E from the list below.Write the correct number, i-vii, in boxes 28-31 on your answer sheet.List of Headingsi Reasons of unusual experiments implemented by several thinkersii Children had to work to alleviate burden on familyiii Why children are not highly valuediv Children died in hospital at their early agev Politics related philosophy appearedvi Creative learning method was applied on certain wild kid vii Emerge and spread of called kindergarten28 Paragraph AExampleParagraph B ii Children have to work29 Paragraph C30 Paragraph D31 Paragraph EQuestions 32-35Use the information in the passage to match the time (listed A-C) with correct event below. Write the appropriate letters A-F in boxes 32-35 on your answer sheet.A 18th centuryB 19th centuryC 20th century32 need for children to work33 rise of middle class34 emergence of a kindergarten35 the kindergarten in the spread around USQuestions 36-40Use the information in the passage to match the people (listed A-D) with opinions or deeds below. Write the appropriate letters A-D in boxes 36-40 on your answer sheet.A Jean Jacquesd RousseauB Jean-Marc-Gaspard ItardC Johan Heinrich PestalozziD Friedrich Froebel36 was not successful to prove the theory37 observed a child's record38 requested a study setting with emotional comfort firstly39 corruption is not a characteristic in people's nature40 responsible fo篇章结构体裁科普说明文题目儿童教育哲学与历史结构A:为何父母并不是十分重视孩子B:孩子们需要工作,以减轻对家庭的负担C:中产阶级富足的生活的出现,促进了政治相关的哲学的出现D:几个思想家进行的研究以及结论和整个的分析E:创造性的学习方式被应用在几个野孩子的教育之中F:幼儿园理论的整个发展和传播试题分析Question 1-。

雅思阅读模拟练习题及答案

雅思阅读模拟练习题及答案

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Birthdays often involve surprises. But this year‘s surprise on the birthdayof the great British playwright William Shakespeare is surely one of the mostdramatic. On April 22, one day before his 441st birthday anniversary, expertsdiscovered that one of the most recognizable portraits of William Shakespeare isa fake. This means that we no longer have a good idea of what Shakespeare lookedlike. "It‘s very possible that many pictures of Shakespeare might be unreliablebecause many of them are copies of this one," said an expert from Britain’sNational Portrait Gallery. The discovery comes after four months of testing using X-rays, ultravioletlight, microphotography and paint samples. The experts from the gallery say theimage—commonly known as the “Flower portrait” —was actually painted in the1800s, about two centuries after Shakespeare‘s death. The art experts who workat the gallery say they also used modern chemistry technology to check the painton the picture. These checks found traces of paint dating from about 1814.Shakespeare died in 1616, and the date that appears on the portrait is 1609. “We now think the portrait dates back to around 1818 to 1840. This was whenthere was a renewed interest in Shakespeare‘s plays,” Tarnya Cooper, thegallery’s curator(馆长), told the Associated President. The fake picture has often been used as a cover for collections of hisplays. It is called the Flower portrait because one of its owners, DesmondFlower, gave it to the Royal Shakespeare Company. “There have always been questions about the painting,” said David Howells,curator for the Royal Shakespeare Company. “Now we know the truth, we can putthe image in its proper place in the history of Shakespearean portraiture.” Two other images of Shakespeare, are also being studied as part of theinvestigation(调查) and the results will come out later this month. ______________________________________________________________. 1. Why this year‘s surprise on the birthday of Shakespeare is dramatic? _______________________________________________________________________________ 2. Now we know what Shakespeare looked like. (T/F) 3. “Flower portrait” was actually painted using X-rays, ultraviolet light,microphotography and paint samples. (T/F) 4. In history, many people doubted the painting. (T/F) 5.Which is the best sentence to fill in the blank in the lastparagraph? A.Soon we‘ll know which portrait is reliable. B.Maybe we cannot find a real portrait of Shakespeare. C.If the two portraits are found to be false, they will test more. D.For now what Shakespeare really looked like will remain a mystery.1. The Flower portrait has been found to be a fake.2. F3. F4. T5. D。

雅思模拟测试题及答案

雅思模拟测试题及答案

雅思模拟测试题及答案一、听力部分1. 根据所听对话,选择正确答案。

A. 去图书馆B. 去电影院C. 去超市D. 去公园[答案] B2. 根据所听短文,回答以下问题:Q: 演讲者提到了哪些地方的旅游胜地?A. 巴黎B. 纽约C. 伦敦D. 悉尼[答案] C二、阅读部分1. 阅读以下段落,判断以下陈述是否正确。

陈述一:文中提到了三种不同的学习方法。

陈述二:作者认为自学是最有效的学习方式。

[答案] 陈述一:正确;陈述二:错误。

2. 根据文章内容,选择最佳标题。

A. 学习方法的比较B. 学习环境的重要性C. 学习工具的选择D. 学习时间的管理[答案] A三、写作部分1. 请根据以下图表,写一篇不少于150字的报告,描述该地区的人口变化趋势。

[范文]根据图表显示,该地区在过去十年中经历了显著的人口增长。

2005年,人口数量为500,000,而到了2015年,人口数量增长至750,000。

这种增长趋势反映了该地区经济的快速发展和生活条件的改善。

预计未来几年,人口数量将继续增长。

2. 请针对以下问题写一篇议论文,阐述你的观点。

问题:是否应该在城市中禁止使用私家车?[范文]私家车在城市中的使用带来了诸多问题,如交通拥堵和环境污染。

然而,私家车也为人们的出行提供了便利。

我认为,应该通过提高公共交通的效率和鼓励使用环保车辆来逐步减少私家车的使用,而不是立即禁止。

四、口语部分1. 描述你最喜欢的一项运动,并解释为什么喜欢它。

[答案]我最喜欢的运动是游泳。

我喜欢游泳,因为它是一项全身运动,可以锻炼身体的各个部位。

此外,游泳还能帮助我放松心情,减轻压力。

2. 讨论一下你如何看待社交媒体对青少年的影响。

[答案]社交媒体对青少年有着复杂的影响。

一方面,它为青少年提供了与朋友交流和获取信息的平台。

另一方面,过度使用社交媒体可能导致青少年沉迷于虚拟世界,影响他们的学习和社交能力。

因此,家长和学校应该引导青少年合理使用社交媒体。

雅思模拟考试题及答案

雅思模拟考试题及答案

雅思模拟考试题及答案一、听力部分1. 根据所听对话,选择正确的答案。

A. 火车将在10分钟后到达。

B. 火车已经晚点了20分钟。

C. 火车将在30分钟后出发。

答案:B2. 根据所听对话,选择正确的答案。

A. 男士建议女士去看医生。

B. 女士建议男士去看医生。

C. 两人都同意去看医生。

答案:A二、阅读部分Passage 1阅读以下短文,并回答以下问题。

The history of the bicycle can be traced back to the early 19th century, when it was first invented as a means of transportation. Over the years, the bicycle has evolved from a simple wooden frame to a complex machine with gears and brakes.3. 根据短文,自行车的历史可以追溯到哪个世纪?A. 18th centuryB. 19th centuryC. 20th century答案:B4. 短文中提到自行车最初是由什么制成的?A. 金属B. 木头C. 塑料答案:BPassage 2阅读以下短文,并回答以下问题。

Many people believe that the internet has changed the way we communicate. With the advent of social media, people can now share their thoughts and experiences with others instantly.5. 根据短文,互联网改变了什么?A. 我们的工作方式B. 我们的沟通方式C. 我们的学习方式答案:B6. 短文中提到的社交媒体允许人们做什么?A. 立即分享他们的想法和经历B. 与朋友面对面交流C. 通过邮件发送信息答案:A三、写作部分Task 1根据所给图表,描述以下趋势。

雅思阅读TFNG模拟试题含答案

雅思阅读TFNG模拟试题含答案

雅思阅读T/F/NG模拟试题含答案(1)True/False/Not Given ExercisesWhen was the last time you saw a frog? Chances are, if you live in a city, you have not seen one for some time. Even in wet areas once teeming with frogs and toads, it is BEComing less and less easy to find those slimy, hopping and sometimes poisonous members of the animal kingdom. All over the world, and even in remote parts of Australia, frogs are losing the ecological battle for survival, and biologists are at a loss to explain their demise. Are amphibians simply oversensitive to changes in the ecosystem? Could it be that their rapid decline in numbers is signaling some coming environmental disaster for us all? This frightening scenario is in part the consequence of a dramatic increase over the last quarter century in the development of once natural areas of wet marshland; home not only to frogs but to all manner of wildlife. However, as yet, there are no obvious reasons why certain frog species are disappearing from rainforests in Australia that have barely been touched by human hand. The mystery is unsettling to say the least, for it is known that amphibian species are extremely sensitive to environmental variations in temperature and moisture levels. The danger is that planet Earth might not only lose a vital link in the ecological food chain (frogs keep populations of otherwise pestilent insects at manageable levels), but we might be increasing our output of air pollutants to levels that may have already become irreversible. Frogs could be inadvertently warning us of a catastrophe.An example of a species of frog that, at far as is known, has become extinct, is the platypus frog. Like the well-known Australian mammal it was named after, it exhibited some very strange behaviour; instead of giving birth to tadpoles in the water, it raised its young within its stomach. The baby frogs were actually born from out of their mother's mouth. Discovered in 1981, less than ten years later the frog had completely vanished from the crystal clear waters of Booloumba Creek near Queensland's SunshineCoast. Unfortunately, this freak of nature is not the only frog species to have been lost in Australia. Since the 1970s, no less than eight others have suffered the same fate.One theory that seems to fit the facts concerns the depletion of the ozone layer, a well documented phenomenon which has led to a sharp increase in ultraviolet radiation levels.The ozone layer is meant to shield the Earth from UV rays, but increased radiation may be having a GREater effect upon frog populations than previously believed. Another theory is that worldwide temperature increases are upsetting the breeding cycles of frogs.TRUE/FALSE/NOT GIVEN1.Frogs are disappearing only from city areas.2.Frogs and toads are usually poisonous.3.Biologists are unable to explain why frogs are dying.4.The frogs' natural habitat is becoming more and more developed.5.Attempts are being madebecause they control pests.7.The platypus frog became extinct by 1991.8.Frogs usually give birth to their young in an underwater nest.9.Eight frog species have become extinct so far in Australia.10.There is convincing evidence that the ozone layer is being depleted.11.It is a fact that frogs' breeding cycles are upset by worldwide in creases in temperature.Answer Keys1.F 2.F 3.T 4.T 5.NG 6.T 7.T 8.NG 9.F 10.T 11.F雅思阅读T/F/NG模拟试题含答案(2)Practice 2Almost everyone with or without a computer is aware of the latest technological revolution destined to change forever the way in which humans communicate, namely, the Information Superhighway, best exemplified by the ubiquitous Internet. Already, millions of people around the world are linked by computer simply by having a modem and an address on the `Net', in much the same way that owning a telephone links us to almost anyone who pays a phone bill. In fact, since the computer connections are made via the phone line, the Internet can be envisaged as a network of visual telephone links. It remains to seen in which direction the Information Superhighway is headed, but many believeit is the educational hope of the future.The World Wide Web, an enormous collection of Internet addresses or sites, all of which can be accessed for information, has been mainly responsible for the increase in interest in the Internet in the 1990s. Before the World Wide Web, the `Net' was comparable to an integrated collection of computerized typewriters, but the introduction of the `Web' in 1990 allowed not only text links to be made but also graphs, images and even video.A Web site consists of a `home page', the first screen of a particular site on the computer to which you are connected, from where access can be had to other subject related `pages'(or screens) at the site and on thousands of other computers all over the world. This is achieved by a process called `hypertext'. By clicking with a mouse device on various parts of the screen, a person connected to the `Net' can go traveling, or surfing' through a of the screen, a person connected to the `Net' can go traveling, or `surfing' through a web of pages to locate whatever information is required.Anyone can set up a site; promoting your club, your institution, your company's products or simply yourself, is what the Web and the Internet is all about. And what is more, information on the Internet is not owned or controlled by any one organization. It is, perhaps, true to say that no one and therefore everyone owns the `Net'. BECause of the relative freedom of access to information, the Internet has often been criticised by the media as a potentially hazardous tool in the hands of young computer users. This perception has proved to be largely false however,for the dual purposes for which it was intended - discovery and delight.TRUE/FALSE/NOT GIVEN1.Everyone is aware of the Information Superhighway.ing the Internet costs the owner of a telephone extra money.3.Internet computer connections are made by using telephone lines.4.The World Wide Web is a network of computerised typewriters.5.According to the author, the Information Superhighway may be the future hope of education.6.The process called`hypertext'requires the use of a mouse device.7.The Internet was created in the 1990s.8.The `home page'is the first screen of a `Web'site on the `Net'.9.The media has often criticised the Internet because it is dangerous.10. The latest technological revolution will change the way humans communicate.Answer Keys1.F2.NG3.T4.F5.T6.T7.F8.T9.F 10.T。

详细解答雅思阅读模拟试题

详细解答雅思阅读模拟试题

详细解答雅思阅读模拟试题一、题目1解答:题目:根据文章,下列哪项陈述是正确的?选项:A. 人类的智力在过去的几千年中没有发生变化。

B. 人类的智力在过去的几千年中有所下降。

C. 人类的智力在过去的几千年中有所提高。

D. 人类的智力在过去的几千年中有所波动。

解答:根据文章内容,我们可以得出正确答案为C,即人类的智力在过去的几千年中有所提高。

文章提到了人类智力的发展和进化,并且指出了人类智力在历史上的不断演化和提高。

二、题目2解答:题目:根据文章,下列哪项陈述是错误的?选项:A. 大脑的大小与智力水平成正比。

B. 教育对智力发展起到重要作用。

C. 智力的遗传因素主导了人类智力的发展。

D. 社会环境对智力发展有一定影响。

解答:根据文章内容,我们可以得出错误答案为A,即大脑的大小与智力水平成正比。

文章提到了大脑的大小与智力水平之间并没有直接的正比关系,而是有很多其他复杂的因素影响智力的发展。

三、题目3解答:题目:根据文章,下列哪项陈述是正确的?选项:A. 遗传因素是唯一影响智力的因素。

B. 教育对智力的发展没有任何作用。

C. 大脑的发育与智力水平无关。

D. 社会环境对智力的发展有重要影响。

解答:根据文章内容,我们可以得出正确答案为D,即社会环境对智力的发展有重要影响。

文章提到了智力发展受到遗传因素和社会环境的共同影响,社会环境对智力的发展起到了重要作用。

四、题目4解答:题目:根据文章,下列哪项陈述是错误的?选项:A. 人类的智力在过去的几百年中发生了显著变化。

B. 大脑的发育和智力的发展是相关的。

C. 教育对智力的发展起到了关键作用。

D. 遗传因素对智力的发展有一定影响。

解答:根据文章内容,我们可以得出错误答案为A,即人类的智力在过去的几百年中发生了显著变化。

文章提到了人类智力的发展和进化是一个长期的过程,并没有明确提及过去几百年中智力的变化。

五、题目5解答:题目:根据文章,下列哪项陈述是正确的?选项:A. 大脑大小是决定智力水平的唯一因素。

雅思考试模拟试题及答案(阅读部分

雅思考试模拟试题及答案(阅读部分

雅思考试模拟试题及答案(阅读部分雅思考试模拟试题及答案(阅读部分)以下是应届毕业生网店铺为同学们收集雅思考试模拟试题及答案(阅读部分),供大家参考!1.Everyone in a particular society recognizes social roles: father, mother, child, teacher, student, police officer, store clerk, doctor, judge, political leader, and so on. Every culture expects certain types of behavior from people who play certain social roles. Anyone occupying a given position is expected to adopt a specific attitude. A store clerk is expected to take care of customers patiently and politely, and a judge is expected to make wise and fair decisions about laws.Informal social roles are not always easy to recognize, but can be identified with careful research. They are key indicators of a group's health and happiness. Within the family, one informal role is the family hero, the person who defines integrity and upholds family morality. Others are the family arbitrator, the person who keeps the peace, and the family historian, often a grandparent, who relays valuable cultural information that maintains both the family and the larger society. And finally, there is the family friend, the person who provides comfort and companionship to the family members with emotional needs.1.Why does the author mention a store clerk and a judge in paragraph 1?A. To give examples of people who hold positions of respects.B. To explain why social roles are important to a society.C. To illustrate the behavior required of certain social roles.D. To compare the responsibilities of two different occupations.2.Why does the author use the term key indicators in discussing informal social roles?A.To identify the most important type of social roles.B.To explain how to identify informal social rolesC.To point out that informal roles are unique to familiesD.To emphasize the value of informal roles to a group答案:1.C2.D2.The many part of the earth’s atmosphere are linked with the various parts of the earth’s surface to produce a whole---the climate system. Different par ts of the earth’s surface react to the energy of the sun in different ways. For example, ice and snow reflect much of it. Land surfaces absorb solar energy and heat up rapidly. Oceans store the energy without experiencing a significant temperature rise. Thus, the different types of surfaces transfer heat into the atmosphere at different rates.We can view climate as existing in three domains: space, time, and human perception. In the domain of space, we can study local, regional, and global climates. In time, we can look at the climate for a year, a decade, a millennium, and so forth. Finally, we depend on our perceptions of the data, so we must include our own human perception into our model. Human perception must be included if our understanding of climatic processes is to be translated into societal actions. As a society, we make informed choices about how to use the beneficial effects of climate, such as deciding when and where to plant crops. We also make choices about how to minimize the harmful effects of climate---storms, blizzards, and droughts.1.Why does the author discuss different parts of the earth’s surface in paragraph 1?A.To explain why humans live in some parts but not in othersB.To show that the entire earth is made of the same materialsC.To compare how various surfaces transfer heat into the atmosphereD.To describe changes in the earth’s appearance throughout the year.2.According to the author, why must we include human perception in our study of climate?A.We must interpret data and take actions related to climateB.We must create an interesting model of the climate systemC.We must develop an understanding of our environmentD.We must change our traditional ways of studying climate.(思考)3. Read the sentence below and write an essay which will have a minimum of 100 words.Our understanding of climatic processes is to be translated into societal actions.答案:1.C2.A3. veral men have been responsible for promoting forestry asa profession. Foremost was Gifford Pinchot, the father of the professional forestry in America. He was chief of the Forest Service from 1898 until 1910, working with President Theodore Roosevelt to instigate sound conservation practices in forests. Later he was professor of forestry and founder of the Pinchot School of Forestry at Yale University. Another great forester was Dr. Bernard E. Fernow, the first head of the U.S. Forest Service. He organized the first American school of professional forestry at Cornell University.The foresters of today, like Pinchot and Fernow in the past, plan and supervise the growth, protection, and utilization of trees.They make maps of forest areas, estimate the amount of standing timber and future growth, and manage timber sales. They also protect the trees from fire, harmful insects, and disease. Some foresters may be responsible for other duties, ranging from wildlife protection and watershed management to the development and supervision of camps, parks, and grazing lands. Others do research, provide information to forest owners and to the general public, and teach in colleges and universities.1.Why does the author compare Pinchot and Fernow to the foresters of today?A.To describe different philosophies of forestry managementB.To show how the field of forestry has changed in 100 yearsC.To argue for the expansion of university forestry programsD.To introduce the type of work done by professional foresters2.All of the following are mentioned in the passage EXCEPTA.what foresters do besides protecting treesB.how to select a good school of forestryC.people who promoted forestry as a careerD.management of timber and timber sales3. Think about how professors can contribute their wisdom to the public affairs. Write down your contemplations in a essay which have a minimum of 100 words.答案 :1.D2.B4. clothing to declare their membership in a particular social group; however, the rules for what is acceptable dress for that group may change. In affluent societies, this changing of the rules is the driving force behind fashions. By keeping up with fashions, that is, by changing their clothing style frequently butsimultaneously, members of a group both satisfy their desire for novelty and obey the rules, thus demonstrating their membership in the group.There are some interesting variations regarding individual status. Some people, particularly in the West, consider themselves of such high status that they do not need to display it with their clothing. For example, many wealthy people in the entertainment industry appear in very casual clothes, such as the worn jeans and work boots of a manual laborer. However, it is likely that a subtle but important signal, such as an expensive wristwatch, will prevail over the message of the casual dress. Such an inverted status display is most likely to occur where the person’s high status is conveyed in ways other than with clothing, such as having a famous face.1.According to the author, fashions serve all the following purposes EXCEPTA.satisfying an interest in noveltyB.signaling a change in personal beliefsC.displaying membership in a social groupD.following traditional rules2.Why does the author discuss individual status in paragraph 2?A.To state that individuals status is not important in the WestB.To argue that individuals need not obey every fashion ruleC.To contrast the status of entertainers with that of manual laborersD.To explain how high status may involve an inverted status display3. with the booming economy and rising status, Chinese people are beginning to remember the clothing belonging to ourown nation which is called “han fu”(汉服),and some youth have worn them in some traditional festivals. Please write an essay to express your own thinking.答案:1.B2.DThe war for independence from Britain was a long and economically costly conflict. The New England fishing industry was temporarily destroyed, and the tobacco colonies in the South were also hard hit. The trade in imports was severely affected, since the war was fought against the country that had previously monopolized the colonies’ supply of manufactured goods. The most serious consequences were felt in the cities, whose existence depended on commercial activity. Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Charleston were all occupied for a time by British troops. Even when the troops had left, British ships lurked in the harbors and continued to disrupt trade.American income from shipbuilding and commerce declined abruptly, undermining the entire economy of the urban areas. The decline in trade brought a fall in the American standard of living. Unemployed shipwrights, dock laborers, and coopers drifted off to find work on farms and in small villages. Some of them joined the Continental army, or if they were loyal to Britain, they departed with the British forces. The population of the New York City declined from 21,000 in 1774 to less than half that number only nine years later in 1783.The disruptions produced by the fighting of the war, by the loss of established markets for manufactured goods, by the loss of sources of credit, and by the lack of new investment all created a period of economic stagnation that lasted for the next twenty years.1.Why does the author mention the fishing industry and the tobacoo colonies?A. to show how the war for independence affected the economyB. to compare the economic power of two different regionsC. to identify the two largest commercial enterprises in AmericaD. to give examples of industries controlled by British forces2. Why does the author mention the population of New York City in paragraph 2?A. to show that half of New York remained loyal to BritainB. to compare New York with other cities occupied during the warC. to emphasize the great short-term cost of the war for New YorkD. to illustrate the percentage of homeless people in New York3. Chinese people had fought for independence from foreign countries for more than 100 years; we had lost lands, powers, resources and lives during that period. Today, China faces a new challenge that how the development can maintain, in other words, how China doesn’t lag behind. Please write an essay to express your ideas.答案:1.A2.CThe discovery of freezing has changed our eating habits more than any other related invention. Because many foods contain large amounts of water, they freeze solidly at or just below 32 degrees Fahrenheit. When we lower the temperature to well below the freezing point and prevent air from penetratingthe food, we retard the natural process of decay that causes food to spoil. Freezing preserves the flavor and nutrients of food better than any other preservation method. When properly prepared and packed, foods and vegetables can be stored in the freezer for one year.Most vegetables and some fruits need blanching before they are frozen, and to avoid this step would be an expensive mistake. The result would be a product largely devoid of vitamins and minerals. Proper blanching curtails the enzyme action, which vegetables require during their growth and ripening but which continues after maturation and will lead to decay unless it is almost entirely stopped by blanching. This process is done in two ways, either by plunging vegetables in a large amount of rapidly boiling water for a few minutes or by steaming them. For steam blanching, it is important that timing begin when the water at the bottom of the pot is boiling. Different vegetables require different blanching times, and specified times for each vegetable must be observed. Under-blanching is like no blanching at all, and over-blanching, while stopping the enzyme action, will produce soggy, discolored vegetables.1.Why does the author mention 32 degrees Fahrenheit?A.To suggest the storage temperature for most foodsB.To identify the freezing point of waterC.To state the correct setting for a freezerD.To give the temperature for blanching2.Why does the author use the term expensive mistake in discussing blanching?A.To state that blanching is expensive but very effectiveB.To warn that not blanching will harm the food’s nutritional valueC.To emphasize the importance of blanching only a few items at a timeD.To show that many people waste food by blanching improperly3. In our daily life, there are a lot of traditional and scientific methods to maintain the foods’ nutrients, please write an essay to introduce the process of one way.答案:1.B2.BThe house style that dominated American housing during the 1880s and 1890s was known as Queen Anne, a curious name for an American style. The name was, in fact, a historical accident, originating with fashionable architects in Victorian England who coined it with apparently no reason other than its pleasing sound. The Queen Anne style was loosely based on medieval structures built long before 1702, the beginning year of Queen Anne’s reign.A distinctive characteristic found in most Queen Anne houses is the unusual roof shape --- a steeply pitched, hipped central portion with protruding lower front and side extensions that end in gables. It is often possible to spot these distinctive roof forms from several blocks away. Another feature of this style is the detailing, shown in the wood shingle siding cut into fanciful decorative patterns of scallops, curves, diamonds, or triangles. Queen Anne houses are almost always asymmetrical. If you draw an imaginary line down the middle of one, you will see how drastically different the right and left sides are, all the way from ground level to roof peak. A final characteristic is the inviting wraparound porch that includes the front door area and then extends around to either the right or left side of the house.Queen Anne houses faded from fashion early in the twentieth century as the public’s taste shifted toward the more modern Prairie and Craftsman style houses. Today, however, Queen Anne houses are favorite symbols of the past, painstakingly and lovingly restored by old-house buffs and reproduced by builders who give faithful attention to the distinctive shapes and detailing that were first popularized more than one hundred years ago.1. Why does the author use the word curious in describing the name of an American style?A.The style was invented before Queen Anne’s reign.B.The name was accidentally misspelled.C.The style was more popular in Victorian England.D.The name did not originate in American.2. The word it in paragraph 1 refers toA. styleB. nameC. accidentD. England3. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a characteristic feature of Queen Anne houses?A. decorative windowsB. wood shingle exterior wallsC. large porchD. steeply pitched roof4. Which of the following can be inferred from paragraph 2 about the Queen Anne style?A. the Queen Anne style combined several other styles.B. the Queen Anne style had to be built in the city.C. the Queen Anne style was elaborate and ornate.D. the Queen Anne style was not very popular.5. The word buffs in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning toA. expertsB. sellersC. criticsD. painters6. Can you predict the main element which the architects will concern for next generation of house style? Write an essay to give your opinions.答案:1.D2.B3.A4.C5.AOne of the most interesting and distinctive of all uses of language is commentary. An oral reporting of ongoing activity, commentary is used in such public arenas as political ceremonies, parades, funerals, fashion shows and cooking demonstrations. The most frequently occurring type of commentary may be that connected with sports and games. In sports there are two kinds of commentary, and both are often used for the same sporting event. “play-by-play” commentary narrates the sports event, while “color –adding” or “color” commentary provides the audience with pre-event background, during-event interpretation, and post-event evaluation. Color commentary is usually conversational in style and can be a dialogue with two or more commentators.Play-by-play commentary is of interest to linguists because it is unlike other kinds of narrative, which are typically reported in past tense. Play-by-play commentary is reported in present tense. Some examples are “he takes the lead by four” and “she’s in position.” One linguist characterizes radio play-by-play commentary as “a monologue directed at an unknown,unseen mass audience who voluntarily choose to listen…and provide no feedback to the speaker.” It is these characteristics that make this kind of commentary unlike any other type of speech situation.The chief feature of play-by-play commentary is a highly formulaic style of presentation. There is distinctive grammar not only in the use of the present tense but also in the omission of certain element s of sentence structure. For example “Smith in close” eliminates the verb, as some newspaper headlines do. Another example is inverted word order, as in “over at third is Johnson.” Play-by-play commentary is very fluent, keeping up with the pace of the action. The rate is steady and there is little silence. The structure of the commentary is cyclical, reflecting the way most games consist of recurring sequences of short activities---as in tennis and baseball---or a limited number of activity options---as in the various kinds of football. In racing, the structure is even simpler, with the commentator informing the listener of the varying order of the competitors in a “state of play” summary, which is crucial for listeners or viewers who have just tuned in.1.Which of the following statements is true of color commentary?A.It narrates the action of the event in real time, using the present tense.B.It is a monologue given to an audience that does not respond to the speaker.C.It is steady and fluent because it must keep up with the action of the event.D.It gives background on the event, and interprets and evaluates the event.2.Why does the author quote a linguist in paragraph 2?A.To describe the uniqueness of radio play-by-playB.To show how technical sports commentary isC.To give examples of play-by-play commentaryD.To criticize past trends in sports commentary3.It can be inferred from the passage that the author most likely agrees with which of the following statements about sports commentary?A.Color commentary is more important than play-by-play commentaryB.Sports commentators do not need special knowledge of the sport.mentary enhances the excitement and enjoyment of sports.D.Sports commentators should work hard to improve their grammar.答案:1. D2. A3.C。

2023年雅思考试阅读模拟试题8含答案

2023年雅思考试阅读模拟试题8含答案

2023年雅思索试阅读模拟试题(含答案)1 There's a dimmer switch inside the sun that causes its brightness to rise and fall on timescales of around 100,000 years—exactly the same period as between ice ages on Earth. So says a physicist who has created a computer model of our star's core.2 Robert Ehrlich of George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, modelled the effect of temperature fluctuations in the sun's interior. According to the standard view, the temperature of the sun's core is held constant bythe opposing pressures of gravity and nuclear fusion. However, Ehrlich believed that slight variations should be possible.3 He took as his starting point the work of Attila Grandpierre of the Konkoly Observatory of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In 2023, Grandpierre and a collaborator, Gáborágoston,calculated that magnetic fields in thesun's core could produce small instabilities in the solar plasma. These instabilities would induce localised oscillations in temperature.4 Ehrlich's model shows that whilst most of these oscillations cancel each other out, some reinforce one another and becomelong-lived temperature variations. The favoured frequencies allow thesun's core temperature to oscillate around its average temperature of 13.6million kelvin in cycles lasting either 100,000 or 41,000 years. Ehrlich says that random interactions within the sun's magnetic field could flip the fluctuations from one cycle length to the other.5 These two timescales are instantly recognisable to anyone familiar with Earth's ice ages: for the past million years, ice ages have occurred roughly every 100,000 years. Before that, they occurred roughly every 41,000 years.6 Most scientists believe that the ice ages are the result of subtle changes in Earth's orbit, known as the Milankovitch cycles. One such cycle describes the way Earth's orbit gradually changes shape from a circle to a slight ellipse and back again roughly every 100,000 years. The theory says this alters the amount of solar radiation that Earth receives, triggering the ice ages. However,a persistent problem with this theory has been its inability to explain why the ice ages changed frequency a million years ago.7 "In Milankovitch, there is certainly no good idea whythe frequency should change from one to another," says Neil Edwards, a climatologist at the Open University in Milton Keynes, UK. Nor isthe transition problem the only one the Milankovitch theory faces. Ehrlich and other critics claim that the temperature variations caused by Milankovitch cycles are simply not big enough to drive ice ages.8 However, Edwards believes the small changes in solar heating produced by Milankovitch cycles are then amplified by feedback mechanisms on Earth. For example, if sea ice begins to form because of a slight cooling, carbon dioxide that would otherwise have found its way into the atmosphere as part of the carbon cycle is locked into the ice. That weakens the greenhouse effect and Earth grows even colder.9 According to Edwards, there is no lack of such mechanisms. "If you add their effects together, there is more than enough feedback to make Milankovitch work," he says. "The problem now is identifying which mechanisms are at work." This is why scientists like Edwards are not yet ready to give up on the current theory. "Milankovitch cycles give us ice ages roughly whenwe observe them to happen. We can calculate where we are in the cycle and compare it with observation," he says. "I can't see any way of testing [Ehrlich's] idea to see where we are in the temperature oscillation."10 Ehrlich concedes this. "If there is a way to test this theory on the sun, I can't think of one that is practical," he says. That's because variation over 41,000 to 100,000 years is too gradual to be observed. However, there may be a way to test it in other stars: red dwarfs. Their cores are much smaller than that of the sun, and so Ehrlich believes that the oscillation periods could beshort enough to be observed. He has yet to calculate the precise period or the extent of variation in brightness to be expected.11 Nigel Weiss, a solar physicist at the University of Cambridge, is far from convinced. He describes Ehrlich's claims as "utterly implausible". Ehrlich counters that Weiss's opinion is based on the standard solar model, which fails to take into account the magnetic instabilities that causethe temperature fluctuations.(716 words)Questions 1-4Complete each of the following statements with One or Two names of the scientists from the box below.Write the appropriate letters A-E in boxes 1-4 on your answer sheet.A. Attila GrandpierreB. Gábor ágostonC. Neil EdwardsD. Nigel WeissE. Robert Ehrlich1. ...claims there抯 a dimmer switch inside the sun that causes its brightness to rise and fall in periods as long as those between ice ages on Earth.2. ...calculated that the internal solar magnetic fieldscould produce instabilities in the solar plasma.3. ...holds that Milankovitch cycles can induce changes in solar heating on Earth and the changes are amplified on Earth.4. ...doesn't believe in Ehrlich's viewpoints at all.Questions 5-9Do the following statements agree with the information given in the reading passage?In boxes 5-9 on your answer sheet writeTRUE if the statement is true according to the passageFALSE if the statement is false according to the passageNOT GIVEN if the information is not given in the passage5. The ice ages changed frequency from 100,000 to 41,000 years a million years ago.6. The sole problem that the Milankovitch theory can not solve is to explain why the ice age frequency should shift from one to another.7. Carbon dioxide can be locked artificially into sea iceto eliminate the greenhouse effect.8. Some scientists are not ready to give up the Milankovitch theory though they haven't figured out which mechanisms amplify the changes in solar heating.9. Both Edwards and Ehrlich believe that there is no practical way to test when the solar temperature oscillation begins and when ends.Questions 10-14Complete the notes below.Choose one suitable word from the Reading Passage above for each answer.Write your answers in boxes 10-14 on your answer sheet.The standard view assumes that the opposing pressures of gravity and nuclear fusions hold the temperature ...10...in the sun's interior, butthe slight changes in the earth's ...11...alter the temperature on the earth and cause ice ages every 100,000 years. A British scientist, however, challenges this view by claiming that the internal solar magnetic ...12...can induce the temperature oscillations in the sun’s int erior. Thesun's core temperature oscillates around its average temperaturein ...13... lasting either 100,000 or 41,000 years. And the ...14... interactions within the sun's magnetic field could flip the fluctuations from one cycle lengthto the other, which explains why the ice ages changed frequency a million years ago.Answer keys and explanations:1. ESee the sentences in paragraph 1(There's a dimmer switch inside the sun that causes its brightness to rise and fall on timescales of around 100,000 years—exactly the same period as between ice ages on Earth. So says a physicist who has created a computer model of our star's core.) and para.2 (Robert Ehrlich of George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, modelled the effect of temperature fluctuations in the sun's interior.)2. A BSee para.3: ?i style=’normal’>Gr andpierre and a collaborator, Gáborágoston, calculated that magnetic fields in thesun's core could produce small instabilities in the solar plasma.3. CSee para.8: Edwards believes the small changes in solar heating produced by Milankovitch cycles are then amplified by feedback mechanisms on Earth.4. DSee para.11: Nigel Weiss, a solar physicist at the University of Cambridge, is far from convinced. He describes Ehrlich’s claims as "utterly implausible".5. FalseSee para.5: for the past million years, ice ages have occurred roughly every 100,000 years. Before that, they occurred roughly every 41,000 years.6. FalseSee para.7: "In Milankovitch, there is certainly no good idea whythe frequency should change from one to another," ... Nor isthe transition problem the only one the Milankovitch theory faces.7. Not GivenSee para.8: if sea ice begins to form because of a slight cooling, carbon dioxide?is locked into the ice. That weakens the greenhouse effect. (The passage doesn抰mention anything about locking Co2 into ice artificially.)8. TrueSee para.9: there is no lack of such mechanisms. "If you add their effects together, there is more than enough feedback to make Milankovitch work,"?"The problem now is identifying which mechanisms are at work." This is why scientists like Edwards are not yet ready to give up on the current theory.9. TrueSee the sentences in para.9 (According to Edwards, 卙e says. "I can't see any way of testing [Ehrlich's] idea to see where we are inthe temperature oscillation.") and para.10 (Ehrlich concedes this. "If there isa way to test this theory on the sun, I can’t think of one that is practical).10. constantSee para.2: According to the standard view, the temperature of thesun's core is held constant by the opposing pressures of gravity and nuclear fusion.11. orbitSee para.6: Most scientists believe that the ice ages are the resultof subtle changes in Earth’s orbit, 匛arth's orbit gradually changes shape froma circle to a slight ellipse and back again roughly every 100,000 years.12. instabilitiesSee para.3: ?i style=’magnetic fields in thesun's core could produce small instabilities in the solar plasma. These instabilities would induce localised oscillations in temperature.13. cyclesSee para.4: ...allow the sun's core temperature to oscillate around its average temperature of 13.6 million kelvin in cycles lasting either 100,000 or 41,000 years.14. randomSee para.4: Ehrlich says that random interactions within thesun's magnetic field could flip the fluctuations from one cycle length to the other.。

雅思阅读模拟题16篇(附答案)

雅思阅读模拟题16篇(附答案)

雅思阅读实战16篇(附答案)★How to increase salesPublished online: Nov 9th 2006From The Economist print editionHow shops can exploit people's herd mentality to increase sales1. A TRIP to the supermarket may not seem like an exercise in psychological warfare—but it is. Shopkeepers know that filling a store with the aroma of freshly baked bread makes people feel hungry and persuades them to buy more food than they had intended. Stocking the most expensive products at eye level makes them sell faster than cheaper but less visible competitors. Now researchers are investigating how “swarm intelligence” (that is, how ants, bees or any social animal, including humans, behave in a crowd) can be used to influence what people buy.2. At a recent conference on the simulation of adaptive behaviour in Rome, Zeeshan-ul-hassan Usmani, a computer scientist from the Florida Institute of Technology, described a new way to increase impulse buying using this phenomenon. Supermarkets already encourage shoppers to buy things they did not realise they wanted: for instance, by placing everyday items such as milk and eggs at the back of the store, forcing shoppers to walk past other tempting goods to reach them. Mr Usmani and Ronaldo Menezes, also of the Florida Institute of Technology, set out to enhance this tendency to buy more by playing on the herd instinct. The idea is that, if a certain product is seen to be popular, shoppers are likely to choose it too. The challenge is to keep customers informed about what others are buying.3. Enter smart-cart technology. In Mr Usmani's supermarket every product has a radio frequency identification tag, a sort of barcode that uses radio waves to transmit information, and every trolley has a scanner that reads this information and relays it to a central computer. As a customer walks past a shelf of goods, a screen on the shelf tells him how many people currently in the shop have chosen that particular product. If the number is high, he is more likely to select it too.4. Mr Usmani's “swarm-moves” model appeals to supermarkets because it increases sales without the need to give people discounts. And it gives shoppers the satisfaction of knowing that they bought the “right” product—that is, the one everyone else bought. The model has not yet been tested widely in the real world, mainly because radio frequency identification technology is new and has only been installed experimentally in some supermarkets. But Mr Usmani says that bothWal-Mart in America and Tesco in Britain are interested in his work, and testing will get under way in the spring.5. Another recent study on the power of social influence indicates that sales could, indeed, be boosted in this way. Matthew Salganik of Columbia University in New York and his colleagues have described creating an artificial music market in which some 14,000 people downloaded previously unknown songs. The researchers found that when people could see the songs ranked by how many times they had been downloaded, they followed the crowd. When the songs were not ordered by rank, but the number of times they had been downloaded was displayed, the effect of social influence was still there but was less pronounced. People thus follow the herd when it is easy for them to do so.6. In Japan a chain of convenience shops called RanKing RanQueen has been ordering its products according to sales data from department stores and research companies. The shops sell only the most popular items in each product category, and the rankings are updated weekly. Icosystem, a company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, also aims to exploit knowledge of social networking to improve sales.7. And the psychology that works in physical stores is just as potent on the internet. Online retailers such as Amazon are adept at telling shoppers which products are popular with like-minded consumers. Even in the privacy of your home, you can still be part of the swarm.(644 words)Questions 1-6Complete the sentences below with words taken from the reading passage. Use NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.1. Shopowners realize that the smell of _______________ can increase sales of food products.2. In shops, products shelved at a more visible level sell better even if they are more _______________.3. According to Mr. U smani, with the use of “swarm intelligence” phenomenon,a new method can be applied to encourage _______________.4. On the way to everyday items at the back of the store, shoppers might be tempted to buy _______________.5. If the number of buyers shown on the _______________ is high, othercustomers tend to follow them.6. Using the “swarm-moves” model, shopowners do not have to give customers _______________ to increase sales.Questions 7-12Do the following statements agree with the information given in the reading passage? For questions 7-12 writeYES if the statement agrees with the informationNO if the statement contraicts the informationNOT GIVEN if there is no information on this in the passage7. Radio frequency identification technology has been installed experimentally in big supermarkets like Wal-Mart.8. People tend to download more unknown songs than songs they are familiar with.9. Songs ranked high by the number of times being downloaded are favored by customers.10. People follow the others to the same extent whether it is convenient or not.11. Items sold in some Japanese stores are simply chosen according to the sales data of other shops.12. Swarm intelligence can also be observed in everyday life.Answer keys:1. 答案:(freshly baked) bread. (第1段第2行:Shoppers know that fillinga store with the aroma of freshly baked bread makes people feel hungry and persuades them to buy more food than they intended.)2. 答案:expensive. (第1段第4行:Stocking the most expensive products at eye level makes them sell faster than cheaper but less visible competitors.)3. 答案:impulse buying. (第2段第1句:At a recent conference on the simulation of adaptive behaviour in Rome, Zeeshan-ul-hassan Usmani, a computer scientist from the Florida Institute of Technology, described a new way to increase impulse buying using this phenomenon.)4. 答案:other (tempting) goods/things/products. (第2段第2句:Supermarkets already encourage shoppers to buy things they did not realise they wanted: for instance, by placing everyday items such as milk and eggs at the back of the store, forcing shoppers to walk past other tempting goods to reach them.)5. 答案:screen. (第3段第4行:As a customer walks past a shelf of goods,a screen on the shelf tells him how many people currently in the shop have chosen that particular product. If the number is high, he is more likely to select it too.)6. 答案:discounts. (第4段第第1句:Mr Usmani’s “swarm-moves”model appeals to supermarkets because it increases sales without the need to give people discounts.)7. 答案:NO. (第4段第3、4句:The model has not yet been tested widely in the real world, mainly because radio frequency identification technology is new and has only been installed experimentally in some supermarkets. But Mr Usmani says that both Wal-Mart in America an Tesco in Britain are interestd in his workd, and testing will get under way in the spring. 短语“get under way”的意思是“开始进行”,在Wal-Mart的试验要等到春天才开始)8. 答案:NOT GIVEN. (在文中没有提及该信息)9. 答案:YES。

雅思考试阅读模拟试题8含答案

雅思考试阅读模拟试题8含答案

雅思考试阅读模拟试题8含答案雅思考试阅读模拟试题(含答案)1 There's a dimmer switch inside the sun that causes its brightness to rise and fall on timescales of around 100,000 years—exactly the same period as between ice ages on Earth. So says a physicist who has created a computer model of our star's core.2 Robert Ehrlich ofGeorge Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, modelled the effectof temperature fluctuations in the sun's interior. According to the standard view, the temperature of the sun's core is held constant by the opposing pressuresof gravity and nuclear fusion. However, Ehrlich believedthat slight variations should be possible.3 He took as his starting point the work of Attila Grandpierre of theKonkoly Observatory of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In , Grandpierre and a collaborator,Gáborágoston,calculated that magnetic fie lds in thesun's core could produce small instabilities in the solar plasma. These instabilitieswould induce localised oscillationsin temperature.4 Ehrlich's model shows that whilst most of these oscillations cancel each other out,some reinforce one another and becomelong-lived temperature variations. The favoured frequencies allow the sun's core temperature to oscillate a round its average temperature of 13.6 million kelvin incycles lasting either 100,000 or41,000 years. Ehrlich saysthat random interactions within the sun's magnetic field could flip the fluctuations from one cycle length to the other.5 These two timescales are instantly recognisable to anyone familiar with Earth's ice ages: for the past million years, ice ages have occurred roughly every 100,000 years. Before that, they occurred roughly every 41,000 years.6 Most scientists believe that the ice ages are the resultof subtle changes in Earth's orbit, known as the Milankovitch cycles. One such cycle describes the way Earth's orbit gradually changes shape from a circle toa slight ellipse and back again roughly every 100,000 years. The theory says this alters the amount ofsolar radiation that Earth receives, triggering the ice ages. However,a persistent problem with this theory has been its inability to explain why the ice ages changed frequency a million years ago.7 "In Milankovitch, there is certainly no good idea whythe frequency should change from one to another," says Neil Edwards, a climatologist at the Open University in Milton Keynes, UK. Nor isthe transition problem the only one the Milankovitch theory faces. Ehrlich and other critics claim that the temperature variations caused by Milankovitch cycles are simply not big enough to drive ice ages.8 However, Edwards believes the small changes in solar heating produced by Milankovitch cycles are then amplified by feedback。

雅思阅读题库(完整版)

雅思阅读题库(完整版)

雅思阅读题库(完整版)第一部分:选择题(Multiple Choice)1. “……” 这句话的意思是什么?a. 选项Ab. 选项Bc. 选项Cd. 选项D2. 下列哪个选项与文章主题无关?a. 选项Ab. 选项Bc. 选项Cd. 选项D3. 作者在第二段中提到了哪个事实?a. 选项Ab. 选项Bc. 选项Cd. 选项D第二部分:填空题(Fill in the Blanks)请将以下空格处填上合适的单词。

1. 根据研究显示,____增加了人们患心脏病的风险。

2. 在夏日,许多人喜欢到____上放松休闲。

3. 这座城市以其____而著名,吸引了许多游客。

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1. 问题1a. 答案Ab. 答案Bc. 答案C2. 问题2a. 答案Ab. 答案Bc. 答案C3. 问题3a. 答案Ab. 答案Bc. 答案C第五部分:段落标题题(Paragraph Headings)请从以下选项中选择合适的标题来概括每个段落的内容。

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雅思考试阅读模拟试题

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★new weapon to fight cancer1. British s cientists are preparing to launch trials of a radical new wayto fight cancer, which kills tumours by infecting them with viruses like thecommon cold.2。

If s uccessful, v irus therapy could eventually form a third pillaralongside radiotherapy and chemotherapy in the standard arsenal against cancer,—effects.while avoiding some of the debilitating side3. Leonard Seymour, a professor of gene therapy at Oxford University, whohas been working on the virus therapy with colleagues in London and the US, willlead the trials later this year. Cancer Research UK said yesterday that it wasexcited by the potential of Prof Seymour's pioneering techniques.4. One of the country’s leading geneticists,Prof Seymour has been workingwith viruses that kill cancer cells d irectly, while avoidingharm to healthy, you’ve got something which could tissue. "In principlebe many times moreeffective than regular chemotherapy,” he said.5. Cancer-killing viruses exploit the fact that cancer cells suppress thebody’s local immune system。

雅思阅读模拟试题及参考答案

雅思阅读模拟试题及参考答案

雅思阅读模拟试题及参考答案雅思阅读模拟试题 Section 1Passage 1: 旅游业的兴起阅读以下段落,回答问题。

旅游业已成为全球最大的产业之一。

每年有数亿人次的国际旅行,产生了数百万个工作岗位,并为国家经济做出了巨大贡献。

随着人们生活水平的提高和交通工具的发展,旅游业仍在不断增长。

然而,旅游业的发展也带来了一些问题,如环境污染、文化冲突和生态破坏。

Question 1: 旅游业的全球影响是什么?{content}Question 2: 旅游业发展最快的因素是什么?{content}Passage 2: 保护野生动物阅读以下段落,回答问题。

保护野生动物已成为全球关注的焦点。

然而,许多野生动物正面临生存威胁,如非法狩猎、栖息地丧失和气候变化。

为了保护这些动物,各国政府和国际组织已经采取了一系列措施,如设立自然保护区、加强法律法规和提高公众意识。

Question 3: 为什么保护野生动物变得重要?{content}Question 4: 保护野生动物采取了哪些措施?{content}雅思阅读模拟试题 Section 2Passage 1: 太阳能的未来阅读以下段落,回答问题。

太阳能是一种清洁、可再生的能源,有巨大的潜力。

随着技术的进步,太阳能电池的效率不断提高,成本也在逐渐降低。

许多国家已经开始建设太阳能发电站,以减少对化石燃料的依赖并应对气候变化。

预计未来太阳能将成为全球主要的能源来源之一。

Question 5: 太阳能的优势是什么?{content}Question 6: 为什么太阳能电池的效率不断提高?{content}Passage 2: 数字鸿沟阅读以下段落,回答问题。

数字鸿沟是指信息技术在不同群体之间的差距。

这种差距可能源于经济、教育和地理等因素。

数字鸿沟可能导致社会不平等,限制人们的发展机会。

为了解决这一问题,政府和社会组织正在努力提供更多的信息技术培训和教育,以提高人们的数字素养。

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1. Washing, brushing and varnishing fossils — all standard conservation treatments used by many fossil hunters and museum curators alike —vastly reduces the chances of recovering ancient DNA.
2. Instead, excavators should be handling at least some of their bounty with gloves, and freezing samples as they are found, dirt and all, concludes a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences today.
3. Although many palaeontologists know anecdotally that this is the best way to up the odds of extracting good DNA, Eva-Maria Geigl of the Jacques Monod Institute in Paris, France, and her colleagues have now shown just how important conservation practices can be. This information, they say, needs to be hammered home among the
people who are actually out in the field digging up bones.
4. Geigl and her colleagues looked at 3,200-year-old fossil bones belonging to a single individual of an extinct cattle species, called an aurochs. The fossils were dug up at a site in France at two different times — either in 1947, and stored in a museum collection, or in , and conserved in sterile conditions at -20 oC.
5. The team's attempts to extract DNA from the 1947 bones all failed. The newly excavated fossils, however, all yielded DNA.
6. Because the bones had been buried for the same amount of time, and in the same conditions, the conservation method had to be to blame says Geigl. "As much DNA was degraded in these 57 years as in the 3,200 years before," she says.Wash in, wash out
7. Because many palaeontologists base their work on the shape of fossils alone,their methods of conservation are not designed to preserve DNA, Geigl explains.
8. The biggest problem is how they are cleaned. Fossils are often washed together on-site in a large bath, which can allow water — and contaminants in the form of contemporary DNA — to permeate into the porous bones. "Not only is the authentic DNA getting washed out, but contamination is getting washed in," says Geigl.
9. Most ancient DNA specialists know this already, says Hendrik Poinar, an evolutionary geneticist at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada. But that doesn't mean that best practice has become widespread among those who actually find the fossils.
10. Getting hold of fossils that have been preserved with their DNA in mind relies
on close relationships between lab-based geneticists and the excavators, says palaeogeneticist Svante P??bo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. And that only occurs in exceptional cases, he says.
11. P??bo's team, which has been sequencing Neanderthal DNA, continually faces these problems. "When you want to study ancient human and Neanderthal remains, there's a big issue of contamination with contemporary human DNA," he says.
12. This doesn't mean that all museum specimens are fatally flawed, notes P??bo. The Neanderthal fossils that were recently sequenced in his own lab, for example, had been part of a museum collection treated in the traditional way. But P??bo is keen to see samples of fossils from every major find preserved in line with Geigl's。

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