雅思阅读考题回顾

雅思A类阅读考题回顾（第二季度）

Passage 2 资料考证来源于维基百科 After repairs, she plied for several years as a passe nger liner between Britain and America, before being converted to a cable-laying ship and la ying the first lasting”

Brunel worked for several years as assistant engineer on the project to create a tunnel unde r London's River Thames 题目配对 tunnel under river Thames -- which Brune was not responsibl e for it

Though ultimately unsuccessful, another of Brunel's interesting use of technical innovat ions was the atmospheric railway 配对建成不久就停止运营那项吧

Great Eastern was designed to cruise non-stop from London to Sydney and back (since engi neers of the time misunderstood that Australia had no coal reserves), and she remained the l argest ship built until the turn of the century. Like many of Brunel's ambitious projects, t he ship soon ran over budget and behind schedule in the face of a series of technical probl ems.great eastern 配对建设推迟了很对次和财务上不成功我配了两个

Great Britain is considered the first modern ship, being built of metal rather than wood, powered by an engine rather than wind or oars, and driven by propeller rather than paddle w heel. 配对成为广泛认可的标准忘了这个是不是第一题的段落包含信息题了

其他记不住了有个火车站什么的配对 Brunel 影响了反对者这个乱配的

Passage 3

According to science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein, "a handy short definition of alm ost all science fiction might read: realistic speculation about possible future events, base d solidly on adequate knowledge of the real world, past and present, and on a thorough under standing of the nature and significance of the scientific method."

Vladimir Nabokov argued that if we were rigorous with our definitions, Shakespeare's pla y The Tempest would have to be termed science fiction.

Y/N/NG 第一题就纠结了题目是科幻小说很难下定义文中不是两种观点都有么但是自己答的 Y 然后信息配对有一道是The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress is a 1966 science fiction novel by Ame rican writer Robert A. Heinlein, about a lunar colony's revolt against rule from Earth.

这门书貌似是配对它成功预测了人类登月

Academic Reading 04/09/2010（重庆，湖北等考区）

雅思阅读真题题源号《九分达人》迷失的城

CAMEL allows archaeologists to survey ancient cities without digging in the dirt, disturbing sites

Like a dromedary that can travel

a long distance without taking a drink of water, the Oriental Institute’s CAMEL computer Overlying aerial photographs show the ancient city wall at Kerkenes Dag in Turkey.

project can traverse vast distances of ancient and modern space without pausing for the usual refreshment known best by archaeologists—digging in the soil.

CAMEL (the Center for Ancient Middle Eastern Landscapes) is at the leading edge of archaeology because of what it does not do and what it can do. First, it does not actually excavate. For a science based on the destructive removal of buried artifacts and an examination of them for meaning, CAMEL works in quite the opposite way: it aims to survey ancient sites and disturb them as little as possible.

What CAMEL can do however, is remarkable. It organizes maps, aerial photography, satellite images and other data into one place, allowing archaeologists to see how ancient trade routes developed and to prepare simulations of how people may have interacted, given the limitations of their space, the availability of resources and the organization of their cities.

CAMEL provides the wonderful opportunity “to see beyond the horizon,” said Scott Branting, Director of the project.

Branting oversees the CAMEL project from a second-floor computer lab at the Oriental Institute. As he walks around, he shows off the dozen PCs that form the nucleus of the project, which invites faculty and students to pore through electronic images from throughout the Middle East.

“;“The Near Eastern area is defined for the purposes of our collections as an enormous box stretching from Greece on the west to Afghanistan on the east, from the middle of the Black Sea on the north to the horn of Africa on the south,” he said as he turned on a computer to summon an image from the area.

Up popped an aerial surveillance photograph taken for defense purposes during the Cold War. The image showed mounds on the surface of the steppe regions of modern Iraq, sites that are among the hundreds unexplored there that are potentially valuable sites for future excavation when archaeologists can safely return.

“Because these images are images from the 1950s and 1960s, they show a terrain much different from what exists today,” he explained. Fields have covered much of the formally barren areas of the Middle East as irrigation has expanded farming. Sites that show up as mounds in photographs may today be leveled and hard to recognize. Some of the ancient material they contain, however, is still buried deep below the surface.