雅思考试对于很多人来说是非常有用的考试,特别是对于想要出国留学的考生来说,拿到一个好的雅思分数是很重要的。但是雅思难度是非常大的,想要拿到高分是很难的。雅思考试一共分为四部分,即听力、口语、阅读、写作。如果大家想要练习这四部分,可以做剑桥雅思的题目,剑桥雅思是比较权威的哦!剑桥雅思阅读难度排行是有的,大家要从简到难哦!接下来,就让小编为大家介绍一下剑桥雅思13阅读解析吧!朋友们可以做好笔记啦!
一、剑桥雅思13阅读解析
Question 1
答案:update
关键词:database allow business
定位原文: 第2段第5句“In addition, because participating businesses were able to update the details they gave on a regular basis, the information provided remained accurate.”
解题思路:根据database of tourism可以定位到第二段,大致浏览第二段,提到与题目相关的地方出现在开始讲business怎么样的时候,这里空中填入的是不定式to后面接的动词,题干的句子刚好可以对应上定位句,题目中的information是对原文details的同义替换,所以这里填入的应该是“更新update”这个词。
Question 2
答案:environment
关键词:business impact
定位原文:第2段倒数1-2句“And to maintain and improve standards, Tourism New Zealand organised a scheme whereby organisations appearing on the website underwent an independent evaluation against a set of agreed national standards of quality. As part of this, the effect of each business on the environment was considered.”
解题思路:根据顺序原则,我们接着往上题的定位句之后看,题干的意思是,提供一个对商家的评价,包括他们对什么的影响,这里的evaluation对应原文的“underwent an independent evaluation”,发现后面出现的是“每个商家对环境的影响也是考虑在内的”,所以这里填入的是“环境environment”这个词。
Question 3
答案:captain
关键词:special feature interview
定位原文: 第3段第2句“One of the most popular was an interview with former New Zealand All Blacks rugby captain Tana Umaga.”
解题思路:这题根据题目前的special features以及题目中的interview可以很快定位到上面的定位句,这里题目的意思是对谁的采访,注意题干要求是只能一个词,所以这里只能填入captain,不能写rugby captain。
Question 4
答案:films
关键词:locations
定位原文:第3段第3句“Another feature that attracted a lot of attention was an interactive journey through a number of the locations chosen for blockbuster films which had made use of New Zealand’s stunning scenery as a backdrop.”
解题思路:同样根据上一题继续往下看,看到locations 的时候就知道定位句已经出现,这里找出答案并不难,但是同样要注意的是只能填入一个词,所以这里只能填入films。used in是原文中chosen for的同义替换。
Question 5
答案:season
关键词:driving routes
定位原文:第3段最后一句“To make it easier to plan motoring holidays, the site catalogued the most popular driving routes in the country, highlighting different routes according to the season and indicating distances and times.”
解题思路:根据关键词driving routes去找定位句,对应上文中的这段话,路线不同是由于什么,这里原文中说的是“s according to the season and indicating distances and times.”所以这里填入的是season,表示“季节”这个词。
Question 6
答案:accommodation
关键词:Travel Planner
定位原文:第4段第2-3句“The Travel Planner offered suggested routes and public transport options between the chosen locations. There were also links to accommodation in the area.”
解题思路:根据Travel Planner去定位,很容易找到该定位句,这里问的是Travel Planner 提供的有除了地图,交通详情,还有什么,填入的应该是后面的“accommodation”这个单词,表示“住宿”。
Question 7
答案:blog
关键词:Your Words
定位原文:第4段最后一句话“The website also had a ‘Your Words’ section where anyone could submit a blog of their New Zealand travels for possible inclusion on the website.”
解题思路:根据大写单词Your Words 很容易定位到该句话,问的是旅行者能够发送链接给什么,这里send是原文中submit的同义替换,所以空中填入的应该是blog这个单词。
二、剑桥雅思13Test3阅读Passage2原文
How baby talk gives infant brains a boost
A The typical way of talking to a baby - High-pitched, exaggerated and repetitious - is a source of fascination for linguists who hope to understand how ‘baby talk’ impacts on learning, Most babies start developing their hearing while still in the womb, prompting some hopeful parents to play classical music to their pregnant bellies. Some research even suggests that infants are listening to adult speech as early as 10 weeks before being born, gathering the basic building blocks of their family’s native tongue.
B Early language exposure seems to have benefits to the brain - for instance, studies suggest that babies raised in bilingual homes are better at learning how to mentally prioritize information. So how does the sweet if sometimes absurd sound of infant- directed speech influence a baby’s development? Here are some recent studies that explore the science behind baby talk.
C Fathers don’t use baby talk as often or in the same ways as mothers - and that’s perfectly OK, according to a new study. Mark VanDam of Washington State University at Spokane and colleagues equipped parents with recording devices and speech-recognition software to study the way they interacted with their youngsters during a normal day. ‘We found that moms do exactly what you’d expect and what’s been described many times over,’ VanDam explains. ‘But we found that dads aren’t doing the same thing. Dads didn’t raise their pitch or fundamental frequency when they talked to kids.’ Their role may be rooted in what is called the bridge hypothesis, which dates back to 1975. It suggests that fathers use less familial language to provide their children with a bridge to the kind of speech they’ll hear in public. ‘The idea is that a kid gets to practice a certain kind of speech with mom and another kind of speech with dad, so the kid then has a wider repertoire of kinds of speech to practice,’ says VanDam.
D Scientists from the University of Washington and the University of Connecticut collected thousands of 30-second conversations between parents and their babies, fitting 26 children with audio-recording vests that captured language and sound during a typical eight-hour day. The study found that the more baby talk parents used, the more their youngsters began to babble. And when researchers saw the same babies at age two, they found that frequent baby talk had dramatically boosted vocabulary, regardless of socioeconomic status. ‘Those children who listened to a lot of baby talk were talking more than the babies that listened to more adult talk or standard speech,’ says Nairán Ramírez-Esparza of the University of Connecticut. ‘We also found that it really matters whether you use baby talk in a one-on-one context,’ she adds. The more parents use baby talk one-on-one, the more babies babble, and the more they babble, the more words they produce later in life.’
E Another study suggests that parents might want to pair their youngsters up so they can babble more with their own kind. Researchers from McGill University and Université du Quebec a Montreal found that babies seem to like listening to each other rather than to adults - which may be why baby talk is such a universal tool among parents. They played repeating vowel sounds made by a special synthesizing device that mimicked sounds made by either an adult woman or another baby. This way, only the impact of the auditory cues was observed. The team then measured how long each type of sound held the infants’ attention. They found that the ‘infant’ sounds held babies’ attention nearly 40 percent longer. The baby noises also induced more reactions in the listening infants, like smiling or lip moving, which approximates sound making. The team theorizes that this attraction to other infant sounds could help launch the learning process that leads to speech. ‘It may be some property of the sound that is just drawing their attention,’ says study co-author Linda Polka. ‘Or maybe they are really interested in that particular type of sound because they are starting to focus on their own ability to make sounds. We are speculating here but it might catch their attention because they recognize it as a sound they could possibly make.’
F In a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a total of 57 babies from two slightly different age groups - seven months and eleven and a half months - were played a number of syllables from both their native language (English) and a non-native tongue (Spanish). The infants were placed in a brain- activation scanner that recorded activity in a brain region known to guide the motor movements that produce speech. The results suggest that listening to baby talk prompts infant brains to start practicing their language skills. ‘Finding activation in motor areas of the brain when infants are simply listening is significant, because it means the baby brain is engaged in trying to talk back right from the start, and suggests that seven-month-olds’ brains are already trying to figure out how to make the right movements that will produce words,’ says co-author Patricia Kuhl. Another interesting finding was that while the seven-month-olds responded to all speech sounds regardless of language, the brains of the older infants worked harder at the motor activations of non-native sounds compared to native sounds. The study may have also uncovered a process by which babies recognize differences between their native language and other tongues.
三、剑桥雅思阅读文章分类
1.自然科学类话题类型
自然科学类话题的文章主要可以分为生物,自然地理和环境能源三大类。
2.自然科学类话题结构
为了进一步提高做题的正确率和速度,我们不仅要了解背景知识还要对自然科学类文章的结构有所了解。经过对自然科学类文章的分析,发现一般存在两大结构类型:介绍说明型和现象分析型。
首先,介绍说明型主要是针对生物类话题。这类型文章通常是针对动物或植物的一些特性展开说明,会从这一特性的各个方面展开论述或者这一特性的由来及与别的动植物的不同,接着会讲到这些特性的有用性。
例如剑桥4 Test 1的第二篇What Do Whales Feel? 这篇文章主要讲了鲸鱼的感官在退化的这一特点,分别从嗅觉,触觉,听觉,味觉,视觉一一进行论述,文章每段的第一句话就可以明显的看出来这一段是在讲哪种感觉,因此烤鸭们在做题时只要找到关键词去相应的段落找即可。
剑桥7 Test1的第一篇 Let’s go Bat! 主要讲述了蝙蝠的定位能力,开始介绍说明了这种特性功能,接着介绍了拥有这种功能的原因,最后说明了这种功能的有用性。
其次,现象分析型主要是针对自然科学类中后两类话题的。现象分析型的文章首先会提出某个现象或者问题,接着对这个现象或问题进行介绍说明,然后分析这种现象或者问题出现的可能性的原因,接着会描述这种现象或问题会产生的结果,同时会预测这种现象或问题在未来造成的影响。
最后会对如何解决这一现象或问题提出可能性的解决措施,有时会在这部分描述之前说明一些已经研究出的解决措施,并对其加以分析。比如剑桥4 Test3的第二篇关于火山喷发的内容,此篇文章首先介绍火山及火山喷发这种自然现象,然后是分析其原因,接着是火山喷发的不同结果形态,最后是讲解火山喷发的不可预测性。
又如厄尔尼诺现象,同样也是这类型的结构。因此,烤鸭们会发现在了解了不同类型文章的结构后,就会知道作者在哪一段讲什么,这样对于做段落配标题的题目就会非常快速,同时在对一些细节题定位时也会发现很容易。
3.总结
自然科学类文章主要有三种话题类型,两种文章结构。建议烤鸭们在备考时应多多关注一下阅读话题类型,拓展自己的背景知识,让自己在考场上不会因为对某一篇文章不感兴趣或者不了解而失分。