植树节英文经典雅思真题

Test 1

LISTENING

SECTION 1

Questions 1-4

Complete the notes below.

Write

NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS

for each answer

.

Questions 1-10

Notes on sports club

Example

Name of club:

Facilities available:

Answer

Kingswell

Golf

1

...................................... ..............................................

2

......................... .................................................. .........

Classes available:

?

3

Additional facility:

opening soon)

4

(restaurant

? Kick

-boxing

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Listening

Questions 5-8

Complete the table below.

Write

NO MORE THAN TWO NUMBERS

for each answer.

Annual

Subscription

Fee

Type

Use of

facilities

Cost of

classes

Times

Joining

Fee

GOLD

All

Free

Any time

?

250

5

?

SILVER

All

6

?

from

7

to

?

225

?

300

BRONZE

Restricted

?

3

From 10.30 to 3.30

weekdays only

?

50

8

?

Questions 9 and 10

Complete the sentences below.

Write

ONE WORD ONLY

for each answer.

9

To join the centre, you need to book an instructor's

.

........................... .... .

10

To book a trial session, speak to David

.

... ...........................

(

0458 95311).

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Questions 11-20

Questions 11-16

What change has been made to each part of the theatre?

Choose

SIX

answers from the box and write the correct letter, A

—

G, next to questions 11-16.

RIVENDEN CITY

THEATRE

A

doubled in number

B

given separate entrance

C

reduced in number

D

increased in size

E

replaced

F

strengthened

G

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emporarily closed

Part of the theatre

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ordinary seats

seats for wheelchair users

lifts

dressing rooms

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Listening

Questions

17-20

Complete the table below.

Write

NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A

NUMBER

for each answer.

Tickets

available

for

19

...................

and

.

..................

Play

Royal Hunt

of the

Sun

Dates

October 13th to

17

.

..................

Starting time

18

.

.................

pm

Price

20

?

...................

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SECTION 3

Question 21

Questions 21-30

Choose the correct letter A, B or

C

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What is Brian going to do before the course starts?

A

attend a class

B

write a report

C

read a book

Questions 22-25

Complete the table below.

Write

NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS

for each answer.

College Facility

Refectory

Information

inform them

22 .........................

a

bout special dietary

requirements

23

.

......................

Careers advice

Fitness centre

Library

long

waiting list, apply now

drop-in centre for information

reduced

24 .........................

for students

includes books, journals, equipment room containing

audio-visual materials

Computers

ask your

25 .........................

t

o

arrange a password with

the technical support team

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Listening

Questions 26-30

Complete the summary below.

Write

NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS

for each answer.

Business Centre

The Business

Resource

Centre contains materials such as

books

and manuals to

be

used for training. It is possible to hire

26

.....................................

and

27

.

..............................

There are materials for working on study skills (e.g.

28 ................................

)

and other

subjects include finance and

29

.

.. ............................

30

................................

m

embership costs ?

50 per year.

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Questions

31-37

Q

uestions 31-40

Complete the table below.

Write

NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS

for

each answer:

Social history of the East End of London

Period

lst-4th centuries

Situation

Produce from the area was used to 31

.

.........................

the

people of London.

5th-10th centuries

11th century

New technology allowed the production of goods made of

32 ...........................

a

nd

..............................

Lack of 33

.

........................

in the East End encouraged

the growth of businesses.

16th century

17th century

19th century

Construction of facilities for the building of

34 ...........................

stimulated international trade.

Agricultural workers came from other parts of

35

.........................

to look for work.

Marshes were drained to provide land that could be

36 ...........................

on.

Inhabitants lived in conditions of great 37 .........................

with very poor sanitation.

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Questions 38-40

Choose

THREE

letters, A

—

G.

Which THREE of the following problems are mentioned in connection with 20th century

housing in the East End?

A

unsympathetic landlords

B

unclean water

C

heating problems

D

high rents

E

overcrowding

F

poor standards of building'

G

houses catching fire

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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on Reading Passage 1

below.

AUSTRALIA'S

____ SPORTING

___________ SUCCESS

A

They play hard, they play often, and they play to win. Australian sports teams win more than their

fair share of titles, demolishing rivals with seeming ease. How do they do it? A big part of the

secret is an extensive and expensive network of sporting academies underpinned by science

and medicine. At the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS), hundreds of youngsters and pros live and

train under the eyes of coaches. Another body, the Australian Sports Commission (ASC), finances

programmes of excellence in a total of 96 sports for thousands of sportsmen and women. Both

provide intensive coaching, training facilities and nutritional advice.

B

Inside the academies, science takes centre stage. The AIS employs more than 100 sports

scientists and doctors, and collaborates with scores of others in universities and research centres.

AIS scientists work across a number of sports, applying skills learned in one

–

such as building

muscle strength in golfers

–

to others, such as swimming and squash. They are backed up by

technicians who design instruments to collect data from athletes. They all focus on one aim:

winning. ‘We can't waste our time looking at ethereal scientific questions that don't h

elp the

coach work with an athlete and improve performance,' says Peter Fricker, chief of

science

at

AIS.

C

A lot of their work comes down to measurement

–

everything from the exact angle of a

swimmer's dive to the second-by-second power output of a cyclist. This data is used to wring

improvements out of

athletes. The focus is on individuals, tweaking performances to squeeze an

extra hundredth of a second here, an extra millimetre there. No gain is too slight to bother with.

It's the tiny, gradual improvements that add up to world-beating results. To demonstrate how the

system works, Bruce Mason at AIS shows off the prototype of a 3D analysis tool for studying

swimmers. A wire-frame model of a champion swimmer slices through the water, her arms moving

in slow motion. Looking side-on, Mason measures the distance between strokes. From above, he

analyses how her spine swivels. When fully developed, this system will enable him to build a

biomechanical profile for coaches to use to help budding swimmers. Mason's contribution to sport

also includes the development of the SWAN (SWimming ANalysis) system now used in

Australian national competitions. It collects images from digital cameras

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running at 50 frames a second and breaks down each part of a swimmer's performance into

factors that can be analysed individually

–

stroke length, stroke frequency, average duration of

each stroke, velocity, start, lap and finish times, and so on. At the end of each race, SWAN spits

out data on each swimmer.

D

'Take a look,

’ says Mason, pulling out a sheet of data. He points out the data on the swimmers in

second and third place, which shows that the one who finished third actually swam faster. So why

did he finish 35 hundredths of a second down? 'His turn times were 44 hundredths of a second

behind the other guy,' says Masonlf he can improve on his turns, he can do much

better: This

is the kind of accuracy that AIS scientists' research is bringing to a range of sports. With the

Cooperative Research Centre for Micro Technology in Melbourne, they are developing

unobtrusive sensors that will be embedded in an athlete's clothes or running shoes to monitor heart

rate, sweating, heat production or any other factor that might have an impact on an athlete's ability

to run. There's more to it than simply measuring performance. Fricker gives the example of athletes

who may be down with coughs and colds 11 or 12 times a year. After years of experimentation,

AIS and the University of Newcastle in New South Wales developed a test that measures how

much of the immune- system protein immunoglobulin A is present in athletes' saliva. If IgA levels

suddenly fall below a certain level, training is eased or dropped altogether. Soon, IgA levels start rising

again, and the danger passes. Since the tests were introduced, AIS athletes in all sports have been

remarkably successful at staying healthy.

E

Using data is a complex business. Well before a championship, sports scientists and coaches

start to prepare the athlete by developing a 'competition model', based on what they expect will

be the winning times. 'You design the model to make that time,' says Mason. 'A start of this much,

each free-swimming period has to be this fast, with a certain stroke frequency and stroke length, with

turns done in these times: All the training is then geared towards making the athlete hit those targets,

both overall and for each segment of the race. Techniques like these have transformed Australia

into arguably the world's most successful sporting nation.

F

Of course, there's nothing to stop other countries copying

–

and many have tried. Some years

ago, the AIS unveiled coolant- lined jackets for endurance athletes. At the Atlanta Olympic

Games in 1996, these sliced as much as two per cent off cyclists' and rowers' times. Now everyone

uses them. The same has happened to the 'altitude tent', developed by AIS to replicate the effect of

altitude training at sea level. But Australia's success story is about more than easily copied

technological fixes, and up to now no nation has replicated its all- encompassing system.

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Test

1

Questions 1-7

Reading Passage 1 has six paragraphs, A

—

F.

Which paragraph contains the following information?

Write the correct

letter

A

—

F,

in boxes

1-7 on your answer sheet.

NB

You may use any letter more than once.

1 a reference to the exchange of expertise between different sports

2

an explanation of how visual imaging is employed in investigations

3 a reason for narrowing the scope of research activity

4

how some AIS ideas have been reproduced

5

how obstacles to optimum achievement can be investigated

6 an overview of the funded support of athletes

7

how performance requirements are calculated before an event

Questions 8-11

Classify the following techniques according to whether the writer states they

A

are currently exclusively used by Australians

B

will be used in the future by Australians

C

are currently used by both Australians and their rivals

Write the correct law A,

B

or C, in boxes 8-11 on your answer sheet.

8

cameras

9 sensors

10

protein tests

11

altitude tents

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