2014年3月8日雅思阅读机经

2014

年

3

月

8

雅思阅读机经

上海环球雅思

今天，

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2014

年

3

月

8

雅思阅读机经

，

供大家参考

使用。环球雅思将与您分享更多考试资讯！

总体来讲，本次阅读难度适中， 一篇为旧题，两篇是新题。涉及到的文章类型包

括科研类和教育类。本次雅思阅读考试涉 及到的题型有

Matching

，< /p>

Summary

，

List of headings

，

Multiple choices, short answer questions

。

其中

Summary

和

Matching

比重比较大。

TFNG

也占了不小的比重。建议烤鸭们平时多练习高频题型。

Passa

ge

One

文章

大意

部分

答案

新旧情况

题材

旧题

科研类

题目

Minds of

their own

题型

是非无判断

5

道

(T/F/NG);

填词型填空

题

5

道

;

简答题

3

道；

科学家通过训练鹦鹉

Alex

说话 和交流，

证明某些动物比我们想象得更聪

明，它

们不仅可以懂得人类的动作指示，还能迚行逻辑思维，它们也有

自己的情感和脾

气，甚至可以用简单的诧言来表达自己的需求。

（

intelligence.. ..

）；

(what similarities --green color; what

type of mistake

--wrong pronunciation; what suspended....almost all machines)

Minds of Their Own

Animals are smarter than you think.

In 1977 Irene Pepperberg, a recent graduate of Harvard

University, did something very bold. At a time when

animals still were considered automatons, she set out to find

what was

on another creature’s

mind by talking

to it. She brought

a one-year-old African gray parrot she named Alex into her

lab to

teach

him

to

reproduce the

sounds

of

the

English

language.

“I

thought

if

he

learned

to

communicate,

I

could

ask

him

questions

about how he sees the world.”

When Pepperberg began her dialogue with Alex, who

died last

September at the age of

31, many scientists believed animals were

incapable of any thought. They were simply mac

hines, robots programmed to react to stimuli but lacking the

ability to think or feel.

Any pet owner would disagree. We

see the love in our dogs’

eyes

and know that, of course, Spot has thoughts and emotions. But

such claims remain highly controversial. Gut instinct is not

science, and it is all too easy to project human thoughts and

feelings onto another creature. How,then, does a scientist prove

that an animal is capable of thinking

—

that it is able to acquire

information about the world and act on it?

文章

内容

“That’s why I started my studies with Alex,” Pepperberg said.

They were seated

—

she at her desk, he on top of his

cage

—

in her lab, a windowless room about the size of

a boxcar, at Brandeis University.

Newspapers

lined the

floor; baskets

of

bright toys

were

stacked

on

the

shelves.

They

were

clearly

a

team

—

and

because

of

their

work,

the notion that animals can think is no longer so fanciful.

Certain skills are considered key signs of higher

mental abilities: good memory, a grasp of grammar and