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1
月
9
日雅思阅读真题
一、考试概述：本次新年的第一场考试又是
< br>AB
卷。
A
卷第一篇话题
讲了生物的生存不确定性，
第二篇介绍了音乐的力量，
第三篇讲了课
堂大小对于学习效果的影响。
的话题是两
新一旧，
第一篇内容为古生
物化石，第二篇是情绪影响人的行为
，第三篇是儿童文学
二、具体题目分析
A
卷
Passage
1
：题目：
Living with uncertainty
题型：判断
7+
简答
6
题号：新题
答案：
1-7
判断题
1
FALSE2
TRUE3
NOT
GIVEN4
TRUE5
NOT
GIVEN6
FALSE7 TRUE
8-13
简答题
8
lit fires9 saltbush10 European farming11 wheat12
pear13 Tellers
(
目前无明确回忆，答案仅供参考
)
Passage 2
：
题目：
The power of
music
题型：段落信息匹配
5+Summary 4+
人名配理论
4
文章大意：待补充
答案：
1
4-18
信息配段落
14. D15. I16. C17.
F18. E
19-22 Summary without word list
19
physical health20 disabled21 brain scans
22
walking
23-26
人名配理论
23 C24
B25 A26 A
(
答案仅供参考
)
Passage 3
：
题名：
Does class size matter?
题型：段落信息匹配
5+
分类配对
9
文章大意：
待补充
答案：
27-31
段落信息匹配
27 D28 E29 A30 C
31
B
32-40 Classification32 A33 C34 B35 C36
A37 C38 A39 B40 A
(
目前无明确回忆，答案仅供参考
)
B
卷
Passage
1
：
题目：
The History
of building telegraph lines
题型：判断
6+
简答
7
文章大意：电报的发展史
相似文章：
A The idea of
electrical communication seems to have begun as
long
ago
as
1746,
when
about
200
monks
at
monastery
in
Paris
arranged
themselves
in
a
line
over
a
mile
long,
each
holding
ends
of
25
ft
iron
wires. The abbot, also a scientist,
discharged a primitive electrical battery
into the wire
, giving all
the monks a simultaneous electrical shock. “This
all sounds very silly, but is in fact
extremely important because, firstly,
they
all
said
‘ow’
which
showed
that
you
were
sending
a
signal
right
along the line; and,
secondly, they all said ‘ow’
at the
same time, and that
meant
that
you
were
sending
the
signal
very
quickly,
“explains
Tom
Standage,
author
of
the
Victorian
Internet
and
technology
editor
at
the
Economist. Given a more humane
detection system, this could be a way
of signaling over long distances.
B
With wars in Europe and colonies beyond, such a
signalling system
was
urgently
needed.
All
sorts
of
electrical
possibilities
were proposed,
some
of
them
quite
ridiculous.
Two
Englishmen,
William
Cooke
and
Charles
Wheatstone came up with a system in which dials
were made to
point at different
letters, but that involved five wires and would
have been
expensive to construct.
C
Much
simpler
was
that
of
an
American,
Samuel
Morse,
whose
system only required a single wire to
send a code of dots and dashes. At
first,
it
was
imagined
that
only
a
few
highly
skilled encoders
would be
able
to use
it
but
it soon
became
clear
that
many
people could become
proficient
in
Morse
code.
A
system
of
lines
strung
on
telegraph
poles
began to spread in Europe and America.
D
The next problem was to cross the sea. Britain, as
an island with an
empire,
led
the
way.
Any
such
cable
had
to
be
insulated
and
the
first
breakthrough
came
with
the
discovery
that
a
rubber-like
latex
from
a
tropical
tree on the Malay peninsula could do the trick. It
was called gutta
percha. The first
attempt at a cross channel cable came in 1850.
With thin
wire and thick installation,
it floated and had to be weighed down with
lead pipe.
E
It
never
worked
well
as
the
effect
of
water
on
its
electrical
properties was not understood, and it
is reputed that a French fishermen
hooked out a section and took it home
as a strange new form of seaweed
The
cable was too big for a single boat so two had to
start in the middle
of the Atlantic,
join their cables and sail in opposite directions.
Amazingly,
they
succeeded
in
1858,
and
this
enabled
Queen
Victoria
to
send
a
telegraph
message
to
President
Buchanan.
However,
the
98-word
message
took
more
than
19
hours
to
send
and
a
misguided
attempt
to
increase the speed by
increasing the voltage resulted in failure of the
line
a week later.
F
By
1870,
a
submarine
cable
was
heading
towards
Australia.
It
seemed likely that it
would come ashore at the northern port of Darwin
from
where
it
might
connect
around
the
coast
to
Queensland
and
New
South
Wales.
It
was
an
undertaking
more
ambitious
than
spanning
an
ocean. Flocks of sheep had to be driven
with the 400 workers to provide
food.
They needed horses and bullock carts and, for the
parched interior,
camels. In the north,
tropical rains left the teams flooded. In the
centre, it
seemed that they would die
of thirst. One critical section in the red heart