考试日期

2019年11月16日

Reading Passage 1

Title

Noise

Question types

Summary completion   5题

Matching features   5题

Multiple choice   3题

文章内容回顾

主要介绍了噪音污染的各类问题。

Questions 1-5

Complete the summary below.

choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the passage for each answer

Nowadays it seems difficult for people to avoid the effects of living in a noisy world. Noise is the sound beyond average of 1) 85 dBA referring to the agency's definition. Scientific studies over the years from the mid to the late 1990s have confirmed that exposure to certain levels of sound can cause damage 2) hearing on certain senior age.

From the testing of 5249 children, those who are constantly exposed to excessive noise may have trouble in 3) high-frequency sound discrimination. The effects of sound don’t stop with the ears, and exposure to noise may lead to unease of 4) stomach in healthy people. Europe has taken steps on the noise issue, and big cities of over 250,000 people are creating 5) noise map to help creating noise pollution policies.

Questions 6-10

Look at the following researchers and the list of findings below. Match each researcher with the correct finding.

List of people or organisations

A. WHO

B. William Luxford (the House Ear Clinic)

C. Carig Moulton (OSHA)

D. Arline Bronzaft

E. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

6. People can change the environment to improve hearing health -- B

7. vernments should continue the research on anti-noise researches with fund -- D

8. Companies should be required to protect the employees to avoid noise -- C

9. Noise has posed effect on American children's hearing ability -- E

10. Noise has seriously affected human beings -- A

Questions 11-13

11. The board of schools built close to the tracks are convinced to – 选C

A. moved the classrooms away from the noisy track

B. regulated the track usage to a less extent

C. utilized a special material into classroom buildings to lessen the effect of outside noise

D. organized a team for a follow-up study

12. In the European countries, the big cities focus on -- 选D

A. How to record pollution details of the city on maps

B. the impact of noise on population shift in the European cities

C. how wide can a city be to avoid noise pollution

D. helping the authorities better make a decision on management of the city

13. What is the best title of paragraph 1? 选C

A. How people cope with noise pollution

B. The fight against the noise with the powerful technology

C. The effects of living in a noisy world

D. The effects of noise on children’s learning

题型难度分析

文章本身不是很难，难度居中的题型较多，本文难度居中。

剑桥雅思推荐原文练习

剑9 Test 4 Passage 1

Reading Passage 2

Title

Electronic Reading

Question types

Multiple choice

Matching

文章内容回顾

主要讲述了屏幕对阅读的影响。

相关英文原文阅读

Electronic reading is any type of reading done using a portable digital device known as an electronic reader, or e-reader. As of late 2011, a number of book retailers and electronics manufacturers offer devices for electronic reading, and users can load these devices with reading material such as novels, textbooks, newspapers, and magazines. Advantages of electronic reading include the ability to store a large number of texts on a single, lightweight device and to access new texts instantly. On the downside, e-readers require charging, may present display issues, cannot be used during certain parts of air travel, and are not always compatible with every electronic text.

A variety of electronic reading devices exist, each which varies in its features and appearance. In general, however, e-readers are lightweight enough to be held in the hands for significant periods of time, and small enough that they can be easily tucked into a purse or briefcase. These devices are designed to offer an experience similar to that of reading a paper text while affording assorted features that cannot be provided by a traditional book, such as Internet capability and a paper-free status.

The front panel of most readers is taken up primarily by a screen which displays text that has been loaded onto the reader. During an electronic reading session, the user views a digital version of his chosen text on his reader’s display screen one page at a time, and turns pages by pressing a button or in some cases by tapping his reader’s screen. Most readers “bookmark” the user’s progress so that in subsequent sessions he can immediately begin reading from his previous endpoint.

There are several advantages to electronic reading as opposed to reading paper texts. First of all, most e-readers can store hundreds or even thousands of books, magazines, newspapers, and other texts, thus making them significantly more space-friendly than paper texts. The compact size of most readers also means that electronic reading can be easier on the wrists than traditional reading. Further, electronic texts are normally accessed via the Internet, meaning that e-reader users can acquire new texts in minutes. If the user’s e-reader has Internet capabilities, he can even download texts directly onto his device from any physical location with an available network.

It is important to note that electronic reading also has certain disadvantages. First of all, e-readers are generally equipped with either a monochromatic screen that lacks backlighting or a computer-style LCD screen. This first type of screen requires external lighting in dark conditions, while the second type is difficult to see in very bright conditions, and may cause eyestrain with prolonged use. Further, e-readers are powered by batteries that must be charged intermittently, and they generally cannot be used during the takeoff and landing portions of air travel. Finally, publishers have yet to establish a standard format for electronic texts, and consequently most e-texts are only compatible with certain e-readers.

题型难度分析

有较难的配对题，本篇文章难度较大。

题型技巧分析

单选题做题步骤：

(1)找出题干中的关键词，好先定位到原文中的一个段落，有时候题目中会直接标出在哪个段落，因此要注意审题。

(2)从头到尾*阅读该段落，根据题干中的其他关键词及选项确定正确答案。

(3)有些题目比较简单，可以直接选择。有些题目比较难，看每个选项都有点像，但又都不太像。这时，可以用排除法，先排除掉错误的选项，然后在剩下的选项中再做出选择。

(4)要注意顺序性，即题目的顺序和题目对应原文的顺序基本一致。

剑桥雅思推荐原文练习

剑6 Test 1 Passage 2

Reading Passage 3

Title

Self-respect

Question types

TRUE/FALSE/NOT GIVEN

Matching

Multiple Choice

文章内容回顾

主要讲述了自尊的历代研究。

相关英文原文阅读

The dismal fact is that self-respect has nothing to do with the approval of others — who are, after all, deceived easily enough; has nothing to do with reputation, which, as Rhett Butler told Scarlett O’Hara, is something people with courage can do without.

To do without self-respect, on the other hand, is to be an unwilling audience of one to an interminable documentary that deals with one’s failings, both real and imagined, with fresh footage spliced in for every screening. There’s the glass you broke in anger, there’s the hurt on X’s face; watch now, this next scene, the night Y came back from Houston, see how you muff this one. To live without self-respect is to lie awake some night, beyond the reach of warm milk, the Phenobarbital, and the sleeping hand on the coverlet, counting up the sins of commissions and omission, the trusts betrayed, the promises subtly broken, the gifts irrevocably wasted through sloth or cowardice, or carelessness. However long we postpone it, we eventually lie down alone in that notoriously uncomfortable bed, the one we make ourselves. Whether or not we sleep in it depends, of course, on whether or not we respect ourselves.

Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.

Self-respect is something that our grandparents, whether or not they had it, knew all about. They had instilled in them, young, a certain discipline, the sense that one lives by doing things one does not particularly want to do, by putting fears and doubts to one side, by weighing immediate comforts against the possibility of larger, even intangible, comforts.

Self-respect is a discipline, a habit of mind that can never be faked but can be developed, trained, coaxed forth. It was once suggested to me that, as an antidote to crying, I put my head in a paper bag. As it happens, there is a sound physiological reason, something to do with oxygen, for doing exactly that, but the psychological effect alone is incalculable: it is difficult in the extreme to continue fancying oneself Cathy in Wuthering Heights with one’s head in a Food Fair bag. There is a similar case for all the small disciplines, unimportant in themselves; imagine maintaining any kind of swoon, commiserative or carnal, in a cold shower.

To have that sense of one’s intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference. If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as to consort with us, so little perception as to remain blind to our fatal weaknesses. On the other, we are peculiarly in thrall to everyone we see, curiously determined to live out — since our self-image is untenable — their false notion of us. We flatter ourselves by thinking this compulsion to please others an attractive trait: a gist for imaginative empathy, evidence of our willingness to give. Of course I will play Francesca to your Paolo, Helen Keller to anyone’s Annie Sullivan; no expectation is too misplaced, no role too ludicrous. At the mercy of those we cannot but hold in contempt, we play roles doomed to failure before they are begun, each defeat generating fresh despair at the urgency of divining and meting the next demand made upon us.

It is the phenomenon sometimes called ‘alienation from self.’ In its advanced stages, we no longer answer the telephone, because someone might want something; that we could say no without drowning in self-reproach is an idea alien to this game. Every encounter demands too much, tears the nerves, drains the will, and the specter of something as small as an unanswered letter arouses such disproportionate guilt that answering it becomes out of the question. To assign unanswered letters their proper weight, to free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves — there lies the great, the singular power of self-respect. Without it, one eventually discovers the final turn of the screw: one runs away to find oneself, and finds no one at home.

题型难度分析

文章本身难度较大，所以本文难度偏大。

题型技巧分析

判断题做题流程：

1.先看清题目要求，是TURE/FALSE，还是YES/NO，答案必须写全称。

2.*划出定位词，以定位难易的顺序定为做题顺序。

3.判断。

TRUE / YES：题目中所有信息在原文中都可以得到证实，且证实与原文表述一致。

FALSE / NO：题目中有一处或多处信息与原文表述相悖。

NOT GIVEN：题目中有一处或多处信息在原文无法得到证实，其余信息都可在原文得到证实，且证实与原文表述一致。

答案分布规律：一般来说，若数量大于或等于三，则三种答案均会出现，NOT GIVEN 数量少，TURE/FALSE数量相当。

剑桥雅思推荐原文练习

剑5 Test 1 Passage 2

考试趋势分析和备考指导：

这次考试涉及到了较多的配对题，尤其是较难的段落标题配对题和段落信息配对题，而目前考试中，要么有信息配，要么有标题配，或者两种题型都有，因此考生在备考的时候应该多注意练习配对题。同时，判断题的出题频率仍然很高，对于这种主流题型，考生在备考的时候应该尽量*准确率，避免丢分。再就是本次考试有两篇文章难度较大，考生需要在平时刻意练习一下精读能力。