文档介绍：济南新航道学校
IELTS READING
雅思阅读
高分必备习题集
注:本习题集仅供济南新航道内部学员使用,严禁翻印,传阅。
Contents
Amateur naturalist 业余自然学家(P3)
Communicating Styles and Conflict 交流的方式与冲突(P6)
Health in the Wild 野生动物自愈.(p10)
The Rainmaker 人工造雨(P13)
Shoemaker-Levy 9 Collision with Jupiter 舒梅克彗星撞木星(P16)
A second look at twin studies 双胞胎研究(P19)
Transit of Venus 金星凌日(P22)
Placebo Effect—The Power of Nothing安慰剂效应(P25)
The origins of Laughter 笑的起源(P29)
Rainwater Harvesting 雨水收集(P32)
Serendipity:The Accidental Scientists科学偶然性(P36)
Terminated! Dinosaur Era! 恐龙时代的终结(P40)
TV ADDICTION 电视上瘾(P43)
EI nino and Seabirds 厄尔尼诺和水鸟(P46)
The extinct grass in Britain 英国灭绝的某种草(P50)
Education philosophy教育的哲学(P53)
The secret of Yawn打哈欠的秘密(P57)
consecutive and simultaneous translation交替传译和同声传译(P60)
Numeracy: can animals tell numbers?动物会数数么?(P63)
Going nowhere fast(P66)
The seedhunters种子收集者(P69)
The conquest of Malaria in Italy意大利征服疟疾(P72)
READING PASSAGE 1
You should spend about 20minutes on Questions 27-40 which are based on Reading Passage 3 below.
文章背景:
业余自然学家主要讲述的是有一些人,平时喜欢观察自然界的植物生长,养蜂过程,气候变化,等等与大自然相关的变化并且做记录得到一些数据,这种数据叫做“amateur data”. 本文主要介绍业余自然学家以及一些专业自然学家探讨业余自然学家的数据是否能用,以及应该如何使用这些自然学家的数据,其可信度有多少等问题。
Amateur Naturalists
From the results of an annual Alaskan betting contest to sightings of migratory birds, ecologists are using a wealth of unusual data to predict the impact of climate change.
A Tim Sparks slides a small leather-bound notebook out of an envelope. The book’s yellowing pages contain beekeeping notes made between 1941and 1969 by the late Walter Coates of Kilworth, Leicestershire. He adds it to his growing pile of local journals, birdwatchers’ list and gardening diaries. “We’re uncovering about one major new record each month,” he says, “I still get surprised.” Around two centuries before Coates, Robert Marsham, a landowner from Norfolk in the east of England, began recording the life cycles of plants and animals on his estate- when the first wood anemones flowered, the da