常州朗阁2019年2月23日雅思考试回顾

 

　　口语篇

 

　　Part1题目汇总(加粗题为高频题)

 

　　NameHometown

 

　　Work or studyAccommodation

 

　　The area you live inHistory

 

　　AdvertisementSports

 

　　HouseworkTea/Coffee

 

　　Email or letterPet

 

　　Crowded PlaceMusic

 

　　StarsGift

 

　　Photos Transport

 

　　MoviesShoes

 

　　SkyWatch

 

　　ColorsPublic Holidays

 

　　Part2题目汇总(加粗题为高频题)

 

　　人物类：

 

　　Describe someone you would like to study or work with

 

　　Describe a person who helps to protect the environment

 

　　Describe a person you have seen who is beautiful or handsome

 

　　Describe an old person who is interesting

 

　　Describe an interesting person that you would like to meet

 

　　Describe a person when you wanted to be similar to when you were growing up

 

　　Describe an intelligent person you know

 

　　Describe a teenager that you know

 

　　地点类：

 

　　Describe an ideal house

 

　　Describe an interesting part of your country

 

　　Describe a beautiful city that you know

 

　　Describe a place that you study

 

　　Describe a newly built public facility (such as parks, cinemas etc.) that influences

 

　　your city

 

　　物品类：

 

　　Describe something lost by others but found by you

 

　　Describe a good law in your country

 

　　Describe a book

 

　　Describe a language (except English) that you want to learn

 

　　Describe a healthy lifestyle you know

 

　　Describe a party that you joined

 

　　Describe a historical period you like to know

 

　　Describe a kind of food people eat during a special event

 

　　Describe your grandparent’s job

 

　　Describe a piece of good news you heard

 

　　Describe a kind of outdoor sport that you played for the first time

 

　　Describe a subject you used to dislike but now have interest in

 

　　事件类：

 

　　Describe a historical period that you want to know more

 

　　Describe a time you enjoyed your free time

 

　　Describe an activity that you do when you are alone in your free time

 

　　Describe a time when you looked for information on the Internet

 

　　Describe a time when someone gave you money as a gift

 

　　Describe an occasion that you borrowed something from friends or family members

 

　　Describe something you do to help your study or work

 

　　Describe a situation when you didn’t have enough time for

 

　　Describe an important decision you made with the help of others

 

　　Describe a vacation (trip) (away from home) you would like to have in the future

 

　　Describe a complaint that you are satisfied with the result

 

　　朗阁名师点评：

 

　　Part 1:

 

　　个人基本信息类的考点依旧是热门话题，工作or学习，住所，家乡类的熟练度一定要高，做到张口即来。 另一方面，运动，音乐，明星，颜色等个人喜好类的话题也很常见，在回答这类问题上根据个人的倾向进行表达就可以了。

 

　　Part2：

 

　　Part2中事件类话题依然是热门题型，旅行，运动，饮食生活类的要多准备素材。物品类的话题也要多关注，同时要注意表达物品和自己之间的联系。同时在素材的运用上，要注意结合个人感受，切勿生搬硬套。整体上来说，话题偏向生活化，大家要多关注生活。

 

　　考试建议：

 

　　口语不是闷声发大财，因此要想提升口语，必须要多说多练，同时可以看一些英文演说，改进自己的发音，语调和节奏感。另外在上课记笔记的同时，可以结合生活经历，加入自己的理解，这样可以提升在表达时的带入感，更好的表现自己，祝大家考试顺利~~

 

　　听力篇

 

　　场景话题：

 

　　S1租新办公场地 / S2学校庆典活动 / S3 literature研究/ S4 highway 311 trip

 

　　题型设置：

 

　　S1 填空/ S2 单选+地图 / S3 暂缺/ S4填空

 

　　朗阁讲师点评：

 

　　☆本次考试难度偏难，S3难度较大。

 

　　☆本场考试答案(仅供参考)如下：

 

　　S1：1.manager; 2.station; 3.40; 4.May; 5.12000; 6.booths; 7.boards; 8.storeroom; 9.kitchen; 10.river

 

　　S2:

 

　　11.A drama;

 

　　12.C Pink car park;

 

　　13.B Woodford south street;

 

　　14.C leaflet;

 

　　15.A cutlery;

 

　　16.H;

 

　　17.E;

 

　　18.D;

 

　　19.B ;

 

　　20.C;

 

　　S3暂缺.

 

　　S4:

 

　　registration; telephones; ecology; insects; repair; forests; pools; documentation; pollution; (注：S4答案及顺序不完全准确)

 

　　☆ 本次考试填空题的词汇拼写难度中等，均为听力高频词，注意booths, documentation, registration的拼写。填空方面要尤其注意大小写、单词拼写以及单复数问题。

 

　　☆本次考试，涉及地图题的配对，注意地图题的做题技巧。

 

　　☆S3难度大，语速快，听懂困难，注意平时做针对性练习。

 

　　☆参考剑桥练习：剑13Test3 Section1; 剑11Test2 Section2; 剑12Test2 Section3; 剑12 Test1 Section4

 

　　☆备注： 本场考试2新2旧，考题难度中等偏难。

 

　　题型方面：

 

　　S1：填空，常规考点，注意单词拼写、大小写和字母辨音、信号词使用问题;

 

　　S2：选择+地图，地图以配对形式出现，注意地图题的做题技巧。选择题注意同义替换和信号词听取;

 

　　S4：填空，常规难度，注意填空单复数和单词拼写。

 

　　考试预测：

 

　　1. 场景方面：场景方面依旧是主流场景(租房、校园活动、学术讨论、学术讲座)，在接下来的考试中，考生还应将重点放在S1咨询，面试，租房 S2旅游，活动、课程及公共场所设施介绍，S3课程讨论及导师辅导，S4历史地理，公共百科等各类学术讲座。

 

　　2. 题型：本次考试题型较为常规，但S3语速过快，平时可做提速练习。

 

　　3. 机经：如需参考机经，以2011-2014年机经为主。

 

　　写作篇

 

　　小作文：动态饼图

 

　　大作文：Some people hold that we should spend a mount of time and money on the protection of wild animals. Some people argue that they should be spent on human populations. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

 

　　朗阁讲师点评：

 

　　1. 本次考试难度中等。

 

　　2. 整体分析：

 

　　Task 1：动态饼图

 

　　注意：1.注意时态;2.必须要描述趋势的变化，上升，下降以及保持不变的多样性表达;3. 相关数据之间的对比;

 

　　4.需要在第二段或者结尾段总结数据的总体特征(overview),可根据个人写作习惯选择

 

　　相关表达：

 

　　上升、下降的相关表达：

 

　　上升grow, climb, soar, increase, rise, boom

 

　　上升到 使用介词to

 

　　上升了(差额)使用介词by

 

　　下降 drop, fall, sink, dip, decrease, decline, slump, reduce

 

　　相同 be similar to; be comparable with; be matched with

 

　　保持不变：level out, stay unchanged, stabilize at

 

　　程度 dramatically, significantly, progressively, gradually, sharply; hugely; enormously; steeply; substantially, considerably, slightly, slowly, moderately, minimally

 

　　Task 2 动植物类话题

 

　　题目翻译：有些人认为我们应该花时间和金钱去保护野生动物。而一些人认为这些时间和金钱应该花在人类身上。在何种程度上你同意或者不同意?

 

　　从结构上来说，可以通过四段完成写作任务：

 

　　开头段：改写题目+给出个人观点(野生动物和人类是平等的，都需要被关注)

 

　　主体段一：为什么野生动物需要被保护?

 

　　主体段二：为什么需要关注人类的问题?

 

　　结尾段：总结并重申个人观点

 

　　Introduction:

 

　　众所周知，在我们地球上每天都有物种灭绝species die out everyday，于是有人提出money and time should be spent in protecting wild animals. However, other people reckon that they are better spent on humans. As far as I am concerned, wild animals are equally significant compared with mankind.

 

　　Body 1:

 

　　1. 野生动物的存在可以维持生态平衡retain ecological balance，然而每天都在发生以牟利为目的的伤害野生动物的行为kill or hurt wild animals for the purpose of gaining massive profits，这是非常不人道的inhumane/cruel,并且这加剧accelerate了物种的灭绝species extinction 以及减少了物种的多样性reduce biodiversity。

 

　　比如非法的皮草，象牙等交易illegal trade in fur and ivory

 

　　2.野生动物是大自然的产物，product of nature,自然界是由许多复杂的生态系统构成的consist of all sorts of complex ecological systems。举例：一种植物消失了，以这种植物为食的昆虫就会消失，紧接着以这种昆虫为食的鸟类将会饿死;鸟类的死亡又会对其他动物产生影响。所以，大规模野生动物毁灭mass destruction of wild animals 会引起一系列连锁反应domino effect，产生严重后果。

 

　　Body 2:

 

　　当然，我们也必须承认人类也面临很严峻的问题，比如说：环境污染environmental pollution，交通拥挤traffic congestion，住房短缺housing shortage等等，而这些问题的解决也是迫在眉睫urgent的。就环境问题而言，空气污染日益严重increasingly severe，在很多发展中国家，由于其重视工业发展，忽视有毒气体toxic gas的安全排放 safe discharge，导致其空气质量一直处于低水平，甚至有些城市一年365天中有260天遭受重度污染suffer from serious air pollution，成为了人们身体健康的主要威胁 major threat to physical health

 

　　Conclusion:

 

　　In conclusion，野生动物目前的处境与人类一样危险，因此需要得到同等的关怀。为了保护野生动物，可以设立自然保护区 create more nature reserves,而人类问题的解决主要依靠政府立法government legislation以及人类自己环保意识的提高 improve the public’s awareness of environmental protection

 

　　考试预测：

 

　　1.小作文：重点关注数据图和流程图。

 

　　2.大作文：重点关注科技类和环保类话题。

 

　　阅读篇

 

　　P1 丝绸(参考C11T3P1)

 

　　P2 Mammoth Kill 猛犸象的灭绝 (20110813)

 

　　P3 天赋与练习 (20160130)

 

　　朗阁讲师点评：

 

　　1. 本次考试整体程度属中上等。

 

　　2. 整体分析：涉及历史文化类(P1)动物类(P2)和人文社科类(P3)

 

　　3. 主要题型：2月底的最后一场考试在重点题型和题型搭配组合上延续了今年考试的重点，主流基础题型依然为填空类和判断题。其中，三篇文章后皆出现了对填空类的考察，总计14题左右，值得注意的是P3仍延续了自2月首场14日及16日考次以来考官偏爱的词库型Summary。此外，判断题则保持近期一贯两组10题左右出题风格，为 P1—T/F/NG(6道)及P3—Y/N/NG(6道)。而乱序匹配题本考次中延续上场回归趋势，在P2中大量同时考察段落细节配对和人名理论配对(共10道)，增加了考试难度。而前两场皆出现的Heading标题配对在本场考试中缺失。另外，本次雅思阅读考试中仍旧在P3中保留对单选题的考察(4道)。

 

　　P1丝绸

 

　　文章主旨：讲述丝绸产业的发展历程

 

　　填空7 + 判断 6

 

　　参考答案：待补充

 

　　相似主题文章参考：C11T3P1

 

　　THE STORY OF SILK

 

　　The history of the world’s most luxurious fabric, from ancient China to the present day.

 

　　Silk is a fine, smooth material produced from the cocoons — soft protective shells — that are made by mulberry silkworms (insect larvae). Legend has it that it was Lei Tzu, wife of the Yellow Emperor, ruler of China in about 3000 BC, who discovered silkworms. One account of the story goes that as she was taking a walk in her husband’s gardens, she discovered that silkworms were responsible for the destruction of several mulberry trees. She collected a number of cocoons and sat down to have a rest. It just so happened that while she was sipping some tea, one of the cocoons that she had collected landed in the hot tea and started to unravel into a fine thread. Lei Tzu found that she could wind this thread around her fingers. Subsequently, she persuaded her husband to allow her to rear silkworms on a grove of mulberry trees. She also devised a special reel to draw the fibres from the cocoon into a single thread so that they would be strong enough to be woven into fabric. While it is unknown just how much of this is true, it is certainly known that silk cultivation has existed in China for several millennia.

 

　　Originally, silkworm farming was solely restricted to women, and it was they who were responsible for the growing, harvesting and weaving. Silk quickly grew into a symbol of status, and originally, only royalty were entitled to have clothes made of silk. The rules were gradually relaxed over the years until finally during the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911 AD), even peasants, the lowest caste, were also entitled to wear silk. Sometime during the Han Dynasty (206 BC-220 AD), silk was so prized that it was also used as a unit of currency. Government officials were paid their salary in silk, and farmers paid their taxes in grain and silk. Silk was also used as diplomatic gifts by the emperor. Fishing lines, bowstrings, musical instruments and paper were all made using silk. The earliest indication of silk paper being used was discovered in the tomb of a noble who is estimated to have died around 168 AD.

 

　　Demand for this exotic fabric eventually created the lucrative trade route now known as the Silk Road, taking silk westward and bringing gold, silver and wool to the East. It was named the Silk Road after its most precious commodity, which was considered to be worth more than gold. The Silk Road stretched over 6,000 kilometres from Eastern China to the Mediterranean Sea, following the Great Wall of China, climbing the Pamir mountain range, crossing modern-day Afghanistan and going on to the Middle East, with a major trading market in Damascus. From there, the merchandise was shipped across the Mediterranean Sea. Few merchants travelled the entire route; goods were handled mostly by a series of middlemen.

 

　　With the mulberry silkworm being native to China, the country was the world’s sole producer of silk for many hundreds of years. The secret of silk-making eventually reached the rest of the world via the Byzantine Empire, which ruled over the Mediterranean region of southern Europe, North Africa and the Middle East during the period 330-1453 AD. According to another legend, monks working for the Byzantine emperor Justinian smuggled silkworm eggs to Constantinople (Istanbul in modern-day Turkey) in 550 AD, concealed inside hollow bamboo walking canes. The Byzantines were as secretive as the Chinese, however, and for many centuries the weaving and trading of silk fabric was a strict imperial monopoly. Then in the seventh century, the Arabs conquered Persia, capturing their magnificent silks in the process. Silk production thus spread through Africa, Sicily and Spain as the Arabs swept through these lands. Andalusia in southern Spain was Europe’s main silk-producing centre in the tenth century. By the thirteenth century, however, Italy had become Europe’s leader in silk production and export. Venetian merchants traded extensively in silk and encouraged silk growers to settle in Italy. Even now, silk processed in the province of Como in northern Italy enjoys an esteemed reputation.

 

　　The nineteenth century and industrialisation saw the downfall of the European silk industry. Cheaper Japanese silk, trade in which was greatly facilitated by the opening of the Suez Canal, was one of the many factors driving the trend. Then in the twentieth century, new manmade fibres, such as nylon, started to be used in what had traditionally been silk products, such as stockings and parachutes. The two world wars, which interrupted the supply of raw material from Japan, also stifled the European silk industry. After the Second World War, Japan’s silk production was restored, with improved production and quality of raw silk. Japan was to remain the world’s biggest producer of raw silk, and practically the only major exporter of raw silk, until the 1970s. However, in more recent decades, China has gradually recaptured its position as the world’s biggest producer and exporter of raw silk and silk yarn. Today, around 125,000 metric tons of silk are produced in the world, and almost two thirds of that production takes place in China.

 

　　P2 Mammoth Kill 猛犸象的灭绝

 

　　文章主旨: 对于远古野生动物猛犸象尸体研究

 

　　Matching段落细节配对题 + Matching人名理论配对题 + 句子填空3

 

　　参考答案: 待补充

 

　　参考文章

 

　　Mammoth Kill

 

　　Mammoth is any species of the extinct genus Mammuthus, proboscideans commonly equipped with long, curved tusks and in northern species, a covering of long hair. They lived from the Ptiocene epoch from around 5 million years ago, into the Hotocene at about 4,500 years ago, and were members of the family Elephantidae, which contains, along with mammoths, the two genera of modern elephants and their ancestors.

 

　　A

 

　　Like their modern relatives, mammoths were quite large. The largest known species reached heights in the region of 4m at the shoulder and weights up t0 8 tonnes, while exceptionally large males may have exceeded 12 tonnes. However, most species of mammoth were only about as large as a modern Asian elephant. Both sexes bore tusks. A first, small set appeared at about the age of six months and these were replaced at about 18 months by the permanent set. Growth of the permanent set was at a rate of about l t0 6 inches per year. Based on studies of their close relatives, the modem elephants, mammoths probably had a gestation period of 22 months, resulting in a single calf being born. Their social structure was probably the same as that of African and Asian elephants, with females living in herds headed by a matriarch, whilst hulls lived solitary lives or formed loose groups after sexual maturity.

 

　　B

 

　　MEXICO CITY-Although it’s hard to imagine in this age of urban sprawl and automobiles, North America once belonged to mammoths, camels, ground sloths as large as cows, bear-size beavers and other formidable beasts. Some 11,000 years ago, however, these large bodied mammals and others-about 70 species in all-disappeared. Their demise coincided roughly with the arrival of humans in the New World and dramatic climatic change-factors that have inspired several theories about the die-off. Yet despite decades of scientific investigation, the exact cause remains a mystery. Now new findings offer support to one of these controversial hypotheses: that human hunting drove this megafaunal menagerie ( 巨型动物兽群)to extinction. The overkill model emerged in the 1960s, when it was put forth by Paul S. Martin of the University of Arizona. Since then, critics have charged that no evidence exists to support the idea that the first Americans hunted to the extent necessary to cause these extinctions. But at the annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology in Mexico City last October, paleoecologist John Alroy of the University of California at Santa Barbara argued that, in fact, hunting-driven extinction is not only plausible, it was unavoidable. He has determined, using a computer simulation that even a very modest amount of hunting would have wiped these animals out.

 

　　C

 

　　Assuming an initial human population of 100 people that grew no more than 2 percent annually, Alroy determined that if each band of, say, 50 people killed 15 to 20 large mammals a year, humans could have eliminated the animal populations within 1,000 years. Large mammals in particular would have been vulnerable to the pressure because they have longer gestation periods than smaller mammals and their young require extended care.

 

　　D

 

　　Not everyone agrees with Alroy’s assessment. For one, the results depend in part on population-size estimates for the extinct animals-figures that are not necessarily reliable. But a more specific criticism comes from mammalogist Ross D. E. MacPhee of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, who points out that the relevant archaeological record contains barely a dozen examples of stone points embedded in mammoth bones (and none, it should be noted, are known from other megafaunal remains)-hardly what one might expect if hunting drove these animals to extinction. Furthermore, some of these species had huge rangesthe giant Jefferson’s ground sloth, for example, lived as far north as the Yukon and as far south as Mexicowhich would have made slaughtering them in numbers sufficient to cause their extinction rather implausible, he says.

 

　　E

 

　　MacPhee agrees that humans most likely brought about these extinctions (as well as others around the world that coincided with human arrival), but not directly. Rather he suggests that people may have introduced hyperlethal disease, perhaps through their dogs or hitchhiking vermin, which then spread wildly among the immunologically naive species of the New World. As in the overkill model, populations of large mammals would have a harder time recovering. Repeated outbreaks of a hyperdisease could thus quickly drive them to the point of no return. So far MacPhee does not have empirical evidence for the hyperdisease hypothesis, and it won’t be easy to come by: hyperlethal disease would kill far too quickly to leave its signature on the bones themselves. But he hopes that analyses of tissue and DNA from the last mammoths to perish will eventually reveal murderous microbes.

 

　　F

 

　　The third explanation for what brought on this North American extinction does not involve human beings. Instead, its proponents blame the loss on the weather. The Pleistocene epoch witnessed considerable climatic instability, explains paleontologist Russell W. Graham of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. As a result, certain habitats disappeared, and species that had once formed communities split apart. For some animals, this change brought opportunity. For much of the megafauna, however, the increasingly homogeneous environment left them with shrinking geographical ranges-a death sentence for large animals, which need large ranges. Although these creatures managed to maintain viable populations through most of the Pleistocene, the final major fluctuation-the so-called Younger Dryas eventpushed them over the edge, Graham says. For his part, Alroy is convinced that human hunters demolished the titans of the Ice Age. The overkill model explains everything the disease and climate scenarios explain, he asserts, and makes accurate predictions about which species would eventually go extinct. “Personally, I’m a vegetarian,” he remarks, “and I find all of this kind of gross-but believable.”

 

　　P3 天赋与练习

 

　　文章主旨: 天赋是遗传先天的还是靠练习，主要以音乐为例讨论坚持不懈对成功的作用和他们的关系。在论证天才是不是也需要坚持不懈时，举例了莫扎特一个人坚持的过程，最后证明了坚持不懈和成功的关系密切。

 

　　单选 4 + 判断 6 + Summary (词库型)4

 

　　参考答案:

 

　　原文及答案待补充

 

　　考试预测：

 

　　1. 本场考试总体中等偏上，文章选材涉及历史文化类、动物类和人文社科类，考生可在备考时关注相应高频主题词。

 

　　2. 此次考试中，三篇文章皆有相似旧题可循。第一篇可参考剑11Test3Passage1，第二篇为20110813机经旧题改动，而Passage3可参照20160130阅读机经。鉴于此，考生复习备考时可借机经熟悉雅思阅读真题文章行文思路和逻辑，辅助深化理解。

 

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