雅思阅读如何实现从6分到7分
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雅思阅读 如何实现从6分到7分?
现阶段已经稳定达到雅思6分以上水平,目标在雅思7分及以上的同学,基本上对雅思阅读的题型和做题思路和方法已经比较熟悉(如果你对题型不熟,也达到了这个分数,那么告诉你一个好消息,题型熟了以后你的阅读分数就会非常高);
同时具备了至少5000-6000的词汇水平,能够较好地理解题目和文章核心部分;雅思剑桥真题也已经刷了不少,具备了较多的做题经验。而想要有更进一步的提高,这些同学还需要做到:处理好时间与正确率的关系;拒绝钻牛角尖;揣摩出题人的意图。
处理好时间与正确率的关系
经常听同学们吐槽,再给我十分钟,我就能把题目做对。时间把控确实是不少同学的心病,往往因为时间没有有效把控,导致题目和文章中的同意替换没有理解透彻,或者由于考场上被刻意营造出来的紧张氛围而阵脚大乱,心理防线崩盘,造成分数不理想。
阅读考试中的速度有两部分:阅读文章的速度和审题做题的速度。同学们需要分别提升这两种速度。
首先说一下审题做题的速度,这一点没有特别的好办法,只有“逼自己”。一方面逼自己扎实巩固词汇量和长难句的分析能力(雅思阅读中的长难句绝大多数可以依靠国内高中水平的语法知识分析理解,如果对这方面有困难则需要回炉梳理语法知识),另一方面就是在平时的练习中逼自己控制时间,通常情况下,13-14道题目的审题时间控制在3分钟以内,第一篇阅读完成时间在15-18分钟以内(不建议太快,有同学可能15分钟内就能完成第一篇,但是一定要保证准确率,不然还是放慢一点),第二篇18-20分钟以内,第三篇23分钟左右。
以上都是我们在平时的练习中需要达到的基本时间要求,这样的话才会在真实的考场上游刃有余,帮助缓解紧张的心态。
其次是阅读文章的速度,众所周知在考试中,文章内容并非需要一字不差的看完,如何准确略掉与做题无关或者不影响理解的内容,需要结合文章段落内部的逻辑结构和语法框架,审时度势。
拒绝钻牛角尖
到了六分水平以后,很多同学在做阅读,尤其是判断题时,特别喜欢“抬杠”,抬答案的杠,而我一向以为这是一种浪费时间的无效动作。这种抬杠现象的背后,一方面是考生对于文章和题目都有了比较清晰的认知,并且勇于思考,这是一种进步的表现,但是也体现了对英语逻辑思维的不熟悉,以及对于雅思阅读根据同意替换做题这一精髓还未能完全悟透。
一旦出现错题,在确定印刷出版无误之后,考生的正确姿势应该是及时给自己“洗脑”,而不是继续按照自己的思维去理解题目了。尽管两种语言思维确有差异,但我们为了将雅思题目做对,是不是应该顺从英语思维或者出题人的思维呢?
继续坚持自己的看法是不可能改变任何现状的。如果我们愿意低下自己高贵的头颅,在平时的练习和考试中顺从模仿英语思维,去理解答案的出处,久而久之,当我们也形成了类似的英语思维,那么选出正确答案就变得顺理成章。
揣摩出题人的意图
我们埋头刷题的目的是什么?为了熟悉题型,为了积累同意替换,为了锻炼速度。但还有一个目的可能对我们阅读能力的质的提升有重大帮助,就是领会出题人的意图。同学们有空可以尝试先不做题,只看文章。比如这段话,划出你认为比较重要的三点信息。
The Phoenicians inhabited the region of modern Lebanon and Syria from about 3000 BC. They became the greatest traders of the pre-classical world, and were the first people to establish a large colonial network. Both of these activities were based on seafaring, an ability the Phoenicians developed from the example of their maritime predecessors, the Minoans of Crete.
如果你划了the greatest traders/ colonial network/ seafaring,恭喜你,几乎练就阅读神功了。此三点都是出题点。
有一些刷过很多真题的同学可能会有这样的感觉:在看文章时,能够直接察觉文章内部有一些内容很可能是出题点,当开始审题时,他们会发现刚才的出题点确实出题了。
如果有同学具备了这种猜透出题人心思的能力,那么距离阅读高分已经近在咫尺了,而这种能力是需要大量刷题并且对题目和对应答案句进行细致精读后积累出来的思维惯性。
刷题一定要带脑子,审题一定要会预判,努力思考题目中可能的同意替换点,可能在文章中出现的同意替换表达。做题一定要尝试反推,题目所对应的段落可能包含什么样的信息。
雅思阅读模拟练习及答案
Rogue theory of smell gets a boost
1. A controversial theory of how we smell, which claims that our fine sense of odour depends on quantum mechanics, has been given the thumbs up by a team of physicists.
2. Calculations by researchers at University College London (UCL) show that the idea that we smell odour molecules by sensing their molecular vibrations makes sense in terms of the physics involved.
3. That’s still some way from proving that the theory, proposed in the mid-1990s by biophysicist Luca Turin, is correct. But it should make other scientists take the idea more seriously.
4. “This is a big step forward,” says Turin, who has now set up his own perfume company Flexitral in Virginia. He says that since he published his theory, “it has been ignored rather than criticized.”
5. Most scientists have assumed that our sense of smell depends on receptors in the nose detecting the shape of incoming molecules, which triggers a signal to the brain. This molecular ’lock and key’ process is thought to lie behind a wide range of the body’s detection systems: it is how some parts of the immune system recognise invaders, for example, and how the tongue recognizes some tastes.
6. But Turin argued that smell doesn’t seem to fit this picture very well. Molecules that look almost identical can smell very different — such as alcohols, which smell like spirits, and thiols, which smell like rotten eggs. And molecules with very different structures can smell similar. Most strikingly, some molecules can smell different — to animals, if not necessarily to humans — simply because they contain different isotopes (atoms that are chemically identical but have a different mass)。
7. Turin’s explanation for these smelly facts invokes the idea that the smell signal in olfactory receptor proteins is triggered not by an odour molecule’s shape, but by its vibrations, which can enourage an electron to jump between two parts of the receptor in a quantum-mechanical process called tunnelling. This electron movement could initiate the smell signal being sent to the brain.
8. This would explain why isotopes can smell different: their vibration frequencies are changed if the atoms are heavier. Turin’s mechanism, says Marshall Stoneham of the UCL team, is more like swipe-card identification than a key fitting a lock.
9. Vibration-assisted electron tunnelling can undoubtedly occur — it is used in an experimental technique for measuring molecular vibrations. “The question is whether this is possible in the nose,” says Stoneham’s colleague, Andrew Horsfield.
10. Stoneham says that when he first heard about Turin’s idea, while Turin was himself based at UCL, “I didn’t believe it”。 But, he adds, “because it was an interesting idea, I thought I should prove it couldn’t work. I did some simple calculations, and only then began to feel Luca could be right.” Now Stoneham and his co-workers have done the job more thoroughly, in a paper soon to be published in Physical Review Letters.
11. The UCL team calculated the rates of electron hopping in a nose receptor that has an odorant molecule bound to it. This rate depends on various properties of the biomolecular system that are not known, but the researchers could estimate these parameters based on typical values for molecules of this sort.
12. The key issue is whether the hopping rate with the odorant in place is significantly greater than that without it. The calculations show that it is — which means that odour identification in this way seems theoretically possible.
13. But Horsfield stresses that that’s different from a proof of Turin’s idea. “So far things look plausible, but we need proper experimental verification. We’re beginning to think about what experiments could be performed.”
14. Meanwhile, Turin is pressing ahead with his hypothesis. “At Flexitral we have been designing odorants exclusively on the basis of their computed vibrations,” he says. “Our success rate at odorant discovery is two orders of magnitude better than the competition.” At the very least, he is putting his money where his nose is.
雅思阅读模拟练习及答案
Questions 1-4
Do the following statements agree with the information given in the passage? Please write
TRUE if the statement agrees with the writer
FALSE if the statement does not agree with the writer
NOT GIVEN if there is no information about this in the passage
1. The result of the study at UCL agrees with Turin’s theory.
2. The study at UCL could conclusively prove what Luca Turin has hypothesized.
3. Turin left his post at UCL and started his own business because his theory was ignored.
4. The molecules of alcohols and those of thiols look alike.
Questions 5-9
Complete the sentences below with words from the passage. Use NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.
5. The hypothesis that we smell by sensing the molecular vibration was made by ______.
6. Turin’s company is based in ______.
7. Most scientists believed that our nose works in the same way as our ______.
8. Different isotopes can smell different when ______ weigh differently.
9. According to Audrew Horsfield, it is still to be proved that ______ could really occur in human nose.
Question 10-12
Answer the questions below using NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the passage for each answer.
10. What’s the name of the researcher who collaborated with Stoneham?
11. What is the next step of the UCL team’s study?
12. What is the theoretical basis in designing odorants in Turin’s company?
Answer Keys and Explanations
1. T 见第一段。“give sth the thumbs up”为“接受“的意思。
2. F 见第三段。 “That’s still some way from proving that the theory, proposed in the mid- 1990s by biophysicist Luca Turin, is correct.”意即“现在尚无法证实生物物理学家Luca在九十年代中期提出的理论是否正确。”
3. NG
4. T 见第六段 “Molecules that look almost identical can smell very different — such as alcohols, which smell like spirits, and thiols, which smell like rotten eggs.”“identical” 一词是“完全相同”的意思。这句话是说alcohols和thiols的分子结构看起来一样,但是它们的味道却相去甚远。
5. Luca Turin 文章第二,三和七段均可看出Luca的理论即人类的鼻子是通过感觉气味分子的震动来分辨气味的。
6. Virginia 见第四段。
7. tongue 见第五段 “This molecular ’lock and key’ process is thought to lie behind a wide range of the body’s detection systems: it is how some parts of the immune system recognise invaders, for example, and how the tongue recognizes some tastes.”
8. the atoms 见第八段 “This would explain why isotopes can smell different: their vibration frequencies are changed if the atoms are heavier.”
9. vibration-assisted electron tunneling 见第九段 ““The question is whether this is possible in the nose,” says Stoneham’s colleague, Andrew Horsfield.” 句中的代词“this”指句首的“vibration-assisted electron tunneling”。
10. Andrew Horsfield 见第九段结尾。
11.proper experimental verification 见第十三段。
12.their computed vibrations 见第十四段