2017年8月26日雅思阅读考试回忆及解析

　　一、考试概述：

　　本次考试难度中等，三篇文章中两篇为新题，一篇为旧题。第一篇讲了关于霸王龙的相关知识，考察的题型也较为基础。第二篇讲了人的感官，第三篇则是关于电影的发展史，有些难度，匹配题需要当心。

　　很多考生表示，8 月 26 日的阅读部分的前两篇难度还可以，第三篇题目很难。所以同学们先拿到考卷的时候，要首先对试卷的文章个题目有个大致的了解，先挑自己有把握的做，然后再去纠结难的题目。

　　对于8 月 26 日的这场阅读考试来说，同学们就需要确保阅读的第一篇和第二篇的正确率，然后再做第三篇，这样就不会因为第三篇阅读浪费时间而导致前两篇阅读马虎，出现错误而丢分了。

　　二、具体题目分析

　　Passage 1：

　　题目： T-rex: Hunter or Scavenger?

　　题号：旧题

　　题型：判断+填空+匹配

　　参考原文：

　　T-rex: Hunter or Scavenger?

　　Jack Horner is an unlikely academic: his dyslexia is so bad that he has trouble reading a book. But he can read the imprint of life in sandstone or muddy shale across a distance of 100 years, and it is this gift that has made him curator of palaeontology at Montana State University’s Museum of the Rockies, the leader of a multi-million dollar scientific project to expose a complete slice of life 68 million years ago, and a consultant to Steven Spielberg and other Hollywood figures.

　　His father had a sand and gravel quarry in Montana, and the young Horner was a collec- tor of stones and bones, complete with notes about when and where he found them. “My father had owned a ranch when he was younger, in Montana,” he says. “He was enough of a geologist, being a sand and gravel man, to have a pretty good notion that they were dinosaur bones. So when I was eight years old he took me back to the area that had been his ranch, to where he had seen these big old bones. I picked up one. I am pretty sure it was the upper arm bone of a duckbilled dinosaur: it probably wasn’t a duckbilled dinosaur but closely related to that. I catalogued it, and took good care of it, and then later when I was in high school, excavated my first dinosaur skeleton. It obviously started earlier than eight and I literally have been driven ever since. I feel like I was born this way.”

　　Horner spent seven years at university, but never graduated. “I have a learning disability, I would call it a learning difference — dyslexia, they call it — and I just had a terrible time with English and foreign languages and things like that. For a degree in geology or biology they required two years of a foreign language. There was no way in the world I could do that. In fact, I didn’t really pass English. So I couldn’t get a degree, I just wasn’t capable of it. But I took all of the courses required and I wrote a thesis and I did all sorts of things. So I have the education, I just don’t have the piece of paper.” he says.

　　Passage2：

　　Possible Ideas:

　　Body 1:

　　人口越来越多，竞争越来越激烈，对于无工作经验的大学生，突出的专业水平无疑是步入职场的前提。

　　Body 2:

　　相比较小学、中学的通识教育，大学是绝大多数年轻人转变身份钱的最后阶段，所以大学也应为应对职场需求做准备。

　　Conclusion:

　　不仅过硬的专业知识，相配套的的职场能力也可在大学阶段通过校内校外活动培养。

　　Knowledge restoration; be entitled to; feasible to acquire knowledge; in favor of; unfair society; be tampered with; look up; stress the supervision; mislead by the massive knowledge; enrich knowledge

　　2012.02.25旧题，难度较低

　　2009.10.24A类考题：

　　Some people think the function of university education is to prepare students for employment, but others believe university education can offer many other functions.

　　Discuss both views and give your own opinion.

　　9月份考生可多关注社会、媒体、教育类话题。