1月9日雅思閱讀真題答案解析

1、1月 9 日雅思閱讀真題答案解析一、考試概述：本次新年的第一場考試又是 AB 卷。A 卷第一篇話題 講了生物的生存不確定性， 第二篇介紹了音樂的力量， 第三篇講了課 堂大小對于學(xué)習(xí)效果的影響。 的話題是兩新一舊， 第一篇內(nèi)容為古生 物化石，第二篇是情緒影響人的行為，第三篇是兒童文學(xué)二、具體題目分析A 卷 Passage 1：題目： Living with uncertainty題型：判斷 7+簡答 6題號：新題答案： 1-7判斷題 1 FALSE2 TRUE3 NOT GIVEN4 TRUE5 NOT GIVEN6FALSE7 TRUE8-13 簡答題8 lit fires9 saltbush

2、10 European farming11 wheat12 pear13 Tellers （目前無明確回憶，答案僅供參考 ）Passage 2：題目： The power of music題型：段落信息匹配 5+Summary 4+人名配理論 4 文章大意：待補(bǔ)充答案： 14-18信息配段落 14. D15. I16. C17. F18. E19-22 Summary without word list19 physical health20 disabled21 brain scans22 walking23-26人名配理論 23 C24 B25 A26 A（答案僅供參考 ）Passage

3、3：題名： Does class size matter?題型：段落信息匹配 5+分類配對 9文章大意： 待補(bǔ)充答案： 27-31段落信息匹配 27 D28 E29 A30 C31 B32-40 Classification32 A33 C34 B35 C36 A37 C38 A39 B40 A（目前無明確回憶，答案僅供參考 ）B卷 Passage 1：題目： The History of building telegraph lines題型：判斷 6+簡答 7文章大意：電報(bào)的發(fā)展史相似文章：A The idea of electrical communication seems to hav

4、e begun as long ago as 1746, when about 200 monks at monastery in Paris arranged themselves in a line over a mile long, each holding ends of 25 ft iron wires. The abbot, also a scientist, discharged a primitive electrical battery into the wire, giving all the monks a simultaneous electrical shock. a

5、ll sounds very silly, but is in fact extremely important because, firstly, they all said ow'wh ich showed that you were sending a signal right along the line; and, secondly, they all said ow' at the same time, and that meant that you were sending the signal very quickly, “ explainsT om Stand

6、age, author of the Victorian Internet and technology editor at the Economist. Given a more humane detection system, this could be a way of signaling over long distances.B With wars in Europe and colonies beyond, such a signalling system was urgently needed. All sorts of electrical possibilities were

7、 proposed, some of them quite ridiculous. Two Englishmen, William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone came up with a system in which dials were made to point at different letters, but that involved five wires and would have been expensive to construct.C Much simpler was that of an American, Samuel Morse, w

8、hose system only required a single wire to send a code of dots and dashes. At first, it was imagined that only a few highly skilled encoders would be able to use it but it soon became clear that many people could become proficient in Morse code. A system of lines strung on telegraph poles began to s

9、pread in Europe and America.D The next problem was to cross the sea. Britain, as an island with an empire, led the way. Any such cable had to be insulated and the first breakthrough came with the discovery that a rubber-like latex from a tropical tree on the Malay peninsula could do the trick. It wa

10、s called gutta percha. The first attempt at a cross channel cable came in 1850. With thin wire and thick installation, it floated and had to be weighed down with lead pipe.E It never worked well as the effect of water on its electrical properties was not understood, and it is reputed that a French f

11、ishermen hooked out a section and took it home as a strange new form of seaweed The cable was too big for a single boat so two had to start in the middle of the Atlantic, join their cables and sail in opposite directions. Amazingly, they succeeded in 1858, and this enabled Queen Victoria to send a t

12、elegraph message to President Buchanan. However, the 98-word message took more than 19 hours to send and a misguided attempt to increase the speed by increasing the voltage resulted in failure of the line a week later.F By 1870, a submarine cable was heading towards Australia. It seemed likely that

13、it would come ashore at the northern port of Darwin from where it might connect around the coast to Queensland and New South Wales. It was an undertaking more ambitious than spanning an ocean. Flocks of sheep had to be driven with the 400 workers to provide food. They needed horses and bullock carts

14、 and, for the parched interior, camels. In the north, tropical rains left the teams flooded. In the centre, it seemed that they would die of thirst. One critical section in the red heart of Australia involved finding a route through the McDonnell mountain range and then finding water on the other si

15、de.G The water was not only essential for the construction team. There had to be telegraph repeater stations every few hundred miles to boost the signal and the staff obviously had to have a supply of water, lust as one mapping team was about to give up and resort to drinking brackish water, some ab

16、originals took pity on them. Altogether, 40, 000telegraph poles were used in the Australian overland wire. Some were cut from trees. Where there were no trees, or where termites ate the wood, steel poles were imported.H On Thursday, August 22, 1872, the overland line was completed and the first mess

17、agesc ould be sent across the continent; and within a few months, Australia was at last in direct contact with England via the submarine cable, too. The line remained in service to bring news of the Japanese attack on Darwin in 1942. it could cost several pounds to send a message and it might take s

18、everal hours for it to reach its destination on the other side of the globe, but the world would never be same again. Governments could be in touch with their colonies. Traders could send cargoes based on demand and the latest prices. Newspapers could publish news that had just happened and was not

19、many months old.答案：Questions 1-61 In the research of French scientists, the metal lines were used to send message T2 Abbots gave the monks an electrical shock at the same time, which constitutes the exploration on the long-distance signaling. T3 Using Morse Code to send message need to simplify the

20、message firstly F4 Morse was a famous inventor before he invented the code T5 The water is significant to early telegraph repeater on continent. T6 US Government offered fund to the I st overland line across the continent NGQuestions 7-14Answer the questions below.Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND /

21、 OR A NUMBER from the passage for each answer.Write your answers in boxes 7-14 on your answer sheet.7. Why is the disadvantage for the Charles Wheatstone 'tesl egraph system to fail in the beginning?It' s expensive8. What material was used for insulating cable across the sea?latex9. What was

22、 used by British pioneers to increase the weight of the cable in the sea?Lead ripe10. What did Fisherman mistakenly take the cable as?Unusual seaseed11. Who was the messagef irstly sent to across the Atlantic by theQueen?President Buchanan12. What giant animals were used to carry the cable through d

23、esert?camels13. What weather condition did it delay the construction in north Australia?Tropical rain14. How long did it take to send a telegraph message from Australia to England?Several hours（答案僅供參考 ）Passage 2： 題目：兒童天賦和能力影響 題型：判斷 5+概括 5+多項(xiàng)選擇 4 文章大意：孩子的天賦和能力影響，孩子容易受到環(huán)境影響學(xué)習(xí) 到一些能力，而大人不容易，各種比較，舉了語言的例子和其他能力 的例子答案： 1-4 選擇題1. Which one not mentioned about infantA intelligence C social skills D language2. What the animal experiment is to illustrate Different