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本书优势及卖点: ·2015年-2009年6套雅思阅读真题 ·与官方题库原文一字不差! ·与雅思真题题目一模一样!! ·与官方标准答案完全一致!!! 9分达人雅思听力真题还原及解析 点击进入 9分达人雅思听力真题还原及解析2 点击进入 9分达人雅思听力真题还原及解析3 点击进入 9分达人雅思口语真题还原及解析 点击进入 9分达人雅思阅读真题还原及解析 点击进入 9分达人雅思阅读真题还原及解析2 点击进入 9分达人雅思阅读真题还原及解析3 点击进入 9分达人雅思写作真题还原及解析 点击进入 雅思真词汇(第4版) 点击进入 内容推荐 本书共分为三大部分: 第一部分包括2015年-2009年6套雅思阅读真题,每套题共有三篇阅读文章;考生应对所有文章精读细读,达到完全理解的水平,因为每篇文章都有可能在考试中再次出现。 第二部分包括词汇详解、题目详解和参考译文三个版块的内容。词汇详解部分为文章及题目中出现的词汇提供了词性、准确的释义和其他拓展信息,既能帮助考生增加对真题的理解,又能扩充考生的词汇量。题目详解部分则对本书收录的每套题目进行了详细解析,不仅能帮助考生彻底弄懂每套试题,同时也教给考生相应的解题方法和技巧。参考译文部分为真题文章的中英文对照,可帮助考生加深对原文的理解。此外,题目详解中的词汇在参考译文英文部分呈加粗显示,有助于考生在上下文的情境下弄懂重难点词汇的意思。 第三部分为6套雅思阅读真题的参考答案,可供考生进行自我检测。 作者简介 陶春 新航道国际教育集团副总裁,南京新航道学校校长,阅读、写作首席专家。美国哥伦比亚大学访问学者,南京大学硕士,资深英语教学应试专家。被广大雅思考生称为“雅思满分教头”。 辜驰 厦门新航道学校校长,雅思阅读、写作主讲,新托福写作主讲。厦门大学硕士,美国北卡罗来纳大学访问学者。监控雅思、托福考题题库十年专家,2000年开创厦门第一个雅思培训班,雅思8.5分得主,TOEFL、GRE考试几乎满分。长期从事出国留学考试、英文写作教学研究。 张登 雅思(IELTS)、托福(TOEFL)、SAT全科培训师,11年备考类英语教学经验。教育专业世界第一的UCL大学教育研究院(Institute of Education)教育学硕士,美国哥伦比亚大学师范学院(TeachersCollege, Columbia University)研修学者,剑桥大学成人英语教师资格证CELTA持有者。美国教育考试服务中心(Educational Testing Service)托福官方认证培训师。英国大使馆教育文化处(BritishCouncil)雅思官方认证培训师。对雅思阅读多年深入研究,掌握大量雅思阅读语料库及数据分析结果,对考试脉络、题库内容极为了解。 目录 本书所收集文章及对应考试日期一览 Test 1 The Impact of the Potato 2014年6月28日 Ancient Chinese Chariots 2014年3月15日 2012年6月30日 Stealth Forces in Weight Loss 2014年5月24日 Test 2 Andrea Palladio: Italian Architect 2013年5月16日 Corporate Social Responsibility 2015年3月21日 2014年5月15日 The Significant Role of Mother Tongue in Education 2012年5月26日 Test 3 Voyage of Going: Beyond the Blue Line 22012年5月26日 Does IQ Test Prove Creativity? 2009年12月5日 显示全部信息 前言 序言 《剑桥雅思真题集》系列面世后,雅思界迎来新的曙光。原本一片模糊的雅思真题揭开了其神秘面纱,使得 “烤鸭”们在考前得以一睹真容。然而,此系列书籍虽然为 “烤鸭”们展示了真实的雅思考试题目及其题型,也为“烤鸭”们提供了不错的训练材料,但众所周知,《剑桥雅思真题集》系列中所收录的题目都是剑桥雅思考试委员会弃之不 用,在今后的考试中也基本上不会再出现的旧题、老题。 正是基于这一情况,《9分达人阅读》系列才得以诞生,目的是帮助“烤鸭”们了解最近考试的真实状态。如果说《剑桥雅思真题集》系列的存在使“烤鸭”们对雅思考试有了 显示全部信息 在线试读部分章节 Test 4 Passage 3 (2015.5.30雅思阅读真题) READING PASSAGE 3 You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27-40, which are based on Reading Passage 3 below. HoneyBees in Trouble Cannative pollinators fill the gap? Recently, ominousheadlines have described a mysterious ailment, colony collapse disorder (CCD),which is wiping out the honeybees that pollinate many crops. Without honeybees,the story goes, fields will be sterile, economies will collapse, and food willbe scarce. But what fewaccounts acknowledge is that what’s at risk is not itself a natural state ofaffairs. For one thing, in the United States, where CCD was first reported andhas had its greatest impacts, honeybees are not a native species. Pollinationin modern agriculture isn’t alchemy, it’s industry. The total number of hivesinvolved in the U.S. pollination industry has been somewhere between 2.5million and 3 million in recent years. Meanwhile, American farmers began usinglarge quantities of organophosphate insecticides, planted large-scale cropmonocultures, and adopted “clean farming” practices that scrubbed nativevegetation from field margins and roadsides. These practices killed many nativebees outright — they’re as vulnerable to insecticides as any agricultural pest— and made the agricultural landscape inhospitable to those that remained.Concern about these practices and their effects on pollinators isn’t new, inher 1962 ecological alarm cry Silent Spring, Rachel Carsonwarned of a ‘Fruitless Fall’ that could result from the disappearance of insectpollinators. Ifthat ‘Fruitless Fall’ has not — yet — occurred, it may be largely thanks to thehoneybee, which farmers turned to as the ability of wild pollinators to servicecrops declined. The honeybee has been semi-domesticated since the time of theancient Egyptians, but it wasn’t just familiarity that determined this choice:the bees’ biology is in many ways suited to the kind of agricultural systemthat was emerging. For example, honeybee hives can be closed up and moved outof the way when pesticides are applied to a field. The bees are generalistpollinators, so they can be used to pollinate many different crops. Andalthough they are not the most efficient pollinator of every crop, honeybeeshave strength in numbers, with 20,000 to 100,000 bees living in a single hive.“Without a doubt, if there was one bee you wanted for agriculture, it would bethe honeybee,” says Jim Cane, of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Thehoneybee, in other words, has become a crucial cog in the modern system ofindustrial agriculture. That system delivers more food, and more kinds of it,to more places, more cheaply than ever before. But that system is alsovulnerable, because making a farm field into the photosynthetic equivalent of afactory floor, and pollination into a series of continent-long assembly lines,also leaches out some of the resilience characteristic of natural ecosystems. Breno Freitas, anagronomist in Brazil, pointed out that in nature such a high degree ofspecialisation usually is a very dangerous game: it works well while all therest is in equilibrium, but runs quickly to extinction at the least disbalance.In effect, by developing an agricultural system that is heavily reliant on asingle pollinator species, we humans have become riskily overspecialised. Andwhen the human-honeybee relationship is disrupted, as it has been by colonycollapse disorder, the vulnerability of that agricultural system begins tobecome clear. In fact, a few wildbees are already being successfully managed for crop pollination. “The problemis trying to provide native bees in adequate numbers on a reliable basis in afairly short number of years in order to service the crop,” Jim Cane says.“You’re talking millions of flowers per acre in a two-to three-week time frame,or less, for a lot of crops.” On the other hand, native bees can be much moreefficient pollinators of certain crops than honeybees, so you don’t need asmany to do the job. For example, about 750 blue orchard bees (Osmia lignaria)can pollinate a hectare of apples or almonds, a task that would require roughly50,000 to 150,000 honeybees. There are bee tinkerers engaged in similar work inmany corners of the world. In Brazil, Breno Freitas has found that Centristarsata, the native pollinator of wild cashew, can survive in commercial casheworchards if growers provide a source of floral oils, such as by interplantingtheir cashew trees with Caribbean cherry. In certain places,native bees may already be doing more than they’re getting credit for.Ecologist Rachael Winfree recently led a team that looked at pollination offour summer crops (tomato, watermelon, peppers, and muskmelon) at 29 farms inthe region of New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Winfree’s team identified 54 speciesof wild bees that visited these crops, and found that wild bees were the mostimportant pollinators in the system: even though managed honeybees were presenton many of the farms, wild bees were responsible for 62 percent of flowervisits in the study. In another study focusing specifically on watermelon,Winfree and her colleagues calculated that native bees alone could providesufficient pollination at 90 percent of the 23 farms studied. By contrast,honeybees alone could provide sufficient pollination at only 78 percent offarms. “The region I workin is not typical of the way most food is produced,” Winfree admits. In theDelaware Valley, most farms and farm fields are relatively small, each farmertypically grows a variety of crops, and farms are interspersed with suburbs andother types of land use which means there are opportunities for homeowners toget involved in bee conservation, too. The landscape is a bee-friendlypatchwork that provides a variety of nesting habitat and floral resourcesdistributed among different kinds of crops, weedy field margins, fallow fields,suburban neighborhoods, and semi natural habitat like old woodlots, all at arelatively small scale. In other words, “pollinator-friendly” farming practiceswould not only aid pollination of agricultural crops, but also serve as a keyelement in the over all conservation strategy for wild pollinators, and oftenaid other wild species as well. Of course, not allfarmers will be able to implement all of these practices. And researchers aresuggesting a shift to a kind of polyglot agricultural system. For somesmall-scale farms, native bees may indeed be all that’s needed. For largeroperations, a suite of managed bees — with honeybees filling the generalistrole and other, native bees pollinating specific crops — could be augmented byfree pollination services from resurgent wild pollinators. In other words,they’re saying, we still have an opportunity to replace a risky monoculturewith something diverse, resilient, and robust. Questions 27-30 Do the following statements agree with the claimsof the writer in Reading Passage 3? In boxes 27-30 on your answersheet, write YES if the statement agrees with theclaims of the writer NO if the statement contradicts the claims of the writer |