为什么雅思阅读错误率居高不下
雅思阅读错误率高到底是什么问题？很多人认为是词汇量的问题。不错，如果一篇文章50%的句子有生词那就没法看了。大多数人也意识到了这一点，大家都在忙着扩充单词量。这就出现了一个新问题：每一个词都看得懂，就是文章看不懂，或者题目一做就错。怎么办？
首先来看一些普遍的阅读做题方法：
1．不看文章，直接做题。
2．读第一遍时碰到难词，难句绝不放过，死缠烂打，弄懂为止。
3．做题时遇到难题不回看文章，直接猜答案。
4．平时做完一篇文章后绝不回头。
虽然大家都不傻，但很多人就是这么做的。第一条甚至是某些老师的建议。很多人在观念上有一些误区。首先是抢时间。老师平时作练习的时候就拼命强调快！再快！！导致学生做题时手忙脚乱，恨不得不看文章就去做题，根本没有养成分析文章的习惯，更谈不上分析文章的能力。阅读理解，不“阅读”怎么理解？拿着题目傻看，答案从那里来呢？有些人似乎有“快速搜索”的能力，到文章里去找关键字，好像很讨巧，其实现在的阅读理解文章陷阱重重，往往从字面上搜索到的信息都是错的。而且一篇文章有的段落较难，有的简单，我们往往会从我们能理解的那几段文字去推测整个文章的内容。以这种方式阅读，答题时错误率较高。所以深入理解相当重要。
其次是题目作完拉倒，没有一个回头看看的过程。
这样效率是很低的。建议考生平时作完题后抱着一种挑剔，怀疑的态度回头把题目再扫一遍，花不了几十秒钟，但往往能发现大问题。
刚才说到了“深入理解”，这里还要重提一个概念：“主题句”。一篇文章能用作阅读理解用，通常都有很好的组织结构。每一句话都不是白说的，都有其逻辑意义：有的是总起，有的做支撑，还有的是转折。找出主题句并了解每一个句子在文章中的逻辑作用是相当关键的。很多“言外之义”都可以从句子间的逻辑关系领会出来。如果仅仅把每一个句子看懂，感觉就是“模模糊糊一大片”，但若能把条理理清楚，那就是“清清楚楚一条线”了。甚至有看不懂的地方，也比较好猜。
建议：
1．有意识的去找“主题句”。可以假设自己就是文章的作者，不断问自己：我干吗要写这一句？这对提高阅读速度其实也有帮助，因为再看第二遍的时候就有的放矢了嘛。
2．文章至少要看两遍。不错，时间是不多，就看你怎么用。我建议的“两遍”：第一遍很快，1分钟，了解关键词就行了；第二遍，细读，3分钟（嫌少吗？真有第一遍作底，足够了！），找主题句，理清逻辑关系；然后做题，碰到难做的回去看看文章相关内容，斟酌一下。
3．全做完了回头再用几秒种扫一遍文章。
雅思阅读TFNG模拟试题(4) Practice 4?? Para 1.?玊he need for a satisfactory education is more important than ever before. Nowadays, without a qualification from a reputable school or university, the odds of landing that plum job advertised in the paper are considerably shortened. Moreover, one's present level of education could fall well short of future career requirements.?お? para 2.?獻t is no secret that competition is the driving force behind the need to obtain increasingly higher qualifications. In the majority of cases, the urge to upgrade is no longer the result of an insatiable thirst for knowledge. The pressure is coming from within the workplace to compete with ever more qualified job applicants, and in many occupations one must now battle with colleagues in the reshuffle for the position one already holds.?お? para 3.?玈triving to become better educated is hardly a new concept. Wealthy parents have always been willing to spend the vast amounts of extra money necessary to send their children to schools with a perceived
Time to cool it 1 REFRIGERATORS are the epitome of clunky technology： solid， reliable and just a little bit dull. They have not changed much over the past century， but then they have not needed to. They are based on a robust and effective idea--draw heat from the thing you want to cool by evaporating a liquid next to it， and then dump that heat by pumping the vapour elsewhere and condensing it. This method of pumping heat from one place to another served mankind well when refrigerators' main jobs were preserving food and， as air conditioners， cooling buildings. Today's high-tech world， however， demands high-tech refrigeration. Heat pumps are no longer up to the job. The search is on for something to replace them. 2 One set of candidates are known as paraelectric materials. These act like batteries when they undergo a temperature change： attach electrodes to them and they generate a current. This effect is used in infra-red cameras. An array of tiny pieces of paraelectric material can sense the heat radiated by， for example， a person， and the pattern of the array's electrical outputs can then be used to construct an image. But until recently no one had bothered much with the inverse of this process. That inverse exists， however. Apply an appropriate current to a paraelectric material and it will cool down. 3 Someone who is looking at this inverse effect is Alex Mischenko， of Cambridge University. Using commercially available paraelectric film， he and his colleagues have generated temperature drops five times bigger than any previously recorded. That may be enough to change the phenomenon from a laboratory curiosity to something with commercial applications. 4 As to what those applications might be， Dr Mischenko is still a little hazy. He has， nevertheless， set up a company to pursue them. He foresees putting his discovery to use in more efficient domestic fridges and air conditioners. The real money， though， may be in cooling computers. 5 Gadgets containing microprocessors have been getting hotter for a long time. One consequence of Moore's Law， which describes the doubling of the number of transistors on a chip every 18 months， is that the amount of heat produced doubles as well. In fact， it more than doubles， because besides increasing in number，the components are getting faster. Heat is released every time a logical operation is performed inside a microprocessor， so the faster the processor is， the more heat it generates. Doubling the frequency quadruples the heat output. And the frequency has doubled a lot. The first Pentium chips sold by Dr Moore's company，Intel， in 1993， ran at 60m cycles a second. The Pentium 4--the last "single-core" desktop processor--clocked up 3.2 billion cycles a second. 6 Disposing of this heat is a big obstruction to further miniaturisation and higher speeds. The innards of a desktop computer commonly hit 80℃. At 85℃， they
1. A European spacecraft took off today to spearhead the search for another "Earth" among the stars. 2. The Corot space telescope blasted off aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan shortly after 2.20pm. 3. Corot， short for convection rotation and planetary transits， is the first instrument capable of finding small rocky planets beyond the solar system. Any such planet situated in the right orbit stands a good chance of having liquid water on its surface， and quite possibly life， although a leading scientist involved in the project said it was unlikely to find "any little green men". 4. Developed by the French space agency， CNES， and partnered by the European Space Agency (ESA)， Austria， Belgium， Germany， Brazil and Spain， Corot will monitor around 120，000 stars with its 27cm telescope from a polar orbit 514 miles above the Earth. Over two and a half years， it will focus on five to six different areas of the sky， measuring the brightness of about 10，000 stars every 512 seconds. 5. "At the present moment we are hoping to find out more about the nature of planets around stars which are potential habitats. We are looking at habitable planets， not inhabited planets. We are not going to find any little green men，" Professor Ian Roxburgh， an ESA scientist who has been involved with Corot since its inception， told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme. 6. Prof Roxburgh said it was hoped Corot would find "rocky planets that could develop an atmosphere and， if they are the right distance from their parent star，they could have water". 7. To search for planets， the telescope will look for the dimming of starlight caused when an object passes in front of a star， known as a "transit". Although it will take more sophisticated space telescopes planned in the next 10 years to confirm the presence of an Earth-like planet with oxygen and liquid water， Corot will let scientists know where to point their lenses.
搞懂雅思阅读四大逻辑关系秒上7.5 雅思阅读到底考我们什么？词汇？语法？篇章结构？推断能力？ 小编相信大家都知道雅思阅读不考语法，也不单纯考词汇，但是词汇量越大，语法越好，读起文章来就越轻松，做起题来就越得心应手--特别是对于填空类题目更是如此。那么是不是意味着，词汇量大，语法很好，就能够轻松拿到高分？答案自然是否定的，英语博士们不是个个都能做满分的，但是普通大学生，甚至是高中生，也有可能拿到高分。我的学生里，有高中生考到了7.5，甚至8.5的。那这里面的奥秘又在哪里呢？一个学员在有了词汇、语法的基础上怎么才能向高分发起冲刺呢，这里我们要探讨就是雅思阅读考试里面所隐含的逻辑关系，理清了这些逻辑关系，搞明白了文章和题目的基本思路，那么许许多多的问题就迎刃而解了。 雅思阅读里隐含的逻辑结构林林总总，但是大致我们可以归纳为以下四种，我们叫做雅思阅读四大逻辑关系：并列逻辑关系，转折逻辑关系，比较逻辑关系，因果逻辑关系。 这四种逻辑关系不仅涉及到了题目的半壁江山，而且对于理解一篇文章，或者段落的某些句子具有重大意义，接下来，我就讲一一分解它们，希望能给学习雅思阅读的同学一些启示和参考。 一、并列逻辑关系 并列逻辑关系是这四种逻辑关系里面最简单，最容易理解的一种，对于很多同学来说，无外乎就是and,or这两个词。 二、因果逻辑关系
既然是因果关系，那么就存在谁因谁果的问题，世间没有无因之果，也没有无果之因，cause和effect是相互依存的，在任何一个句子中出现了表述原因的词，必然能看到其结果，反之亦然。 三、比较逻辑关系 说到比较逻辑关系，大家可能首先想到的则是T，F，NG中对比较关系的判断，诚然，判断题里比较级是一大考点，但是比较逻辑关系的运用比这要广泛得多，做此类题时要记住两个原则即可： 原则一：但凡题目出现了比较逻辑关系，那么原文中答案所在的句子也必然会有比较逻辑关系出现，只是其关系词表述形式可能会替换 原则二：如果题目存在比较级，回原文去找比较级，如果题目是最高级，则抓最高级，或者extremely，或者比较级和最高级替换着找都可。 四、转折逻辑关系 转折经常给我们的生活带来各种惊喜，当然也不乏刚才例子里这种"惊喜"，那么这种逻辑关系跟我们的雅思阅读又有什么关系呢？作为雅思阅读四大逻辑关系之终结篇，本文将深入探讨转折逻辑关系在雅思阅读中的广泛运用与实战要领。转折逻辑关系词的运用，一如之前介绍过的三种逻辑关系词一样，绝不是光背背几个常见替换就可以熟练运用的，学员在运用的过程中一定要深刻体会它们所体现的逻辑关系，所涉及的要素，以及作者的意图等等，反复练习，建立良好的意识，方能玩转这些逻辑关系词。
雅思阅读模拟试题及答案解析（2）
Next Year Marks the EU's 50th Anniversary of the Treaty A. After a period of introversion and stunned self-disbelief，continental European governments will recover their enthusiasm for pan-European institution-building in . Whether the European public will welcome a return to what voters in two countries had rejected so short a time before is another matter. B. There are several reasons for Europe’s recovering self-confidence. For years European economies had been lagging dismally behind America (to say nothing of Asia)， but in the large continental economies had one of their best years for a decade， briefly outstripping America in terms of growth. Since politics often reacts to economic change with a lag，’s improvement in economic growth will have its impact in ， though the recovery may be ebbing by then. C. The coming year also marks a particular point in a political cycle so regular that it almost seems to amount to a natural law. Every four or five years， European countries take a large stride towards further integration by signing a new treaty： the Maastricht treaty in 1992， the Treaty of Amsterdam in 1997， the Treaty of Nice in . And in they were supposed to ratify a European constitution， laying the ground for yet more integration—until the calm rhythm was rudely shattered by French and Dutch voters. But the political impetus to sign something every four or five years has only been interrupted，not immobilised， by this setback. D. In the European Union marks the 50th anniversary of another treaty—the Treaty of Rome， its founding charter. Government leaders have already agreed to celebrate it ceremoniously， restating their commitment to “ever closer union” and the basic ideals of European unity. By itself， and in normal circumstances， the EU’s 50th-birthday greeting to itself would be fairly meaningless， a routine expression of European good fellowship. But it does not take a Machiavelli to spot that once governments have signed the declaration (and it seems unlikely anyone would be so uncollegiate as to veto
雅思阅读summary填空题是雅思阅读题中常见题型, 在阅读考试中占较大的比重. 同时也是众多考生头痛的一种题型. 因为此题型不仅考查考生快速准确理解阅读文章的主旨能力, 也考查考生对定位,同义转化以及语义间逻辑关系的灵敏度. 总的来说, 雅思阅读summary填空题主要有两种形式: 一种是单词填空式, 这种形式主要针对文章全文或者部分段落写出的一篇摘要, 空出若干空格, 要求考生从文章中寻找相应的单词进行填空; 另一种是单词选择式, 就是在第一种形式的基础上, 额外提供了一个词库, 要求考生从词库中选词填空. 下面环球雅思的老师将详细讲解如何快速而有效的解答这两种形式的summary填空题. 单词填空式 解题策略 对于单词填空式题, 一般把握三个关键信息: 逻辑关系词, 语法属性, 定位. 首先, 观察空格前后是否有语义间有逻辑关系的连接词, 即逻辑关系词推断. 这类表示空格前后内容逻辑关系的连接词主要包括:
①表示因果关系的词, 如because, as, since, for, due to, thanks to, as a result of等. 在考试中, 在因果关系中除了一些连接词的衔接外, 还有一些表示因果关系的大词, 如trigger, breed, induce, engender, generate, be responsible for, affect, determine等, 这些词在语义中隐含了因果关系. 所以也是考生在解题中值得注意的. ②表示转折关系的词, 如but, however, while, yet, instead, rather, whereas等 ③表示让步关系的词, 如despite, in spite of, although等 ④表示并列关系的词, 如and, both…and…, neither…nor等 ⑤表示举例关系的词, 如such as, for example等 观察有无这类词的目的在于为了回原文定位时, 能缩小寻找范围, 使定位更加准确. 在文章阅读中, 题目中的某些单词会进行同义转换而变得面目全非，但是句意不会变，语义关系不会变，这是最可靠的定位依据。从而逻辑关系词对于考生在解题中把握语义间的内在关系起了关键作用. 如剑桥4 Test 2 Passage 1 Lost for words 一篇中的summary 题中This great variety of languages came about largely as a result of geographical ___Q1______. But in today’s world, factors such as government initiatives and ____Q2_____ are contributing to a huge decrease in the number of languages. One factor which may help to ensure that some endangered languages do not die out completely is people’s increasing appreciation of their ____Q3_____.
雅思阅读模拟试题:音乐 Background music may seem harmless, but it can have a powerful effect on those who hear it. Recorded background music first found its way into factories, shop and restaurants in the US. But it soon spread to other arts of the world. Now it is becoming increasingly difficult to go shopping or eat a meal without listening to music. To begin with, “ muzak ” (音乐广播网) was intended simply to create a soothing (安慰) atmosphere. Recently, however, it’s become big business –thanks in part to recent research. Dr. Ronald Milliman, an American marketing expert, has shown that music can boost sales or increase factory production by as much as a third. But, it has to be light music. A fast one has no effect at all on sales. Slow music can increase receipts by 38%. This is probably because shoppers slow down and have more opportunity to spot items they like to buy. Yet, slow music isn’t always answered. https://www.doczj.com/doc/c914479449.html,liman found, for example, that in restaurants slow music meant customers took longer to eat their meals, which reduced overall sales. So restaurants owners might be well advised to play up-tempo music to keep the customers moving – unless of course, the resulting indigestion leads to complaints! ( )1. The reason why background music is so popular is that ______. A. it can have a powerful effect on those who hear it B. it can help to create a soothing atmosphere C. it can boost sales or increase factory production everywhere D. it can make customers eat their meals quickly ( )2. Background music means ________. A. light music that customers enjoy most B. fast music that makes people move fast C. slow music that can make customers enjoy their meals D. the music you are listening to while you are doing something ( )3. Restaurant owners complain about background music because ______. A. it results in indigestion B. it increases their sales C. it keeps customers moving D. it decreases their sales ( )4. The word “ up-tempo music” probably means_____. A.slow music B.fast music C.light music D.classical music
ACADEMIC READING 60 minutes READING PASSAGE 1 You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13 which are based on Reading Passage 1 below. Striking Back at Lightning With Lasers Seldom is the weather more dramatic than when thunderstorms strike. Their electrical fury inflicts death or serious injury on around 500 people each year in the United States alone. As the clouds roll in, a leisurely round of golf can become a terrifying dice with death - out in the open, a lone golfer may be a lightning bolt's most inviting target. And there is damage to property too. Lightning damage costs American power companies more than $100 million a year. But researchers in the United States and Japan are planning to hit back. Already in laboratory trials they have tested strategies for neutralising the power of thunderstorms, and this winter they will brave real storms, equipped with an armoury of lasers that they will be pointing towards the heavens to discharge thunderclouds before lightning can strike. The idea of forcing storm clouds to discharge their lightning on command is not new. In the early 1960s, researchers tried firing rockets trailing wires into thunderclouds to set up an easy discharge path for the huge electric charges that these clouds generate. The technique survives to this day at a test site in Florida run by the University of Florida, with support from the Electrical Power Research Institute (EPRI), based in California. EPRI, which is funded by power companies, is looking at ways to protect the United States' power grid from lightning strikes. 'We can cause the lightning to strike where we want it to using rockets,' says Ralph Bernstein, manager of lightning projects at EPR!. The rocket site is providing precise measurements of lightning voltages and allowing engineers to check how electrical equipment bears up. Bad behaviour But while rockets are fine for research, they cannot provide the protection from lightning strikes that everyone is looking for. The rockets cost around $1,200 each, can only be fired at a limited frequency and their failure rate is about 40 per cent. And even when they do trigger lightning, things still do not always go according to plan. 'Lightning is not perfectly well behaved,' says Bernstein. 'Occasionally, it will take a branch and go someplace it wasn't supposed to go.' And anyway, who would want to fire streams of rockets in a populated area? 'What goes up must come down,' points out Jean-Claude Diels of the University of New Mexico. Diels is leading a project, which is backed by EPRI, to try to use lasers to discharge lightning safely and safety is a basic requirement since no one wants to put themselves or their expensive equipment at risk. With around $500,000 invested so far, a promising system is just emerging from the laboratory. The idea began some 20 years ago, when high-powered lasers were revealing. their ability to extract electrons out of atoms and create ions. If a laser could generate a line of ionization in the air all the way up to a storm cloud, this conducting path could be used to guide lightning to Earth, before the electric field becomes strong enough to break down the air in an uncontrollable surge. To stop the laser itself being struck, it would not be pointed straight at the clouds. Instead it would be directed at a mirror, and from
雅思阅读中常见特殊句式整理和句型特点总结 雅思阅读以说明文为主，多是肯定、客观的表达方式。因此在陈述重点内容时势必会用到特殊的表达方式。下面我们就集中讲解下雅思阅读中会用到哪些特殊句式。 我们都知道，在做雅思阅读时，把握主旨和段落大意是非常重要的，但是想提高我们的英语阅读理解能力及做题正确率，仅仅有这些信息是不足矣的，在雅思阅读的40道题目中，80%的题目都会涉及到文章细节内容，因此，把握文中的重要细节信息就非常重要了。 我们在阅读文章时会发现，作者在点明主旨后会在后面的阐述中进一步细说论据，而这些就是考题中常常涉及的细节内容，这也正是我们考生最头疼的地方，即在这繁杂的信息中，如何准确把握作者想要表达的重点。 1.转折：转折词汇后面的内容往往是作者想要表达的重点。试想，我们在评论了别人的表现时，若说了一个“但是”，那后面的内容是否是最引起听者兴趣的地方？同理，雅思阅读中亦然。常见的转折英语词汇有：but、however、despite、in spite of、although、though、yet（用语句首，表示尽管、虽然之意）、while（有尽管之意，不多见，同学们应注意）等。 2.否定：否定句在雅思阅读的说明文体中并不多见，因此，否定句、双重否定句是阐述重点内容的一个重点句式，如：not…but…;not…without…。 3.因果：因果逻辑是雅思文章中最常见也是最重要的逻辑关系之一。因此，这是把握重要细节内容的重点之一。相关词汇有：because、so、since（表原因）、as（表原因）、lead to、cause、result in、as a result of、as a result、therefore等。 4.强调句式：it is...that/who/why...及What引导的主语从句，如what makes it bad is...，what we need is...这样的句式本身就有强调的含义，因此作者使用这种句式时一定在重点说明某些内容。 5.步骤：步骤的描述很多情况下也是设置考点的地方。在进行步骤描述时常会用到firstly、secondly等序数词（注意：initially是最初的意思，常同first互换）；除序数词外，也会用到next、then、finally等词。同时，应注意表示步骤的词汇有process、procedure、stage等词。 6.比较：比较也是重点内容之一，比较无非对比不同与相似，表达不同的词汇有：different、distinction、differ等；表达相似的词汇有：similarity、resemble、similar、resemblance、like（像的意思）等。另外，表达比较时，常会用到：compare、compared with、in comparison、by contrast、on contrary等。 7.绝对性说法：因为雅思阅读的阐述方式是客观，因此一旦出现绝对性的说法，很有可能会是考点。常见的绝对性词汇有：never、only（sole、alone常与这词互换）、must、mustn’t、always等。 8.定义式和结论性表述：所谓定义式表述就是作者在给出定义、阐述常识和某些真理时用到的表达方式；结论性表述是指作者在描述完某些项目或实验研究等后，得出的结论性东西，常用到的词汇有：therefore、conclude、in conclusion、the key for...is...等。
雅思阅读模拟试题精选
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