作者：洛阳环球雅思阅读讲师Indiana

友情分享：

新旧题文方面：两篇新文章，一篇旧文章

文章题材方面：人物传记类、心理类、教育类各一篇

题型分布方面：判断题11道，段标配6道，填空题3道，简答题7道（待补充）

友情分享：

总体来讲本次考试难度适中，涉及的题材在阅读考试中也是很常见的。题型分布还是以判断和配对为主。判断题在前两篇文章都有设置。同时，考察细节信息的简单题在此次考试中占有一定比例。

友情建议：

针对三月的第一场考试，建议考生们继续加强对于判断、配对题的训练。注意做题顺序，积累不同题型的的阅读方法，同时将一般解题方法步骤化。注重对于做题篇目的二次阅读并填写二次阅读自查表：重点在于分析错误原因及自我解决方案。从中注意观察到自己的阅读喜好和思路习惯。

Indiana真题速递：

Passage one:

人物传记类。此人为英国人，在历史上非常有名，他曾经因参加英国的“第一舰队”（first fleet）——殖民澳大利亚的舰队，并出版两本书描述这一经历而著名。参考文章：

He was born on 6 October 1758 at Chester in the county of Cheshire in England, a son of Fisher Tench, a dancing master who ran a boarding school in the town and Margaritta Tarleton of the Liverpool Tarletons. Watkin was first cousin to Banastre Tarleton. His father appears to have named Watkin after a wealthy local landowner, Watkin Williams Wynn, whose family probably assisted in starting Tench's military career.

Tench joined His Majesty's Marine Forces, Plymouth division, as a Second Lieutenant on 25 January 1776, aged 17. He was promoted to 1st Lieutenant on 25 January 1778 at the age of 19 years and 3 months. He fought against the American forces in their War of Independence, during which he was captured when HMS Mermaid was driven ashore on the Maryland coast at Assateague Island near the then extant Sinepuxent Inlet on the morning of 8 July 1778 by the French under Comte d'Estaing. Tench was in command of the Marine unit on board HMS Mermaid. He and the other officers were transported to Philadelphia, imprisoned and exchanged in October, 1778.

Little more is known of him until he sailed as part of the First Fleet, although he records in Chapter 13 of the Account that he had spent time in the West Indies and his service record shows that he was promoted to Captain-Lieutenant in September 1782 and went on half-pay in May 1786

The retirement did not last long, as in October of that year the Admiralty called for volunteers for a three-year tour of Botany Bay. Tench's offer to re-enter the corps was accepted in December 1786, and he sailed on the transport ship Charlotte in May 1787.

Before sailing with the fleet, he arranged with the London publishing firm of Debrett's to write a book describing his experience of the journey and the first few months of the colony. His manuscript was taken back in July 1788 by John Shortland and published as the "Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay" by Debrett's in 1789. It ran to three editions and was quickly translated into French, German, Dutch and Swedish

In October 1788, Robert Ross made a list of marines who wanted to stay in Australia either as soldiers or settlers. Tench headed the list as 'a soldier for one tour more of three years.' Among his achievements in the fledgling colony of New South Wales Tench was the first European to discover the Nepean River. Tench's accounts were influenced by the liberalism of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the idea of the noble savage. He thus writes with some sympathy of the Aborigines. His writings include much information about the Aborigines of Sydney, the Gadigal and Cammeraygal (whom he referred to as "Indians"). He was friendly with Bennelong, Barangaroo and several others. He stayed in Sydney until December 1791 when he sailed home on the HMS Gorgon, arriving in Plymouth in July 1792.

He was reactivated as Commandant in the Plymouth division in October 1819 at the age of 61. Although he and his wife had no children of their own, in 1821 they took responsibility for three nephews and a niece when the four children were orphaned; at the time, Watkin Tench was 63 and his wife was 56. Watkin Tench resided in Chapel Street, Penzance (in the house constructed by Richard Oxnam's grandfather). He lived there from 1818 until 1828.

Tench retired with the rank of lieutenant-general in July 1827 and died in Devonport (near Plymouth), Devon, England on 7 May 1833, aged 74

Q1-Q6 True/False/Not Given

1. A great deal was known about Tech before arriving to Australia. False

2. Tench drew pictures of what he saw during his journey. NG

3. Generally treat convicts well. False

4. Tench’s opinion towards Aboriginal remained unchanged. False

5. An Aboriginals gave Tench food as a gift when they first met. NG

6. Tench held unusual opinion in his time. True

Q7-Q13 Short-answer questions

7. Diaries

8. 3 years

9. Chains

10. Governor Phillip

11. Hunting birds

12. China

13. Botany Bay

Passage 2:

心理类：主要通过马龙白兰度的例子讲诉表演者都是很好的谎言家。

Are artists liars?

Humans are natural-born storytellers, so lying is in our blood. Ian Leslie considers how this comes out in our art ...

Special to MORE INTELLIGENT LIFE

Shortly before his death, Marlon Brando was working on a series of instructional videos about acting, to be called “Lying for a Living”. On the surviving footage, Brando can be seen dispensing gnomic advice on his craft to a group of enthusiastic, if somewhat bemused, Hollywood stars, including Leonardo Di Caprio and Sean Penn. Brando also recruited random people from the Los Angeles street and persuaded them to improvise (the footage is said to include a memorable scene featuring two dwarves and a giant Samoan). “If you can lie, you can act,” Brando told Jod Kaftan, a writer for Rolling Stone and one of the few people to have viewed the footage. “Are you good at lying?” asked Kaftan. “Jesus,” said Brando, “I’m fabulous at it.”

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Passage 3

教育类：关于参加theory-based research的话题，管理类院校的研究成果。（待补充）

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