3月12日雅思考试听力回顾

一、考试概述：

本场考试的section1和section2依旧是以填空题和单选题为主。而section3在此出现了6个选择题和5个配对类题型。      

Section 1咨询场景——俱乐部咨询， 10填空

Section 2选择+填空

Section 3学术讨论——两个学生讨论辩论大纲6选择+4配对

Section 4讲座濒危语言—10填空 

 

二、具体题目分析：

Section 1

场景：咨询场景——公司选址

题型：10填空 

参考答案:International Club

1.The woman's title:manager

2.Preferred location near the station

3.company size:total staff number:40

4.Preferred date:May

5.The size of new office:12000 square meters

6.Remove the booths in conference room

7.There are boards

8.store room needs enlargement,too small

9.kitchen is needed some improvements 
10.The terrace is with a view of river outside

解析：这套听力题中很多烤鸭可能会“跪”在booths这个词上，可能不认识，也有可能手一残加了es，所以词汇积累很重要。此外，kitchen和station都是section1经常考的单词，肯定是不能失分的。

参考练习：C6T4S1 

 

Section 2

题型：填空+选择 

参考答案：

11. uncle

12. lit hands

13. politician

14. scenery

15. birds

16. street
17. Destroyed

18. daylight (答案仅供参考)

参考练习：C10T2S2 

Section 3

场景： 学术讨论——两个学生讨论辩论大纲

题型：6选择+4配对 

参考答案：

21.The girl choose to debate because
B.it is placed even at secondary school

C.after talking with her friend
22.what can they learn from the debate
practice their listening and speaking skill
23.how did Daniel and Fiona plan their debate
A.collect all students’ topic

B.voting for either the girl or boy

C.choose from a list themselves 

24.Why divide into 2 teams then
A.everyone gets more chance to speak. 

B.voting for either the girl or boy
25.What can be benefits as .....?
B.less confidents
26.What will lecturer to do after debate
A.making comments on their writing 

C.writing an essay
27-30.Matching

A.key point
B.give handouts of articles

C.writing on board
D.give a demonstration

E.ask for suggestions

27.procedure – handout for key point on summary

28.body language – give a demonstration
29.access resource – give handouts of articles
30.summary draft – writing on board (答案仅供参考)

参考练习：C9T1S3

 

Section 4

场景：讲座-濒危语言

题型：10填空 

参考答案：

31-40 Completion
31.need a lot enough materials
32.有一种文字 writing word in clay tablet was the oldest
33.according to the context of words 根据上下文推断出意思

34.samples
35.有些文字出现在 monuments

36.the vocabulary has been identified are mainly names

37.Italian and Greek were written in a different direction

38.form for circles
39.it was type of printing

40.served as a game or puzzle...

 

解析：section4出现10道填空题是近年来的常规考法，归根结底主要考查的就是判断定位词、识别同义替换和根据读音写单词的能力。今天的考试烤鸭们较为陌生的单词是context和monuments（不认识的童鞋请自觉下载纪念碑谷涨姿势）。此外，听力难点经常出现在“定位词后置”上，因此在定位词找准的基础上，烤鸭们还需要一定的短时记忆能力。

参考练习：C8T1S4

 

3月12日雅思考试口语回顾

一、考试整体概述：

请大家持续关注8个月范围内的真题，以下为本场高频话题：

1.Describe a place that has been polluted.

2.Describe a difficult choice you made.

3.Describe a Piece of clothing given to you

4.Describe a happy family event from your childhood that you remember well.

5.Describe a book you liked to read 

二、本场难题及解析

Describe a place that has been polluted.You should say:

• where this place is

• why has it been polluted

• what effects is it has

• and explain what you think about the pollution.

 Speaking of a place I visited which has been polluted, the first place that bumped into my mind is a lake where my family and I would spend our weekends during my childhood. We used to spend a lot of time there, swimming, rowing and playing in the water. Also, the lake was just a short drive or cycle ride from our house, so we can go there anytime we want. During my teen years, a local construction company was established in our neighborhood and started dumping waste in the land around the lake. They were doing developments nearby and they contaminated the ground water. Gradually, the pollution has totally changed the lake completely. It is almost unrecognizable as the place I enjoyed when I was still a kid. The ducks and other wild birds no longer live on the lake, which was such a pity for the locals, because these kinds of animals are beneficial for the local environment. In addition, the water is murky and sometime has a slick. I think that company should be ashamed of what they had done to the lake. Due to their misdeed, we have no longer had a shimmering lake again.

3月12日雅思考试阅读回顾

一、考试概述：

本次考试的文章是两篇旧文章+一篇新文章，难度适中。第一篇讲了活字印刷的历史，第二篇讲了钢铁所组成的艺术作品。第三篇讲了氟化物添加。

 

二、具体题目分析

Passage 1

题目：活字印刷的历史

题型：判断5 + 流程图6 + 摘要 2

题号：旧题

答案：

1.FALSE

2.TRUE

3.NOT GIVEN

4.FALSE

5.Fonts

6.sheet of paper

7.proof

8.types

9.in right sequence

10.newspapers

11.binding and simulating

12.book industry

（答案仅供参考）

 

Passage 2

题目：钢铁艺术

题型：段落信息配对 5 + 人名理论配对题 5 + 摘要4

题号：旧题

相似文章：  

Art in Iron and Steel

A

Works of engineering and technology are sometimes viewed as the antitheses of art and humanity. Think of the connotations of assembly lines, robots, and computers. Any positive values there might be in such creations of the mind and human industry can be overwhelmed by the associated negative images of repetitive, stressful, and threatened jobs. Such images fuel the arguments of critics of technology even as they may drive powerful cars and use the Internet to protest what they see as the artless and dehumanizing aspects of living in an industrialized and digitized society. At the same lime, landmark mega-structures such as the Brooklyn and Golden Gate bridges are almost universally hailed as majestic human achievements as well as great engineering monuments that have come to embody the spirits of their respective cities. The relationship between art and engineering has seldom been easy or consistent.

B

The human worker may have appeared to be but a cog in the wheel of industry, yet photographers could reveal the beauty of line and composition in a worker doing something as common as using a wrench to turn a bolt. When Henry Ford’s enormous River Rouge plant opened in 1927 to produce the Model A, the painter/photographer Charles Sheeler was chosen to photograph it. The world’s largest car factory captured the imagination of Sheeler, who described it as the most thrilling subject he ever had to work with. The artist also composed oil paintings of the plant, giving them titles such as American Landscape and Classic Landscape.

C

Long before Sheeler, other artists, too, had seen the beauty and humanity in works of engineering and technology. This is perhaps no more evident than in Coalbrookdale, England, where iron, which was so important to the industrial revolution, was worked for centuries. Here, in the late eighteenth century. Abraham Darby III cast on the banks of the Severn River the large ribs .jut formed the world’s first iron bridge, a dramatic departure from the classic stone and timber bridges that dotted the countryside and were captured in numerous serene landscape paintings. The metal structure, simply but appropriately called Iron Bridge, still spans the river and still beckons engineers, artists, and tourists to gaze upon and walk across it, as if on a pilgrimage to a revered place.

D

At Coalbrookdale, the reflection of the ironwork in the water completes the semicircular structure to form a wide-open eye into the future that is now the past. One artist’s bucolic depiction shows pedestrians and horsemen on the bridge, as if on a woodland trail. On one shore, a pair of well-dressed onlookers interrupts their stroll along the riverbank, perhaps to admire the bridge. On the other side of the gently flowing river, a lone man leads two mules beneath an arch that lets the towpath pass through the bridge’s abutment. A single boatman paddles across the river in a tiny tub boat. He is in no rush because there is no towline to carry from one side of the bridge to the other. This is how Michael Rooker saw Iron Bridge in his 1792 painting. A colored engraving of the scene hangs in the nearby Coalbrookdale museum, along with countless other contemporary renderings of the bridge in its foil glory and in its context, showing the iron structure not as a blight on the landscape but at the center of it. The surrounding area at the same time radiates out from the bridge and pales behind it.

E

In the nineteenth century, the railroads captured the imagination of artists, and the steam engine in the distance of a landscape became as much a part of it as the herd of cows in the foreground. The Impressionist Claude Monet painted man-made structures like railway stations and cathedrals as well as water lilies. Portrait painters such as Christian Schussele found subjects in engineers and inventors — and their inventions — as well as in the American founding fathers. By the twentieth century, engineering, technology, and industry were very well established as subjects for artists.

F

American-born Joseph Pennell illustrated many European travel articles and books. Pennell, who early in his career made drawings of buildings under construction and shrouded in scaffolding, returned to America late in life and recorded industrial activities during World War I. He is perhaps best known among engineers for his depiction of the Panama Canal as it neared completion and his etchings of the partially completed Hell Gate and Delaware River bridges.

G

Pennell has often been quoted as saying, “Great engineering is great art,” a sentiment that he expressed repeatedly. He wrote of his contemporaries, I understand nothing of engineering, but I know that engineers are the greatest architects and the most pictorial builders since the Greeks.” Where observers saw only utility, Pennell saw also beauty, if not in form then at least in scale. He felt he was not only rendering a concrete subject but also conveying through his drawings the impression that it made on him. Pennell called the sensation that he felt before a great construction project 'The Wonder of Work’ He saw engineering as a process. That process is memorialized in every completed dam, skyscraper, bridge, or other great achievement of engineering.

H

If Pennell experienced the wonder of work in the aggregate, Lewis Hine focused on the individuals who engaged in the work. Hine was trained as a sociologist but became best known as a photographer who exposed the exploitation of children. His early work documented immigrants passing through Ellis Island, along with the conditions in the New York tenements where they lived and the sweatshops where they worked Upon returning to New York, he was given the opportunity to record the construction of the Empire State Building, which resulted in the striking photographs that have become such familiar images of daring and insouciance. He put his own life at risk to capture workers suspended on cables hundreds of feet in the air and sitting on a high girder eating lunch. To engineers today, one of the most striking features of these photos, published in 1932 in Men at Work, is the absence of safety lines and hard hats. However, perhaps more than anything, the photos evoke Pennell’s "The Wonder of Work" and inspire admiration for the bravery and skill that bring a great engineering project to completion.

  

参考答案

1.C

2.E

3.B

4.F

5.A

6.E

7.B

8.F

9.D

10.A

11.Abraham Darby III

12.stone

13.river

14.Coalbrookdale museum

（答案仅供参考）  

Passage 3

题名：氟化物添加

题号：新题（目前无明确考试题目回忆）

3月12日雅思考试写作回顾

Task 1

 

 

The table below shows the information of the employment of students from four countries in UK after their first courses in 2001

 

First Degree Graduates from Different UK Countries in Employment in 2001

 

 

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分析：本次的试题是今年到目前为止第二次考表格图，相较1月14日考的表格图而言，这种表格图是静态的，也就是说所给出的数据没有随着时间的变化而变化。那么对于这种图形而言，我们需要对数据进行合理分类，并且着重描写它们之间的大小关系。

 

 

 

参考范文：

It is clear to see in this table that there are four types of occupation format chosen by youngsters in various British countries who have just finished their first professional degree in 2001. We can conclude that the employment rate differs substantially in every specific situation.

 

The percentage of those who had occupations accounted for approximately two thirds of all graduates in Scotland, consisting of 43.6% of permanent job owners and a half number of people who were temporarily occupied. By contrast, there were only 2.3% of young employees working in other countries.

 

 

 

In England, people who undertook permanent jobs accounted for a third of all graduates while 10% less of others had provisional jobs. It is also noticeable that overseas workers shared the same rate with that in Wales, where the proportion of people who had long-term jobs almost doubled that of short-term occupied ones.

 

 

 

Northern Ireland’s employment rate, on the other hand, shows a relatively poorer situation. To be specific, only roughly a half of youth managed to find a job with 20% of people working permanently and less than 15% of people who had occupations for the time being or found a niche overseas.

 

 

 

Overall, Scottish graduates tend to have better opportunity to job vacancies. Also, lifelong job owners are more likely to see in these four countries.

 

(221 words) 

 

TASK 2

题目类别:动物类

提问方式:Agree/disagree  

考试题目:

In modern life,it is no longer necessary to use animals as food and in other products like clothing and medicines.To what extent do you agree or disagree?

 

 

类似旧题:08.02.02/13.04.18

Some people think it is acceptable to use animals for the benefit of humans. Other people think it is wrong to exploit animals for human purposes. Discuss both views and give you own opinion.

大作文分析：

 

此次大作文环保类话题继续，旧题翻新，推出了动物类话题。现在西方国家比较推崇保护动物，这一类话题考到次数也在增加。那么为了迎合考官口味，一定要从尊重动物的角度出发。

 

范文：(word count:267)

Recent decades have witnessed a growth in the number of animal-right activists who strongly object to the consumption of animals as sources of food and other products. I would argue that it is reasonable to some extent.

 

 

 

Technology advancing enables people to create more substitutes for animal products, which reduces the necessity of using animals either as food or other usage. For instance, a wide range of dietary supplements can almost replace the nutrition provided by animals. These supplements do not only meet people’s requirements of improving health but also produce convenient tablets which are easy to carry. Additionally, some artificial products in terms of clothes are proved to be much better in keeping warm and less priced. If man-made materials can well replace the animal-related products, it is better to choose the former rather than the later in the consideration of animal protection.

 

 

 

However, some animals are considered as precious medicines which scientists have not yet found any alternatives. From this perspective, it is still too early to give up on the consumption of animals. Meanwhile, some species of animals reproduce very quickly and may become overpopulated without proper control. If they can be properly exploited for human benefits, there are apparently more advantages than disadvantages.

 

 To summarize, humans still have a high demand on animal products in some particular aspects, which suggests banning the usage of these products is not a conclusion to draw yet. Nevertheless, I am firmly convinced that everybody should be encouraged to try not to consume animals when necessary and technology development will make the given statement come true someday.