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考试日期  2017年 10月14日

 

 

Reading Passage 1

Title  Back to Wild

Question types

TRUE/FALSE/NOT GIVEN 4 题

Summary Completion 5 题

Short-answer Questions 4 题

文章内容回顾

野种马要灭绝了，科学家为了保护濒危野种马，把近似基因的马种放到相同的环境中，让他们通过改变生活习惯，慢慢喝濒危野种马相似，围绕这个计划开展了许多类似项目。

1-4 TRUE/FALSE/NOT GIVEN

1. NOT GIVEN

2. FALSE

3. TRUE

4. FALSE

5-9 Summary Completion

5. 1969

6. genetic compatibility

7. 2 generations

8.13,000 hectares

9. Wild Horse Mesh

10-13 Short-answer Questions

10. genetic reservoir

11. grazing pressure

12. three

13. competition

 

题型难度分析

本篇文章 Short-answer Questions 和 TRUE/FALSE/NOT GIVEN 的难度适中，Summary Completion 个别题目定位略难。

 

题型技巧分析

解答判断题时，应先根据顺序原则，找出题目的一句或几句定位，再仔细阅读这些定位句，作出判断。对于 Summary Completion 一般把握三个关键信息：逻辑关系词，语法属性，定位。首先，观察空格前后语义间是否有逻辑关系的连接词；其次，预测空格处所填的语法属性；最后，根据顺序原则在空格前后找定位关键词回原文定位。做 Short-answer Questions 时，应先看题目中的字数要求，再在简答题 中 找 出 定 位 词 ， 在 原 文 中 找 出 定 位 句 ， 判 断 Short-answerQuestions 答案的语法属性，在定位句中找出答案。

 

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A Although it was called tiger, it looked like a clog with black stripes on its hack and it was the largest known carnivorous marsupial of modem times. Yet, despite its fame for being one of the most fabled animals in the world, it is one of the least understood of Tasmania's native animals. The scientific name for the Tasmanian tiger is Thylacine and it is believed that they have become extinct in the 20^th century.

B Fossils of Thylacines dating from about almost 12 million years ago have been dug up at various places in Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia. They were widespread in Australia 7, 000 years ago, hut have probably been extinct on the continent for 2, 000 years. This is believed to be because of the introduction of dingoes around 8, 000 years ago. Because of disease, Thylacine numbers may have been declining in Tasmania at the time of European settlement 200 years ago, but the decline was certainly accelerated by the new arrivals. The last known Titsmanijin Tiger died in I lobar! Zoo in 193fi and the animal is officially classified as extinct. Technically, this means that it has not been officially sighted in the wild or captivity for

50 years. However, there are still unsubstantiated sightings.

C Hans Naarding, whose study of animals had taken him around the world, was conducting a survey of a species of endangered migratory bird. What he saw that night is now regarded as the most credible sighting recorded of Thylacine that many believe has been extinct for more than 70 years.

D "I had to work at night." Naarding takes up the story. "I was in the habit of intermittently shining a spotlight around. The beam fell on an animal in front of the vehicle, less than 10m away. Instead of risking movement by grabbing for a camera, I decided to register very carefully what I was seeing. The animal was about the size of a small shepherd dog, a very healthy male in prime condition. What set it apart from a dog, though, was a slightly sloping hindquarter, with a fairly thick tail being a straight continuation of the backline of the animal. It had 12 distinct stripes on its back, continuing onto its butt. I knew perfectly well what I was seeing. As soon as I reached for the camera, it disappeared into the tea-tree undergrowth and scrub."

E The director of Tasmani’ s National Parks at the time, Peter Morrow, decided in his wisdom to keep Naarding's sighting of the Thylacine secret for two years. When the news finally broke, it was accompanied by pandemonium. "I was besieged by television crews, including four to five from Japan, and others from the United Kingdom, Germany, New Zealand and South America," said Naarding.

F Government and private search parties combed the region, but no further sightings were made. The tiger, as always, had escaped to its lair, a place many insist exists only in our imagination. But since then, the Thylacine has staged something of a comeback, becoming part of Australian mythology.

G There have been more than 4, 000 claimed sightings of the beast since it supposedly died out, and the average claims each year reported to authorities now number 150. Associate professor of

zoology at the University of Tasmania, Randolph Rose, has said he dreams of seeing a Thylacine. But Rose, who in his 35 years in Tasmanian academia has fielded countless reports of Thylacine

sightings, is now convinced that his dream will go unfulfilled.

H The consensus among conservationists is that, usually; any animal with a population base of less than 1, 000 is headed for extinction within 60 years," says Rose. "Sixty years ago, there was only one Thylacine that we know of, and that was in Hobart Zoo," he says.

I Dr. David Pemberton, curator of zoology at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, whose PhD thesis was on the Thylacine, says that despite scientific thinking that 500 animals are required to sustain a population, the Florida panther is down to a dozen or so animals and, while it does have some inbreeding problems, is still ticking along. "I'll take a punt and say that, if we manage to find a Thylacine in the scrub, it means that there are 50-plus animals out there. "

J After all, animals can be notoriously elusive. The strange fish known as the coelacanth' with its "proto-legs", was thought to have died out along with the dinosaurs 700 million years ago until a specimen was dragged to the surface in a shark net off the south-east coast of South Africa in 1938.KWildlife biologist Nick Mooney has the unenviable task of investigating all "sightings" of the tiger totaling 4, 000 since the mid-1980s, and averaging about 150 a year. It was Mooney who was first consulted late last month about the authenticity of digital photographic images purportedly taken by a German tourist while on a recent bushwalk in the state. On face value, Mooney says, the account of the sighting, and the two photographs submitted as proof, amount to one of the most convincing cases for the species' survival he has seen.

K And Mooney has seen it all—the mistakes, the hoaxes, the illusions and the plausible accounts of sightings. Hoaxers aside, most people who report sightings end up believing they have seen a Thylacine, and are themselves believable to the point they could pass a lie-detector test, according to Mooney. Others, having tabled a creditable report, then become utterly obsessed like the Tasmanian who has registered 99 Thylacine sightings to date. Mooney has seen individuals bankrupted by the obsession, and families destroyed. "It is a blind optimism that something is, rather than a cynicism that something isn't," Mooney says. "If something crosses the road, it's not

a case of ‘I wonder what that was?’ Rather, it is a case of 'that's a Thylacine!' It is a bit like a gold prospector's blind faith, 'it has got to be there'. "

L However, Mooney treats all reports on face value. "I never try to embarrass people, or make fools of them. But the fact that I don’t pack the car immedi ately they ring can often be taken as ridicule. Obsessive characters get irate that someone in my position is not out there when they think the Thylacine is there.”

M But Hans Naarding, whose sighting of a striped animal two decades ago was the highlight of "a life of animal spotting", remains bemused by the time and money people waste on tiger searches. He says resources would be better applied to saving the Tasmanian devil, and helping migratory bird populations that are declining as a result of shrinking wetlands across Australia.

N Could the Thylacine still be out there? "Sure," Naarding says. But he also says any discovery of surviving Thylacines would be "rather pointless". "How do you save a species from extinction? What could you do with it? If there are Thylacines out there, they are better off right where they are."

 

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剑 6 Test 4 Passage 3

Reading Passage 2

Title  Can we call it “ART”? Life-casting and Art

Question types

Matching Information 5 题

YES/NO/NOT GIVEN 6 题

Multiple Choice（单选）2 题

文章内容回顾

视觉艺术发展

14-18 Matching Information

14. D

15. C

16. G

17. H

18. F

19-24 YES/NO/NOT GIVEN

19.YES

20.NO

21.NOT GIVEN

22.NO

23.YES

24.YES

25-26 Multiple Choice（单选）

25.B

26.D

 

题型难度分析  比上篇稍难，但难度依然处于中等。

题型技巧分析

考生在做 Matching Information 时，应注意处理题目信息宽泛的问题，选取正确的定位词。做 YES/NO/NOT GIVEN 时，应注意准确定位，找出与本题相关的一句话或几句话，再仔细阅读这些对应句，作出题目的判断。

 

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剑 4Test 1 Passage 3

Reading Passage 3

Title  Nature Works for Nature Works™ PLA

Question types

Matching 4 题

Flow-chart Completion 4 题

Multiple Choice（单选）2 题

Multiple Choice（多选）2 题

文章内容回顾

合成塑料的应用

27-30 Matching

27. B

28. C

29. F

30. A

31-34 Flow-chart Completion

31. starch

32. fermentation

33. condensation

34. polymer

35-36 Multiple Choice（单选）

35. B

36. C

37-40 Multiple Choice（多选）

37-38 A,D

39-40 A,C

题型难度分析  此篇文章题型组合较多，偏难。

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