考试日期

2013年8月17日

总体评价：三篇新题

本场考试主打Matching, 没有出现容易失分的List of Heading 题目，8月24日考生要注意咯。

Reading Passage 1

Title:

文章标题

仿生机器人（科技类）

Question types:

题型

True/ False/ Not Given （7个）

Table Completion (3个)

Short-Answer Questions （3个）

Note:

说明

新题

Main Content：

主要内容

&

Answers：

参考答案

本文讲仿生学研究。文章提供了关于仿生虎机器人的资料，其中重点分析到其脚掌动态设计。

关键词： sticky toes.

True/ False/ Not Given

第一个判断题是的statement是 壁虎的手指很粗糙并且有粘性。答案是False

第二个陈述是壁虎的脚趾能分泌一中粘合物朝某个方向运动。答案是NOT GIVEN

Short-Answer Questions

有一道问答题问：问机器人不能作什么。答案是self-clean

第二个问题是政府想要机器人做什么？答案是 survelleince

第三个问题是科学家想要机器人做什么？答案是 saving lives

另外一个问题是填urethan fibre。

Reading    Material:

原文阅读

开头段：To find a biomimetic bot already up and running—or at least ambling—one need only cross the bay to Palo Alto. Ever since the fifth century B.C., when Aristotle marveled at how a gecko "can run up and down a tree in any way, even with the head downward," people have wondered how the lizard manages its gravity-defying locomotion. Two years ago Stanford University roboticist Mark Cutkosky set out to solve this age-old conundrum, with a gecko-inspired climber that he christened Stickybot.

结尾段：Stickybot now walks up vertical surfaces of glass, plastic, and glazed ceramic tile, though it will be some time before it can keep up with a gecko. For the moment it can walk only on smooth surfaces, at a mere four centimeters per second, a fraction of the speed of its biological role model. The dry adhesive on Stickybot’s toes isn't self-cleaning like the lizard' s either, so it rapidly clogs with dirt. "There are a lot of things about the gecko that we simply had to ignore," Cutkosky says. Still, a number of real-world applications are in the offing. The Department of Defense’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which funds the project, has it in mind for surveillance: an automaton that could slink up a building and perch there for hours or days, monitoring the terrain below. Cutkosky hypothesizes a range of civilian uses. "I’m trying to get robots to go places where they' ve never gone before," he told me. "I would like to see Stickybot have a real-world function, whether it' s a toy or another application. Sure, it would be great if it eventually has a lifesaving or humanitarian role..."

Example：

参考练习      

建议参考练习为 C9T1P2 Is There anybody out There?

推荐理由：题型相似度高。

该文对应题型组合为：

List of Heading

Short-Answer Questions

True/False/ Not Given

Reading Passage 2

Title:

文章标题

图书馆介绍 （文化类）

Question types:

题型

Matching (段落-细节) （7个）

Matching (事物-特征) （4个）

Summary (原文原词型) （3个）

Main Content:

主要内容

　美国三个地方图书馆，纽约，旧金山，芝加哥图书馆。

纽约的图书馆是当时一个人出资400，000建设的。但是地和建造的钱是政府出的。

旧金山一直没钱建图书馆，所以他们建图书馆很慢，花了很久的时间。这反而是一件好事，因为缓慢的建造过程帮助他们躲过了一次地震。

相比之下，芝加哥的图书馆的设计比较保守。

Summary填空题有个空是填纽约图书馆的造价，应该填9 milion

Comment：

评注

如遇Matching题连续出现且其中有段落细节匹配，建议段落细节匹配后做，因为考虑该题型全乱序特点，后做可以借鉴其他考题内容的一些提示，推断部分答案。

Example：

参考练习

建议参考练习为 C7 The True Cost of Food

推荐理由：题型组合相似度高。

该文对应题型组合为：

Matching(段落-细节)

True/ False/ Not Given

Summary (原文原词)

Extensive Reading:

拓展阅读

The Stephen A. Schwarzman Building of the New York Public Library, more widely known as the Main Branch or simply as "the New York Public Library," is the flagship building in the New York Public Library system and a prominent historic landmark in Midtown Manhattan. The branch, opened in 1911, is one of four research libraries in the library system. It is located on Fifth Avenue at its intersection with 42nd Street.

The Library's famous Rose Main Reading Room (Room 315) is a majestic 78 feet (23.8 m) wide and 297 feet (90.5 m) long, with 52-foot (15.8 m) high ceilings. The room is lined with thousands of reference works on open shelves along the floor level and along the balcony, lit by massive windows and grand chandeliers, and furnished with sturdy wood tables, comfortable chairs, and brass lamps. It is also equipped with computers providing access to library collections and the Internet as well as docking facilities for laptops. Readers study books brought to them from the library's closed stacks. There are special rooms named for notable authors and scholars, many of whom have done important research and writing at the Library. But the Library has always been about more than scholars; during the Great Depression, many members of the general public, out of work, used the Library to improve their lot in life, as they still do.

The San Francisco Public Library is a public library system serving the city of San Francisco. Its main library is located in San Francisco's Civic Center, at 100 Larkin Street at Grove. The first public library of San Francisco officially opened in 1879, just 30 years after the California Gold Rush. Since then, it has moved several times. The first three branches were opened from 1888 to 1889, in the Mission, in North Beach, and in Potrero Hill.

The Chicago Public Library (CPL) is the public library system that serves the City of Chicago in the U.S. state of Illinois. It consists of 79 branches, including a central library, two regional libraries, and branches distributed throughout the city's 77 Community Areas.

The American Library Association reports that the library holds 5,721,334 volumes, making it the 9th largest public library in the United States by volumes held, and the 30th largest academic or public library in the United States by volumes held. The Chicago Public Library is the second largest library system in Chicago by volumes held (the largest is the University of Chicago Library). The library is the second largest public library system in the Midwest, after the Detroit Public Library.

Reading Passage 3

Title:

文章标题

儿童对图像与实物的感知(教育心理类)

Question types:

题型

Multiple Choice (细节型单选) （5个）

Yes/ No/ Not Given (5个)

Multiple Choices(多选) （3个）

Note:

说明

新题

Main Content:

主要内容

第一个实验是用了两个小孩一个小孩是2.5岁，另一个小孩是3.5岁，小孩做了同一个实验，因为认知能力的不同，所以得出了不同的结果。

第二个实验是使用18个月的小孩，发现小孩不会区分物品的大小。

第三个实验是使用7岁的小孩，发现3D的书籍可能并不能够帮助小孩学习。

Reading Material:

拓展阅读

The hypothesis that human fetuses are capable of perceiving pain in the early stages of a pregnancy has not received sufficient evidence to be proven or disproven; the developmental stage of research and instrumentation is so far insufficient to this task. Some authors, however, argue that fetal pain is possible from the second half of pregnancy: “The available scientific evidence makes it possible, even probable, that fetal pain perception occurs well before late gestation”wrote KJS Anand in the journal of the IASP. The issue is considerably complicated by the usual difficulties in perceptual research of unresponsive subjects: "Though techniques such as positron electron tomography scanning might reveal those parts of the brain that respond to a painful stimulus, this does not tell us what the individual is experiencing."

Comment：

评注

心理类话题普遍较难，注意文章中生词，偏僻词出现时的应对方式。对于绝大部分专业名词只要考虑AA重现，即原词重现的可能性即可。

Example：

参考练习

建议参考练习为 C9 T4P2

推荐理由：话题相似度高。文章话题类型较生僻。

总体评价

与8月3日雅思考试阅读三篇旧题完全不同的是，8月17日出现三篇新题，话题类别各有不同，题型方面Matching 仍旧是主打，没有出现List of Headings, 8月24日的考生可要留意咯！