南京环球教育（原环球教育）朱莹莹老师对9月24日的雅思阅读中出现的试题进行了分析，希望对大家有所帮助。

　　Reading Passage 1  

　　Title：村庄储存雨水的活动 Rainwater harvesting （旧）

　　Question types:Short Answer Questions 6

　　YES/ NO/ NOT GIVEN 8

　　文章内容：雨水回收系统。一个干旱地区，主要是描述一个村庄发展了一种储水系统进行雨水的收集。

　　文章分析：

　　Rainwater harvesting

　　For two years southern Sri Lanka suffered a prolonged drought, described by locals as "the worst in 50 years". Some areas didn't see a successful crop for four or five consecutive seasons. Livestock died，water in wells dropped to dangerously low levels, children were increasingly malnourished and school attendance has fallen. Anestimated 1.6 million people were affected.

　　A Muthukandiya is a village in Moneragaladistrict, one of the drought-stricken areas in the "dry zone" of southern Sri Lanka (斯里兰卡）, where half the country's population of18 million lives. Rainfall in the area varies greatly from year to year, often bringing extreme dry spells in between monsoons (季风）.But this drought was much worse than usual. Despite some rain inNovember, only half of Moneragala's 1,400 tube wells were in workingorder by March. The drought devastated supplies of rice and freshwaterfish, the staple diet of inland villages. Many local industries closed downand villagers headed for the towns in search of work.

　　B The villagers of Muthukandiya arrived in the 1970s as part of agovernment resettlement scheme. Each family was given six acres of land,with no irrigation system. Because crop production, which relies entirelyon rainfall, is insufficient to support most families, the village economyrelies on men and women working as day-labourers in nearby sugar-caneplantations. Three wells have been dug to provide domestic water, butthese run dry for much of the year. Women and children may spendseveral hours each day walking up to three miles (five kilometres) to fetchwater for drinking, washing and cooking.

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　　Q1-6: 简答题 ( NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS)

　　1. What is the major way for local people make barely a support of living in Muthukandiya village?

　　Crop production    B段第三行

　　2. Where can adult workers make extra money from in daytime?

　　Sugar-cane plantations

　　3. What have been dug to supply water for daily household life?

　　Three wells

　　4. In which year did the plan of a new project to lessen the effect of drought begin?

　　1998

　　5. Where do the gutters and pipes collect rainwater from?

　　roofs of houses

　　6. What help family obtain more water for domestic needs than those relying on only wells and ponds?

　　Storage tanks

　　Q7-14: YES/NO/NOT GIVEN

　　7. NG

　　Most of the government's actions and other programs have somewhat failed.

　　8. YES

　　Masons were trained for the constructing parts of the rainwater harvesting system.

　　9. NO

　　The cost of rainwater harvesting systems was shared by local villagers and the local government.

　　10. YES

　　Tanks increase both the amount and quality of the water for domestic use.

　　11. NO

　　To send her daughter to school, a widow had to work for a job in rainwater harvesting scheme.

　　12. NOT GIVEN

　　Households benefited began to pay part of the maintenance or repairs.

　　13. NOT GIVEN

　　Training two masons at the same time is much more preferable to training single one.

　　14. NO

　　Other organizations had built tanks larger in size than the tanks built in Muthukandya.

　　（答案源于网络资源，仅供参考）

　　Reading Passage 2  

　　Title:仿生科技 （旧） Bionics 20150516

　　Question types:Information Containing

　　Matching

　　文章内容：

　　生物科技对人类的发展的作用，自然现象对现代技术的影响。第一段通过fish 的例子引出仿生学的话题，举了仿生学的例子，制造出一种非常高效率的车子。接下来文章提出了3 个等级：工业，与工业相关的方面以及经济方面。最后文章叙述了仿生学带来的启示。

　　相关文章参考：

　　Inspired by mimicking mother nature  

　　Research and designers around the globe endeavor to create new technologies that, by honoring the tenets of life, are both highly efficient and often environmentally friendly. And while biomimicry is not a new concept (Leonard da Vinci looked to nature to design his flying machines, for examples and pharmaceutical companies have long been miming plant organism in synthetic drugs) there is a greater need for products and manufacturing processes that use a minimum

　　of energy, materials, and toxins. "We have a perfect storm happening right now," says Jay Harm an, an inventor and CEO of PAX Scientific, which designs fans, mixers, and pumps to achieve maximum efficiency by imitating the natural flow of fluids. "Shapes in nature arc extremely simple once you understand them, but to understand what geometries are at play, and to adapt them, is a very complex process. We only just recently have had the computer power and manufacturing capability to produce these types of shapes." "If we could capture nature's efficiencies across the board, we could decrease dependency on fuel by at least 50 percent," Harmon says. "What we're finding already with the tools and methodology we have right now is that we can reduce energy consumption by between 30 and 40 percent."

　　（部分篇章节选内容，仅供参考）

　　文章分析：这篇文章用的词语都很专业，也相对复杂，加上文章所附的题型涉及信息包含，对于考生来说难度相对高。

　　Reading Passage 3  

　　Title：18世纪文化科技化学发展3 （新）

　　Question types:Matching、Summary

　　文章内容：因为缺少必要的工具，导致化学比其他学科发展更慢

　　参考阅读：类似篇章：2009年7月25日，2013年4月18日化学发展史

　　关于化学发展史的，提出在化学发展之前，天文学和物理先发展的，因为这些科学是依靠眼睛观察，而不需要tools，所以第一个天空是lacked tools是化学不能得到发展；然后就是测量热量的方式是用candles，后来有了alcohol的温度计。

　　第一段提到各国的工业革命；  

　　第二段说一个人发明了一个数学的什么东西，就给了其它学科发展带来一些启示；  

　　第三段、第四段解释化学为什么一直没有什么发展，因为它对实验工具的要求很高，但是像天文学就只要用眼睛看，物理学就是看小球的摆动；

　　第五段介绍了化学实验工具方面的小进展，比如用蜡烛的跟数控制火的温度还有用。

　　第六段 说是温度计的发明促进了化学的进一步发展。

　　最后一段就是简单论述了一下之后化学的发展史了。

　　难度分析：

　　综合看来，本次考试的三篇文章从题材选择上第二篇和第三篇的话题对于考生来说有一定的理解难度，因为文中会涉及较为专业的词汇和表达，建议对于科普知识模块加强考前的训练；题型方面，第一篇的判断与简答题目组合相对简单，需要考生找好判断的考点，区分好NO和 NOT GIVEN 的判断差异，后两篇题目较多考核了匹配方面的练习，备考的重点仍是要加强定位与同义替换方面的内容，希望多做积累与演练。