考试日期：

2014年5月17日

Reading Passage 1 （新题）

Title:

The Extraordinary Waltkin Tench

Question types:

1-5 T/F/NG

1.在 Tench抵达澳大利亚之前，人们熟知他。（FALSE）

2.Tench在路途中画图片记载下了所见所闻。（NOT GIVEN）

3.一般对待囚犯convicts很好。 （FALSE）

4.Tench对于当地土著人aboriginals的观点仍就没有改变。（FALSE）

5.初次见面之时一个土著人给Tench食物作为礼物。（NOT GIVEN）

6.Tench 在他一生中都持有不寻常unusual的观点。 （TRUE）

7-12 Short answer questions

7.什么具体信息证明Tench有一个良好的教育背景？Diaries

8.什么被用来控制囚犯？Chains

9.谁告诉Tench去惩罚土著人？Governor Phillip

10.他们在去往H...河的路上从事了什么样的活动？Food hunting

11.逃跑的囚犯想去哪？China

12.在哪里Tench遇见了第一个土著人？Botany Bay

文章大意

Watkin Tench 的人物传记类文章，主要讲他送英国罪犯往澳大利亚，与澳洲当地土著人相处的故事。

补充阅读

Watkin Tench (6 October 1758 – 7 May 1833) was a British marine officer who is best known for publishing two books describing his experiences in the First Fleet, which established the first settlement in Australia in 1788. His two accounts, "Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay" and "Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson" provide an account of the arrival and first four years of the colony.[1] Little is known of Tench apart from what he writes in his three books and his service record.

Biography 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.

More to find at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watkin_Tench

剑桥推荐

人物传记类 C911, C941，C511

Reading Passage 2 (新题)

Title:

Making the images from the space more accessible

Question types:

13-16 paragraph match段落细节信息配对NB

13.一个独特particular的方法用来改良来自Titan的影像。（C）

14.业余宇航员astronomers经常看到的。 （E）

15.被业余天文学家使用的media的发展。（G）

16.Geographic highlights made by Lieken. (C)

17-22 人名理论配对

17.如何利用utilize 业余工作者。 （Ed Faspoehler）

18. 业余工作者应该被评论commented （Lebreton）

19. 专家professionals 和业余工作者的合作cooperation将会让人们知道宇宙学是多么的令人激动。（Robert Milkey）

20. 业余工作者的数量超过outnumber了专家。（Ed Faspoehler）

21. 发达的科技将会帮助业余天文学家从事科学工作。（Robert Milkey）

22. 专家比业余工作者有更好的理解。 （Lieken

23-25 Sentence completion 填空

23.发送图片通过 Cassini spacecraft

24.Lieken 的团队知道了储存图片的地点在Arizona University

25. In the 1990’s , cheap digital

文章大意

讨论业余天文学家的价值所在，还讲到了专业天文学家。

剑桥推荐

天体类 C922

Reading Passage 3 (新题)

Title:

Musical Experts

Question types:

26-31 multiple choice单选

32-36 T/F/NG

32. Ericsson 的研究影响到了其他研究者。 （NOT GIVEN）

33. 其他领域有have one thing in common. (TRUE)

34. 那些成为world-scale的人每天regularly练习。（NOT GIVEN）

35. 练习10，000,以上的任何人都会成为天才。 （FALSE）

36. 当前的current学习和认知cognitive的技能支持了练习理论practice theory(TRUE)

37-40 Summary 有词库 Mozart

接受了37) practice来自于他的父亲... 第一只交响乐at the age of 38)four......not 39）popular but......40） inherited

文章大意

音乐天才是由先天决定的还是由后天大量努力练习成就的，尤其强调长时间练习的重要性，文章还提到了莫扎特。

剑桥推荐

C832 The Nature of Genius

难度分析

本次考试三篇文章均为新题，总体难度适中，三篇文章难以结合，一三篇对应题目较为容易，备考时注意雅思阅读主流题型的强化巩固练习。

此外，最近较为频繁考察的除了动物话题以外，人文艺术类型的文章也很活跃有上升趋势，天文类的文章重现舞台。近期备考的同学需在复习时稍加注意这些小频率话题背景文章的补充阅读，推荐American scientist 和National Geographic，经常泛读国外报刊杂志。