【徐州朗阁英语】2015年8月雅思考试真题.pdfVIP

朗阁海外考试研究中心 Research Academy for Foreign Language Examinations 雅思考试阅读考题回顾 朗阁海外考试研究中心 徐航 考试日期： 2015年 8月 1日 Reading Passage 1 Title: Dust and America（环境类） Question types: TRUE/FALSE/NOT GIVEN 7题 Notes completion 6题 文章内容回顾 美国西南沙尘的起源，历史，调查对大平原地带的影响，产生的问题。 1-7. TRUE/FALSE/NOT GIVEN: 1. The dust had shot up dramatically since the second half of 19 century. TRUE 2. The Aztec civilization disappeared due to the dust in the atmospheres. FALSE 3. Before people bringing castles, southwest had a lot of basins in great plain. FALSE 4. Basins’ number decreased since European settlers found they were easy to be hunt. NOT GIVEN 5. Railway building used more money than expected. NOT GIVEN 6. XX railway company worked hard to protect the land they own. FALSE 7. Until today the land belonging to company is still infertile. TRUE 8-13. Notes completion: 1930s law limited 8. cattle herbs Today BF research where the dust comes from Analyzing components and 9. size from southwest BN soil cannot be destroyed by high 10. wind Soil can be destroyed by cattle hooks Analyzing 11. lake sediments Discover 12. nutrients Dust cannot be blamed for gradual disappearance of snow and 13. glaciers 朗阁海外考试研究中心 Research Academy for Foreign Language Examinations 相关原文阅读 House dust mites are present indoors wherever humans live. Positive tests for dust mite allergies are extremely common among people with asthma. Dust mites are microscopic arachnids whose primary food is dead human skin cells, but they do not live on living people. They and their faces and other allergens they produce are major constituents of house dust, but because they are so heavy they are not suspended for long in the air. They are generally found on the floor and other surfaces until disturbed (by walking, for example). It could take somewhere between twenty minutes and two hours for dust mites to settle back down out of the air. Atmospheric or wind-borne dust, also known as