2023年11月4日雅思考试机经-阅读.docxVIP

2023年11月4日雅思 ￡纸笔考试 ￡机考 考试概述： 本场考试三篇，两新一旧，难度偏高。第一篇上来就是心理学的文章，难度比较高；第二篇建筑，算是中规中矩；第三篇关于海盗的历史，难度比较高。 二、具体题目分析： Passage One： 文章题材：说明文（心理学） 文章题目：脸盲症 文章难度：★★★ 题型及数量：待补充 题目及答案：待补充 可参考真题：剑桥14——TEST1 Passage1 The Impact of Childrens Play Passage Two： 文章题材：说明文（建筑） 文章题目：澳大利亚石雕画 文章难度：★★★★ 题型及数量：待补充 题目及答案：待补充 可参考真题：剑桥17——TEST1 Passage2 Stadiums: past, present and future Passage Three： 文章题材：议论文（历史） 文章题目：海盗的历史 文章难度：★★★★ 题型及数量：小标题配对+判断正误+填空 题目及答案： Voyage of going: beyond the blue line 2 A. One feels a certain sympathy for Captain James Cook on the day in 1778 that he “discovered” Hawaii. Then on his third expedition to the Pacific, the British navigator had explored scores of islands across the breadth of the sea, from lush New Zealand to the lonely wastes of Easter Island This latest voyage had taken him thousands of miles north from the Society Islands to an archipelago so remote that even the ok! Polynesians back on Tahiti knew nothing about it. Imagine Cook’s surprise, then, when the natives of Hawaii came paddling out in their canoes and greeted him in a familiar tongue, one he had heard on virtually every mote of inhabited land he had visited Marveling at the ubiquity of this Pacific language and culture, he later wondered in his journal: “How shall we account for this Nation spreading it self so far over this Vast ocean?” B. Answers have been slow in coming. But now a startling archaeological find on the island of Efate, in the Pacific nation of Vanuatu, has revealed an ancient seafaring people, the distant ancestors of today’s Polynesians, taking their first steps into the unknown. The discoveries there have also opened a window into the shadowy work! of those early voyagers. At the same time, other pieces of this human puzzle are turning up in unlikely places. Climate data gleaned from slow-growing corals around the Pacific and from sediments in alpine lakes in South America may help explain how, more than a thousand years later, a second wave of seafarers beat their way ac