2015年12月19日雅思阅读机经预测

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children?s book was to come from an unlikely source indeed: early 19th-centuryinterest in folklore”，以及该段落最后一句话提及的“from now on younger children could expect stories written for their particular interest…”这些信息都对应题目“changed the direction of the development of children?s books”。题目与原文是同义表达，所以True。】 13. True

【利用细节信息“writers”、“children and adults”定位到G段第四行“That writers of these works are now often recommended to the attentions of adult as well as child readers ……”，题目的“appeal to”与原文的“recommended to the attention”是同义表达，所以答案是True。】 电报 1. TRUE

【原文见A段第1句200 monks at monastery in Paris arranged themselves in a line over a mile long, each holding ends of 25 ft iron wires.】 2. TRUE

【原文见A段最后1句…… this could be a way of signaling over long distances.】 3. FALSE

4. NOT GIVEN 5. TRUE

6. NOT GIVEN 7. expensive

【…Two Englishmen, William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone came up with a system in which dials were made to point at different letters, but that involved five wires and would have been expensive to construct.】 8. (rubber-like) latex

【Any such cable had to be insulated and the first breakthrough came with the discovery that a rubber-like latex from a tree on the Malay peninsula could do the trick.】

9. lead pipe

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【It was called gutta percha. The first attempt at a cross channel cable came in 1850. With thin wire and thick installation, it floated and had to be weighed down with lead pipe.】

10. Unusual Seaweed 11. President Buchanan 12. camels

13. tropical rain

【…They needed horses and bullock carts and, for the parched interior, camels. In the north, tropical rains left the teams flooded.】 14. several hours

拥挤和人口密度

1. iv Problems that result in crowding

【..,there are three significant trends ....All of these trends are producing increased crowding and perception of crowding.】 2. vii definitions of crowding and density

【...crowding and density are no necessarily the same. Density is .......Crowding is ....】

3. x Nature and results of Calboun?s experiment

【A classic crowding study was done by Calhoun,.......B段讲述了Calhoum的一个关于拥挤的研究，当受到空间限制的时候，出现的一些列负面影响。】 4. i Other experiments on the base of Calboun?s experiment

【D段首句有说other research啊~主要是D段首句就明确提及＂Calhoun的result使得后面进行了其他研究＂这就体现了选项中的＂on the base of Calhoun's experiment＂】

5. vi What cause the upset feel of crowding

【There are several reasons why crowding makes us feel uncomfortable.】 6. ii The effects of crowding in the social scope on people

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【F 段中 监狱的性别（male and femal）的举例子 这是本段几个支持细节中的一个，所以选择ix （明显迷惑选项），因为无法概括第1句中心句和后面 低个例子 offered helping diffusion（提供帮助减少） 例子就没有性别概念 ；F段首句即说了 social density is associated with negative effects on human beings。讲density对人类的影响，段落接下来具体举了很多了例子进行支持。与选项ii意思相符。B段区分的是纯粹的＂density＂的概念。而F段用的是＂social density＂】 7. viii Advice for crowded work environment

【Facing all these problems, what are we going to do with them?....The ability to cope with crowding is also influenced by the relationship the individual has with the other people in the situation.面临问题该怎么办，体现了选项中的advice】 8. privacy

【There are strong feelings of a lack of privacy-being unable to pay attention to what you want without being repeatedly interrupted or observed by others.】 9. male prison

【题目问的是inmates。其实可以这么想，如果你填small rooms成立的话，其实后半句里的large rooms也就有可能也是答案了。 9题与F段第三句替换了：inmates in high density settings = inmates living in conditions of higher densities;9题与F段第三句间的关系：inmates in high density settings = inmates living in conditions of higher densities，more aggressive = more likely to suffer from fight。因此答案就浮出水面了：male prison】 10. personal space

【These differences relate to the different personal space requirements of the genders.因为need就是requirement的意思再填requirement就多余了;且10题gender已经与题目中的male and female替换了】 11. attraction/attraction levels

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【Besides, Baum and Greenberg found that high density leads to decreased attraction, both physical attraction and link towards others and it appears to have gender differences in impact that density has on attraction levels, with males experiencing a more extreme reaction.】 12. help

【This may be due to the fact that people diffuse responsibility among themselves with no-one feeling that they ought to be the one to help. 12题 be reluctant to do sth. 判断词性为动词原形。】 13. control

【The more control a person has over the crowded environment the less negatively they experience it, thus the perceived crowding is less(Schmidt and Keating).】 动物语言 1. NOT GIVEN 2. NOT GIVEN

【文中没有提到任何关于Alex在人前会感到害怕的信息。】 3. FALSE

【many scientists believed animals were incapable of any thought. They were simply machines, robots programmed to react to stimuli but lacking the ability to think or feel.】 4. TRUE

【A段中提到，Alex一岁时开始进行实验，B段开头说Alex死于三十一岁，也就是人们用了三十年的时间才认识到动物中存在认知，故而是it takes a long time.】

5. TRUE （题目里的Pepperberg改成Alex）

【In other words, because Alex was able to produce a close approximation of the sounds of some English words, Pepperberg could ask him questions about a bird's basic understanding of the world.】

6. FALSE

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【\wrong answer just to be obstinate.……” 文中说，他打断其他鹦鹉，故意给出错的答案，都是因为他bored和obstinate（顽固的，难以控制的），而不是因为题干中说的他想被关注。】 7. 100 English words

【Under Pepperberg's patient tutelage（监护，指导）, Alex learned how to use his vocal tract to imitate almost one hundred English words, ……】 8. chimpanzees

【Scientists thought that chimpanzees were better subjects…】 9. avian cognition

【\been the point. My plan always was to use his imitative skills to get a better understanding of avian cognition.\】 10. particularly chosen

【Pepperberg bought Alex in a Chicago pet store where she let the store's assistant pick him out because she didn't want other scientists saying later that she'd particularly chosen an especially smart bird for her work.】 11. color

【\】 12. wrong pronunciation

【……, when one of the younger birds Pepperberg was also teaching talked with wrong pronunciation.】 13. teenager

【At this stage, he's like a teenager; he's moody, and I'm never sure what he'll do.】

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