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Ⅱ.雅思阅读题型(Tasks)

雅思阅读题型之丰富堪称各大考试之最,共有9大题型,可分为主旨类和细节类两大类别。

主旨类:

1.标题对应List of headings that tests your ability to grasp the main idea of each paragraph.

Example 1:

Please choose the most suitable headings for paragraphs listed below.

NB There are more headings than paragraphs, so you will not use them all.

List of headings

1.Types of intelligence

2.Emotional awareness

3.Defining emotional intelligence

4.Differences between IQ and EQ

5.EQ, more important than IQ

6.Handling interpersonal relationship

7.Some tips to improve emotional intelligence

8.Self-motivation

9.The significance of emotional intelligence

10.Managing one's emotions

1.Paragraph A:

2.Paragraph B:

3.Paragraph C:

4.Paragraph D:

5.Paragraph E:

2.最佳标题Best title that tests your ability to grasp the gist of the whole passage.

Example 2:

Select the best title for the entire passage:

A. The tourist industry

B. Some economic benefits of tourism

C. The multiplier effect

D. How to improve tourism

3.概述题Summary that tests your ability to understand the main idea of a large area of the text and express the same idea in different ways.

Example 3:

Complete the summary below. Choose your answers from the list below the summary.

NB There are more words than spaces, so you will not use them all.

Trust is a   1   thing. Once   2  ,it affords us tremendous freedom;but once trust is lost, it would impossible to   3  .Of course the truth is we never know who we can trust:those who were closest can   4   us;and total strangers can come to our   5  .In the end, most people decide to trust only themselves—it really is the simplest way to keep from getting burned.

List of words

precious  earned  difficult  betray

ruined  fragile  show loyalty to  rescue

recover  side

Excerpted from Desperate Wives

细节类:

1.判断题TRUE/FALSE/NOT GIVEN or YES/NO/NOT GIVEN that tests your ability to identify and understand detailed logical arguments or opinions in the passage.

Example 4:

A.

Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage 1?

TRUE if the statement agrees with the information

FALSE if the statement contradicts the information

NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this

A prevalent attitude amongst many nurses in the group selected for study was that there was no reward or recognition for not utilizing the paid sick leave entitlement allowed them in their employment conditions.

If the nurses do not use their paid sick leave, they will get rewarded.

B.

Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage 1?

TRUE if the statement agrees with the views of the writer

FALSE if the statement contradicts the views of the writer

NOT GIVEN if it is impossible to say what the writer thinks about this

It was estimated that the leisure revolution would take place by the turn of the century with hours devoted to work falling to 25-30 per week. This reduction has failed to materialize.

At the turn of the last century, weekly work hours dropped to 25.

2.配对题Matching that tests your ability to locate specific information with its relevant features.

Example 5:

Match the theories with the following statements.

A. Behaviorism

B. Humanism

dominates theory of humans'behavior before 1960s.

emphasizes the significance of cognitive learning.

maintains that rote learning is an effective way to memorize information.

suggests learning to know‘why'and‘how'is more important than knowing‘what'only.

implies the stimulus-response model is the key point in learning.

3.填空题Gap-filling that tests your ability to locate right information in a passage.

Example 6:

Complete the sentence below with words taken from the passage.

Use NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer.

1.The pages are then processed into photographic negatives and the film is used to produce aluminum printing plates ready for the presses.

The pages are converted into……and……are made for use in the printing presses.

2.Dinosaur skulls are found in a great range of shapes and sizes, reflecting the different eating habits and lifestyles of a large and varied group of animals that dominated life on Earth for an extraordinary 165 million years.

Dinosaurs had skulls of different shapes and sizes because of……and……

3.When two different masses of water meet, one will move beneath the other, depending on their relative densities in the subduction process.The densities are determined by temperature and salinity.

The subduction process is the result of the difference in……and……

4.Fresh outbreaks of coral bleaching—which occurs when rising temperatures cause polyps to discard the tiny algae that gives reefs their colors and which is linked by some scientists to the greenhouse effect, are being recorded.

Reefs contribute their various colors to……

4.简答题Short-answer question that tests your ability to locate the right information in a passage.

Example 7:

Answer the questions below using NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the passage for each answer.

Yet despite a positive treatment girls are much less likely to persist at a task following failure. Girls, moreover, are more likely than boys to attribute their failures to lack of ability, even on tasks where their ability exceeds that of boys.These paradoxical findings might at first seem to indicate an innate difference between boys and girls, but careful studies have identified environmental factors that can account for them.

What is the cause for the fact that girls regard themselves as incompetent for tasks?

5.图表题Table/Flow chart/Diagram that tests your ability to locate and understand a process, a diagram or a table.

Example 8:

Complete the table below.

Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the passage for each answer.

6.选择题Multiple choice that tests your ability to identify main and supporting points and also to differentiate between them.

Example 9:

A.

The limbic system's structures are involved with many motivational behaviors such as obtaining food, drink and sex;with organizing emotional behaviors such as fear, anger and aggression;and with the storing of memory.

Which of the following functions is NOT controlled by the limbic system?

A. Eating

B. Learning a new word by heart

C. Breath and heart rate

D. Jealousy

B.

I never liked long walks, especially on chilly afternoons:dreadful to me was the coming home in the raw twilight, with nipped fingers and toes, and a heart saddened by the chidings of Bessie, the nurse, and humbled by the consciousness of my physical inferiority to Eliza, John and Georgiana Reed.

Excerpted from Jane Eyre

The author mentions a number of factors that she hated walks outdoors. Which THREE of the following factors are mentioned?

A. The weather was cold.

B. Her aunt always cursed her.

C. She was weaker and not so pretty as her cousins.

D. The journey was long.

E. The cousins sometimes bullied her.

F. The carer usually blamed her.