雅思(阅读)模拟试卷112(题后含答案及解析)
雅思（阅读）模拟试卷112 (题后含答案及解析)
题型有：1. Reading Module
Reading Module (60 minutes)
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13 which are based on
Reading Passage 1 below.Australia’s Growing DisasterFarming is threatening to
destroy the soil and native flora and fauna over vast areas of Australia. What price
should be put on conservation?Australia’s National Greenhouse Gas Inventory
Committee estimates that burning wood from cleared forest accounts for about 30 per
cent of Australia’s emissions of carbon dioxide, or 156 million tonnes a year. And
water tables are rising beneath cleared land. In the Western Australian wheat belt,
estimates suggest that water is rising by up to 1 metre a year. The land is becoming
waterlogged and unproductive or is being poisoned by salt, which is brought to the
surface. The Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) reckons that 33 million
hectares have been degraded by salination. The federal government estimates the loss
in production from salinity at A$200 million a year. According to Jason Alexandra of
the ACF, this list of woes is evidence that Australia is depleting its resources by
trading agricultural commodities for manufactured goods. In effect, it sells topsoil for
technologies that will be worn out or redundant in a few years. The country needs to
get away from the ‘colonial mentality’ of exploiting resources and adopt agricultural
practices suited to Australian conditions, he says.Robert Hadler of the National
Farmers’ Federation does not deny that there is a problem, but says that it is ‘illogical’
to blame farmers. Until the early 1980s, farmers were given tax incentives to clear
land because that was what people wanted. If farmers are given tax breaks to manage
land sustainably, they will do so. Hadler argues that the two reports on land clearance
do not say anything which was not known before. Australia is still better off than
many other developed countries, says Den Graetz, an ecologist at the CSIRIO, the
national research organisation. ‘A lot of the country is still notionally pristine,’ he says
‘It is not transformed like Europe where almost nothing that is left is natural.’ Graetz,
who analysed the satellite photographs for the second land clearance report, argues
that there is now better co-operation between Australian scientists, government
officials and farmers than in the past.But the vulnerable state of the land is now
widely understood, and across Australia, schemes have started for promoting
environment friendly farming. In 1989 Prime Minister Bob Hawke set up Landcare, a
network of more than 2000 regional conservation groups. About 30 per cent of
landholders are members. ‘It has become a very significant social movement,’ says
Helen Alexander from the National Landcare Council. ‘We started out worrying about
not much more than erosion and the replanting of trees but it has grown much more
diverse and sophisticated.’But the bugbear of all these conservation efforts is money.
Landcare’s budget is A$110 million a year, of which only A $6 million goes to
farmers. Neil Clark, an agricultural consultant from Bendigo in Victoria, says that
farmers are not getting enough. ‘Farmers may want to make more efficient use of
water and nutrients and embrace more sustainable practices, but it all costs money and
they just don’t have the spare funds,’ he says.Clark also says scientists are taking too
large a share of the money for conservation. Many problems posed by agriculture to
the environment have been ‘researched to death’, he says. ‘We need to divert the
money for a while into getting the solutions into place’. Australia’s chief scientist,
Michael Pitman, disagrees. He says that science is increasingly important.
Meteorologists, for example, are becoming confident about predicting events which
cause droughts in Australia. ‘If this can be done with accuracy then it will have
immense impact on stocking levels and how much feed to provide,’ says Pitman. “The
end result will be much greater efficiency.’Steve Morton of the CSIRO Division of
Wildlife and Ecology says the real challenge facing conservationists is to convince the
85 per cent of Australians who live in cities that they must foot a large part of the bill.
“The land is being used to feed the majority and to produce wealth that circulates
through the financial markets of the cities,’ he says. One way would be to offer
incentives to extend the idea of stewardship to areas outside the rangelands, so that
more land could be protected rather than exploited. Alexander agrees. ‘The nation will
have to debate to what extent it is willing to support rural communities,’ she says. ‘It
雅思阅读(综合)模拟试卷3(题后含答案及解析)
雅思阅读（综合）模拟试卷3 (题后含答案及解析)
题型有：1. Reading Module
Reading Module (60 minutes)
The way the brain buysSupermarkets take great care over the way the goods they
sell are arranged. This is because they know a lot about how to persuade people to
buy things.When you enter a supermarket, it takes some time for the mind to get into
a shopping mode. This is why the area immediately inside the entrance of a
supermarket is known as the ‘decompression zone’. People need to slow down and
take stock of the surroundings, even if they are regulars. Supermarkets do not expect
to sell much here, so it tends to be used more for promotion. So the large items piled
up here are designed to suggest that there are bargains further inside the store, and
shoppers are not necessarily expected to buy them. Walmart, the world’s biggest
雅思(阅读)模拟试卷107(题后含答案及解析)
雅思（阅读）模拟试卷107 (题后含答案及解析)
题型有：1. Reading Module
Reading Module (60 minutes)
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on
Reading Passage 1 below.Cutty Sark: the fastest sailing ship of all timeThe nineteenth
century was a period of great technological development in Britain, and for shipping
the major changes were from wind to steam power, and from wood to iron and
steel.The fastest commercial sailing vessels of all time were clippers, three-masted
ships built to transport goods around the world, although some also took passengers.
From the 1840s until 1869, when the Suez Canal opened and steam propulsion was
replacing sail, clippers dominated world trade. Although many were built, only one
has survived more or less intact: Cutty Sark, now on display in Greenwich, southeast
雅思(阅读)模拟试卷115(题后含答案及解析)
雅思（阅读）模拟试卷115 (题后含答案及解析)
题型有：1. Reading Module
Reading Module (60 minutes)
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13 which are based on
Reading Passage 1 below.Questions 1-6Reading Passage 1 has seven sections,
A-G.Choose the correct heading for sections A and B and D-G from the list of
headings below.Write the correct number, i-vii, in boxes 1-6 on your answer sheet.List
of Headingsi Men getting better treatment than women in the job marketii Men’s
persistent authority over womeniii Variations in the amount women are paidiv The
extent of women’s workv Low possibility of women to access to formal jobsvi More
women in the labour forcevii Young women gaining experience from workviii The
effects of competition and quotas on women’s incomesix Women’s benefit and lose
from work opportunitiesExample AnswerSection C v1 Section A2 Section B3 Section
雅思(写作)模拟试卷129(题后含答案及解析)
雅思（写作）模拟试卷129 (题后含答案及解析)
题型有：1.
1． Some programmes on TV are full of violence. This is having quite some
negative influences on individuals and even on society. How far do you agree or
disagree with the statement? Give your reasons.
正确答案： With the rapid development of science and technology,
television, as a powerful invention in the 20th century, is becoming an indispensable
tool in people’s life. People can learn about what is happening around the world
simultaneously by watching TV. However, at the same time, some programmes with
shots or scenes of violence begin to flood the TV screens. Young individuals, as well
as the whole society, are unavoidably affected. In my point of view, most of these
impacts are negative. To begin with, youngsters will imitate the scenes and
actions of violence and crimes in TV programmes, thus becoming criminals. No one
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★How to increase sales
Published online: Nov 9th 2006
From The Economist print edition
How shops can exploit people's herd mentality to increase sales
1. A TRIP to the supermarket may not seem like an exercise in psychological
warfare—but it is. Shopkeepers know that filling a store with the aroma of freshly
baked bread makes people feel hungry and persuades them to buy more food than
they had intended. Stocking the most expensive products at eye level makes them sell
faster than cheaper but less visible competitors. Now researchers are investigating
how “swarm intelligence” (that is, how ants, bees or any social animal, including
humans, behave in a crowd) can be used to influence what people buy.
2. At a recent conference on the simulation of adaptive behaviour in Rome,
Zeeshan-ul-hassan Usmani, a computer scientist from the Florida Institute of
雅思考试全题模拟试题
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雅思考试全题模拟试题(1)
Listening
TIME ALLOWED : 30 minutes
NUMBER OF QUESTION: 40
Instruction
You will hear a number of different recordings and you will have to answer questions
on what you hear.
There will be time for you to read the instructions and questions, and you will have
a chance to check you work.
All the recordings will be played ONCE only.
The test is in four sections. Write your answers in the listening question booklet.
At the end of the test you will be given ten minutes to transfer your answers to
an answer sheet.
Now turn to Section 1 on page 2.
SECTION 1 Question1-9
Question 1-6
Listen to conversation between friend and the housing officer and complete the list
below.
Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS OR NUMBERS for each answer.
HOUSING LIST
HOUSING LIST
Address Number of rooms Price per week Additional information
雅思(阅读)模拟试卷57(题后含答案及解析)
雅思（阅读）模拟试卷57 (题后含答案及解析)
题型有：1. Reading Module
Reading Module (60 minutes)
Green Wave Washes Over Mainstream ShoppingResearch in Britain has
shown that ‘ green consumers’ continue to flourish as a significant group amongst
shoppers. This suggests that politicians who claim environmentalism is yesterday’s
issue may be seriously misjudging the public mood. A report from Mintel, the
market research organisation, says that despite recession and financial pressures, more
people than ever want to buy environmentally friendly products and a ‘ green wave’
has swept through consumerism, taking in people previously untouched by
environmental concerns, The recently published report also predicts that the process
will repeat itself with ‘ ethical’ concerns, involving issues such as fair trade with the
Third World and the social record of businesses. Companies will have to be more
雅思(阅读)历年真题试卷汇编19(题后含答案及解析)
雅思（阅读）历年真题试卷汇编19 (题后含答案及解析)
题型有：1.
Morse CodeMorse code is being replaced by a new satellite-based system for
sending distress calls at sea. Its dots and dashes have had a good run for their
money.A “Calling all. This is our last cry before our eternal silence.” Surprisingly this
message, which flashed over the airwaves in the dots and dashes of Morse code on
January 31st 1997, was not a desperate transmission by a radio operator on a sinking
ship. Rather, it was a message’signalling the end of the use of Morse code for distress
calls in French waters. Since 1992 countries around the world have been
decommissioning their Morse equipment with similar(if less poetic)sign-offs, as the
world’s shipping switches over to a new satellite-based arrangement, the Global
Mari-time Distress and Safety System. The final deadline for the switch-over to
雅思(写作)模拟试卷114(题后含答案及解析)
雅思（写作）模拟试卷114 (题后含答案及解析)
题型有：1.
1． The development of science and technology benefits our life. Do you
think the benefits outweigh the drawbacks?
正确答案： The development of science and technology makes our life more
comfortable and convenient. However, scientists have created many problems, which
are not easy to be resolved, such as air pollution, the deterioration of environment and
the scarcity of natural resources, to which we must find some solutions. Modern
science and technology render people many advantages. Modern telecommunication
shortens the distance between people and makes communication much easier. Internet
is widely used now not only for collection of abundant information but also for
correspondence. E-mail, the most effective communication device now, is becoming
very popular. Besides, telephone and mobile phone make contact more convenient
2015年雅思阅读模拟试题及答案解析五
new weapon to fight cancer
1. British scientists are preparing to launch trials of a radical new way to
fight cancer， which kills tumours by infecting them with viruses like the common
cold.
2. If successful， virus therapy could eventually form a third pillar alongside
radiotherapy and chemotherapy in the standard arsenal against cancer， while
avoiding some of the debilitating side-effects.
3. Leonard Seymour， a professor of gene therapy at Oxford University， who has
been working on the virus therapy with colleagues in London and the US， will lead
the trials later this year. Cancer Research UK said yesterday that it was excited
by the potential of Prof Seymour's pioneering techniques.
4. One of the country's leading geneticists， Prof Seymour has been working with
viruses that kill cancer cells directly， while avoiding harm to healthy tissue.