2018年9月8日雅思阅读考情回顾

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2018

年

9

月

8

日 雅思阅读考情回顾

一、考试时间：

2018

年

9

月

8

日（周六）

二、考试概述：本次考试两旧一新，且第一篇是经典题库题， 很多出版物都有所收录。第一

篇

the history of building telegraph lines

，介绍电报的铺设，是

年

1

月

9

日

B

卷

和

2016

年

12

月

10

日的旧题，类似题材的文章，比如莫斯代 码，比如贝尔实验室，也

都在历届真题中出现过。第二篇

Biz en ceramics

是

2012

年

7

月

7

日的旧 题，介绍日本

瓷器。第三篇

Giant Dinosaur

，介绍的是巨型恐龙，目前没找到过往出题痕迹。

三、文章简介

Passage 1: the history of building telegraph lines

，电报发展史

Passage 2: Bizen ceramics

，备前瓷器

Passage 3: Giant Dinosaur

，巨型恐龙

四、篇章分析：

Passage 1

：

文章内容

题

型

分

布

与

答案 参考

文章讲述了电报的发展史，围绕它的发明和水上电报发展 过程等展开。

答案：

1

In

the

research

of

French

scientists, the metal

lines

were

used

to

send

message T

2

Abbots

gave

the

monks

an

electrical

shock

at

the

same

time,

which

constitutes the exploration on the long-distance signaling. T

3 Using Morse Code to send message need to simplify the message firstly

F

4 Morse was a famous inventor before he invented the code T

5 The water is significant to early telegraph repeater on continent. T

6

US

Government

offered

fund

to

the

I

st

overland

line

across

the

continent NG

Questions 7-14

Answer the questions NO MORE THAN TWO

WORDS AND / OR A NUMBER from the passage for each answer.

Write your answers in boxes 7-14 on your answer sheet.

7. Why is the disadvantage for the Charles Wheatstone's telegraph system

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to fail in the beginning?It's expensive

8. What material was used for insulating cable across the sea?latex

9. What was used by British pioneers to increase the weight of the cable in

the sea?Lead ripe

10. What did Fisherman mistakenly take the cable as?Unusual seaseed

11.

Who

was

the

message

firstly

sent

to

across

the

Atlantic

by

the

Queen?President Buchanan

12.

What

giant

animals

were

used

to

carry

the

cable

through

desert?camels

13.

What

weather

condition

did

it

delay

the

construction

in

north

Australia?Tropical rain

14. How long did it take to send a telegraph message from Australia to

England?Several hours

相关拓展

A The idea of electrical communication seems to have begun

as long ago as 1746, when about 200 monks at monastery in

Paris arranged themselves in a line over a mile long, each holding

ends of 25 ft iron wires. The abbot, also a scientist, discharged a

primitive electrical battery into the wire, giving all the monks a

simultaneous electrical shock.

fact extremely important because, firstly, they all said 'ow' which

showed that you were sending a signal right along the line; and,

secondly, they all said 'ow' at the same time, and that meant that

you were sending the signal very quickly,

Standage, author of the Victorian Internet and technology editor

at the Economist. Given a more humane detection system, this

could be a way of signaling over long distances.

B With wars in Europe and colonies beyond, such a signalling

system was urgently needed. All sorts of electrical possibilities

were proposed, some of them quite ridiculous. Two Englishmen,

William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone came up with a system inwhich

dials were made to point at different letters, but that

involved five wires and would have been expensive to construct.

C Much simpler was that of an American, Samuel Morse,

whose system only required a single wire to send a code of dots

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and dashes. At first, it was imagined that only a few highly skilled

encoders would be able to use it but it soon became clear that

many people could become proficient in Morse code. A system

of lines strung on telegraph poles began to spread in Europe and

America.

D The next problem was to cross the sea. Britain, as an island

with an empire, led the way. Any such cable had to be insulated

and the first breakthrough came with the discovery that a

rubber-like latex from a tropical tree on the Malay peninsula

could do the trick. 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.

E It never worked well as the effect of water on its electrical

properties was not understood, and it is reputed that a French

fishermen hooked out a section and took it home as a strange

new form of seaweed The cable was too big for a single boat so

two had to start in the middle of the Atlantic, join their cables

and sail in opposite directions. Amazingly, they succeeded in

1858, and this enabled Queen Victoria to send a telegraph

message to President Buchanan. However, the 98-word message

took more than 19 hours to send and a misguided attempt to

increase the speed by increasing the voltage resulted in failure of

the line a week later.

F By 1870, a submarine cable was heading towards Australia.

It seemed likely that it would come ashore at the northern port

of Darwin from where it might connect around the coast to

Queensland and New South Wales. It was an undertaking moreambitious

than spanning an ocean. Flocks of sheep had to be

driven with the 400 workers to provide food. They needed horses

and bullock carts and, for the parched interior, camels. In the

north, tropical rains left the teams flooded. In the centre, it

seemed that they would die of thirst. One critical section in the

red heart of Australia involved finding a route through the

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McDonnell mountain range and then finding water on the other

side.

G The water was not only essential for the construction team.

There had to be telegraph repeater stations every few hundred

miles to boost the signal and the staff obviously had to have a

supply of water, lust as one mapping team was about to give up

and resort to drinking brackish water, some aboriginals took pity

on them. Altogether, 40, 000telegraph poles were used in the

Australian overland wire. Some were cut from trees. Where there

were no trees, or where termites ate the wood, steel poles were

imported.

H On Thursday, August 22, 1872, the overland line was

completed and the first messages could be sent across the

continent; and within a few months, Australia was at last in direct

contact with England via the submarine cable, too. The line

remained in service to bring news of the Japanese attack on

Darwin in 1942. it could cost several pounds to send a message

and it might take several hours for it to reach its destination on

the other side of the globe, but the world would never be same

again. Governments could be in touch with their colonies.

Traders could send cargoes based on demand and the latest

prices. Newspapers could publish news that had just happened

and was not many months old.

Passage 2

：

文章内容

讲了日本的瓷器，起源发展 史，随后提到了日本政府对于制作技艺的传承和

发展

题型分布与

答案参考

段落信息配对

6

14.V

讲解了起源于日本

一个人从父亲传承了收益并发扬

16. Iii

瓷器通过

200

度高温和含有铁的特殊材料烘烤

对瓷器进行发展和传承

19.i