2013年1月19日雅思阅读机经回忆及解析

1月19日的雅思考试已经落下帷幕，“战后归来”的烤鸭们，想对自己的考试成绩和结果一探究竟;“蠢蠢欲动”备战近期考试的烤鸭们，想对的考题和考情辨别水深水浅。

　　上海新航道“雅思梦之队”团队，时间为你点评1月19日考试，解读雅思听力、口语、阅读、写作考情。首先我们一起来看一下本次考试雅思阅读部分的内容：

　　(Reading)

　　Title：欧洲印刷术。

　　Type of Questions：T/F/NG、Matching、Completion。

　　【文章概要】

　　Passage 1

　　内容回顾：欧洲印刷术历史

　　英文参考：The techniques of printing were developed in Europe by craftsmen ignorant of these advances in the Far East. As in China, the earliest printing took the form of illustrated sheets printed from carved wooden blocks (known as woodblock printing). These illustrations were largely religious in nature, simple in design, and meant to be coloured by hand, and were made by largely anonymous craftsmen, and very few examples have survived.

　　The development of printing took a dramatic step forward thanks to the technological advances made by Johan Gutenberg, a Goldsmith working in Mainz, Germany, in the middle of the 15th century.

　　His revolutionary idea was to use metal to cast each letter individually as a piece of ‘type’, so that a number of individual pieces (or letters) would be fitted together to make up a word, sentence, paragraph, and eventually an entire text or book. Once the printing had been finished, the type could be broken up from its settings, and re-used to print another book. This invention of ‘moveable’ (and re-useable) type enabled printing to become a viable economic alternative to making books by hand (known as manuscripts).

　　Gutenberg’s invention produced what is regarded as a landmark in the history of printing, and of western civilisation: an edition of the Bible in Latin, known as the Gutenberg Bible (or sometimes as the 42-line Bible, as each page is made up of 42 lines of type). It was made at his workshop in Mainz between 1453 and 1455, and was certainly complete by 1456. It consists of over 1,300 large pages, in two volumes, and although we do not know exactly how many copies were originally produced, we do know that 180 were offered for sale, and that forty-eight copies survive today, about twenty of them complete. The book was printed with two-colours, black and red, and was produced to an exceptionally high standard, even more so considering the experimental processes which must have been required to achieve any kind of result

　　总结：本篇细节配对的难度不是很大，其他类型题都较为简单，文章定位也比较容易。

　　Title：Engineering and Art。

　　Type of Questions：Completion、Matching。

　　【文章概要】

　　Passage 2

　　内容回顾：绘画艺术与工程制造。

　　总结：这篇文章的难度较高。

　　Title：水中加氟。

　　Type of Questions：Y/N/NG、Matching、Multiple Choice。

　　【文章概要】

　　Passage 3

　　内容回顾：饮用水加氟的利弊。由一个放在水里能治牙病的东西延伸开来的，谈论了科学家正面反面的观点，社会学家对科学家观点的看法，作者对这些观点的总结等等。

　　总结：细节题为主，难度相对较高。