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雅思阅读考题回顾-2019.5.18

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2019.5.18 雅思阅读考题回顾

-扬州美伦雅思

 

  5.18号的雅思考试,部分小伙伴碰到了原题,屠雅路上的你,是被杨超越附体的哪一个吗?

  接下来,挖出来给大家分享的是 扬州美伦雅思 的女神(经)老师们,给大家带来的考题回顾,看过原题的你,偷偷地乐着就行了,千万别拿出来显摆,因为还有很多人没看过。


题目分析

Passage 1

文章题材:说明文(自然科学)

文章题目:琥珀和龙涎香

文章难度:★★★

文章内容:暂无

题型及数量:6单选+3填空+4判断

题目及:


1. C

2. A

3. D

4. B

5. A

6. A

7. beaks

8. vomiting

9. hardens

10. TRUE

11. NOT GIVEN

12. FALSE

13. NOT GIVEN


可参考:C12T5P1:Cork

What is it and where does it come from?

 

Ambergris was used to perfume cosmetics in the days of ancient Mesopotamia and almost every civilization on the earth has a brush with ambergris. Before 1,000 AD, the Chinese names ambergris as lung, “dragon`s spittle perfume,” as they think that it was produced from the drooling of dragons sleeping on rocks at the edge of a sea. The Arabs knew ambergris as amber, believing that it is produced for springs near seas. It also gets its name from here.  For centuries, this substance has also been used as a flavouring for food.

During the Middle Ages, Europeans use ambergris as a remedy for headaches, colds, epilepsy, and other ailments. In the 1851 whaling novel Moby-Dick, Herman Melville claimed that ambergris was “largely used in perfumery. ” But nobody ever knew where it really came from. Experts were still guessing its origin thousands of years later, until the long ages of guesswork ended in the 1720`s, when Nantucket whalers found gobs of the costly material inside the stomachs of sperm whales. Industrial whaling quickly burgeoned. By 20th century ambergris is mainly recovered from inside the carcasses of sperm whales.

Through countless ages, peo le have found pieces of ambergris on sandy beaches. It was named grey amber to distinguish it from golden amber, another rare treasure. Both of them were among the most sought-after substances in the world, almost as valuable as gold. (Ambergris sells for roughly $20 a gram, slightly less than gold at $30 a gram.) Amber floats in salt water, and in old times the origin of both these substances was mysterious. But it turned out that amber and ambergris have little in common. Amber is a fossilized resin from tress that was quite familiar to Europeans long before the discovery of the New World, and prized as jewelry. Although considered a gem, amber is a hard, transparent, wholly-organic material derived from the resin of extinct species of trees, mainly pines.

 

To the earliest Western chroniclers, ambergris was variously thought to come from the same bituminous sea founts as amber, from the sp erm of fishes or whales, from the droppings of strange sea birds (probably because of confusion over the included beaks of squid) or from the large hives of bees living near the sea. Marco Polo was the first Western chronicler who correctly attributed ambergris to sperm whales and its vomit.

As sperm whales navigate in the oceans, they often dive down to 2 km or more below the sea level to prey on squid, most famously the Giant Squid. It`s commonly accepted that ambergris forms in the whale`s gut or intestines as the creature attempts to “deal” with squid beaks. Sperm whales are rather partial to squid, but seemingly struggle to digest the hard, sharp, parrot-like beaks. It is thought their stomach juices become hyper-active trying to process the irritants, and eventually hard, resinous lumps are formed around the break, and then expelled from their innards by vomiting. When a whale initially vomits up ambergris, it is soft and has a terrible smell. Some marine biologists compare it to the unpleasant smell of cow dung. But after floating on the salty ocean for about a decade, the substance hardens with air and sun into a smooth, waxy, usually rounded piece of nostril heaven. The dung smell is gone, replaced by a sweet, smooth, musky and pleasant earthy aroma.

Since ambergris is derived from animals, naturally a question of ethics arises, and in the case of ambergris, it is very important to consider. Sperm whales are an endangered species, whose populations started to decline as far back as the 19th century due to the high demand for their highly emollient oil, and today their stocks still have not recovered. During the 1970`s, the Save the Whales movement brought the plight of whales to international recognition. Many people now believe that whales are “saved”. This couldn`t be further from the truth. All around the world, whaling still exists. Many countries continue to hunt whales, in spite of international treaties to protect them. Many marine researchers are concerned that even the trade in naturally found ambergris can be harmful by creating further incentives to hunt whales for this valuable substance.

 

One of the forms ambergris is used today is as valuable fixative in perfumes to enhance and prolong the scent. But nowadays, since ambergris is rare and expensive, and big fragrance suppliers that make most of the fragrances on the market today do not deal in it for reasons of cost, availability and murky legal issues, most perfumeries prefer to add chemical derivative which mimics the properties of ambergris. As a fragrance consumer, you can assume that there is no natural ambergris in your perfume bottle, unless the company advertises this fact and unless you own vintage fragrances created before the 1980s. If you are wondering if you have been wearing a perfume with this legendary ingredient, you may want to review your scent collection. Here are a few of some of the top ambergris containing perfumes : Givenchy Amarige, Chanel No. 5 and Gucci Guilty.

 

Passage 2

文章题材:说明文(自然科学)

文章题目:鸟类的迁徙导航能力

文章难度:★★★

文章内容:暂无

题型及数量:暂无

题目及:暂无

可参考:C11T2:Great Migrations

 

Passage 3

文章题材:说明文(自然科学)

文章题目:星球的形成

文章难度:★★★★

文章内容:待补充

题型及数量:待补充

题目及:待补充

可参考:C9T1P2:Is there anybody out there?——The search for extra-terrestrial intelligence

 

补充词汇

动物类


1.mammal 哺乳动物

2.germ 细菌

3.germinate 发芽

4.reproduce 繁殖

5.herbivore 草食动物

6.endangered 濒临灭绝的

7.diversity 多样性

8.controversial 有争议的

9.stem 茎

10.instinct 天


同意替换词

1. adapt to=get used to/become accustomed to=adjust to 适应

2. initiate=start=launch=open 开始,发起

3. be divided into=separate=split=break up=break down 分开

4. hinder=hamper=impede 阻碍

5. exclude=omit=miss out=leave out=drop 排除在外

6. exchange=share=distribute 分享

7. convert=modify=transform=adapt=customize 转变

8. monitor=watch=keep an eye on=keep a check on 监视

9. allocate=distribute=apportion=grant=confer 分配

10. stop=halt=come to a halt 停止

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