考整段理解的会比较难,因为必须把整段读完,领会出内部逻辑后,才能最终锁定答案。 请看真题例子:
What does the writer say about America’s waste problem? A. it will increase in line with population growth B. it is not as important as we have been led to believe C. it has been reduced through public awareness of the issue D. it is only significant in certain areas of the country 原文:The fourth factor is poor individual perception. People worry that the endless rise in the amount of stuff everyone throws away will cause the world to run out of places to dispose of waste. Yet, even if America’s trash output continues to rise as it has done in the past, and even if the American population doubles by 2100, all the rubbish America produces in the 21st century will still take up only one-12000th of the area of the entire US.原文的前半段讲的是人们的糟糕观念,认为地球会没有处理垃圾的地方了将来,后半边说即使关于美国的两个假设实现了,整个美国在21世纪生产的垃圾也只占国土面积的12000分之1,所以答案应该是B就是不像我们原来被引导的认为的那么严重。
雅思阅读模拟题:Lighting Up The Lies Lighting Up The Lies
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13 which are based on Reading Passage below.
Last year Sean A. Spence, a professor at the school of medicine at the University of Sheffield in England, performed brain scans that showed that a woman convicted of poisoning a child in her care appeared to be telling the truth when she denied committing the crime. This deception study, along with two others performed by the Sheffield group, was funded by Quickfire Media, a television production company working for the U.K.s Channel 4, which broadcast videos of the researchers at work as part of a three-part series called \appeared in the journal European Psychiatry.
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) purports to detect mendacity by seeing inside the brain instead of tracking peripheral measures of anxiety—such as changes in pulse, blood pressure or respiration —measured by a polygraph. Besides drawing hundreds of thousands of viewers, fMRI has pulled in entrepreneurs. Two companies—Cephos in Pepperell, Mass., and No Lie MRI in Tarzana, Calif.—claim to predict with 90 percent or