2018年7月28日雅思考試題目預測

【口語】

以下爲本場考試部分高頻話題解析：

Part 1

Sports

Do you like to watch sports on TV?

參考答案：

Well, I don’t think so as I am not really a sporty person.

Do you play any sports?

參考答案：

Well, I don’t really play many sports but in summer, I swim a lot.

Do you have a favorite sport star?

參考答案：

Well, I don’t think so as I am not a big fan of sports.

What kinds of sports are popular in China?

參考答案：

Well, I think it largely depends on people’s preferences. Some may prefer to play heavy sports like basketball and football while some may be fond of light ones such as jogging and yoga.

What kinds of sports would you like to try in the future?

參考答案：

Well, I would love to try skiing as I think it looks so cool to ski in winter.

Part 2 & 3

Part 2題目

Describe a country or city where you want to live or work in the future.

You should say:

Where the country or city is

Why you want to live or work there

Who you like to live or work with

Explain what you have to do to achieve your dreams

提示：

此話題屬於“地點類”類話題， 所要描述的是“你想生活或工作的城市或國家”；可能使用的主要時態是“一般現在時態”以及“一般將來時態”等；在交代前三個“basic information”時， 我們可以思考除了陳述這些基礎信息以外， 可否在哪些點上進行拓展， 從而使你的描述更加真實可信； 比如在交代這個地方的地理位置時， 是否可以順便說明它的氣候特徵，當地居民的飲食習慣等等， 由於氣候特徵及飲食習慣等原因，使我個人原因在這裏生活或學習。

到最後解釋說明的部分，大家需要展開說明你要做些什麼才能在這個地方生活或工作。

參考答案：

Well, speaking of a city I would like to live and work in, it is the capital city of Yunnan province, Kunming. I still remember the time when I first visited that city while I was still at college years ago. It was during one summer holiday when I took a trip to Yunnan with a few of my roommates, and we had a terrific time there for 5 days. I really enjoyed that trip for two main reasons. One is that the city has the most pleasant climate, so we didn’t feel hot at all through it was summer, and I guess that is probably the reason why that place is often described as one of the most liveable cities in China. And the second reason is that I am so into the food there. No matter where we ate or what we ate, I just love their food, and I can still recall that there is one special kind of cold noodles I am really crazy about. It is actually made of rice and supposed to be eaten with several different sorts of vegetables such as celeries, mushrooms, carrots as well as cucumber. Therefore, it is not only so yummy to eat, but so healthy to people.

Ever since I came back from that city, I would often dream of living in that city with my family, and to make my dream come true, of course I would have to find a job there first. As I’ve been working as a teacher of English for almost 5 years, I think I would probably look for information to see if there are still any vacancies available for teachers from some schools or training organizations in that city, and I may also have to participate in an online interview or physically travel there for the job interview after I get shortlisted. If I can successfully get the offer in the end, I will quit my current job here and then prepare to move to the city, which is going to take a lot of work, I imagine.

重點詞彙及表達：

①liveable： 形容詞；  適合居住的

Eg：New York is often described as one of the least liveable cities in the US due to its high living expense.

②vacancy: 名詞； 空缺 空白  空位

Eg：Most companies have many vacancies available for various positions at the beginning of each March, as lots of employees tend to change their jobs by the end of each year.

③physically : 副詞； 身體上的  肢體上的

Eg: I am 100% sure that she is sick both physically and mentally.

④shortlisted : 形容詞； 篩選的

Eg: She feels rather frustrated as she got the news that she is not shortlisted for the university she dreams to study in.

Part 3題目

Do you like to live alone or share a room with others?

參考答案：

Well, I like to live alone because I am really a light sleeper, which means any movements at nights would probably wake me up. Besides, I might snore a bit when I get really exhausted, and I don’t want to disturb other people.

重點詞彙及表達：

①snore： 動詞； 打呼嚕

Eg：He snores so loudly that people living next to door could even hear him.

②exhausted: 形容詞；疲憊的

Eg：Peter doesn’t like mountain-climbing, as it always makes him feel exhausted.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of working abroad?

參考答案：

Well, you could try some authentic food and get to know different cultures while you work abroad, which are obviously some advantages. However, you might also feel astonished when you have to experience cultural shock or when you get homesick, and those are some of the disadvantages.

重點詞彙及表達：

①obviously： 副詞； 顯然的  明顯的

Eg：It is obviously crucial for college students to take courses on interpersonal skills.

②astonished: 形容詞；吃驚的  詫異的

Eg：His parents are quite astonished that their son finally made his way to a top university.

Would you like to live in a developed city with high salary but with polluted air?

Absolutely not. I really think it is important and necessary to live in a place where the air is clean enough so that my family and I would not be so afraid to get outside, and as for high salary, I never think it can guarantee a happy and healthy life.

重點詞彙及表達：

①absolutely： 副詞；絕對的  完全的

Eg：What he has proposed is absolutely reasonable, so most of us agreed.

②guarantee: 動詞；保證  確保

Eg：In order to guarantee the high quality of their products, the company introduced a sophisticated quality control system from Germany.

【寫作】

本預測根據雅思寫作的話題分類和出題規律，精選出以下真題，供廣大烤鴨參考。

A類小作文：

小作文重點關注柱圖、餅圖，次重點關注線圖、流程圖。

以下爲柱圖例題及範文解析：

題目：

You should spend 20 minutes on this task.

A     combat

B     chirps

C     pitch

D     origins

E     play

F     rats

G     primates

I      fear

H     confidence

K     tickling

J      babies

Questions 11-13

Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage 1?

In boxes 11-13 on your answer sheet, write

TRUE    if the statement agrees with the information

FALSE    if the statement contradicts the information

NOT GIVEN    if there is no information on this

11 Both men and women laugh more when they are with members of the same sex.

12 Primates lack sufficient breath control to be able to produce laughs the way humans do.

13 Chimpanzees produce laughter in a wider range of situations than rats do.

READING PASSAGE 2

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26, which are based on Reading Passage 2 below.

Children's Literature

Stories and poems aimed at children have an exceedingly long history: lullabies, for example, were sung in Roman times, and a few nursery games and rhymes are almost as ancient. Yet so far as written-down literature is concerned, while there were stories in print before 1700 that children often seized on when they had the chance, such as translations of Aesop's fables, fairy-stories and popular ballads and romances, these were not aimed at young people in particular. Since the only genuinely child-oriented literature at this time would have been a few instructional works to help with reading and general knowledge, plus the odd Puritanical tract as an aid to morality, the only course for keen child readers was to read adult literature. This still occurs today, especially with adult thrillers or romances that include more exciting, graphic detail than is normally found in the literature for younger readers.

By the middle of the 18th century there were enough eager child readers, and enough parents glad to cater to this interest, for publishers to specialize in children's books whose first aim was pleasure rather than education or morality. In Britain, a London merchant named Thomas Boreham produced Cajanus, The Swedish Giant in 1742, while the more famous John Newbery published A Little Pretty Pocket Book in 1744. Its contents – stories, children's games plus a free gift ('A ball and a pincushion') – in many ways anticipated the similar lucky-dip contents of children's annuals this century. It is a tribute to Newbery's flair that he hit upon a winning formula quite so quickly, to be pirated almost immediately in America.

Such pleasing levity was not to last. Influenced by Rousseau, whose Emile(1762) decreed that all books for children save Robinson Crusoe were a dangerous diversion, contemporary critics saw to it that children's literature should be instructive and uplifting. Prominent among such voices was Mrs. Sarah Trimmer, whose magazine The Guardian of Education (1802) carried the first regular reviews of children's books. It was she who condemned fairy tales for their violence and general absurdity; her own stories, Fabulous Histories (1786) described talking animals who were always models of sense and decorum.

So the moral story for children was always threatened from within, given the way children have of drawing out entertainment from the sternest moralist. But the greatest blow to the improving children's book was to come from an unlikely source indeed: early 19th century interest in folklore. Both nursery rhymes, selected by James Orchard Halliwell for a folklore society in 1842, and collection of fairy tales by the scholarly Grimm brothers, swiftly translated into English in 1823,soon rocket to popularity with the young, quickly leading to new editions, each one more child-centered than the last. From now on younger children could expect stories written for their particular interest and with the needs of their own limited experience of life kept well to the fore.

What eventually determined the reading of older children was often not the availability of special children's literature as such but access to books that contained characters, such as young people or animals, with whom they could more easily empathize, or action, such as exploring or fighting that made few demands on adult maturity or understanding.

The final apotheosis of literary childhood as something to be protected from unpleasant reality came with the arrival in the late 1930s of child-centered best-sellers intend on entertainment at its most escapist. In Britain novelist such as Enid Blyton and Richmal Crompton described children who were always free to have the most unlikely adventures, secure in the knowledge that nothing bad could ever happen to them in the end. The fact that war broke out again during her books' greatest popularity fails to register at all in the self-enclosed world inhabited by Enid Blyton's young characters. Reaction against such dream-worlds was inevitable after World War II, coinciding with the growth of paperback sales, children's libraries and a new spirit of moral and social concern. Urged on by committed publishers and progressive librarians, writers slowly began to explore new areas of interest while also shifting the settings of their plots from the middle-class world to which their chiefly adult patrons had always previously belonged.

Critical emphasis, during this development, has been divided. For some the most important task was to rid children's books of the social prejudice and exclusiveness no longer found acceptable. Others concentrated more on the positive achievements of contemporary children's literature. That writers of these works are now often recommended to the attentions of adult as well as child readers echoes the 19th-century belief that children's literature can be shared by the generations, rather than being a defensive barrier between childhood and the necessary growth towards adult understanding.

Questions 1-6

Complete the table below.

Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the passage for each answer.

Write your answers in boxes 14-18 on your answer sheet.

Questions 19-21

Look at the following people and the list of statements below.

Match each person with the correct statement.

Write the correct letter A-E in boxes 19-21 on your answer sheet.

19 Thomas Boreham

20 Mrs. Sarah Trimmer

21 Grimm Brothers

Questions 22-26

Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage?

In boxes 9-13 on your answer sheet write

TRUE  if the statement agrees with the information

FALSE  if the statement contradicts the information

NOT GIVEN  if there is no information on this

22 Children didn’t start to read books until 1700.

23 Sarah Trimmer believed that children’s books should set good examples.

24 Parents were concerned about the violence in children’s books.

25 An interest in the folklore changed the direction of the development of children’s books.

26 Today children’s book writers believe their works should appeal to both children and adults.

READING PASSAGE 3

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27-40, which are based on Reading Passage 3 below.

Honey Bees in Trouble

Can native pollinators fill the gap?

A Recently, ominous headlines have described a mysterious ailment, colony collapse disorder(CCD)，that is wiping out the honeybees that pollinate many crops. Without honeybees, the story goes, fields will be sterile, economies will collapse, and food will be scarce.

B But what few accounts acknowledge is that what’s at risk is not itself a natural state of affairs. For one thing, in the United States, where CCD was first reported and has had its greatest impacts, honeybees are not a native species. Pollination in modem agriculture isn’t alchemy, it’s industry. The total number of hives involved in the U.S. pollination industry has been somewhere between 2.5 million and 3 million in recent years. Meanwhile, American farmers began using large quantities of organophosphate insecticides, planted large-scale crop monocultures, and adopted “clean farming” practices that scrubbed native vegetation from field margins and roadsides. These practices killed many native bees outright—they’re as vulnerable to insecticides as any agricultural pest—and made the agricultural landscape inhospitable to those that remained. Concern about these practices and their effects on pollinators isn’t new—in her 1962 ecological alarm cry Silent Spring, Rachel Carson warned of a ‘Fruitless Fall’ that could result from the disappearance of insect pollinators.

C If that ‘Fruitless Fall, has not—yet—occurred, it may be largely thanks to the honeybee, which farmers turned to as the ability of wild pollinators to service crops declined. The honeybee has been semi-domesticated since the time of the ancient Egyptians, but it wasn’t just familiarity that determined this choice: the bees’ biology is in many ways suited to the kind of agricultural system that was emerging. For example, honeybee hives can be closed up and moved out of the way when pesticides are applied to a field. The bees are generalist pollinators, so they can be used to pollinate many different crops. And although they are not the most efficient pollinator of every crop, honeybees have strength in numbers, with 20,000 to 100,000 bees living in a single hive. “Without a doubt, if there was one bee you wanted for agriculture, it would be the honeybee, “says Jim Cane, of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The honeybee, in other words, has become a crucial cog in the modem system of industrial agriculture. That system delivers more food, and more kinds of it, to more places, more cheaply than ever before. But that system is also vulnerable, because making a farm field into the photosynthetic equivalent of a factory floor, and pollination into a series of continent-long assembly lines, also leaches out some of the resilience characteristic of natural ecosystems.

D Breno Freitas, an agronomist, pointed out that in nature such a high degree of specialization usually is a very dangerous game: it works well while all the rest is in equilibrium, but runs quickly to extinction at the least disbalance. In effect, by developing an agricultural system that is heavily reliant on a single pollinator species, we humans have become riskily overspecialized. And when the human-honeybee relationship is disrupted, as it has been by colony collapse disorder, the vulnerability of that agricultural system begins to become clear.

E In fact, a few wild bees are already being successfully managed for crop pollination. “The problem is trying to provide native bees in adequate numbers on a reliable basis in a fairly short number of years in order to service the crop，” Jim Cane says. “You’re talking millions of flowers per acre in a two-to three-week time frame, or less, for a lot of crops.” On the other hand, native bees can be much more efficient pollinators of certain crops than honeybees, so you don’t need as many to do the job. For example, about 750 blue orchard bees (Osmia lignaria) can pollinate a hectare of apples or almonds, a task that would require roughly 50,000 to 150,000 honeybees. There are bee tinkerers engaged in similar work in many comers of the world. In Brazil, Breno Freitas has found that Centris tarsata, the native pollinator of wild cashew, can survive in commercial cashew orchards if growers provide a source of floral oils, such as by interplanting their cashew trees with Caribbean cherry.

F In certain places, native bees may already be doing more than they’re getting credit for. Ecologist Rachael Winfree recently led a team that looked at pollination of four summer crops (tomato, watermelon, peppers, and muskmelon) at 29 farms in the region of New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Winfiree’s team identified 54 species of wild bees that visited these crops, and found that wild bees were the most important pollinators in the system: even though managed honeybees were present on many of the farms, wild bees were responsible for 62 percent of flower visits in the study. In another study focusing specifically on watermelon, Winfree and her colleagues calculated that native bees alone could provide sufficient pollination at 90 percent of the 23 farms studied. By contrast, honeybees alone could provide sufficient pollination at only 78 percent of farms.

G “The region I work in is not typical of the way most food is produced，” Winfree admits. In the Delaware Valley, most farms and farm fields are relatively small, each fanner typically grows a variety of crops, and farms are interspersed with suburbs and other types of land use which means there are opportunities for homeowners to get involved in bee conservation, too. The landscape is a bee-friendly patchwork that provides a variety of nesting habitat and floral resources distributed among different kinds of crops, weedy field margins, fallow fields, suburban neighborhoods, and semi natural habitat like old woodlots, all at a relatively small scale. In other words, ’’pollinator-friendly” farming practices would not only aid pollination of agricultural crops, but also serve as a key element in the over all conservation strategy for wild pollinators, and often aid other wild species as well.

H Of course, not all farmers will be able to implement all of these practices. And researchers are suggesting a shift to a kind of polyglot agricultural system. For some small-scale farms, native bees may indeed be all that’s needed. For larger operations, a suite of managed bees—with honeybees filling the generalist role and other, native bees pollinating specific crops—could be augmented by free pollination services from resurgent wild pollinators. In other words, they’re saying, we still have an opportunity to replace a risky monoculture with something diverse, resilient, and robust.

Questions 27-30

Do the following statements agree with the claims of the writer in Reading Passage?

In boxes 27-30 on your answer sheet, write

YES - if the statement agrees with the information

NO - if the statement contradicts the information

NOT GIVEN - if there is no information on this

27 In the United States, farmers use honeybees in a large scale over the past few years

28 Cleaning farming practices would be harmful to farmers’

29 The blue orchard bee is the most efficient pollinator among native bees for every crop

30 It is beneficial to other local creatures to protect native bees

Questions 31-35

Choose the correct letter, A,B,C or D.

Write your answers in boxes 31-35 on your answer sheet.

31. The example of the ‘Fruitless Fair underlines the writer’s point about

A needs for using pesticides.

B impacts of losing insect pollinators.

C vulnerabilities of native bees.

D benefits in building more pollination industries.

32. Why can honeybees adapt to the modem agricultural system?

A the honeybees can pollinated more crops efficiently

B The bees are semi-domesticated since ancient times.

C Honeybee hives can be protected away from pesticides.

D The ability of wild pollinators using to serve crops declines.

33. The writer mentions factories and assembly lines to illustrate

A one drawback of the industrialised agricultural system.

B a low cost in modem agriculture.

C the role of honeybees in pollination.

D what a high yield of industrial agriculture.

34. In the 6th paragraph，Wlnfree’s experiment proves that

A honeybee can pollinate various crops.

B there are many types of wild bees as the pollinators.

C the wild bees can increase the yield to a higher percentage

D wild bees work more efficiently as a pollinator than honey bees in certain cases

35. What does the writer want to suggest in the last paragraph?

A the importance of honey bees in pollination

B adoption of different bees in various sizes of agricultural system

C the comparison between the intensive and the rarefied agricultural system

D the reason why farmers can rely on native pollinators

Questions 36-40

Complete each sentence with the correct ending, A-F, below.

Write the correct letter, A-F, in boxes 36-40 on your answer sheet

36 Headline of colony collapse disorder states that

37 Viewpoints of Freitas manifest that

38 Examples of blue orchard bees have shown that

39 Centris tarsata is mentioned to exemplify that

40 One finding of the research in Delaware Valley is that

A. native pollinators can survive when a specific plant is supplied.

B. it would cause severe consequences both to commerce and agriculture.

C. honey bees cannot be bred.

D. some agricultural landscapes are favorable in supporting wild bees.

E. a large scale of honey bees are needed to pollinate.

F. an agricultural system is fragile when relying on a single pollinator

Keys

Passage 1

1. B

2. C

3. D

4. A

5. B

6. A

7. E

8. D

9. G

10. H

11. Not Given

12. True

13. Not Given

Passage 2

14. rhymes, stories / stories, rhymes   

15. America

16. folklore  

17. fairy-tales/fairy-stories     

18. fairy-tales/fairy-stories     

19. C     

20. A

21. E

22. FALSE

23. TRUE

24. NOT GIVEN

25. TRUE

26. TRUE

Passage 3

27. YES 

28. NOT GIVEN   

29. NO  

30. YES 

31. B     

32. C     

33. A

34. D

35. B

36. B

37. F

38. E

39. A

40. D