2024年3月11日发(作者：)

1月9日雅思阅读真题答案解析

一、考试概述：本次新年的第一场考试又是AB卷。A卷第一篇话题

讲了生物的生存不确定性，第二篇介绍了音乐的力量，第三篇讲了课

堂大小对于学习效果的影响。的话题是两新一旧，第一篇内容为古生

物化石，第二篇是情绪影响人的行为，第三篇是儿童文学

二、具体题目分析

A卷Passage 1：题目：Living with uncertainty

题型：判断 7+简答 6

题号：新题

答案：1-7

判断题1 FALSE2 TRUE3 NOT GIVEN4 TRUE5 NOT GIVEN6

FALSE7 TRUE

8-13简答题

8 lit fires9 saltbush10 European farming11 wheat12 pear13 Tellers

(目前无明确回忆，答案仅供参考)

Passage 2：

题目： The power of music

题型：段落信息匹配 5+Summary 4+人名配理论 4

文章大意：待补充

答案：14-18信息配段落14. D15. I16. C17. F18. E

19-22 Summary without word list

19 physical health20 disabled21 brain scans

22 walking

23-26人名配理论23 C24 B25 A26 A

(答案仅供参考)

Passage 3：

题名：Does class size matter?

题型：段落信息匹配 5+分类配对 9

文章大意： 待补充

答案：27-31

段落信息匹配27 D28 E29 A30 C

31 B

32-40 Classification32 A33 C34 B35 C36 A37 C38 A39 B40 A

(目前无明确回忆，答案仅供参考)

B卷Passage 1：

题目：The History of building telegraph lines

题型：判断 6+简答 7

文章大意：电报的发展史

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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. “This

all sounds very silly, but is in 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, “explains Tom

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 in which 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 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 more ambitious 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