雅思閱讀難點解析之劍橋真題系列
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下 篇
在本套題的Passage 2中,同樣出現了幾處有一定難度的題目值得討論,現分述如下:
Q15 : Plato believed humour to be a sign of above-average intelligence.
以大寫首字母的人名Plato做關鍵詞來幫助定位,我們會在原文第二段發現它的出處:
Plato expressed the idea that humour is simply a delighted feeling of superiority over others.
看起來二者已經有對應的可能性了:feeling 似乎只能和 sign對應,而superiority 似能和above-average 對應。但是稍加思考問題就出現了:feeling 只是一種主觀感覺,而sign 是客觀跡象; 原文雖然出現了superiority, 但并未明確是intelligence方面的。而不能肯定也不代表可以否定,最終答案是NOT GIVEN.
Q16. Kant believed that a successful joke involves the controlled release of nervous energy.
除了Kant 以外,可以做關鍵詞幫助定位的還包括the controlled release和 nervous energy,
找到Kant 所在的位置Paragraph 2:
Kant and Freud felt that joke-telling relies on building up a psychic tension which is safely punctured by the ludicrousness of the punchline.
若欲憑籍詞或詞組的對應關系來判斷正誤,這道題恐怕就會令人失望。脫離上下文,讀者是不會將controlled release 和safely punctured 聯系起來,也不會將nervous energy 和psychic tension視作等同,然而若根據原文內容仔細理解關于humour 的過程就會洞悉上述2組短語所表達的實質內容是一樣的,都是指幽默的過程其實是將蓄積的神經能量(心理緊張)在一定條件下得到釋放(safely punctured), 該題的答案為:TRUE.
因此,朗閣海外考試研究中心建議考生在備考過程中應注意夯實自己的實力,提升綜合理解能力,才有望克服上述類型的題目。
再看Passage 3的Q29 :
Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the passage for each answer.
Sometimes the desire to protect ideas seems to have been stronger than the desire to communicate them, particularly in the case of mathematicians and 29 ______________.
題目中mathematicians 是一個絕佳的定位詞,因為填空所需要的詞是和它并列的,在原文中也至少不會相距很遠。
原文: And in the mid-17th century it was common practice for mathematicians to keep their discoveries and proofs secret, by writing them in cipher,
文中沒有很順利地出現和數學家并列的詞,不過在接下來的句子中出現了:Some scientists might have felt more comfortable with Latin precisely because its audience, though international, was socially restricted.
一些同學看到終于出現了scientists, 就牽強地將其并列,忽略了科學家堅持用Latin的原因是能夠precisely 地表達他們的idea. 而題目中的信息則不然,因為和它并列的這個職業的人必須是和mathematicians一樣,具有the desire to protect ideas seems to have been stronger than the desire to communicate的特點,所以,scientists 這個答案和原文內容是有偏差的。
段落最后一句道明了答案:Doctors clung the most keenly to Latin as an insider language.
引號內的insider language成為前文中keep their desire and proofs secret,一句的代換。所以答案是doctors. 該題考察的是讀者細致嚴謹的閱讀風格,考生應在備考中多做針對性的訓練。
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下 篇
在本套題的Passage 2中,同樣出現了幾處有一定難度的題目值得討論,現分述如下:
Q15 : Plato believed humour to be a sign of above-average intelligence.
以大寫首字母的人名Plato做關鍵詞來幫助定位,我們會在原文第二段發現它的出處:
Plato expressed the idea that humour is simply a delighted feeling of superiority over others.
看起來二者已經有對應的可能性了:feeling 似乎只能和 sign對應,而superiority 似能和above-average 對應。但是稍加思考問題就出現了:feeling 只是一種主觀感覺,而sign 是客觀跡象; 原文雖然出現了superiority, 但并未明確是intelligence方面的。而不能肯定也不代表可以否定,最終答案是NOT GIVEN.
Q16. Kant believed that a successful joke involves the controlled release of nervous energy.
除了Kant 以外,可以做關鍵詞幫助定位的還包括the controlled release和 nervous energy,
找到Kant 所在的位置Paragraph 2:
Kant and Freud felt that joke-telling relies on building up a psychic tension which is safely punctured by the ludicrousness of the punchline.
若欲憑籍詞或詞組的對應關系來判斷正誤,這道題恐怕就會令人失望。脫離上下文,讀者是不會將controlled release 和safely punctured 聯系起來,也不會將nervous energy 和psychic tension視作等同,然而若根據原文內容仔細理解關于humour 的過程就會洞悉上述2組短語所表達的實質內容是一樣的,都是指幽默的過程其實是將蓄積的神經能量(心理緊張)在一定條件下得到釋放(safely punctured), 該題的答案為:TRUE.
因此,朗閣海外考試研究中心建議考生在備考過程中應注意夯實自己的實力,提升綜合理解能力,才有望克服上述類型的題目。
再看Passage 3的Q29 :
Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the passage for each answer.
Sometimes the desire to protect ideas seems to have been stronger than the desire to communicate them, particularly in the case of mathematicians and 29 ______________.
題目中mathematicians 是一個絕佳的定位詞,因為填空所需要的詞是和它并列的,在原文中也至少不會相距很遠。
原文: And in the mid-17th century it was common practice for mathematicians to keep their discoveries and proofs secret, by writing them in cipher,
文中沒有很順利地出現和數學家并列的詞,不過在接下來的句子中出現了:Some scientists might have felt more comfortable with Latin precisely because its audience, though international, was socially restricted.
一些同學看到終于出現了scientists, 就牽強地將其并列,忽略了科學家堅持用Latin的原因是能夠precisely 地表達他們的idea. 而題目中的信息則不然,因為和它并列的這個職業的人必須是和mathematicians一樣,具有the desire to protect ideas seems to have been stronger than the desire to communicate的特點,所以,scientists 這個答案和原文內容是有偏差的。
段落最后一句道明了答案:Doctors clung the most keenly to Latin as an insider language.
引號內的insider language成為前文中keep their desire and proofs secret,一句的代換。所以答案是doctors. 該題考察的是讀者細致嚴謹的閱讀風格,考生應在備考中多做針對性的訓練。