问答题Title: Muscle Loss
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文章内容回顾 第二篇是讲肌肉萎缩之类的,科学家发明一种药能从人体内部作用于细胞,抵抗这种退化,而不是以往的观念,要运动锻炼肌肉。但可能有一些副作用,而且效用不持久。这种药物治疗还是将有利于老年人等肌肉萎缩无力的人群,但也将不可避免的被运动员等用以……我忘了原文怎么说的了,大概就是inappropriate use. 前面是段落细节信息配对,然后5选2 题目是关于研究过程中和成果中,下列哪些说得对,答案大概都出自C段应该是集中在一两段的样子,然后文章中讲了一个superboy, 他3、5岁就能每手拿起3公斤(应该是答案)的东西,科学家就研究他,发现他妈妈是professional runners(好像是答案),而且他妈妈的亲戚中也有人……类似这种先天基因,忘记了。然后就出了一堆填空题就讲这件事。
英文原文阅读 One injection may be all that is needed to reverse muscle wasting in cancer, if an experimental technique used in mice can one day be made to work in people.
Like humans, mice with cancer experience severe muscle wasting. Mice with colon cancer studied by HQ Han and colleagues at Amgen Research in California stopped eating, and lost 20 per cent of their body weight in three weeks. Many tumours produce a molecule called activin, which plays a role in muscle breakdown. So Han and his team injected a protein that mops up excess activin, five or 14 days after mice were implanted with a colon tumour. In both cases, the mice started eating and their body weight returned to normal within two weeks. Mice with gonad tumours responded in a similar way.
The treatment also led to the mice surviving longer. By the time all the untreated mice had died, around 90 per cent of the treated mice were still alive. "The findings highlight the importance of preserving muscle mass for survival," says Kate Murphy at the University of Melbourne.
BIGGER, stronger muscles can be produced by gene therapy, an experiment on mice suggests.
Loss of muscle mass can cripple and kill patients with conditions such as muscular dystrophy. And even ordinary ageing saps up to one third of our strength. "Slowing down that process could mean the difference between someone being mobile and being helpless," says Lee Sweeney, a physiologist at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
One possible explanation for muscle decline is an inability to repair normal damage. When muscle cells are damaged they send molecular signals to nearby "satellite" cells, which then produce new cells that fuse with the muscle and repair the damage. Sweeney suspected that muscle cells might stay sturdy if they pumped out more of these signals.
To test this, he and his colleagues added the gene for insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1), which stimulates satellite-cell activity in a test tube, to a ...
题型难度分析 第一种题型是段落细节信息配对,这个题型是雅思阅读中难度较高的题。这个文章有6个题目,8个段落,这六个题内容涉及到人们抵抗什么药,misuse药物对老年人有益,已经存在的一个方法的不好的地方,被证明不能长期有效,未来一个计划将带来的问题。
第二种题型是多选题,5选2,答案集中,集中在第三段。
第三种题型是摘要题,无选项。有个被称为superboy(题目里给的)的小孩,一开始的时候专家观察他不fat(不确定)然后他5岁时双手可以个举起5kgs(具体记不清了大概这个数)的东西,然后他妈妈是个(running 什么的,就是和运动有关的),还有个空忘记了。最后说他体内缺少什么,在那一段最后提到了,一个专有名词。
题型技巧分析 细节配对是雅思考试中比较难的题型,我们来分析一下这类题目的做题技巧:
首先,让我们来了解一下这种题目的出题特点。
1. 彻底同义转换
和其它题型不同的是,这种题型是对原文一句话或者一段话进行的彻底同义转换,个别甚至是高度概括,因此几乎不存在任何定位词,因此不能根据定位词到原文中定位答案。考生必须具备非常强的语言理解能力,才能快速识别出文章信息和段落信息的相似之处,从而找到答案。
2. 完全乱序
由于这种题型是要求把细节信息与所在的段落进行配对,因此是绝对打乱顺序出题的。
3. 部分题目存在重复选项
在雅思阅读中,段落细节配对题以两种形式出现,一种是每个选项只能用一次,另外一种题型,在Instruction的最后一句往往有这样的提示:
NB You may use any letter more than once.
如果出现这样的提示,则说明某些段落可以重复选用。剑桥真题集中的真题以及笔者、考生的实际考试经历证明,这种指令往往意味着有且仅有一个选项可以使用两次。
4. 从题量上来看,存在着以下两种可能:
1) 题量=段落数+1(肯定带NB)
2) 题量小于段落数两个以上
由于每个选项只能重复使用一次,因此第一种题型就意味着每个段落都会有至少一个答案,而第二种题型则不能保证每段都有。
5. 永远是第一个题型
不管在A类考试还是G类的考试中,我们发现,这种题目永远是出现在第一个题型,而且这种题型与段落标题配对题型List of headings属于“相克题型”,即这两者不可能同时出现。
6. 有部分题目与其后的题目有关联
由于这种题型一般都是跨全文出的,因此跟后面的题目不可避免地出现交叉,因此有可能根据后面的题目来推断出细节所在的位置。
题量=段落数+1, 且带NB的题型:
前面讲过,由于段落细节配对题的出题特点,这种题型往往暗示了每段都会有至少一个答案,那么这种题目适合用“通篇浏览”的方法来做。具体步骤如下:
1. 阅读所有题目,划出关键词
关键词就是能最大限度上概括整个句子的单词或短语,第一步划出关键词,在短时间内将所有的题目进行高度的浓缩,符合人类短期记忆的规律。
2. 通读所有段落,依次寻找答案
因为每段都会有答案,因此现在所需要做的事情就是到每段去找答案。要注意在选出信息后,要在选出的段落上做上记号,以免浪费时间。
剑桥雅思推荐原文练习 剑桥6 test1 passage1
问答题类别
教育类
题目
Universities and colleges are now offering qualifications through distance learning from the Internet rather than teachers in the classroom. Do you think the advantages of this development outweigh the disadvantages?
题目翻译
现在很多大学通过远程教育而不是传统的教室教学提供学历进修。这个现象的好处是否大于坏处?
写作指导
好处:
1. 时间上更加灵活,非常适合一些群体,比如说工作人士等;
2. 给了学生们更多的选择,不需要出国便可以就读全球任何一所优秀大学,省钱。
坏处:
1. 缺乏老师的面对面讲解和辅导
重点表达
Distance education deprives students of interactive experience such as face-to-face tutoring that is inherent in traditional classroom learning.
题目评价
难度简单
推荐练习
Some people believe that computer and Internet can help students to learn better. Others think that it will have negative influence on students’ psychological and physical development. Discuss both views and give your personal opinion.
近期考试趋势
社会类、政府类、教育类、环境类话题为复习的重点。
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问答题{{B}}PART 3{{/B}}
{{B}}Discussion topic:
Books{{/B}}
Example questions:
· What kind of books do people in your country like to read?
· Do you think that people's tastes in books change as they get older?
· Do men and women like to read the same types of books?
· What do You think are the qualities or a good book?
· If you wrote a book, what kind of book would it be?
问答题Title: The Sense of Smell
Question types: Multiple Choice; Headings; Matching
大致内容
对嗅觉的一些研究,涉及到几个科学家研究的成果,探讨嗅觉跟别的感觉,还有感情之间的关系。其中有提到香薰疗法,在阅读机经里面有相关内容。
问答题Title: Scented Plants
Question types: 标题配对heading; 选择multiple choice; 判断Y/N/NG
大致内容 植物香味的作用,说了植物通过气味吸引蚂蚁,然后蚂蚁可以帮它们赶走天敌,还说了香味可以吸引昆虫授粉,还有什么基因研究方法。
问答题 Holistic medicine is regarding the person as (21) 1, a mental or emotional person, and also (22) 2.
Holistic medicine means looking at the body (23) 3rather than looking at (24) 4of the body.
Holistic medicine is regarding the person as (21) 5, a mental or emotional person, and also (22) 6.
Holistic medicine means looking at the body (23) 7rather than looking at (24) 8of the body.
Interviewer: I understand you''re interested in holistic medicine. Can you explain what holistic medicine is?
Vivienne: OK. Holistic medicine, um, takes into consideration the whole of the person. Now what this means in, in most holistic systems is regarding the person as a physical entity, a mental or emotional person, and also even their spiritual side of them. Um, it also includes looking at the body as a whole rather than looking at individual parts of the body, and as a way of explaining this, we could look at conventional medicine as producing people who are like a cardiologist, who looks at a heart, um, a brain specialist, a person who deals with bones, er, etc. So what we''ve tended to do in conventional medicine is break things down to a point where we''re actually only looking at one part of the person and we''re not actually relating terribly well that part to the rest of the body, whereas holistic medicine insists that if there is a problem, er, with your right foot, that is going to somehow, um, affect your entire body.
Interviewer: Um, your speciality is acupuncture. Er, is that a part of holistic medicine?
Vivienne: Acupuncture is very much a holistic system. Um, traditionally the Chinese regarded the person very much as a whole entity and acupuncture itself works on an energy system basically, and in a very simplified way, it''s saying that, er, you have an energy system within your body and when that energy becomes blocked or tainted in some way, then you will manifest certain symptoms and the things that we look at in conventional medicine as things like arthritis or rheumatism are, to the Chinese, merely an imbalance of the energy. So, in this way, they may say to you, well, yes, you have rheumatoid arthritis but we''re going to actually look at your energy balance and rebalance you, and, as a result, your symptoms should disappear.
Interviewer: Um, is acupuncture essentially a form of preventative medicine?
Vivienne: Traditionally, it was, very much. Um, in fact, traditionally, in China, people only used to pay the doctor while they were well and they used to go to their doctor fairly regularly on, you know, maybe four or five times a year, and they would only pay the doctor when they were kept well. And if they got sick, they didn''t pay the doctor. And the doctor had various methods of which acupuncture was one, diet was another, exercise was another, er, of ensuring that the person lived a right life style and their emphasis was on if you''re living a right life style, if you''re living in tune with the laws of the universe, going to sleep when it''s dark, waking up when it''s light, working, resting, doing all these things properly, then you won''t get sick. Unfortunately, our way of looking at life in the West is very different in that we tend to struggle on in spite of our headache and not take terribly much notice of our body when things are not quite right and we tend to struggle on until we fall over and we get carted off to hospital in an ambulance. And so, acupuncture in the West, unfortunately, in a way, has come to be not the preventative medicine that it could be because we''re not taking responsibility enough for ourselves in going along and making sure that we stay well.
Holistic medicine is regarding the person as (21) 9, a mental or emotional person, and also (22) 10.
Holistic medicine means looking at the body (23) 11rather than looking at (24) 12of the body.
Holistic medicine is regarding the person as (21) 13, a mental or emotional person, and also (22) 14.
Holistic medicine means looking at the body (23) 15rather than looking at (24) 16of the body.
Interviewer: I understand you''re interested in holistic medicine. Can you explain what holistic medicine is?
Vivienne: OK. Holistic medicine, um, takes into consideration the whole of the person. Now what this means in, in most holistic systems is regarding the person as a physical entity, a mental or emotional person, and also even their spiritual side of them. Um, it also includes looking at the body as a whole rather than looking at individual parts of the body, and as a way of explaining this, we could look at conventional medicine as producing people who are like a cardiologist, who looks at a heart, um, a brain specialist, a person who deals with bones, er, etc. So what we''ve tended to do in conventional medicine is break things down to a point where we''re actually only looking at one part of the person and we''re not actually relating terribly well that part to the rest of the body, whereas holistic medicine insists that if there is a problem, er, with your right foot, that is going to somehow, um, affect your entire body.
Interviewer: Um, your speciality is acupuncture. Er, is that a part of holistic medicine?
Vivienne: Acupuncture is very much a holistic system. Um, traditionally the Chinese regarded the person very much as a whole entity and acupuncture itself works on an energy system basically, and in a very simplified way, it''s saying that, er, you have an energy system within your body and when that energy becomes blocked or tainted in some way, then you will manifest certain symptoms and the things that we look at in conventional medicine as things like arthritis or rheumatism are, to the Chinese, merely an imbalance of the energy. So, in this way, they may say to you, well, yes, you have rheumatoid arthritis but we''re going to actually look at your energy balance and rebalance you, and, as a result, your symptoms should disappear.
Interviewer: Um, is acupuncture essentially a form of preventative medicine?
Vivienne: Traditionally, it was, very much. Um, in fact, traditionally, in China, people only used to pay the doctor while they were well and they used to go to their doctor fairly regularly on, you know, maybe four or five times a year, and they would only pay the doctor when they were kept well. And if they got sick, they didn''t pay the doctor. And the doctor had various methods of which acupuncture was one, diet was another, exercise was another, er, of ensuring that the person lived a right life style and their emphasis was on if you''re living a right life style, if you''re living in tune with the laws of the universe, going to sleep when it''s dark, waking up when it''s light, working, resting, doing all these things properly, then you won''t get sick. Unfortunately, our way of looking at life in the West is very different in that we tend to struggle on in spite of our headache and not take terribly much notice of our body when things are not quite right and we tend to struggle on until we fall over and we get carted off to hospital in an ambulance. And so, acupuncture in the West, unfortunately, in a way, has come to be not the preventative medicine that it could be because we''re not taking responsibility enough for ourselves in going along and making sure that we stay well.
问答题Youshouldspendabout20minutesonthistask.ThechartshowstheexchangeratebetweentheUSdollarandtheBritishpound.Summarisetheinformationbyselectingandreportingthemainfeaturesandbymakingcomparisonswhererelevant.Writeatleast150words
问答题Title: 澳大利亚的新能源
Question types: Matching; Multiple Choice; T / F / NG
大致内容 关于澳大利亚的新能源wind, rock heat, wave, sun, 和环保问题。有四家公司对新能源进行开发,包括风力发电,以及对未来的展望。
配对题,有NB,对应不同的公司有不同举措。
问答题话题类别: 社会文化类
考题文字:
Individual greed and selfishness has been the basis of the modern society. Some people think that we must return to the older and more traditional values of respect for the family and the local community in order to create a better world to live in. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
问答题Being a celebrity-such as a famous film star or sports personality-brings problems as well as benefits. Do you think that being a celebrity brings more benefits or more problems?
问答题PART 2 Describe a Machine Describe a machine that is important in your life. You should say: What machine it is. When & where you bought it. How useful it is. And explain why this machine has changed people's life.
问答题Thechartbelowshowstheamountspentonsixconsumergoodsinfour Europeancountries. Writeareportforauniversitylecturerdescribingtheinformationshownbelow. Youshouldwriteatleast150words. Amountspentonconsumergoods
问答题According to the statement, when does the host provide meals for the students?
问答题PART 1
问答题Some people believe that there should be fixed punishments for each type of crime. Others, however, argue that the circumstances of an individual crime, and the motivation for committing it, should always be taken into account when deciding on the punishment. Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.
问答题下蛋在spring
问答题Title: 活字印刷术
Question types: Flow Chart; T / F / NG; Summary
大致内容
关于印刷的流程,其中介绍了两个人,其中第一个流程图填空是关于印刷流程的填空。
问答题Discussion topic:BFood/BExample questions· What kinds of food do people in your country like to eat?· Do you think that most people in your country eat healthily?· Do older people and younger people prefer the same kinds of food?· What kinds of food do you think will be more popular or less popular in the future?· Is food an important aspect of cultural life in your country?
问答题In the future, what sports would you like to play?
