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2014.6.28雅思考试阅读考题回顾

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本次雅思阅读考试整体难度并不大,文章内容也相对比较好理解。可以看出这段时间细节题的比例在加大。所以大家在复习的时候要注意把握细节题的正确率;判断题尽量不丢分;简答和填空也争取在短时间内搞定;剩下的Matching和List of Heading较后做。做的时候一定要根据做题技巧,争取少出错。

 

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考试日期:

2014628

 

Reading Passage 1

Title:

The History of Potatoes in Europe

Question types:

TRUE / FALSE / NOT GIVEN

Table Completion

文章内容回顾

西班牙人在拉丁美洲挖金矿,发现了土豆,带上了船,然后引入欧洲。一开始欧洲人不敢吃,觉得丑受到了诅咒,只喂家禽。提到了西班牙,法国,爱尔兰等四个国家,法国路易十六为了让人们吃土豆,把土豆花戴了出来,法国人民就开始吃了。普鲁士国王采取了一个办法,在皇室花园种土豆,并且让士兵守卫,就有人偷回家里种植,这属于印象心理学的方法,然后土豆就传播开来了。英格兰战争时期,食物很缺乏,人们就开始吃土豆。爱尔兰的土壤和气候很适合土豆生长,人口就booming了。

相关英文原文阅读

Many people associate potatoes with the country of Ireland. And while potatoes are a staple food of Irish living, they didn''t originate in Ireland. While no one can say for certain how the potato came to Ireland there is an Irish potato legend that says the potato was first introduced to the island nation by the Spanish Armada. Legend states that Spaniards brought potatoes from their native South America unintentionally when a shipwreck off the Irish coast in 1588 caused some potatoes to wash ashore. Coastal Irishmen soon planted them in their gardens so the story goes. In truth, it is believed that potatoes were first grown in County Wick low in the early 1600’s and were grown to supplement the Irish diet. Unlike the rest of Europe, that first viewed the potato as weird, almost immediately after the potato was introduced to Ireland it became an invaluable staple of the Irish diet. Potatoes were stored and eaten during the years when oat harvests didn’t produce to expectations. The potato sustained many Irish people through many difficult growing seasons when harvests didn''t produce enough to feed local populations. Historically Irishmen chose to grow potatoes for many important reasons. Mild Irish winters make Ireland the perfect place for growing potatoes. They are easy to grow in poor soil and potatoes store well in underground cellars. This was important in a time when there was no refrigeration. Another appealing aspect of the potato was that they were easy to prepare. Hundreds of years ago in the Irish countryside many kitchens were small and not very fancy. Many kitchens only had open hearth fires and a cast iron boiling pot and pan. Potatoes could easily be prepared several ways over the open fire. By the 1700’s both the rich and poor classes ate potatoes. It is estimated that by the early 1800’s each member of a potato eating family in Ireland at 5.5 pounds of potatoes per day. It is ironic that for generations it was the potato that fed the Irish people and kept them sustained just enough that they didn’t face starvation because it was potato that also caused great hardship in the form of famine and disease. The first famine that struck Ireland happened over the winter of 1740-41. An especially cold, wet winter froze and rotted potato stores. Entire villages were wiped out due to starvation. Ten percent (200,000 to 400,000 est.) of the Irish population died. There was also a famine in 1816 where over 60,000 people died. Once again a harsh winter was blamed for ruining potato stores and people died from starvation and disease just as they did 75 years earlier. Ireland’s second potato famine known as “The Great Famine” wasn’t weather related but it was caused by a plant disease called potato blight. It struck Ireland and the rest of Europe from 1845-1852, ruining potato crops. Ireland was hit especially hard. A rainy, Irish climate is the perfect environment to promote the spread of potato blight. The Great Famine caused mass starvation and disease all over Europe but it was particularly fatal in Ireland where 1/3 of the Irish population was dependent on potatoes as its sole source of food. Potato blight decimated the Irish population. Over one million people (20-25% of the Irish population) died. The Great Famine had such a drastic effect on everyday life that it permanently changed Ireland’s demographic forever and in turn also changed the American demographic forever. Over one million people emigrated out of Ireland during that time and sailed to American shores by the hundreds of thousands. Today potatoes are still one of the main ingredients in many traditional Irish dishes but potatoes aren’t as nutritionally as important to the Irish people as they once were. Due to modernization in the farming and transportation industries the Irish are able to have a varied diet. However; the importance of the potato crop will forever remain a part of the country''s history and can''t easily be overlooked.

题型难度分析

篇的题型包括判断和图表填空题型,整体来说并不难。题为判断,按部就班做题即可,且题目集中在文章前半部分。第二个题型为图表填空,定位词非常明显,用国家名定位即可,且题目集中在文章的后半部分。文章总体不难,题目也不难。

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