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[雅思机经]2017年9月9日雅思阅读真题回顾

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朗阁海外考试研究中心的雅思培训为考生带来2017年9月9日的真题回顾、详细解析及备考策略,此为雅思阅读回顾部分。

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朗阁海外考试研究中心的雅思培训为考生带来2017年9月9日的真题回顾、详细解析及备考策略,此为雅思阅读回顾部分。

 

考试日期

2017.09.09

 

Reading Passage 1

Title

Ambergris

Question types

Matching 6题

Sentence completion 3题

TRUE / FALSE / NOT GIVEN 4题

文章内容回顾

文章主要介绍了龙涎香和琥珀的差异,讲述了龙涎香到底是什么,从哪里来的,以及现在的使用情况。

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Ambergris

What is it and where does it come from?

Ambergris was used to perfume cosmetics in the days of ancient Mesopotamia and almost every civilization on the earth has a brush with ambergris. Before 1,000 AD, the Chinese names ambergris as lung sien hiang, dragon’s spittle perfume, as they think that it was produced from the drooling of dragons sleeping on rocks at the edge of a sea. The Arabs knew ambergris as anbar, believing that it is produced for springs near seas. It also gets its name from here.  For centuries, this substance has also been used as a flavouring for food.

 

During the Middle Ages, Europeans use ambergris as a remedy for headaches, colds, epilepsy, and other ailments. In the 1851 whaling novel Moby-Dick, Herman Melville claimed that ambergris was largely used in perfumery. But nobody ever knew where it really came from. Experts were still guessing its origin thousands of years later, until the long ages of guesswork ended in the 1720’s, when Nantucket whalers found gobs of the costly material inside the stomachs of sperm whales. Industrial whaling quickly burgeoned. By 20th century ambergris is mainly recovered from inside the carcasses of sperm whales.

 

Through countless ages, people have found pieces of ambergris on sandy beaches. It was named grey amber to distinguish it from golden amber, another rare treasure. Both of them were among the most sought-after substances in the world, almost as valuable as gold. (Ambergris sells for roughly $20 a gram, slightly less than gold at $30 a gram.) Amber floats in slat water, and in old times the origin of both these substances was mysterious. But it turned out that amber and ambergris have little in common. Amber is a fossilized resin from tress that was quite familiar to Europeans long before the discovery of the New World, and prized as jewelry. Although considered a gem, amber is a hard, transparent, wholly-organic material derived from the resin of extinct species of trees, mainly pines.

 

To the earliest Western chroniclers, ambergris was variously thought to come from the same bituminous sea founts as amber, from the sperm of fishes or whales, from the droppings of strange sea birds (probably because of confusion over the included beaks of squid) or from the large hives of bees living near the sea. Marco Polo was the first Western chronicler who correctly attributed ambergris to sperm whales and its vomit.

 

As sperm whales navigate in the oceans, they often dive down to 2 km or more below the sea level to prey on squid, most famously the Giant Squid. It’s commonly accepted that ambergris forms in the whale’s gut or intestines as the creature attempts to deal with squid beaks. Sperm whales are rather partial to squid, but seemingly struggle to digest the hard, sharp, parrot-like beaks. It is thought their stomach juices become hyper-active trying to process the irritants, and eventually hard, resinous lumps are formed around the break, and then expelled from their innards by vomiting. When a whale initially vomits up ambergris, it is soft and has a terrible smell. Some marine biologists compare it to the unpleasant smell of cow dung. But after floating on the salty ocean for about a decade, the substance hardens with air and sun into a smooth, waxy, usually rounded piece of nostril heaven. The dung smell is gone, replaced by a sweet, smooth, musky and pleasant earthy aroma.

 

Since ambergris is derived from animals, naturally a question of ethics arises, and in the case of ambergris, it is very important to consider. Sperm whales are an endangered species, whose populations started to decline as far back as the 19th century due to the high demand for their highly emollient oil, and today their stocks still have not recovered. During the 1970’s, the Save the Whales movement brought the plight of whales to international recognition. Many people now believe that whales are saved. This couldn’t be further from the truth. All around the world, whaling still exists. Many countries continue to hunt whales, in spite of international treaties to protect them. Many marine researchers are concerned that even the trade in naturally found ambergris can be harmful by creating further incentives to hunt whales for this valuable substance.

 

One of the forms ambergris is used today is as valuable fixative in perfumes to enhance and prolong the scent. But nowadays, since ambergris is rare and expensive, and big fragrance suppliers that make most of the fragrances on the market today do not deal in it for reasons of cost, availability and murky legal issues, most perfumeries prefer to add chemical derivative which mimics the properties of ambergris. As a fragrance consumer, you can assume that there is no natural ambergris in your perfume bottle, unless the company advertises this fact and unless you own vintage fragrances created before the 1980s. If you are wondering if you have been wearing a perfume with this legendary ingredient, you may want to review your scent collection. Here are a few of some of the top ambergris containing perfumes: Givenchy Amarige, Chanel No. 5 and Gucci Guilty.

 

Reading Passage 2

Title

明星高管招聘

Question types

Matching 4题

YES / NO / NOT GIVEN 4题

Summary 5题

文章内容回顾

招聘外来管理人员好,还是内部培养更好。

文中提到了直接招聘的种种弊端:Employees may not be willing to learn the culture of the new company, they tend to change jobs after a few years and they may have the negative impact on the performance of the team. 文中把新成员比作了organ transplant, 老员工会有排斥反应。

 

Reading Passage 3

Title

Flower power

Question types

Heading 7题

Matching 4题

Completion 3题

文章内容回顾

送花的反应,说了三个实验。

*个是送给实验者不同的礼物,收到花做礼物的人会有明显情绪上的变化,会乐于交谈并谈论更多的个人隐私。

第二个是在封闭的电梯内,观测人们的反应,收到花做礼物的人会表现的更加亲密,而且不同于其他处于密闭环境中人的做法,收到花的人会走上前,有可能与陌生人交谈。

第三个是不断送花给研究对象,观测他们的反应,有的研究对象甚至会邀请研究人员去家里做客。

后文还讨论了人与花这一物种的关系,花朵经过培植和繁衍,与人类形成互利共生的关系。

 

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