这次是混合图表!12月12日雅思考试机经

2015年12月14日 澳大利亚WHV


一、考试概述:
题型:填空20+选择20
S1咨询:游泳馆针对人群和费用的咨询,与C6T1S1类似,10题填空,难度较小。
S2旅游:介绍新西兰的一个著名旅游城市Gisborne,选择6+配对4,配对稍难。
S3选课:一个男生向女生介绍他们艺术学校的课程信息,单选5+配对5,难度中上。
S4讲座: 农业讲座,介绍棉花种植的负面影响,填空10,难度适中。
总体难度:★★★


二、具体题目分析:

Section 1
版本号:58141
题型:10填空
场景: 咨询场景 –游泳馆(对应人群及费用情况)。
参考答案:

8-10
8. 3 times a week
9. from ... to 5.30 pm
10. need extra transportation cost
扩展练习:C6T1S1
解析:注意timetable是一个单词,不要分开;café注意é;crowded不要漏写ed;5.30也可以写成5:30。


Section 2

版本号:60024
题型:选择6+配对4
场景:旅游场景 – 介绍新西兰的一个景点Gisborne
a history and tourism introduction for a famous place --Gisborne
参考答案:
11. main topic of this speech
A. economy B. tourism C. history


12. name ‘Mario’ originates from the place: East Coast


13. at beginning, they export product to

A farms B fishery C forest


14. Now it exports_____to Asia

A lemon and oranges B red&white grape C sea food


15. Concert about costume party will be held in

A museum B opera house


16. In raining days, you are recommended to watch
A culture show B photograph exhibition C near art gallery

17-20 Matching
A the disables
B newly wedded couple
C pregnant woman
D secondary school children
E young adults
17 hot spring: suitable for B (not suitable for elderly and pregnant)
18 second (can have party here, exciting game), suitable for E
19 rafting: Suitable for D (suitable for pupil, parents don’t need to worry about their kids, cause they have professional instructor)
20….park: suitable for the A (mentioned people in wheel chair)
背景知识:Gisborne坐落于新西兰的北岛东部(Poverty Bay) 由于靠近国际日期变更线,因此成为每天地球上第一个看见太阳的城市,有着“东方太阳城”、“曙光第一城”的美称。
扩展练习:C10T4S2; C7T1S2


Section 3

版本号:70370
题型:单选5+配对5
场景:选课场景 – 艺术学校选课 (A man introduces his application information about Baker Art College)
参考答案:
21-25 单选题
21. why did James choose to study in the Baker?
A. It is located near his home
B. good reputation in his subject area
22. what was he surprised at his study?
B. he can finish the theoretical courses
23. what was the assessment of James’ course in the first term?
B. marks were given by students
C. marks were based on teachers’ comment
24. why did the girl enquire the English language course?
A. make an artist living
B. selling art pieces in a gallery
25. what did she need to get more information about before going to this college?
A. date of the course
B. scholarship
C. choice of modules


26-30 配对题

A lot of background reading
B. Stay at the studio long
C. Many outside speakers
D. The most difficult course
E. Students do their own research
F. Focus on display
G. Using materials
26. history of art-C
27. sculpture option-G
28. painting digital-B
29. theory of art-E
30. photography-F
解析:选课场景和课程讨论场景是雅思考试section3的高频场景,话题词汇非常固定,烤鸭们只需要扎实掌握课程相关词汇,section3的难度一定会有所降低。
参考练习:C5T1S3; C6T1S3


Section 4

版本号:31044
题型: 填空10
场景: 农业讲座场景 – 棉花种植的负面影响 (cotton planting and processing)
参考答案:
31-35 句子填空题
31. water waste in the sustainable planting process
32. in order to grow cotton, 20%-50% of the money was spent on irrigating.
33. labor cost increased because of the extra maintenance on equipment and machines
34. soil becomes high-salty by chemical contaminants
35. the lack of protective clothes resulted in the diseases in farmers
36-40 表格填空题

拓展练习:C5T3S4
解析: 近期农业讲座场景已经出现多次,需要重点注意。Irrigation, contaminant, contamination等词都是生态及农业相关的高频词汇,烤鸭们注意积累。Clothes一定要加es,否则cloth表示布料,句意不对。


雅思阅读机经
一、考试概述:
本次考试是三篇旧题,内容分别为乐观与健康,新西兰农民和儿童认知。最后一篇回忆并不太全,剑桥系列建议参考C9T4P2。
二、具体题目分析
Passage 1:
题目:Optimism & health
题型:判断题3+填空题6+配对题4
题号:旧题
文章大意:
主要讲述健康的心态喝乐观之间的关系
参考文章(仅供参考):


Questions 1-5


Summary


Complete the following summary of the paragraphs of Reading Passage, using no more than TWO words from the Reading Passage for each answer. Write your answers in boxes 1-5 on your answer sheet.

Optimists generally are more robust. Yale University psychologist Dr Becca Levy found that an extension of around 1 to your life will be achieved by positive attitude toward life. A Harvard Medical School conduct a research which study of 2 male volunteers found that the optimists have remarkably better 3. And Dr Rosalind Wright believes optimistic life may enhance the 4 "some initiative studies on 5 indicate that people can improve their mortality risk by changing into a positive outlook.

Questions 6-10
Use the information in the passage to match the people or organization (listed A-E) with opinions or deeds below. Write the appropriate letters A-E in boxes 19-23 on your answer sheet.
A Brice Pitt
B American Psychological Association
C Martin Seligman

D Chad Wallens of Henley Centre
E Annual Review of Clinical Psychology
F Steven Stack

G American magazine Adweek


6 Different optimism result found according to gender.
7 There is no necessary relationship between happiness and money.
8 Excessive optimism may be incorrect in everyday life.
9 Optimists is advantageous for human evolution. 

10 Occurrence of emergency assists resilient people in a positive way. 


Questions 11-14
Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage 27 In boxes 24-27 on your answer sheet, write
YES if the statement is true
NO if the statement is false
NOT GIVEN in the information is not given in the passage
24 The link between longevity and optimism has been known.
25 Optimists have better personal relationship than those pessimists.
26 People who had a happy childhood do not need to practise optimism.
27 Experience of difficulties will eventually help people accumulate the fortune.
参考答案:
14- 18
1. 7 years
2. 670
3. lung function
4. immune system
5. heart patients
6-7
6. G
7. D
8. B
9. A
10. E
11-14
11 YES
12 NOT GIVEN
13 NO
14 YES


Passage 2:

题目: Farmers
题型:配对题8+填空5
文章大意:
讲述新西兰一个mail order company 后来发展成买各种东西的全球连锁公司,员工的幸福指数很高。
参考文章(仅供参考):
The Farmers! Parade of history
A History of Farmer trading company: In 1909 Robert Laidlaw establishes mail-order company Laidlaw Leeds in Fort Street, Auckland. Then, Branch expansion: purchase of Green and Colebrook chain store; further provincial stores in Auckland and Waikato to follow. Opening of first furniture and boot factory. In 1920, Company now has 29 branches; Whangarei store purchased. Doors open at Hobson Street for direct selling to public. Firm establishes London and New York buying offices. With permission from the Harbour Board, the large FARMERS electric sign on the Wyndham Street frontage is erected.

B In 1935, if the merchandise has changed, the language of the catalogues hasn’t. Robert Laidlaw, the Scottish immigrant who established the century-old business, might have been scripting a modem-day television commercial when he told his earliest customers: Satisfaction, or your money back. "It was the first money back guarantee ever offered in New Zealand by any firm, " says Ian Hunter, business historian. "And his mission statement was, potentially, only the second one ever found in the world. " Laidlaw’s stated aims were simple to build the greatest business in New Zealand, to simplify every transaction, to eliminate all delays, to only sell goods it would pay the customer to buy.

C This year, the company that began as a mail-order business and now employs 3500staff across 58 stores turns 100. Its centenary will be celebrated with the release of a book and major community fundraising projects, to be announced next week. Hunter, who is writing the centenary history, says "coming to a Farmers store once a week was a part of the New Zealand way of life". By 1960, one in every 10 people had an account with the company. It was the place where teenage girls shopped for their first bra, where newlyweds purchased their first dinner sets, where first pay cheques were used to pay off hire purchase furniture, where Santa paraded every Christmas.

D Gary Blumenthal’s mother shopped there, and so does he. The fondest memory for the Rotorua resident? "We were on holiday in Auckland . . . I decided that up on the lookout tower on top of the Farmers building would be a unique place to fit the ring on my new fiancée’s finger. " The lovebirds, who had to wait for "an annoying youth" to leave the tower before they could enjoy their engagement kiss, celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary in June.

E Farmers, says Hunter, has always had a heart. This, from a 1993 North & South interview with a former board chairman, Rawdon Busfield: "One day I was in the Hobson Street shop and I saw a woman with two small children. They were clean and tidily dressed, but poor, you could tell. That week we had a special on a big bar of chocolate for one shilling. I heard the woman say to her boy, "no, your penny won’t buy that’. He wasn’t wearing shoes. So I went up to the boy and said, "Son, have you got your penny?’ He handed it to me. It was hot he’d had it in his hand for hours. I took the penny and gave him the chocolate. "

F Farmers was once the home of genteel tearooms, children’s playgrounds and an annual sale of celebration for birthday of Hector the Parrot (the store mascot died, aged 131, in the 1970s his stuffed remains still occupy pride of place at the company’s head office). You could buy houses from Farmers. Its saddle factory supplied the armed forces, and its upright grand overstrung pianos offered "the acme of value" according to those early catalogues hand-drawn by Robert Laidlaw himself. Walk through a Farmers store today and get hit by bright lights and big brands. Its Albany branch houses 16 international cosmetics companies. It buys from approximately 500 suppliers, and about 30% of those are locally owned.

G "Eight, 10 years ago, " says current chief executive Rod McDermott, "lots of brands wouldn’t partner with us. The stores were quite distressed. We were first price point focused, we weren’t fashion focused. "Remove the rose-tinted nostalgia, and Farmers is, quite simply, a business, doing business in hard times. Dancing with the Stars presenter Candy Lane launches a clothing line? "We put a trial on, and we thought it was really lovely, but the uptake wasn’t what we thought it would be. It’s got to be what the customer wants, " says McDermott.

H He acknowledges retailers suffer in a recession: "We’re celebrating 100 years because we can and because we should. " Farmers almost didn’t pull through one economic crisis. By the mid 1980s, it had stores across the country. It had acquired the South Island’s Calder Mackay chain of stores and bought out Hay wrights. Then, with sales topping $375 million, it was taken over by Chase Corporation. Lincoln Laidlaw, now aged 88, and the son of the company’s founder, remembers the dark days following the stock market crash and the collapse of Chase. "I think, once, Farmers was like a big family and all of the people who worked for it felt they were building something which would ultimately be to their benefit and to the benefit of New Zealand. . . then the business was being divided up and so that kind of family situation was dispelled and it hasn’t been recovered. "For a turbulent few years, the stores were controlled, first by a consortium of Australian banks and later Deka, the Maori Development Corporation and Foodland Associated Ltd. In 2003, it went back to "family" ownership, with the purchase by the James Pascoe Group, owned by David and Anne Norman the latter being the great-granddaughter of James Pascoe, whose first business interest was jewellery.

J "Sheer power of the brand, " says McDermott, "pulled Farmers through and now we’re becoming the brand it used to be again. " Farmers were the company that, during World War II, topped up the wages of any staff member disadvantaged by overseas service. Robert Laidlaw a committed Christian who came to his faith at a 1902 evangelistic service in Dunedin concluded his original mission statement with the words, "all at it, always at it, wins success". Next week, 58 Farmers stores across the country will announce the local charities they will raise funds for in their centenary celebration everything from guide dog services to hospices to volunteer fire brigades will benefit. Every dollar raised by the community will be matched by the company. "It’s like the rebirth of an icon, " says McDermott.
Questions 15-19
The reading Passage has seven paragraphs A-J.
Which paragraph contains the following information? Write the correct letter A-J, in boxes 15-19 on your answer sheet.
15 Generosity offered in an occasion for helping the poor E
16 Innovation of offer made ahead of modem-time business by the head of company. B
17 Fashion was not chosen as its strong point. G
18 A romantic event on a memorial venue dedicating to Farmers. D
19Farmers was sold to a private owned company. I
Questions 20-24
Complete the sentence below.

Complete the following summary of the paragraphs of Reading Passage, using no more than two words from the Reading Passage for each answer. Write your answers in boxes 20-24 on your answer sheet.


Farmers was first founded as a 20 in Auckland by Mr. Laidlaw. Farmers developed fast and bought one 21then.
During oversea expansion, Farmers set up 22in major cities outside New Zealand.
Farmers held a 23 in a sale once a year for the company’s mascot animal
Some senior employee considered Farmers as a 24both for themselves and for the whole country.
20 mail-order compnay
21 chain store
22 buying offices
23 celebration
24 big family
Questions 25-27
Use the information in the passage to match the people (listed A-C) with opinions or deeds below. Write the appropriate letters A-C in boxes 25-27 on your answer sheet.
NB you may use any letter more than once
A Lincoln Laidlaw
B Rod McDermott
C Ian Hunter
25Product became worse as wrong aspect focused. B
26 An unprecedented statement made by Farmers in New Zealand.C
27 
 Character of the company was changed. A


Passage 3:

题名:儿童认知cognition
题型:判断题7+填空4+单选3
文章大意:
讲述儿童如何认知世界,做错事认知世界的态度。

答案:待补充


雅思写作机经
Task 1

今天的雅思小作文是好久没有出现的混合图表,分别是一张表格和动态的柱形图。表格可以说是形同虚设,有用的信息不是很多,考生们要把信息重点花在柱形图的描写上。柱形图也非常简单,是典型的动态图,要注意趋势和对比。相信今天的考生们肯定会在小作文中获得不错的分数。

The following chart and tablegive information of UK cruise passengers in 1975 and 2003.

percent by age


Total number

1995

397837

2003

1005231




These two charts present the information with regard to the total cruise passenger number and the percentage of two different years among different age groups.


The figures for the UK cruise passengers in 1975 showed an upward trend in all age groups. In the former three age groups, the percentages were all below 10%. And then it increased by 10~20 % every decade, reaching 35% among those age are between 55~64. Obviously, cruise was the most popular among those aged over 65, seven times the number of the youngest age group.


There were 1005231 passengers cruising in the year of 2003, much higher than that in 1995. Likewise, the proportion of 2003 also experienced a similar tendency. There were 10% of cruise passengers in the under-24-year-olds group, to which the smallest percentage belonged. The following age groups saw a gradual rise every decade, from 15% in the 25-to-34-year-olds to 33% in the 55-to-64-year-olds group. Among the passengers whose age was over 65, nearly 50% of them went on a cruise.


To conclude, cruise becomes more popular among different age groups and the interest become keener as age grows.


Task 2

题目类别:生活方式,教育

提问方式:A/D

考试题目:

Some people think reading stories in book is better than watching TV or playing computer games for children, To what extent do you agree or disagree?


分析:
这次的题目是一种观点的,属于老题翻新,可以套用传统媒介和新型媒介的优缺点比较
范文思路:
书籍的优点:阅读书籍是一种综合性的能力,阅读书籍不影响孩子们的视力
电视和电脑游戏的优缺点:形象生动,易于孩子学习获得信息,但是活动的画面会分心,电子设备需要通电,有电源的限制
范文参考:

Reading stories in books is a basic way for children to obtain knowledge and open their minds. Although watching TV and playing computer games are also popular educational methods among children, reading bookstore, in my view, is still better because of effectiveness and health.


Compared to TV and games, learning by reading is more effective since it is a synthetic skill. Like any other skills, reading takes practice. Children learn to read by sounding out the letters and finding the meaning of the words. Then, they begin to comprehend the context, paragraph and chapter. To fully understand the content, children have to give all their attention to the text. Also, more than just understanding a certain topic, children tend to develop reasoning, imagination and critical thinking during reading books, which will help them to learn more efficiently and deeply in the future.


In addition, reading books is good to children’s eyesight. According to some researches, spending too much time before a computer screen or watching TV will lead to shortsightedness. Therefore, reading is better for both efficiency and health purpose.


Admittedly, the knowledge disseminated by vivid pictures on screen is easier for children to catch information, but too many moving objects and colorful images will distract children, especially to some young kids, from their primary tasks. Moreover, using TV and computers too long will lead to a sedentary life that is more harmful to one’s wrist and back.


In conclusion, reading stories in book is better than TV and computers for it is a more effective way to learn and better for health.

雅思口语机经
一、考试整体概述:
9月换题之后,目前的口语题库已经非常稳定,请同学们扎实准备。以下为本场高频
1. a time you had a disagreement with your friend
2. a long walk
3. an important conversation
4. a gift took you long time to choose
5. an ideal house
6. a small successful business
7. a special thing you want to buy


二、本场新难题及解析

Describe a disagreement with a friend
You should say:
  • When and where it happened

  • What you disagreed on

  • How you resolved the disagreement

  • And explain how you felt about it


I am a pretty mild person so I rarely have a disagreement with a friend . Well, having said that, I remember a time when I had a disagreement with my best friend about the forever-controversial question: Who is the strongest super hero?


My best friend and I are both die-hard Marvel fans. While I am crazy about Iron Man, my friend chooses to vote for Hulk. You can imagine the argument we had defending our own favorites. Last weekend, the same thing happened again. We had this “who is the best super hero?”talk the whole time during dinner. In my view, Iron Man is charming, intelligent and of great leadership, let alone his unrivalled armor. If he is not the one, who is? Despite of my eloquence, my friend insisted that Hulk is immortal and full of humanity, which should be the essence of being a super hero.


What started as a small, silly thing quickly blew up and turned ugly. While we were debating in a heated way, other friends all tried to stay out of it and not to take sides. After about half an hour we realized how silly it was and agreed to put aside our different opinions. Anyway, as long as we enjoyed the movie what else should we ask for?


I kind of find this whole thing entertaining and a frivolous disagreement would never hurt anyone’s friendship. We made up with each other quickly.



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