2017年8月3日雅思阅读考试回忆及解析
本次考试的阅读部分共三篇文章，均为旧题。第一篇介绍了橡胶树的发展和商业化的历史。第二篇主要马戏团的重新演变。第三篇介绍了亚洲的航空发展。
二、具体题目分析
Passage 1：
题目：橡胶树的发展史
题型：判断6 + 填空 7
题号：旧题
参考文章：暂无
答案：
1. False
2. False
3. False
4. Not given
5. True
6. False
7. waterproof
8. rigid
9. waste strips
10. steam engine
11. stabilize
12. tyre
13. mass
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Passage 2：
题目：马戏团的重生
题型：段落信息配对题 4 + 摘要填空题 5 + 人名观点配对4
题目：旧题
参考文章：暂无
参考答案
1. v
2. vii
3. iv
4. iii
5. master
6. actor
7. humor
8. beauty
9. characteristics
10. B
11. C
12. D
13. A
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Passage 3：
题名：亚洲航空科技
题型：段落大意题 5 + 配对题 4 + 判断题4
题号：旧题
参考文章：
Asian Space 2
Satellite Technology
The space age began with the launch of the Russian artificial satellite Sputnik in 1957 and developed further with the race to the moon between the United States and Russia. This rivalry has characterized by advanced technology and huge budgets. In this process there spectacular successes, some failures, but also many spin-offs. Europe, Japan. China, and India quickly joined this space club of the superpowers. With the advent of relatively low high performance mini-satellites and launchers, the acquisition of indigenous space capabilities by smaller nations in Asia has become possible. How, in what manner, and for what purpose will these capabilities be realized?
A
Rocket technology has progressed considerably since the days of ' fire arrows ' (bamboo poles filled with gunpowder) first used in China around 500 BC, and, during the Sung Dynasty, to repel Mongol invaders at the battle of Kaifeng (Kai-fung fu) in AD 1232. These ancient rockets stand in stark to the present-day Chinese rocket launch vehicles, called the 'Long March', intended to place a Chinese astronaut in space by 2005 and, perhaps, to achieve a Chinese moon-landing by the end of the
B
In the last decade there has been a dramatic growth in space activities in Asia both in the utilization of space-based services and the production of satellites and launchers. This rapid expansion has led many commentators and analysts to predict that Asia will become a world space power. The space age has had dramatic affects worldwide With direct developments in space technology influencing telecommunications, meteorological forecasting, earth resource and environmental monitoring, and disaster mitigation (flood, forest fires, and oil spills). Asian nations have been particularly eager to embrace these developments.
C
New and innovative uses satellites are constantly being explored with potential revolutionary effects, such as in the field of health and telemedicine, distance education, crime prevention (piracy on the high seas), food and agricultural planning and production (rice crop monitoring). Space in Asia is very much influenced by the competitive commercial space sector, the emergence of low cost mini-satellites, and the globalization of industrial and financial markets. It is not evident how Asian space will develop in coming decades in the face of these trends. It is, however, important to understand and assess the and forces that shape Asian space activities and development in determining its possible consequences the region.
D
At present, three Asian nations, Japan, China, and India, have comprehensive end-to-end space capabilities and possess a complete space infrastructure: space technology, satellite manufacturing, rockets, and spaceports. Already self-sufficient in terms of satellite design and manufacturing, South Korea is currently attempting to join their ranks with its plans to develop a launch site and spaceport. Additionally, nations in Southeast Asia as well those the Indian subcontinent (Nepal, Pakistan, and Bangladesh) have, or are starting to develop, indigenous space programmes. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has, in varying degrees, embraced space applications using foreign technology and over the past five years or its space activities have been expanding. Southeast Asia is predicted to the largest growing market for commercial space products and applications, driven by telecommunications (mobile and fixed services), the Internet, and remote sensing applications. In the development of this technology, many non-technical factors, such as economics, politics, culture, and history, interact and play important roles, which in tum affect Asian technology.
E
Asia, and Southeast Asia in particular, suffers from a long list of recurrent large-scale environmental problems including storms and flooding, fires and deforestation, and crop failures. Thus the space application that has attracted the most attention in this region is remote sensing. Remote sensing satellites equipped with instruments to take photographs of the ground at different wavelengths provide essential for natural resource accounting, environmental management, disaster prevention and monitoring, land-use mapping, and sustainable development planning. Progress in these applications has been rapid and impressive. ASEAN members, unlike Japan, China, and India, do not have their own remote sensing satellites, however most of its member nations facilities to receive, process, and interpret such data from American and European satellites. In particular, Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore have world-class remote sensing processing facilities and research programmes. ASEAN has plans to develop (and launch) its own satellites and in particular remote sensing satellites. Japan is regarded as the dominant space power in Asia and its record of successes and quality of technologies are equal to those of the West. In view of the technological challenges and high risks involved in space activities, a very long, and expensive, learning curve has been followed to obtain those successes achieved. Japan' s satellite manufacturing was based on the old and traditional defense and military procurement as practiced in the US and Europe.
F
In recent years there have been fundamental changes in the predicting way satellites are designed and built to drastically reduce costs. The emergence of small satellites and their quick adoption by Asian countries as a way to develop low-cost satellite technology and rapidly establish a space capability has given these countries the possibility to shorten their learning curve by a decade or more. The global increase of technology transfer mechanisms and use of readily available commercial technology to replace costly space and military standard components may very well result in a highly competitive Asian satellite manufacturing
G
The laws of physics are the same in Tokyo as in Toulouse, and the principles of electronics and mechanics know no political or cultural However; no such applies to engineering practices and management; they influenced by education, and history. turn, have effect on costs, lead times, designs and, eventually international sales. Many Asian nations are sending their engineers to be trained in the West. Highly experienced, they return to work in the growing Asian space. Will this acquisition of technical coupled perhaps with the world-renowned Japanese manufacturing and management techniques, be applied to build world-class satellites and reduce costs?
参考答案
1. D
2. C
3. B
4. A
5. E
6. F
7. -
8. E
9. B
10. C
11. False
12. True
13. NG
14. True
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