剑桥雅思阅读词典

PRACTICE TEST 1

READING PASSAGE 1 READING PASSAGE 2 READING PASSAGE 3

PRACTICE TEST 2

READING PASSAGE 1 READING PASSAGE 2 READING PASSAGE 3

PRACTICE TEST 3

READING PASSAGE 1 READING PASSAGE 2 READING PASSAGE 3

TEST 4

READING PASSAGE 1 READING PASSAGE 2 READING PASSAGE 3

A spark， a flint： How fire leapt to life

Zoo conservation programmes

AECHITECTURE—Reaching for the Sky

Right-and left-handedness in humans

MIGRATORY BEEKEEPING

TOURISM

SPOKEN CORPUS COMES TO LIFE

PRACTICE TEST 1

READING PASSAGE 1 READING PASSAGE 2 READING PASSAGE 3

PRACTICE TEST 2

READING PASSAGE 1 READING PASSAGE 2 READING PASSAGE 3

PRACTICE TEST 3

READING PASSAGE 1 READING PASSAGE 2 READING PASSAGE 3

TEST 4

READING PASSAGE 1 READING PASSAGE 2 READING PASSAGE 3

A spark， a flint： How fire leapt to life

Zoo conservation programmes

AECHITECTURE—Reaching for the Sky

Right-and left-handedness in humans

MIGRATORY BEEKEEPING

TOURISM

SPOKEN CORPUS COMES TO LIFE

Moles happy as homes go underground

A Workaholic Economy

GLASS： CAPTURING THE DANCE OF LIHGT

Why some women cross the finish line ahead of men

Population viability analysis

TEST 1

READING PASSAGE 1 READING PASSAGE 2 READING PASSAGE 3

TEST 2

READING PASSAGE 1 READING PASSAGE 2 READING PASSAGE 3

AIRPORTS ON WATER

Changing our Understanding of Health

CHILDREN’S THINKING

IMPLEMENTING THE CYCLE OF SUCCESS： A CASE STUDY

What is a Port City?

TEST 3

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TEST 4

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ABSENTEEISM IN NURSING： A LONGITUDINAL STUDY

THE MOTOR CAR

THE KEYLESS SOCIETY

Green Wave Washes Over Mainstream Shopping

124IN SEARCH OF THE HOLY GRAIL

TEST 1

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TEST 2

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TEST 3

READING PASSAGE 1 READING PASSAGE 2 READING PASSAGE 3

TEST 4

READING PASSAGE 1 READING PASSAGE 2 READING PASSAGE 3

THE ROCKET—FROM EAST TO WEST

The Risks of Cigarette Smoke

THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD

A Remarkable Beetle

THE CONCEPT OF ROLE THEORY

THE DEPARTMENT OF ETHNOGRAPHY

Secrets of the Forest

HIGHS & LOWS

VOTES FOR WOMEN

Measuring Organisational Performance

TEST 1

READING PASSAGE 1 READING PASSAGE 2 READING PASSAGE 3

TEST 2

READING PASSAGE 1 READING PASSAGE 2 READING PASSAGE 3

TEST 3

READING PASSAGE 1 READING PASSAGE 2 READING PASSAGE 3

剑桥雅思阅读词典1.indd 2

What Do Whales Feel?

Visual Symbols and the Blind

Lost for Words

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE IN AUSTRALIA

PLAY IS A SERIOUS BUSINESS

Micro-Enterprise Credit for Street Youth

Volcanoes—earth-shattering news

Obtaining Linguistic Data

TEST 4

READING PASSAGE 1 How much higher? How much faster?

READING PASSAGE 2 THE NATURE AND AIMS OF ARCHAEOLOGY

READING PASSAGE 3 The Problem of Scarce Resources

TEST 1

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TEST 2

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READING PASSAGE 3

TEST 3

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TEST 4

READING PASSAGE 1 READING PASSAGE 2 READING PASSAGE 3

Johnson’s Dictionary

Nature or Nurture?

The Truth about the Environment

BAKELITE—The birth of modern plastics

What’s so funny?—John McCrone reviews recent research

on humour

The Birth of Scientific English

Early Childhood Education

Disappearing Delta

The Return of Artificial Intelligence

The Impact of Wilderness Tourism

Flawed Beauty： the problem with toughened glass

The effects of light on plant and animal species

TEST 1

READING PASSAGE 1 READING PASSAGE 2 READING PASSAGE 3

TEST 2

READING PASSAGE 1 READING PASSAGE 2 READING PASSAGE 3

TEST 3

READING PASSAGE 1 READING PASSAGE 2 READING PASSAGE 3

TEST 4

READING PASSAGE 1 READING PASSAGE 2 READING PASSAGE 3

AUSTRALIA’S SPORTING SUCCESS

DELIVERING THE GOODS

Climate Change and the Inuit

Advantages of public transport

GREYING POPULATION STAYS IN THE PINK

Numeration

Motivating Employees under Adverse Conditions

The Search for the Anti-aging Pill

Doctoring sales

Do literate women make better mothers?

TEST 1

READING PASSAGE 1 Let’s Go Bats

READING PASSAGE 2 MAKING EVERY DROP COUNT

READING PASSAGE 3 EDUCATING PSYCHE

TEST 2

READING PASSAGE 1 Why pagodas don’t fall down

READING PASSAGE 2 The True Cost of Food

READING PASSAGE 3 Makete Integrated Rural Transport Project

TEST 3

READING PASSAGE 1 Ant Intelligence

READING PASSAGE 2 Population movements and genetics

READING PASSAGE 3

TEST 4

READING PASSAGE 1 Pulling strings to build pyramids

READING PASSAGE 2 Endless Harvest

READING PASSAGE 3 EFFECTS OF NOISE

TEST 1

READING PASSAGE 1 A Chronicle of Timekeeping

READING PASSAGE 2 AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL IN THE USA

READING PASSAGE 3 TELEPATHY

TEST 2

READING PASSAGE 1 Sheet glass manufacture： the float process

READING PASSAGE 2 THE LITTLE ICE AGE

READING PASSAGE 3 The meaning and power of smell

TEST 3

READING PASSAGE 1 Striking Back at Lightning With Lasers

READING PASSAGE 2 The Nature of Genius

READING PASSAGE 3 HOW DOES THE BIOLOGICAL CLOCK TICK?

TEST 4

READING PASSAGE 1 LAND OF THE RISING SUM

READING PASSAGE 2 Biological control of pests

READING PASSAGE 3 Collecting Ant Specimens

后记

龚学众，先后任教于清华大学、北京大学、北京外国语大学、外交学院等十四所大学和培训机构，教学阅历丰富，倡导用“铁人精神”学习技艺，主张“系统、扎实、认真”的教学风气，反对“捷径”式的教学。在长期的雅思教学中，总结出了“雅思写作生产线式教学法”和“雅思听力催生婆式教学法”、“雅思阅读图示导读法”和“雅思口语跟说示范法”。出版个人专著《雅思范文及学生习作评析》（外语教学与研究出版社）。

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