2018年6月23日雅思考試真題回憶

【口語】

最近30天口語話題TOP15

以下爲本次考試部分高頻話題解析：

Part 1

1. Study time

What time do you like to study?

參考答案：

As for me, I try to study at night when it is quieter as I can be more efficient and productive when there is no noise around me.

What's the best time for you to take classes?

參考答案：

I would like all my classes arranged in the mornings because I seem to be more quick-minded in the morning, which means I acquire knowledge faster, and on the other hand, I find that most teachers are more clear-minded, which means they can better deliver their classes in the morning as well.

Do you like to study alone or with your friends?

參考答案：

I think I prefer to study with friends because I could have some discussions with them when I come across something I do not understand. Plus, I believe I won’t give up easily on my study if I have someone who studies with me.

Who do you usually study with?

參考答案：

Well, I usually study with my best friend who is also my roommate. As we basically go to the same classes every day, we often go to the school library to study in the evening.

Part 2 & 3

Part 2

Describe a piece of old equipment in your home

You should say:

what it is

how often you use it

how long you have had it

and explain why it is important in your home.

提示：

此話題屬於“物品”類話題， 所要描述的是“一個家中的老物件”；另外，我們可能使用的主要時態是“Past Tense”，“Present Tense” 和 “Present Perfect Tense”；接着，我們預覽一下前三個“basic information”，然後思考一下：可否添加拓展信息使我們的整體描述更加生動， 形象，有趣？比如，在描述使用它的頻率時， 可以同時說明你在家用這件老物件做什麼， 它在家裏的價值何在等等。

到最後的部分， 我們需要進一步解釋說明原因， 告訴考官爲什麼這是一件重要的老物件。

參考答案：

Well, to tell you the truth that we have thrown away quite a number of old equipment and purchased some new ones for our home as we moved 3 times over the past two decades. However, we still keep one old piece in our home, and that is an old chair made of wood.

It was my grandpa's favorite furniture before he passed away because he used it quite a lot. I remember it was in 2003 when my parents got that chair for him after we moved to a new apartment with a really nice balcony as my parents wanted him to sit in the chair at the balcony and enjoy some tea and newspapers with sunshine after lunch. So far we've had it for almost 15 years.

You know, it is such an important furniture in our home as each time when we see it, it reminds us of our grandpa and those rewarding lectures he gave us. For instance, one of the most meaningful lectures he used to give us is on how to get along well with friends and colleagues, and what he often said was to understand others and tolerate others’ shortcomings whenever any conflicts arise.

On top of that, it also reminds me of the time when he used to take care of me while my parents went away for business. And what I love the most about that is he would cook some special dishes for me. Besides, he would also take me to a nearby supermarket for some delicious snacks whenever I asked.

重點詞彙及表達：

①pass away： 動詞短語；去世

Eg：Mary has been feeling rather upset for quite a few weeks after her grandma passed away.

②balcony: 名詞； 陽臺

Eg：It seems that her only requirement for renting a new apartment is that she needs it to have a huge balcony.

③rewarding:  形容詞； 有益的   有助的

Eg: Professor Lee likes to have some rewarding talks with his students because he believes that those talks can benefit students in their life.

④shortcoming： 名詞；缺點  缺陷

Eg：Despite the fact that he has many shortcomings, he is still the most suitable candidate for this position.

Part 3題目

In your country, where do people usually buy furniture for their homes?

參考答案：

Well, I think most people would buy furniture from stores in which they can physically feel and touch the furniture of different styles, fabric as well as colors and then finally decide which one they want to purchase.

重點詞彙及表達：

①physically ： 副詞；身體上的

Eg：Although he looks physically fit, he still suffers from some mental problems.

②fabric : 名詞； 材質  織物

Eg: Not surprisingly, his only concern is the fabric whenever he needs to shop for clothes.  

What factors do people need to consider when buying furniture for their home?

參考答案：

Well, I suppose there are quite a number of factors people have to consider when buying furniture, such as the size of the furniture, because they need to make sure the furniture they purchase will fit the space in their home, or the style of the furniture because they also need to make sure that it fits the overall style of most of the furniture at their home.

重點詞彙及表達：

①a number of： 短語；一些  許多

Eg：Local government has been conducting a number of surveys to make a policy which is aimed to protect the legal right of taxi drivers.

②overall : 形容詞/副詞；整體的  總體的

Eg：His parents are pretty satisfied with his the overall performance although he still failed one subject this semester.

Why do people like to buy expensive furniture?

參考答案：

Well, there must be numerous reasons to explain that, but I think the most common one is that people regard the quality of the furniture as their first priority, which means they believe that those expensive furniture will be more durable than cheap ones.  

重點詞彙及表達：

①priority： 名詞；優先  優先權

Eg：As a mother, her first priority is always her 2 kids, so she quit a well-paid job and went back home to take care of the kids.   

②durable: 形容詞； 耐用的  持久的

Eg：They still keep some old equipment at home as those old stuff are really durable.

What is the difference between the furniture at home and the furniture in the office?

參考答案：

Well, if it is a piece of furniture for home, it is supposed to be quite cozy whenever people use it at home, and its design and style should also fit well with the overall decoration of the home. However, a piece of furniture for an office should always be able to meet people’s certain needs at work.

重點詞彙及表達：

①cozy： 形容詞；舒適的   舒服的

Eg：Visitors could sit in those cozy benches for a rest when they get tired in the park.  

②decoration: 名詞；裝飾  裝修

Eg：Due to the unique decoration at this Brazilian restaurant, it has been attracting more and more young people since it officially opened.  

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【寫作】

A類小作文：

題目：

You should spend 20 minutes on this task.

The maps show the campus layout now and a plan for development.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

Write at least 150 words.

解題思路：

本次雅思考試的小作文部分考的是關於學校佈局變化的地圖題。在描寫地圖的時候，一定要注意表述方位的詞或詞組的使用。而且也要把這兩張地圖進行比較，描述出擬議的學校佈局和現在的學校佈局的區別和變化。並且要注意時態的正確使用。

參考範文：

The two maps show the current layout of a school and the plan for its changes. The most noticeable change is projected to be the replacement of many areas of vegetation with teaching buildings and public facilities.

At present, a large area of land at the northwest side of the campus is covered with trees. A cluster of many other trees can also be seen at the southwest corner. A rectangular teaching building can be seen in the centre of the map while other buildings and facilities are mainly located at the east. To be specific, three buildings, of which one is for biology and another two are for genetics, lie on the southeast side of the schoolyard; the car park is on the other side of the east.

In the future, much of the vegetation is expected to be cut down to make room for new buildings, such as a genetics building and a chemistry building in the northwest; and a triangular vegetation field will be changed into a new staff car park. Meanwhile, the original rectangular building close to the staff car park will be converted to an L-shaped one. What is more, the existing car park would be exclusively used for students and the biology building is likely to be rebuilt into a larger one.

Word count: 218

重點表達：

①the most noticeable change is … 最明顯的變化是……

②is projected to… 預計……

③at the northwest side of … 在……的西北邊

④at the southwest corner: 在西南角落

⑤be mainly located at…:  集中坐落在……

⑥on the other side:  在另一邊

⑦vegetation: n. 植被

⑧be converted to: v. 轉變成

本次機經真題解析由以下滬江留學老師產出

李敏老師

滬江網校雅思教研，英國杜倫大學畢業；英文專業8級；高中英語教師資格證書等，主攻雅思託福等留學考試。參與滬江網校World English A2和 B1、新版雅思6.5分寫作、新版雅思7分寫作等課程的設計規劃與製作。

A類大作文：

題目：More and more people want to buy famous brands of clothes, cars and other items. What are the reasons? Do you think it is a positive or negative development?

題型：話題分析與個人看法

話題：社會生活類

解題思路：本次寫作仍舊爲報告類話題，在明確題目中給出的現象後，需要分析現象產生的原因，並說明對此現象的態度。注意到題目中使用reasons複數形式，在寫作文過程時也要列舉多個理由。個人表態部分除了要表達支持或反對，還可以簡提一下對立方的主要關注點並反駁或附加條件，以達到更全面的論述說明。

參考範文：

Thanks to the globalisation and trade liberalisation in most parts of the world, customers today can always enjoy a wide range of choices when purchasing different kinds of goods or services. And it seems that famous brands are much more favoured by an increasing number of people. There are several reasons for this and I regard the trend as a positive one.

Usually, the famous brands stand for renowned prestige, elegant tastes and sumptuous life styles, which exactly fit the psychological needs of those who badly desire the feel of being admired. For these people, famous brands, especially the luxury ones, fabricate an illusion that they are somehow connected with the upper class, owning importance and success as well.

Moreover, famous brands always boasts some superior features such as high quality or humanised designs. Therefore, customer loyalty is more liable to be cultivated. Once a client gets used to a certain product or service, he is unwilling to change for an alternative. The iOS operation system can well address the phenomenon, as most iPhone users will not feel at ease when the system is changed to an Android system --- even if the price and functions of the two phones are quite similar.

From my perspective, the trend can bring more advantages. Since every person has the right to strive for a happier life, there is no fault for one to try pricey things that makes them satisfied, as long as the payment is legal and will not jeopardise the future life. Companies also earn more money from the trend and in turn stimulate innovations and varieties to keep and enlarge their consumer groups, thus gaining more competence while forming a virtuous cycle with customers.

To sum up, whether people buy famous brands to compensate their poor self-esteem or to pursue the high quality of the famous brands, it is justifiable to choose those high-ends on condition that they are within one’s purchasing ability.

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重點表達：

①trade liberalisation:  貿易自由

②prestige: n. 聲譽，威望

③fabricate: v. 編造，製造

④boast: v. 以擁有……而自豪

⑤customer loyalty  顧客忠誠度

⑥jeopardise: v. 危及，損害

⑦virtuous cycle:  良性循環

⑧self-esteem: n. 自尊

本次機經真題解析由以下滬江留學老師產出

王倩竹老師

滬江網校留學資深教研老師，同濟大學英語語言文學碩士，主攻雅思託福等留學考試。參與滬江網校《雅思保七衝八》、Unlock A1-B2雅思能力課程、World English B1、新版雅思6.5分閱讀、新版雅思7分聽力等課程的設計規劃與製作，並幫助多名1V1學生達到雅思寫作7分。

【聽力】

Section 1

新題

內容回憶：露營採購備置物品

Completion 1-10

1 5174XCM

2 summer

3 pump

4 bottle

5 plates

6 rubber

7 baseball

8 map

9 Taupo

10 25.50

Section 2

新題

內容回憶：民俗文化旅行

單選11-15

11 A

12 B

13 B

14 B

15 C

Matching 16-20

16 C

17 D

18 F

19 B

20 G

Section 3

新題

內容回憶：討論尼日利亞非洲繪畫藝術

單選21-24

21 B

22 A

23 C

24 B

多選25-30

25-26 A C

27-28 B D

29-30 A D

Section 4

新題

內容回憶：介紹三種語言

Completion

31 exploring

32 commas

33 standard

34 Greek

35 dominant

36 mixture

37 children

38 limitation

39 advanced

40 rare

(答案僅供參考)

【閱讀】

Passage 1

Dinner of Rome 2000 Years Ago（歷史文化類）

新題

文章大意：文章主要講羅馬人的就餐習俗和和宗教的聯繫，這些就餐方面的文化在文學場景中的體現，以及餐廳、飯桌的佈置等。

答案回憶：

1-7 判斷題

1 NOT GIVEN

2 TRUE

3 TRUE

4 FALSE

5 FALSE

6 NOT GIVEN

7 TRUE

8-13 筆記填空題

8 supply

9 affluence

10 decorative

11 spoon

12 pottery

13 待補充

Passage 2

Amateur Naturalists（社會類）

舊題：2016年12月15日

文章大意：業餘自然愛好者對科學做出的貢獻有很重要的價值，但是一些專業人士質疑業餘自然愛好者的測量方法的專業性、研究結果的準確度，文章還介紹了業餘自然愛好者觀察和測量方法的新技術等。

答案回憶：

14-19 段落信息配對題

14 B The definition of phenology

15 C How Sparks first became aware of amateur records

16 E Records of a competition providing clues for climate change

17 G A description of using amateur records to make predictions

18 H How people reacted to their involvement in data collection

19 A A description of a very old record compiled by generations of amateur naturalists

20-23 填空題

20 beekeeping

21 life circles

22 competition

23 droughts

24-26 選擇題

24 C

25 D

26 A

參考文章：

Amateur Naturalists

You should spend about 20 minutes on Question 14-26 which are based on Reading Passage below.

A    

Tim Sparks slides a small leather-bound notebook out of an envelope. The books   yellowing pages contain beekeeping notes made between 1941 and 1969 by the   late Walter Coates of Kilworth, Leicestershire. He adds it to his growing pile of local journals, birdwatchers' lists and gardening diaries, "We're uncovering about one major new record each month,” he says, “I still get surprised." Around two centuries before Coates, Robert Marsham, a landowner from Norfolk in the east of England, began recording the life cycles of plants and animals on his estate when the first wood anemones flowered, the dates on which the oaks burst into leaf and the rooks began nesting. Successive Marshams continued compiling these notes for 211 years.

B 

Today, such records are being put to uses that their authors could not possibly have   expected. These data sets, and others like them, ire proving invaluable to ecologists interested in the timing of biological events, or phenology. By combining the records with climate data, researchers can reveal how, for example, changes in temperature affect the arrived of spring, allowing ecologists to make improved predictions about the impact of climate change. A small band of researchers is combing through hundreds of years of records taken by thousands of amateur naturalists. And more systematic projects have also started up, producing on overwhelming response. "The amount of interest is almost frightening," says Sparks, a climate researcher at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Monks Wood, Cambridgeshire.

C 

Sparks became aware of the army of "closet phenologists", as he describes them, when a retiring colleague gave him the Marsham records. He now spends much of his time following leads from one historical data set to another. As news of his quest spreads, people tip him off to other historical records, and more amateur phenologists come out of their closets. The British devotion to recording and collecting makes his job easier - one man from: Kent sent him 30 years' worth of kitchen calendar, on which he had noted the date that his neighbour's magnolia tree flowered.

D    

Other researchers have unearthed data from equally odd sources. Rafe Sargarin   recently studied records of a betting contest in which participants attempt to guess the exact time at which a specially erected wooden tripod will fall through the surface of a thawing river. The competition has taken place annually on the Tenana River in Alaska since 1917, and analysis of the results showed that the thaw now arrives five days earlier than it did when the contest began.

E    

Overall, Such records have helped to show that, compared with 20 years ago, a raft of   natural events now occur earlier across much of the northern hemisphere, from the opening of leaves to the return of birds from migration and the emergence of butterflies from hibernation . The data can also hint at how nature will change in the future. Together with models of climate change, amateurs' records could help guide conservation. Terry Root, an ecologist at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, has collected birdwatchers' counts of wildfowl taken between 1955 and 19% on seasonal ponds in the American. Midwest and combined them with climate data and models of future warming. Her analysis shows that the increased droughts that the models predict could halve the breeding populations at the ponds. "The number of waterfowl in North America will most probably drop significantly with global warming," she says.

F    

But not all professionals are happy to use amateur data. "A lot of scientists won't touch them, they say they're too full of problems," says Root. Because different observers can have different ideas of what constitutes, for example, an open snowdrop. The biggest concern with ad hoc observations is how carefully and systematically they were taken," says Mark Schwartz of the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, who studies the interactions between plants and climate. "We need to know pretty precisely what a person's been observing - if they just say 'I noted when the leaves came out', it might not be that useful." Measuring the onset of autumn can be particularly problematic because deciding when leaves change color is a more subjective process than noting when they appear.

G 

Overall, most phenologists are positive about the contribution that amateurs can make.   "They get at the raw power of science: careful observation of the natural world," says Sagarin. But the professionals also acknowledge the need for careful quality control. Root, for example, tries to gauge the quality of an amateur archive by interviewing its collector. "You always have to worry things as trivial as vacations can affect measurement. I disregard a lot of records because they're not rigorous enough," she   says. Others suggest that the right statistics can iron out some of the problems with amateur data. Together with colleagues at Wageningen University in the Netherlands, environmental scientist Arnold van Vliet is developing statistical techniques to account for the uncertainty in amateur phenological data. With the enthusiasm of amateur phenologists evident from past records, professional researchers are now trying to create standardized recording schemes for future efforts. They hope that well-designed studies will generate a volume of observations: large enough to drown out the idiosyncrasies of individual recorders. The data are cheap to collect, and can provide breadth in space, time and range of species. "It's very difficult to collect data on a large geographical scale without enlisting an army of observers," says Root.

H    

Phenology also helps to drive home messages about climate change. "Because the   public understand these records, they accept them," says Sparks. It can also illustrate potentially unpleasant consequences, he adds, such as the finding that more rat infestations are reported to local councils in warmer years. And getting people involved is great for public relations. "People are thrilled to think that the data they've been collecting as a hobby can be used for something scientific -it empowers them," says Root.

Passage 3

Optimistic Research（心理類）

新題

文章大意：人們更傾向於想象美好的未來，樂觀的情況更多於悲觀的情況，文中講到了一個實驗。

答案回憶：

參考答案：

27-31) 配對題

27. H

28. F

29. A

30. C

31. E

32-36) 選擇題

32. A

33. C

34. A

35. A

36. C

37-40) 判斷題

37. NOT GIVEN

38. NO 

39. NO

40. YES

(答案僅供參考)