2022年1月15日雅思机经【含外教范文】

2022年1月15日 雅思听力机经考题回忆

——来自朴新国际教育考试院 & 环球教育 北京学校 杜宇老师

Part

One

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场景

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 17147

Nursing Worker Hiring

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内容概述：  家政保姆咨询

答案回忆：

1-10)  填空

Basic information

1 need to help Toms mother with her dressing

2 Also do medication

3 Drive to clinic

4 What is very important companionship

5 Postcode: FX562RN

Benefits:

6 Have paid holidays

7 Also include free meals

8 Interview time: Friday 4th March

9 Bring original certificate

10 Contact Ms.Howell details or reference

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Part

Two

Version

场景

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60223

学生旅游

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内容回忆： 学生旅游的介绍

答案回忆:

11-14 填空

11 everyone brings his student card to get discount

12 gathering time: meet at 9:50 am and takes bus of 10:10 am

13 total trip on the road of 75 minutes

14 pick up from the station to hotel by taxi

15-16 多选

B special diet breakfast not making coffee

D non-smoking room

17-20 单选

17 Saturday afternoon activity the student's will do

A learning ancients British life

18 Saturday evening activity

C listen to a musical performance

19 Sunday mornings' activity

C go on an old rain

20 Sunday afternoon activity

B attend a local event

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Part

Three

Version

场景

题型

新题

关于在线教学

选择题

内容回忆: 讨论对话

答案回忆:

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Part

Four

Version

场景

题型

新题

关于昆虫的研究

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内容回忆:  学术报告

答案回忆:

31 passive

32 beaches

33 roots

34 light

35 signature

36 sugar

37 potatoes

38 chemicals

39 circle

40 equipment

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2022年 1月15 日雅思阅读机经考题回忆

——来自朴新国际教育考试院 & 环球教育 北京学校 王森老师

Passage

One

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   新

   说明文

英国棉花服装制造的发展

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文章大意： 英国棉花服装制造的发展

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THE STORY OF SILK

The history of the world's most luxurious fabric,

from ancient China to the present day

　　Silk is a fine, smooth material produced from the cocoons - soft protective shells - that are made by mulberry silkworms (insect larvae). Legend has it that it was Lei Tzu, wife of the Yellow Emperor, ruler of China in about 3000 BC, who discovered silkworms. One account of the story goes that as she was taking a walk in her husband's gardens, she discovered that silkworms were responsible for the destruction of several mulberry trees. She collected a number of cocoons and sat down to have a rest. It just so happened that while she was sipping some tea, one of the cocoons that she had collected landed in the hot tea and started to unravel into a fine thread. Lei Tzu found that she could wind this thread around her fingers. Subsequently, she persuaded her husband to allow her to rear silkworms on a grove of mulberry trees. She also devised a special reel to draw the fibres from the cocoon into a single thread so that they would be strong enough to be woven into fabric. While it is unknown just how much of this is true, it is certainly known that silk cultivation has existed in China for several millennia. 

　　Originally, silkworm farming was solely restricted to women, and it was they who were responsible for the growing, harvesting and weaving. Silk quickly grew into a symbol of status, and originally, only royalty were entitled to have clothes made of silk. The rules were gradually relaxed over the years until finally during the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911 AD), even peasants, the lowest caste, were also entitled to wear silk. Sometime during the Han Dynasty (206 BC-220 AD), silk was so prized that it was also used as a unit of currency. Government officials were paid their salary in silk, and farmers paid their taxes in grain and silk. Silk was also used as diplomatic gifts by the emperor. Fishing lines, bowstrings, musical instruments and paper were all made using silk. The earliest indication of silk paper being used was discovered in the tomb of a noble who is estimated to have died around 168 AD.

　　Demand for this exotic fabric eventually created the lucrative trade route now known as the Silk Road, taking silk westward and bringing gold, silver and wool to the East. It was named the Silk Road after its most precious commodity, which was considered to be worth more than gold. The Silk Road stretched over 6,000 kilometres from Eastern China to the Mediterranean Sea, following the Great Wall of China, climbing the Pamir mountain range, crossing modern-day Afghanistan and going on to the Middle East, with a major trading market in Damascus. From there, the merchandise was shipped across the Mediterranean Sea. Few merchants travelled the entire route; goods were handled mostly by a series of middlemen.

　　With the mulberry silkworm being native to China, the country was the world's sole producer of silk for many hundreds of years. The secret of silk-making eventually reached the rest of the world via the Byzantine Empire, which ruled over the Mediterranean region of southern Europe, North Africa and the Middle East during the period 330-1453 AD. According to another legend, monks working for the Byzantine emperor Justinian smuggled silkworm eggs to Constantinople (Istanbul in modern-day Turkey) in 550 AD, concealed inside hollow bamboo walking canes. The Byzantines were as secretive as the Chinese, however, and for many centuries the weaving and trading of silk fabric was a strict imperial monopoly. Then in the seventh century, the Arabs conquered Persia, capturing their magnificent silks in the process. Silk production thus spread through Africa, Sicily and Spain as the Arabs swept through these lands. Andalusia in southern Spain was Europe's main silk- producing centre in the tenth century. By the thirteenth century, however, Italy had become Europe's leader in silk production and export. Venetian merchants traded extensively in silk and encouraged silk growers to settle in Italy. Even now, silk processed in the province of Como in northern Italy enjoys an esteemed reputation.

　　The nineteenth century and industrialisation saw the downfall of the European silk industry. Cheaper Japanese silk, trade in which was greatly facilitated by the opening of the Suez Canal, was one of the many factors driving the trend. Then in the twentieth century, new manmade fibres, such as nylon, started to be used in what had traditionally been silk products, such as stockings and parachutes. The two world wars, which interrupted the supply of raw material from Japan, also stifled the European silk industry. After the Second World War, Japan's silk production was restored, with improved production and quality of raw silk. Japan was to remain the world's biggest producer of raw silk, and practically the only major exporter of raw silk, until the 1970s. However, in more recent decades, China has gradually recaptured its position as the world's biggest producer and exporter of raw silk and silk yarn. Today, around 125,000 metric tons of silk are produced in the world, and almost two thirds of that production takes place in China. 

　　Questions 1-9

　　Complete the notes below.

　　Choose ONE WORD ONLY from the passage for each answer.

　　Write your answers in boxes 1-9 on your answer sheet.

THE STORY OF SILK

　　Early silk production in China

　　·   Around 3000 BC, according to legend:

　　-  silkworm cocoon fell into emperor's wife's 1 ________

　　-  emperor's wife invented a 2 ________ to pull out silk fibres

　　·   Only 3 ________ were allowed to produce silk

　　·   Only 4 ________ were allowed to wear silk

　　·   Silk used as a form of 5 ________

　　-   e.g. farmers' taxes consisted partly of silk

　　·   Silk used for many purposes

　　-  e.g. evidence found of 6 ________ made from silk around 168 AD

　　Silk reaches rest of world

　　·   Merchants use Silk Road to take silk westward and bring back 7 ________ and precious metals

　　·   550 AD: 8 ________ hide silkworm eggs in canes and take them to Constantinople

　　·   Silk production spreads across Middle East and Europe

　　·   20th century: 9 ________ and other manmade fibres cause decline in silk production 

　　Questions 10-13

　　Do the following statements agree with the information in Reading Passage 1?

　　In boxes 10-13 on your answer sheet, write

　　TRUE      if the statement agrees with the information

　　FALSE     if the statement contradicts the information

　　NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this

　　10  Gold was the most valuable material transported along the Silk Road.

　　11  Most tradesmen only went along certain sections of the Silk Road.

　　12  The Byzantines spread the practice of silk production across the West.

　　13  Silk yarn makes up the majority of silk currently exported from China. 

Passage

Two

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管理大脑

段落信息匹配+人名匹配+填空

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答案回忆：

14-18 段落信息匹配

14.F

15.C

16.B

17.待补充

18.A

19-22 人名匹配

19.A

20.C

21.A

22.D

23-26 填空

23.Ability

24.85

25.待补充

26.Memory

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参考文章： 

Music and the emotions

Neuroscientist Jonah Lehrer considers the emotional power of music

Why does music make us feel? On the one hand, music is a purely abstract art form, devoid of language or explicit ideas. And yet, even though music says little, it still manages to touch us deeply. When listening to our favourite songs, our body betrays all the symptoms of emotional arousal. The pupils in our eyes dilate, our pulse and blood pressure rise, the electrical conductance of our skin is lowered, and the cerebellum, a brain region associated with bodily movement, becomes strangely active. Blood is even re-directed to the muscles in our legs. In other words, sound stirs us at our biological roots.

A recent paper in Nature Neuroscience by a research team in Montreal, Canada, marks an important step in revealing the precise underpinnings of ‘the potent pleasurable stimulus’ that is music. Although the study involves plenty of fancy technology, including functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and ligand-based positron emission tomography (PET) scanning, the experiment itself was rather straightforward. After screening 217 individuals who responded to advertisements requesting people who experience ’chills’ to instrumental music, the scientists narrowed down the subject pool to ten. They then asked the subjects to bring in their playlist of favourite songs — virtually every genre was represented, from techno to tango — and played them the music while their brain activity was monitored. Because the scientists were combining methodologies (PET and fMRl), they were able to obtain an impressively exact and detailed portrait of music in the brain. The first thing they discovered is that music triggers the production of dopamine — a chemical with a key role in setting people’s moods — by the neurons (nerve cells) in both the dorsal and ventral regions of the brain. As these two regions have long been linked with the experience of pleasure, this finding isn’t particularly surprising.

What is rather more significant is the finding that the dopamine neurons in the caudate — a region of the brain involved in learning stimulus-response associations, and in anticipating food and other ‘reward’ stimuli — were at their most active around 15 seconds before the participants’ favourite moments in the music. The researchers call this the ‘anticipatory phase’ and argue that the purpose of this activity is to help us predict the arrival of our favourite part. The question, of course, is what all these dopamine neurons are up to. Why are they so active in the period preceding the acoustic climax? After all, we typically associate surges of dopamine with pleasure, with the processing of actual rewards. And yet, this cluster of cells is most active when the ‘chills’ have yet to arrive, when the melodic pattern is still unresolved.

One way to answer the question is to look at the music and not the neurons. While music can often seem (at least to the outsider) like a labyrinth of intricate patterns, it turns out that the most important part of every song or symphony is when the patterns break down, when the sound becomes unpredictable. If the music is too obvious, it is annoyingly boring, like an alarm clock. Numerous studies, after all, have demonstrated that dopamine neurons quickly adapt to predictable rewards. If we know what’s going to happen next, then we don’t get excited. This is why composers often introduce a key note in the beginning of a song, spend most of the rest of the piece in the studious avoidance of the pattern, and then finally repeat it only at the end. The longer we are denied the pattern we expect, the greater the emotional release when the pattern returns, safe and sound.

To demonstrate this psychological principle, the musicologist Leonard Meyer, in his classic book Emotion and Meaning in Music (1956), analysed the 5th movement of Beethoven’s String Quartet in C-sharp minor, Op. 131. Meyer wanted to show how music is defined by its flirtation with — but not submission to — our expectations of order. Meyer dissected 50 measures (bars) of the masterpiece, showing how Beethoven begins with the clear statement of a rhythmic and harmonic pattern and then, in an ingenious tonal dance, carefully holds off repeating it. What Beethoven does instead is suggest variations of the pattern. He wants to preserve an element of uncertainty in his music, making our brains beg for the one chord he refuses to give us. Beethoven saves that chord for the end.

According to Meyer, it is the suspenseful tension of music, arising out of our unfulfilled expectations, that is the source of the music’s feeling. While earlier theories of music focused on the way a sound can refer to the real world of images and experiences — its ’connotative’ meaning — Meyer argued that the emotions we find in music come from the unfolding events of the music itself. This ‘embodied meaning’ arises from the patterns the symphony invokes and then ignores. It is this uncertainty that triggers the surge of dopamine in the caudate, as we struggle to figure out what will happen next. We can predict some of the notes, but we can’t predict them all, and that is what keeps us listening, waiting expectantly for our reward, for the pattern to be completed.

Questions 27 - 31

Complete the summary below.

Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the passage for each answer. Write your answers in boxes 27—31 on your answer sheet.

The Montreal Study

Participants, who were recruited for the study through advertisements, had their brain activity monitored while listening to their favourite music. It was noted that the music stimulated the brain’s neurons to release a substance called 27. .............. in two of the parts of the brain which are associated with feeling 28.............

Researchers also observed that the neurons in the area of the brain called the 29 .................. were particularly active just before the participants’ favourite moments in the music — the period known as the 30............. . Activity in this part of the brain is associated with the expectation of ‘reward’ stimuli such as 31.............

Questions 32—36

Choose the correct letter, A, B, C or D.

Write the correct letter in boxes 32—36 on your answer sheet.

32     What point does the writer emphasise in the first paragraph?

A how dramatically our reactions to music can vary

B how intense our physical responses to music can be

C how little we know about the way that music affects us

D how much music can tell us about how our brains operate

33     What view of the Montreal study does the writer express in the second paragraph?

A Its aims were innovative.

B The approach was too simplistic.

C It produced some remarkably precise data.

D The technology used was unnecessarily complex.

34 What does the writer find interesting about the results of the Montreal study?

A the timing of participants’ neural responses to the music 

B the impact of the music on participants’ emotional state

C the section of participants’ brains which was activated by the music

D the type of music which had the strongest effect on participants’ brains 

35     Why does the writer refer to Meyer’s work on music and emotion?

A to propose an original theory about the subject

B to offer support for the findings of the Montreal study

C to recommend the need for further research into the subject

D to present a view which opposes that of the Montreal researchers

36     According to Leonard Meyer, what causes the listener’s emotional response to music?

A the way that the music evokes poignant memories in the listener

B the association of certain musical chords with certain feelings

C the listener’s sympathy with the composer’s intentions 

D the internal structure of the musical composition

Questions 37—40

Complete each sentence with the correct ending, A—F, below. 

Write be correct letter, A—F, in boxes 37—40 on your answer sheet.

37 The Montreal researchers discovered that

38 Many studies have demonstrated that

39 Meyer’s analysis of Beethoven’s music shows that

40 Earlier theories of music suggested that

A our response to music depends on our initial emotional state.

B neuron activity decreases if outcomes become predictable.

C emotive music can bring to mind actual pictures and events.

D experiences in our past can influence our emotional reaction to music.

E emotive music delays giving listeners what they expect to hear.

F neuron activity increases prior to key points in a musical piece.

Passage

Three

新旧情况

题材

题目

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新

说明文

Garden

判断+选词填空+单选

文章大意：

园艺

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作文题目

3个饼图，度假者在1988、1998和2008这三年对住宿的不同选择

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作文题目

Many people use social media every day to get in touch with other people and social news , do you think the advantages of this way outweigh the disadvantages？

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利弊讨论

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科技媒体类

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2021.11.6原题

参考范文

In the present-day information era, social media has become a societal need whereby individuals of all walks of life communicate and learn about the world through similar online platforms. Whether or not this phenomenon is beneficial or detrimental will be discussed.

There is no doubt that social media can allow users from all pockets of the globe to get together and share information instantaneously. Families, friends and even strangers can connect easily and rapidly through the usage of social media and they can share photos, videos as well as information with one another at any time of the day. News from various locations can be viewed and shared through social media, which allows people to catch up on current events fairly quickly. Social media is also a fantastic method of educating the public in terms of the latest stories and newsworthy articles as they can reach people’s smartphones as soon as they are published.

On the contrary, social media has led to a huge loss of productivity and efficiency for workers and students, particularly as millions of individuals have become addicted to such platforms. This addiction leads users to spend hours on social media apps and websites, leading to a decrease in health, particularly when it comes to eyesight. Youngsters are becoming myopic at an earlier age as well as at an alarming rate compared to the past, leading to a public health crisis the world over. Finally, social media has led to stunting the communication skills of youngsters, rendering them unable to carry on simple conversations with others.

All in all, social media can be seen as a blessing as well as a curse due to its various pros and cons. Whether or not the advantages outweigh the disadvantages depends on each individual user’s ability to control themselves and the subsequent health effects realised.

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范文由环球教育加拿大国籍外教 Khalid Hasmath 老师本人执笔创作，仅供学术交流。