1、IELTS(雅思)7 及答案解析(总分：9.94，做题时间：120 分钟)一、Listening Module(总题数：4，分数：4.00)(A) Malcolm sits by the window. (B) Malcolm lives in New York? (C) Elsa lives in Florida. (D) Elsa changed her seat because a man next to her was smoking. (E) Elsas boyfriend and she still live near Spaceport. (F) Malcolm still li
2、ves a few miles from Spaceport. (G) Malcolm sold the house and the furniture a few miles from Spaceport and moved to his friends in Florida. (H) Malcolm has move to New York. （分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.A.B.C.D.A.B.C.D.E.A.B.C.D.E.F.G.H.填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_Skill Way to solve the problem U
3、nderstand the lecturer (11) 1 Decide whats important Pay more attention to (12) 2 Remember the signals made by the lecturers (13) 3 (14) 4 Elect the words which (15) 5 Write only one point on each line Finding (16) 6to write the notes. Show the (17) 7 (18) 8 (19) 9 (20) 10 （分数：1.00）填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项
4、 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_The title of the talk is (11)_. He wants to deal with (12) _and (13)_first. In the future; (14) _can operate at almost two thousand miles per hour. Well have (15)_, or hovercraft in the (16) _and (17)_ class. （分数：1.00）_A.noisyB.poor efficiencyC.po
5、or controlD.All the items above._Only about (31) 1of people over 65 become senile. A much more common problem is in fact caused by: (32) 2. (33) 3. Nearly (34) 4of people over 65 has at least one serious illness. Maybe about 15% of older people suffer from (35) 5. When people become old, there are c
6、hanges in metabolism, lungs, the senses, (36) 6and (37) 7. （分数：1.00）填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_二、Reading Module(总题数：3，分数：3.00)Take me out to the ballgame It is a strange coincidence that many popular sports played today with a ball, big or small, were first
7、 played in the latter half of the 19th century. Only cricket set its rules earlier, in 1788. Basketball was invented in 1891. Other sports had antecedents: soccer, rugby and American football were all formalised in the 1860s and 1870s from what appears to be a common origin, while baseball was stand
8、ardised around that time, as was golf though many Scots claim earlier origins. Tennis as we know it today was devised by Major Walter Clopton Wingfield, a British army officer, for the entertainment of guests at his country estate in 1873. Tennis, though, is an exception in that the indoor form of t
9、he game was played with formal rules in England and France at least as far back as 1600. But even this is recent compared with ulama, a game once played all over Mesoamerica, from the American Southwest to Peru. The oldest ulama court, in the Mexican state of Chiapas, was built around 1500BC, while
10、latex balls used by the Olmecs, farther west, have been carbon-dated to 300 500 years earlier. This is not to say the rules of ulama have not changed over the years-ritual sacrifice of the losers is thought to have died out in the 1300s. But, says Manuel Aguilar, a professor at California State Univ
11、ersity, in Los Angeles, who studies the game, it is unique in having a continual recorded history stretching back almost 4 ,000 years. Dr. Aguilar and his colleague James Brady have been directing a group of students in Sinaloa, a state in western Mexico. They have started a comprehensive study of u
12、lama de cadera, one of three forms of ulama surviving in Sinaloa, which is perhaps the only place where the once-widespread game is still played. Dr Aguilar speculates that this is because Sinaloa was a frontier during the time of the Spanish colonisation of the Americas, when ulama was largely elim
13、inated by the intervention of Catholic missionaries who decried its pagan associations. Ulama is played on a long, narrow court, called a taste, which is 60 metres long and only four metres wide. The opposing sides, of five players each, take turns serving the four kilogram rubber ball and thereafte
14、r trying to move the ball up the field, hitting it only with the hip or upper thigh, which are protected by special garments. Points are scored if one team fails to return the others serve across the halfway point of the taste, or if the serving team succeeds in getting the ball past the opponents e
15、nd line. The first team to score eight points wins. However, as Dr Aguilar and his colleagues point out in a series of papers forthcoming in the May issue of Estudios Jaliscienses, a Mexican journal, the rules of ulama are still today in flux, and often not even understood by the participants. This
16、is why in a match each team brings a veedor, an elder who is meant to settle disputes over the rules. Dr. Aguilar, though, is less concerned with the details of the rules of the game, but with its social implications, both in Sinaloa today, and in Mesoamerica generally over the course of ulamas hist
17、ory. While Dr Brady is, by training, an anthropologist, and so directs the teams efforts to compile an ethnography of the present-day game, Dr Aguilar is an art historian. While this may seem an unorthodox pairing, it has allowed them to make some novel insights. For example, until their recent work
18、, it was believed in academia that ulama was only played by men. However, in their detailed questioning of current players, they found that women play the game today, albeit as an exception, because female players are often stigmatized as being too macho. One of their informants is 94 years old and
19、remembers female players from his youth, so the researchers are fairly certain that women have played throughout the 20th century. And Dr Aguilars analysis of clay figurines, he says, indicates that women played routinely in pre-Columbian times, indeed as far back as 1200BC. This leads Dr Aguilar to
20、 speculate that women stopped playing only because of Spanish intervention, and resumed 100-200 years ago. Another concern of Dr Aguilars is the balls used to play the game. He says synthetic rubber cannot be used, as there is a strong tradition of using natural rubber. Because natural rubber is now
21、 scarce in Mexico, and the process of making a ball takes about 30 hours, the supply of balls is constraining the spread of the game. Indeed, to understand the process better, Dr Brady tried to make several balls together with his students. The process involved smearing hot latex on his hands and ar
22、ms, allowing it to dry, and then peeling the strips off and wrapping them around the core of the ball until it reaches the requisite size and weight. The traditional process, says Dr Brady, is necessary to give the ball sufficient bounce. First-hand experience has caused Dr Brady to revise his under
23、standing of the significance of tributes paid in the 16th century to the Aztec empire, when ulama balls were used as a de facto currency. Dr Brady thinks that the growing of rubber in the Aztec empire was probably much more extensive than had previously been thought, as was the production of balls,
24、which may have served as the store of value for an entire economic system. Both Dr Brady and Dr Aguilar have tried to play ulama themselves, but Dr Aguilar says that, although some of his graduate students persevered for longer, the bruises he sustained from the heavy ball caused him quickly to aban
25、don playing the game. The same, it seems, cannot be said of the inhabitants of Sinaloa. （分数：0.96）(1).The oldest ulama court in the Mexican state of Chiapas was built around 1500BC.（分数：0.06）A.TrueB.FalseC.NOT GIVEN(2).Ulama has not changed over the years.（分数：0.06）A.TrueB.FalseC.NOT GIVEN(3).Ulama is
26、unique because it has a continual recorded history stretching back almost 4,000 years.（分数：0.06）A.TrueB.FalseC.NOT GIVEN(4).Dr Aguilar and James Brady have started a comprehensive study of ulama de cadera for ten years.（分数：0.06）A.TrueB.FalseC.NOT GIVEN(5).De cadera, one of three forms of ulama surviv
27、ing in Sinaloa, which is the only place where the once-widespread game is still played.（分数：0.06）A.TrueB.FalseC.NOT GIVEN(6).Ulama is played on a long, narrow court, which is 60 metres long and only four metres wide.（分数：0.06）A.TrueB.FalseC.NOT GIVEN(7).Dr Aguilar James and Brady found that women dont
28、 play the game today.（分数：0.06）A.TrueB.FalseC.NOT GIVEN填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_Modern Means: Continuity and Change in Art, 1880 to the Present Until August 1st 2004 New Yorks Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has loaned hundreds of artworks to the Mori Art Museum for
29、this comprehensive and rare exhibition. “Modern Means“, a survey of art from 1880 to the present, includes paintings, sculptures, photographs, architectural drawings and electronic media art. Monet, Picasso, Pollock and Lichtenstein are among the dozens of marquee names whose work is on display. The
30、 Mori Art museum opened last year on the 52nd and 53rd floors of Mori Tower, the centrepiece of the new Roppongi Hills development. The view alone is worth the trip. Ceramic Works by Yoshimichi Fujimoto Until September 23rd 2004 The Musee Tomo, an intimate new museum in central Tokyo, is showing wor
31、ks from the extensive Japanese ceramic collection of Tomo Kikuchi, its octogenarian founder. The exhibition includes over 100 unique, modern pieces by Yoshimichi Fujimoto, who died in 1992 at the age of 73. It was organised by Richard Molinaroli, a Washington, DC-based expert, who has worked with th
32、e legendary “Mme Kikuchi“ for 20 years. The entrance to the subterranean museum is starkly modern. Look out for the “phantom dinner set“, a rarely exhibited 80-piece selection from a 230-piece dinner-set, made by Mr Fujimoto in 1976 for the Showa emperor and empress. Other works include small-scale
33、pieces from the early 1970s decorated with birds and trees; items for a tea ceremony; and tiny ceramic plates of children in kimonos. Yes Yoko Ono Until June 27th 2004 At 71, Yoko Ono has finally come of age in her own country. The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) is curating Japans first big exhib
34、ition of works by Ms Ono, best known as the widow of John Lennon. Often criticised as more publicity hungry than inspired, her reputation as an artist is controversial. Judge for yourself at this show of 130 pieces, including videos and art objects from the 1960s, when she first gained prominence. A
35、mong the more inventive works is “Ceiling Painting“, which invites visitors to climb a ladder and peek through a magnifying glass at a life-affirming message. A number of works here feel dated, with politics that seem fairly simplistic. But this touring show, which began at the Japan Society in New
36、York in 2000, shines a spotlight on a contemporary figure whos been toiling in the arts for decades. MOCAs location, down in Koto ward, is discouraging for ordinary Japanese, so there may not be big crowds. Monet and Renoir: Two Great Impressionist Trends Until May 9th 2004 Japans love of Impression
37、ism makes Tokyo a regular stop for travelling blockbuster shows. Bunkamura, a slightly dated cultural complex from the early 1980s, is hosting an exhibition of nearly 90 works by ten leading Impressionists. This is probably the most anticipated Western art exhibition of the season, and water-lily po
38、sters duly pepper the subways. True to the title, two artists get most of the attention, with 14 works by Monet and 33 by Renoir, for whom the Japanese have a particular affection. There are also masterpieces by Sisley and Pisarro. The countrys soft-spot for the Impressionists may reciprocal, as the
39、 19th-century Parisian painters were notoriously inspired by Japanese art. Nihon Keizai, a financial newspaper, sponsored the show, and the paintings have been lent by museums from all over the world. Expect crowds at weekends. （分数：0.96）(1).What forms of artwork are included in the exhibition?（分数：0.
40、08）A.sculptures, paintingsB.architectural drawings, photographsC.electronic media artD.all the forms above(2).Whose works have been exhibited?（分数：0.08）A.Pollock, Brahms and LichtensteinB.Monet, Picasso and BachC.Picasso, Monet and PollockD.Monet, Brahms and LichtensteinA.Musee TomoB.MOCAC.BunkamuraA
41、.Musee TomoB.MOCAC.BunkamuraA.Musee TomoB.MOCAC.BunkamuraA.Musee TomoB.MOCAC.BunkamuraA.Musee TomoB.MOCAC.BunkamuraA.Musee TomoB.MOCAC.BunkamuraA.Musee TomoB.MOCAC.BunkamuraA.Musee TomoB.MOCAC.BunkamuraA.Musee TomoB.MOCAC.BunkamuraA.Musee TomoB.MOCAC.BunkamuraIn search of an election Beppe Severgnin
42、i, an Italian correspondent and a columnist, finds some people quite enjoying the campaign, and some quite unaware of it. When it opened in 1914, the Adelphi was one of the greatest hotels in the world. With solid marble walls, indoor swimming pool, full central heating in all rooms, it was Liverpoo
43、ls arrival and departure point for passengers on the great liners to America. People are busy, around here, tonight. There is the graduation ball for Hope University , a convention of church bell players and a Welsh football team that decided there was no point in waiting for the match in order to c
44、elebrate, so they sing and hug each other in the lobby. Not only are these people ignorant of Harold Wilsons sojourn in the hotel, but most seem oblivious to the fact that a general election is only days away. The last time I was in Liverpool, Derek Hattons Trotskyite militants were running the city council in the 1980s. Mr Hatton, for all his faults, inflamed Liverpudlians, who love a good argument. “Souses are like Neapolitans. Great sense of humour, laid-back attitude, maybe not the hardest-working people in the world,“ says Alberto Bertali, an Italian who runs a b
