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1、雅思阅读十大领域之教育篇及答案解析(总分：99.97，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Part English-Chine(总题数：15，分数：15.00)1.eccentric citizen（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_2.hot-housed（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_3.egalitarian sentiment（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_4.ex-communist states（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_5.social solidarity（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_6.tablet computers（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_7.for the sake of

2、.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_8.for prime time（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_9.electronic version（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_10.widespread adoption（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_11.alcohol consumption（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_12.emotionally supportive（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_13.break the rules（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_14.related-harm（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_15.5 heavier drinkers（分数：1.00）填空项

3、 1:_二、Part essay questio(总题数：11，分数：22.00)16.According to the first two paragraphs and the last paragraph, what happened to the three daughters of Laszlo Polgar?（分数：2.00）_17.According to the passage, what is talent searches used in America?（分数：2.00）_18.According to the passage, in which countries is

4、extra help quite popular?（分数：2.00）_19.Read Paragraph A and try to find the meaning of the consumerisation of IT.（分数：2.00）_20.According to Paragraph B, what is the beauty of MBA courses?（分数：2.00）_21.According to Paragraph C and D, does the experiment of Darden School of Business succeed?（分数：2.00）_22.

5、Read the last paragraph and try to find other applications of technology.（分数：2.00）_23.According to Paragraph A, why is parent involvement so important to teens alcohol consumption?（分数：2.00）_24.According to Paragraph B, what is the meaning of helicopter parents?（分数：2.00）_25.Read Paragraph D and try t

6、o find the details of Woods research.（分数：2.00）_26.According to the last paragraph, do you think Woods research worked?（分数：2.00）_三、Part Actual Test(总题数：3，分数：63.00)You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on Reading Passage 1 below.Bright SparksNot everyone is a genius, but

7、 dont say so in front of the childrenBy the time Laszlo Polgars first baby was born in 1969 he already had firm views on child- rearing. An eccentric citizen of communist Hungary, he had written a book called Bring up Genius! and one of his favourite sayings was Geniuses are made, not born. An exper

8、t on the theory of chess, he proceeded to teach little Zsuzsa at home, spending up to ten hours a day on the game. Two more daughters were similarly hot-housed. All three obliged their father by becoming world-class players. The youngest, Judit, is currently ranked 13th in the world, and is by far t

9、he best female chess player of all time.Would the experiment have succeeded with a different trio of children? If any child can be turned into a star, then a lot of time and money are being wasted worldwide on trying to pick winners.America has long held talent searches, using test results and teach

10、er recommendations to select children for advanced school courses, summer schools and other extra tuition. This provision is set to grow. In his state-of-the-union address in 2006, President George Bush announced the American Competitiveness Initiative, which, among much else, would train 70,000 hig

11、h-school teachers to lead advanced courses for selected pupils in mathematics and science. Just as the superpowers space race made Congress put money into science education, the thought of China and India turning out hundreds of thousands of engineers and scientists is scaring America into prodding

12、its brightest to do their best.The philosophy behind this talent search is that ability is innate; that it can be diagnosed with considerable accuracy; and that it is worth cultivating.In America, bright children are ranked as moderately, highly, exceptionally and profoundly gifted. The only chance

13、to influence innate ability is thought to be in the womb or the first couple of years of life. Hence the fad for teaching aids such as videos and flashcards for newborns, and whale sounds on tape which a pregnant mother can strap to her belly.In Britain, there is a broadly similar belief in the exis

14、tence of innate talent, but also an egalitarian sentiment which makes people queasy about the idea of investing resources in grooming intelligence.Teachers are often opposed to separate provision for the best-performing children, saying any extra help should go to stragglers. In 2002, in a bid to he

15、lp the able while leaving intact the ban on most selection by ability in state schools, the government set up the National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth. This outfit runs summer schools and master classes for children nominated by their schools. To date, though, only seven in ten secondary s

16、chools have nominated even a single child. Last year all schools were told they must supply the names of their top 10%.Picking winners is also the order of the day in ex-communist states, a hangover from the times when talented individuals were plucked from their homes and ruthlessly trained for the

17、 glory of the nation. But in many other countries, opposition to the idea of singling out talent and grooming it runs deep. In Scandinavia, a belief in virtues like modesty and social solidarity makes people flinch from the idea of treating brainy children differently. And in Japan there is a widesp

18、read belief that all children are born with the same innate abilitiesand should therefore be treated alike. All are taught together, covering the same syllabus at the same rate until they finish compulsory schooling. Those who learn quickest are expected then to teach their classmates.In China, extr

19、a teaching is provided, but to a self-selected bunch. Childrens palaces in big cities offer a huge range of after-school classes. Anyone can sign up; all that is asked is excellent attendance.Statistics give little clue as to which system is best. The performance of the most able is heavily affected

20、 by factors other than state provision. Most state education in Britain is nominally non-selective, but middle-class parents try to live near the best schools. Ambitious Japanese parents have made private, out-of-school tuition a thriving business. And Scandinavias egalitarianism might work less wel

21、l in places with more diverse populations and less competent teachers. For what its worth, the data suggest that some countrieslike Japan and Finlandcan eschew selection and still thrive. But that does not mean that any country can ditch selection and do as well.Mr. Polgar thought any child could be

22、 a prodigy given the right teaching, an early start and enough practice. At one point he planned to prove it by adopting three baby boys from a poor country and trying his methods on them. (His wife vetoed the scheme.) Some say the key to success is simply hard graft. Judit, the youngest of the Polg

23、ar sisters, was the most driven, and the most successful; Zsofia, the middle one, was regarded as the most talented, but she was the only one who did not achieve the status of grand master. Everything came easiest to her, said her older sister. But she was lazy.Economist（分数：21.97）(1).Look at the fol

24、lowing descriptions and the list of countries below.Match each description with the correct country, A-E.Write the correct letter, A-E, in boxes on your answer sheet.NB You may use any letter more than once.List of CountriesA AmericaB JapanC ChinaD BritainE ScandinaviaAttending extra teaching is ope

25、n to anyone.（分数：1.69）填空项 1:_(2).Both views of innate and equity co-exist.（分数：1.69）填空项 1:_(3).Talented children will be selected to learn advanced courses.（分数：1.69）填空项 1:_(4).Children with innate ability perform at least moderately well.（分数：1.69）填空项 1:_(5).Social characteristics hinder the investment

26、 in talented children.（分数：1.69）填空项 1:_(6).Parents choose to live in places with better schools.（分数：1.69）填空项 1:_(7).The variety of population leads to the inequality in education.（分数：1.69）填空项 1:_(8).Craze of audio and video teaching for pregnant women.（分数：1.69）填空项 1:_(9).All children share the same l

27、evel of innate ability.（分数：1.69）填空项 1:_(10).Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage 1? In boxes 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 informatio

28、n on this One of the three children became the best female chess player in the world.（分数：1.69）填空项 1:_(11).Every child can turn into a famous person with sufficient time and funding.（分数：1.69）填空项 1:_(12).Teaching in the right way is more important than teaching earlier.（分数：1.69）填空项 1:_(13).Hard-workin

29、g plays a vital role in being successful.（分数：1.69）填空项 1:_New technology applied in MBA teachingA In the world of business they call it the consumerisation of IT: employees who are used to powerful smart phones and tablet computers in their personal lives are now demanding similar tools in their prof

30、essional ones. Now business schools are also coming to terms with students who are increasingly tech savvy. Some even see the way they integrate technology with pedagogy as an opportunity to differentiate themselves from the B-school pack.B The beauty of MBA courses is that students can try out new

31、technologies without fear of a serious backlash if the trials dont pay off. The threat level is just a grade, not a career, explains Michael Koenig, the director of MBA operations at the University of Virginias Darden Graduate School of Business, which is among the vanguard of schools incorporating

32、new technologies in their programmes.C Yet there are still concerns about whether new technology in the classroom will enhance the MBA experience or diminish it. Some professors fret that embracing gadgets for the sake of appearing wired will detract from the quality of classroom discussions. That h

33、as not deterred schools from experimenting. Innovations designed to help students manage information more efficiently, interact with their peers wherever they are and imbibe important business lessons via virtual simulations are all being tested.D The pioneers are discovering that some technologies

34、are not yet ready for prime time. Consider the experience of Darden. In a recent experiment the school gave a random sample of MBA students Kindle DX e-readers, as well as standard printed handouts and textbooks for their first-year courses. It then encouraged them to use the electronic versions ins

35、tead of the paper ones.E The students did just thatand many concluded that the Kindles limitations were too great to justify its widespread adoption on the programme. Switching between text, graphs and charts, they complained, took far longer than on paper-based alternatives. This made it hard for t

36、hem to keep up with fast-paced class discussions. Nevertheless, some schools are toying with the idea of testing the Apple iPad to see if that has greater success.F As well as trying out gizmos designed to help students handle large volumes of content, schools are also using technology that helps me

37、mbers of study teams to keep in touch with one another. Darden, for instance, has equipped some classrooms with widescreen TVs and software that allow students who are off campus to share data and opinions with those who are on it. Our job is to stretch skills as well as minds, says Mr. Koenig, who

38、points out that many executives now need to be able to influence virtual teams they rarely meet face-to- face.G Duke Universitys Fuqua School of Business has taken this a step further, installing a Cisco Telepresence system in one of its lecture theatres. Giant plasma screens and cameras display lif

39、e-size video images of people in remote locations to an entire class. The school reckons the new system allows professors seamlessly to include overseas participants in class discussions, although further refinement is needed before it can accommodate large numbers of folk joining all at once.H Scho

40、ols are also using technology to bring academic theory to life in other ways. Some institutions use online trading rooms to give students a taste of how real financial markets work. Other web-based simulations that enhance the classroom experience are becoming popular. At Stanford, for instance, Jam

41、es Lattin, a marketing professor, has worked with the schools IT team to create a web-based programme that lets students work in, and run, a sales team touting a disruptive new product. Using the simulation to teach them about the challenges of sales forecasting has produced far better results than

42、simply lecturing, he says.Economist（分数：13.00）(1).Reading Passage 2 has eight paragraphs, A-H. Which paragraph contains the following information? Write the correct letter, A-H, in boxes on your answer sheet. the reason why MBA schools have the power to apply any new technology to the course（分数：1.00）

43、填空项 1:_(2).the popularity of technology which can help MBA students experience the real world（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(3).an example of the failure of technology application in a MBA course（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(4).a term that describes the change of people use IT appliances（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(5).the new methods that

44、 can help the students manage information effectively（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(6).Classify the following features as characterising A Darden Graduate School of Business B Fuqua School of Business C Stanford Write the correct letter, A, B or C in boxes on your answer sheet. The technology used make the students left behind due to its time-consuming functions.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(7).A system is equipped that enables students to discuss with foreigners in classes.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_