2018年3月24日雅思阅读考试回忆及解析

一、考试概述：

今天的考试第一篇和第三篇都不算难，但是第二篇出现了考察段落大意归纳总结的LOH题，会对大家产生一定的干扰，从而影响做题时间。虽然第三题都是填空类型的题目，但是由于众多考生在第二题浪费太多时间，导致没有时间认真检查答题卡，甚至导致没有做完第三篇。建议烤鸭遇到第二篇难的文章时，严格控制做题时间，给第三篇留出更多的时间保证正确率。

二、具体题目分析

Passage 1：

题目：Mungo Man and Mungo Woman澳洲考古

题型：8人名匹配+5信息判断题

题号：新题

参考答案：

1-8) 人名匹配

1. B。Alan

2. E。Richard & Tim

3. C。Tim

4. D。Rain

5. B。Alan

6. F。Judith & Richard

7. A。Tim

8. A。Tim

9-13) 判断

9. TRUE.

10. NOT GIVEN.

11. FALSE.

12. TRUE.

13. TRUE.

(答案仅供参考)

参考文章：

The latest research suggests Australia’s Adam and Eve are not as old as we thought - and lived much richer lives than we suspected. Deborah Smith reports.

Fifty thousand years ago, a lush landscape greeted the first Australians making their way towards the south-east of the continent. Temperatures were cooler than now. Megafauna - giant prehistoric animals such as marsupial lions, goannas and the rhinoceros-sized diprotodon - were abundant. And the freshwater lakes of the Willandra district in western NSW were brimming with fish. But change was coming. By the time the people living at Lake Mungo ceremoniously buried two of their dead, 40,000 years ago, water levels had begun to drop.

A study of the sediments and graves at Lake Mungo, published this week in Nature, uncovers the muddy layers deposited as the lake began to dry up. Twenty thousand years ago Lake Mungo had become the dry dusty hole we know today, but 20,000 years before that it had been a refuge from the encroaching desert, the study shows. Families clustered around the lake left artefacts, 775 of which researchers used to determine that the number of people living there peaked between 43,000 and 44,000 years ago, with the first wanderers arriving between 46,000 and 50,000 years ago.

This treasure-trove of history was found by the University of Melbourne geologist Professor Jim Bowler in 1969. He was searching for ancient lakes and came across the charred remains of Mungo Lady, who had been cremated. In 1974, he found a second complete skeleton, Mungo Man, buried 300 metres away.

The comprehensive study of 25 different sediment layers at Mungo - a collaboration between four universities, the CSIRO, and NSW National Parks and Wildlife and led by Bowler - concludes that both graves are 40,000 years old.

This is much younger than the 62,000 years Mungo Man was attributed with in 1999 by a team led by Professor Alan Thorne, of the Australian National University. Because Thorne is the country’s leading opponent of the Out of Africa theory - that modern humans evolved in Africa about 100,000 years ago and then spread around the globe - the revision of Mungo Man’s age has refocused attention on academic disputes about mankind’s origins.