今天小编为大家带来了雅思阅读题目做题技巧 和一篇模拟题。大家先熟悉一下雅思阅读做题套路和技巧，然后再去练习下方的模拟题。随后小编还附上了答案以及解析。在接下来几天，小编也会陆续更新雅思阅读模拟题，大家可以打印下来做练习。
首先，在雅思阅读中，我们常见的主题句一般都会出现在一段话的开头。通常，雅思A类阅读考试中的文章都是属于学术类的，按照西方传统的学术文章书写习惯，都喜欢把自己的观点放在段落的第一句话，然后接下来解释和说明。因此，常常第一句话就是这段内容的主旨，也就是我们常见的主题句，可以看到下面的例子。
As a child grows up, he learns how to behave in ways that is appropriate to the society into which he is born. That is to say, he acquires the patterns of behavior that are accepted as normal in his society. This process of social learning is generally referred to as socialization. By socialization, then, we mean the process whereby individuals learn the rules, values and practices of the society in which they live.
从上面例子我们可以发现，很明显主题句就在第一段，判断的理由就是“That is to say”.意思就是对上一句话的解释，然后接下来的几句话很明显看得出来是递进的解释关系。所以当考生面对这种段落，可以优先看完第一段。
利用定义式线索进行猜测
定义其实就是对重要的概念、难懂的术语或词汇等所作的解释，因为这些解释所提供的信息具有很明确的针对性，用他们猜词义是比较容易的。
例如：
Kinetic energy is the energy of moving particles.
打比方Kinetic enegry是生词，而更具定义，表语是说明主语性质内容的，所以我们可以得出kinetic energy是‘运动粒子的能量’。
例如：
Typhoons are cyclones，storms with strong winds rotating around a low-pressure center.
打比方cyclones是生词，我们就要根据后面的解释‘绕低气压中心形成的暴风雨’来进行词义的推断，由此我们可以得出cyclones的意思是‘绕低气压中心形成的暴风雨’。
而在这种解释中，定义句的谓语动词多为：be, mean, deal with, be considered, to be, refer to等。
Lost for words
Many minority languages are on the danger list
In the Native American Navajo nation, which sprawls across four states in the American south-west, the native language is dying. Most of its speakers are middle-aged or elderly. Although many students take classes in Navajo, the schools are run in English. Street signs, supermarket goods and even their own newspaper are all in English. Not surprisingly, linguists doubt that any native speakers of Navajo will remain in a hundred years’ time.
Navajo is far from alone. Half the world’s 6,800 languages are likely to vanish within two generations — that’s one language lost every ten days. Never before has the planet’s linguistic diversity shrunk at such a pace. ‘At the moment, we are heading for about three or four languages dominating the world,’ says Mark Pagel, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Reading. ‘It’s a mass extinction, and whether we will ever rebound from the loss is difficult to know.’
Isolation breeds linguistic diversity: as a result, the world is peppered with languages spoken by only a few people. Only 250 languages have more than a million speakers, and at least 3,000 have fewer than 2,500. It is not necessarily these small languages that are about to disappear. Navajo is considered endangered despite having 150,000 speakers. What makes a language endangered is not just the number of speakers, but how old they are. If it is spoken by children it is relatively safe. The critically endangered languages are those that are only spoken by the elderly, according to Michael Krauss, director of the Alassk Native Language Center, in Fairbanks.
Why do people reject the language of their parents? It begins with a crisis of confidence, when a small community finds itself alongside a larger, wealthier society, says Nicholas Ostler, of Britain’s Foundation for Endangered Languages, in Bath. ‘People lose faith in their culture,’ he says. ‘When the next generation reaches their teens, they might not want to be induced into the old traditions.’
The change is not always voluntary. Quite often, governments try to kill off a minority language by banning its use in public or discouraging its use in schools, all to promote national unity. The former US policy of running Indian reservation schools in English, for example, effectively put languages such as Navajo on the danger list. But Salikoko Mufwene, who chairs the Linguistics department at the University of Chicago, argues that the deadliest weapon is not government policy but economic globalisation. ‘Native Americans have not lost pride in their language, but they have had to adapt to socio-economic pressures,’ he says. ‘They cannot refuse to speak English if most commercial activity is in English.’ But are languages worth saving? At the very least, there is a loss of data for the study of languages and their evolution, which relies on comparisons between languages, both living and dead. When an unwritten and unrecorded language disappears, it is lost to science.
Language is also intimately bound up with culture, so it may be difficult to preserve one without the other. ‘If a person shifts from Navajo to English, they lose something,’ Mufwene says. ‘Moreover, the loss of diversity may also deprive us of different ways of looking at the world,’ says Pagel. There is mounting evidence that learning a language produces physiological changes in the brain. ‘Your brain and mine are different from the brain of someone who speaks French, for instance,’ Pagel says, and this could affect our thoughts and perceptions. ‘The patterns and connections we make among various concepts may be structured by the linguistic habits of our community.’
So despite linguists’ best efforts, many languages will disappear over the next century. But a growing interest in cultural identity may prevent the direst predictions from coming true. ‘The key to fostering diversity is for people to learn their ancestral tongue, as well as the dominant language,’ says Doug Whalen, founder and president of the Endangered Language Fund in New Haven, Connecticut. ‘Most of these languages will not survive without a large degree of bilingualism,’ he says. In New Zealand, classes for children have slowed the erosion of Maori and rekindled interest in the language. A similar approach in Hawaii has produced about 8,000 new speakers of Polynesian languages in the past few years. In California, ‘apprentice’ programmes have provided life support to several indigenous languages. Volunteer ‘apprentices’ pair up with one of the last living speakers of a Native American tongue to learn a traditional skill such as basket weaving, with instruction exclusively in the endangered language. After about 300 hours of training they are generally sufficiently fluent to transmit the language to the next generation. But Mufwene says that preventing a language dying out is not the same as giving it new life by using it every day. ‘Preserving a language is more like preserving fruits in a jar,’ he says.
However, preservation can bring a language back from the dead. There are examples of languages that have survived in written form and then been revived by later generations. But a written form is essential for this, so the mere possibility of revival has led many speakers of endangered languages to develop systems of writing where none existed before.
Questions 1-4
Complete the summary below.
Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the passage for each answer.
Write your answers in boxes 1-4 on your answer sheet.
There are currently approximately 6,800 languages in the world. This great variety of languages came about largely as a result of geographical 1…… . But in today’s world, factors such as government initiatives and 2…… are contributing to a huge decrease in the number of languages. One factor which may help to ensure that some endangered languages do not die out completely is people’s increasing appreciation of their 3…… . This has been encouraged through programmes of language classes for children and through ‘apprentice’ schemes, in which the endangered language is used as the medium of instruction to teach people a 4…… . Some speakers of endangered languages have even produced writing systems in order to help secure the survival of their mother tongue.’
Questions 5-9
Look at the following statements (Questions 5-9) and the list of people in the box below. Match each statement with the correct person A-E.
Write the appropriate letter A-E in boxes 5-9 on your answer sheet.
NB You may use any letter more than once.
5 Endangered languages cannot be saved unless people learn to speak more than one language.
6 Saving languages from extinction is not in itself a satisfactory goal.
7 The way we think may be determined by our language.
8 Young people often reject the established way of life in their community.
9 A change of language may mean a loss of traditional culture.
A Michael Krauss
B Salikoko Mufwene
C Nicholas Ostler
D Mark Pagel
E Doug Whalen
Questions 10-13
Do the following statements agree with the views of the writer in Reading Passage 1?
In boxes 10-13 on your answer sheet write
YES if the statement agrees with the views of the writer
NO if the statement contradicts the views of the writer
NOT GIVEN if it is impossible to say what the writer thinks about this
10 The Navajo Language will die out because it currently has too few speakers.
11 A large number of native speakers fail to guarantee the survival of a language.
12 National governments could do more to protect endangered languages.
13 The loss of linguistic diversity is inevitable.
Question 1
答案：isolation
关键词：6800/variety of language/geographical
定位原文：第3段第1句“Isolation breeds linguistic diversity: as a result, the world is peppered with languages spoken by only a few people.”
解题思路：根据这句话可知，语言多样性是由于地理上的isolation。
Question 2
答案：economic globalization/globalization/socio-economic pressures
关键词：government/huge decrease
定位原文：第5段第4句“…the deadliest weapon is not government policy but economic pressures...”
解题思路：本题目要看清楚问的是语言消失的原因，and表示并列，因此空中应该填与government initiatives对等的原因，而文中第五段前半部分提到政府政策对语言的影响，但是科学家们也指出，真正致命的原因是社会经济压力。
Question 3
答案：cultural identity
关键词：Increasing appr?eciation/language classes
定位原文：第7段第2句话“But a growing interest in cultural identity may prevent the direst predictions from coming true.”
解题思路：“increasing appreciation”和文中的“growing interest”是同义替换，故正确答案是cultural identity。”
Question 4
答案：traditional skill
关键词：‘apprentice’/teach/a
定位原文：第7段倒数第4句“Volunteer 'apprentices' pair up with one of the last living speakers of a Native American tongue to learn a traditional skill such as basket weaving, with instruction exclusively in the endangered language.”
解题思路：“apprentice”做为定位词，题干这句话的意思是在学徒计划中，濒危语言被用来作为载体来教授人们一种……，文中的“learn”与“teach”在意思上有关联，而不定冠词“a”之后要填一个专有名词。
Question 5
答案：E
关键词：more than one...
定位原文：第7段第4句“Most of these languages will not survive without a large bilingualism…”
解题思路：题干这句话正好跟文中这句话表达的是相同的意思，而文中有这个观点的正是E选项。
Question 6
答案：B
关键词：in itself
定位原文：“But Mufwene says that preventing a language dying out is not the same as giving it new life by using it every day。”
解题思路：通过这句话可以推测，保护语言本身并不是目标，如何让语言活起来才是真正目的。故正确答案为B。
Question 7
答案：D
关键词：think/determine
定位原文：第6段倒数第2句“‘Your brain and mine are different from the brain of someone who speaks French, for instance,’ Pagel says, and this could affect our thoughts and perceptions. ‘The patterns and connections we make among various concepts may be structured by the linguistic habits of our community.’”
解题思路：这句话话当中提到了说英语的人的大脑与说法语的人大脑的不同，随后提出语言会影响我们的想法和观点。
Question 8
答案：C
关键词：reject/established/way of life
定位原文：第4段最后一句“People lose faith in their culture, When the next generation reaches their teens, they might not want to be induced into the old traditions.”
解题思路：题干句子意思是“年轻人经常会拒绝接受社会约定俗成的生活方式”，正好与文中这句话“语言的转化意味着传统文化的消失”表达的意思一致。
Question 9
答案：B
关键词：loss
定位原文：第6段第2句“If a person shifts from Navajo to English, they lose something…”
解题思路：文中的shift等同于题目当中的change，而传统文化的存在正意味着人们可以采用不同的观点来看待这个世界。
Question 10
答案：NO
关键词：Navajo
定位原文：第3段第4句话“Navajo is considered endangered despite having 150,000 speakers. What makes a language endangered is not just the number of speakers, but how old they are.”
解题思路：这句话说有15万人在使用那瓦霍语，证明使用者并不是很少，在接下来的一句话当中，作者又表明使语言濒临灭绝的真正原因并不是说的人少，而是说的人太老。
Question 11
答案：YES
关键词：a large number of
定位原文：第3段第4句话“Navajo is considered endangered despite having 150,000 speakers.”
解题思路：根据文中给出的证据，即有15万人说那瓦霍语，但是这门语言仍然濒临灭绝，作者推出了题中的结论，这个结论是正确的。
Question 12
答案：NOT GIVEN
关键词：government
定位原文：第5段
解题思路：文中第五段提到了政府，主要是指出政府的政策也是导致语言濒危的原因，但是此后就并未对政府的作用再多做叙述，而是转而论述社会经济压力的重要性。本题是典型的节外生枝型。
Question 13
答案：YES
关键词：linguistic diversity
定位原文：第7段第1句“So despite linguists' best efforts, many languages will disappear over the next century.”
解题思路：这句话表明尽管语言学家已经竭尽全力，但是许多语言到了下个世纪还是会消失。这句话就表明语言多样性的消失是不可避免的。
定位原文：第3段第1句“Isolation breeds linguistic diversity: as a result, the world is peppered with languages spoken by only a few people.”
今天的文章很长，主要目的还是希望能够真正帮助到各位考生。大家加油备考，高分不是问题！
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