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雅思阅读文章题目 The Grimme Fairy Tale
重复年份 20150704 20140313
雅思阅读题材 文学
雅思阅读题型 判断6+单选4+选词雅思阅读填空题4
文章大意 阐述了格林童话的出版历史。格林兄弟写下这些童话的灵感来源，不同时期外界对于格林童话的反应以及格林童话的第一版和再版变化。
部分答案参考：
雅思阅读判断题
27. N the Grimme brother knew they would gain international fame, the lasting fame would shock the Grimmes
28. NG the Grimmes were inforced to do work of their own secret
29. Y the sales of Fairy Tale in England was higher than in German
30. NG
31. Y some parents still thought the Fiary Tale was not good for their children
32. N the fairy Tale author considered the man who made contribution to the story
of Cinderella as the original model
雅思阅读单选题
33. A the flowering of children literature level in 1800s
34. A illustration the change of Fairy Tale in order to match with the modern times
(refining & resoftening)
35. C
36. D another contributor of the Fiary Tale in Italy
雅思阅读填空题：
37. F the reason why some people think the Fairy Tale belongs to German
38. H some violent stories
39. E
40. D
雅思阅读文章题目 Gesture
重复年份 20150711 20120712 20100211 20071020 20070303
雅思阅读题材 人文社科
雅思阅读题型 小标题6+段落细节配对 5+选择3
文章大意 讲了手势研究。开始用电话铃声作比喻说手势为什么大家都看得懂，后面讲到手势的个体差异，文化差异，包括各国的举例。
参考阅读：
Gestures have been studied throughout the centuries from different perspectivesDuring the Roman Empire, Quintilian studied in his Institution Oratoria how gesture may be used in rhetorical discourse. Another broad study of gesture was published by Englishman John Bulwer in 1644. Bulwer analyzed dozens of gestures and provided a guide on how to use gestures to increase eloquence and clarity for public speaking.] Andrea De Jorio published an extensive account of gestural expression in 1832. A peer reviewed journal Gesturehas been published since 2001 and was founded by Adam Kendon and Cornelia Müller. The International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS) was founded in 2002.
Gesture has frequently been taken up by researchers in the field of dance studies and performance studies in ways that emphasize the ways they are culturally and contextually inflected. Performance scholar, Carrie Noland, describes gestures as "learned techniques of the body" and stresses the way gestures are embodied corporeal forms of cultural communication.[11] But rather than just residing within one cultural context, she describes how gesture migrate across bodies and locations to create new cultural meanings and associations. She also posits how they might function as a form of "resistance to homogenization" because they are so dependent on the specificities of the bodies that perform them.
Gesture has also been taken up within queer theory, ethnic studies and their intersections in performance studies, as a way to think about how the moving body gains social meaning. José Esteban Muñoz uses the idea of gesture to mark a kind of refusal of finitude and certainty and links gesture to his ideas of ephemera. Muñoz specifically draws on the African-American dancer and drag queen performerKevin Aviance to articulate his interest not in what queer gestures might mean, but what they might perform. Juana María Rodríguez borrows ideas of phenomenology and draws on Noland and Muñoz to investigate how gesture functions in queer sexual practices as a way to rewrite gender and negotiate power relations. She also connects gesture to Giorgio Agamben's idea of "means without ends" to think about political projects of social justice that are incomplete, partial, and legibile within culturally and socially defined spheres of meaning.
Within the field of linguistics, the most hotly contested aspect of gesture revolves around the subcategory of Lexical or Iconic Co-Speech Gestures. Adam Kendon was the first linguist to hypothesize on their purpose when he argued that Lexical gestures do work to amplify or modulate the lexico-semantic content of the verbal speech with which they co-occur. However, since the late 1990s, most research has revolved around the contrasting hypothesis that Lexical gestures serve a primarily cognitive purpose in aiding the process of speech production As of 2012, there is research to suggest that Lexical Gesture does indeed serve a primarily communicative purpose and cognitive only secondary, but in the realm of socio-pragmatic communication, rather than lexico-semantic modification.
雅思阅读文章题目 Dust and American
重复年份 20150801 20130718 20080214
雅思阅读题材 环保
雅思阅读题型 判断7+雅思阅读填空题6
文章大意 美国沙漠化问题。美国西南沙尘的起源，历史，调查对大平原地带的影响，产生的问题。
部分答案参考：
雅思阅读判断题
1.The dust had shot up dramatically since the second half of 19 century True
2.The Aztec civilization disappeared due to the dust in the atmospheres false
3.Before people bringing castles southwest has a lot of basins in great plain false
4. Basins 'number decrease since European settlers found them are easy to be hunt not given
5. Railway building used more money than expected not given
6. &&&hand railway company work hard to protect the land they own false
7. Until today the land belongs to company still infertile. True
雅思阅读填空题：
1930s law. Limit 8 cattle herbs
Today BF research where the dust comes from ? China?
Analysis components and 9 size From southwest
BN soil cannot be destroyed by high 10 wind
Soil can be destroyed by cattle hooks
Analyzing 11 lake sediments
Discover. 12 nutrients
Dust cannot be blamed for gradual disappearance of. Snow and 13 glaciers
雅思阅读文章题目 Australia Parrots
重复年份 20150919 20140802 20120209 20090627 20080821
雅思阅读题材 动物
雅思阅读题型 段落细节配对6+选择3+雅思阅读填空题4
文章大意 本文主要讲了澳洲鹦鹉Australia Parrots 在澳洲数量繁多的原因和各种特点习性的分析。在适应环境的过程中，有的鹦鹉灭绝了。
部分答案参考：
14.one example of one parrot species survive from the change of environment. D
20. parrot 都分布在哪些地区?C .in the continent which split up.
21. 关于 parrot beaks 哪一项是对的?D
22. nesting 的确定是什么?D
23. one-sixth in Australia
24. as easy as 16th century
25. mapmaker cartographer
雅思阅读文章题目 The tuatara-past and future
重复年份 20151024 20141018 20120331
雅思阅读题材 动物
雅思阅读题型 判断4+雅思阅读填空题5+选择4
文章大意 新西兰蜥蜴生活习性的地特性，数量不断减少。减少的原因和采取的措施，但效果未知。新西兰一个机构正致力于保护，并且越来越多的人加入栖息地进行保护。通过历史的发现以及各个科学家的研究，说明谁最先到岛上生存，最后说将来给后代留下的不仅仅是动物。
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Tuatara are reptiles endemic to New Zealand. Although resembling most lizards, they are part of a distinct lineage, the order Rhynchocephalia. Their name derives from the Māori language, and means "peaks on the back" The single species of tuatara is the only surviving member of its order, which flourished around 200 million years ago. Their most recent common ancestor with any other extant group is with the squamates (lizards and snakes). For this reason, tuatara are of great interest in the study of the evolution of lizards and snakes, and for the reconstruction of the appearance and habits of the earliest diapsids, a group of amniote tetrapods that also includes dinosaurs, birds, and crocodilians.
Tuatara are greenish brown and grey, and measure up to 80 cm (31 in) from head to tail-tip and weigh up to 1.3 kg (2.9 lb) with a spiny crest along the back, especially pronounced in males. Their dentition, in which two rows of teeth in the upper jaw overlap one row on the lower jaw, is unique among living species. They are even more unusual in having a pronounced photoreceptive eye, the "third eye", which is thought to be involved in setting circadian and seasonal cycles. They are able to hear, although no external ear is present, and have a number of unique features in their skeleton, some of them apparently evolutionarily retained from fish. Although tuatara are sometimes called "living fossils", recent anatomical work has shown that they have changed significantly since the Mesozoic era. While mapping its genome, researchers have discovered that the species has between five and six billion base pairs of DNA sequence.
The tuatara Sphenodon punctatus has been protected by law since 1895. A second species, S. guntheri, was recognised in 1989 but since 2009 its use has been discontinued. Tuatara, like many of New Zealand's native animals, are threatened by habitat loss and introduced predators, such as the Polynesian rat (Rattus exulans). They were extinct on the mainland, with the remaining populations confined to 32 offshore islands, until the first mainland release into the heavily fenced and monitored Karori Sanctuary in 2005.
During routine maintenance work at Karori Sanctuary in late 2008, a tuatara nest was uncovered, with a hatchling found the following autumn. This is thought to be the first case of tuatara successfully breeding on the New Zealand mainland in over 200 years, outside of captive rearing facilities.