2017年1月21日雅思阅读真题回顾!刚刚结束的雅思阅读考试中，考到的文章内容分别是奥运火炬、新西兰农民公司、白蚁，下面跟着小编一起来看看在2017年1月21日雅思阅读真题内容，大家可以在做练习时多积累多总结，坚持一段时间后相信一定会有所收获。
Passage 1：奥运火炬
Questions 1-3 Complete the summary below using NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the passage.
Write your answers in boxes 1-4 on your answer sheet.
The Olympic torch, as Olympic Committee requested, is carefully designed which takes a years to design and build so that it is capable of withstanding all kinds of 1 ______and staying lit through widely differing weather conditions. The torch used in the modern Olympics which is to hold the 2 ______ And the torch must then be copied and thousands are built as demanded by the thousands of runners who carry them through. Each runner has the opportunity to 3 ______ his torch at completion of his journey of the relay for memorial and as for souvenirs
Questions 4-9
Match the following statements as applying to different Olympic flames A-H.
NB There are more choices than questions. You may not need all the choices.
A ancient Greek Olympic flames
B Berlin Games torch(1936)
C 1952 Winter Games flame
D 1956 Games torch
E Munich Games torch (1972)
F 1996 torch (Atlanta)
G 2000 torch (Sydney)
H 2002 torch (Salt lake city)
Write your answers in boxes 4-9 on your answer sheet.
4 first liquid fuel torch
5 not environmentally friendly
6 began to record the runners’ name
7 potential risky as it burnt runner’s arms
8 special for a theme
9 flame not lit in Greek
Questions 10-14 Diagram filling
The chart below shows the structure of the 1996 Olympic torch.
Complete the chart using NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the passage for each blank.
Passage 2：新西兰农民公司
The Farmers! Parade of history
A History of Farmer trading company: In 1909 Robert Laidlaw establishes mail-order company Laidlaw Leeds in Fort Street, Auckland. Then, Branch expansion: purchase of Green and Colebrook chain store; further provincial stores in Auckland and Waikato to follow. Opening of first furniture and boot factory. In 1920, Company now has 29 branches; Whangarei store purchased. Doors open at Hobson Street for direct selling to public. Firm establishes London and New York buying offices. With permission from the Harbour Board, the large FARMERS electric sign on the Wyndham Street frontage is erected.
B In 1935, if the merchandise has changed, the language of the catalogues hasnt. Robert Laidlaw, the Scottish immigrant who established the century-old business, might have been scripting a modem-day television commercial when he told his earliest customers: Satisfaction, or your money back. "It was the first money back guarantee ever offered in New Zealand by any firm, " says Ian Hunter, business historian. "And his mission statement was, potentially, only the second one ever found in the world. " Laidlaws stated aims were simple to build the greatest business in New Zealand, to simplify every transaction, to eliminate all delays, to only sell goods it would pay the customer to buy.
C This year, the company that began as a mail-order business and now employs 3500staff across 58 stores turns 100. Its centenary will be celebrated with the release of a book and major community fundraising projects, to be announced next week. Hunter, who is writing the centenary history, says "coming to a Farmers store once a week was a part of the New Zealand way of life". By 1960, one in every 10 people had an account with the company. It was the place where teenage girls shopped for their first bra, where newlyweds purchased their first dinner sets, where first pay cheques were used to pay off hire purchase furniture, where Santa paraded every Christmas.
D Gary Blumenthals mother shopped there, and so does he. The fondest memory for the Rotorua resident? "We were on holiday in Auckland . . . I decided that up on the lookout tower on top of the Farmers building would be a unique place to fit the ring on my new fiancées finger. " The lovebirds, who had to wait for "an annoying youth" to leave the tower before they could enjoy their engagement kiss, celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary in June.
E Farmers, says Hunter, has always had a heart. This, from a 1993 North & South interview with a former board chairman, Rawdon Busfield: "One day I was in the Hobson Street shop and I saw a woman with two small children. They were clean and tidily dressed, but poor, you could tell. That week we had a special on a big bar of chocolate for one shilling. I heard the woman say to her boy, "no, your penny wont buy that. He wasnt wearing shoes. So I went up to the boy and said, "Son, have you got your penny? He handed it to me. It was hot hed had it in his hand for hours. I took the penny and gave him the chocolate. "
F Farmers was once the home of genteel tearooms, childrens playgrounds and an annual sale of celebration for birthday of Hector the Parrot (the store mascot died, aged 131, in the 1970s his stuffed remains still occupy pride of place at the companys head office). You could buy houses from Farmers. Its saddle factory supplied the armed forces, and its upright grand overstrung pianos offered "the acme of value" according to those early catalogues hand-drawn by Robert Laidlaw himself. Walk through a Farmers store today and get hit by bright lights and big brands. Its Albany branch houses 16 international cosmetics companies. It buys from approximately 500 suppliers, and about 30% of those are locally owned.
G "Eight, 10 years ago, " says current chief executive Rod McDermott, "lots of brands wouldnt partner with us. The stores were quite distressed. We were first price point focused, we werent fashion focused. "Remove the rose-tinted nostalgia, and Farmers is, quite simply, a business, doing business in hard times. Dancing with the Stars presenter Candy Lane launches a clothing line? "We put a trial on, and we thought it was really lovely, but the uptake wasnt what we thought it would be. Its got to be what the customer wants, " says McDermott.
H He acknowledges retailers suffer in a recession: "Were celebrating 100 years because we can and because we should. " Farmers almost didnt pull through one economic crisis. By the mid 1980s, it had stores across the country. It had acquired the South Islands Calder Mackay chain of stores and bought out Hay wrights. Then, with sales topping $375 million, it was taken over by Chase Corporation. Lincoln Laidlaw, now aged 88, and the son of the companys founder, remembers the dark days following the stock market crash and the collapse of Chase. "I think, once, Farmers was like a big family and all of the people who worked for it felt they were building something which would ultimately be to their benefit and to the benefit of New Zealand. . . then the business was being divided up and so that kind of family situation was dispelled and it hasnt been recovered. "For a turbulent few years, the stores were controlled, first by a consortium of Australian banks and later Deka, the Maori Development Corporation and Foodland Associated Ltd. In 2003, it went back to "family" ownership, with the purchase by the James Pascoe Group, owned by David and Anne Norman the latter being the great-granddaughter of James Pascoe, whose first business interest was jewellery.
I "Sheer power of the brand, " says McDermott, "pulled Farmers through and now were becoming the brand it used to be again. " Farmers were the company that, during World War II, topped up the wages of any staff member disadvantaged by overseas service. Robert Laidlaw a committed Christian who came to his faith at a 1902 evangelistic service in Dunedin concluded his original mission statement with the words, "all at it, always at it, wins success". Next week, 58 Farmers stores across the country will announce the local charities they will raise funds for in their centenary celebration everything from guide dog services to hospices to volunteer fire brigades will benefit. Every dollar raised by the community will be matched by the company. "Its like the rebirth of an icon, " says McDermott.
题目：
The reading Passage has seven paragraphs A-J.Which paragraph contains the following information? Write the correct letter A-J, in boxes 15-19 on your answer sheet.
14 Generosity offered in an occasion for helping the poor E
15 Innovation of offer made ahead of modem-time business by the head of company. B
16 Fashion was not chosen as its strong point. G
17 A romantic event on a memorial venue dedicating to Farmers. D
18 Farmers was sold to a private owned company. I
Complete the following summary of the paragraphs of Reading Passage, using no more than two words from the Reading Passage for each answer. Write your answers in boxes 19-23 on your answer sheet.
Farmers was first founded as a 19 in Auckland by Mr. Laidlaw. Farmers developed fast and bought one 20 then.
During oversea expansion, Farmers set up 21 in major cities outside New Zealand.Farmers held a 22 in a sale once a year for the companys mascot animalSome senior employee considered Farmers as a 23 both for themselves and for the whole country.
Questions 24-26 Use the information in the passage to match the people (listed A-C) with opinions or deeds below. Write the appropriate letters A-C in boxes 25-27 on your answer sheet.
NB you may use any letter more than once
A Lincoln Laidlaw
B Rod McDermott
C Ian Hunter
25Product became worse as wrong aspect focused.
26 An unprecedented statement made by Farmers in New Zealand.
27 Character of the company was changed.
Passage 3：白蚁
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