2016年9月24日的雅思考试已经结束，各位同学们发挥的怎么样呢? 下面是小编为大家整理的2016年9月24日雅思阅读考试真题详细解析,供大家参考学习，希望能给大家带来帮助。
一、考试概述：
本次考试总体题型以配对、判断和填空为主。相似行文思路可参考C5T3P3, C5T1P2, C8T3P等。
二、具体题目分析
Passage 1
文章大意：旧题，关于某个村庄水里工程的一个创新和应用。提到了村庄为何要发展这个工程，已经发展过程中获得的利益和未来的展望。
参考题型：问答6+判断8
参考文章：
Rainwater Harvesting
For two years southern Sri Lanka suffered a prolonged drought, described by locals as "the worst in 50 years". Some areas didn't see a successful crop for four or five consecutive seasons. Livestock died, water in wells dropped to dangerously low levels, children were increasingly malnourished and school attendance has fallen. An estimated 1.6 million people were affected.
A Muthukandiya is a village in Moneragala district, one of the drought-stricken areas in the "dry zone" of southern Sri Lanka, where half the country’s population of 18 million lives. Rainfall in the area varies greatly from year to year, often bringing extreme dry spells in between monsoons. But this drought was much worse than usual. Despite some rain in November, only half of Moneragala’s 1,400 tube wells in working order by March. The drought devastated supplies of rice and freshwater fish, the staple diet of inland villages. Many local industries closed down and villagers headed for the towns in search of work.
B The villagers of Muthukandiya arrived in the 1970s as part of a government resettlement scheme. Each family was given six acres of land, with no irrigation system. Because crop production, which relies entirely on rainfall，is insufficient to support most families, the village economy relies on men and women working as day-labourers in nearby sugar-cane plantations. Three wells have been dug to provide domestic water, but these run dry for much of the year. Women and children may spend several hours each day walking up to three miles (five kilometres) to fetch water for drinking, washing and cooking.
C In 1998, communities in the district discussed water problems with Practical Action South Asia. What followed was a drought mitigation initiative based on a low-cost "rainwater harvesting" technology already used in Sri Lanka and elsewhere in the region. It uses tanks to collect and store rain channeled by gutters and pipes as it runs off the roofs of houses.
D Despite an indigenous tradition of rain-water harvesting and irrigation systems going back to the third century BC, policy-makers in modern times have often overlooked the value of such technologies and it is only recently that officials have taken much interest in household-level structures.
Government and other programs have, however, been top-down in their conception and application, installing tanks free of charge without providing training in the skills needed to build and maintain them properly. Practical Action South Asia's project deliberately took a different approach, aiming to build up a local skills base among builders and users of the tanks, and to create structures and systems so that communities can manage their own rain water harvesting schemes.
E The community of Muthukandiya was involved throughout. Two meetings were held where villagers analyzed their water problems, developed a mitigation plan and selected the rainwater harvesting technology. Two local masons received several days' on-the-job training in building the 5,000 litre household storage tanks: surface tanks out of retro-cement and underground tanks out of brick. Each system, including tank, pipes, gutters and filters, cost US $195 - equivalent to a month's income for an average village family. Just over half the cost was provided by the community, in the form of materials and unskilled labor. Practical Action South Asia contributed the rest, including cement, transport and payment for the skilled labor. Households learned how to use and maintain the tanks, and the whole community was trained to keep domestic water supplies clean. A village rainwater harvesting society was set up to run the project. To date, 37 families in and around Muthukandiya have storage tanks. Evaluations show clearly that households with rainwater storage tanks have considerably more water for domestic needs than households relying entirely on wells and ponds. During the driest months, households relying entirely on wells and ponds. During the driest months, households with tanks may have up to twice as much water available. Their water is much cleaner, too.
F Nandawathie, a widow in the village, has taken full advantage of the opportunities that rainwater harvesting has brought her family. With a better water supply now close at hand, she began by growing a few vegetables. The income from selling these helped her to open a small shop on her doorstep. This increased herearnings still further, enabling her to apply for a loan to install solar power in her house. She is now thinking of building another tank in her garden so that she can grow more vegetables. Nandawathie also feels safer now that she no longer has to fetch water from the village well in the early morning or late evening. She says that her children no longer complain so much of diarrhoea. And her daughter Sandamalee has more time for school work.
G In the short term, and on a small scale, the project has clearly been a success. The challenge lies in making such initiatives sustainable, and expending their coverage. At a purely technical level, rainwater harvesting is evidently sustainable. In Muthukandiya, the skills required to build and maintain storage tanks were taught fairly easily, and can be shared by the two trained masons, who are now finding work with other development agencies in the district.
H The non-structural elements of the work, especially its financial and organizational sustainability, present a bigger challenge. A revolving fund was set up，with households that had already benefited agreeing to contribute a small monthly amount to pay for maintenance, repairs and new tanks. However, it appears that the revolving fund concept was not fully understood and it has proved difficult to get households to contribute. Recovering costs from interventions that do not generate income directly will always be a difficult proposition, although this can be overcome if the process is explained more fully at the outset.
I The Muthukandiya initiative was planned as a demonstration project, to show that community-based drought mitigation through rainwater harvesting was feasible. Several other organizations have begun their own projects using the same approach. The feasibility of introducing larger tanks is being investigated.
J However, a lot of effort and patience are needed to generate the interest, develop the skills and organize the management structures needed to implement sustainable community-based projects. It will probably be some time before rainwater harvesting technologies can spread rapidly a spontaneously across the district's villages, without external support.
参考答案：待回忆
Passage 2
文章大意：科学家对于生物界动物的体表特征的科学研究和运用。
题型：配对6+判断8
参考文章：待回忆
参考答案：待回忆
Passage 3
题型：配对7+填空6
文章大意：科学家对于化学的运用以及化学的自身发展史和在发展过程中的限制。文章讲述了化学学科的发展和发展过程中有一些tools，比如加热的控制。前几段提到了工业革命-开始在英国开始，然后紧接到了欧洲另外几个国家，但是化学的就受到了阻碍。(主要由于 control of heating )。后半部分介绍了化学实验工具发面的小进展，比如用蜡烛的根数来控制温度。知道发明了酒精灯,促进了化学的进一步发展。
参考文章：待回忆
参考答案：
34. tools
35. astronomy
36. physics
37. candles
38. burning glass
39. pendulum
40. mercury
(顺序可能有误，答案仅供参考)