雅思阅读真题解析-剑16Test4Passage2-Changes in reading habits-单选题
雅思阅读真题解析-剑16Test4Passage2-Changes in reading habits-单选题
单选题
Questions 14-17
Choose the correct letter, A, B, C or D.
Write the correct letter in boxes 14-17 on your answer sheet.
Q14
What is the writer’s main point in the first paragraph?
A Our use of technology is having a hidden effect on us.
B Technology can be used to help youngsters to read.
C Travellers should be encouraged to use technology on planes.
D Playing games is a more popular use of technology than reading.
分析
题干中可以划定位词的有first paragraph。题干问的是作者观点，我们优先考虑的是段落首句的论点和最后的总结句。举例内容一般可以跳过，重点看例子的前一句或总结句。
A Our use of technology is having a hidden effect on us.
分析：选项可以划的关键词的有technology和us。
B Technology can be used to help youngsters to read.
分析：选项可以划关键词的有technology 和youngsters。
C Travellers should be encouraged to use technology on planes.
分析：选项可以划关键词的有technology和planes。
D Playing games is a more popular use of technology than reading.
分析：选项可以划关键词的有playing games和reading,这个选项有比较，在原文中要出现。
四个选项都有technology, 所以我们确定的出题句要出现technology。
定位
1 Look around on your next plane trip. The iPad is the new pacifier for babies and toddlers. Younger school-aged children read stories on smartphones; older kids don’t read at all, but hunch over video games. Parents and other passengers read on tablets or skim a flotilla of email and news feeds. Unbeknown to most of us, an invisible, game-changing transformation links everyone in this picture: the neuronal circuit that underlies the brain’s ability to read is subtly, rapidly changing and this has implications for everyone from the pre-reading toddler to the expert adult.
答案
这段开头的look around【看看周围】就能知道，作者在讲述周围的真实情况，相当于ta提供的例子（或证据），所以我们看这些排比句（如果算的话）结束的地方找总结的句子即可。最后一句中的unbeknown to most of us【我们大多人并未察觉的】不再是举例了，而是上述情况的总结，所以答案应该是这句的改写。最后一句中的unbeknown to most of us, an invisible【大多人并未察觉的，一个看不见的】对应A选项中的hidden【隐藏的】，最后一句中的game-changing transformation【影响深远的变化】对应A选项中的is+having（现在进行），links【把...联系在一起】对应A选项中的effect，everyone对应选项中的us, in this picture对选项中的Our use of technology （因为前三句都讲的是不同年龄段和身份的人用电子产品的例子），所以答案是A。
注意，这里没有必，也不建议看冒号后边的内容，因为冒号后边一般是具体说明冒号前面的论点的，所以看冒号后边的内容了你还要自己进行概括总结，会把问题复杂化。
Q15
What main point does Sherry Turkle make about innovation?
A Technological innovation has led to a reduction in print reading.
B We should pay attention to what might be lost when innovation occurs.
C We should encourage more young people to become involved in innovation.
D There is a difference between developing products and developing ideas.
分析
题干可以划定位词的有Sherry Turkle。题目问的是这个人关于innovation的想法，所以我们在原文中找出这个人说的话里带有innovation句子，并找出对应的选项即可。
A Technological innovation has led to a reduction in print reading.
分析：选项可以划关键词的有Technological innovation和print reading。
B We should pay attention to what might be lost when innovation occurs.
分析：选项可以划关键词的有we和innovation。
C We should encourage more young people to become involved in innovation.
分析：选项可以划关键词的有we，young people和innovation。
D There is a difference between developing products and developing ideas.
分析：选项可以划关键词的有developing products和developing ideas。
定位
3 This is not a simple, binary issue of print versus digital reading and technological innovation. As MIT scholar Sherry Turkle has written, we do not err as a society when we innovate but when we ignore what we disrupt or diminish while innovating. In this hinge moment between print and digital cultures, society needs to confront what is diminishing in the expert reading circuit, what our children and older students are not developing, and what we can do about it.
答案
上文第二句出现了Sherry Turkle， 这句中出现了innovate,所以答案就是这句剩下的内容的改写。后半句中的we ignore与B选项的we should pay attention相关，但是为了选这个选项，我们要找出带有建议语气的内容。第三句中出现了society needs to对应B选项中的we should， 这句中的what is diminishing...,和what... are not developing对应what might be lost，这句中的In this hinge moment【在这个关键时刻】指的是前一句中的while innovating对应B选项中的when innovation occurs，所以答案选B。
Q16
What point is the writer making in the fourth paragraph?
A Humans have an inborn ability to read and write.
B Reading can be done using many different mediums.
C Writing systems make unexpected demands on the brain.
D Some brain circuits adjust to whatever is required of them.
分析
题干中可以划定位词的有fourth paragraph。题目问的是作者的观点，所以在原文中看首句提出的观点或结尾的总结句即可。
A Humans have an inborn ability to read and write.
分析：选项可以划关键词的有humans和inborn ability。
B Reading can be done using many different mediums.
分析：选项可以划关键词的有reading和different mediums。
C Writing systems make unexpected demands on the brain.
分析：选项可以划关键词的有writing systems和brain。
D Some brain circuits adjust to whatever is required of them.
分析：选项可以划关键词的有Some brain circuits和whatever is required。
定位
4 We know from research that the reading circuit is not given to human beings through a genetic blueprint like vision or language; it needs an environment to develop. Further, it will adapt to that environment’s requirements - from different writing systems to the characteristics of whatever medium is used. If the dominant medium advantages processes that are fast, multi-task oriented and well-suited for large volumes of information, like the current digital medium, so will the reading circuit. As UCLA psychologist Patricia Greenfield writes, the result is that less attention and time will be allocated to slower, time-demanding deep reading processes.
答案
上文第 一句是we know from the research that, 讲述的是实验发现，所以可以是论点句。这句中的is not given to human beings through a genetic blueprint与A选项的inborn ability【天生的能力】矛盾，所以A选项是FALSE。第二句中的environment在选项中没有对应的内容。下一句中出现了破折号，往后的内容是解释说明requirement的具体内容，所以重点还是破折号前面的it will adapt和requirements。这句中的it will adapt对应D选项中的adjust to， 这句中的requirements对应D选项中的whatever is required of them，这里的whatever【不管是什么】其实是破折号后边内容的概括，因为破折号后边的from...to...一般用于范围比较广的内容上。这句中的it指的是第 一句中的reading circuit, 这个词跟D选项中的some brain circuits，所以正确答案是D。
Q17
According to Mark Edmundson, the attitude of college students
A has changed the way he teaches.
B has influenced what they select to read.
C does not worry him as much as it does others.
D does not match the views of the general public.
分析
题干中可以划定位词的有Mark Edmundson和college students，在原文中找到students以后再看表示他们attitude【态度的】词，紧挨着的内容就是答案的改写。
A has changed the way he teaches.
分析：选项划关键词的有the way。
B has influenced what they select to read.
分析：选项可以划关键词的有what they select to read。
C does not worry him as much as it does others.
分析：选项可以划关键词的有does not worry，重点看否定，再看比较。
D does not match the views of the general public.
分析:选项可以划关键词的有the views of the general public。
定位
5 Increasing reports from educators and from researchers in psychology and the humanities bear this out. English literature scholar and teacher Mark Edmundson describes how many college students actively avoid the classic literature of the 19th and 20th centuries in favour of something simpler as they no longer have the patience to read longer, denser, more difficult texts. We should be less concerned with students’ ‘cognitive impatience’, however, than by what may underlie it: the potential inability of large numbers of students to read with a level of critical analysis sufficient to comprehend the complexity of thought and argument found in more demanding texts.
答案
上文第二句出现了Mark Edmundson， 第二句中的as they no longer have the patience【因为他们没有耐心...】对应题干中的the attitude of college students，所以前半句就是答案改写。前半句中的college students actively avoid the classic literature中college students对应B选项中的they，这句中的actively avoid 对应B选项中的influenced, 这句中的classic literature对应what they select to read，所以答案是B。
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