雅思阅读真题解析-剑15Test1Passage1-Nutmeg – a valuable spice-图表题
雅思阅读真题解析-剑15Test1Passage1-Nutmeg – a valuable spice-图表题
表格题
Questions 8–13
Complete the table below.
Choose ONE WORD ONLY from the passage for each answer. Write your answers in boxes 8–13 on your answer sheet.
Q8
分析
题干可以划定位词的有Middle Ages和Europe， 空格前面是brought by the, 所以空格应该填写表示一类人的名词。
定位
2 Nutmeg was a highly prized and costly ingredient in European cuisine in the Middle Ages, and was used as a flavouring, medicinal, and preservative agent. Throughout this period, the Arabs were the exclusive importers of the spice to Europe…
答案
上文第 一句出现了定位词European和Middle Ages，这句没有表示人的名词，接着往后找。第二句出现了importer【进口商】表示人，但这个词对应的不是空格，而是题干中的brought…by，所以答案是这句中的具体的一类人，即Arabs【阿拉伯人】。
Q9
分析
题干可以划定位词的有17th century和disease。空格前面是known as【叫作】，后边加名称。题干中的known as在原文中可能会改写成called≈named≈refer to as≈termed≈phrased，这些词都是“叫作”的意思，后边都加名称。注意，名称不一定是大写，但大写的一定是名称。
定位
4 In 1602, Dutch merchants founded the VOC, a trading corporation better known as the Dutch East India Company. By 1617, the VOC was the richest commercial operation in the world. The company had 50,000 employees worldwide, with a private army of 30,000 men and a fleet of 200 ships. At the same time, thousands of people across Europe were dying of the plague, a highly contagious and deadly disease…
答案
上文第 一句的In 1602和第二句的By 1617都可以对应定位词17th century。第三句出现了定位词disease。所以在这句中找出表示疾病的名词即可。这句中的were dying of the【因…而死去】，所以后边加的是导致死亡的疾病。或者看逗号后边的是补充说明plague的插入语，所以逗号前面是疾病的名称，这两者思路都能推出答案是plague【瘟疫】。
Q10
分析
题干可以划定位词的有17th century和islands。空格前面是put, 空格后边是on nutmeg，所以空格是一个名词。这里put…on可能是表示抽象的【给…添加…】,如税收或各种限制；也有肯能是具体的【把…放在…上】。不管是第 一类还是第二类意思，都是用来限制nutmeg在外地生长的。
定位
5… In addition, all exported nutmeg was covered with lime to make sure there was no chance a fertile seed which could be grown elsewhere would leave the islands…
答案
上文第 一句的no chance…could be grown elsewhere对应题干中的avoid it being cultivated outside the islands，所以答案在这句里边找。这句中的was covered with【用…覆盖】对应题干中的put…on，所以紧跟其后的词lime是答案。lime这个词除了“石灰”还有“青柠”的意思，interesting indeed!
Q11
分析
题干可以划定位词的有British。空格前面是island of,所以空格应该写这个岛屿的名称。
定位
5…There was only one obstacle to Dutch domination. One of the Banda Islands, a sliver of land called Run, only 3 km long by less than 1 km wide, was under the control of the British. After decades of fighting for control of this tiny island, the Dutch and British arrived at a compromise settlement, the Treaty of Breda, in 1667.
答案
上文第二句中出现了定位词British。这句中的 a silver of land called对应题干中的island of，所以紧跟其后的Run是答案，这里Run是岛屿的名称。
Q12
分析
题干可以划定位词的有1770和plants【树苗】，空格前面是were taken to【被带到…】，所以空格应该写个地名，所以答案应该是大写。
定位
7 Then, in 1770, a Frenchman named Pierre Poivre successfully smuggled nutmeg plants to safety in Mauritius, an island off the coast of Africa…
答案
上文出现了定位词in 1770， 这句中的smuggled nutmeg plants to【走私肉豆蔻苗】对应题干中的nutmeg plants were secretly taken to，所以答案是紧跟其后的地名Mauritius。
Q13
分析
题干可以划定位词的有1778，Banda Islands和plantations【种植园】。空格前面是were destroyed by a，所以空格应该是具有破坏力的单数名词。
定位
7…Next, in 1778, a volcanic eruption in the Banda region caused a tsunami that wiped out half the nutmeg groves. Finally, in 1809, the British returned to Indonesia and seized the Banda Islands by force. They returned the islands to the Dutch in 1817, but not before transplanting hundreds of nutmeg seedlings to plantations in several locations across southern Asia. The Dutch nutmeg monopoly was over.
答案
上文第 一句出现了定位词in 1778和Banda。这句中的wiped out【消除了】对应题干中的were destroyed by，所以答案是紧挨着的单数名词tsunami。注意，不要把volcanic eruption写成答案，因为这两个单词要同时写，少一个单词它的意思就不完整了，从而也能推出答案不是它。但更重要的是wiped out这个动作是跟着tsunami，而不是volcanic eruption出现的。
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