教学目标:
1. 坚定同义替换的概念:养成这样的习惯是修炼内功的第一步;
2. 理解同义替换的手法:常见的手法并不多,一旦掌握,即可得心应手;
3. 积累考点词:做过的阅读真题已经不具有测试意义了,但是可以帮你印证和
理解考点词的奥秘。同学们可以对照《剑桥雅思阅读考点词真经》体验“无 招胜有招”的绝妙佳境。 4. 熟悉填词题的出题形式和熟练典型题目。
教学步骤:
1. 坚定同义替换的概念并通过真题理解同义替换的三种手法; 2. 学习阅读真经原文标注法,养成好的阅读和做题方法; 3. 熟悉单词填写题的命题规律与解题要诀; 4. 通过做题来掌握填词题的做题步骤; 5.
教学过程:
I. 莫夸境界高,无招胜有招
首先,请牢记:
无论什么招数,只要有招数,就有破绽。 无论什么题型,只要是题目,就有题干。
—刘洪波
只要是题目, 就有题干, 而题干中的每一个单词必然来自原文或是原文 的同义替换。题干中有 first,原文中一定有 first 或是同义表达;题干中 most 或 majority;题干中有最高级, 原文中一定有最高级或它的同义表达; 题干中有并列结构,原文中也一定存在并列关系。
如违反上述原则, 题目表达的含义就会偏离原文, 造成出题不严谨或有 瑕疵。这显然不是英国剑桥严格学术之风范。 所以, 雅思阅读考题只有一种命题方式
— 同义替换(Paraphrase) 。
同义替换的三种手法
在题干中实现同义替换表达有三种常用手法: 同义替换多 单词有灵犀
同义替换方式 雅思阅读中出题概率
1 同义词设计 80% 2 双重反义词设计 10% 3 对原文思想归纳总结 10%
手法 1:同义词设计 真题示例 A
《剑桥雅思 7》第 25 页 Test 1 Reading Passage 2 第 22 题 题型: TRUE/FALSE/NOT GIVEN (是非判断题)
题目: Feeding increasing populations is possible due primarily to improved irrigation systems. 原文:
B Food production has kept pace with soaring populations mainly because of the expansion of artificial irrigation systems that make possible the growth of 40% of the world’s food.
解析:注意题干中每一个单词在原文中的来源: feeding 来自原文中的 food
production;increasing 来自 soaring;due to 来自 because of;primarily 来自 mainly; improved 来自expansion。考官很严谨而敬业,改写很仔细而辛苦,所以答案是 TRUE。
手法 2:双重反义词设计 真题示例 A
《剑桥雅思 7》第 20 页 Test 1 Reading Passage 1 第 2 题 题型: Paragraph Matching (段落信息匹配) 题目 : How early mammals avoided dying out 原文:
A …In the time when the dinosaurs dominated the daytime economy, our
mammalian ancestors probably only managed to survive at all because they found ways of scraping a living at night …
解析:注意题目中 early 一词的含义来自原文 ancestors (祖先); avoid (避免, 没有做) 的反义词是 manage to do (成功地做了); die out (灭绝) 的反义词是 survive (幸存) 。所以题干是双重反义表达原文的同义的设计。
手法 3:对原文思想归纳总结 真题示例 A
《剑桥雅思 8》第 52 页 Test 2 Reading Passage 3 第 35 题 题型: Multiple Choice (选择题)
题目 : What is the writer doing in paragraph C?
A. supporting other research B. making a proposal
C. rejecting a common belief D. describing limitations
原文:
C In spite of its importance to our emotional and sensory lives, smell is
probably the most undervalued sense in many cultures . The reason often given for
the low regard in which smell is held is that, in comparison with its importance among animals, the human sense of smell is feeble and undeveloped. While it is true that the olfactory powers of humans are nothing like as fine as those possessed by certain animals, they are still remarkably acute. Our noses are able to recognize thousands of smells, and to perceive odours which are present only in extremely small quantities.
解析: 答案是 C 选项 rejecting a common belief 。注意 C 选项中的几个单词原文中 没有出现,也没有明显的同义词。如果考生读懂 C 段大意,会发现“在许多文 化中人们低估了嗅觉这种感知”就是一种 common belief。common 一词=inmany cultures; belief 指的是嗅觉的 low regard 。
rejecting(反驳)一词是来自一个句型: While it is true that …, they are still…这是 一个让步转折: “虽然 (你说的有一定道理), 但是 (我还是要反驳你) 。”雅思命 题者通过这个句子归纳总结出了 reject 这个单词。 归纳题是难题。 以上三组例题分别对应三种不同的同义改写,同时对应了三种不同的雅思阅读 题型。所以我们再次强调:不同的命题方式本质只有一种 ----- 同义替换。 莫夸境界高 无招胜有招
II. 阅读真经原文标注法
①用双下划线画出某题目定位词在原文的出处; ②尽可能找出题干中的所有单词( a, the 可以不管)对应于原文中的同义
词出处,并用下划线把原文出处的对应单词画出来; ⑶最后用圈将答案在原文中圈出来。
示例:
题型: Sentence Completion (句子填空)
题目 : The word“echolocation”was first used by someone working as _zoologist_______(NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS ) 原文:
…The American zoologist Donald Griffin, who was largely responsible for the discovery of sonar in bats, coined the term“echolocation”to cover both sonar and radar, whether used by animals or by human instruments. 心中的做题流程是:
①通过题目中带引号“ echolocation”一词定位,找到原文出处。 ②仔细阅读发现: 因为它(word)等于它(term);因为它(someone)等于它(Donald Griffin);因为它(working as)等于它(zoologist);因为它(first used)等于它(coined) 所以答案是它(zoologist) 。
在这个因果关系推导中,我们可以清晰地看到:原因越多,逻辑就越缜密, 推导出的结果正确率就越高。 同义替换多 单词有灵犀
这种同义词原文标注习惯养成后,考生可以迅速提升正确率,并且便于错题 检查, 搞清楚错的原因; 同时以便于将来的再次复习。 因为你在原文中完整地记 录了你当时的解题思路。
雅思考生做过的阅读教材原文上不应该是干净无笔记的,也不应该是乱勾
乱划没有规律章法的。每做一篇文章都应该采用这种 阅读原文真经标注法来巩固 境界,提醒自己。真实考场上也要采用此 标注法,在考卷文章的原文上做标注, 这是雅思阅读考试允许的,因为最后考官不会看你的阅读考卷,只看答题卡。
III. 填词有规律,前后找规律
不要说答案词汇不认识, 词汇量不够, 所以卷子上才四大皆空, 空空如 也。 “空格前后动词名词处,才是醉翁之意。
(我们从这种题型学起,是因为它主要考查单词理解,不像
TRUE/FALSE/NOT GIVEN 是理解判断一个句子; 而选 Headings 则是理解 归纳自然段。 因此该题型难度居适中, 阅读 6 分水平的考生应控制该题型 错在两道题以内。其实单词填写题还可以包括填表格、 填图题; 但填表格、 填图题更为简单, 而且出现概率不高, 因此我们将在最后一种题型来归纳 总结。)
单词填写题命题规律与解题要诀
单词填写题可细分为:
①原文选词填空完成摘要;
②从题目后面的单词列表中选词填空完成摘要; ③从原文选词填空完成句子; ④从原文选词回答问题。
概率:真实考试 40 个题目中平均 10 个题 难度:前三种★★★☆☆
第四种(从原文选词回答问题)★★☆☆☆
难度为中等,变换四种题
觅 第二,单词填写题是细节题,优先做。 两种题后做,优先细节题
单词填写题中出现概率最大的是填空完成摘要,简称 Summary。
再此,我们再次强调:第一,先看题,再读文章; 阅读先看题,定位快寻
原文选词填空完成摘要
从原文选词填空
Summary 做题步骤
Step1
Step2
Step3
Step4
确定整个 Summary 在原文的出处 具体技巧:
1. 看题型描述中是否已给出信息。
(e.g. The summary below is based on Part C of the passage. )
2. 看 summary 的题型位置。 (如
Summary 是第二种题型,则大多数 是对文章中间的 1~3 个自然段的总 结;如 Summary 是最后一种题型, 则大多是对文章末尾的 1~3 个自然 段的总结。注意 Summary 较少作为 第一题型出现)
3. 定位 Summary 首句中的 keywords,
在原文中查找。 判断所需空格词性
真实考试中空格填名词的概率占到 80%;填动词占到 10% ;而填形容词、 副词、和数词共占到 10% 。注意不考介 词、连词、代词、冠词。
根据空格前后信息在原文中锁定答案 这是最重要的一个解题步骤。 “空格 前后的信息”指的是空格前后重要的单 词,特别是动词和名词。 “锁定答案” 是一个夹心饼干原则: 题目的空格就是 夹心饼干的“心”,空格前后的单词就 是两块“饼干”;要找到“心”在原文 的出处, 我们就需要拿着这两块“饼干” 在原文中一夹, 就夹出来了 。但要特别 注意这两块“饼干”在原文的同义词替 换。 填词有规律,前后找痕迹 填完后通读一遍 Summary
这种题型检查起来简单有效, 只需将所 填答案带入空格中,将 Summary 整个 通读一遍, 从逻辑、语义和语法上即可 检查。
NB (注意)
1. 答案空格有字数限制, 如: Use NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS, 解题前 要看清楚。
2. 空格答案大多数情况下符合原文顺序原则,有可能出现 1~2 个倒序。
3. 一个 Summary 题型中会设置 1~2 道难题。 4. 空格答案有可能需要变换原文单词的词性。 5. 空格答案经常是高难词或生词 。生词不用疑
6. 该题型重点考查空格前后的单词对应原文中的同义词理解。 填词有规律,前
后找痕迹
真题示例 A
《剑桥雅思 7》第 90 页 Test 4 Reading Passage 1 第 8 段
…
Others feel there is more of a case for the theory. Harnessing the wind would not have been a problem for accomplished sailors like the Egyptians. And they are known to have used wooden pulleys, which could have been made strong enough to bear the weight of massive blocks of stone. In addition, there is some physical evidence that the ancient Egyptians were interested in flight. A wooden artefact found on the step pyramid at Saqqara looks uncannily like a modern glider. Although it dates from several hundred years after the building of the pyramids, its sophistication suggests that the Egyptians might have been developing ideas of flight for a long time. And other ancient civilisations certainly knew about kites; as early as 1250 BC, the Chinese were using them to deliver messages and dump flaming debris on their foes.
…
Questions 8-13
Complete the summary below.
Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDSfrom the passagefor each answer. Write your answers in boxes 8-13 on your answer sheet.
Additional evidence for theory of kite-lifting
The Egyptians had 8 , which could lift large pieces of 9
and they knew how to use the energy of the wind from their skill as 10 . The discovery on one pyramid of an object which resembled a 11 suggests they may have experimented with 12 . In addition, over two
thousand years ago kites were used in China as weapons, as well as for sending 13
真题示例 B
《剑桥雅思 6》第 27 页 Test 4 Reading Passage 3 C 、D 段
…
C The Canadian Arctic is a vast, treeless polar desert that's covered with snow for most of the year. Venture into this terrain and you get some idea of the hardships
facing anyone who calls this home. Farming is out of the question and nature offers meagre pickings. Humans first settled in the Arctic a mere 4,500 years ago, surviving by exploiting sea mammals and fish. The environment tested them to the limits: sometimes the colonists were successful, sometimes they failed and vanished. But around a thousand years ago, one group emerged that was uniquely well adapted to cope with the Arctic environment. These Thule people moved in from Alaska, bringing kayaks, sleds, dogs, pottery and iron tools. They are the ancestors of today's Inuit people.
D Life for the descendants of the Thule people is still harsh. Nunavut is 1.9 million square kilometres of rock and ice, and a handful of islands around the North Pole. It's currently home to 2,500 people, all but a handful of them indigenous Inuit. Over the past 40 years, most have abandoned their nomadic ways and settled in the territory's 28 isolated communities, but they still rely heavily on nature to provide food and clothing. Provisions available in local shops have to be flown into Nunavut on one of the most costly air networks in the world, or brought by supply ship during the few ice-free weeks of summer. It would cost a family around f7,000 a year to replace meat they obtained themselves through hunting with imported meat. Economic opportunities are scarce, and for many people state benefits are their only income.
…
Questions 33-40
Complete the summary ofparagraphs C and D below.
Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from paragraphs C and Dfor each answer.
Write your answers in boxes 33-40 on your answer sheet.
If you visit the Canadian Arctic, you immediately appreciate the problems faced by people for whom this is home. It would clearly be impossible for the people to engage in 33.................... as a means of supporting themselves. For thousands of years
they have had to rely on catching 34.................... and 35.................... as a means of sustenance.
The harsh surroundings saw many who tried to settle there pushed to their limits, although some were successful. The 36.................... people were an example of the latter and for them the environment did not prove unmanageable. For the present inhabitants, life continues to be a struggle. The territory of Nunavut consists of little more than ice, rock and a few 37.................... In recent years, many of them have been obliged to give up their 38.................... lifestyle, but they continue to depend mainly on 39.................... for their food and clothes. 40.................... produce is particularly expensive.
从单词列表中选词填空完成摘要
这种 Summary 的解题方法与从原文选词填空是一致的,只多了一个步骤:从 原文中找出心目中的答案单词后, 还要在题目后面的单词列表中选一选, 看看哪 一个选项单词是原文答案,或原文答案的同义表达。
所以从这个角度来说, 这种题型可能需要考生多做一次同义替换理解: 原文答 案单词和正确选项的同义替换。这样就增加了难度。
但是从另外一个角度来说, 因为限定了单词选项, 也提供了考生通过词性词义 选择或通过排除法来正确解题的可能性。
真题示例 A …
《剑桥雅思 8》第 65 页 Test 3 Reading Passage 1 第 5~6 段
And anyway, who would want to fire streams of rockets in a populated area? 'What goes up must come down, ' points out Jean-Claude Diels of the University of New Mexico. Diels is leading a project, which is backed by EPRI, to try to use lasers to discharge lightning safely - and safety is a basic requirement since no one wants to put themselves or their expensive equipment at risk. With around $500, 000 invested so far, a promising system is just emerging from the laboratory.
The idea began some 20 years ago, when high-powered lasers were revealing their ability to extract electrons out of atoms and create ions. If a laser could generate a line of ionisation in the air all the way up to a storm cloud, this conducting path could be used to guide lightning to Earth, before the electric field becomes strong enough to break down the air in an uncontrollable surge. To stop the laser itself being struck, it would not be pointed straight at the clouds. Instead it would be directed at a mirror, and from there into the sky. The mirror would be protected by placing lightning conductors close by. Ideally, the cloud-zapper (gun)would be cheap enough to be installed around all key power installations, and portable enough to be taken to international sporting events to beam up at brewing storm clouds.
…
Questions 7-10
Complete the summary using the list ofwords, A-I, below.
Write the correct letter, A-I, in boxes 7-10 on your answer sheet.
In this method, a laser is used to create a line of ionisation by removing electrons from 7 ………………………… . This laser is then directed at 8 … … … … … … … … … … in order to control electrical charges, a method which is less dangerous than using 9 … … … … … … … … … … . As a protection for the lasers, the beams are aimed firstly at 10………………………… .
A cloud-zappers B atoms C storm clouds
D mirrors E technique F ions
真题示例 B …
G rockets H conductors I thunder
《剑桥雅思 7》第 68 页 Test 3 Reading Passage 1 第 3~6 段
They(ants) have never mastered fire nor progressed. Their fungus farming and aphid herding crafts are sophisticated when compared to the agricultural skills of humans five thousand years ago but have been totally overtaken by modern human agribusiness.
Or have they? The farming methods of ants are at least sustainable. They do not ruin environments or use enormous amounts of energy. Moreover, recent evidence suggests that the crop farming of ants may be more sophisticated and adaptable than was thought.
Ants were farmers fifty million years before humans were. Ants can't digest the cellulose in leaves — but some fungi can. The ants therefore cultivate these fungi in their nests, bringing them leaves to feed on, and then use them as a source of food. Farmer ants secrete antibiotics to control other fungi that might act as 'weeds', and spread waste to fertilise the crop.
It was once thought that the fungus that ants cultivate was a single type that they had propagated, essentially unchanged from the distant past. Not so. Ulrich Mueller of Maryland and his colleagues genetically screened 862 different types of fungi taken from ants' nests. These turned out to be highly diverse: it seems that ants are continually domesticating new species. Even more impressively, DNA analysis of the fungi suggests that the ants improve or modify the fungi by regularly swapping and sharing strains with neighbouring ant colonies.
…
Questions 7-13
Complete the summary using the list of words, A-0, below.
Write the correct letter, A-0, in boxes 7-13 on your answer sheet.
Ants as farmers
Ants have sophisticated methods of farming, including herding livestock and growing crops, which are in many ways similar to those used in human agriculture. The ants cultivate a large number of different species of edible fungi which convert 7 into a form which they can digest. They use their own natural 8 as weed-killers and also use unwanted materials as 9 .Genetic analysis shows they constantly upgrade these fungi by developing new species and by 10 species with neighbouring ant colonies. In fact, the farming methods of ants could be said to be more advanced than human agribusiness, since they use 11 methods, they do not affect the 12 and do not waste 13 .
B agricultural C cellulose D exchanging E energy A aphids
H fungi I growing J interbreeding F fertilizers G food
K natural L other species M secretions N sustainable 0 environment
原文选词填空完成句子
填空完成句子解题方法和从原文选词填空 Summary 一致。可理解为一句话 Summary 题型。
真题示例 A …
《剑桥雅思 7》第 18 页 Test 1 Reading Passage 1 E 段
E The Sonar and Radar pioneers didn't know it then, but all the world now knows
that bats, or rather natural selection working on bats, had perfected the system tens of millions of years earlier, and their “radar” achieves feats of detection and navigation that would strike an engineer dumb with admiration. It is technically incorrect to talk about bat 'radar', since they do not use radio waves. It is sonar. But the underlying mathematical theories of radar and sonar are very similar, and much of our scientific understanding of the details of what bats are doing has come from applying radar theory to them. The American zoologist Donald Griffin, who was largely responsible for the discovery of sonar in bats, coined the term 'echolocation' to cover both sonar and radar, whether used by animals or by human instruments.
…
Questions 10-13
Complete the sentences below.
Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the passage for each answer. Write your answers in boxes 10-13 on your answer sheet.
10 Long before the invention of radar, had resulted in a sophisticated radar-like system in bats.
11 Radar is an inaccurate term when referring to bats becausenot used in their navigation system.
12 Radar and sonar are based on similar .
13 The word “ echolocation” was first used by someone working as a .
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从原文选词回答问题
题目为 what, which, why, where, when 等引导的疑问句,要求从原文中选词以 作为该疑问句的答案。与其他填词题一样,该题型答案字数有限定。
解题时注意疑问词本身:问道 who 回原文找人名; where 找地名; when 找时 间; how/why 找 due to, thanks to, based on, by 等介词后的名词;问道 what 找名 词。
真题示例 A
《剑桥雅思 4》第 23 页 Test 1Reading Passage 2
What Do Whale Feel?
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