下面将就Test 4 中常出现的难点做一解析,希望和各位雅思教学和研究者们探讨。
在Passage 1的Questions 4-9中 :
8. Traditional food-gathering in desert societies was distributed evenly over the year.
显然,判断的主体是food-gathering, 而考点应该是evenly. 如果考生按照关键词food-gathering 去原文中定位,可能会先找到本段第二句位于Line 4 的内容:
However, as some inhabitants become involved in tourism, they no longer have time to collect wild food;
看起来定位很快,可是接着读下去就发现不能找到和题目对应的信息,这意味着无法作答。事实上,该题目的信息在文中分布的位置较好地遵循了顺序原则,在Section B 的第二段可以看到首句:
In Arctic and desert societies, year-round survival has traditionally depended on hunting animals and fish and collecting fruit over a relatively short season.
我们注意到,food 已经被代换得了无痕迹,变换成许多具体代表food 的内容:animals, fish fruit. 而位于句末的short season 则巧妙地说明猎取食物是集中在相对较短的几个月里,以此来维持全年的生计,这和题目中evenly 的表述是背离的,因而答案是 NO.
在雅思阅读文章中,这种巧妙代换并不在少数。笔者对学生进行的雅思模拟练习中,有这样一篇谈论催眠的文章:Hypnosis. 在多项选择题中,其中一个得题干为:
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