摘要：這里要和打擊分享的雅思閱讀素材叫“The moments that made me love flying，讓你愛上飛行的瞬間”，光聽題目就會覺得這是一篇很浪漫的文章呢！如果還能幫你提升一下雅思閱讀能力，就更好了呢，一起來看看吧！

To be honest, I usually don't either.

I recall another time when I was leaving on what was supposed to be a family vacation, and once again, my mind was on the office and unfinished projects left behind.

Moments after take-off from Chicago, I dove into work. But a passenger behind me wouldn't stop talking. “The clouds!” he kept saying, “Look at the clouds!”

I turned to glare, and saw two men, one who appeared to be in his 70s and the other much younger. I felt sorry for the travelling companion, whom I imagined was the unlucky son tasked to join his aging father on the trip. (我為這兩個旅人感到遺憾，我想象，那一定是位不走運的兒子不得不帶著他的老父親在旅游。)The chatter continued for 20 minutes until, in frustration, I looked up from my glowing computer screen and opened the window shade.

The clouds!

He was right. We were floating through giant balls of cotton, soft and fluffy(毛茸茸的), each as different as a snowflake and seemingly close enough to touch. The afternoon sun provided a shifting palette(調色板)of colours: pink and salmon, red and raspberry, crimson and ivory, all set off against a royal blue sky. I closed my laptop and stared at them for the rest of the flight.

I don't remember the work I felt compelled(強迫)to complete that afternoon. But I've never forgotten those clouds.

Vocabulary

Hectic 忙亂的;發熱的

Navigate 航行

Snarl 吼叫

Calculate 計算

Equation 方程式;等式

Covet 想要……，覬覦

Deplete 使枯竭，用完

Follow suit 緊隨其后，效仿

Rivet 鉚釘;使迷住

Invariably 一成不變地，總是

Symmetry 對稱

Hypnotize 使催眠，著迷

Undulating 連綿起伏的

Topography 地形表面

Illuminate 照亮

Fluffy 毛茸茸的

Palette 調色板

Compel 強迫

讀雅思真題，記基礎詞匯

1. Throughout the course of history, people have traveled for purposes of trade, religious conviction, economic gain, war, migration and other equally compelling motivations.(劍10T3P1)

縱觀歷史，人們爬山涉水，目的多樣：貿易、宗教信仰、經濟利益、戰爭、遷徙和其他種種同樣緊迫的動機。

2. Shannon showed how to calculate this limit, opening the way to the design of compression methods that cram maximum information into the minimum space. (劍9T3P3)

Shannon說明了怎樣計算這一極限，為設計信息壓縮方法從而將最大的信息量塞進最小的空間開辟了道路。