新東方名師：2015年5月9日雅思聽力真題回憶

寧波新東方 朱歡

Section 1 新題 咨詢場景

填空10

1. 2.50 pounds

2. froman agent

3. after 4.30 pm

4. restauranthas a garden

5. caféin a basement

6. horror movies

7. summerparties

8. action

（答案順序可能有誤，剩余答案待補充）

Section 2 新題

6配對+4多選

新生orientation

答案待補充

TIPS: orientation作為可數名詞表示“定向、態度、取向”；作為不可數名詞表示“培訓”。這個詞在劍橋雅思6Test4 section2 出現過，講的是travelling expotemporary staff orientation, 旅行博覽會臨時工培訓，同學們可以參考練習。

orientation 有一個同根詞----oriental。新東方學校的英文叫NewOriental School~~

傳說中的NewEast？NoNo No ～～～

Section 3 舊題 Y09121 2009212；課堂討論

3多選+3單選+4填空

老師對學生的報告提出建議

21-23) 多選

21. writingstyle

22. latesubmission

23. lackof research

24. Just coffee 公司在增進communication方面提供

A. technical support

B. financialaids

25. 數據增長：選triple (老師提出數據增長不止兩倍，而是triple)

26. 老師說她還應該包括：

A. Farming method

B. marketexpansion

C. producer countries

27. 老師讓學生寫個reference document

28. productsneed to be mentioned

29. equipment, like computers

30. 有個socalled 項目叫Knowledge Sharing

Section 4 新題 學術講座

6填空 4配對

Earth sheltered house

31. lowimpact

32. lifespan

33. traffic

34. conservation

35. aircondition

36-40 CBBA

(答案僅供參考順序可能有誤)

新東方名師：2015年5月9日雅思閱讀真題回憶

寧波新東方 李夢佳

Passage 1

題材：環境健康類

新舊情況：新題

題目：Solutions to Indoor Air Pollution

題型：簡答5 +圖表填空4+判斷4

文章大意：

介紹了關于室內空氣污染治理項目的情況和成果。

部分答案回憶：

1.weight

2.fuel

3.distribution

4.stoves

5.consultations

6.pilot

7.review

8.10 million

9.international

Passage 2

題材：環境能源類

新舊情況：新題

題目：Egypt’s Sunken Treasures

題型：Matching4+判斷+填空

文章大意：

埃及一個古建筑在海底被發現了，考古學家拯救海底建筑。

部分答案：待補充

Passage 3

題材：文化類

新舊情況：新題

題目：The Future of Language

題型：summary4+判斷+填空

文章大意：

類似舊題，僅供練習

SaveEndangered Language

“Obviouslywe must do some serious rethinking of our priorities, lest linguistics go downin history as the only science that presided obviously over the disappearanceof 90percent of the very field to which it is dedicated. “-Michael Krauss, “TheWorld’s Languages in Crisis ”.

A

Tenyears ago Michael Krauss sent a shudder through the discipline of linguisticswith his prediction that half the 6,000 or so languages spoken in the worldwould cease to be uttered within a century. Unless scientists and communityleaders directed a worldwide effort to stabilize the decline of local languages,he warned, nine tenths of the linguistic diversity of humankind would probablybe doomed to extinction. Krauss’s prediction was little more than an educatedguess, but other respected linguists had been clanging out similar alarms.Keneth L. Hale of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology noted in the samejournal issue that eight languages on which he had done fieldwork had sincepassed into extinction. A 1990 survey in Australia found that 70 of the 90surviving Aboriginal languages were no longer used regularly by all age groups.The same was true for all but 20 of the 175 Native American languages spoken orremembered in the US., Krauss told a congressional panel in 1992.

B

Manyexperts in the field mourn the loss of rare languages, for several reasons. Tostart, there is scientific self-interest: some of the most basic questions in linguisticshave to do with the limits of human speech, which are far from fully explored.Many researchers would like to know which structural elements of grammar andvocabulary—if any— are truly universal and probably therefore hardwired intothe human brain. Other scientists try to reconstruct ancient migration patternsby comparing borrowed words that appear in otherwise unrelated languages. Ineach of these cases, the wider the portfolio of languages you study, the morelikely you are to get the right answers.

C

Despitethe near constant buzz in linguistics about endangered languages over the past10 years, the field has accomplished depressingly little. “You would think thatthere would be some organized response to this dire situation,” some attempt todetermine which language can be saved and which should be documented beforethey disappear, says Sarah G. Thomason, a linguist at the University ofMichigan at Ann Arbor. “But there isn’t any such effort organized in the profession.It is only recently that it has become fashionable enough to work on endangeredlanguages.” Six years ago, recalls Douglas H. Whalen of Yale University, “whenI asked linguists who was raising money to deal with these problems, I mostlygot blank stares.” So Whalen and a few other linguists founded the EndangeredLanguages Fund. In the five years to 2001 they were able to collect only$80,000 for research grants. A similar foundation in England, directed byNicholas Ostler, has raised just $8,000 since 1995.

D

Butthere are encouraging signs that the field has turned a corner. The VolkswagenFoundation, a German charity, just issued its second round of grants totalingmore than $2 million. It has created a multimedia archive at the Max PlanckInstitute for Psycholinguistics in the Netherlands that can house recordings,grammars, dictionaries and other data on endangered languages. To fill thearchive, the foundation has dispatched field linguists to document Aweti (100or so speakers in Brazil), Ega (about 300 speakers in Ivory Coast), Waima’a (afew hundred speakers in East Timor), and a dozen or so other languages unlikelyto survive the century. The Ford Foundation has also edged into the arena. Itscontributions helped to reinvigorate a master-apprentice program created in1992 by Leanne Hinton of Berkeley and Native Americans worried about theimminent demise of about 50 indigenous languages in California. Fluent speakersreceive $3,000 to teach a younger relative (who is also paid) their nativetongue through 360 hours of shared activities, spread over six months. So farabout 5 teams have completed the program, Hinton says, transmitting at leastsome knowledge of 25 languages. “It’s too early to call this languagerevitalization,” Hinton admits. “In California the death rate of elderlyspeakers will always be greater than the recruitment rate of young speakers.But at least we prolong the survival of the language.” That will give linguistsmore time to record these tongues before they vanish.

E

Butthe master-apprentice approach hasn’t caught on outside the U.S., and Hinton’seffort is a drop in the sea. At least 440 languages have been reduced to a merehandful of elders, according to the Ethnologue, a catalogue of languagesproduced by the Dallas-based group SIL International that comes closest toglobal coverage. For the vast majority of these languages, there is little orno record of their grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation or use in daily life.Even if a language has been fully documented, all that remains once it vanishesfrom active use is a fossil skeleton, a scattering of features that the scientistwas lucky and astute enough to capture. Linguists may be able to sketch anoutline of the forgotten language and fix its place on the evolutionary tree,but little more. “How did people start conversations and talk to babies? Howdid husbands and wives converse?” Hinton asks. “Those are the first things youwant to learn when you want to revitalize the language.”

F

Butthere is as yet no discipline of “conservation linguistics,” as there is for biology.Almost every strategy tried so far has succeeded in some places but failed inothers, and there seems to be no way to predict with certainty what will workwhere. Twenty years ago in New Zealand, Maori speakers set up “language nests,”in which preschoolers were immersed in the native language. AdditionalMaori-only classes were added as the children progressed through elementary andsecondary school. A similar approach was tried in Hawaii, with some success—the number of native speakers has stabilized at 1,000 or so, reports Joseph E.Grimes of SIL International, who is working on Oahu. Students can now getinstruction in Hawaiian all the way through university.

G

Onefactor that always seems to occur in the demise of a language is that the speakersbegin to have collective doubts about the usefulness of language loyalty. Oncethey start regarding their own language as inferior to the majority language,people stop using it for all situations. Kids pick up on the attitude andprefer the dominant language. In many cases, people don’t notice until theysuddenly realize that their kids never speak the language, even at home. Thisis how Cornish and some dialects of Scottish Gaelic is still only rarely usedfor daily home life in Ireland, 80 years after the republic was founded withIrish as its first official language.

H

Linguistsagree that ultimately, the answer to the problem of language extinction ismultilingualism. Even uneducated people can learn several languages, as long asthey start as children. Indeed, most people in the world speak more than onetongue, and in places such as Cameroon (279 languages), Papua New Guinea (823)and India (387) it is common to speak three or four distinct languages and adialect or two as well. Most Americans and Canadians, to the west of Quebec,have a gut reaction that anyone speaking another language in front of them iscommitting an immoral act. You get the same reaction in Australia and Russia.It is no coincidence that these are the areas where languages are disappearingthe fastest. The first step in saving dying languages is to persuade theworld’s majorities to allow the minorities among them to speak with their ownvoices.

新東方名師：2015年5月9日雅思寫作真題回憶

寧波新東方 王彭濤

Task1 table

The table below shows the salaries of secondary/high school teachers in2009. Describe the main features of the figure.

分析：

五月第一場BC下手很仁慈，題目一點都不難，很可惜，第一時間拿不到全部準確的數字。所以下面文章中一些xx數據，未能補充完整。同學們主要看文字表達和句型。據參加的同學回憶，在start這塊，盧森堡最高，其次澳大利亞和丹麥，最后是韓國和日本；在15年后的一列，情況依舊，盧森堡最高，其次澳大利亞和丹麥，最后是韓國和日本；最后的薪水峰值，韓國和日本后來居上成了第一第二，盧森堡第二，澳大利亞和丹麥最后。

Word count:180

The table compares the income of secondary/school amongfive countries in the year 1999.

It is obvious that atthe initial stage of teachers’ career, Luxembourg’s teachers earned themost salaries (800000 pound). And the teachers came from Australia and Denmark had the second most income, whichreached at xx pound. As for Korean and Japanese teachers, they did not make asmuch income as any other countries, only had xx and xx pound respectively.

15 years later, this situation didn’t changedramatically. The payment of Luxembourg’s teachers rose by 30,000 pound and stillwon the largest payment. Australian and Danish teachers’ income followed, whichincreased to xx and xx respectively. As is expected, the figure for Japan andKorea came right at the bottom.

Conversely, compared to the top salary in a teacher’scareer, the incomes of Korean and Japanese teachers climbed like a rocket, arriving at their highest level of 370,000and 340,000 respectively. The number of Luxembourg’s teachers almost tripled. But it is strange that thesalaries of Australian and Danish teachers did not go up any further.

Task2 寧波新東方 陳緣

分析：題目難在拓展，容易跑題。

不需要提解決方法，需要你解釋個人為何能解決環境問題，以及科技怎樣解決環境問題。感謝今天為我們考情回憶的同學。

wordcount：271

SAMPLE:

There is nodoubt that modern technology has caused a variety of environmentalissues, both in cities and towns. Ironically, I feel that technology can addresssome of these problems but at the same time, personal effort is a must.

Theoretically,addressing some environmental issues by adopting simple lifestyles is sensible.According to the statistics, during the last 100 years, the earth’s surfacetemperature has risendramatically because of human activities. Therefore,somepeople feel that the changes in our lifestyles can reverse this worrying trend. Forexample, the growing number of vehicles on the road emits a large quantity ofgreen house gases, such as carbon dioxide, which will worsen the air quality. Ifresidents chose other modes of transport, like buses or subways, this seriouscondition would be alleviated to a large extent. However, in my opinion, this policywould be veryunpopular withsome people,especially those living in the suburb, whodo need to travel on roads.

Whileit is undeniable that an individual’s behaviour has a profound effect on theenvironment, other people argue that the improvement in technology can tacklesome problems in turn. For example, the technology today is available toproduce electric cars that would be both quieter and cleaner to use. Persuadingmanufacturers and travellers to adopt this new technology would be a moreeffective strategy for improving air quality fundamentally.

Myown view is that apart from individual effort and environmental friendlytechnologies, we need to do more, such as introducing related laws andregulations. Environmental problems are so complex that each effort should becombined together to win the battle.