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济南新航道学校 IELTS READING 雅思阅读 高分必备习题集 注：本习题集仅供济南新航道内部学员使用，严禁翻印，传阅。 Contents 1. Amateur naturalist 业余自然学家（P3） 2. Communicating Styles and Conflict 交流的方式与冲突(P6) 3. Health in the Wild 野生动物自愈.(p10) 4. The Rainmaker 人工造雨(P13) 5. Shoemaker-Levy 9 Collision with Jupiter 舒梅克彗星撞木星(P16) 6. A second look at twin studies 双胞胎研究(P19) 7. Transit of Venus  金星凌日(P22) 8. Placebo Effect—The Power of Nothing安慰剂效应(P25) 9. The origins of Laughter 笑的起源(P29) 10. Rainwater Harvesting 雨水收集(P32) 11. Serendipity:The Accidental Scientists科学偶然性(P36) 12. Terminated! Dinosaur Era! 恐龙时代的终结(P40) 13. TV ADDICTION 电视上瘾(P43) 14. EI nino and Seabirds 厄尔尼诺和水鸟(P46) 15. The extinct grass in Britain 英国灭绝的某种草(P50) 16. Education philosophy教育的哲学(P53) 17. The secret of Yawn打哈欠的秘密(P57) 18. consecutive and simultaneous translation交替传译和同声传译(P60) 19. Numeracy: can animals tell numbers?动物会数数么？(P63) 20. Going nowhere fast(P66) 21. The seedhunters种子收集者(P69) 22. The conquest of Malaria in Italy意大利征服疟疾(P72) READING PASSAGE 1 You should spend about 20minutes on Questions 27-40 which are based on Reading Passage 3 below. 文章背景： 业余自然学家主要讲述的是有一些人，平时喜欢观察自然界的植物生长，养蜂过程，气候变化，等等与大自然相关的变化并且做 记录 混凝土 养护记录下载土方回填监理旁站记录免费下载集备记录下载集备记录下载集备记录下载 得到一些数据，这种数据叫做“amateur data”. 本文主要介绍业余自然学家以及一些专业自然学家探讨业余自然学家的数据是否能用，以及应该如何使用这些自然学家的数据，其可信度有多少等问题。 Amateur Naturalists From the results of an annual Alaskan betting contest to sightings of migratory birds, ecologists are using a wealth of unusual data to predict the impact of climate change. A Tim Sparks slides a small leather-bound notebook out of an envelope.  The book’s yellowing pages contain beekeeping notes made between 1941and 1969 by the late Walter Coates of Kilworth, Leicestershire. He adds it to his growing pile of local journals, birdwatchers’ list and gardening diaries. “We’re uncovering about one major new record each month,” he says, “I still get surprised.” Around two centuries before Coates, Robert Marsham, a landowner from Norfolk in the east of England, began recording the life cycles of plants and animals on his estate- when the first wood anemones flowered, the dates on which the oaks burst into leaf and the rooks began nesting. Successive Marshams continued compiling these notes for 211 years. B Today, such records are being put to uses that their authors could not possibly have expected. These data sets, and others like them, are proving invaluable to ecologists interested in the timing of biological events, or phenology. By combining the records with climate data, researchers can reveal how, for example, changes in temperature affect the arrival of spring, allowing ecologists to make improved predictions about the impact of climate change. A small band of researchers is combing through hundreds of years of records taken by thousands of amateur naturalists. And more systematic projects have also started up, producing an overwhelming response. “The amount of interest is almost frightening,” says Sparks, a climate researcher at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Monks Wood, Cambridgeshire. C Sparks first became aware of the army of “closet phenologists”, as he describes them, when a retiring colleague gave him the Marsham records. He now spends much of his time following leads from one historical data set to another. As news of his quest spreads, people tip him off to other historical records, and more amateur phenologists come out of their closets. The British devotion to recording and collecting makes his job easier- one man from Kent sent him 30 years’ worth of kitchen calendars, on which he has noted the date that his neighbour’s magnolia tree flowered. D Other researchers have unearthed data from equally odd sources. Rafe Sagarin, an ecologist at Stanford University in California, recently studied records of a betting contest in which participants attempt to guess the exact time at which a specially erected wooden tripod will fall through the surface of a thawing river. The competition has taken place annually on the Tenana River in Alaska since 1917, and analysis of the results showed that the thaw now arrives five years earlier than it did when the contest began. E Overall, such records have helped to show that, compared with 20years ago, a raft of natural events now occur earlier across much of the northern hemisphere, from the opening of leaves to the return of birds from migration and the emergence of butterflies from hibernation. The data can also hint at how nature will change in the future. Together with models of climate change, amateurs’ records could help guide conservation. Terry Root, an ecologist at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, has collected birdwatchers’ counts of wildfowl taken between 1955 and 1996 on seasonal ponds in the American Midwest and combined them with climate data and models of future warming. Her analysis shows that the increased droughts that the models predict could halve the breeding populations at the ponds. “The number of waterfowl in North America will most probably drop significantly with global warming,” she says.