2014年7月26日雅思考试阅读部分都考了哪些题目，难度如何？小站教育名师第一时间为大家带来最新的雅思阅读真题解析及答案（雅思阅读机经）。
小站教育名师：2014年7月26日雅思阅读真题解析
本次考试的文章组合--2旧1新。就文章类型而言，生物类的文章(seed)仍有出现，而第三篇（智商与天赋）个人发展类的文章相对其他而言，出现的概率较小。就题型而言，第一篇考到了出现频度极低的表格题，这类简单题型，定要努力拿分。
Passage 1 Plastic（新文）（技术工艺类）
文章大意：讲述材料的特征及用途。
题型：表格题；判断题
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类似真题文章
剑桥5 Test2 Passage 1 Bakelite-The Birth of Modern Plastics
塑料的简介：A plastic material is any of a wide range of synthetic or semi-synthetic organic solids that are moldable. Plastics are typieally organic polymers of high molecular mass, but they often contain other substances. They are usually synthetic, most commonly derived from petrochemieals，but many are partially natural.
Passage 2 Seed Travelling（旧文）
文章大意：植物种子的传播途径
题型：Matching，填空题；判断题
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简述种子是如何传播：
Seeds with wings -Some seeds have parachutes or wings like a glider. The wings and parachutes slow them down as they fall from the mother plant. Then the seeds are carried away from the mother by air currents. The dandelion seeds in this drawing are a great example. Hitchhikers Have you ever gotten home from a field trip and found your seeks covered with stieky or priekly seeds? These seeds are now in a new place because you carried them. Animal fur and feathers are also good places to stick to and catch a ride.
同题材文章：Seed Hunting（种子猎人）（部分原文）
Seed Hunting
A With quarter of the world’s plants set to vanish within the next 50 years. Dough Alexander reports on the scientists working against the clock the preserve the Earth's botanical heritage. They travel the four corners of the globe, scouting jungles, forests and savannas. But they're not looking for ancient artefacts. Lost treasure or undiscovered tombs. Just pods. It may Iack the romantic allure of archaeology, or the whiff of danger that accompanies going atter big game, but seed hunting is an increasingly serious business Some seek seeds for profit—hunters in the employ of biotechnology firms, pharmaceutical companies and private corporations on the lookout for species that wilI yield the drugs or crops 0f the future Others collect to conserve. working to halt the sad slide into extinction facing so many plant species.
B Among the pioneers of this botanical treasure hunt was John Tradescant, an English royal gardener who brought back plants and seeds from his journeys abroad in the early 1600s. Later, the English botanist Sir Joseph Banks—-who was the first director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew and travelled with Captain James Cook on his voyages near the end of the 1 8th century--was so driven to expand his collections thathe sent botan—ists around the world at his own expense.
C 1110se heady days of exploration and discovery maybe over. but thcv have been replaced by a pressing need to preserve our natural history for the future. This modem mission drives hunters such as Dr MichieI van Slageren, a good-natured Dutchman who often sports a wide-brimmed hat in the field--he could easily be mistaken for the cinematic hero Indiana Jones. He and three other seed hunters work at the Millennium Seed Bank, an 80 million fpounds sterlingl intemational conservation project that aims to protect the world‘s most endangered wild plant species.
Passage 3 Intelligenoe and Giftedness（旧文）
文章大意：IQ和gifred ehiidren. IQ测试是德国心理学家Willam Stern于1912年设计的。介绍了某位教授做的相关实验和大家的争议。教授宣称做这种测试很困难，因为有时候受比较多的因素影响。他并没有采用一般reading skill,math以及传统方法来进行智商的测量。
题型： 段落信息匹配题；选择题；判断题
Intelligence and Giftedness
A In 1904 the French mmistei’of education, facing Iimited resources ror schooling, sought a way to separate the unable from the merely lazy. AIRed Binet got the job of devising selection principles and his brilliant solution put a stamp on tire study of intelligence and was the forerunner of intelligence tests still used today, he developed a thirty—problem test in 1905, which tapped several abilities related to intellect, such as Judgrnent and reasoning, the test determined a given child’s mental age. The test previously established a norm for children of a given physicaI age(for example, five-year-olds on average get ten items correct), therefore a child with a mental age of five should score 10, which would mean that he or she was functioning pretty much as others of that age the child’s memal age was then compared to his physical age.
B A large disparityinthewlong direction(e.g., a child ofninewith amental age offour) mlght suggest inability rather than laziness and mean he or she was earmarked for special schooling, Binet, however, denmd that the test was measuring intelligence, its purpose was simply diagnostic, for selection only caused many problems and mIsunderstanding later.
C Although Binet's test was popular, it was a bit inconvenient to deal with a variety of physical and mental ages. So in 1912 Wilhelm Stem suggested simplifying this by reducing the two to a single number: he divided the mental age by the physical age, and multiplied the result by 100 An average child, irrespective of age.
