内容简介

《IELTS考试技能训练教程阅读(修订本)》是雅思阅读考试备考用书，由北京语言大学出国人员培训部的教师积多年IELTS培训教学的经验、对IELTS考试进行细致分析之后编写而成。全书分为9个单元，分别针对不同的雅思阅读题型进行讲解和训练。

作者简介

王冰欣，教育部北京语言大学出国留学人员培训部副主任，副教授。

陈卫东，教育部北京语言大学出国留学人员培训部主任。

目录

Unit One Matcching the Headings

Exercise 1 A Giant Step for Artificial Enzymes

Exercise 2 More Than Sympathy

Exercise 3 Energy from Biological Sources

Exercise 4 Sleeping Secrets

Exercise 5 It Never Rains

Exercise 6 Farmers Harvest the Wind

Exercise 7 Germs and Sickness in a Shrinking World

Exercise 8 On the Wing

Unit Two Gloze

Exercise 1 Standards of Measurement

Exercise 2 The Function of Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere

Exercise 3 The Properties of Systems in the Human Body

Exercise 4 Analysis and Synthesis

Exercise 5 The Properties of Elements, Compounds and Mixtures

Exercise 6 The Structure of the Earth

Exercise 7 The Carbon Cycle

Exercise 8 Vitamins

Exercise 9 Thermostats

Exercise 10 Pressure

Exercise 11 Space and Distance

Exercise 12 The Theory of Emotion

Exercise 13 Physical Characteristics

Exercise 14 Attitude Functions

Exercise 15 Functions of Leadership

Unit Three Multiple Choice

Exercise 1 Are You a Machine of Many Parts?

Exercise 2 Making Allowances for Your Kids' Dollar Values

Exercise 3 The Lost City of DeMille Emerges from the Desert

Sands of California

Exercise 4 Separate, but EQ

Unit Four Summarizing

Exercise 1 Adapting to Road Conditions

Exercise 2 Biogas: a Solution to Many Problems

Exercise 3 A 19th Century Killer Disease: Tuberculosis

Exercise 4 For Each Astronaut, a "Buddy"

Exercise 5 Management in Cyberspace

Exercise 6 Our Dying Seas

Exercise 7 Ethics and Archaeology

Unit Five YES/NO/NOT GIVEN

Exercise 1 The World of the Flat-footed Fly

Exercise 2 Energy, Fission and Fusion

Exercise 3 Will Britain Turn Its Back on Wave Power?

Exercise 4 Talk to Kids about Drugs? Parents Just Don't Do It

Exercise 5 A New Learning Tool

Exercise 6 Ill Winds

Exercise 7 Stuffed

Exercise 8 Brain Drain

Exercise 9 Morphing Winglets Make for Greener Aircraft

Exercise 10 Transporter of Delight

Unit Six: Scanning for answers

Exercise 1 Batteries Now Included

Exercise 2 A Light Bulb that Lasts

Exercise 3 Elemental Clues to a Galaxy's Past

Exercise 4 Vital Role in World Airline Industry

Exercise 5 Tough Sensor Can Take the Heat

Exercise 6 Model Atmosphere Show Signs of Life

Exercise 7 Tree Rings Are Laying Bare the Climatic History of Asia

Unit Seven Integrated Exercises

Exercise 1 Museums Are Showing off the Stuff in the Attic

Exercise 2 A Sense of Crisis

Exercise 3 Carcinogenic Dye in Hundreds of Food Products

Exercise 4 Saving the Seahorses

Exercise 5 Deadly Illusion Brings Death on the Road

Exercise 6 How Safe Are Air Bags?

Exercise 7 Expanding Consciousness

Exercise 8 A Harebrained Scheme

Exercise 9 Hypnosis

Exercise 10 Metal Compounds Which Break the Rules

Unit Eight Practice Tests

PRACTICE TEST (Version One)

PRACTICE TEST (Version Two)

PRACTICE TEST (Version Three)

PRACTICE TEST (Version Four)

PRACTICE TEST (Version Five)

PRACTICE TEST (Version Six)

PRACTICE TEST (Version Seven)

Answer Key

Appendices

1. A Brief Introduction to the IELTS Test

2. IELTS Reading Answer Sheet