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  剑桥雅思14听力Tes2Section4答案及解析

  谈话场景:讲座场景

  人物关系:主讲人独白

  谈话话题:谈论天气预报的发展史

  交际与语言表达

  1."Most ancient cultures had weather gods,and weather catastrophes,such as floods,played an important role in many creation myths.Generally,weather was attributed to the whims of the ods,as the wide range of weather gods in various cultures shows:”(大多数远古文化中都有与气象有关的神明,像洪水这类的气象灾害在神话创作中起着重要作用。一般来说,天气是由诸神的奇思妙想造成的,正如不同文化中的这些神明所显示的那样。)其中be attributed to为雅思听力考试中的常考短语,意为“归因于……,常与 be credited to做同义替换。

  2."Many ancient civilisations developed rites such as dances in order to make the weather gods look kindly on then.”(许多远古文明中发展出了诸如舞蹈之类的仪式,以获得气象伸明的妥善关照。)其中look on意为“对待”,此处的look kindly on sb.则意为“妥善关照某人”。

  3."But the weather was of daily importance: observing the skies and drawing the correct conclu sions from these observations was really important, in fact their survival depended on it. " (但是天气对于远古人类的日常生活非常重要:观测天空并从这些观测中做出正确的推断很重要,事实上,这是他们赖以生存的根本。)其中be of importance意为“对很重要”,它是雅思听力考试中常见的表达重要性的句式结构,可以与be significant/essntial做同义替换; draw a conclusion意为“做出推断”。

  4."The Chinese also recognised weather patterns, and by 300 BC, astronomers had developed a calendar which divided the year into 24 festivals, each associated with a different weather phenomenon.”(古代中国人也意识到了气象变化的模式,公元前300年,天文学家们发明了一种历法,这种历法将一年划分为24个节气,其中每个节气都与一种气候现象有关。)其中associate with为固定搭配,意为“与……有关”。

  5."Many of his observations were surprisingly accurate. For example, he believed that heat could cause water to evaporate. But he also jumped to quite a few wrong conclusions, such as that winds are breathed out by the Earth. Errors like this were rectified from the renaissance onwards."(他的许多观测结果都惊人地准确。例如,他认为高温能导致水分蒸发。但是他也做出了一些错误的推断,比如风源自地球。不过自文艺复兴时期起,此类错误便被纠正了。)其中be breathed out by是一种拟人用法,原意为“被……呼出”,此处引申为“源自……”;from...onward为固定搭配,意为“自……时候起”。

  考题解析：

  Question 31答案 dances

  听前预测:定位词:floods、many cultures、ceremonies;提示词：invented;词性：名词。此处是一个并列结构，所以应填入一个与ceremonies并列的名词，但是该词位于定位名词之前，所以要做好对答案的预判。

  题目解析:此题较难。首先，定位词many cultures的同义表达在文中出现了不止一次，并且在定位词floods出现后，有大量的篇幅都在介绍古代与气象有关的神明，这就很容易导致很多同学在听的过程中迷失。many cultures的同义表达many ancient civilisations再度出现，引出了答案句："Many ancient civilisations developed rites such as dances in order to make the weather gods look kindly on them”，其中developed对应题干中的invented;rites such as dances与题干中的...and other ceremonies为同义表达，可知dances是ceremonies的其中一种，因此答案为dances。此题的同义替换较难，如果不知道rites即为ceremonies的话，很难推断出答案，且文中的句式表达(例举形式)与题干中的句式表达(并列形式)也存在一定的差异。

  Question 32答案 survival

  听前预测:定位词:sky;提示词：observe、interpret,ensure;词性:名词。此处为一个不定式结构,表示observe and interpret the sky 的目的是八们为J确保什么,所以应填名词。

  题目解析:此题较难。定位词就在答案句中:“...observing the skies and drawing the correct conclusions from these observations was really important,in fact their survival depended on it.”.该句的定位并不难,但是需要从句意中推敲出答案:题干中对目的的表达为一个不定式,而文中表达的是in fact their survival depended on it,这里的depended on it等同于题干中的observe and interpret the sky to ensure,it指代的是题干中的observe and interpret the sky;也就是说,A depended on B即do B to ensure A,因此答案为survival.

  Question 33答案 clouds

  听前预测:定位词:650 BC,Babylonians;提示词:weather phenomena,such as;词性:名词。此处是一个由such as引导的例子,所以应填一种气候现象。

  题目解析:此题容易定位,但并不容易得分。定位词原词重现后,紧跟着答案句“...produced the first short-range weather forecasts,based on their observations of clouds and other phenomena.",此处出现了和31题一样的考点,即例举句式和并列句式之间的替换。同学们只要掌握了句式A such as A1等同于Al and other A(其中A与A1是一种包含关系，即A涵盖了A1)的这类同义替换，以后就会解答此类题型了。

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