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2018年4月26日场的雅思考试已经结束，为大家带来本场雅思考试真题回忆。本场雅思大作文题目为教育类话题，原题为：In some countries, many people choose to educate their children at home by

themselves instead of sending them to school. Do you think the advantages

outweigh the disadvantages?请看真题回忆详情：

雅思听力

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雅思听力Section 1

场景：保险修赔偿

1.reference number:CWX576884

2.when did the woman claim last time:9 months ago

3.postcode:GO19 4KE

4.120, middle street, oxford

5.the floor which is made of wood was wet

6.because of the water

7.it was out of control and she switched off immediately

8.contact the client engineer to come and check the problem

9.the client inspector could come on Tuesday next week

10.the woman's house is opposite to the post office

雅思听力Section 2

11.according to Davina, a typical mentor is someone who: A has lived long in

this day

12.Davina says that a mentor could be able to: B suggest best places to

shop

13.what other thing does this city offer: A leaflets in foreign language

14.what could people do, if they continue to feel lonely: C take advantage of

the informal Thursday evening

15.what advice does Davina offer about fitting into a new life: C accept that

thing take time to settle down

16.open-air market-E

17.sport center-D

18.library-C

19.council house-A

20.post office-G

Section3 (待回忆)

雅思听力Section4

场景：沉船的水下考古

31.Maoris actually don't have record on language which is written

32.it indicates a lifestyle

33.used latest technology on research

34.it was hit by a bad storm

35.making a shoot gallery

36.the research opportunity was limited

37.ship instead of a gun

38.a historical map of wreck was found

39.pepole came to these place for the cargo of gold

40.a lot of treasure such as jewerly and coins

雅思阅读真题回忆

passage1：文学作品嵌入城市描述

passage2：古代戏剧的历史

passage3：语言的消失（来自剑桥雅思4Test2）

Lost for words

Many minority languages are on the danger list

In the Native American Navajo nation, which sprawls across four states in

the American south-west, the native language is dying. Most of its speakers are

middle-aged or elderly. Although many students take classes in Navajo, the

schools are run in English. Street signs, supermarket goods and even their own

newspaper are all in English. Not surprisingly, linguists doubt that any native

speakers of Navajo will remain in a hundred years’ time.

Navajo is far from alone. Half the world’s 6,800 languages are likely to

vanish within two generations — that’s one language lost every ten days. Never

before has the planet’s linguistic diversity shrunk at such a pace. ‘At the

moment, we are heading for about three or four languages dominating the world,’

says Mark Pagel, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Reading. ‘It’s a

mass extinction, and whether we will ever rebound from the loss is difficult to

know.’

Isolation breeds linguistic diversity: as a result, the world is peppered

with languages spoken by only a few people. Only 250 languages have more than a

million speakers, and at least 3,000 have fewer than 2,500. It is not

necessarily these small languages that are about to disappear. Navajo is

considered endangered despite having 150,000 speakers. What makes a language

endangered is not just the number of speakers, but how old they are. If it is

spoken by children it is relatively safe. The critically endangered languages

are those that are only spoken by the elderly, according to Michael Krauss,

director of the Alassk Native Language Center, in Fairbanks.

Why do people reject the language of their parents? It begins with a crisis

of confidence, when a small community finds itself alongside a larger, wealthier

society, says Nicholas Ostler, of Britain’s Foundation for Endangered Languages,

in Bath. ‘People lose faith in their culture,’ he says. ‘When the next

generation reaches their teens, they might not want to be induced into the old

traditions.’

The change is not always voluntary. Quite often, governments try to kill

off a minority language by banning its use in public or discouraging its use in

schools, all to promote national unity. The former US policy of running Indian

reservation schools in English, for example, effectively put languages such as

Navajo on the danger list. But Salikoko Mufwene, who chairs the Linguistics

department at the University of Chicago, argues that the deadliest weapon is not

government policy but economic globalisation. ‘Native Americans have not lost

pride in their language, but they have had to adapt to socio-economic

pressures,’ he says. ‘They cannot refuse to speak English if most commercial

activity is in English.’ But are languages worth saving? At the very least,

there is a loss of data for the study of languages and their evolution, which

relies on comparisons between languages, both living and dead. When an unwritten

and unrecorded language disappears, it is lost to science.

Language is also intimately bound up with culture, so it may be difficult

to preserve one without the other. ‘If a person shifts from Navajo to English,

they lose something,’ Mufwene says. ‘Moreover, the loss of diversity may also

deprive us of different ways of looking at the world,’ says Pagel. There is

mounting evidence that learning a language produces physiological changes in the

brain. ‘Your brain and mine are different from the brain of someone who speaks

French, for instance,’ Pagel says, and this could affect our thoughts and

perceptions. ‘The patterns and connections we make among various concepts may be

structured by the linguistic habits of our community.’

So despite linguists’ best efforts, many languages will disappear over the

next century. But a growing interest in cultural identity may prevent the direst

predictions from coming true. ‘The key to fostering diversity is for people to

learn their ancestral tongue, as well as the dominant language,’ says Doug

Whalen, founder and president of the Endangered Language Fund in New Haven,

Connecticut. ‘Most of these languages will not survive without a large degree of

bilingualism,’ he says. In New Zealand, classes for children have slowed the

erosion of Maori and rekindled interest in the language. A similar approach in

Hawaii has produced about 8,000 new speakers of Polynesian languages in the past

few years. In California, ‘apprentice’ programmes have provided life support to

several indigenous languages. Volunteer ‘apprentices’ pair up with one of the

last living speakers of a Native American tongue to learn a traditional skill

such as basket weaving, with instruction exclusively in the endangered language.

After about 300 hours of training they are generally sufficiently fluent to

transmit the language to the next generation. But Mufwene says that preventing a

language dying out is not the same as giving it new life by using it every day.

‘Preserving a language is more like preserving fruits in a jar,’ he says.

However, preservation can bring a language back from the dead. There are

examples of languages that have survived in written form and then been revived

by later generations. But a written form is essential for this, so the mere

possibility of revival has led many speakers of endangered languages to develop

systems of writing where none existed before.

雅思写作大作文真题回忆

In some countries, many people choose to educate their children at home by themselves instead of sending them to school. Do you think the advantages outweigh the disadvantages?

唐老雅版大作文参考范文

Contrary to the conventional practice of sending their kids to school, more

and more parents today choose to educate their children themselves at home.

While this "home-education" model may be beneficial in some ways, home can never

replace school as the major place for the education of kids.

Admittedly, home-education can bring about a bunch of benefits. With only one

kid to teach, the parents will be able to know completely about the problems the

kid has. In contrast, the teachers in school cannot spend that much time on the

same kid because they have dozens of others to take care of. The natural result

of this is that the home-educated kid may be given full attention to while his

counterparts in school may well be ignored by his teachers. It is, therefore,

very possible that a kid receiving home education excels a kid in school in

terms of test scores.

Nevertheless, test score is not the only objective of education. As far as I

understand, education is more about telling a kid to become a better person and

the first step towards this aim is learning to get along with people. In this

regard, home-education can do very little. However, when the kid is sent to

school, he will learn how to work out a problem in cooperation with his peer

classmates and in this process, he will understand the art of cooperation and

leadership. A home-educated kid, however well he achieves in tests, is just like

a flower in greenhouse which easily withers away when exposed to the rain

outside.

Unlike many worried parents who prefer to educate their kids at home, I

believe school is the best place for kids' education. While there may be some

bad influences outside home, there are also many excellent people who could be

role models for kids. Most important of all, it is just in not so pure a place

as school that kids can learn to tell right from wrong, good from bad and

eventually become physically and psychologically healthy when they grow up. (345

words)

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