首先,细心的同学已经发现从剑四开始每本书的后面都多了一个acknowledgements。其实在acknowledgements里面已经给出了剑桥这几本材料里面阅读文章的来源。经过总结归纳不难发现,雅思A类文章主要来自于学术出版物,而非一般娱乐性出版物。其中主要用到的学术杂志如下:
1. New Scientist:这本杂志被用到的频率最高,如剑五中的Whats So Funny?,Flawed Beauty: the Problem with Toughened Glass,和剑六中的多篇文章章Australias Sporting Success、Climate Change and the Inuit、Graying Population Stays in the Pink、Do Literate Women Make Better Mothers?
2. The Economist:列居其次,如剑五中的The Truth about the Environment,剑六中的Delivering the Goods。
3. American Scientist和Scientific American,这是两个主要的美国学术期刊,例如剑五的Disappearing Delta和剑六的The Search for Anti-aging Pills。
4. 当然还有National Geographic。但是值得注意的是,因为这是休闲杂志,所以只作为了G类的阅读,如剑六中的Pterosaurs。
除了以上提到的若干来源之外,雅思A类的阅读文章还出自Nature、Discover、Time 、Boston Global、History Today等其余期刊或杂志。
了解这些雅思文章出处之后对于广大考生平时进行泛读训练具有很好的指导作用。考生甚至可以使用阅读机经,从以上杂志期刊的官方网站上搜索到相关背景文章进行有针对性的阅读训练。
知道了雅思阅读的来源出处,无疑为雅思考试指明了备考方向。希望同学们充分利用这些资源,在考试中取得好成绩。
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