[外语类试卷]雅思（阅读）历年真题试卷汇编17及答案与解析.doc

1、雅思（阅读）历年真题试卷汇编 17及答案与解析 0 You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on Reading Passage 1 below.CLASSIFYING SOCIETIESAlthough humans have established many types of societies throughout history, sociologists and anthropologists tend to classify different societies according

2、to the degree to which different groups within a society have unequal access to advantages such as resources, prestige or power, and usually refer to four basic types of societies. From least to most socially complex they are clans, tribes, chiefdoms and states.ClanThese are small-scale societies of

3、 hunters and gatherers, generally of fewer than 100 people, who move seasonally to exploit wild(undomesticated)food resources. Most surviving hunter-gatherer groups are of this kind, such as the Hadza of Tanzania or the San of southern Africa. Qan members are generally kinsfolk, related by descent o

4、r marriage. Clans lack formal leaders, so there are no marked economic differences or disparities in status among their members.Because clans are composed of mobile groups of hunter-gatherers, their sites consist mainly of seasonally occupied camps, and other smaller and more specialised sites. Amon

5、g the latter are kill or butchery sites locations where large mammals are killed and sometimes butchered and work sites, where tools are made or other specific activities carried out. The base camp of such a group may give evidence of rather insubstantial dwellings or temporary shelters, along with

6、the debris of residential occupation.TribeThese are generally larger than mobile hunter-gatherer groups, but rarely number more than a few thousand, and their diet or subsistence is based largely on cultivated plants and domesticated animals. Typically, they are settled farmers, but they may be noma

7、dic with a very different, mobile economy based on the intensive exploitation of livestock. These are generally multi-community societies, with the individual communities integrated into the larger society through kinship ties. Although some tribes have officials and even a “capital“ or seat of gove

8、rnment, such officials lack the economic base necessary for effective use of power.The typical settlement pattern for tribes is one of settled agricultural homesteads or villages. Characteristically, no one settlement dominates any of the others in the region. Instead, the archaeologist finds eviden

9、ce for isolated, permanently occupied houses or for permanent villages. Such villages may be made up of a collection of free-standing houses, like those of the first farms of the Danube valley in Europe. Or they may be clusters of buildings grouped together, for example, the pueblos of the American

10、Southwest, and the early farming village or small town of in modern Turkey.ChiefdomThese operate on the principle of ranking differences in social status between people. Different lineages(a lineage is a group claiming descent from a common ancestor)are graded on a scale of prestige, and the senior

11、lineage, and hence the society as a whole, is governed by a chief. Prestige and rank are determined by how closely related one is to the chief, and there is no true stratification into classes. The role of the chief is crucial.Often, there is local specialisation in craft products, and surpluses of

12、these and of foodstuffs are periodically paid as obligation to the chief. He uses these to maintain his retainers, and may use them for redistribution to his subjects. The chiefdom generally has a center of power, often with temples, residences of the chief and his retainers, and craft specialists.

13、Chiefdoms vary greatly in size, but the range is generally between about 5000 and 20,000 persons.Early StateThese preserve many of the features of chiefdoms, but the ruler(perhaps a king or sometimes a queen)has explicit authority to establish laws and also to enforce them by the use of a standing a

14、rmy. Society no longer depends totally upon kin relationships: it is now stratified into different classes. Agricultural workers and the poorer urban dwellers form the lowest classes, with the craft specialists above, and the priests and kinsfolk of the ruler higher still. The functions of the ruler

15、 are often separated from those of the priest: palace is distinguished from temple. The society is viewed as a territory owned by the ruling lineage and populated by tenants who have an obligation to pay taxes. The central capital houses a bureaucratic administration of officials; one of their princ

16、ipal purposes is to collect revenue(often in the form of taxes and tolls)and distribute it to government, army and craft specialists. Many early states developed complex redistribution systems to support these essential services.This rather simple social typology set out by Elman Service and elabora

17、ted by William Sanders and Joseph Marino, can be criticised, and it should not be used unthinkingly. Nevertheless, if we are seeking to talk about early societies, we must use words and hence concepts to do so. Services categories provide a good framework to help organise our thoughts.Questions 1-7D

18、o the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage 1?In boxes 1-7 on your answer sheet, writeTRUE if the statement agrees with the informationFALSE if the statement contradicts the informationNOT GIVEN if there is no information on this 1 Theres little economic difference

19、 between members of a clan. （ A）真 （ B）假 （ C） Not Given 2 The farmers of a tribe grow a wide range of plants. （ A）真 （ B）假 （ C） Not Given 3 One settlement is more important than any other settlements in a tribe. （ A）真 （ B）假 （ C） Not Given 4 A members status in a chiefdom is determined by how much land

20、 he owns. （ A）真 （ B）假 （ C） Not Given 5 There are people who craft goods in chiefdoms. （ A）真 （ B）假 （ C） Not Given 6 The king keeps the order of a state by using an army, （ A）真 （ B）假 （ C） Not Given 7 Bureaucratic officers receive higher salaries than other members. （ A）真 （ B）假 （ C） Not Given 7 Answer

21、the questions below. Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the passage for each answer. Write your answers in boxes 8-13 on your answer sheet. 8 What are made at the clan work sites? 9 What is the other way of life for tribes besides settled farming? 10 How are s housing units arranged? 11 What does a

22、chief give to his subjects as rewards besides crafted goods? 12 What is the largest possible population of a chiefdom? 13 Which group of people is at the bottom of an early state but higher than the farmers? 13 You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26, which are based on Reading Passage

23、2 below. Tasmanian Tiger Although it was called tiger, it looked like a dog with black stripes on its back and it was the largest known carnivorous marsupial of modern times. Yet, despite its fame for being one of the most fabled animals in the world, it is one of the least understood of Tasmanias n

24、ative animals. The scientific name for the Tasmanian tiger is Thylacine and it is believed that they have become extinct in the 20th century. Fossils of thylacines dating from about almost 12 million years ago have been dug up at various places in Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia. The

25、y were widespread in Australia 7,000 years ago, but have probably been extinct on the continent for 2,000 years. This is believed to be because of the introduction of dingoes around 8,000 years ago. Because of disease, thylacine numbers may have been declining in Tasmania at the time of European set

26、tlement 200 years ago, but the decline was certainly accelerated by the new arrivals. The last known Tasmanian Tiger died in Hobart Zoo in 1936 and the animal is officially classified as extinct. Technically, this means that it has not been officially sighted in the wild or captivity for 50 years. H

27、owever, there are still unsubstantiated sightings. Hans Naarding, whose study of animals had taken him around the world, was conducting a survey of a species of endangered migratory bird. What he saw that night is now regarded as the most credible sighting recorded of thylacine that many believe has

28、 been extinct for more than 70 years. “I had to work at night,“ Naarding takes up the story. “I was in the habit of intermittently shining a spotlight around. The beam fell on an animal in front of the vehicle, less than 10m away. Instead of risking movement by grabbing for a camera, I decided to re

29、gister very carefully what I was seeing. The animal was about the size of a small shepherd dog, a very healthy male in prime condition. What set it apart from a dog, though, was a slightly sloping hindquarter, with a fairly thick tail being a straight continuation of the backline of the animal. It h

30、ad 12 distinct stripes on its back, continuing onto its butt. I knew perfectly well what I was seeing. As soon as I reached for the camera, it disappeared into the tea-tree undergrowth and scrub.“ The director of Tasmanias National Parks at the time, Peter Morrow, decided in his wisdom to keep Naard

31、ings sighting of the thylacine secret for two years. When the news finally broke, it was accompanied by pandemonium. “I was besieged by television crews, including four to five from Japan, and others from the United Kingdom, Germany, New Zealand and South America,“ said Naarding. Government and priv

32、ate search parties combed the region, but no further sightings were made. The tiger, as always, had escaped to its lair, a place many insist exists only in our imagination. But since then, the thylacine has staged something of a comeback, becoming part of Australian mythology. There have been more t

33、han 4,000 claimed sightings of the beast since it supposedly died out, and the average claims each year reported to authorities now number 150. Associate professor of zoology at the University of Tasmania, Randolph Rose, has said he dreams of seeing a thylacine. But Rose, who in his 35 years in Tasm

34、anian academia has fielded countless reports of thylacine sightings, is now convinced that his dream will go unfulfilled. “The consensus among conservationists is that, usually, any animal with a population base of less than 1,000 is headed for extinction within 60 years,“ says Rose. “Sixty years ag

35、o, there was only one thylacine that we know of, and that was in Hobart Zoo,“ he says. Dr. David Pemberton, curator of zoology at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, whose PhD thesis was on the thylacine, says that despite scientific thinking that 500 animals are required to sustain a population,

36、the Florida panther is down to a dozen or so animals and, while it does have some inbreeding problems, is still ticking along. “Ill take a punt and say that, if we manage to find a thylacine in the scrub, it means that there are 50-plus animals out there.“ After all, animals can be notoriously elusi

37、ve. The strange fish known as the coelacanth, with its “proto-legs“, was thought to have died out along with the dinosaurs 700 million years ago until a specimen was dragged to the surface in a shark net off the south-east coast of South Africa in 1938. Wildlife biologist Nick Mooney has the unenvia

38、ble task of investigating all “sightings“ of the tiger totalling 4,000 since the mid-1930s, and averaging about 150 a year. It was Mooney who was first consulted late last month about the authenticity of digital photographic images purportedly taken by a German tourist while on a recent bushwalk in

39、the state. On face value, Mooney says, the account of the sighting, and the two photographs submitted as proof, amount to one of the most convincing cases for the species survival he has seen. And Mooney has seen it all the mistakes, the hoaxes, the illusions and the plausible accounts of sightings.

40、 Hoaxers aside, most people who report sightings end up believing they have seen a thy-lacine, and are themselves believable to the point they could pass a lie-detector test, according to Mooney. Others, having tabled a creditable report, then become utterly obsessed like the Tasmanian who has regis

41、tered 99 thylacine sightings to date. Mooney has seen individuals bankrupted by the obsession, and families destroyed. “It is a blind optimism that something is, rather than a cynicism that sometiiing isnt,“ Mooney says. “If sometiiing crosses the road, its not a case of I wonder what that was? Rath

42、er, it is a case of thats a tiiylacine! It is a bit like a gold prospectors blind faith, it has got to be there.“ However, Mooney treats all reports on face value. “I never try to embarrass people, or make fools of them. But the fact that I dont pack the car immediately they ring can often be taken

43、as ridicule. Obsessive characters get irate that someone in my position is not out there when they think the thylacine is there.“ But Hans Naarding, whose sighting of a striped animal two decades ago was the highlight of “a life of animal spotting“, remains bemused by the time and money people waste

44、 on tiger searches. He says resources would be better applied to saving the Tasmanian devil, and helping migratory bird populations tiiat are declining as a result of shrinking wetlands across Australia. Could the thylacine still be out there? “Sure,“ Naarding says. But he also says any discovery of

45、 surviving thylacines would be “rather pointless“. “How do you save a species from extinction? What could you do with it? If there are thylacines out there, they are better off right where they are.“ Complete the summary below. Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the passage for each answer. Write yo

46、ur answers in boxes 14-17 on your answer sheet. The Tasmanian tiger, also called thylacine, resembles the look of a dog and has【 R1】_on its fur coat. Many fossils have been found, showing that thy-lacines had existed as early as【 R2】 _years ago. They lived throughout【 R3】 _before disappearing from t

47、he mainland. And soon after the【 R4】 _ settlers arrived the size of thylacine population in Tasmania shrunk at a higher speed. 14 【 R1】 15 【 R2】 16 【 R3】 17 【 R4】 17 Look at the following statements(Questions 18-23)and the list of people below. Match each statement with the correct person, A, B, Cor

48、D. Write the correct letter, A, B, C or D, in boxes 18-23 on your answer sheet. NB You may use any letter more than once. List of People A Hans Naarding B Randolph Rose C David Pemberton D Nick Mooney 18 His report of seeing a live thylacine in the wild attracted international interest. 19 Many eye-

49、witnesses reports are not trustworthy. 20 It doesnt require a certain number of animals to ensure the survival of a species. 21 There is no hope of finding a surviving Tasmanian tiger. 22 Do not disturb them if there are any Tasmanian tigers still living today. 23 The interpretation of evidence can be affected by peoples beliefs. 23 Choose the correct letter, A, B, C or D. Write the correct letter in boxes 24-26 on your answer sheet. 24 Hans Naardings sighting has resulted in （ A） government and organisations cooperative efforts to protect thyla