2012年五月26日雅思阅读机经.doc

考试日期： 2012年5月26日 Reading Passage 1 Title: Island Country in Pacific Question types: True/False/Not Given; Summary; Short Answer Question 文章内容回顾 讲考古学研究的。大致的意思是：从库克船长环球航海引入，说他到了夏威夷群岛后发现当地土著讲的话是波利尼西亚人讲的语言，感觉非常惊奇，因为两个地方隔得很远。然后在一个岛上，考古学家和他的team找到了历史遗迹，里面有6个没有破损的pottery。记得T/F/NG有说这些pottery是用来煮东西吃的，但原文里面没有提到，所以选了NG。第一篇难度还行，题目跟文章都挺容易，不过第一段讲Captain Cook可能误导了很多烤鸭们。 英文原文阅读 Cooks 12 years sailing around the Pacific Ocean contributed much to European knowledge of the area. Several islands such as Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) were encountered for the first time by Europeans, and his more accurate navigational charting of large areas of the Pacific was a major achievement. To create accurate maps, latitude and longitude need to be known. Navigators had been able to work out latitude accurately for centuries by measuring the angle of the sun or a star above the horizon with an instrument such as a backstaff or quadrant. Longitude was more difficult to measure accurately because it requires precise knowledge of the time difference between points on the surface of the earth. The Earth turns a full 360 degrees relative to the sun each day. Thus longitude corresponds to time: 15 degrees every hour, or 1 degree every 4 minutes. Cook gathered accurate longitude measurements during his first voyage due to his navigational skills, the help of astronomer Charles Green and by using the newly published Nautical Almanac tables, via the lunar distance method—measuring the angular distance from the moon to either the sun during daytime or one of eight bright stars during night-time to determine the time at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and comparing that to his local time determined via the altitude of the sun, moon, or stars. On his second voyage Cook used the K1 chronometer made by Larcum Kendall, which was the shape of a large pocket watch, 5 inches (13 cm) in diameter. It was a copy of the H4 clock made by John Harrison, which proved to be the first to keep accurate time at sea when u