12月17日雅思考试真题全面回忆

12月份最后一场雅思考试，也就是今年的最后一场雅思考试已经结束了，接下来就为大家带来12月17日雅思考试真题全面回忆，供大家参考。

听力

一、考试概述：

本场考试题型配置中规中矩，20个选择类题目，20个填空类题目。2015年-2016年常规的题型包括：笔记、表格、单选、配对、地图基本等都已经出齐。并且在题目场景方面有三个section与雅思真题中的题目在题型配置和内容方面有极高的相似度。相信这一场题型常规、场景对于认真刷题的同学来说很熟悉的考试，应该可以算是对2016年雅思考试的一个总结。

Section 1 

银行保险——保险索赔  10笔记

Section 2   

介绍——接人  4单选+6配对地图 

Section 3

学生——艺术学校选课场景  5单选+5配对

Section 4  

历史——事件测量的历史  10笔记   

阅读

一、考试概述：

本次考试的文章是两篇旧文章，一篇新文章，难度中等。第一篇讲了某位学者发现的顺势治疗法，第二篇讲了环境对孩子的影响，第三篇讲了棱皮龟。

二、具体题目分析

Passage 1：

题目：Overdosing on nothing

题号：旧题

文章大意：某位学者发现的顺势治疗法，直到现在都还很流行。讲了这种疗法的发展，以及它在英国和欧洲带来的影响。

Overdosing on nothing

A

An international protest this week aims to demonstrate the truth about homeopathy-that there’s literally nothing in it, says Martin Robbins AT 10.23am on 30 January, more than 300 activists in the UK, Canada, Australia and the US will take part in a mass homeopathic “overdose”. Skeptics will publicly swallow an entire bottle of homeopathic pills to demonstrate to the public that homeopathic remedies, the product of a scientifically unfounded 18th-centuryritual, are simply sugar pills. Many of the skeptics will swallow 84 pills of arsenicum album, a homeopathic remedy based on arsenic which is used to treat a range of symptoms, including food poisoning and insomnia. The aim of the “10:23” campaign, led by the Merseyside Skeptics Society, based in Liverpool, UK, is to raise public awareness of just exactly what homeopathy is, and to put pressure on the UK’s leading pharmacist, Boots, to remove theremedies from sale. The campaign is called 10:23in honor of the Avogadroconstant (approximately 6 x 1023, the number of atoms or molecules in onemole of a substance), of which more later.

B

That such a protest is even necessary in 2010 is remarkable, but somehow the homeopathic industry has not only survived into the 21st century, but prospered. In the UK alone more than £40 million is spent annually on homeopathic treatments, with £4 million of this being sucked from the National Health Service budget. Yet the basis for homeopathy defies the laws of physics, and high-quality clinical trials have never been able to demonstrate that it works beyond the placebo effect.

C

The discipline is based on three “laws”; the law of similars, the law of infinite simals and the law of succession. The law of similars states that something which causes your symptoms will cure your symptoms, so that, for example, as caffeine keeps you awake, it can also be a cure for insomnia. Of course, that makes little sense, since drinking caffeine, well, keeps you awake. Next is the law of infinitesimals, which claims that diluting a substance makes it more potent. Homeopaths start by diluting one volume of their remedy arsenic oxide, in the case of arsenicumalbum-in 99 volumes of distilled water oralcohol to create a “centesimal”. They then dilute one volume of the centesimal in 99volumes of water or alcohol, and so on, up to 30 times. Application of Avogadro’s constant tells you that a dose of such a“30C” recipe is vanishingly unlikely to

contain even a single molecule of the active ingredient. The third pillar of homeopathy is the law of succession. This states-and I’m not making this up-that by tapping the liquid in a special way during the dilution process, a memory of the active ingredient is somehow imprinted on it. This explains how water is able to carry a memory of arsenic oxide, but apparently not of the contents of your local sewer network.

D

The final preparation is generally dropped onto a sugar pill which the patient swallows. Homeopaths claim that the application of these three laws results in a remedy that, even though it contains not a single molecule of the original T-T-J.— ingredient, somehow carries an “energy signature” of it that nobody can measure or detect. Unsurprisingly, when tested under rigorous scientific conditions, in randomized, controlled and double blind trials, homeopathic remedies have shown to be no better than a placebo. Of course, the placebo effect is quite powerful, but it’s a bit like justifying building a car without any wheels on the basis that you can still enjoy the comfy leather seats and play with the gear shift.

E

Even some retailers who sell the treatments have admitted there is no evidence that they work. In November, Paul Bennett, the super intendent pharmacist at Boots, appeared before the UK parliament’s Commons Science and Technology Committee’s “evidence check” on homeopathy. He was questioned by Member of Parliament Phil Willis, who asked: “Do they work beyond the placebo effect?” I have no evidence before me to suggest that they are efficacious,” Bennett replied. He defended Boots’s decision to sell homeopathic remedies on the grounds of consumer choice. “A large number of our consumers actually do believe they are efficacious, but they are licensed medicinal products and, therefore, we believe it is right to make the mavailable,” he said.

F

You might agree. You might also argue that homeopathy is harmless: if people want to part with their money for sugar pills and nobody is breaking the law, why not let them? To some extent that’s true-there’s only so much damage you can do with sugar pills short of feeding them to a diabetic or dropping a large crate of them on someone’s head. However, we believe there is a risk in perpetuating the notion that homeopathy is equivalent to modern medicine. People

may delay seeking appropriate treatment for themselves or their children.

G

We accept that we are unlikely to convince the true believers. Homeopathy has many ways to sidestep awkward questions, such as rejecting the validity of randomized controlled trials, or claiming that homeopathic remedies only work if you have symptoms of the malady they purport to cure. Our aim is to reach out to the general public with our simple message: “There is nothing in it”. Boots and other retailers are perfectly entitled to continue selling homeopathic remedies if they so wish and consumers are perfectly entitled to keep on buying them. But hopefully the 10:23 campaign will ram home our message to the public. In the 21st century, with decades of progress behind us, it is surreal that governments are prepared to spend millions of tax pounds on homeopathy. There really is nothing in it.

Passage 2：

题目：The Impact of Environment to Children

题型：判断+填空+主旨

题目：新题

Questions 14-18

Complete the table now. Choose No More Than Three Words from the Reading Passage for each answer.

Type of Impact to Children Range of Reference to Siblings Rate of Influence

14 background from parents and family Including to all of siblings40%-50%

Shared Environment to 15 less than 16

17 to part of siblings 18 -50%

Questions 19-21

Complete the following summary of the paragraphs of Reading Passage, using No More Than Three Words from the Reading Passage for each answer. Write your answers in boxes 19-21 on your answer sheet.

Research in recent years illuminated that the impact from parents will frequently be 19 by the peers pressure. It was also indicated that 20 of knowledge that children learned from other culture is increasing. Study has found quantities of competing 21 between parents and children or even between parents themselves.

Questions 22-25

Do the following statements agree with the claims of the writer in Reading Passage?

In boxes 22-25 on your answer sheet, write

YES if the statement agrees with the claims of the writer

NO if the statement contradicts the claims of the writer

NOT GIVEN if it is impossible to say what the writer thinks about this

22. The more children there are in a family, the more impacts of environment it is.

23. Methods based on twin studies still meet unexpected differences that can not be ascribed to be purely genetic explanation.

24. Children prefer to speak the language from the children of the same age to the language spoken by their parents.

25. The Study of non-shared environment influence can be a generally agreed idea among researchers in the field.

Passage 3：

题名：A Warm-Blooded Turtle

题型：匹配+摘要+判断

文章大意：说的是一种海中的鱼。一开始先讲了说发现乌龟的尸体，然后说人们开始研究为什么这种不属于这里的乌龟会死在海滩上。然后就说这种乌龟很难研究，因为它整天在水底，而且游得比较深，只有等母乌龟生蛋的时候它才会上岸。好多的方法都勇于保护乌龟。

写作

TASK 1

The table shows the results of survey in a European country, which were carried in three different years. It shows the percentage of people who said that they were interested in certain sports.

Percentage of respondents expressing on interest in certain sports

TASK 2

题目类别：社会生活  

提问方式：论述类

考试题目：

Some people think getting old is bad for   them in the modern world, while others think older people today live better   than in the past. Discuss both sides and give your views.

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