阅读,作为雅思考试的一个有机组成部分,绝 对是所有准留学生们必须完成的一个考验。但是,大家需要明白一个事实:无论是国内的英语考试,还是出国必备的雅思、托福等考试,听、说、读、写四个单项都不是孤立存在的,而是相辅相成的。听力和阅读属于输入项目,是咱们中国考生的强项,而写作和口语属于输出科目,咱们的表现稍逊一筹。那么我们是否可以利用自己相对擅长的输入科目来提升稍逊一筹的输出科目呢?答案是肯定的。笔者作为一名阅读教师,撰写这篇文章的主要目的是想就利用阅读文章来积累写作素材,提升写作这一核心做一些浅谈,如有不到之处,请及时指出。
9月5日,通过浏览各大公众号对9月4日雅思考试(纸考)的回忆,笔者了解到了写作中大作文的题目,如下:
It will be better to have wide use of driverless cars for individuals and society. To what extent do you agree or disagree with the statement ?
这个话题让笔者非常熟悉,因为它不仅与剑16 test 4 task 2大作文的题目(In the future all cars, buses and trucks will be driverless. The only people travelling inside these vehicles will be passengers. Do you think the advantages of driverless vehicles outweigh the disadvantages ?)相差无几,也与剑15 test 1 reading passage 2的阅读文章Driverless cars这一主题不谋而合。
首先,我们先看看写作的这两个题目,虽然具体的提问方式稍有不同,但总体来讲,都可能会涉及到讨论driverless cars/vehicles无人驾驶汽车的优缺点。那么剑15 test 1 reading passage 2 阅读文章就可以给咱们提供很多“现成”的观点与文字表达,我们可以将其中的观点进行积累,也可以学习其中的词汇、词汇和句子表达,然后内化成自己的知识储备,那么这个大作文就可以轻松想到思路和表达,下笔如有神啦。
以下是笔者,根据Driverless cars的阅读文章给大家整理的一些观点与文字表达,各位可以拿出笔记本边看边记哦!
无人驾驶汽车有许多优点 Advantages +:
1. 保护人们的生命财产安全,降低交通事故发生率
参考表达:One research demonstrated that more than 90 percent of road collisions involve human error as a contributing factor, and it is the primary cause in the vast majority. Automation may help to reduce the incidence of this.
2. 可以让开车的人从驾驶中解放出来,利用原本开车通勤的时间做其他的事情,例如处理工作、社交等等
参考表达:free the time people spend driving for other purposes
to socialize or simply to relax while automation systems have responsibility for safe control of the vehicle
3. 让残疾人或老年人的出行更方便/享受更多的自主出行
参考表达:Older or disabled travellers may be able to enjoy significantly greater travel autonomy.
4. 可促进汽车生产行业的发展,为客户提供最适合出行的无人驾驶汽车
参考表达:Automation may prompt other changes in vehicle manufacture. Drivers will have the freedom to select one that best suits their needs for a particular journey, rather than making a compromise across all the requirements.
5. 可以在城市中开展共享汽车计划,提高汽车利用率
参考表达:Automation means that initiatives for car-sharing become much more viable, particularly in urban areas with significant travel demand. If a significant proportion of the population choose to use shared automated vehicles, mobility demand can be met by far fewer vehicles.
但是,要想普及无人驾驶汽车,仍然存在很多阻碍hurdles/缺点disadvantages,亟待我们解决,如技术问题、监管困难、消费者的信任度等。
阅读原文:There are a number of hurdles to overcome in delivering automated vehicles to our roads. These include the technical difficulties in ensuring that the vehicle works reliably in the infinite range of traffic, weather and road situations it might encounter; the regulatory challenges in understanding how liability and enforcement might change when drivers are no longer essential for vehicle operation; and the societal changes that may be required for communities to trust and accept automated vehicles as being a valuable part of the mobility landscape.
从上述整理的观点和文字来看,优点对应的内容明显更丰富些;这刚好也可以满足“烤鸭们”,考场上时间紧迫,选择“对个人和社会都有利”或“利大于弊”会更加有话可说。当然,上述的英文表述,大家可以借鉴和学习,形成自己的语料库,适时输出到自己的写作中,定能增色不少。
据了解,雅思写作大作文的话题主要是四大类:教育、社会、科技媒体和国家政策。笔者暂时结合前两类话题从雅思阅读的文章挑选了几篇比较适合“烤鸭”们精读的文章(如下图),建议大家认真阅读,边读边想,积累其中的观点,学习其中的词汇、词汇和句子表达,然后内化成自己的知识储备,做到“兵马未动,粮草先行”,为成功屠鸭打好基础。
毕竟,雅思阅读真题是一本本非常适合广大英语学习者的百科全书,希望我们可以一起仔细阅读,不光是应对考试和解题,更能积累知识,从中有所收获,进而迁移运用到其他的科目中。