1. 本次考试：偏难。
2. 整体分析：涉及发展史类（P1）、环境类（P2）、生物研究类（P3）。
本场考试考生普遍反映难度稍大，从选材上来看，P 2、P 3均是专业领域的科学研究，学术性较强，对考生的理解能力和答题技巧的要求都比较高。
3. 主要题型：
本次考试题型常规，主流仍然是填空和判断；除此之外，虽然难度较大的list of heading没有出现，但P 3集中出现单选和段落细节匹配对考生的技巧如定位能力有较大的挑战，并且对语言能力如词汇和句子的概括能力也有一定的要求。
4. 文章分析：
头一篇文章主要按照时间顺序讲述了新闻不同形式的发展
第二篇文章主要讲针对植物如何减少室内污染的研究
第三篇文章主要从科学的角度分析观看运动比赛观众会产生满足感的原因
5.部分答案及参考文章：
Passage 1：信息传播的发展
题型搭配：判断+填空
原文待补充：
答案参考：
1. letters
2. legal
3. religious
4. distribution
5. songs
6. journalists
7. advertising
8. False
9. True
10. Not Given
11. True
12. False
13. False
Passage 2：能减轻室内污染的植物
题型：匹配+填空
原文待补充：
题目参考：
14. 待回忆
15. D
16. G
17. B
18. 待回忆
19. B
20. E
21. D
22. A
23. building materials
24. small pores
25.ventilation
26. perfect ornamental
Passage 3：运动影响大脑
题型：段落细节匹配+选择+判断
原文参考：
Inside the mind of a fan: How watching sport affects the brain
A
At bout the same time that the poet Homer invented the epic hero, the ancient Greeks started a festival in which men competed in a single race, about 200 meters long. The winner received a branch of wild olives. The Greeks called this celebration the Olympics. Through the ancient sprint remains, today the Olympics are far more than that. Indeed, the Games seem to celebrate the dream of progress as embodied in the human form. That the Games are intoxicating to watch is beyond question. During the Athens Olympics in 2004, 3.4 billion people, half the world, watched them on television. Certainly, being a spectator is a thrilling experience: but why?
B
In 1996, three Italian neuron scientists, Giacomo Rizzolatti, Leonardo Fogassi and Vittorio Gallese, examined the promoter cortex of monkeys. They discovered that inside these primate brains there were groups of cells that ‘store vocabularies of motor actions’. Just as there are grammars of movement. These networks of cells are the bodily ‘sentences’ we use every day, the ones our brain has chosen to retain and refine. Think，for example，about a golf swing. To those who have only watched the Masters’ Tournament on TV, golfing seems easy. To the novice, however, the skill of casting a smooth arc with a lop-side-metal stick is virtually impossible. This is because most novices swing with their consciousness, using an area of brain next to the promoter cortex. To the expert, on the other hand, a perfectly balanced stroke is second nature. For him, the motor action has become memorized, and the movements are embedded in the neurons of his promoter cortex. He hits the ball with the tranquility of his perfected autopilot.
C
These neurons in the promoter cortex, besides explaining why certain athletes seem to possess almost unbelievable levels of skill, have an even more amazing characteristic, one that caused Rizzolatti, Fogassi and Gallese to give them the lofty title ‘mirror neurons’. They note. The main functional characteristic of mirror neurons is that they become active both when the monkey performs a particular action (for example, grasping an object or holding it) and,astonishingly, when it sees another individual performing a similar action.’ Humans have an even more elaborate mirror neuron system. These peculiar cells mirror,inside the brain, the outside world: they enable us to internalize the actions of another. In order to be activated, though, these cells require what the scientists call ‘goal-orientated movements’. If we are staring at a photograph, a fixed image of a runner mid-stride, our mirror neurons are totally silent. They only fire when the runner is active: running, moving or sprinting.
D
What these elector-physiological studies indicate is that when we watch a golfer or a runner in action, the mirror neurons in our own promoter cortex light up as if we were the ones competing. This phenomenon of neural mirror was first discovered in 1954, when two French physiologists, Gastaut and Berf, found that the brains of humans vibrate with two distinct wavelengths, alpha and mu. Theme system is involved in neural mirroring. It is active when your bodies are still, and disappears whenever we do something active, like playing sport or changing the TV channel. The surprising fact is that the mu signal is also quiet when we watch someone else being active, as on TV, these results are the effect of mirror neurons.
E
Rizzolatti, Fogassi and Gallese call the idea of mirror neurons the ‘direct matching hypothesis’.They believe that we only understand the movement of sports stars when we ‘map the visual representation of the observed action onto our motor representation of the same action’.According to this theory, watching an Olympic athlete ’causes the motor system of the observer to resonate. The “motor knowledge” of the observer is used to understand the observed action. ‘ But mirror neurons are more than just the neural basis for our attitude to sport.It turns out that watching a great golfer makes us better golfers, and watching a great sprinter actually makes us run faster. This ability to learn by watching is a crucial skill. From the acquisition of language as infants to learning facial expressions, mimesis (copying) is an essential part of being conscious. The best athletes are those with a promoter cortex capable of imagining the movements of victory, together with the physical properties to make those movements real.
F
But how many of us regularly watch sports in order to be a better athlete? Rather,we watch sport for the feeling, the human drama. This feeling also derives from mirror neurons. By letting spectators share in the motions of victory, they also allow us to share in its feelings. This is because they are directly connected to the amygdale, one of the main brain regions involved in emotion.During the Olympics, the mirror neurons of whole nations will be electrically identical, their athletes causing spectators to feel, just for a second or two,the same thing. Watching sports brings people together. Most of us will never run a mile in under four minutes, or hit a home run. Our consolation comes in watching, when we gather around the TV, we all feel, just for a moment, what it is to do something perfectly.
参考答案解析：
27 利用题目细节信息定位于F段， This feeling also derives from mirror neurons. By letting spectators share in the motions of victory, they also allow us to share in its feelings. This is because they are directly connected to the amygdale, one of the main brain regions involved in emotion.因此，正确答案为F。
28 利用题目细节信息定位于B段，They discovered that inside these primate brains there were groups of cells that 'store vocabularies of motor actions’. Just as there are grammars of movement. These networks of cells are the bodily ‘sentences’ we use every day, the ones our brain has chosen to retain and refine. 因此，正确答案为B。
28 利用题目细节信息定位于E段，According to this theory, watching an Olympic athlete 'causes the motor system of the observer to resonate. The "motor knowledge" of the observer is used to understand the observed action.’因此，正确答案为E。
30 利用题目细节信息定位于C段，The main functional characteristic of mirror neurons is that they become active both when the monkey performs a particular action (for example, grasping an object or holding it) and, astonishingly, when it sees another individual performing a similar action.' Humans have an even more elaborate mirror neuron system.因此，正确答案为C。
31 利用题目细节信息定位于D段，This phenomenon of neural mirror was first discovered in 1954, when two French physiologists, Gastaut and Berf, found that the brains of humans vibrate with two distinct wavelengths, alpha and mu. 因此，正确答案为D。
32 利用题目细节信息定位于E段， It turns out that watching a great golfer makes us better golfers, and watching a great sprinter actually makes us run faster. This ability to learn by watching is a crucial skill. From the acquisition of language as infants to learning facial expressions, mimesis (copying) is an essential part of being conscious. The best athletes are those with a premotor cortex capable of imagining the movements of victory, together with the physical properties to make those movements real.因此，正确答案为E。
33 C 利用题目细节信息定位于B段，the discovered that inside these primate brains there were groups of cells that‘store vocabularies of motor actions’ .just as there are grammars of movement.these networks of cells are the bodily ‘ sentences' we use every day,the ones our brain has chosen to retain and refine.
34 A 利用顺序原则定位于E段，The best athletes are those with a premotor cortex capable of imagining the movements of victory,together with the physical properties to make those movements real.
35 C 利用顺序原则定位于F段，This feeling also derives from mirror neurons of whole nations will be electrically identical....what it is to do something perfectly
36 YES
37 NO
38 NO
39 NOT GIVEN
40 YES
考试预测
1. 本次考试头一篇是雅思阅读近年来非常典型的出题模式，选材为发展史，题型搭配是判断加填空，这是阅读的简单模式，考生的综合反馈多为做题感受良好并且得分率较高。这类题目考察雅思阅读基本的找寻关键信息的能力和词汇应用能力。第二篇文章和第三篇选材难度大，并且题目本身带有一定难度，但是考察的仍然是典型的判断、单选及匹配题，从技巧的角度入手并不难处理，这种出题方式同样是当下出题的主流趋势，也是考生复习和刷题的重点。
2. 下场考试重点关注人物传记类和动物实验类文章。
3. 重点浏览2016-2017年机经。
