剑桥雅思13 Test1 Passage2阅读答案解析

剑桥雅思13 Test1 Passage2阅读答案解析

第14题答案：iv

对应原文：A段：But defining boredom so that it can be studied in the lab has proved difficult.

答案解析：A段第2句提到：给“厌烦”下定义以便它能够在实验室中接受研究十分困难。其中sudied in the lab与scientific approach同意替换，difficult与problems同义替换，由此确定iv选项为答案。

第15题答案：vi

对应原文：B段：Thomas Goetz and his team … have recently identified five distinct types: indifferent, calibrating, searching, reactant and apathetic.

答案解析：B段开头就提到Thomas Goetz和他的团队界定出五种不同的厌烦类型。对应vi选项中creating a system of classification，由此确定答案。

第16题答案：i

对应原文：C段：Mann has found that being bored makes us more creative

答案解析：C段开头第二句提到，Mann发现，处于厌烦的状态可以让我们变得更加有创造力。其中creative与productive对应，result from与makes对应，由此确定i为答案。

第17题答案：v

对应原文：D段：if they are not successful there’s that frustration and irritability … repeatedly failing to engage attention can lead to a state where we don’t know what to do any more, and no longer care.

答案解析：D段引用John Eastwood的观点，说明厌烦情绪所带来的不好影响，比如它会造成沮丧和易怒，还可能造成不知道做什么，不再关心其他事物。对应v选项中的potential danger，由此确定v为答案。

第18题答案：viii

对应原文：E段：they think that at least some of it comes down to personality.

答案解析：E段主要介绍性格与厌烦之间的联系，指出一些人更加容易厌烦，而其他人则不那么容易。对应viii选项中“those most affected by boredom”，由此确定答案。

第19题答案：iii

对应原文：F段：our over-connected lifestyles might even be a new source of boredom … perhaps we should leave our phones alone, and use boredom to motivate us to engage with the world in a more meaningful way.

答案解析：F段比较简短，很容易总结出其大致的含义。前半段指出过度联系的生活方式是厌烦的新来源，对应iii选项的new explaination。后半段指出我们可以放下手机，利用厌烦来驱动我们投身世界，对应iii选项的new cure，由此确定答案。

第20题答案：E

对应原文：A段：Peter Toohey compares it to disgust – an emotion that motivates us to stay away from certain situations. ‘If disgust protects humans from infection, boredom may protect them from “infectious” social situations,’ he suggests.

答案解析：根据人名定位到A段的这句话。E选项中encourage与motivate同义替换，avoid与stay away同义替换，unpleansant experience与infectious social situations对应，由此确定答案为E。

第21题答案：B

对应原文：B段：Of the five types, the most damaging is ‘reactant’ boredom with its explosive combination of high arousal and negative emotion.

答案解析：根据人名定位到B段，但这段话的内容较多，需要我们具备一定的耐心，才能从选项中找到答案。在浏览了大半段话之后，发现reactant boredom对应B选项中的one sort of boredom，most damaging对应 worse，由此确定答案。

第22题答案：D

对应原文：D段：What’s more, your efforts to improve the situation can end up making you feel worse.

答案解析： D段和E段都提到了John Eastwood，比较考验大家的skimming能力。快速浏览之后发现，D选项trying对应efforts，cope with对应improve，negative effects对应worse，由此确定答案。

第23题答案：A

对应原文：F段：Psychologist Francoise Wemelsfelder Speculates that our over-connected lifestyles might even be a new source of boredom.

答案解析：根据人名定位到F段，选项A中the way we live对应lifestyles，encourage对应a new source，由此确定答案。

第24题答案：focus

对应原文：D段：For Eastwood, the central feature of boredom is a failure to put our ‘attention system’ into gear. This causes an inability to focus on anything

答案解析：根据人名和attention system定位到D段的这句话，从题干中可以推测空上应该填一个动词。cannot与inability同义替换，由此确定答案。

第25题答案：pleasure

对应原文：E段：People who are motivated by pleasure seem to suffer particularly badly.

答案解析：从题干可以推测空应该填某一类人，因此将目光移向E段。have problems与suffer同义替换，再加上空上应该填一个名词，由此确定答案为pleasure。

第26题答案：curiosity

对应原文：E段：Other personality traits, such as curiosity, are associated with a high boredom threshold.

答案解析：根据whereas与other的对应定位到这句话，characteristic与trait同义替换，由此确定答案为curiosity.