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1、雅思阅读模拟题 通过模拟练习题，我们可以很直接地了解到自己的备考状况，从而可以更有针对性地进行之后的复习。给大家带来了雅思阅读模拟题，希望能够帮助到大家，下面就和大家分享，来欣赏一下吧。雅思阅读模拟题：Next Year MarksPart IReading Passage 1You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-14 which are based onReading Passage 1 below.Next Year Marks the EUs 50th Anniversary of the TreatyA.After a per
2、iod of introversion and stunned self-disbelief, continentalEuropean governments will recover their enthusiasm for pan-Europeaninstitution-building in 20XX. Whether the European public will welcome a returnto what voters in two countries had rejected so short a time before is anothermatter.B.There ar
3、e several reasons for Europes recovering self-confidence. Foryears European economies had been lagging dismally behind America (to saynothing of Asia), but in 20XX the large continental economies had one of theirbest years for a decade, briefly outstripping America in terms of growth. Sincepolitics
4、often reacts to economic change with a lag, 20XXs improvement ineconomic growth will have its impact in 20XX, though the recovery may be ebbingby then.C.The coming year also marks a particular point in a political cycle soregular that it almost seems to amount to a natural law. Every four or fiveyea
5、rs, European countries take a large stride towards further integration bysigning a new treaty: the Maastricht treaty in 1992, the Treaty of Amsterdam in1997, the Treaty of Nice in 2001. And in 2005 they were supposed to ratify aEuropean constitution, laying the ground for yet more integrationuntil t
6、he calmrhythm was rudely shattered by French and Dutch voters. But the politicalimpetus to sign something every four or five years has only been interrupted,not immobilised, by this setback.D.In 20XX the European Union marks the 50th anniversary of another treatytheTreaty of Rome, its founding chart
7、er. Government leaders have already agreed tocelebrate it ceremoniously, restating their commitment to “ever closer union”and the basic ideals of European unity. By itself, and in normal circumstances,the EUs 50th-birthday greeting to itself would be fairly meaningless, a routineexpression of Europe
8、an good fellowship. But it does not take a Machiavelli tospot that once governments have signed the declaration (and it seems unlikelyanyone would be so uncollegiate as to veto it) they will already be halfwaytowards committing themselves to a new treaty. All that will be necessary willbe to incorpo
9、rate the 50th-anniversary declaration into a new treaty containinga number of institutional and other reforms extracted from the failed attempt atconstitution-building andhey prestoa new quasi-constitution will be ready.E.According to the German governmentwhich holds the EUs agenda-settingpresidency
10、 during the first half of 20XXthere will be a new draft of aslimmed-down constitution ready by the middle of the year, perhaps to put tovoters, perhaps not. There would then be a couple of years in which it will bediscussed, approved by parliaments and, perhaps, put to voters if that is deemedunavoi
11、dable. Then, according to bureaucratic planners in Brussels and Berlin,blithely ignoring the possibility of public rejection, the whole thing will besigned, sealed and a new constitution delivered in 20XX-10. Europe will benicely back on schedule. Its four-to-five-year cycle of integration will have
12、missed only one beat.F.The resurrection of the European constitution will be made more likely in20XX because of what is happening in national capitals. The European Union isnot really an autonomous organisation. If it functions, it is because theleaders of the big continental countries want it to, r
13、eckoning that an activeEuropean policy will help them get done what they want to do in their owncountries.G.That did not happen in 2005-06. Defensive, cynical and self-destructive,the leaders of the three largest euro-zone countriesFrance, Italy andGermanywere stumbling towards their unlamented ends
14、. They saw no reason topursue any sort of European policy and the EU, as a result, barely functioned.But by the middle of 20XX all three will have gone, and this fact alone willtransform the European political landscape.H.The upshot is that the politics of the three large continental countries,burea
15、ucratic momentum and the economics of recovery will all be aligned to givea push towards integration in 20XX. That does not mean the momentum will beirresistible or even popular. The British government, for one, will almostcertainly not want to go with the flow, beginning yet another chapter in thel
16、ong history of confrontation between Britain and the rest of Europe. Moreimportant, the voters will want a say. They rejected the constitution in 2005.It would be foolish to assume they will accept it after 20XX just as a result ofan artful bit of tinkering.雅思阅读模拟题：Sleep medicationSleep medication l
17、inked to bizarre behaviour12:44 06 February 20XXNewScientist news serviceRoxanne KhamsiNew evidence has linked a commonly prescribed sleep medication with bizarrebehaviours, including a case in which a woman painted her front door in hersleep.UK and Australian health agencies have released informati
18、on about 240 casesof odd occurrences, including sleepwalking, amnesia and hallucinations amongpeople taking the drug zolpidem.While doctors say that zolpidem can offer much-needed relief for peoplewith sleep disorders, they caution that these newly reported cases should prompta closer look at its po
19、ssible side effects.Zolpidem, sold under the brand names Ambien, Stilnoct and Stilnox, iswidely prescribed to treat insomnia and other disorders such as sleep apnea.Various forms of the drug, made by French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi-Aventis,were prescribed 674,500 times in 2005 in the UK.A newly p
20、ublished report from Australias Federal Health Departmentdescribes 104 cases of hallucinations and 62 cases of amnesia experienced bypeople taking zolpidem since marketing of the drug began there in 2000. Thehealth department report also mentioned 16 cases of strange sleepwalking bypeople taking the
21、 medication.Midnight snackIn one of these sleepwalking cases a patient woke with a paintbrush in herhand after painting the front door to her house. Another case involved a womanwho gained 23 kilograms over seven months while taking zolpidem. “It was onlywhen she was discovered in front of an open r
22、efrigerator while asleep that theproblem was resolved,” according to the report.The UKs Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, meanwhile,has recorded 68 cases of adverse reactions to zolpidem from 2001 to 2005.The newly reported cases in the UK and Australia add to a growing list ofbiz
23、arre sleepwalking episodes linked to the drug in other countries, includingreports of people sleep-driving while on the medication. In one case, atransatlantic flight had to be diverted after a passenger caused havoc aftertaking zolpidem.Hypnotic effectsThere is no biological pathway that has been p
24、roven to connect zolpidemwith these behaviours. The drug is a benzodiazepine-like hypnotic that promotesdeep sleep by interacting with brain receptors for a chemical calledgamma-aminobutyric acid. While parts of the brain become less active during deepsleep, the body can still move, making sleepwalk
25、ing a possibility.The product information for prescribers advises that psychiatric adverseeffects, including hallucinations, sleepwalking and nightmares, are more likelyin the elderly, and treatment should be stopped if they occur.Patient advocacy groups say they would like government health agencie
26、s anddrug companies to take a closer look at the possible risks associated with sleepmedicines. They stress that strange sleepwalking and sleep-driving behaviourscan have risky consequences.“When people do something in which theyre not in full control its alwaysa danger,” says Vera Sharav of the New
27、 York-based Alliance for Human ResearchProtection, a US network that advocates responsible and ethical medical researchpractices.Tried and tested“The more reports that come out about the potential side effects of thedrug, the more research needs to be done to understand if these are real sideeffects
28、,” says sleep researcher Kenneth Wright at the University of Colorado inBoulder, US.Millions of people have taken the drug without experiencing any strangeside effects, points out Richard Millman at Brown Medical School, director ofthe Sleep Disorders Center of Lifespan Hospitals in Providence, Rhod
29、e Island,US. He says that unlike older types of sleep medications, zolpidem does notcarry as great a risk of addiction.And Wright notes that some of the reports of “sleep-driving” linked tozolpidem can be easily explained: some patients have wrongly taken the drugright before leaving work in hopes t
30、hat the medicine will kick in by the timethey reach home. Doctors stress that the medication should be taken just beforegoing to bed.The US Food Drug Administration says it is continuing to activelyinvestigate and collect information about cases linking zolpidem to unusualside effects.The Ambien lab
31、el currently lists strange behaviour as a “special concern”for people taking the drug. “Its a possible rare adverse event,” saysSanofi-Aventis spokesperson Melissa Feltmann, adding that the strangesleepwalking behaviours “may not necessarily be caused by the drug” but insteadresult from an underlyin
32、g disorder. She says that “the safety profile ofzolpidem is well established”. The drug received approval in the US in1993.雅思阅读模拟题：Food agency takes on industryFood agency takes on industry over junk labelsFelicity LawrenceThursday December 28, 20XXThe Guardian1. Consumers are to be presented with t
33、wo rival new year advertisingcampaigns as the Food Standards Agency goes public in its battle with theindustry over the labelling of unhealthy foods.2. The Guardian has learned that the FSA will launch a series of 10-secondtelevision adverts in January telling shoppers how to follow a red, amber and
34、green traffic light labelling system on the front of food packs, which isdesigned to tackle Britains obesity epidemic.3. The campaign is a direct response to a concerted attempt by leading foodmanufacturers and retailers, including Kelloggs and Tesco, to derail thesystem. The industry fears that tra
35、ffic lights would demonise entire categoriesof foods and could seriously damage the market for those that are fatty, saltyor high in sugar.4. The UK market for breakfast cereals is worth 1.27bn a year and themanufacturers fear it will be severely dented if red light labels are put onpackaging drawin
36、g attention to the fact that the majority are high in saltand/or sugar.5. The industry is planning a major marketing campaign for a competinglabelling system which avoids colour-coding in favour of information about thepercentage of guideline daily amounts (GDAs) of fat, salt and sugar containedin t
37、heir products.6. The battle for the nations diet comes as new rules on televisionadvertising come into force in January which will bar adverts for unhealthyfoods from commercial breaks during programmes aimed at children. Sources at theTV regulators are braced for a legal challenge from the industry
38、 and havedescribed the lobbying efforts to block any new ad ban or colour-coded labellingas the most ferocious weve ever experienced.7. Ofcoms chief executive, Ed Richards, said: We are prepared to face upto any legal action from the industry, but we very much hope it will not benecessary. The FSA s
39、aid it was expecting an onslaught from the industry inJanuary. Senior FSA officials said the manufacturers efforts to undermine itsproposals on labelling could threaten the agencys credibility.8. Terrence Collis, FSA director of communications, dismissed claims thatthe proposals were not based on sc
40、ience. We have some of the most respectedscientists in Europe, both within the FSA and in our independent advisorycommittees. It is unjustified and nonsensical to attack the FSAs scientificreputation and to try to undermine its credibility.9. The FSA is understood to have briefed its ad agency, Unit
41、ed, beforeChristmas, and will aim to air ads that are non-confrontational, humorous andfactual as a counterweight to industrys efforts about the same time. Theagency, however, will have a tiny fraction of the budget available to theindustry.10. Gavin Neath, chairman of Unilever UK and president of t
42、he Food andDrink Federation, has said that the industry has made enormous progress butcould not accept red stop signs on its food.11. Alastair Sykes, chief executive of Nestl UK, said that under the FSAproposals all his companys confectionery and most of its cereals would score ared. Are we saying p
43、eople shouldnt eat confectionery? Were driven byconsumers and what they want, and much of what we do has been to make ourproducts healthier, he said.12. Chris Wermann, director of communications at Kelloggs, said: Inprinciple we could never accept traffic light labelling.13. The rival labelling sche
44、me introduced by Kelloggs, Danone, Unilever,Nestl, Kraft and Tesco and now favoured by 21 manufacturers, uses anindustry-devised system based on identifying GDAs of key nutrients. Tesco saysit has tested both traffic lights and GDA labels in its stores and that thelatter increased sales of healthier foods.14. But the FSA said it could not live with this GDA system alone becauseit was not scientific or easy for shoppers to understand at a glance.雅思阅读模拟题
