PTE阅读部分技巧讲解和首套模拟题
短时间提高PTE阅读–语法也应该适当提高，还有时间分配要把握好。另外可以把summaries written text，还有read aloud都再加强一些，这些都是跟阅读分数相关的。如果你能让写作和口语分数都达到90，那么阅读分数基本肯定是80以上了。
PTE考试总体阅读部分时间有32-41分钟，虽说阅读是PTE考试里比较简单的一个部分，但分数照样不好拿。总共有20题，每个题只能看一遍，文章篇幅有长有短，也有语法的考点，如果前面的题做的太慢了，后面的题很有可能就答不完，所以时间上还是比较紧张的，一定要把握好。
1.Multiple choice question, choose single answer单选题
单选是比较简单的，一开始都是从短文章开始的，做题时可以直接从选项入手。
2.Multiple choice question, choose multiple answers多选题
多选难度会大一些，这题并没有说明有几个正确选项，所以每个选项都要看，比较耗费时间。选项有细节，有总结，有推测内容，综合题型等，需要注意的是如果选错了会倒扣分，扣到每题0分为止。
3.Re-order paragraphs段落排序
一般是5段文字，都不长，顺序是打乱的，你需要按顺序排好。这个题主要就是考察逻辑思维能力。你需要熟练掌握逻辑词、代词、关键词，把握好总起理论，具体事例，总结性语言这三个部分。
关系连接词：
A.因果关系：for, because, since, therefore等；
B.转折关系：but, yet, although, however, on the contrary, on the other hand, instead等；
C.并列递进关系：and, also, besides, similarly, like, accordingly, in the same way, meanwhile, furthermore, moreover等；
D.解释关系：that is, that is to say, for example, such as, namely, in other words等；
① 快速浏览一遍文本框中的句子，了解文本所涉及的话题；
② 找到能概括文章的主题句，然后先把它拖到右侧的文本框中，一般它会作为开头或结尾，如有特殊情况也可重新排序；
③ 如果某句出现了人名，也可拖至右侧，因为下文基本会用“He”或者”His”来代替。所以该句应处于靠前位置；
④ 然后在剩下的几句，确定逻辑关系，进行排序，以确定的顺序拖入右侧，在进行初步全文排序；
⑤ 完成后通读全文，检查逻辑是否正确，检查后提交即可；
4.Reading: Fill in the blanks选词填空
这道题主要考逻辑和语法，一段话里面有4-5个空，底下有一个选项框，有10个左右的词，每空只有一个正确答案，有些固定搭配还是很好选择的，其他的你需要借助上下文和语法线索来选择正确的单词。
解题Tips：
① 先忽略空格，快速浏览整篇文章，理解文章所讲主题；
② 遇到不确定的空格，先跳过，把确定的先填好。完成的空格越多，剩下的空格就越容易完成；
③ 借助语言线索和词汇知识，注意句子的语法；
④ 注意**惯搭配，应该选择通常与空格前后单词相搭配的单词；
⑤ 重新阅读文本，确保意思通顺，修改完成后提交即可；
5.Reading & Writing: Fill in the blanks 完型填空
与上一题不同的是，一段文字，有空，每个空有固定的4个词，空旁边就是下拉框，里面有5-6个选项，选取一个合适的答案。其实跟上面的题也很相似，但迷惑性更大。有语法的考点，也有逻辑内容上的考点。
下面是一套PTE阅读完整的考试原题，大家可以试一下以上的技巧来完成一下试题。
1.Visits of Royalty are, as a rule, of merely temporary interest. They fill the picture for the time, and in the olden days they never failed to empty the treasury of whatever town had the honour to entertain them. The present, which it was the town’s custom to give to a royal visitor, consisted usually of a sum of money, with sweetmeats added if the visitor was a queen or had a sweet tooth.
Read the text and answer the multiple-choice question by selecting the correct response. Only one response is correct.
What problem does the writer say royal visits used to cause?
a. It was difficult to provide appropriate food.
b. People soon began to find them rather boring.
c. Lots of places competed to host royalty.
d. They were expensive for their hosts.
3. For centuries, no-one gave kids a second thought. At least, that was the belief of French social historian Philippe Aries, who in the 1960s put forward the startling proposal that childhood was a relatively recent invention. According to Aries and his disciples, children in the Middle Ages were considered mini-adults, no cuter or more fragile than the full-sized version and therefore deserving of no special treatment. Not until the 17th and 18th centuries were they recognised as endearing little creatures in need of nurturing and protection. Harvard University professor Steven Ozment presents a very different picture in his 2001 book Ancestors. Marshalling evidence ranging from legal records to private letters, Ozment argues persuasively that men and women throughout history have cherished their offspring. But there’s no doubt we are clingier than we used to be. In 18th-century Western Europe, wealthy families routinely sent their infants away to be raised by wet-nurses for the first several years of their lives. Well into the 20th century, British couples who could afford to do so opted out of day-to-day childrearing altogether, gladly handing their kids to nannies and boarding schools.
Read the text and answer the question by selecting all the correct responses. You will need to select more than one response.
By reference to this text, which of the following views of childhood can be ascribed to Steven Ozment?
a. Parents have always treasured their children.
b. Until recently, no-one gave “childhood” a second thought.
c. The practice of sending children to boarding schools is a distinctly modern approach to child rearing.
d. It was not until the 17th and 18th centuries that children received special attention.
e. During the Middle Ages children were treated just like any other adult.
f. Compared to previous eras, parents are now more attached to their children.
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| Normally in Delhi, September is a month of almost equatorial fertility, and the lands seems refreshed and newly-washed. | |
| But in the year of our arrival, after a parching summer, the monsoon rains had lasted for only three weeks. | |
| Nevertheless, the air was still sticky with damp-heat, and it was in a cloud of perspiration that we began to unpack. | |
| As a result, dust was everywhere. The city’s trees and flowers all looked as if they had been lightly sprinkled with talcum powder. | |
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The common understanding of genius is that you’re either born with it or not. This picture is so that it has come to the way we educate children. Trouble is, the thinking is wrong – so, if we are to believe a growing body of evidence from the cognitive sciences.
demonstrate
exactly
marked
define
entrenched
profoundly
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An individual’s propensity to take risks is influenced by their own experience and that of others. The key feature in risk taking is the balancing of perceptions of the risk and the possible rewards, and this balance may be a reflection of an individual’s particular type of personality.
possibility
reason
relation
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Roman poet Ovid wrote that “there is nothing constant in the universe, all ebb and flow, and every shape that’s born bears in its ——–the seeds of change.” These words are remarkably——— when one considers the way life has changed through time as revealed by the ———-record.
consistent
fossil
varying
womb
leading
relevant
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The increased importance of scientific knowledge in society has led to a increase in respect for scientific evidence. In order to be as sound, rational or it is important that a claim is thought to be ‘scientifically founded’. We give claims by science more credibility than we allow other kinds of claims, and anyone with a product to sell, or a claim about the universe to make, will seek to support their with ‘scientific evidence’.
surprising
valid
corresponding
perceived
record
backed up
position
realized
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The wondrously intricate tile mosaics that adorn medieval Islamic architecture are disguising a mastery of geometry not matched in the West for hundreds of years, according to new research. For a long time, historians____that sheer hard work with the equivalent of a ruler and compass allowed medieval craftsmen to create the ornate star-and-polygon tile patterns that cover mosques, shrines and other buildings from Turkey to India. Now a Harvard University researcher____that more than 500 years ago, long before Western scholars gained a good understanding of geometry, mathematicians in the Islamic world met up with the artists and began creating far more complex tile patterns that culminated in what mathematicians today call “quasi-crystalline designs,” which did not appear in the West until the 1970s.
Quasi-crystals ____ by fitting together a set of shapes into patterns that, unlike typical tile floors, don’t repeat. In an article published by the journal Science, Peter J. Lu and Paul Steinhardt report finding a set of polygon-shaped tiles – decagon, pentagon, diamond, bowtie and hexagon – that ____into distinctive patterns found on major Islamic buildings from the 12th through 15th centuries.
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If climate change continues unabated, the plight of Bangladesh, which wages an annual battle against floods, provides a grim lesson for many other parts of the world. It will lose the war against____water.
“If the sea level ____ are true, parts of the country will simply disappear,” said Jo Scheuer, deputy country director of the United Nations Development Programme in India.
Most parts of Bangladesh are less than 10m above sea level, so rising seas coupled with storm surges could put large parts of the population and agricultural land under____of severe flooding. The toll would be catastrophic for a country where half the population lives below the poverty line.
South and east Asia, including Vietnam, Bangladesh, India and parts of China, including Shanghai, will be most____to climate change because of their large coastal populations in low-lying areas, according to the UK International Institute for Environment and Development.
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The past year has offered me an incomparable chance to catch up with biologists, to fill in gaps in my methodological____and to pick up essentials in neuroscience (the area I am specializing in). Hence the previous months have been packed with new information and I have enjoyed learning most of it.
On the other side, I realize that the____of ignorance on which we base our experimental assumptions is frightening. Neuroscience is a multidisciplinary field. Yet there still comes a point when, for example, a molecular biologist cannot achieve his goal because he doesn’t know a new imaging ____; or a zoologist’s experiment fails because she hasn’t used the latest physiological data on a certain brain function. That’s why I sometimes feel discouraged; I am looking for a needle in the haystack but the haystack grows bigger everyday. But that’s also the fun of science. The____line is that the interdisciplinary nature of science is essential and I was blessed to have been____in this spirit over the last year.
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One of the crazier ideas for dealing with global warming is to sprinkle the oceans with iron filings. One reason the sea (unlike the land) is not covered with plants is that it lacks____nutrients – iron, in particular. Add iron, the theory goes, and you will promote the growth of algae. These will____carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and then conveniently sink when they die. Thus, over the course of a few decades, the concentration of the gas in the atmosphere will return to pre-industrial levels. Presto! Problem solved.
The law of unintended____argues against doing any such thing, of course. However, an experiment carried out a decade ago in the Southern Ocean suggests that the underlying idea is sound – and at a conference in Oxford this week, John Munford, an independent British researcher, suggested that a more ____version of the “fertilise the oceans” project might indeed help to stop climate change.
Mr Munford’s proposal is to harvest the algae, rather than allowing them to die and sink. He notes that many species of algae____a far denser punch energy-wise than the plants now used as energy crops. In particular, they produce oils, of the sort valued as biodiesel, and are attracting a lot of attention from scientists and entrepreneurs looking for fuels to replace mineral oils.
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It is not that the view of man as an individual is more or less misleading than the view of him as a member of the group. It is the attempt to draw a____between the two which is misleading. The individual is by ____a member of a society, or probably of more than one society – call it group, class, tribe, nation or what you will. Early biologists were____to classify species of birds, beasts and fishes in cages, aquariums and showcases, and did not seek to study the living creature in____to its environment. Perhaps the social sciences today have not yet fully____from that primitive stage.