内容简介
《IELTS雅思阅读经典教程》是雅思标准培训体系中的重要部分，听说读写每本都是按题型分专题编写的。命名为《雅思经典教程》有两个原因：一、参加这套丛书编写的作者团队是由北京各大雅思培训机构的一线名师组成，我们把多年的教学精华和对材料选择的心得沉淀在了这套教程中，我们的几位现任中国雅思考官朋友也参与了策划和编校工作；二、内容的选编囊括了国内外高质量的雅思考试素材，是在题目的代表性和难度上进行了严格的测试和筛选。教学性很强，同时也适合考生循序渐进地自学。
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雅思考试介绍 雅思阅读考试官方指南 雅思阅读考试高分策略 1 Improve Reading Speed READING PASSAGE: Winter Sports 2 Test Yourself READING PASSAGE 1: The Spectacular Eruption of Mount St. Helens READING PASSAGE 2: People and Organisations: The Selection Issue READING PASSAGE 3: The Roll Film Revolution 3 Summary & Sentence Completion READING PASSAGE 1: The Little Ice Age READING PASSAGE 2: The Lost Continent READING PASSAGE 3: British Education: A World Leader? READING PASSAGE 4: 3G Mobile Phone READING PASSAGE 5: Australia No Longer a Cheap Study Option 4 Classification & Matching READING PASSAGE 1: The Vikings' Voyage to Eternity READING PASSAGE 2: The Wildlife of the Galapagos Islands READING PASSAGE 3:E1 Nino READING PASSAGE 4: The Instruments READING PASSAGE 5: The New Caledonian Crow READING PASSAGE 6: Categorising Love READING PASSAGE 7: Do Roles Limit Our Choice of How We Behave? READING PASSAGE 8: Six Thinking Hats 5 True·False·Not Give & Yes·No·Not Given READING PASSAGE 1: Opera House READING PASSAGE 2: The Australian Parties READING PASSAGE 3: The Clever Country READING PASSAGE 4: Bananas Shortage READING PASSAGE 5: Space Needle READING PASSAGE 6: Japanese Pagodas READING PASSAGE 7: Revised Gender Roles READING PASSAGE 8: A Nation of Wimps 6 List of Headings READING PASSAGE 1: Acid Rain & Forests READING PASSAGE 2: Hypnosis: Medical Tool or Illusion? READING PASSAGE 3: Untitled READING PASSAGE 4: London: Pollution at Its Worst READING PASSAGE 5: The Nature Nurture Debate and Total Quality Education 7 Multiple Choice READING PASSAGE 1: Comets READING PASSAGE 2: Violin READING PASSAGE 3: Glaciers READING PASSAGE 4: How Similar Are Animals and Human Beings? READING PASSAGE 5: Desert Crops READING PASSAGE 6: Untitled 8 Short
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插图：The introduction of the dry plate process broughtwith it many advantages. Not only was it muchmore convenient, so that the photographer nolonger needed to prepare his material in advance,but its much greater sensitivity made possiblea new generation of cameras. Instantaneousexposures had been possible before, but onlywith some difficulty and with special equipmentand conditions. Now, exposures short enough topermit the camera to the held in the hand wereeasily achieved. As well as fitting shutters andviewfinders to their conventional stand cameras,manufacturers began to construct smaller camerasintended specifically for hand use.One of the first designs to be published wasThomas Bolas's "Detective'camera of 1881.Externally a plain box, quite unlike the foldingbellows camera, typical of the period, it could beused unobtrusively. The name caught on, and forthe next decade or so almost all hand cameraswere called "Detectives". Many of the newdesigns in the 1880s were for ma
