| Reading Passage 2 | |
| Title: | Born for Trade 人类贸易天性 |
| Question types: | List of heading 判断 Summary Completion 选择型 |
| 文章内容回顾 | 关于人类贸易的天性。讲人类从远古时期就有trade的天性，现代人的表现，举了两个遗迹的文物作证等内容。 |
| 英文原文阅读 | FOR four billion years natural selection has rewarded self-interest. Those creatures that are good at looking after their own reproduction have, almost by definition, thrived at the expense of others. Curiously, however, over the same period, life has increasingly become a team game. Genes have gathered into bigger genomes, cells have clubbed together to become bodies, and in some species bodies have become social, allying themselves with other bodies within a colony. Thus, today, some of the most successful animals on Earth—human beings, ants and corals—are highly social, utterly dependent on the assistance and cooperation of their fellows. If natural selection chooses egotism, how can this possibly be? This conundrum is a modern relative of a question that has baffled philosophers for three thousand years: why do selfish individuals cooperate for the greater good of society? Put another way, why isn't society always destroyed by "cheats" who are happy to ...（节选） |
| 题型难度分析 | 这篇文章的难度比第一篇的难度稍高，题型种类也多一些。建议先做heading题，利于后面细节题。 |
| 题型技巧分析 | 标题配对题（List of headings）是雅思阅读中的一种重要题型，要求给段落找小标题。它一般位于文章之前，由两部分组成：一部分是选项，另一部分是段落编号，要求给各个段落找到与它对应的选项，即表达了该段中心思想的选项，有时还会举一个例子。当然，例子中的选项是不会作为答案的。 解题思路： 1. 将例子所对应的选项及段落标号划去 2. 划出选项中的关键词及概念性名词 3. 浏览文章，抓住各段的主题句和核心词（尤其是反复出现的核心词），重点关注段落首句、第二句与末句 4. 与段落主题句同义或包含段落核心词的选项为正确答案 选择型summary题注意做完后复查所选择的词是否在语法上正确。 |
| 剑桥雅思推荐原文练习 | 剑6 Inuit And Climate |
