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　　Reading Passage 1

　　Title:

　　Alfred Nobel

　　Question types:

　　TRUE/FALSE/NOT GIVEN

　　Table Completion

　　文章内容回顾

　　Alfred Nobel的一生 -三硝酸甘油

　　英文原文阅读

　　Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor and industrialist, was a man of many contrasts. He was the son of a bankrupt, but became a millionaire; a scientist with a love of literature, an industrialist who managed to remain an idealist. He made a fortune but lived a very simple life, and although cheerful in company he was often sad in private. A lover of mankind, he never had a wife or family to love him; a patriotic son of his native land, he died alone on foreign soil. He invented a new explosive, dynamite, to improve the peacetime industries of mining and road building, but saw it was used as a weapon of war to kill and injure his fellow men. During his useful life he often felt he was useless: “Alfred Nobel,” he once wrote of himself, “ought to have been put to death by a kind doctor as soon as, with a cry, he entered life.” World-famous for his works he was never personally well known, for throughout his life he avoided publicity. “I do not see,” he once said, “that I have deserved any fame and I have no taste for it,” but since his death his name has brought fame and glory to others.

　　He was born in Stockholm on October 21, 1833but moved to Russia with his parents in 1842, where his father, Immanuel, made a strong position for himself in the engineering industry. Immanuel Nobel invented the landmine and made a lot of money from government orders for it during the Crimean War, but went bankrupt soon after. Most of the family returned to Sweden in 1859, where Alfred rejoined them in 1863, beginning his own study of explosives in his father's laboratory. He had never been to school or university but had studied privately. And by the time he was twenty, he was a skillful chemist and excellent linguist, speaking Swedish, Russian, German, French and English. Like his father, Alfred Nobel was imaginative and inventive, but he had better luck in business and showed more financial sense. He was quick to see industrial openings for his scientific inventions and built up over 80companies in 20 different countries. Indeed his greatness lay in his outstanding ability to combine the qualities of an original scientist with those of a forward-looking industrialist.

　　But Nobel's main concern was never with making money or even with making scientific discoveries. Seldom happy, he was always searching for a meaning to life, and from his youth had taken a serious interest in literature and philosophy. Perhaps he could not find ordinary human love—he never married—he came to care deeply about the whole of mankind. He was always generous to the poor: “I'd rather take care of the stomachs of the living than the glory of the dead in the form of stone materials,” he once said. His greatest wish, however, was to see an end to wars, and thus peace between nations, and he spent much time and money working for this cause until his death in Italy in 1896. His famous will, in which he left money to provide prizes for outstanding work in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology, Medicine, Literature and Peace, is a memorial to his interests and ideals. And so, the man who felt he should have died at birth is remembered and respected long after his death.

　　题型难度分析

　　第一篇的题型包括是非无判断题和表格题。是非无判断题不管对于基础好还是薄弱的同学，都可以拿分。而表格题属于送分题，也很简单。而文章内容也是大部分同学所熟悉的，因此该篇文章无论从题型还是文章内容都比较简单。

　　题型技巧分析

　　是非无判断是雅思阅读中的主流题型，其答题技巧和注意问题为：

　　1. 答案写法 若要求写TRUE

　　却写成：T ( × ) true ( × ) True ( × ) YES ( × )

　　2. 题目在原文出现的位置：顺序原则

　　3. 做题时首先要找题目中的考点：即题目中可能说错的部分

　　接下来考生需要确定定位词(排除考点词)：

　　而通常作为定位词的有：

　　A. 专有名词、术语、物质名词

　　B. 时间、数字

　　C. 归纳句子是关于哪方面信息的(即为定位词或短语)

　　如何判断：

　　1. 判断T/Y的情况：1)同义、近义替换

　　2)归纳总结

　　2. 判断F/N的情况：100%否认原文

　　3. 判断NG的情况：根据原文无法100%判断题目T/F(不可利用常识)

　　剑桥雅思推荐原文练习

　　剑5 Test 1