時間定位詞 | 雅思閱讀辭彙敏感度訓練系列

04-21

先前老師曾分享過雅思閱讀「以小見大」重點辭彙講解系列（包含雅思閱讀高頻易考重點辭彙：object/effect/change/cost/aware/地理方位），本期五月花將陸續推送雅思閱讀高頻考點應用系列原創（幫助鴨鴨們能避免漏看，做好詞的預判）。

第一期：Computer VS Human | 雅思閱讀辭彙敏感度訓練系列
第二期：Human/people | 雅思閱讀辭彙敏感度訓練系列
第三期：Society | 雅思閱讀辭彙敏感度訓練系列
第四期：Environment | 雅思閱讀辭彙敏感度訓練系列

本周老師繼續分享劍橋雅思閱讀真題中 高頻時間定位詞 會怎樣考察，如何快速識別出來幫助有效做題，需積累其變形套路。

本篇文章將節選雅思閱讀 高頻時間定位詞：

future
early
recent / long-term

future

C6-T1-P2-Q14-P24

Matching: which paragraph

future=would

題:

a suggestion for improving trade in the future

原文：（文章尾段一般用來展望未來）

I Bringing these barriers down would help the worlds economies grow even closer.

C6-T3-P1-Q10-P66

單選題

future=would

題:

When cinema first began, people thought that

D its future was uncertain

原文：

When the Lumiere Brothers and other pioneers began showing off this new invention, it was by no means obvious how it would be used.

C4-T2-P3-Q38-P53

Matching: classify題型

future=would

future: Juvenile VS adulthood

題:

John Byers

答案：

Play is not a form of fitness training for the future

原文：

C But Byers points out that the benefits of increased exercise disappear rapidly after training stops, so any improvement in endurance resulting from juvenile play would be lost by adulthood.

時間定位詞兩種考法：

① 時態：future=would

② 相對而言（參照物）：

Juvenile （青少年）的 future（未來）→ adulthood

時間定位詞第二種考法應用舉例：

C6-T4-P3-Q32-P96

單選題

later: pupil vs adult

題:

Children who are bullied

D may have difficulty forming relationships in later life

原文：

B Victimised pupils are more likely to experience difficulties with interpersonal relationship as adults....

C12-T7-P1-Q7-P59

LOH題型

Young=juvenile=tiny=regeneration

Old=ancestral=giant=ancient

題:

Young meets old

原文：

G Upon their release, the juvenile tortoises quickly spread out over their ancestral terriorty, ... Eventually, one tiny tortoise came across a fully grown giant who had been... The two stood side by side, a powful symbol of the regeneration of an ancient species.

C6-T2-P2-Q16-P46

Summary選擇填空題

in the past: 1982

later: 65 VS 70 or 75

題:

It also seems that these diseases are affecting people later in life than they did in the past.

原文：

P3 He says the problems doctors accepted as normal in a 65-year-old in 1982 are often not appearing until people are 70 or 75.

early

C7-T1-P1-Q2-P20

Matching: which paragraph題型

early=ancestor

題:

How early mammals avoided dying out

原文：

In the time when the dinosaurs dominated the daytime economy, our mammalian ancestors probably only managed to survive at all because they found ways of scraping a living at night.

C11-T1-P3-Q27-P27

Matching: which paragraph題型

earlier: historic & 1991 & short-term

題:

Mention of a geo-engineering project based on an earlier natural phenomenon

原文：

The idea is modelled on historic volcanic explosions, such as that of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines in 1991, which led to a short-term cooling of global temperatures by 0.5 ℃.

C4-T4-P1-Q6-P90

T/F/NG題型

younger=early

題:

The growing international importance of athletics means that gifted athletes can be recognised at a younger age.

原文：

Over the past century the composition of the human gene pool has not changed appreciably, but...athletic performance can be identified early.

recent / long-term

在雅思閱讀中，詞的替換符合我們基本常識，然而很多常識是錯誤的（比如背單詞，總是背不到應該被考的意思），比如時間定位詞的recent，一般搭配是in recent years，五月花發現絕大多數學生理解為近些年（=幾年），實際在雅思閱讀中應該理解為幾十年。也包括對於long-term理解不夠準確，現在五月花帶大家通過劍橋真題的題幫大家準確理解recent/long-term。

C7-T2-P2-Q19-P46

T/F/NG題型

in recent years=in the last four decades [40年】

題:

The taste of food has deteriorated in recent years.

原文：

This is a direct result of the way we have produced our food in the last four decades.

C6-T1-P3-Q38-P29

Summary普通填空題題型

in recent years=over the past 40 years [又是40年】

題:

In recent years, many of them have been obliged to give up their nomadic lifestyle...

原文：

Over the past 40 years, most have abandoned their nomadic ways and ...

C4-T2-P2-Q23-P48

T/F/NG題型

long-term=chronic

題:

Alll the patients in the 1993 sydney survey had long-term medical complaints.

原文：

Those surveyed had experienced chronic illnesses, for which orthodox medicine had been to provide little relief.

C10-T1-P2-Q17-P21

LOH題型

long-term=30 years & 2020 & 2040

題:

A fresh and important long-term goal

原文：

D The ambitious objective can only be fully achieved by 2020, but...which will ideally be in place in 30 years time, that is by 2040.

通過老師以上劍橋雅思閱讀真題舉例，想必大家對於時間定位詞的考法以及應用有一定了解，請同學們回去記住「時間定位詞的兩種考法-時態&參照物」，劍橋系列還有其他時間定位詞的考法，以後有機會再進行補充。

往期雅思閱讀文章匯總：

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Part 3: 語言類 | 劍橋雅思閱讀場景真題辭彙

Part 4: 環境類 | 劍橋雅思閱讀場景真題辭彙

Part 5: 考古探險類 | 劍橋雅思閱讀場景真題辭彙

Part 6: 商業管理類 | 劍橋雅思閱讀場景真題辭彙

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