大部分中国考生的雅思阅读成绩都不错，而朗阁海外考试研究中心的老师认为，雅思阅读是一个不应该失分的单项，通过考生的反馈，我们发现在雅思阅读考试中，同学们最容易犯的错误主要在“词汇”问题上：
 

　　1. 词汇量不够，导致过分关注个别学生认为可以定位的“关键词”

　　例：(C4T1P1)

　　Many studies have shown that children harbor misconceptions about ‘pure', curriculum science. These misconceptions do not remain isolated but become incorporated into a multifaceted, but organized, conceptual framework, making it and the component ideas, some of which are erroneous, more robust but also accessible to modification. These ideas may be developed by children absorbing ideas through the popular media. Sometimes this information may be erroneous. It seems schools may not be providing an opportunity for children to express their ideas and so have them tested and refined by teachers and their peers.
 

　　Questions 1-8

　　Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage 1?

　　In boxes 1-8 on your answer sheet write
 

　　TRUE              if the statement agrees with the information

　　FALSE                 if the statement contradicts the information

　　NOT GIVEN                if there is no information on this
 

　　1. The plight of the rainforests has largely been ignored by the media.

　　2. Children only accept opinions on rainforests that they encounter in their classrooms.

　　3. It has been suggested that children hold mistaken views about the 'pure' science that they study at school.

　　4. The fact that children's ideas about science form part of a larger framework of ideas means that it is easier to change them.

　　5. The study involved asking children a number of yes/no questions such as 'Are there any rainforests in Africa?'

　　6. Girls are more likely than boys to hold mistaken views about the rainforests' destruction.

　　7. The study reported here follows on from a series of studies that have looked at children's understanding of rainforests.

　　8. A second study has been planned to investigate primary school children's ideas about rainforests.
 

　　关于这篇雅思阅读文章中的第三题，第一步，定位词为“pure science”, 非常明显，也可以很快定位到原文第二段的首句，根据不跨句原则可以马上得出答案，但是很多学生会纠结“they study at school”这个点，从而导致不敢选择正确答案TRUE, 而认为是NOT GIVEN。主要是因为curriculum这个单词的理解障碍，意思就是课程，当然就是学校学习的意思。
 

　　2. 过度纠结某个词或者词组的意思，导致错误答案

　　例：(C5T1P1)

　　For the century before Johnson's Dictionary was published in 1775, there had been concern about the state of the English language. There was no standard way of speaking or writing and no agreement as to the best way of bringing some order to the chaos of English spelling. Dr Johnson provided the solution.

　　There had, of course, been dictionaries in the past, the first of these being a little book of some 120 pages, compiled by a certain Robert Cawdray, published in 1604 under the title A Table Alphabeticall ‘of hard usuall English wordes’. Like the various dictionaries that came after it during the seventeenth century, Cawdray's tended to concentrate on 'scholarly' words; one function of the dictionary was to enable its student to convey an impression of fine learning.

　　Beyond the practical need to make order out of chaos, the rise of dictionaries is associated with the rise of the English middle class, who were anxious to define and circumscribe the various worlds to conquer - lexical as well as social and commercial. It is highly appropriate that Dr Samuel Johnson, the very model of an eighteenth-century literary man, as famous in his own time as in ours, should have published his Dictionary at the very beginning of the heyday of the middle class.

　　Johnson was a poet and critic who raised common sense to the heights of genius. His approach to the problems that had worried writers throughout the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries was intensely practical. Up until his time, the task of producing a dictionary on such a large scale had seemed impossible without the establishment of an academy to make decisions about right and wrong usage. Johnson decided he did not need an academy to settle arguments about language; he would write a dictionary himself; and he would do it single-handed. Johnson signed the contract for the Dictionary with the bookseller Robert Dosley at a breakfast held at the Golden Anchor Inn near Holborn Bar on 18 June 1764. He was to be paid £1,575 in instalments, and from this he took money to rent I7 Gough Square, in which he set up his ‘dictionary workshop’.

　　James Boswell, his biographer described the garret where Johnson worked as 'fitted up like a counting house' with a long desk running down the middle at which the copying clerks would work standing up.
 

　　Questions 8-13

　　Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage 1?

　　In boxes 8-13 on your answer sheet, write
 

　　TRUE            if the statement agrees with the information

　　FALSE           if the statement contradicts the information

　　NOT GIVEN           if there is no information on this
 

　　8. The growing importance of the middle classes led to an increased demand for dictionaries.

　　9. Johnson has become more well known since his death.

　　10. Johnson had been planning to write a dictionary for several years.

　　11. Johnson set up an academy to help with the writing of his Dictionary.

　　12. Johnson only received payment for his Dictionary on its completion.

　　13. Not all of the assistants survived to see the publication of the Dictionary.
 

　　该篇雅思阅读的第八题也是学生比较容易出错的一个点。定位也不是问题，拿到middle class马上可以定位到“beyond the practical need to make order out of chaos, the rise of dictionaries is associated with the rise of English middle class, who were anxious to define and circumscribe the various worlds to conquer--lexical as well as social and commercial.”

　　但是因为led to是导致的意思，而associate with是与…有关的意思，所以很多学生会选择该答案是FALSE。这就是一个非常典型的过分纠结词汇内容而出错的点。

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