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雅思同义词法则阅读技巧

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13. It is legitimate for drug companies to make money.

The word legitimate is an adjective and means lawful and rightful. Answer is located in paragraph G of the text:

….in the end the fact remains that pharmaceutical companies have every right to make profit and will continue to find new ways to increase sales….

Here key words like ‘drug companies’ can be found in the text as ‘pharmaceutical companies’, ‘make money’ as ‘make profit’. Moreover, the synonym of legitimate  is also noticed as have every right. Therefore, the answer should be YES.

B. Specific Exemplifications ‘Synonyms with Varied Roots and Different Part of Speech’ in Sentence Completion

Cambridge IETLS 5test4 passage 3

37. Plants that flower when days are long often depend on ------to help them reproduce.

In paragraph 4of the text, there is a sentence goes like this: long-day plants are adapted for situations that require fertilization by insects, or a long period of seed ripening ….

Fertilization is a ‘synonym with varied roots but different part of speech’ to reproduce

After some analysis related to grammatical accuracy and contextual meaning, the answer insects can be chosen...

As a matter of fact, it is not sagacious to master these three skills respectively. On the contrary, it’s essential and advisable for us to combine them and make flexible application. The significance of the combination of any two of them or even three of them can be revealed through the following examples in both individual question and a whole question type. 

Ⅳ.Flexible Application of Combination of the Aforementioned Skill ‘Exchange of Synonyms’ in Both Individual Question or a Whole Question Type.

A. Specific Exemplifications of Combination of Two of the Aforementioned Skill ‘Exchange of Synonyms’ in Individual Question in Classification

Cambridge IETL S 4test4 passage3

A. between 1945 and 1950

B. between 1950 and 1980

C. after 1980

35. an acceptance of the role of the state in guaranteeing the provision of health care

In section D of the text, there is a sentence goes like this: it is also accepted that this right generated an obligation or duty of the state to ensure that adequate health –care resources are provided out of the public purse.

Here acceptance can be replaced as accepted in accordance with ‘synonyms with same root, whereas the part of speech differs’, so does provision and provided. Ensure can serve as a replacement to guranteeing .

Coupled with the contextual time as 1970s in this section, the answer is definitely thought to be B.

B. Specific Exemplifications of Flexible Use of the Aforementioned Skill ‘Exchange of Synonyms’ in a Whole Question Type

Cambridge IETL S 6test2passage2

Questions 14-22

Research carried out by scientists in the United States has shown that the proportion of people over 65suffering from the most common age-related medical problem is 15.decreasing and that the speed of this change is.16. increasing.

(Explanation: researchers,…medical complaints in this age group –are troubling a smaller proportion every year. And the data confirms that the rate at which these diseases are declining continues to accelerate….)

It also seems that these diseases are affecting people 17.later in life than they did in the past.

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

This is largely due to developments in .18.medicine.

(Explanation ….clearly, certain diseases are beating a retreat in the face of medical advances….).

But other factors such as improved nutrition may also be playing a part.

(Explanation….but there may be other contributing factors .improvement in childhood nutrition in the first quarter of the twentieth century….)

Increases in some other illnesses may be due to changes in personal habits and to19. pollution.

(Explanation….An increase in some cancers and bronchitis may reflect changing smoking habits and poorer air quality, says researchers ….)

This research establishes a link between levels of 20.education and life expectancy.

(Explanation one interesting correlation Manton uncovered is that better –educated people are likely to live longer.)

It also shows that there has been a considerable reduction in the number of elderly people who are 21.disabled