雅思英语阅读技巧讲义：《太空卫星科技》阅读题！

全球太空竞争大背景下，部分亚洲国家开始发展低成本高性能的迷你卫星。其中，A段介绍了中国对宇宙空间探索的过去与将来;B段强调了过去几十年亚洲重视太空卫星科技研发;C段列举了太空卫星科技在不同领域的应用;D段说明太空卫星科技在不同国家和区域组织的不同程度;E段研说了底层技术以及这些技术在不同国家的研发水平;F段过渡到亚洲开始对迷 你卫星技术的追求;G段还浅谈了非技术因素的影响。

重点词汇

基础类

Rocket

火箭

Artificial

人造的Budget

预算Launch

发射

Agriculture农业Infrastructure

基础设施Self-sufficient

自给自足的Sustainable development可持续发展

Curve曲线Fundamental

基础的，根本的Low-cost低成本Decade十年

Boundary界限

Assistance协助，帮助Invention发明Independence 独立

重点类

satellite卫星

Launchers发射器Astronaut宇航员Utilization利用，用处

Globalization全球化

Embrace拥抱，接纳Telecommu-nication远程通信Determining决定性的

Manufacture生产，制造Deforestation森林退化Storm

暴风雨Flood

洪水

Monitor监控Dominant主导的/统治的

Methodology方法论Mechanism机制，原理

Components零件组成部分Crops庄稼，作物Enhance

加强Literacy

自由

专业类

meteorologicalforecasting气象预报disaster mitigation减轻灾情Oil spills石油泄漏Tele-medcine远程医疗

Crime prevention犯罪预防Spaceport空间站Remotesensing遥感Wavelength波长

同义替换

初级改写

Hunger for

Eager to

CompetitionCompetitive commercial space sector

FutureCompetitive commercial space sector

In the pastIn the last decades

AgricultureCrops

Administrate the cropsRice crop monitoring

PhotosPhotographs

高 级改写

Innovation

applicationThe field of health and tele-medicine, distance education, crime prevention (piracy on the high seas), food and agricultural planning and production (rice crop monitoring)

An ancient

invention‘Fire arrows' (bamboo poles filled with gunpowder) first used in China around 500 BC

Non-technology factorsThey are very much influenced by education, culture, and history

Independence

The global increase of technology transfer mechanisms and use of readily available commercial technology to replace costly space and military standard components may very well result in a highly competitive Asian satellite manufacturing industry

Disasterlarge-scale environmental problems including storms and flooding, forest fires and deforestation, and crop failures.

Resolve environmental problemsSatellite provide essential information for natural resource accounting, environmental management, disaster prevention and monitoring, land-use mapping, and sustainable development planning. Progress in these applications has been rapid and impressive.

Be limited for developmentASEAN members, do not have their own remote sensing satellites

Military purposeRepel Mongol invaders at the battle of Kaifeng。

句型分析

1. It is not evident how Asian space will develop in the coming decades in the face of these trends.

在这样的趋势下，亚洲太空技术在接下来几十年如何发展尚未知晓。

解析

It is not evident (it 做形式主语)how Asian space will develop (主语从句)in the coming decades in the face of these trends (介词短语，交代时间和背景)

2. Southeast Asia is predicted to become the largest and fastest growing market for commercial space products and applications, driven by telecommunications (mobile and fixed services), the Internet, and remote sensing applications.东南亚有望成为商业太空产品和应用领域发展最快 规模最 大的市场，依靠远程通讯(移动和固定服务设备)，网络和遥感。

解析

Southeast Asia is predicted to (被动语态)become the largest and fastest growing market for commercial space products and applications,(分词用法，动词的ed形式与句子主 语形成逻辑关系，)driven by telecommunications (mobile and fixed services), the Internet, and remote sensing applications.

当两个句子合并成一句话时，除了同学们常用的连词和主从 句用法，还可以使用动词的分词形式，强调逻辑顺承关系，丰富表达。在雅思阅读中注意分 词背后的因果/递进关系。

3. ASEAN members, unlike Japan, China, and India, do not have their own remote sensing satellites, however most of its member nations have facilities to receive, process, and interpret such data from American and European satellites.东盟(ASEAN)成员国，与日本，中国和 印度不同的是，没有他们日己的遥感卫星，但是大部分成员国还是有接收，处理和转译来日 美国欧洲卫星数据的设备。

解析

ASEAN members, unlike Japan, China, and India (插入语成分)，do not have their own remote sensing satellites, however most of its member nations have facilities to receive, process, and interpret such data from American and European satellites.

主句+插入语，是雅 思阅读长难句考察的常见方式，同学们要把握住长难句中的主谓关系，理顺句子成分和句子意思。