很多考生都会反映雅思阅读时间很紧张，做题速度有点慢。小编想说，速度也是可以练出来的，当然要有正确的方法。不妨来参考一下雅思阅读提速的五个方法。
五大锦囊大热身
(剑桥真题7-Test2)
D：But the costs to society can actually be quantified and, when added up, can amount to staggering sums. A remarkable exercise in doing this has been carried out by one of the world's leading thinkers on the future of agriculture, Professor Jules Pretty, Director of the Centre for Environment and Society at the University of Essex. Professor Pretty and his colleagues calculated the externalities of British agriculture for one particular year. They added up the costs of repairing the damage it caused, and came up with a total figure of £2,343m. This is equivalent to £208 for every hectare of arable land and permanent pasture, almost as much again as the total government and EU spend on British farming in that year. And according to Professor Pretty, it was a conservative estimate.
E：The costs included: £120m for removal of pesticides; £16m for removal of nitrates; £55m for removal of phosphates and soil; £23m for the removal of the bug Cryptosporidium from drinking water by water companies; £125m for damage to wildlife habitats, hedgerows and dry stone walls; £1,113m from emissions of gases likely to contribute to climate change; £106m from soil erosion and organic carbon losses; £169m from food poisoning; and £607m from cattle disease. Professor Pretty draws a simple but memorable conclusion from all this: our food bills are actually threefold. We are paying for our supposedly cheaper food in three separate ways: once over the counter, secondly through our taxes, which provide the enormous subsidies propping up modern intensive farming, and thirdly to clean up the mess that modern farming leaves behind.
F：So can the true cost of food be brought down? Breaking away from industrial agriculture as the solution to hunger may be very hard for some countries, but in Britain, where the immediate need to supply food is less urgent, and the costs and the damage of intensive farming have been clearly seen, it may be more feasible. The government needs to create sustainable, competitive and diverse farming and food sectors, which will contribute to a thriving and sustainable rural economy, and advance environmental, economic, health, and animal welfare goals.
题目：
Professor pretty concludes that our …….22……are higher than most people realize ,because we make three different types of payment. He feels it is realistic to suggest that Britain should reduce its reliance on …..23……
解题思路：Q22(等级：8分) 学生正确率20%，耗时量大
第一：通过Professor pretty我们很容易定位在D段开始找。(5秒)
第二：根据Q22空后面的are，空缺应该填一个复数名词。在整个D段只有第五六排三个复数(colleagues，externalities, costs)(15秒)
第三：根据are，断定为现在时态，D段为过去式，没答案(5秒)，所以在下一段E段找。
第四：在E段倒数第六排找到Professor pretty，根据动词draws断定时态为现在时态，根据复数找到food bills，然后根据原文动词draws a conclusion =题目动词concludes，所以答案food bills(20秒)(备注：如果第一步找到在D段后，先确定时态为过去时，可以直接过渡到E段，就可以省略第二步骤的15秒钟)共用时30秒。
引申：若D段时态为“现在时态”
解题思路：
1.审题。(运用五大锦囊)得出结论：第一找Professor pretty，第二找复数，第三找现在时态，第四根据动词conclude(发生表结果)去找发生表结果。
2.做题.
1).根据Professor pretty我们很容易定位在D段开始找(5秒);
2).再根据Q22空后面的are，空缺应该填一个复数名词。在整个D段只有第五六排三个复数(colleagues，externalities, costs)(15秒);
3).再根据动词conclude发生表结果，发现D段第五排动词calculated表过程，排除colleagues，externalities;第六排动词added up 表过程排除costs(10秒钟);
4).最后，在E段倒数第六排找到Professor pretty，根据动词draws断定时态为现在时态，根据复数找到food bills，然后根据原文动词draws a conclusion =题目动词concludes，所以答案food bills(20秒),共用时50秒。(而该题绝大多数学生用时3-5分钟)
解题思路：Q23(等级：9分)学生正确率2%，难以理解，较抽象，无从下手
1. 审题。 第一定位词Britain，第二找reduce原词或同义词，第三根据题目should reduce断定其后面空缺的词感情色彩为“不好的”
2. 做题。
1).根据定位词Britain定位于F段第二排but之后(5秒)
2).F段共两句，然后找动词和感情色彩“不好的”词，第三排less urgent感情“为好的”，没答案。后面的damage感情色彩“不好的”有答案，为intensive farming(10秒钟)
3)进一步检验，最后一句动词为needs to create ，宾语感情色彩“为好的”，所以没答案，从句中都是感情色彩“好的”没有答案。(5秒)，所以答案一定是：intensive farming。看完整段用时：20秒。
注意：很多学生答案为：第一排的industrial agriculture。
破解：1.原文的Breaking away from industrial agriculture中的Breaking away from没有感情色彩，意为“不做某事”，不可能有答案。再者，原文说“对大部分国家而言不搞工农业是不可能的，但是在英国，it may be ,more feasible.”很多学生不认feasible，但是根据but能推理出与hard相反，意为“可行的”，这是F段第二句的主干。并没有涉及到英国应该怎么样，注意should。
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