墨尔本文波雅思发现雅思考试就是技巧与反技巧的博弈，三年前雅思阅读技巧现在大多不管用了。现在的雅思阅读就是要读懂，就是要词汇量大，语法基础好。大家看一下下面的真题同义词替换，已经不仅仅只是词的替换，更多的是意思的替换，句子替换短语的情况比比皆是。
Test2 Passage1
- Tea-making as a ritual = began to specialize in the presentation of the tea ceremony
- News of tea reaches another continent = information…began to filter back to Europe
- A luxury item = expensive
- Good or bad thing = benefits or drawbacks
- In and sometimes out of fashion = remained popular + replaced by a preference + Tea mania swept across England
- Difficulties in importing tea = the journey was not easy
- Claims that tea might be harmful failed to affect its popularity = doctors…argued as to its benefits or drawbacks + The public largely ignored the scholarly debate and continued to enjoy their new beverage…
- Lost favour to other drinks = replaced by a preference for wine…
- Special buildings were constructed… = the creation of a particular form of architecture for ‘tea house’
- Animals were involved in importing tea = the average caravan consisted of 200 to 300 camels
A connection between tea and religion =tea… has always been linked with Zen Buddhism
- Unsuccessful claim to ownership of his work = was judged to have no rights to the image
- Trends in art change attitudes to an earlier work = new movement implies a reassessment of what has gone before
- The original function of a particular type of art = objects originally intended for …
- Sculptors admired the speed and realism of life-casting =(反义) life-casting was considered inferior to sculpture…Their virtues of speed and unwavering realism also implied their limitation…
- The quality of the life-casting would improve if a slower process were used = life-casting ‘happens fast but it doesn’t make Art’
- The importance of painting has decreased with the development of colour photography =(反义) …worried about future development in photography…but painting has proved robust.
- The most noticeable contrast is between… = in the contradiction between…
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