Franklin and 128 hand-picked officers and men vanished on an expedition begun in 1845 to find the fabled Northwest Passage. Franklin's disappearance prompted one of history's largest and longest rescue searches, from 1848 to 1859, which resulted in the passage's discovery.
Harper's government began searching for Franklin's ships as it looked to assert Canada's sovereignty over the Northwest Passage, where melting Arctic ice has unlocked the very shipping route Franklin was after.
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TORONTO (AP) - One of two British explorer ships that disappeared in the Arctic more 160 years ago has been found, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Tuesday.
题型技巧分析
判断题：
顺序题型，注意定位词和考点词，注意区分FALSE和NOT GIVEN,FALSE是文章有提到信息并且与题目信息对立，NOT GIVEN是文章没有提及题目所问信息，所以考点词的推测对区分FALSE和NOT GIVEN有很大影响。
Summary填空题：
该题型一般遵循顺序原则，若是对一段或者几段的summary,难度不大，如果是全文，难度提升。首先确定段落定位，快速浏览段落，找到和题目相关的词，注意同义替换。
Harper, speaking in Ottawa, said it remains unclear which ship has been found, but images show there's enough information to confirm it's one of the pair.
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考试日期
2014年10月25日
Reading Passage 1
Title
英国北极科考船（科考类）
Question types
判断题TRUE/FALSE/NOT GIVEN
Summary填空
文章内容回顾
北极发现了一艘沉没的科考船遗体，科考船载的是十几年前英国人去北极考察的团队，当时的设备技术等安全有保证，莫名失踪后，悬赏寻找，因纽特人帮助救援。科学家讨论船只当年遇难的原因，有人认为是供水系统出现了问题，有人认为是引擎问题，有人却认为是食品中毒问题。
Experts believe the ships were lost in 1848 after they became locked in the ice near King William Island and that the crews abandoned them in a hopeless bid to reach safety.
No sea crossing was successful until Roald Amundsen of Norway completed his trip from 1903-1906.
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第一篇难度一般，北极科考类话题今年考过，话题比较熟悉。判断题作为主流题型首先பைடு நூலகம்现，Summary填空题定位较简单。
The route runs from the Atlantic to the Pacific through the Arctic archipelago. European explorers sought the passage as a shorter route to Asia, but found it rendered inhospitable by ice and weather.
Research conducted on twins complicates the theory, however. One in five sets of identical twins involves one right-handed and one left-handed person, despite the fact that their genetic material is the same. Genes, therefore, are not solely responsible for handedness.
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The world is designed for right-handed people. Why does a tenth of the population prefer the left?
A.The probability that two right-handed people would have a left-handed child is only about 9.5 percent. The chance rises to 19.5 percent if one parent is a lefty and 26 percent if both parents are left-handed. The preference, however, could also stem from an infant’s imitation of his parents. To test genetic influence, starting in the 1970s British biologist Marian Annett of the University of Leicester hypothesized that no single gene determines handedness. Rather, during fetal development, a certain molecular factor helps to strengthen the brain’s left hemisphere, which increases the probability that the right hand will be dominant, because the left side of the brain controls the right side of the body, and vice versa. Among the minority of people who lack this factor, handedness develops entirely by chance.
The HMS Erebus and HMS Terror were last seen in the late 1840s. Canada announced in 2008 that it would search for the ships led by British Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin.
The discovery comes shortly after a team of archeologists found a tiny fragment from the Franklin expedition. Searchers discovered an iron fitting that once helped support a boat from one of the doomed expedition's ships in the King William Island search area.
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Reading Passage 2
Title
左撇子和右撇子（生命科学类）（2011.09.17P2）
Question types
细节段落配对题5题
人名理论配对题4题
判断题YES/NO/NOT GIVEN 4题
文章内容回顾
左右手与动作、大脑和语言使用的关系。人们对左右手使用的不同观点，有科学家怀疑和母亲怀孕时的动作有关，进而影响其语言能力，以及在动物群体中的表现，究竟是左撇子好还是右撇子好。
Franklin's vessels are among the most sought-after prizes in marine archaeology. Harper said the discovery would shed light on what happened to Franklin's crew.
The original search for the ships helped open up parts of the Canadian Arctic for discovery back in the 1850s.
Harper said the ship was found Sunday using a remotely operated underwater vehicle.