雅思的閱讀理解詞彙量較大，而且出題內容廣泛，考生難以應付如此多變的雅思閱讀理解。但是多看一些英文新聞時事閱讀，也許會好一點哦。
French investigators say they are opening a fresh inquiry into the case of the Germanwings co-pilot, who deliberately crashed a plane in the French Alps. It follows confirmation that some doctors, who treated Andreas Lubitz, judged him unfit to fly, but failed to alert his employers, because of patient confidentiality laws. The French Prosecutor, Brice Robin, speaking through a female translator, said an investigation was trying to establish whether manslaughter charges should be brought in connection with the case.
He was taking antidepressants, and he had been on sick leave for ten days. And some of the doctors found that he was very down, very unsure of himself, tense. And some of them believed that he was not apt to fly. Andreas Lubitz told doctors that he was only sleeping two hours at night and feared he was going blind. All one hundred and fifty people on board the plane were killed.
The Chief Executive of Twitter, Dick Costolo, is stepping down at the end of June. The company gave no reason for his departure. But the firm's financial performance has disappointed investors. Michelle Fleury is in New York.
While the announcement, not surprisingly, given what Twitter is, was made over their website on their investor relations, Twitter Feed. They said that Dick Costolo would be stepping down at the end of the month. Jack Dorsey returns to the home, while the Board starts the search for permanent replacement. The reaction on Wall Street has been fairly swift. The share prices have been up. There has been a sense amongst investors. They were concerned that Twitter was generating enough profit quick enough.
International creditors have warned Greece that time was running out for a deal over its debts. The President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, said the Greek government had to become more realistic and commit to reforms, in order to receive the remaining eight-billion dollars from its international bailout.
A surgeon in South Africa has confirmed that the man, who had the world's first penis transplant, is to become a father. Professor Andre van der Merwe, who performed the operation in December, said the patient's partner is four-month pregnant.
An Egyptian court has sentenced a policeman to fifteen years in jail for shooting dead an unarmed woman protester. Shaima al-Sabbagh was killed in January, when she was hit by shotgun pellets fired from a close range, while taking part in a peaceful demonstration in Cairo. Alan Johnston reports.
Shaima al-Sabbagh was a mother, a poet and a political activist. The march she went on was peaceful, but it hadn't been officially authorised. The riot police moved in to break it up, and Ms. Al-Sabbagh was blasted at a close range with a shotgun. For many, the scene came to symbolise the ruthlessness with which dissent is now being stamped out in Egypt.
詞彙解釋
identiality n. 機密，[計] 機密性
They signed a confidentiality agreement.
他們簽署了一份保守機密的協議。
depressant n. 抗抑鬱劑 adj. 抗抑鬱的`(等於antidepressive)
Exercise is a powerful antidepressant.
鍛鍊能夠使人一掃陰霾。
s n. 陽物;[解剖] 陰莖
The penis is usually in a flaccid state.
陰莖常處於萎軟狀態。
lessness n. 無情;冷酷;殘忍
His patriarchal generosity is counter-balanced by his ruthlessness.
他有着族長式的慷慨大方，同時卻又冷漠無情。
lf vt. 吞沒;吞食，狼吞虎嚥
The monkey engulfed the food whole.
這隻猴子囫圇吞下食物。
fall n. 垮臺;衰敗;落下;大雨
His lack of experience had led to his downfall.
他的缺乏經驗導致了他的垮臺。
endant adj. 下降的;祖傳的 n. 後裔;子孫
They are descendants of the original English and Scottish settlers.
他們是最初的英格蘭和蘇格蘭移民的後裔。
e n. 樁，棍子;賭注;火刑;獎金 vt. 資助，支持;系…於樁上;把…押下打賭 vi. 打賭
The boy tethered the goat to a stake.
男孩把山羊拴在木樁上。
