Reading Passage 3

第三篇阅读文章讲述人类合作，探究人类行为，文章是新文，但是话题类别并不新鲜，在剑桥雅思真题中，有不少这类文章，以下文章同学们可以去进行阅读：C8T2R2 –心灵感应, C8T2R3 – 嗅觉, C8T3R2 – 天才的本质, C9T2R3 – 与众不同者, C10T1R3 – 公司创新, C5T1R2 – 社会生物学, C11T2R3 – 神经美学。推荐同学们去读这些文章是因为相同或相近的文章会有较多重复的表达，如果同学们在课下做了足够的准备，那么在考试中就会比较从容。以下是一些人类行为研究类的词汇：

Frantic a. 狂乱的

Tempo n. 速度，节拍

Workloads n. 工作负荷

Frenzied a. 疯狂的

Delegate v. 代表

Overcommit v. 过量使用

Cognitive a. 认知的

Meditation n. 冥想

Compensation n. 补偿

Priority n. 优先

Consecutive a. 连贯的

Prolonged a. 延长的

Clients n. 顾客

Specialize v. 使专门化

Sustained a. 持续的

Resilience n. 恢复力

Thrive v. 兴旺

Procrastination n. 耽搁

hard-wired a. 内在的

题型来看，本篇的提醒设置比较经典，属于常见的“单选+句子配对+判断”的搭配，剑桥真题中类似的提醒搭配还有C8T4R2, C9T4R3, C9T2R3, C10T1R3, C11T4R2，同学们可以利用这些题目去熟悉做题的顺序。通过本次考试以及以上这些文章，大家可以看到这些基本都是一套题的第三篇文章，一般来讲，第三篇阅读文章的难度是三篇中最大的，并且做到第三篇时，同学们已经比较疲惫，因此这样的题型设置难度一般比较大，同学们在备考期间，需要对做题方法、做题顺序都应当熟悉，并且一定要卡时间，让自己的每篇文章时间尽量在20分钟以内，这样做到第三篇时不至于只有15分钟，甚至只有10分钟。

旧题分析

1. How Clarence Saunders’ new idea had been carried out – D

原文： On September 6, 1916, Saunders launched the self-service revolution in the USA  by  opening  the first self-service Piggly Wiggly store, at 79 Jefferson Street in Memphis, Tennessee, with its characteristic turnstile at the entrance. （D段第一句）

2. Introducing the modes and patterns of groceries before his age – A

原文：At the beginning of the 20th century, grocery stores in the United States were full-service. A customer would ask a clerk behind the  counter for specific item and the clerk would package the items, which were limited to dry goods. If they want to save some time, they have to ask a delivery boy or by themselves to send the  note of what they want to buy to the grocery story first and then  go to pay for the goods later. These grocery stores usually carried only one brand of each good. There were early chain stores, such as the A&P Stores, but these were all entirely full-service and very time-consuming. （A段）

3. Clarence Saunders declared bankruptcy a few year later – F

原文： However,  Saunders was forced into bankruptcy in 1923 after a dramatic spat with the New York Stock Exchange and he went on to create the “Clarence Saunders sole-owner-of-my-name” chain, which went into bankruptcy. （F段）

4. Descriptions of Clarence Saunders’ new conception - C

原文：So in 1902 he moved to Memphis where he developed his concept to form a grocery wholesale cooperative and a full-service grocery store. For his new “cafeteria grocery”, Saunders divided his grocery into three distinct areas: （C段第一句）

5.  The booming development of his business

Piggly Wiggly and the self-service concept took off. Saunders opened nine stores in the Memphis area within the first year of business. Consumers embraced the efficiency, the  simplicity and most of all the lower food prices. Saunders soon patented his self-service concept, and began franchising Piggly Wiggly stores. Thanks to the benefits  of self-service and franchising, Piggly Wiggly ballooned to nearly 1,300 stores by 1923. Piggly Wiggly sold $100million—worth $1.3 billion today—in groceries, making  it the third-biggest grocery retailer in the nation. The company’s stock was even listed on the New York Stock Exchange, doubling from late 1922 to March 1923. Saunders had his hands all over PigglyWiggly. He was instrumental in the design and layout of his stores. He even invented the turnstile.

6. When Clarence Saunders was an adolescent, he took a job as a clerk in a grocery store.

原文： In 1885, a Virginia boy named Clarence Saunders began working part-time as a clerk in a grocery store when he was 14 years old, and quit school when the shopkeeper offered him Ml time work with room and board.(B段第一句)

7. In the new innovation of grocery store, most of the clerks’ work before was done by customers/shoppers.

Saunders, a flamboyant and innovative man, noticed that this method resulted in wasted time and expense, so he came up with an unheard-of solution that would revolutionize the entire grocery industry: he developed a way for shoppers to serve themselves.（B段最后一句）

8. In Saunders’ new grocery store, the section where customers finish the payment was called lobby.

原文：For his new “cafeteria grocery”, Saunders divided his grocery into three distinct areas:

1)      A front “lobby” forming an entrance and exit and checkouts at the front. (C段第一句)

9. Another area in his store which behind the public area was called the stockroom, where only internal staff could access.

原文：3) And another section of his store is the room only allowed for the clerks which was called the “stockroom” or “storage room” where large refrigerators were situated to keep fresh products from being perishable.（C段第六句）