巧用雅思阅读

有很多雅思考生苦于不知道如何积累和寻找雅思写作素材，其实素材就在身边，剑桥阅读真题就是很好的资源，读写不分家，很多剑桥阅读都是议论文，涵盖教育，环境，全球化，犯罪，心理学等和写作话题完全一样的文章，这些文章是适合做精读分析的，比如下面这篇剑五讲孩子的早教的这篇文章。

Early Childhood Education

A

'Education To Be More' was published last August. It was the report of the New Zealand Government's Early Childhood Care and Education Working Group. The report argued for enhanced equity of access and better funding for childcare and early childhood education institutions. Unquestionably, that's a real need; but since parents don't normally send children to pre-schools until the age of three, are we missing out on the most important years of all?

B

A 13-year study of early childhood development at Harvard University has shown that, by the age of three, most children have the potential to understand about 1000 words - most of the language they will use in ordinary conversation for the rest of their lives.

Furthermore, research has shown that while every child is born with a natural curiosity, it can be suppressed dramatically during the second and third years of life. Researchers claim that the human personality is formed during the first two years of life, and during the first three years children learn the basic skills they will use in all their later learning both at home and at school. Once over the age of three, children continue to expand on existing knowledge of the world.