2015年5月30日雅思考试的钟声即将敲响，为了让广大考生能更有针对性，更高效地复习备考，出国留学网【雅思备考】频道为大家精心整理了一套2015年5月30日雅思阅读预测题，欢迎参考。
2015年5月30日雅思阅读预测部分内容：
Passage 2
新旧情况：新题
题材：农工业类
题目：新方法解决洪都拉斯农业问题。
文章大意：
讲的是Honduras的农业，前面一半讲种植，过去人们采用刀耕火种的方式(slash-and-burn)：就是先把一片树林砍伐成平地，半年以后再在上面种植植物，这就是造成了土地肥力下降，所以人们就不得不再砍伐新的树林来开辟耕地。后面讲的是政府推广了一种新的种植方法(L方法具体名字不记得)，具体方法就是先在原耕地上种一种能快速生长的树，而且优点是不需要经常照料(attention填空题答案)，之后把树的叶子(leaves填空题答案)看下来做肥料，一段时间之后在堆肥的地方挖洞(holes填空题答案)中庄家进去。
Descriptive statistics involves tabulating, depicting, and describing collections of data. These data may be quantitative, such as measures of height, intelligence, or grade level - variables that are characterized by an underlying continuum - orthe data may represent qualitative variables, such as sex, college major, or personality type. Large masses of data must generally undergo a process of summarization or reduction before they are comprehensible. Descriptive statistics is a tool for describing or summarizing or reducing to comprehensible form the properties of an otherwise unwieldy mass or data. Inferential statistics is a formalized body of methods for solving another class of problems that present great difficulties for the unaided human mind. This general class of problems characteristically involves attempts to make predictions using a sample of observations. For example, a school superintendent wishes to determine the proportion of children in a large school system who come to school without breakfast, have been vaccinated for flu, or whatever. Having a little knowledge of statistics, the superintendent would know that it is unnecessary and inefficient to question each child; the proportion for the entire district could be estimated fairly accurately from a sample of as few as l00 children. Thus, the purpose of inferential statistics is to predict or estimate characteristics of a
(1). According to the first paragraph, counting and census-taking arc associated with
(A) inferential statistics
(B) descriptive statistics
(C) unknown variables
(D) qualitative changes
Passage 3
新旧情况：新
题材：文学类
题目：新西兰少年文学家
题型：YES/NO/NOT GIVEN 判断题(4道)
选择题(6道)
Summary答题库类填空题(4道)
文章大意：
第一段介绍了一下这个M女作家，最后一句提到在采访中提及她的生活，她会不自在。
第二段介绍了她最开始写作就是为了混口饭吃，她可以在汽车站写作。也介绍了一下她的作品类型，她的作品会出现反面人物，虽然故事内容惊险刺激但是结尾通常可以预测且是绝大多数读者满意的结局。
第三段介绍了她的新书，这本书可以说是她的一贯创作风格的代表作，新奇，有趣依旧。
第四段介绍了她的另一本书，这本书是再版，改编自风靡老一代人的读物。
第五段有介绍了一本书。
最后一段找了一个其他作家谈了一下他对这个M女作家的看法，更正了大众对她的一些误解。
Glacier National park in Montana shares boundaries with Canada, an American Indian reservation, and a national forest. Along the North Fork of the Flathead River, the park also borders about 17,000 acres of private lands that are currently used for ranching, timber, and agriculture. This land is an important part of the habitat and migratory routes for several endangered species that frequent the park. These private lands are essentially the only ones available for development in the region.
(1)It can be inferred from the passage that a major interest of the officials of Glacier National Park is to
(A) limit land development around the park
(B) establish a new Park in Montana
(C) influence national legislation
(D) settle border disputes with Canada
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2015年5月21日雅思阅读真题解析：
Passage 1
题材：科技类
新旧情况：新题
题目：英国的酒精燃料
题型：填空 +判断5
文章大意：
乙醇作为新燃料地提炼过程和与汽油的对比。
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