雅思考試分為聽、說、讀、寫四個部分，從聽、說、讀、寫四個方面考查雅思考生的英語語言能力。大部分考生認為這四部分是各自為營，互無關(guān)聯(lián)的，而實際上并非如此。其中，閱讀和寫作的關(guān)系最為密切的，因此也就有了“閱寫不分家”的說法。而朗閣海外考試研究中心分析認為，考生們?nèi)绻跍蕚溲潘伎荚嚨倪^程中能夠把閱讀和寫作結(jié)合起來，雙管齊下，就可以收到一箭雙雕的效果。

   話題的結(jié)合

   很多考生在寫作文的過程中，通常抱怨沒有思路，無話可說；而在做閱讀的過程中，考生又常常抱怨文章看不懂，不知所云。實際上很多雅思閱讀文章和雅思大作文話題類似，考生如果在準備雅思的過程中能把兩者很好地結(jié)合，就不會出現(xiàn)作文沒有思路，閱讀不知所云的情況了，因為考生可以運用寫作中所積累的知識，猜出類似話題的閱讀文章中的內(nèi)容，同樣也可以運用雅思閱讀文章中的內(nèi)容來構(gòu)思大作文。

   在劍4 test2 passage 1 Lost for Words 這篇文章中就涉及了語言消亡的原因、影響及拯救辦法：

   The critically endangered languages are those that are only spoken by the elderly. （原因）

   Why do people reject the language of their parents? It begins with a crisis of confidence, when a small community find itself along a larger, wealthier society. People lose faith in their own culture. （原因）

   Quite often, governments try to kill off a minority language by banning its use in public or discouraging its use in schools, all to promote national unity. （原因）

   The deadliest weapon is not government policy but economic globalization. （原因）

   When an unwritten and unrecorded language disappears, it is lost to science. （影響）

   Language is intimately bound up with culture, so it may be difficult to preserve one without the other. （影響）

   The loss of diversity may also deprive us of different ways of looking at the world. （影響）

   The key to fostering diversity is for people to learn their ancestral tongue, as well as the dominant language. （拯救措施）

   而在雅思寫作考試中，也經(jīng)?？嫉酱祟愒掝}的大作文：

   l The advantages brought by the spread of English as a “global language” will outweigh the disadvantages. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this view?

   l Some people think the increasing business and cultural contact between countries brings many positive effects. Others say it causes the loss of national identities. Discuss on both sides and give your opinion.

   l Some people think that we should invent a new language for international communication. Do the benefits of this outweigh the problems?

   l In the past, people used to travel to see the difference from their home country. However, the sceneries in places around the world seem similar nowadays. What are the causes of these similarities? Do you think that the advantages of this similarity outweigh the disadvantages?

   在劍2 test3 passage 2 THE MOTOR CAR中涉及到了汽車的積極影響、負面影響和解決辦法：

   This dependence on motor vehicles has given rise to major problems, including environmental pollution, depletion of oil resources, traffic congestion and safety. （負面影響）

   The concentration of vehicles makes air quality in urban areas unpleasant and sometimes dangerous to breathe. （負面影響）

   The invention of motor vehicle bring personal mobility to the masses and made rapid delivery possible over a much wider area. （積極影響）

   Cars easily surpass trains or buses as a flexible and convenient mode of personal transport. （積極影響）

   Mass use of motor vehicles has also killed or injured millions of people. （負面影響）

   Other social effects have been blamed on the car such as alienation and aggressive human behaviour. （負面影響）

   Car transport is seven times as costly as rail travel in terms of the external social costs it entails such as congestion, accidents, pollution, loss of cropland, and natural habitats, depletion of oil resources, and so on. （負面影響）

   Technical solutions can reduce the pollution problem and increase the efficiency of engines. （解決辦法）

   But fuel consumption and exhaust emissions depends on which cars are preferred by customers and how they are driven. （解決辦法）

   One solution that has been put forward is the long-term solution of designing cities and neighbourhoods so that car journeys are not necessary——all essential services being located within walking distance or easily accessible by public transport. （解決辦法）

   A more likely scenario seems to be a combination of mass transit systems for travel into and around cities, with small “low emission” cars for urban use and larger hybrid or lean burn cars for use elsewhere. （解決辦法）

   Electronically tolled highways might be used to ensure that drivers pay charges geared to actual road use. （解決辦法）

   在雅思寫作考試中，類似話題的大作文考題出現(xiàn)頻率非常高：

   l One long-distance flight consumes fuel which a car uses in several years’ time, but they cause the same amount of pollution. So some people think that we should discourage non-essential flights, such as tourist travel, rather than to limit the use of cars. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

   l The best way to solve the world’s environmental problem is to increase the price of fuel. To what extent do you agree or d