口语：

购物属于日常生活的活动之一，也是雅思口语的常见话题。闲聊shopping看似简单，实际想要说好并不容易，对词汇的要求比较高。看看以下这些范例吧。

　　题1：

Do you like shopping? Why?

Normally, shopping is the thing I loathe because it kills so much time. However, unfortunately my girlfriend is crazy about it. So I have to accompany her every time she goes.

这段话中有很多亮点高分词汇是很多考生甚少用到的。比如“loathe”是非常口语化的一个单词，意思是“极度不喜欢”，而往往很多考生只会使用dislike或者hate这样的单词。kill time消磨时间、crazy about疯狂喜欢、accompany陪伴，都是很好的词汇，考生可以参考学习。

看看喜欢的答案吧。

Definitely, I am a born shopping freak and always have impulse buying uncontrollably. Unlike boys who think that window shopping is a waste of time and energy, I think even window shopping can make my day like magic.

词汇也使用的特别出色。“a born shopping freak”意思是天生的购物狂，很形象地描绘了自己对于购物的狂热。have impulse doing冲动买某物，window shopping随便看看，a waste of time and energy浪费时间和精力，这些都是很好的词组。

题2：

　　Where do you usually go shopping?

除了回答去哪里购物外，还可以说说为什么去那里，从环境、交通、产品或者服务等不同的角度去回答。建议使用句型“It depends (on) …”

It depends on what I want to buy. If I buy some daily necessities, I will go to a supermarket; if I look for some clothes, I will choose some shopping malls, franchised stores or those fancy boutiques. If I have a fairly tight budget, I might consider shopping online. Taobao is my favorite. There are millions of eye-dazzling products, the same stuff, the same quality, and much lower prices.

这篇范文就是从不同的产品出发，去描述去哪里购物。Daily necessity日常必需品、Franchised store专卖店、Fancy boutique精品时装店、Have a tight budget预算紧、Eye-dazzling product令人眼花缭乱的产品。

题3：

Would you buy things from the internet?

Yes的理由：the high level of convenience更方便快捷、the broader selection选择更广、competitive pricing价格优势、greater access to information信息更多、Worldwide market全球市场。

No的理由：Colour aberration色差问题、Patience for the delivery/shipping运输延迟问题、Quality problem质量问题。

内容摘要： The failure of a high-profile cholesterol drug has thrown a spotlight on the complicated machinery that regulates cholesterol levels.

阅读：

　　Why did a promising heart drug fail?

Doomed drug highlights complications of meddling with cholesterol.

1. The failure of a high-profile cholesterol drug has thrown a spotlight on the complicated machinery that regulates cholesterol levels. But many researchers remain confident that drugs to boost levels of ’good’ cholesterol are still one of the most promising means to combat spiralling heart disease.

2. Drug company Pfizer announced on 2 December that it was cancelling all clinical trials of torcetrapib, a drug designed to raise heart-protective high-density lipoproteins (HDLs). In a trial of 15000 patients, a safety board found that more people died or suffered cardiovascular problems after taking the drug plus a cholesterol-lowering statin than those in a control group who took the statin alone.

3. The news came as a kick in the teeth to many cardiologists because earlier tests in animals and people suggested it would lower rates of cardiovascular disease. "There have been no red flags to my knowledge," says John Chapman, a specialist in lipoproteins and atherosclerosis at the National Institute for Health and Medical Research (INSERM) in Paris who has also studied torcetrapib. "This cancellation came as a complete shock."

4. Torcetrapib is one of the most advanced of a new breed of drugs designed to raise levels of HDLs, which ferry cholesterol out of artery-clogging plaques to the liver for removal from the body. Specifically, torcetrapib blocks a protein called cholesterol ester transfer protein (CETP), which normally transfers the cholesterol from high-density lipoproteins to low density, plaque-promoting ones. Statins, in contrast, mainly work by lowering the ’bad’ low-density lipoproteins.

Under pressure

5. Researchers are now trying to work out why and how the drug backfired, something that will not become clear until the clinical details are released by Pfizer. One hint lies in evidence from earlier trials that it slightly raises blood pressure in some patients. It was thought that this mild problem would be offset by the heart benefits of the drug. But it is possible that it actually proved fatal in some patients who already suffered high blood pressure. If blood pressure is the explanation, it would actually be good news for drug developers because it suggests that the problems are specific to this compound. Other prototype drugs that are being developed to block CETP work in a slightly different way and might not suffer the same downfall.

6. But it is also possible that the whole idea of blocking CETP is flawed, says Moti Kashyap, who directs atherosclerosis research at the VA Medical Center in Long Beach, California. When HDLs excrete cholesterol in the liver, they actually rely on LDLs for part of this process. So inhibiting CETP, which prevents the transfer of cholesterol from HDL to LDL, might actually cause an abnormal and irreversible accumulation of cholesterol in the body. "You’re blocking a physiologic mechanism to eliminate cholesterol and effectively constipating the pathway," says Kashyap.

Going up

7. Most researchers remain confident that elevating high density lipoproteins levels by one means or another is one of the best routes for helping heart disease patients. But HDLs are complex and not entirely understood. One approved drug, called niacin, is known to both raise HDL and reduce cardiovascular risk but also causes an unpleasant sensation of heat and tingling. Researchers are exploring whether they can bypass this side effect and whether niacin can lower disease risk more than statins alone. Scientists are also working on several other means to bump up high-density lipoproteins by, for example, introducing synthetic HDLs. "The only thing we know is dead in the water is torcetrapib, not the whole idea of raising HDL," says Michael Miller, director of preventive cardiology at the University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore.

(613 words nature)

Questions 1-7

This passage has 7 paragraphs 1-7.

Choose the correct heading for each paragraph from the list of headings below.

Write the correct number i-ix in boxes 1-7 on your answer sheet.

List of Headings

i. How does torcetrapib work?

ii. Contradictory result prior to the current trial

iii. One failure may possibly bring about future success

iv. The failure doesn’t lead to total loss of confidence

v. It is the right route to follow

vi. Why it’s stopped

vii. They may combine and theoretically produce ideal result

viii. What’s wrong with the drug

ix. It might be wrong at the first place

Example answer

Paragraph 1 iv

1. Paragraph 2 vi

2. Paragraph 3 ii

3. Paragraph 4 vii

4. Paragraph 5 ix

5. Paragraph 6 viii

6. Paragraph 7 iv

Questions 7-13

Match torcetrapib，HDLs，statin and CETP with their functions (Questions 8-13)..

Write the correct letter A, B, C or D in boxes 8-13 on your answer sheet.

NB You may use any letter more than once.

7.It has been administered to over 10,000 subjects in a clinical trial.

8.It could help rid human body of cholesterol.

9.Researchers are yet to find more about it.

10. It was used to reduce the level of cholesterol.

11. According to Kashyap, it might lead to unwanted result if it’s blocked.

12. It produced contradictory results in different trials.

13. It could inhibit LDLs.

List of choices

A. Torcetrapic

B. HDLS

C. Statin

D. CETP

　　Suggested Answers and Explanations

1. vi

2. ii

3. vii 本段介绍了torcetrapib和statin的治病原理，但是同时短语“in contrast”与之前第二段后半段的内容呼应，暗示了这两种药在理论上能相辅相成，是理想的搭配。第一个选项无法涵盖整段意义，故选择i是错误的。

4. iii 本段分析了可能导致torcetrapibl临床试验失败的原因，后半段指出如果以上推测正确，那么未来的药物可借鉴这个试验，设法避免torcetrapib的缺陷，研制出有效的药物。viii选项无法涵盖后半段的意思。

5. ix 见首句。

6. v

7. A 见第二段。题目中administer一词意为“用药”，subject一词为“实验对象”之意。

8. B 见第四段“… to raise levels of HDLs, which ferry cholesterol out of artery-clogging plaques to the liver for removal from the body.”即HDLs的作用最终是将choleserol清除出人体：“… for removal from the body”。

9. B 见第四段“But HDLs are complex and not entirely understood.”

10.C 见第二段“… plus a cholesterol-lowering statin”，即statin是可以降低cholesterol的。

11. D 见第六段“So inhibiting CETP, … might actually cause an abnormal and irreversible accumulation of cholesterol in the body.

12. A 见第三段。

13. C 见第四段“Statins, in contrast, mainly work by lowering the ’bad’ low-density lipoproteins.”

写作

　　Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Playing a game is fun only when you win. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Recent days, some people think that playing a game is fun only when you win, others, however, disagree with that. In my opinion, I prefer the latter.

There are numerous reasons I like the second opinion more. First of all, some game is really fun, whatever you lose that game or win that game. For example, qq fly car. When you play that game, you will be personally on the scene and you will like to play it again and again.

Furthermore, when you lose the game, you will have we need other kind of book to enrich the material to teach the next generation and expand the outlook. Take the fairy tales for example; children’s creativity and imagination can be stimulated through reading tales, which often tell stories about animals in the forest and the romantic love stories about princes and princesses. By telling these stories, we can foster the ability to imagine and teach them how to be good men. Concerning on the accurately predictions about future technology, instead of just imagining, science fictions will be of great beneficial to broaden our horizon. Thus, much more books are in badly need, not only reading the books on real events, real people.