如何利用雅思阅读文章提升雅思写作能力
朗阁海外考试研究中心吴玉
近年来，出国留学的学生越来越多，雅思高分也是层出不穷，相对应的考试技巧也是足够吸引各位考生的重要因素，那么大连朗阁雅思培训中的考试大神及资深教师给大家带来相关的雅思学术讨论，具体分析一下雅思考试中的重点、难点及考试技巧应用。
我们经常说阅写不分家，在这句话背后隐藏的一个原理其实是No input, no output, 没有输入，就没有输出。很多考生都能很清楚地意识到自己在雅思写作上的问题，无非就是想不到论据、素材枯竭、语言平淡、论证不充分等等，但就是找不到改变这些状态的方法。其实，考生们不必去苦苦搜寻市面上各类雅思写作的参考书籍，因为这不仅仅是一笔经济上的开销，关键质量还参差不齐，未必能学到有价值的信息。那么，这个input到底去哪里找呢？笔者认为，在考生们天天用于练习的剑桥系列真题中，每个Test中的阅读文章就是一个非常好的学习资源。这些阅读文章是native speaker创作的，里面无论是内容，还是观点，还是语言，都非常有学习价值，对考生的雅思写作其实是有很大的指导和启发作用的。
接下来，我们选取五篇雅思阅读文章，来具体分析一下这些阅读文章对考生们的雅思写作到底有哪些帮助。
文章选取的分别是：
剑4T2P1 Lost for Words
剑5T3P1 Early Childhood Education 剑6T2P1 Advantages of public transport 剑6T2P2 Greying population stays in the pink 剑5T1P3 The truth about the environment
一、素材：
笔者在教学中发现，很大一部分考生非常头疼的一个问题在于无法做到侃侃而谈，整篇文章都是表面化的一些论调，没有实质性的论据。其实这是没有输入input的最明显表现。雅
思考试的话题覆盖面还是非常广的，但考生由于年龄、生活圈子、学习广度和深度等多方面的影响，无法对很多话题有很深入的见解，造成文章内容看起来很干，表面上看上去还是在谈论该话题的，实则根本没有有用的论证和信息传递。
关于这一点，很多考生都很无奈。考生固定思维认为对于这些话题的陌生是特别正常的，因为之前根本没有去思考这些问题，表现出来的状态是要么被动学习、要么直接放弃。所以，素材积累的多少是写作能否顺利进行的第一步。那么，除了依赖写作老师，考生们现在还可以依赖的就是你的剑桥系列阅读文章。当然，考生需要对雅思写作考查的话题范围非常清楚，这样才能筛选出哪些阅读文章对自己的写作是有帮助的，换句话说，哪些阅读文章里的内容我是可以借鉴、并用在自己的文章里的。
下面，我们一起来看一下从以上几篇雅思阅读文章中摘录下来的、可以在文章中作为论据来使用的一些内容。当然，在此要提醒考生的是，我们不需要去背，只要了解并熟悉即可，把自己的知识面打开，知识库拓宽，考试过程中仍然是可以传递这些信息的。
剑4T2P1 --Lost for Words
这篇文章谈论的话题是Many minority languages are on the danger list, 分析了此现象的原因，并提到了一些改变这一问题可以采用的方法。
关于此现象的原因Reasons, 大家可以学习以下几条：
1. In the Native American Navajo nation, which sprawls across four states in the American south-west, the native language is dying. Most of its speakers are middle-aged or elderly. Although many students take classes in Navajo, the schools are run in English. Street signs, supermarket goods and even their own newspaper are all in English.
2. Half of the world?s 6800 languages are likely to vanish within two generations – that?s one language lost every ten days.
3. Isolation breeds linguistic diversity: as a result, the world is peppered with
languages spoken by only a few people.
4. What makes a language endangered is not just the number of speakers, but how old they are. If it is spoken by children it is relatively safe. The critically endangered languages are those that are only spoken by the elderly.
5. Why do people reject the language of their parents? It begins with a crisis of confidence, when a small community finds itself alongside a larger, wealthier society, people lose faith in their culture. When the nest generation reaches their teens, they might not want to be included into the old traditions.
6. 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.
7. But SalikokoMufwene, who chairs the Linguistics department at the University of Chicago, argues that the deadliest weapon is not government policy but economic globalization. Native Americans have not lost pride in their language, but they have had to adapt to socio-economic pressures. They cannot refuse to speak English if most commercial activity is in English.
8. Language is also intimately bound up with culture, so it may be difficult to preserve one without the other. If a person shifts from Navajo to English, they lose something. Moreover, the loss of diversity may also deprive us of different ways of looking at the world.
关于此现象的解决方案Possible Solutions, 大家可以参考以下几条：
1. The key to fostering diversity is for people to learn their ancestral tongue, as well as the dominant language.
2. Most of these languages will not survive without a large degree of