雅思扩展阅读文章《另一场淘金热》

　　对于雅思阅读理解，考生在备考时，既要注意多看多练习历次的真题，也要扩展阅读，进行预测性阅读。下面是小编为大家整理的一篇雅思扩展阅读文章，希望对大家有所帮助。

雅思扩展阅读文章《另一场淘金热》

　　Another digital gold rush

　　Internet companies are booming again. Does that mean it is time to buy or to sell?

　　PIER 38 is a vast, hangar-like structure, perched on San Francisco’s waterfront. Once a place where Chinese immigrants landed with picks and shovels, ready to build railways during California’s Gold Rush, the pier is now home to a host of entrepreneurs with smartphones and computers engaged in a race for internet riches. From their open-plan offices, the young people running start-ups with fashionably odd names such as NoiseToys, Adility and Trazzler can gaze at the fancy yachts moored nearby when they aren’t furiously tapping out lines of code.

　　“The speed of innovation is unlike anything we’ve seen before,” says Ryan Spoon, who runs Dogpatch Labs, an arm of a venture-capital firm that rents space to young companies at Pier 38. Like many other entrepreneurs, the tenants would love to follow firms such as Facebook and Zynga, a maker of hugely popular online games including Farmville, that have been thrust into the internet limelight in the space of a few short years.

　　Some of the most prominent start-ups are preparing for stockmarket listings or are being bought by big firms with deep pockets. On May 9th LinkedIn, a social network for professionals that took in revenue of $243m last year, set the terms of its imminent initial public offering (IPO) on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), which value it at up to $3.3 billion. The next day Microsoft said it was buying Skype, an internet calling and video service, for $8.5 billion (see article).

　　Other firms such as Groupon, which provides online coupons to its subscribers, are likely to go public soon. The return of big internet IPOs, rarities since a bubble in telecoms and internet stocks burst in 2000, and the resurgence of large mergers and acquisitions among technology firms is dividing opinion in the industry. Some veterans see a new bubble forming in the valuations of start-ups and a handful of more mature firms such as Twitter, which is still hunting for a satisfactory business model five years after the first tweet. More sanguine voices retort that many young companies have exciting prospects and that there are plenty of corporate buyers, such as Microsoft, with the money and confidence to snap up older internet firms still in private hands.

　　附：雅思阅读技巧之标题题注意事项

　　(1)如果答案不确定，先将可能的选项全部选出。

　　(2)干扰选项的特点是：段落中未展开说明的细节。

　　(3)如果主题句比较复杂(如复合句)，应重点看主句部分。主题句中，常常有如下的句式：

　　Although/While/Despite/Despite the fact……的中文意思是：“虽然…，但是…”。前面是个让步状语从句，后面是主句，要说明的观点在主句中。

　　(4)如果主题句中有show和suggest等词，应重点看其后的宾语从句。show和suggest是“表明”、“说明”的意思，其后的宾语从句往往是要说明的观点，是该段的主旨。

　　(5)如果主句是not only…but also句型，应重点看but also后面的部分。Not only…but also的意思是“不仅…而且…”，常用来承上启下。not only的后面是“承上”，即上一段主旨，but also 后面的部分是“启下”，即本段的主旨。所以重点看but also后面的部分。

　　(6)问句不会是主题句问句通常作为引题，是过度性的句子。

　　(7)举例子的句子不会是主题句

　　(8)正确答案应是主题句的改写，所以与主题句特别一致的选项应引起怀疑。例：某段话的第一句(主题句)为Overall，female students outnumbered male students in the survey。

　　有个选项为：

　　L. Female Studens

　　原句的意思是：在调查中，女生的数目超过男生的'数目。

　　上述选项只提到了女生，所以它不对。应用本条规律，你会发现它与主题句中的词female students一模一样，所以也应该怀疑它不是正确选项。

　　正确选项为：Gender

　　Gender的意思是“性别”。在主题句中并没有这个词，可见正确答案应是主题句的改写。

　　(9)如果需要阅读整个段落，应重点阅读该段落中的重点词句

　　A. 反复出现的词 B. 括号里的词 C. 引号里的词 D. 黑体字 E.斜体字

　　总结：