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，互無關聯的，而實際上并非如此。其中，閱讀和寫作的關系最為密切的，因此也就有了"閱寫不分家"的說法。考生們如果在準備雅思考試的過程中能夠把閱讀和寫作結合起來，雙管齊下，就可以收到一箭雙雕的效果。

　　話題的結合
　　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合，就不會出現作文沒有思路，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容，同樣也可以運用雅思閱讀文章中的內容來構思大作文。
　　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，也經常考到此類話題的大作文：
　　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? （05.04.16）
　　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. （05.10.29）
　　Some people think that we should invent a new language for international communication. Do the benefits of this outweigh the problems? （07.08.18）
　　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? ( 2009.08.29)

　　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)