大学英语四级考试改革样题听力部分

　　大学英语四级考试改革样题：复合式听写

　　Section C

　　Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.

　　注意:此部分试题请在答题卡 1 上作答。

　　Almost every child, on the first day he sets foot in a school building, is smarter, more 26 , less afraid of what he doesnt know, better at finding and 27 , more confident, resourceful , persistent and 28 than he will ever be again in his schooling or, unless he is very unusual and very lucky, for the rest of his life. Already, by paying close attention to and 29 the world and people around him, and without any school-type formal instruction, he has done a task far more difficult, complicated and 30 than anything he will be asked to do in school, or than any of his teachers has done for years. He has solved the 31 of language. He has discovered it babies dont even know that language exists and he has found out how it works and learned to use it 32 . He has done it by exploring, by experimenting, by developing his own model of the grammar of language, by 33 and seeing whether it works, by gradually changing it and 34 it until it does work. And while he has been doing this, he has been learning other things as well, including many of the 35 that the schools think only they can teach him, and many that are more complicated than the ones they do try to teach him.

　　复合式听写参考答案

　　26. curious

　　27. figuring things out

　　28. independent

　　29. interacting with

　　30. abstract

　　31. mystery

　　32. appropriately

　　33. trying it out

　　34. refining

　　35. concepts

　　复合式听写听力理解原文

　　Section C

　　Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is

　　read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.

　　Almost every child, on the first day he sets foot in a school building, is smarter, more curious, less afraid of what he doesnt know, better at finding and figuring things out, more confident, resourceful , persistent and independent than he will ever be again in his schooling or, unless he is very unusual and very lucky, for the rest of his life. Already, by paying close attention to and interacting with the world and people around him, and without any school-type formal instruction, he has done a task far more difficult, complicated and abstract than anything he will be asked to do in school, or than any of his teachers has done for years. He has solved the mystery of language. He has discovered it babies dont even know that language exists and he has found out how it works and learned to use it appropriately. He has done it by exploring, by experimenting, by developing his own model of the grammar of language, by trying it out and seeing whether it works, by gradually changing it and refining it until it does work. And while he has been doing this, he has been learning other things as well, including many of the concepts that the schools think only they can teach him, and many that are more complicated than the ones they do try to teach him.