四级听力与托福听力之比较
对试卷2005年6月的四级考试听力部分分析后,有以下两点明显的命题趋势,值得考生关注。
一、越来越接近托福考试
2005年6月18号的四级听力的短对话部分至少有三道题几乎照搬托福听力原题,对应如下:
四级听力第2题:
W:I found an expensive diamond ring in the restroom this morning.
M:If I were you, I would turn in to the security office. It is behind the administration building.
对应托福听力95年普林斯顿样题三第3题
M:I found an expensive-looking ring in the locker room this morning.
W:If I were you, I would turn it in to the security office. It is behind the administration building.
四级听力第5题:
W:I just read in the newspaper that Lord of the Rings is this years greatest hit. Why dont we go and see it at the grand cinema.
M:Dont you think that cinema is a little out of the way?
对应托福听力2000年5月第8题:
W:Why dont we go watch the Italian film at the pine Street Cinema?
M:Its a little out of the way, dont you think?
四级听力第8题:
M:Do you want to go to the lecture this weekend? I hear that the guy who is going to deliver the lecture spent a year living in the rainforest.
W:Great. I am doing a report on the rain forest. Maybe I can get some new information to add to it.
对应托福听力2000年5月第4题:
M:Do you want to go to the lecture tonight over in the science auditorium? Its some guy who spent a year living in Antarctica.
W:No kidding. I am doing a report on Antarctica for my geography class. Maybe I could get some new information to add to it.
除以上三题外,本次四级听力考试的其他短对话或多或少的都体现出托福听力的影子,丢东西捡东西场景、电脑场景、度假场景以及选校场景都是托福听力的常考场景,其中的一些场景词汇和习惯用语也不断被四级听力所引用。从四级真题来看,听力话题范围也和托福听力也如出一辙校园生活。
近三年的四级听力考题中更加明显的体现出这样的趋势,改革后的四级试卷结构更加接近于托福听力,增加的长对话题型就来源于托福听力的part B部分,甚至改革后的四级考试记分体系都在向托福拢。
我在课上曾经强调,在备考四级考试听力部分时,可以适当参看95年8月以后的托福听力原文,熟悉托福听力场景,就有可能在四级听力考场上做到先知先觉。有很多同学担心,托福考试的难度大于四级,怎么可能互相借鉴?别忘了听力难度有一个重要的控制指标,语速。所以建议大家去看托福听力原文,而不是去听。
二、社科类文章越来越多
本次四级考试的三篇文章主题分别是未来的交通、英格兰小镇的文化习俗和国外的订婚仪式,基本上都是介绍英美文化习俗的社科类文章,也就是说四级考试中越来越多的涉及到英美文化背景,而这方面的知识也可以在托福听力中找到,比如:这次四级听力的第一个passage中提到的电动汽车的应用、未来交通设想等话题,托福听力98年1月PART C的第二个段落中就有提到。英美生活习俗的文章在托福听力PART C的文史类段落中都有出现,四级考生可以把托福听力的段落文章作为泛读材料。
课上讲的解题技巧在本次考试中应用依然广泛,首句原则应用于第11题和14题,尾句原则应用于第13、20题,只要把握住文章的开头和结尾,这些题目迎刃而解。中间的题目,重要的是把握考点句型:原因句、转折句和对比句都是考点,比如12题考的是文中对比句,19题考的是文中的原因句,平常训练时要多多留意这些考点句型,这样在四级考试时就能做到有张有弛,重要的考点一个都不能少。
总之,四级听力考试在基本延续了以往的命题规律,增加了部分长对话,量上看似增加了,但并没有质的改变。望同学能从中得以启发,最终都考出满意的成绩!
下一篇: 2013年6月英语四级A卷听力答案
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