对于这次改革，听力部分分值没有发生改变，仍然是35分，也就是710分制的249.5分。语速方面也没有什么太大的改变，考试形式上面还是呈现着多题多卷，也就是说，让作弊的可能性大大减小。这篇文章，我想和大家分享三个话题，一个是四六级改革后改在了什么地方;第二个是，这次听力部分的一些重点内容的解析;第三个是今后的一些复习策略。
一. 改革在什么地方：
六级的语速没有发生什么变化，仍然是160-180字每分钟，对于语音来说，还是一半英式发音，一半美式发音。整体时间减少了奖金一分多钟，是因为复合式听写今年不用再写长句，而是改成单词和词组。整体难度系数下降，但是得分估计不会有太大的提升，是因为原来的单词长句虽然很难拿到满分，但是只要动手写了，分数至少不会是零分，但是这次却降低了偶然的分的概率。所以，对于考生来说，平时背单词的时候，更加希望能够在听英语的时候，练习一下自己速记和拼写的能力，这个我一会儿再说。
第二个改变是很多同学都觉得十分奔溃的，这次四六级考试完全没有任何答题卡填涂时间，以往考试的五分钟填涂答题卡被很多考生拿来作弊，于是今年的取消也让很多不喜欢边听题边涂答题卡的同学很奔溃，导致没时间填涂答题卡，这里特别想跟大家分享，在平时考前的模考，务必加上一项练习：就是边听题目，边填涂答题卡。
二.真题解析：
对于今年的真题，的团队统计发现至少听力部分存在三套题目，而由于选项的不同，答案更加是千奇百怪，所以，我们更加需要知道，这些题目考察的是什么东西，这里把短对话、长对话的考点和大家分享一下：
在读Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B), C) and D), and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre:将近一分钟内容的时候，加上前面试音时间的一分多钟，考生最痛苦的，应该就是这些时间我到底应该看什么地方。我的建议很简单，特别建议大家看看短对话的前8道题和长对话的第一篇，如果你觉得两分多钟的时间不够，那么你真心应该提升一下英语的阅读能力。
那长对话第二篇呢，用长对话第一篇问题的时间去看;至于短文听力，可以用另外一个direction去看第一篇，第一篇的问题去看第二篇，第二篇的问题去看第三篇。
1. W: What a wonderful performance! Your rock band has never sounded better.
M: Many thanks. I guess all those hours of practice in the past month are finally paying off.
Q：What does the man mean?
答案：D) Their hard work has resulted in a big success.
本题再次考察了四六级考试中常考短语pay off(回报)，这里使用了 practice.finally paying off 同义词替换了result in a big success。
2.M: I cant decide what to do for my summer vacation. I either want to go on a bike tour of Europe or go diving in Mexico.
W: Well, were offering an all-inclusive two-week trip to Mexico for only 300 dollars.
Q：What does the woman suggest the man do for his vacation?
答案：B) Join a package tour to Mexico.
本题考察了六级考试中非常重要的旅游场景，在首句出现summer vacation 度假; 并且强调了男的eitheror即想去欧洲骑车旅游，又想去墨西哥潜水;而女士明显是中介或者旅游的代理商，强调我们提供一个all inclusive two week trip to Mexico全部包括的两周旅行去墨西哥，仅仅300刀，这里暗示，女士建议男士去墨西哥。
3. W: How long do you think this project might take?
M: Id say about three months, but it could take longer if something unexpected happened. Maybe wed better allow an extra month, so we wont have to worry about being late.
Q: Why does the man say extra time should be allowed for the project?
答案：B) In case some problem should occur.
在短对话中，but后面一般是一个题目的重点，这里的but后面明确写出，将会花更长的时间如果意外发生，这里刚好是男士的想要延长project的意愿，同义句子替换，答案选择B。
4. M: Im thinking about becoming a member here, and Id like some information.
W: Sure. A three-month membership costs 150 dollars, and that includes use of the wait-room, sauna and pool. Ill give you a free pass so that you can try out the facilities before you decide.
Q: What do we learn from the conversation?
答案：C) The man can try out the facilities before he becomes a member.
男士在开头的时候说，想要成为会员(member)，咨询一下价格;而女士说的后一句为重点：我给你一个免费的通行证去试试这些设施在你决定之前。这里比较重视的是这样两个短语free pass 免费的通行证和try out the facility 尝试一下设施。
5. W: Im sorry to hear that you failed the Physics course, Ted.
M: Lets face it. Im just not cut out to be a scientist.
Q: What does the man mean?
答案：A) He is not fit to study science.
女士在开头说男士没有通过物理课,fail the course 这里表示挂科，校园场景的重点词汇; 男士说，面对吧，我没有准备成为一个科学家。这里一个很重要的短语：cut out to, 意味着ready to.
6.
M: Gary insisted on buying the food for the picnic.
W: Thats pretty generous of him. But shouldnt we at least offer to share the expenses? He has a big family to support.
Q: What does the woman suggest they do?
答案：C) Pay for part of the picnic food.
男士说Gary 坚持在野餐的时候买食物，insist on 为考题中关键短语，意思是坚持。但是女士在对话中再次出现了but, 后面内容再次成为重点：我们不应该至少去分担这个花费嘛，他还有个家庭去支持呢。
这里出现 share the expense，在餐厅的场景里面经常使用，顺便再介绍两个六级考试的经典表达方式：split the bill; go Dutch均能表示AA制度。
7.
W: Did you see the headlines in the paper this morning?
M: Yes. Apparently the bus company will be laying off its employees if they cant reach an agreement on wages by midnight.
Q: What did the man read about?
答案：A) A labor dispute at a bus company.
女士说你是否看见了今天报纸的头版头条headline in the paper; 男士说，明显巴士公司将会解雇他们的雇员，如果他们不能在午夜达成工资的协议。这里的替换很巧妙，我们可以从cant reach an agreement on sth, 对什么达成协议感受到他们在dispute争吵。
8.
W: Have we received payment for the overseas order we delivered last month?
M: Yes. The cheque came in yesterday afternoon. Ill be depositing it when I go the bank today.
Q: What is the woman concerned about?
答案：D) The payment for an order.
本题问题是女士concerned about 关心什么，所以问题主要在第一句话：我们是否接收到了上个月我们发送海外订单时候的payment 薪资? 所以解决了答案。后句中的两个词建议大家有空还是记载以下，cheque=check 支票; deposit 存。
各位是否发现，短对话除了最后一题在第一句出题，其余的题目全部在前句出题。而四级考试考来考去全部都是同义词替换，有些同学问我还有没有更多的考试技巧，写这篇文章的时候，我正好的美国，在这一路，我也有很多思考。我忽然发现，在我们四级考试中，只有听力部分是最贴切实际的，因为其中的单词和词组更加贴切于每日的生活，一些短句几乎每天都在都在用，所以，我们再平时训练中更加不应该去为了考试追求过多的考试技巧，相反，我们应该更加注重语言的运用和理解，这些想必对你更重要。
Section A Long Conversations
长对话综述：长对话仍然还是听到什么选什么的原则，在听音的时候应该做好笔记，方便在听问题时回顾原文内容找答案。
Conversation 1
W: OK, thats it. Now we have to make a decision. We might as well do that now, dont you think?
M: Sure, lets see. First we saw Frank Brisenski. What did you think of him?
W: Well, hes certainly a very polite young man.
M: And very relaxed, too.
W: But his appearance
M: En He wasnt well dressed. He wasnt even wearing a tie.
W: But he did have a nice voice. He sounded good on the telephone.
M: True. And I thought he seemed very intelligent. He answered Donas questions very well.
W: Thats true, but dressing well is important. Well, lets think about the others. Now what about Barbara Jones? She had a nice voice, too. She sounded good on the telephone, and she was well dressed, too.
M: En She did look very neat, very nicely dressed, but
W: But so shy. She wouldnt be very good at talking to people at the front desk.
M: EnOK. Now who was the next? ArYes, David Wallace. I thought he was very good, had a lot of potential. What do you think?
W: En He seemed like a very bright guy. He dressed very nicely, too. And he had a really nice appearance.
M: He seemed relaxed to me, the type of person people feel comfortable with right away.
W: He was polite, but also very friendly and relaxed as you say. I think hell be good with the guests at the front desk.
M: He had a very pleasant voice, too.
W: Thats right. OK, good! I guess we have our receptionist then, dont you?
M: Yes, I think so. Well just offer the job to
Q9: What are the speakers looking for?
Q10: What is Frank Brisenskis weakness?
Q11: What do the speakers decide to do?
答案：
9. B) A hotel receptionist.
10. A) Appearance.
11. C) Offer the job to David Wallace.
点评：
本题从一开始就在讲述在make a decision, 至于什么决定一直在最后一个回合才讲明白: I guess we have our receptionist then， 节约第一题答案。文章讨论三个应聘者Frank Brisenski，Barbara Jones和David Wallace的优劣势：Frank Brisenski polite礼貌，sounds good声音好听，intelligent聪明，但是not dressing well 第二题解决;Barbara Jones声音好听，穿着得体，但过于shy害羞，not good at talking in front of the desk不擅于在桌子前和人交流;David Wallace聪明，外表形象佳，表现自如，有礼貌，声音动听。最后俩人决定录取David Wallace，第三题解决。
Conversation 2
W: Hello.
M: Hello. Is that the reference library?
W: Yes, can I help you?
M: I hope so. I ran earlier and asked for some information about Dennis Hutton, the scientist. You asked me to ring back.
W: Oh, yes. I have found something.
M: Good. Ive got a pencil and paper. Perhaps you could read out what it says.
W: Certainly. Hutton Dennis, born Darlington, 1836, died New York, 1920.
M: Yes, got that.
W: Inventor and physicist, the son of a farm worker. He was admitted to the University of London at the age of 15.
M: Yes.
W: He graduated at 17 with the first class degree in physics and mathematics. All right?
M: Yes, all right.
W: He made his first notable achievement at the age of 18. It was a method of refrigeration which rolls from his work in low temperature physics. He became professor of mathematics at the University of Manchester at 24, where he remained for twelve years. During that time, he married one of his students, Natasha Willoughby
M: Yes, go on.
W: Later working together in London, they laid the foundations of modern physics by showing that normal laws of cause and effect do not apply at the level of subatomic particles. For this he and his wife received the Nobel Prize for physics in 1910, and did so again in 1912 for their work on very high frequency radio waves. In his lifetime, Hutton patented 244 inventions. Do you want any more?
M: Yes, when did he go to America?
W: Let me see. In 1920 he went to teach in New York and died there suddenly after only three weeks. Still he was a good age.
M: Yes, I suppose so. Well, thanks.
Q12: What do we learn about Dennis Hutton when he was 15?
Q13: What did Dennis Hutton do at the age of 24?
Q14: For what were Dennis Hutton and his wife awarded the Nobel Prize a second time?
Q15: Why did Dennis Hutton go to New York
答案：
12 C) He was admitted to university.
13. B) He became a professor of Mathematics.
14. D) Their work on very high frequency radio waves.
15. D) To teach at a university.
第二篇讲述了一个电话对话，无论如何什么类型的题目，对于长对话来说，信息更加多，这个时候，一定请学会听懂重点信息，尤其是首末回合和视听一致的原则一旦出现，将会非常起作用。
Section B Passages
Passage 1
In America, white tailed deer are more numerous than ever before, so abundant in fact that theyve become a suburban nuisance and a health hazard.(第一题出处，白尾巴的鹿比原来的数量多了很多变成郊区的一个麻烦和健康危机，这里替换headache第一题)
Why cant the herd be thinned the old-fashioned way? The small community of North Haven on Long Island is home to some six hundred to seven hundred deer. The department of Environmental Conservation estimates the optimum population at 60. The town has been browsed bare of vegetation except where gardens and shrubs are protected by high fences.
Drivers routinely collide with deer and there are so many dead bodies left by the side of the road that the town has made it a deal with a local pet cemetery to collect and dispose of the bodies. Some people in the town have become ill from deer transmitted diseases. On the occasions when hunting has been tried, local animal rights people have worked to secure court orders against the hunts. And when that is failed, they stop the hunters, banging on pots and pans to alert the deer(当之前的一些失败之后，他们停止猎人，banging on the pots and pan 敲锣打鼓目的就是alert the deer 警告鹿，第二题答案). Town meetings called to discuss the problem inevitably dissolved into confrontations.
The activists believe simply that the deer are not the problem. Some communities have even discussed the possibility of bringing wolves back into the ecological mix. That means wolves in the suburbs of New York. It is almost too wonderful not to try it. The wolves would kill deer of course. They would also terrorize and kill dogs and cats which is not what the suburban dwellers have in mind.(当把狼引入之后，将会恐吓并且杀死猫和狗，而这些不是郊区居住着想要的;换句话说，他们威胁到了家庭的动物。第三题出处。)
Q16. What do we learn about white-tailed deer in North Haven?
Q17. Why do local animal rights people bang on pots and pans?
Q18. What would happen if wolves were brought back into the ecological mix?
答案：
16. A. They have become a headache to the community.
17. C. To alert the deer.
18. B. They would endanger domestic animals.
文章讲述了一篇科普类别的文章，大致内容是白鹿到了郊区的地方，数量开始繁殖;当地人民被它们身上传播的疾病所感染，想了很多办法去解决，最后还是没有一个大体的方案。对于短文听力，我自己其实也没有太多的好办法，想要听懂每句话其实不是一天就能解决的，但是我们存在一些解决方案，比如说前三句话往往是第一题的答案，后三句话往往是最后一题答案，并且各位是否发现，当我没有任何办法听懂时，听到什么选择什么的概率大很多。
Passage 3
Janet James was 22 years old when she was diagnosed with MS-a disease that attacks the bodys nerves. She has just graduated from college and got a job at an advertising agency when she began to sense that something strange was going on inside her body. When James realized how severe her illness was, she knew she had better hurry up and live life(第二题答案，他知道自己得病后，想立刻去过自己的生活). MS is the biggest crippler of young adults(第一题出处，我们再最高级的后面往往是一个题目的答案，这个东西适用于阅读). And although she didnt have many symptoms, she knew it was just a matter of time. First on her agenda was to pursue her dream of hosting a pop music program. She worked at a radio station for a year, always aware that her body was degenerating. Then her best friend moved away. And one night James began screaming, I got to go! I got to go! Two weeks later, she arrived at Alaska, thousands of miles from her friends, her family and her past. Everything fell into a place, she recalls. A 23-year-old girl with an incurable disease can fly to Alaska and everything can work out. The MS attacks came and went. And most of the time they hardly slowed her down. James hiked, fished, learnt to sail and experimented with hot air ballooning. I lived for adventure, she says. Nobody ever had a better time or did more exotic strange things than I did in an 80-year period. Inevitably however, the day came when she was so weakened that she had to return to Pittsburgh, her home town. There she began relieving her adventures by writing a book about them. Her book was published in 1993.(从这里可以看出最后一题的答案，最后的生命全部拿来冒险，并且写了书。)
Q23.What does the speaker say about MS?
Q24.What did Janet James decide to do after her disease was diagnosed?
Q25.Whats sort of person can we infer Janet James is?the ecological mix?
答案：
23. D It is the biggest crippler of young adults.
24. A Hurry up and live life.
25. B Adventurous.
这一篇文章的难点在于第一题和第二题的出题位置互换，这个在六级考试很常见，而在四级考试中不怎么出现，这就更需要考生在做这类题目过程中做笔记，记载一下里面的重要信息。第二篇文章考点相似，不赘述。
最后一个题目，今年最大的改革就是剧组变成了词组，我一直认为这种题目里面单词的拼写更多的是平时的积累，很难存在任何的考试技巧，也告诉大家在平时背单词过程中，需要通过发音熟悉拼写。
简单跟我一起看了一下今年的考试后，相信各位考生对于六级考试也有了新的认识。我们会发现，无论考试如何出题，总是不逃离历年真题中听力那些重点的场景词语，更重要的是，六级听力也越来越贴切实践。所以，历年真题仍然是一个值得参考的重要材料。
我还是建议大家在今后的复习中，如果可能的话，多做精听，每天能够花一些时间去把一个对话中每个单词或者词组听明白。在背单词的时候，熟悉单词的发音，并且进行背诵。如果能，多找外国人去讲出去。
考六级的同学，如果觉得题目枯燥无味，可以去听听慢速和快速的VOA，当然，还是需要边听边做笔记。如果你还是觉得枯燥，看看一些英文动画片也是一些不错的选择，比如说《怪兽大学》，当然，看动画片的时候，也建议多看几遍，最好能够有英文字幕，重复跟读，将会非常有用。
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