對試卷2005年6月的四級考試聽力部分分析后,有以下兩點明顯的命題趨勢,值得考生關(guān)注。
一、越來越接近托?荚
2005年6月18號的四級聽力的短對話部分至少有三道題幾乎照搬托福聽力原題,對應(yīng)如下:
四級聽力第2題:
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.
對應(yīng)托福聽力95年普林斯頓樣題三第3題
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.
四級聽力第5題:
W:I just read in the newspaper that Lord of the Rings is this year’s greatest hit. Why don’t we go and see it at the grand cinema.
M:Don’t you think that cinema is a little out of the way?
對應(yīng)托福聽力2000年5月第8題:
W:Why don’t we go watch the Italian film at the pine Street Cinema?
M:It’s a little out of the way, don’t you think?
四級聽力第8題:
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.
對應(yīng)托福聽力2000年5月第4題:
M:Do you want to go to the lecture tonight over in the science auditorium? It’s 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.
除以上三題外,本次四級聽力考試的其他短對話或多或少的都體現(xiàn)出托福聽力的影子,丟東西撿東西場景、電腦場景、度假場景以及選校場景都是托福聽力的?紙鼍,其中的一些場景詞匯和習(xí)慣用語也不斷被四級聽力所引用。從四級真題來看,聽力話題范圍也和托福聽力也如出一轍——校園生活。
近三年的四級聽力考題中更加明顯的體現(xiàn)出這樣的趨勢,改革后的四級試卷結(jié)構(gòu)更加接近于托福聽力,增加的長對話題型就來源于托福聽力的part B部分,甚至改革后的四級考試記分體系都在向托福*攏。
我在課上曾經(jīng)強調(diào),在備考四級考試聽力部分時,可以適當(dāng)參看95年8月以后的托福聽力原文,熟悉托福聽力場景,就有可能在四級聽力考場上做到先知先覺。有很多同學(xué)擔(dān)心,托?荚嚨碾y度大于四級,怎么可能互相借鑒?別忘了聽力難度有一個重要的控制指標(biāo),語速。所以建議大家去看托福聽力原文,而不是去聽。