Week 4 大四备考

Week4 如何备考大四英语听力部分： 一、 熟悉题型，找到主攻方向 通过大量做题（尤其是历年考试真题），适应并习惯四级听力测试语音语调；对所有题目，尤其是做错了的题目，认真分析、总结，探求其中的题型特点和规律。 二、 泛听和精听相结合 把四级考试真题作为精听材料；对原文的语音、语调进行跟读和模仿。对四级真题要像对自己的生日一样熟悉。 泛听着眼于量大，只求掌握大意，不必了解每个细节。 三、 听力训练（精听）时间以每天精神最佳时候为宜 每天都安排一段时间练习精听，但时间不宜过长，每次最多连续一小时。

短对话：  利用空隙时间（如放指令的时间），抢先阅读选择项，以便预测谈话或短文的内容和提问形式。  注意转折词  从说话人的语调中判断态度  数字题一般需要做运算，需做好笔记。

长对话： 开头部分引入对话，结尾部分总结对话，往往说明了对话的背景，揭示对话的主题，要重点对待。 长对话有它的基本套路。往往其中一个人总是发问，另一个人总是作答，在问答中层层递进，说明问题、解释现象或者提出观点等。带着通过读题而得到的问题来听，可以区分哪些是有效的信息，哪些是冗余的信息。 题目一般会按照事件发展的顺序。

短文理解： 1. 听音之前迅速浏览选项，可对短文的内容有个大概的了解和推测。 2. 尽快抓住能概括短文中心思想的主题句和关键词，这样有助于短文的理解。主题句通常是文章的第一句或最后一句，对全篇文章的内容起到概括和提示的作用，往往是文章的中心论点，表达了说话人对所谈内容的观点和态度。（一般会有一道题问文章的主旨） 3. 做笔记时最好同时看选项，在相关选项的旁边做必要记录。（如choking on food）

短文、对话：（主旨题、细节题、推理题） 复合式听写： (先看direction) 第一遍：听为主、记为辅，着重整体的理解。边听边填写有把握的词和做些笔记。重点是借助文字材料，理解和把握全篇内容和脉络。（全篇内容把握了，写缩写形式的词时才不会写了自己忘记了是什么词） 第二遍：记为主、听为辅。 第三遍：着重细节、查漏补缺。 复合式听写最能通过练习而见成效。

有语言错误扣0.5分；有与问题无关的内容扣0.5分；明显属于笔误造成的拼写错误和大小写、标点符号错误，不扣分（别于专四）；用汉语回答问题不给分。

Section B Passage One One of the greatest heartbreaks for fire fighters occurs when they fail to rescue a child from a burning building because the child, frightened by smoke and noise, hides under a bed or in a closet and is later found dead. Saddest of all is when children catch a glimpse of the masked fire fighter but hide because they think they have seen a monster. To prevent such tragedies, fire fighter Eric Velez gives talks to children in his community, explaining that they should never hide during a fire. He displays fire fighters’ equipment, including the oxygen mask, which he encourages his listeners to play with and put on. “If you see us,” Velez tells them, “don’t hide! We are not monsters. We have come to rescue you.” Velez gives his presentations in English and Spanish. Growing up in San Francisco, he learnt Spanish from his immigrant parents. Velez and other fire fighters throughout North America, who give similar presentations, will never know how many lives they save through their talks. But it’s a fact that informative speaking saves lives. For example, several months after listening to an informative speech, Pete Gentry in North Carolina rescued his brother who is choking on food, by using the method taught by student speaker, Julie Paris. In addition to saving lives, informative speakers help people learn new skills, solve problems and acquire fascinating facts about the exciting world in which they live.

Passage Two Some people want to make and save a lot of money in order to retire early. I see people pursuing higher paying and increasingly demanding careers to accomplish this goal. They make many personal sacrifices in exchange for income today. The problem is that tomorrow might not come. Even if it all goes according to plan, will you know how to be happy when you are not working if you spend your entire life making money? More importantly, who will be around for you to share your leisure time with? At the other extreme are people who live only for today. Why bother saving when I might not be here tomorrow, they argue. The danger of this approach is that tomorrow may come after all. And most people don't want to spend all their tomorrows working for a living. The earlier neglect of saving, however, makes it difficult not to work when you are older. You maybe surprise to hear me say that if you must pick an extreme I think it's better to pick the spend-all approach. As long as you don't mind continuing to work, assuming your health allows, you should be OK. At least, you are making use of your money, and hopefully deriving value and pleasure from it. Postponing doing what you love and being with people you love until retirement can be a mistake. It may never come. Retirement can be a great time for some people. For others, it is a time of boredom, loneliness and poor health.

30 Why do some people pursue higher paying but demanding careers? 31 What is the danger facing people who live only for today? 32 What does the speaker seem to advocate?

Passage Three Imagine that someone in your neighborhood broke the law, and the judge put the whole neighborhood under suspicion. How fair will that be? Well, it happens everyday to high schoolers. Just because some students have stolen things in shops, all of us are treated like thieves. Even though I’d never steal.

Store employees looked at me like I’m some kind of hardened criminal. For example, during one lunch period, my friend Denny and I went to the Graben Gore Restaurant to have a hot dog. We arrived to find a line of students waiting outside. A new sign in the window told the story. “No more than two students at a time”. After 15 minutes, we finally got in. But the store manger laid the evil eye on us. I asked him about the new sign, and he said, “You kids are stealing too much stuff.” You kids? Too much stuff? We were not only assumed to be thieves, but brilliant, greedy thieves. The most annoying thing though, is the way employees watched my friends and me. It’s horrible.