首先,四级听力没有题目,大家都知道要浏览题目,但往往题目还没看完,相应的听力部分就结束了,问题就是出在浏览选项的时候看什么。
在浏览听力选项时,同学们一定要知道如何去找出选项中的关键词。首先,浏览选项时需要明确纵向和横向两个概念,纵向即从A到D四个选项,横向即每个选项内容。在划选项关键词时,纵向上重复的内容,即可跳过。如:
A) She was always treated as a foreigner.
B) She was eager to visit an English castle.
C) She was never invited to a colleague’s home.
D) She was unwilling to make friends with workmates.
从纵向上来看,示例中的四个选项基本只需从中间部分往后看即可,但是剩余内容单词仍然较多,我们仍需明确什么样的内容可以作为选项的关键词,很多同学习惯把浏览听力选项当作阅读理解一样,逐字逐句阅读,这样太浪费时间,我们只需把选项中的名词或名词短语,以及专有名词如人名、地名以及数词。仍以上题为例,四个选项中我们需要重点划出的单词其实很少,只需划出foreigner, English castle, colleague’s home, friends, workmates,而对应到该题题目 I met a woman once, an Italian. She’d been working in Manchester for two years, and no one — not one of her colleagues — had ever invited her to their home中划线单词即可快速选出C选项。
此外,在长篇听力中,同学们往往忽视听力选项的另一个特点,即首题选项能够帮助我们预判该文章中心。如何预判呢,多个选项同时提到的信息即为该文章中心,如:
A. A study of the fast-food service.
B. Fast food customer satisfaction.
C. McDonald's new business strategies.
D. Competition in the fast-food industry.
可以看到,A、B、D三个选项中均提到fast food,C中则提到了McDonald(麦当劳),两个信息则告诉我们该篇文章应该是和快餐相关,对应到听力原文当中划线词Fast food, it turns out, isn’t quite as fast as it used to be. A new study finds that MacDonald’s posted its slowest drive-through times since this survey was first conducted fifteen years ago. At MacDonald’s, customers will spend on average three minutes and nine seconds from the time they placed their orders until they received their food即选A。
除了浏览选项可帮助我们选出正确答案,四级听力还存在“视听一致”原则,即字面上的意思,听到的和正确答案的信息一致,但同学们需要注意的就是视听一致会出现两种情况,原词复现和同义替换。原词复现非常简单,如:
A. Watch a comedy.
B. Go and see the dance.
C. Book the tickets online.
D. See a film with the man.
B选项中see the dance和原文中Perhaps you are right. Okay, let’s go see the dance. But tomorrow, not tonight划线处一摸一样,即可选。
而同义替换所体现的视听一致则稍难,需要同学们掌握听力中常出现的近义词或是同义词,如:
A. It stayed in the air for about two hours.
B. It took off and landed on a football field.
C. It proved to be of high commercial value.
D. It made a series of sharp turns in the sky.
A选项中除了in the air, two hours和原文一致,出现了stay替换原文“ The Airlander 10 spent nearly 2 hours in the air having taken off from Cardington airfield in Bedfordshire”中spend, 同时出现了表达顺序的变化。但该题如果能抓住复现的关键词选出正确答案难度也不大。