對(duì)試卷2005年6月的四級(jí)考試聽(tīng)力部分分析后,有以下兩點(diǎn)明顯的命題趨勢(shì),值得考生關(guān)注。
一、越來(lái)越接近托福考試
2005年6月18號(hào)的四級(jí)聽(tīng)力的短對(duì)話(huà)部分至少有三道題幾乎照搬托福聽(tīng)力原題,對(duì)應(yīng)如下:
四級(jí)聽(tīng)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(duì)應(yīng)托福聽(tīng)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(jí)聽(tīng)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(duì)應(yīng)托福聽(tīng)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(jí)聽(tīng)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(duì)應(yīng)托福聽(tīng)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(jí)聽(tīng)力考試的其他短對(duì)話(huà)或多或少的都體現(xiàn)出托福聽(tīng)力的影子,丟東西撿東西場(chǎng)景、電腦場(chǎng)景、度假場(chǎng)景以及選校場(chǎng)景都是托福聽(tīng)力的?紙(chǎng)景,其中的一些場(chǎng)景詞匯和習(xí)慣用語(yǔ)也不斷被四級(jí)聽(tīng)力所引用。從四級(jí)真題來(lái)看,聽(tīng)力話(huà)題范圍也和托福聽(tīng)力也如出一轍——校園生活。
近三年的四級(jí)聽(tīng)力考題中更加明顯的體現(xiàn)出這樣的趨勢(shì),改革后的四級(jí)試卷結(jié)構(gòu)更加接近于托福聽(tīng)力,增加的長(zhǎng)對(duì)話(huà)題型就來(lái)源于托福聽(tīng)力的part B部分,甚至改革后的四級(jí)考試記分體系都在向托福*攏。
我在課上曾經(jīng)強(qiáng)調(diào),在備考四級(jí)考試聽(tīng)力部分時(shí),可以適當(dāng)參看95年8月以后的托福聽(tīng)力原文,熟悉托福聽(tīng)力場(chǎng)景,就有可能在四級(jí)聽(tīng)力考場(chǎng)上做到先知先覺(jué)。有很多同學(xué)擔(dān)心,托?荚嚨碾y度大于四級(jí),怎么可能互相借鑒?別忘了聽(tīng)力難度有一個(gè)重要的控制指標(biāo),語(yǔ)速。所以建議大家去看托福聽(tīng)力原文,而不是去聽(tīng)。