2010年6月英语四级答案评析完整版

长对话和段子题

长对话和段子题部分而言，本次考题同样对往年的考点进行了完整的阐释。

比如文首的重要性表现在：

长对话第一篇的19题B It requires him to work long hours.是对文章开头回合W: What sort of hours do you work, Steve? M: Well I have to work very long hours, about eleven hours a day. 的考察。
长对话第二篇的23题A The pocket money British children get.也是对文章开头的考察，以名词方式考察了对话主题。W: Now you’ve seen this table of figures about the pocket money children in Britain get? M: Yes. I thought it was quite interesting, but I don’t quite understand the column entitled change. Can you explain what it means?
段子题的第一篇26题A District managers，同样出现在文章首句As the new sales director for a national computer firm, Alex Gordon was looking forward to his first meeting with the company’s district managers.中。
段子题第二篇30题C Ask to see the manager politely but firmly.也同样在文首The way to complain is to act business-like and important. If your complaint is immediate, suppose you got the wrong order at a restaurant, make a polite but firm request to see the manager.出现
段子题第三篇33题B Architect.虽然略靠后，但也在文首三句中出现Barbara Sanders is a wife and the mother of two children, ages 2 and 4. Her husband, Tom, is an engineer and makes an excellent salary. Before Barbara had children, she worked as an architect for the government, designing government housing.
无一例外的考察文首的现象在历年都很罕见，但此次却出题如此工整。

再如：
第20题D It demands physical endurance and patience.的问题为Q 20. What does the man think is the hardest part of his job?和第21题D In a hotel.的问题为Q 21. Where did the man get his first job after graduation? 看看这两个问题，是否可以发现其中的hardest和first的存在，标志了考察重点所在。同样观察下31题Q31 Why does the speaker say the worst way to complain is over the telephone?，恐怕大家都能发现关键信息的标志了。
类似Q34 What does Barbara's husband suggest she do if she wants to work?的建议考点也同样表现明显。

所以就段子题而言，可以归纳如下：
从体裁上讲，本次考试并未出现以往较难的说明文（例如09年12月“介绍木星的卫星”，09年6月“喂鸟知识”），而是代以一篇小故事和两篇议论文。事实上，从教学和测试的角度讲，任何事物都是平衡的。故事类的考题内容较简单，但考题可以设计的较难，因为题目可以建立在必须听懂的基础之上，如本次考试 passage 1的最后一题及其正确答案(gender sensitive)。本次议论文的设计中规中矩，没有较难的考题。

从解题方法上讲，我们一贯的解题思路依然适用，而且非常有效：

1. 听到什么选什么。我们建议考生在解四级听力文章题时尽量选择和听到的内容基本一致的答案，尽管一般情况下只有第一题的正确率较高，但本次考试的此种题目占到总题量的80%（除了passage 1的最后两题）。例如passage 2的开头“…… If your complaint is immediate, suppose you got the wrong order at a restaurant, make a polite but firm request to see the manager.”,最后的正确答案“Ask to see the manager politely but firmly.”及passage 3的中段“…… He also thinks that a woman should stay home with her children. If Barbara feels the need to do socially important work, he thinks that she should do volunteer work one or two days a week.”，而正确答案是“Do some volunteer work. ”

2. 绝对化听力考点。“文章题到底该听什么？”一直是困惑考生的基本问题，本次出现了一贯的绝对化考点词如我们上课所说的main, chief, major, most(最高级)等等，这些词之后出现考点，例如passage 1中的“……， Alex Gordon was looking forward to his first meeting with the company's district managers. ……”，passage 2种的“The worst way to complain is over the telephone. …… So you can't tell how the person on the line is reacting.”

3. 议论文的考题重点在情绪化考点词。正如四级考试是“淘劣不选优”的测试方法，建议考生在听文章时尽量选择简单词，而议论文重点在于作者的论点，往往“是非，褒贬”的概念更为重要，例如passage 3最后一题“.….. Tom does not think a babysitter can replace a mother and thinks it's a bad idea for the children to spend so much time with someone who's not part of the family.”，其中的划线词是必须听到的内容，表达了情绪化观点，而且也是最容易的听力内容。