Q: What does Tom do? A. He’s a truck driver. B. He’s a ship captain. C. He’s a pilot.
录音原文: W: Tom flew to Anchorage last night, then took some passengers from there to Dallas . M: Yeah, but he couldn't land because the airport in Dallas was snowed in. 从选项看,问题应是关于职业方面的,再从flew, passengers, airport这些信息词中可知道Tom的职业。
例如: A: Harvey doesn't seem to fit into this class. B: No, he is really a fish out of water.
二、做简要笔记
听录音时快速,准确,简要地记下有关信息(包括数字,人名,地名,关键词),前提是不要影响跟听速度,采用自己习惯的符号。 例:How much will the man pay for the tickets? A.$18 B. $24 C. $30 原文:W: Tickets for the movie are $ 6 for adults, half price for children. M: All right, I’d like three tickets for adults and two tickets for children, please. 笔记可简化为:$ 6 A(A代表adult),C代表children,3A+2C或6 A(3)+ half C( 2)
At what time does the train to Leeds leave? A. 3:00 B. 3:15 C. 5:00
录音原文: W: Excuse me, could you tell me when the next train to Manchester is? M: Sure. Well, it's 3 now. The next train to Manchester leaves in 2 hours, but you can take the train to Leeds which leaves in 15 minutes, and then get off at Manchester on the way. 对话中提到了三个时间It's 3 now, in 2 hours,in 15 minutes.
现在是3点,开往Manchester的火车要两小时后才开,即The train to Manchester leaves in 2 hours。若简单机械地把3点和2点相加,会得出火车5点才开的错误选项C。
数字类问题分辨别类和计算类两种:
1. 要注意区分-teen和-ty及four和five的发音;辨别多位数,如电话号码,门牌等
2. 计算时间,钱款,距离,年龄,人或物的数量等;听出数字间的关系,更要听清问题,因为对运算方法的要求通常寓于问题中;注意more, less, as much(many)as, another, double, a couple of; to, past, quarter; 记住时间是60进制 如出现几个数字,应注意鉴别问的是那一个。
例:At what time does the office open? A. At 8:15 B. At 8:30 C. At 7:45 从常识判断,办公时间往往以整点开始,而不会在几点几分。 听力原文:M: I wonder why the office is still not open. W: But it's not yet eight. In fact, it's only a quarter to eight.
英语中的否定意义并非都是通过我们熟知的no,not,never等进行表达,很多情况下都是通过许多词、短语、句型等手段以肯定的形式表达出来,具体有以下几种形式:(1)含有否定意义的副词和形容词,如:no(不),not(不),never(从来不),hardly(几乎不),rarely(很少),few(没几个),seldom(很少),scarcely(极少);(2)含有否定意义的词缀,如:un-unhappy(不高兴),im-impossible(不可能),in-inactive(不活动的),ir-irregular(不规则的),dis-disagree(不同意),non-nonfat(脱脂的),-less-careless(不细心的);(3)含有否定意义的动词、动词词组、介词、介词词组,如:fair(不成功),miss(未打中),avoid(避免),deny(否认),doubt(怀疑),anything but(除了),instead of(而不是),in no case(决不),under no circumstance(无论如何都不),run out of(缺乏);(4)另外还有一些结构也是含有否定意义的,如:too…to(太…以至于不能…),last+名词+动词不定式或者从句(决不会);(5)双重否定,即一句中出现两次否定形式,这也是最爱考的。
例1:
W:It’s much better to wait until tomorrow to go.Don’t you agree?
M:Yes.I couldn’t agree more.
Question:What did the woman mean?
A.She doesn’t agree with the man
B.She think that it is better to wait
C. She think that it is better to drive at night
D.She doesn’t think that the man made a wise decision
M:Actuall,Sally likes nothing better than to talk on the telephone with her friends.
Question:What does Sally like to do most?
A.Sally likes best to make phone calls
B.Sally likes best to talk with her friends most
C.Sally likes best to visit her friends most
D.Sally likes best to travel with her friends
此题中,woman所说的话在形式上是比较级结构,但在内容上却包含了"Sally likes best to make phone calls"这种含义,所以A的答案就不言而喻了。
其他类似的说法还有(1)the last=the least likely,这种句型实际上是一种最高级的特殊形式,往往暗含否定之意;(2)not so much A as B=less A than B=more B than A=not A,but rather,这种句型的结构意义为"宁愿为A,而不愿为B"或"与其为A,毋宁为B";(3)perfer句型,汉语意思是更愿选择A,而不愿为B。例如:prefer A to B,prefer A rather than B, would like A rather than B, would rather A than B(其中A和B都是动词原形);(4)表示比较的除了比较级之外,像dark red(深红色),light green(浅绿色)都暗含了比较的意思。