Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
此對話兩人對著數據表(table of figure)在談論在英國的兒童的零用錢問題(pocket money)。依舊是首尾各出一題。23題B選項可以直接排除，因為大量的children & pocket money關鍵詞的頻頻出現，根本不會是在說每年的英國通貨膨脹率。24題A 選項也可直接排除，通過預覽可以猜測出it在B\C\D情況中不是up就是down;而“Why do you think the rise in pocket money is often higher than inflation?\Perhaps parents in Britain are generous”是24題的答案關鍵，generous也是四級高頻詞匯。通過預覽可以猜測出25題pocket money 的用處，所以the woman在結尾處的兩個提問逐步引出25題：“if you had children, how much pocket money would you give them?\And would you expect them to do with it?”，這時考生需要引起注意了，the man 接著就回答時說了“to buy some personal things”，25題C選項是干擾項
23.A)The pocket money British children get.(B和其他三項不搭，可以排除)
B)The annual inflation rate in Britain.
C)The things British children spend money on.
D)The rising cost of raising a child in Britain.
24.A)It enables children to live better.(A和其他三項不搭)
B)It goes down during economic recession.
C)It often rises higher than inflation.
D)It has gone up 25% in the past decade.
25.A)Save up for their future education.
B)Pay for small personal things.
C)Buy their own shoes and socks.
D)Make donations when necessary.
Section B
Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choice marked A),B),C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
注意：此部分試題請在答題卡2上作答。
Passage One
Questions 26 to 29 are based on the passage you have just heard.
篇章類題目還是需要關注文章開頭3句和結尾3句，這兩處是最易出題并且喜歡以原文出現答案。26題，開篇第一句就出示了答案：“Alex Gordon was looking forward to his first meeting with the company’s district managers”;30題第二句：“If your complaint is immediate, suppose you got the wrong order at a restaurant, make a polite but firm request to see the manager.”，后面還有幾句在繼續說這個問題，如果這句沒聽出來，可根據后面的意思也能猜測出答案，如：“Be polite. Shouting or acting rude will get you nowhere.”;33題開頭第三句：“before Barbara had children, she worked as an architect for the government.”。另外，篇章1將近結尾處出現“Half of our managers are women.” 既是28題答案。篇章2結尾處也出現了“Be business-like and stick to the point. Don’t spend a paragraph on how your Uncle Joe tried to fix the problem and couldn’t”作者亦指出投訴要抓住要點，不要長篇大論。
“聽到什么選什么原則”除了上面的26、28、30、32、33之外，篇章2出現“You are speaking to a voice coming from someone you can not see, so you can’t tell how the person on the line is reacting”，31題答案幾乎原文出現;篇章3中段也同樣出現了”If Barbara feels the need to do socially important work, he thinks that she should do volunteer work one or two days a week”, 所以34題正確答案“Do some volunteer work”。另外，35題原文中“not think…..can replace”被“is no replacement for…”替換。
整體篇章類沒有特別較難的題目，難度自passage one 依次遞減。三篇文章內容雖然有趣，但是做題游刃有余還是不容易，passage one 是三篇中較難的一篇，但是由于篇頭篇尾規矩的以原文出現答案，降低了題目的難度。后兩篇比較貼近生活，邊聽邊看，確定哪個選項能夠最大程度的吻合。Passage three 的話題與2006年12月份的真題 某篇章話題極為相似，再次印證了重復做歷年真題的重要性。
26.A)District managers.
B)Regular customers.
C)Sales directors.
D)Senior clerks.
27.A)The support provided by the regular clients.
B)The initiative shown by the sales representatives.
C)The urgency of implementing the company’s plans.
D)The important part played by district managers.
28.A)Some of them were political-minded.
B)Fifty percent of them were female.
C)One third of them were senior managers.
D)Most of them were rather conservative.
29.A)He used too many quotations.
B)He was not gender sensitive.
C)He did not keep to the point.
D)He spent too much time on details.
Passage Two
Questions 30 to 32 are based on the passage you have just heard.
30.A)State your problem to the head waiter.
B)Demand a discount on the dishes ordered.
C)Ask to see the manager politely but firmly.
D)Ask the name of the person waiting on you.
31.A)Your problem may not be understood correctly.
B)You don’t know if you are complaining at the right time.
C)Your complaint may not reach the person in charge.
D)You can’t tell how the person on the line is reacting.
32.A)Demand a prompt response.
B)Provide all the details.
C)Send it by express mail.
D)Stick to the point.
Passage Three
Questions 33 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.
33.A)Fashion designer.
B)Architect.
C)City planner.
D)Engineer.
34.A)Do some volunteer work.
B)Work flexible hours.
C)Get a well-paid part-time job.
D)Go back to her previous post.
35.A)Few baby-sitters can be considered trustworthy.
B)It will add to the family’s financial burden.
C)A baby-sitter is no replacement for a mother.
D)The children won’t get along with a baby-sitter.
Section C
Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard, For blanks numbered form 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks. You can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own works. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.
注意：此部分試題請在答題卡2上作答。
單詞部分，依舊考察了形容詞、名詞的拼寫和動名詞的使用，關鍵是由介詞引起的動詞-ing的變化，稍給題目增加些難度。36. curious, 38. independent, 39. unusual, 42. abstract 是前面系動詞引起的填寫形容詞的情況;41. formal 是形容詞來修飾后面的名詞;較難部分是37和40題，分別是介詞at 和by 引起后面動詞變-ing 的情況，如果考生還很恍惚不知怎樣填，可以看到37前and 并列的finding 和40 前and 并列的paying attention to, 就可判斷出這兩處是填寫動名詞的情況。43很顯然是填寫名詞，但是考生是否能順利聽出mystery并且拼寫正確?
句子部分，注意拼寫appropriately和concepts，refining不易聽出，是原型refine 的-ing形式。復合式聽力的后三句子，是聽力考試各題型中難度最高也是最能展示考生英語水平的題目，在這里還是希望同學們在掌握文都考試技巧的同時，課下多加練習，英語畢竟是能力的培養，我們考英語四級，也是為了證明自己的英語水平。
Almost every child, on the first day he sets foot in a school building, is smarter, more (36)curious,less afraid of what he doesn’t know, better at finding and (37)figuring things out, more confident, resourceful(機敏的), persistent and (38)independent than he will ever be again in his schooling-or, unless he is very (39) unusual and very lucky, for the rest of his life. Already, by paying close attention to and (40) interacting with the world and people around him, and without any school-type (41) formal instruction, he has done a task far more difficult, complicated and (42) abstract than anything he will be asked to do in school, or than any of his teachers has done for years. He has solved the (43) mystery of language. He has discovered it-babies don’t even know that language exists-and (44) and he has found how it works and learnt to use it appropriately. He has done it by exploring, by experimenting, by developing his own model of the grammar of language, (45) by trying it out and seeing whether it works, by changing (developing)it, refining it until it does work. And while he has been doing this, he has been learning other things as well, (46) including many of the concepts that schools think only they can teach them , and many that are more complicated than the ones they do try to teach him.
