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在很长一段时间内，我所选的听力资料将会是VOA的Special级别的慢速英语。这主要是出于两个目的：一是打好基本功；二是从慢速英语入手是科学的方法，是实现标准英语听力突破的有效途径。 先说第一点。 关于听力基本功的认识问题我建议大家去买一本钟道隆编的《逆向法巧学英语》一书仔细看看，里面很多道理也说的很清楚了。我这里只想以我的亲身体验"斩钉截铁"的告诉大家：开始"真正"练习听力的时候(我这里所提到的"真正"不是指那些考试技巧， 而是发自内心的想要掌握， 运用， 享受英语的源动力)，千万不可操之过急，一开始就去听那些原版的标准速度的听力资料，一方面这样的方法极不科学；另一方面也会给自己刚刚培养起来的自信心带来巨大的重创。十有八九(也可以说是所有的人)都会很快放弃的。我自己当初也是这样， 感觉简直是在听天书， 十几分钟的录音下来能够把Topic听准确已经是很不错了，当中的细节部分根本没有时间反应就一闪而过了。这种过程简直就是一种"煎熬"。当然也有少数意志力惊人的朋友坚持了下来， 但是由于方法的失策， 造成自己把大量的时间精力(有时可以说是青春)投入其中， 可是回报却难以和付出平衡， 收效甚微。说到这儿叫我想起以前我们有一位上外的听力老师讲的真人真事：一位研究生深知自己听力不过关， 决心发奋苦读。于是他每天早上都坚持听广播电台里的标准英语， 这样一听就是五年的时间。这种苦行僧似的磨炼并没有使他的听力水平真正得以提高。后来我们这位老师在了解了他的情况以后， 告诉他之所以到现在他的听力还未真正突破最主要的原因就是他的基础没有打好 ，总是泛泛而听， 而且总是听些已经有中文背景知识的广播， 就会造成一种错觉， 好象什么都听懂了，又好象什么也没听懂。大意能够抓住(其实是有背景知识的原故)， 真正精确到每一句话， 每一个单词却总是丢三落四的，不能准确的传情达意。这种沙上建塔的"辛劳"永远也不会建成坚固的大厦，而总是在进行建了倒下，倒下了再建的重复劳动。 再说第二点。 从慢速英语入手是真正科学的听力突破方法。而且在我自己的实践过程中摸索出一些听力带动口语，锻炼口译的好方法。下面我想结合我给大家提供的听力资料具体谈一谈练习的方法： 1。下载完相关的听力资料后，用realplayer G2进行播放，我这里暂时不想给大家提供原文，尤其对那些本来就很清晰的听力资料。(不是很清楚的资料我回加入原文的)，这主要是希望大家不要依赖原文，自己一定要一个单词一个单词的完全听懂。有的同学说我有那么几个单词实在听不懂怎么办？大家想一想，慢速英语的单词量是1500到2000，也就是说一个比较好的高中生的单词量已经超过了许多，更何况四六级都已通过的你。听不懂的唯一原因绝对不是生词的问题，(这种问题只有在听标准英语的时候才会产生，以后我会和大家专门讨论的)只能是你对这个单词的发音极其陌生，大脑根本没有反映。如果让你看一看原文，你会不屑一顾的。但在听的时候却不知所云。起初我练习的时候有时为了一个单词可以想上正正一天，嘴里老是念道着这个单词的发音。我知道这个单词我一定认识，直到某一刻恍然大悟：咳！不就是这么简单的一个单词嘛！这时我总是猛拍自己的脑袋骂道"真是愚蠢"。当然如果有些同学说这段录音我已经听了十遍了，当中的几个单词你就是打死我我也听不出来。如果真的到了这个地步，你可以把你的问题发表在世博英语论坛里，我会告诉你答案的。 2。接下来要做的就是要保证这一段录音你是完完全全的听懂了。什么是完完全全的听懂了呢？就是每听完一句话，你都能准确的复述出来，包括每一个单词。这里在语音上不是很好的朋友要注意了，由于是慢速英语，所以只要你有正常的听力能力再加上一定的毅力，就完全可以把自己的发音模仿的和VOA的播音员没什么两样，正如李阳老师所指出的：发音是一个人的英语门面。的确是这样的！如果你按照这样的方法用心练习，不出一两个月，你的发音就会有长足的进步。其实我们大多数中国人的模仿发音天赋都是很好的，随便叫出一名大学四级通过的大学生，他(她)的发音就要比我所见到的意大利人，日本人，菲律宾人。。。的发音不知要好多少倍。其实我们中国学生在口语和听力上缺陷主要有两个原因：一是缺乏练习。这也是传统教学方法的遗憾。包括我自己，也是这种只注重书面的"分析英语"的受害者。二是缺乏勇气。老是害怕自己会说错，害怕丢脸。除非你是在国外长大
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羽泉整天在大学校园中无所事事，不如听听英语听力。下面是我给大家整理的大学英语听力材料，供大家参阅!
听力真题：
Test 6
Section C
If you are a young college student, most of yourconcerns about your health and happiness in life areprobably (36) ______ on the present. (37) ______ ,you want to feel good physically, mentally, and (38) ______ now. You probably don't spend much timeworrying about the (39) ______ future, such as whether you will develop heart disease, or (40) ______ , how you will take care of yourself in your (41) ______ years, or how long you aregoing to live. Such thoughts may have (42) ______ your mind once in a while, however, if youare in your thirties, forties, fifties, or older, such health related thoughts are likely to become(43) ______ important to you. (44) ________________________________________________________ that will help you feelbetter physically and mentally. Recently researchers have found that, even in late adulthood,exercise, strength training with weights, and better food can help elderly individuals significantlyimprove their health and add happiness to their life. (45) ______________________________________________________ giving us the opportunityto avoid some of the health problems that have troubled them. (46) __________________________________________________________ .
答案解析：
36. focused
解析：be focused on是固定搭配，即使听不清-ed的音，根据语法知识，系动词之后如果是动词的某种形式的话，要么是-ed，要么是-ing，此处要补出词尾-ed。
37. Basically
解析：逗号之前一个独立的插入语往往是副词，注意不要漏掉al。
38. emotionally
解析：此处需要与前文的physically，mentally在形式上和语义上为并列关系的词。
39. distant
解析：此处需要形容词修饰future，"distant future"意思是“遥远的将来”。不远的将来表达为not-too-distant future或near future。
40. cancer
解析：不要误写为cancel。因为or的前面是heart disease，故此处应该填写另一种疾病。
41. retirement
解析：年轻的时候可能不会考虑生病、退休、死亡等，此词是retire的名词形式。
42. crossed
解析：根据语法知识，助动词have，has，had之后的动词要用过去分词形式，因此即使听不到-ed的音，也要补出词尾-ed。另外，不要误写成across。
43. increasingly
解析：此词修饰形容词或副词，表示“越来越”。
44. 标准答案：Regardless of your age, you can make a number of important changes in your current lifestyle
听音关键：Regardless，age，changes，current lifestyle
答案重构：No matter how old you are, you can make some great changes in your current lifestyle
画龙点睛：regardless of是四级常考短语;make changes为固定搭配;a number of后接名词复数形式。current lifestyle可能是难点，可以改写成present habits之类的表达。
45. 标准答案：We know much more about preventive health today than our parents and grandparents did in the past
听音关键：know more，preventive health，than，parents and grandparents
答案重构：We know preventive health much more now than our parents and grandparents did in the past
画龙点睛：注意比较结构和后半句的时态。preventive是个派生词，根据发音和上下文应该可以写对。
46. 标准答案：And this new knowledge can be transmitted to our children to help them become healthier than our generation
听音关键：knowledge，transmit，children，help，healthier，than our generation
答案重构：And this new knowledge can be passed on to our children so that they can be healthier than us
画龙点睛：knowledge是必须掌握的词汇，transmit可以替换，不定式目的可以用so that改写，our generation写成us意义上也没有什么遗失。
听力真题：
Test 5
Section C
Around the world young people are spendingunbelievable sums of money to listen to rock music.Forbes Magazine (36) ______ that at least fifty rockstars have (37) ______ of between two million andsix million dollars per year.
"It doesn't make sense," says Johnny Mathis, one of the older music (38) ______ , who made amillion dollars a year when he was most (39) ______ , in the 1950s. "(40) ______ aren't worththis kind of money. In fact, nobody is."
But the rock stars' (41) ______ seem to disagree. Those who love rock music spend abouttwo billion dollars a year for (42) ______ . They pay 150 million to see rock stars in person.
Some observers think the (43) ______ are buying more than music. According to one theory,to play rock music doesn't require much training. (44) ______________________________________________________________ . Every boy andgirl in the audience thinks, "I could sing like that." Rock music has become a kind of religion. (45) ____________________________________________________________________________________ .
Luck is a key word for explaining the success of many. In 1972 one of the luckiest was DonMcLean, who wrote and sang "American Pie." McLean earned more than a million dollars fromrecordings of "American Pie." (46) ______________________________________________________________________________ .
答案解析：
36. claims
解析：此处需要第三人称谓语动词，注意拼写ai。
37. incomes
解析：根据后面的数字，此处需要表示“收入”的名词，注意复数形式。
38. millionaires
解析：根据后面的定语从句可知此处需要名词，表示“百万富翁”，注意拼写aire和复数形式。
39. popular
解析：根据he was most可知此处需要形容词，注意拼写ar。
40. Performers
解析：根据aren't可知此处需要名词复数形式，此单词位于句首，应注意首字母大写。注意拼写er和or。
41. admirers
解析：根据所有格和seem可知此处需要 名词复数形式，注意拼写er。
42. records
解析：介绍for后接名词或动名词，records在此处作名词，注意拼写or。
43. customers
解析：根据are可知此处需要名词复数形式，注意拼写o和er。
44. 标准答案：There is no gulf between the audience and the performer
听音关键：no gulf，audience，performer
答案重构：No gulf lies between the audience and the performer
画龙点睛：关键是要把两者之间没有距离的信息表达出来
45. 标准答案：Young people are glad to pay to worship a rock star because it is a wayof worshipping themselves
听音关键：glad，play，worship star，worship themselves
答案重构：Young people like to spend money adoring rock stars for it's a way of adoringthemselves
画龙点睛：本句中pay表示“付款”，其后稍有停顿;不定式to worship表示目的。注意这里并不是payworship to短语。如果原词照搬，要注意worshipping应双写p;如果担心会拼错worship这个词，可用其同义词adore，admire等来代替。
46. 标准答案：Then too, by writing his own music, McLean earns some extra money
听音关键：writing music，earn extra money
答案重构：Then, McLean earns some extra money by writing his own music, too.
画龙点睛：状语的位置可以调换。
听力真题：
Test 4
Section C
Sports and games make our bodies strong, preventus from getting too fat, and keep us healthy. Butthese are not their only use. They give us (36) ______ practice in making eyes, brain and (37) ______ work together. In tennis, our eyes see theball coming, judge its speed and direction and pass this (38) ______ on to the brain. The brainthen has to decide what to do, and to send its orders to the muscles of the arms, legs, and soon, so that the ball is met and hit back where it ought to go. All this must happen with verygreat speed, and only those who have had a lot of practice at tennis can carry out this (39) ______ chain of events successfully. For those who work with their brains most of the day, thepractice of such skills is (40) ______ useful.
Sports and games are also very useful for (41) ______ training. In their lessons at school, boysand girls may learn about such (42) ______ as unselfishness, courage, (43) ______ and love ofone's country (44) _____________________________________________________________ . The ordinaryday-school cannot give much practical training in living, because most of the pupils' time isspent in classes, studying lessons. So it is what the pupils do in their spare time (45) _____________________________________________________ . If each of them learns towork for his team and not for himself on the football field, (46) ___________________________________________________________ .
答案解析：
36. valuable
解析：此处需要形容词修饰practice，注意value需要去掉e再加able。
37. muscles
解析：此处需要与eyes，brain并列的名词，注意不要漏掉c和词尾的s。
38. information
解析：根据this，此处需要单数名词，注意or。
39. complicated
解析：此处需要形容词修饰chain，注意词尾的ed。
40. especially
解析：此处需要副词修饰useful，表示“特别”，注意开头的e、中间的c，并且要双写l。
41. character
解析：此处需要名词，注意ch和er。
42. virtues
解析：根据such...as，此处需要复数名词，概括unselfishness，courage，意为“美德”。注意ir和ue。
43. discipline
解析：此处需要与unselfishness，courage和love并列的单数名词。通过disc+ip+line记忆此词会效果更佳、记得更牢。
44. 标准答案：but what is learned in books cannot have the same deep effect on a child's character as what is learned by experience
听音关键：learned in books，not same，effect，character，learned by experience
答案重构：but what a child learns in books cannot have the same deep effect on his/her character as what he/she learns by experience
画龙点睛：注意比较结构和否定意义。
45. 标准答案：that really prepares them to take their place in society as citizens when they grow up
听音关键：prepare，take their place，as citizens
答案重构：that really prepares them for their place in society as grown-up citizens
画龙点睛：注意prepare sb. to do sth.结构，可替换为prepare sb. for sth.。
46. 标准答案：he will later find it natural to work for the good of his country instead of only for his own benefit
听音关键：natural，work for country，not own benefit
答案重构：later he will naturally work for the good of his country, not just for his own benefit
画龙点睛：注意对比结构，其中强调的是前者。
