Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
此对话两人对着数据表(table of figure)在谈论在英国的儿童的零用钱问题(pocket money)。依旧是首尾各出一题。23题B选项可以直接排除，因为大量的children & pocket money关键词的频频出现，根本不会是在说每年的英国通货膨胀率。24题A 选项也可直接排除，通过预览可以猜测出it在B\C\D情况中不是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题的答案关键，generous也是四级高频词汇。通过预览可以猜测出25题pocket money 的用处，所以the woman在结尾处的两个提问逐步引出25题：“if you had children, how much pocket money would you give them?\And would you expect them to do with it?”，这时考生需要引起注意了，the man 接着就回答时说了“to buy some personal things”，25题C选项是干扰项
23.A)The pocket money British children get.(B和其他三项不搭，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和其他三项不搭)
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：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。
Passage One
Questions 26 to 29 are based on the passage you have just heard.
篇章类题目还是需要关注文章开头3句和结尾3句，这两处是最易出题并且喜欢以原文出现答案。26题，开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题第二句：“If your complaint is immediate, suppose you got the wrong order at a restaurant, make a polite but firm request to see the manager.”，后面还有几句在继续说这个问题，如果这句没听出来，可根据后面的意思也能猜测出答案，如：“Be polite. Shouting or acting rude will get you nowhere.”;33题开头第三句：“before Barbara had children, she worked as an architect for the government.”。另外，篇章1将近结尾处出现“Half of our managers are women.” 既是28题答案。篇章2结尾处也出现了“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”作者亦指出投诉要抓住要点，不要长篇大论。
“听到什么选什么原则”除了上面的26、28、30、32、33之外，篇章2出现“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题答案几乎原文出现;篇章3中段也同样出现了”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题正确答案“Do some volunteer work”。另外，35题原文中“not think…..can replace”被“is no replacement for…”替换。
整体篇章类没有特别较难的题目，难度自passage one 依次递减。三篇文章内容虽然有趣，但是做题游刃有余还是不容易，passage one 是三篇中较难的一篇，但是由于篇头篇尾规矩的以原文出现答案，降低了题目的难度。后两篇比较贴近生活，边听边看，确定哪个选项能够最大程度的吻合。Passage three 的话题与2006年12月份的真题 某篇章话题极为相似，再次印证了重复做历年真题的重要性。
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：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。
单词部分，依旧考察了形容词、名词的拼写和动名词的使用，关键是由介词引起的动词-ing的变化，稍给题目增加些难度。36. curious, 38. independent, 39. unusual, 42. abstract 是前面系动词引起的填写形容词的情况;41. formal 是形容词来修饰后面的名词;较难部分是37和40题，分别是介词at 和by 引起后面动词变-ing 的情况，如果考生还很恍惚不知怎样填，可以看到37前and 并列的finding 和40 前and 并列的paying attention to, 就可判断出这两处是填写动名词的情况。43很显然是填写名词，但是考生是否能顺利听出mystery并且拼写正确?
句子部分，注意拼写appropriately和concepts，refining不易听出，是原型refine 的-ing形式。复合式听力的后三句子，是听力考试各题型中难度最高也是最能展示考生英语水平的题目，在这里还是希望同学们在掌握文都考试技巧的同时，课下多加练习，英语毕竟是能力的培养，我们考英语四级，也是为了证明自己的英语水平。
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(机敏的), 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.
