2016年英语四级听力改革备考练习21

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2016年6月起大学英语四六级考试听力部分有重大调整。陪伴了中国大学生十几年的“短对话”和“短文听写”将退出历史舞台，取而代之的是短片新闻听力和学术讲座。接下来，同学们可能需要花费很多时间来适应新的听力考试模式，四六级考试网给大家提供英语四级听力在线练习内容，听力的复习没有捷径，只能多听多练了。

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听力习题：
　　Most of the colleges of education in the UnitedStates are doing an inadequate job of preparingelementary teachers for teaching children to read, a(36) ______ report by the US National Council onTeacher Quality (NCTQ) concludes.
　　Teacher-education programmes across the US are(37) ______ to teach the five elements of effective reading instruction that research hasproved are (38)______ -phonemic (音素的，音位的) (39) ______ , phonics (读音法), vocabulary, (40) ______ , and comprehension, according to "What Education Schools Aren't TeachingAbout Reading and What Elementary Teachers Aren't Learning," (41) ______ by NCTQ.
　　The report's authors (42) ______ information on required reading courses from a (43) ______that was deemed representative of the nation's nearly 1,300 teacher-education programmes.
　　"(44) ____________________________________________________ ," the report says. Only11 per cent of the colleges reviewed taught all the components, while nearly one-fourth didn'tappear to teach any of them. (45) ________________________________________________________________________ inthe 2000 report of the US National Reading Panel (NRP) and (46) ____________________________________________________________________ .
　　Many colleges of education have already begun reorganizing their reading courses to includemore of the research on effective instruction.
        
         
         

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听力材料：
    36. recent
　　解析：此处需要以辅音发音开头的形容词作定语。
　　37. failing
　　解析：前面有系动词are，又是主动词态，需用现在分词。
　　38. essential
　　解析：此处需要形容词，注意双写s和词尾tial。essential意为“基本的”。
　　39. awareness
　　解析：此处需要名词，拼写时注意结尾双写s。awareness表示“意识，认识”。
　　40. fluency
　　解析：此处与前后其他名词词组并列，故也需要名词，拼写时注意中间是uen。fluency意为“流利”。
　　41. released
　　解析：根据后面的by可知，此处要用动词的被动语态，注意结尾应加ed。release在此处意为“公开发表，公布”。
　　42. gathered
　　解析：根据该句后面的was可知，此处应用一般过去时，勿漏词尾的ed。gather表示“收集”之义。
　　43. sample
　　解析：此处需填入一个以辅音发音开头的可数名词，sample意为“样品，样本”。
　　44. 标准答案：Almost all of the 72 institutions in our sample earned a 'failing' grade
　　听音关键：Almost all, 72 institutions, sample, failing
　　答案重构：Almost all of the 72 institutions in our sample failed the program
　　画龙点睛：此句重点要表达的是最后的earned a 'failing' grade， 即被选入参与项目的有代表性的学校中，几乎全部都得到一个不合格的分数，可直接用动词fail替换。
　　45. Those elements were identified as necessary for effective reading instruction
　　听音关键：elements, identified, necessary, effective, instruction
　　答案重构：Those elements proved to be necessary for effective reading instruction
　　画龙点睛：be identified as意为“结果是，证明是”，可用更为经常使用的prove to替换。
　　46. have been the driving force behind state and federal initiatives for raising studentachivement ever since
　　听音关键：driving force, state and federal, initiatives, raising, achievement
　　答案重构：have been the root for encouraging the state and federal government to raisestudent achievement ever since
　　画龙点睛：driving force意为“推动力”，可用简单的root一词进行替换。