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让我们再来看一个在托福听力中的例子：
All insectivorous plants contain chlorophyll and have roots, so they don't get all of their nutrients from the insects they take in. Insectivorous plants tend to live in soil that lacks enough nitrogen for them to exist, so they consume their insect victims in order to get the nitrogen they need. There're many types of insectivorous plants in the world—there're perhaps 500 known species of insectivorous plants worldwide. Of these many types of insectivorous plants, we're going to look at one of the better known ones in depth.
The insectivorous plant that we're going to discuss in detail is the Venus flytrap, which is native to North America. Now look at the drawing of the Venus flytrap on the screen. The Venus flytrap catches insects by suddenly snapping the ends of one of its trap leaves around an insect. You can see in the diagram that a Venus flytrap has a number of trap leaves and that each trap leaf is divided into two parts. Inside the two parts of the trap leaf are three sensory bristles, sensory bristles which resemble tiny hairs. When an insect touches the bristles inside a trap leaf, the two surfaces of the leaf shut instantaneously, and the insect's trapped inside the parts of the leaf. The Venus flytrap then discharges a digestive liquid into the leaf in order to assimilate the insect and obtain the nitrogen the plant needs in order to survive.
可以看出，此段听力材料从词汇到句法都达到了一定的高度；看来，如果我们的听力水平仅限于日常交流，是远远不够的，所以我们必须加强这方面的练习才能在高级语言听说中立于不败之地。那么，如何才能提高我们对复杂材料的听说能力呢？这就需要在这方面有更针对性的练习，而《新概念英语》第四册则为我们提供了绝佳的素材：
Some old people are oppressed by the fear of death. In the young there is a justification for this feeling. Young men who have reason to fear that they will be killed in battle may justifiably feel bitter in the thought that they have cheated of the best things that life has to offer. But in an old man who has known human joys and sorrows, and has achieved whatever work it was in him to do, the fear of death is somewhat abject and ignoble. The best way to overcome it -- so at least it seems to me -- is to make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life. An individual human existence should be like a river -- small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past boulders and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being. The man who, in old age, can see his life in this way, will not suffer from the fear of death, since the things he cares for will continue. And if, with the decay of vitality, weariness increases, the thought of rest will be not unwelcome. I should wish to die while still at work, knowing that others will carry on what I can no longer do, and content in the thought that what was possible has been done. (选自《新概念英语》第四册第11课)
上面这篇文章选自《新概念英语》第四册，同样在这本教材中还有很多文章都适合在高级听说交流时使用。试想一下，如果我们需要去表达一些更有深度的话题时我们又要具备怎样的表达能力呢？所以《新概念英语》第四册里的文章涉及内容广泛，文笔优美，正为我们的高级听说能力的提高提供了很好的素材。当我们能够把新概念第四册的里的文章能够听懂并表达出来时，不管面对考试还是英文广播及电视等都会轻松自如，我们的听说水平就能够在实际应用中达到更高的境界。 |
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发表于 2016-7-11 22:46:43