Passage Three
18.
A) He lost consciousness.
B) He was slightly wounded.
C) He was seriously injured.
D) He was buried under an icebox.
19.
A) About four days.
B) Around eight days.
C) A day and a half.
D) More than six days.
20.
A) His father pulled him out in time.
B) He stayed in an icebox.
C) He left the area before the earthquake.
D) Their house escaped the earthquake.

原文
Passage Three
A six-year-old boy has been found alive after spending four days and five nights in an icebox that was buried under tons of ruins in Thursday's big earthquake. The boy Tom was found early yesterday in the village of Sem as rescuers were working to pull his father out of the ruins of their home. Hearing a faint cry of "Get me out. Get me out", rescuers dug down another one point five meters and found the boy in the icebox. He was pronounced in a good condition, suffering only four or five slight wounds. Tom's eight brothers and sisters died in the earthquake which officials say may have killed as many as 50,000 people, By Sunday foreign doctors were leaving the earthquake areas as hope had faded of finding any more survivors.

Questions

18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
18. What happened to the boy in earthquake?
19. How many days had passed before the boy was rescued?
20. How did the boy survive the big earthquake?

參考答案與分析

18 B 這題的考點在He was pronounced in a good condition, suffering only four or five slight wounds. 這篇文章的考法不大符合順序原則，首先上來考了靠文章結尾的這一句。這里pronounce是一個關鍵提示詞 據稱……。他據稱情況非常良好，僅僅只有四、五處受了一點輕傷。 “only”這種也是很關鍵的提示詞。“slight wounds”和選項B是一個一模一樣的原詞復現，毫無疑問就應該是B了。
19 A 這題返上去考了文章的第一句話A six-year-old boy has been found alive after spending four days and five nights in an icebox that was buried under tons of ruins in Thursday's big earthquake. 關鍵是“four days and five nights” 四天五夜 也就是差不多四天選A, 應該沒什么問題
20 B 這題其實還是從第一句的“in an icebox” 就可以選出正確答案B。如果這一處沒有聽到后面還有一句rescuers dug down another one point five meters and found the boy in the icebox. 這一句也很清晰的指示了正確答案。in an icebox是和原文一樣的原詞復現。

這其實是一篇新聞稿，新聞稿類型的文章在四級中考的不算多。相對來說六級考得多一點。四級歷史上作為語段題考過兩次這是其中一次。還有一篇在以后的練習中會給大家練習的。我們就先來總結一下新聞稿類型的語段有什么特點，該如何應對。

新聞稿類型文章的特點及解題思路

新聞稿的選項特點
1．選項具有時效性
2．選項具有災難性
新聞稿的文章特點
1．文章敘事的結構有兩種：金字塔型和倒金字塔型。四級聽力語段一般為金字塔型，即最重要的放在最前面，導語引領全文
2．注重實效性，在原文和選項中都體現出剛發生的感覺，有時還會涉及將來時
3．內容一般是兩大類：天災，人禍
新聞稿可能出現的考點
1．考導語即第一句話
2．靠賓語 即語段中線類似 It is said / reported / pronounces / declared /……/ that …… 這樣的句子，那么“that”后面的句子是極有可能是考點。
3．考查四方面的信息：時間、地點、人物、數字
4．考轉折
5．考原因