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：此部分試題請在答題卡2上作答。

單詞部分，依舊考察了形容詞、名詞的拼寫和動名詞的使用，關鍵是由介詞引起的動詞-ing的變化，稍給題目增加些難度。36. curious, 38. independent, 39. unusual, 42. abstract 是前面系動詞引起的填寫形容詞的情況；41. formal 是形容詞來修飾后面的名詞；較難部分是37和40題，分別是介詞at 和by 引起后面動詞變-ing 的情況，如果考生還很恍惚不知怎樣填，可以看到37前and 并列的finding 和40 前and 并列的paying attention to, 就可判斷出這兩處是填寫動名詞的情況。43很顯然是填寫名詞，但是考生是否能順利聽出mystery并且拼寫正確？

句子部分，注意拼寫appropriately和concepts，refining不易聽出，是原型refine 的-ing形式。復合式聽力的后三句子，是聽力考試各題型中難度最高也是最能展示考生英語水平的題目，在這里還是希望同學們在掌握文都考試技巧的同時，課下多加練習，英語畢竟是能力的培養，我們考英語四級，也是為了證明自己的英語水平。

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(機敏的), 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.