八大題型介紹:
一、虛擬語氣題
考點:條件句
過去考試的經驗:答案往往表現為否定句形式
練習:
• 1.A. I knew Mr. Smith wanted to sell his computer, but I didn’t buy it.
• B. I didn’t buy Mr. Smith’s computer because I didn’t know he was selling it.
• C. I bought the computer without knowing it was Mr. Smith’s.
• D. I’ll buy the computer as soon as Mr. Smith wants to sell it.
I’d have bought Mr. Smith’s computer if I had known he was selling it.
• 2.A. He didn’t know what would happen if he made the suggestion.
• B. He didn’t feel nervous after he had put forward the suggestion.
• C. He realized that the committee members would not adopt his suggestion.
• D. He considered it important to talk to the committee members first.
Had he realized the possible consequences, he wouldn’t have made the suggestion at the committee meeting last week.
二、數字題型
技巧:聽到的數字通常不是正確答案。
通常要了解時間、日期、價錢、號碼、航班等數字的不同讀法。
練習:
• 1. A. 30 guests came. B. 20 guests didn’t receive their invitation cards.
C. 40 guests came. D. More guests came than were expected.
About one-third of the sixty invited guests failed to show up at the dinner party.
• 2. A. We need to pay $25 per piece. B. We need to pay $50 per piece.
C. We need to pay $75 per piece. D. We need to pay $125 per piece.
The Company quoted a price of 100 dollars a piece for the summer dress.But after much bargain. We got an offer at 25% discount.
3. A. The plane left two hours before.
B. The plane left at ten o’clock in the morning.
C. The plane left at two o’clock in the afternoon.
D. The plane left at four o’clock in the afternoon.
The plane for Los Angeles was supposed to take off at noon, but due to a minor fault in one of the engines the flight was delayed of 2 hours.
常考的數字類型:
a 大額數字的聽記方法:
thousand ‘ ; million ‘’ ; billion ‘’’ ;
eg. 35 thousand 35’
8 hundred and 40 thousand 840’
1 million 5 hundred thousand 1’’ 500’
8 billion 15 million 3 hundred 25 thousand 4 hundred and 56:
8’’’ 15’’ 325’ 456
練習方法:以口語帶動聽力
b 小數的讀法:
小數點念”point” , 小數點前的“零”有時可以省略不念,也可念為zero, nought, oh. 小數點后的零讀作oh
eg. 0.009 : point o o nine 或 zero point o o nine
c. 百分數的讀法:
eg.
54.6% fifty four point six out of a hundred
0.2% two tenths of a percent
3.5% three and a half percent
54.5% fifty four and a half percent
d -ty 與 –teen的區別
-teen結尾的有兩個重讀音節, -ty只有一個重讀音節
eg. fifteen , fifty
thirteen , thirty
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