2009年12月英语四级真题精讲：听力理解06

洛基英语，中国在线英语教育领导品牌

Section C

原文重现

In the humanities, authors write to inform you in many ways. These methods can be (36) classified into three types of informational writing: factual, descriptive, and process. Factual writing provides (37) background information on an author, composer or artist or on a type of music, literature, or art. Examples of factual writing include notes on a book jacket or (38) album cover and longer pieces, such as an article describing a style of music which you might read in a music (39) appreciation course. This kind of writing provides a (40) context for your study of the humanities.

As its name (41) implies, descriptive writing simply describes or provides an (42) image of, a piece of music, art or literature. For example, descriptive writing might list the colors an artist used in a painting or the (43) instruments a composer included in a musical composition, so as to make pictures of sounds in the readers' mind by calling up specific details of the work. (44) Descriptive writing in humanity, particularly in literature is often mixed with critical writing.

Process writing explains a series of actions that bring about a result. (45) It tells the reader how to do something, for example, explaining the technique used to show a film. This kind of writing is often found in art, where understanding how an art has created a certain effect is important. (46)Authors may actually use more than one type of techniques in the given piece of informational writing.

篇章结构

此次复合式听写的话题比较专业，介绍了三类写作题材，即事实性的，描述性的和解说性的。短文结构，先总后分。原文中充斥了许多长难词，致使考生预读时就一头雾水。尤其是全文的首句：In the humanities, authors write to inform you in many ways. 关键是要正确理解humanities（人文学科）一词。

词汇点拨

humanities n. 人文学科；context n. 环境，语境，上下文；technique n. 技巧

话题词汇

composer n. 作曲家

book jacket 护封

instrument n. 乐器

background information 背景知识

music appreciation 音乐鉴赏

musical composition 乐曲

试题详解

36.【听音指导】根据空前后内容，可推测此空意为"归类成......"，轻易可以联想到常考词classified，构成be classified into结构。

37.【听音指导】事实性写作方式会提供什么样的信息，在预读时，很容易将其推测为形容词，但background是常见词，而background information作为背景知识，在日常生活中常常用到。

38.【听音指导】此空中的内容与book，long piece并列，可知此空填写的词为名词，且与book等为一类。album发音特殊，一般不会与其他词相混，应注意拼写。

39.【听音指导】由题意很容易判断此部分应为音乐鉴赏课，此空的难点在于appreciation ("鉴赏")这个词的拼写。appreciate作动词，意为鉴赏，此空需要其名词形式。

40.【听音指导】为研究人文学科提供环境，其中context是高频词，几乎在每次考试中都能考到，此题不易失分。

41.【听音指导】此句话应理解为"正如名字所显示的那样"，立刻可以联系到show等词，而原文中的imply在以往四级考试中也反复出现。

42.【听音指导】描述性的写作能提供什么？立刻就想到形象、印象。image 这个词很容易填出。

43.【听音指导】作曲家所用的音乐器具，自然为musical instrument。然而此空需要注意的是它的复数形式。

44.【听音指导】此段讲述的是descriptive writing，此句位于本段的最后一句，应为总结性话语。答案为Descriptive writing in the humanities, particularly in literature is often mixed with critical writing。particularly可替换为especially，be mixed with意为"与......混合"。也可写为Descriptive writing is mixed with critical writing，那么既保留了句子的大意，而且也能规避如particularly这样的长难词。采分点为descriptive writing和critical writing。