12月英语六级听力破题指导：短文听力与听写

　　例题分析：

　　President Clinton later today joins (S1) presidents Ford, Garter and Bush at“the president's summit for America's future”(S2) at recruiting one million volunteer tutors to provide after-school, weekend and summer reading help for up to three million children. Mr. Clinton will ask Congress this coming week for nearly three (S3) dollars to fund a five-year program called “America Reads”.The program would fund the (S4) efforts of 20 thousand reading (S5)and it would also give (S6) to help parents help children read by the third grade, or about age eight. Duringhis Saturday radio (S7) , the president explained why the program is important:“We need ‘America Reads’ and we need it now. Studies show that if the fourth-graders fail to read well.

　　(S8)

　　But 40 percent of them still can't read at a basic level.”

　　Volunteer tutors, who provide community service in exchange for college funding, are being used in literacy and tutoring programs.

　　(S9)

　　The president says many of the Philadelphia summit's corporate sponsors will recruit tutors.

　　(S10)

　　解析：

　　第一个空格里面，通过快速扫描第一句话，发现有美国总统克林顿Clinton，又有美国总统福特，卡特，布什(Ford, Garter and Bush)，那么后者跟前者相比较，同学们一定可以感觉到后者为前总统，因此第一个空格应填入former或类似含义的单词。第二个空格我们看到后面有一个介词，于是能发现应当在里面填一个动词，此时就需要注意时态，单复数的问题。空格三明显是一个量词，第四个空格不好预测，第五个可以估计出来应填名词，此时应注意名词单复数的问题，第六同上，第七个空格技巧性较强，需要背景知识，同学们可以想想，美国总统一般去电台(during his radio______)干什么?此时蹦入脑海的一定是“电台演讲，演说”，于是应当是“lecture, presentation, address”等词汇。后面的长难句由于过长，很难提前预测判断，但是在短短的几十秒钟的时间里面, 能预测出来这么多的信息,对得分会有很大帮助。

　　参考答案：

　　S1 former

　　S2 aimed

　　S3 billion

　　S4 coordination

　　S5 specialists

　　S6 grants

　　S7 address

　　S8. They're likely to drop out of school and less likely to succeed in life.

　　S9. The program, initiated by President Clinton,(initiated含义为“首次提出”，此处的插入成分难度很大，如果完全听不懂，就建议在考试时放弃。) has come under criticism by Congress.(本句中，国会“Congress”需要大写)

　　S10. Dozens of(这个短语用 “many”替代也可以) colleges and universities are prepared to send thousands of their students in support of the program(写成to support 更加简单)