以2006年12月第15题为例:
A) She isn’t sure when Professor Bloom will be back.
B) The man shouldn’t be late for his class.
C) The man can come back sometime later.
D) She can pass on the message for the man.
M: It’s already 11:00 now. Do you mean I ought to wait until Professor Bloom comes back from class?
W: Not really. You can just leave a note. I’ll give it to her later.
Q: What does the woman mean?
这个对话中,男士的话语表明对话内容应该和“等人”有关。女士的回答中,You can just leave a note. I’ll give it to her later.这两句体现考点。只要能抓住这两句话的发音,并通过语境理解短语leave a note(留便条)的含义,这道题就能马上选出正确答案D。D选项中的pass on和message刚好对应原文考点句中的give和note。而其他三个选项都是利用听到的个别原词设置的干扰选项。
再以2007年6月第12题为例:
A) The man is fond of traveling.
B) The woman is a photographer.
C) The woman took a lot of pictures at the contest.
D) The man admires the woman’s talent in writing.
W: I won the first prize in the National Writing Contest and I got this camera as an award.
M: It’s a good camera. You can take it when you travel. I had no idea you were a marvelous writer.
Q: What do we learn from the converSATion?
这个对话中,女士的话语表明对话内容应该和“比赛获奖”有关。男士的回答中I had no idea you were a marvelous writer.这一句体现考点。只要能抓住这句话中marvelous的发音,并通过语境猜出这个词体现的态度为正,这道题就能马上选出正确答案D。D选项中的admire和writing刚好对应原文考点句中的marvelous和writer。而其他三个选项都是利用听到的个别原词设置的干扰选项。
通过上述两道例题,我们不难发现,后置原则在四级短对话中的运用还是比较广泛的。希望大家在平时做题过程中,能够有意识地注意到这一点。