对于PASSAGE部分,虽然难度也比以往有所加大,尤其体现在难词的使用上,以及题材的选择上,然而它一如既往地继承了以往考试的种种特点和思路。
首先,三篇文章都以说明文的形式出现,正如笔者在对2005年6月的PASSAGE题的分析中提出的:对于听力短文部分,本次考试三篇文章以长度递增顺序排布,而题量则按照3、4、3的顺序安排,3篇文章都以说明文的体裁出现。,这已经成了现在四级考试听力PASSAGE部分的一个趋势了。当然,虽然是以说明文的形式出现,文章中记叙、议论的内容也时有出现,所以更精确的说,现在的文章形式是越来越综合的。
其次,文章的复杂度并为影响到出题的思路与解体的思维模式。出题点仍偏爱文章开头与结尾,文章中比较典型的、比较重要的分支结构,以及转折关系、因果关系的表达。下文将对本次考试的3篇文章分别作这方面的详细分析:
Passage One
A new study reports the common drug aspirin greatly reduces life-threatening problems after an operation to replace blocked blood vessels to the heart. More than 800,000 people around the world have this heart surgery each year. The doctors who carried out the study say giving aspirin to patients soon after the operation could save thousands of lives. People usually take aspirin to control pain, and reduce high body temperature. Doctors also advise some people to take aspirin to help prevent heart attacks. About 10~15% of these heart operations end in death or damage to the heart or other organs. The new study shows that even a small amount of aspirin reduced such threats. The doctors said the chance of death for patients who took aspirin would fall by 67%. They claimed this was true if the aspirin was given within 48 hours of the operation. The doctors believe aspirin helps heart surgery patients because it can prevent blood from thickening, and blood vessels from being blocked. However, the doctors warned that people who have stomach bleeding or other bad reactions from aspirin should not take it after heart surgery.
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