英語六級聽力真題精講
例題分析：
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：
第一個空格里面，通過快速掃描第一句話，發(fā)現(xiàn)有美國總統(tǒng)克林頓Clinton，又有美國總統(tǒng)福特，卡特，布什(Ford, Garter and Bush)，那么后者跟前者相比較，同學們一定可以感覺到后者為前總統(tǒng)，因此第一個空格應填入former或類似含義的單詞。第二個空格我們看到后面有一個介詞，于是能發(fā)現(xiàn)應當在里面填一個動詞，此時就需要注意時態(tài)，單復數(shù)的問題?？崭袢黠@是一個量詞，第四個空格不好預測，第五個可以估計出來應填名詞，此時應注意名詞單復數(shù)的問題，第六同上，第七個空格技巧性較強，需要背景知識，同學們可以想想，美國總統(tǒng)一般去電臺(during his radio______)干什么？此時蹦入腦海的一定是“電臺演講，演說”，于是應當是“lecture, presentation, address”等詞匯。后面的長難句由于過長，很難提前預測判斷，但是在短短的幾十秒鐘的時間里面, 能預測出來這么多的信息,對得分會有很大幫助。
參考答案：
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含義為“首次提出”，此處的插入成分難度很大，如果完全聽不懂，就建議在考試時放棄。） has come under criticism by Congress.（本句中，國會“Congress”需要大寫）
S10. Dozens of（這個短語用“many”替代也可以）colleges and universities are prepared to send thousands of their students in support of theprogram（寫成to support 更加簡單）
