Testing Strategies for CET Band 4

1. Testing Strategies for CET Band 4 Learn how to listen And know what to write

2. Data on the `05 Test Result of `02 & `03 Students

3. Comparison to the Required Test Result

4. Brief about Listening Test Item • Syllabus’ requirements: • a. The difficulty degree < that of the texts in the intensive reading course book; • b. The speaking speed --- 130~135 wpm; • c. Comprehension rate > 70%; • d. Components: conversation, and passages (compound dictation) --- 20 questions.

5. Possible Questions in the Conversations • a. time, place, and directions • b. computation • c. condition and supposition • d. comparison • e. negation • f. cause and effect • g. identification • h. request and offer • i. inference

6. Required Skills for Passage Listening • Competence for comprehensively understanding the listening materials; • Capability of short-term memory; • Language awareness; • Logical in thinking.

7. Ways to improve your listening competence • Identification of the sounds, stress and tune; • Aware of commonly used patterns and idioms; • Be task oriented; • Take notes while listening. • Detect maximally related key words to spot two out of four to decide

8. Case Study 1 • A) See a doctor  B) Stay in bed for a few days.      C) Get treatment in a better hospital. D) Make a phone call to the doctor. • W: Carol told us on the phone not to worry about her. Her left leg doesn’t hurt as much as it did yesterday. M: She’d better have it examined by a doctor anyway. And I will call her about it this evening. Q: What does the man think Carol should do? • Key: A

9. Case Study 2 • A) The 2:00 train will arrive earlier. B) The 2:30 train has a dining car. C) The woman prefers to take the 2:30 train. D) they are gong to have some fast food on the train. • M: There is a non-stop train for Washington and it leaves at 2:30. W: It’s faster than the 2 o’clock train. Besides, we can have something to eat before getting on the train. Q: What do we learn from the conversation? • Key: C

10. Case Study 3 • A) She has been longing to attend Harvard University. B) She’ll consider the man’s suggestion carefully. C) She has finished her project with Dr. Garcia’s help. D) She’ll consult Dr. Garcia about entering graduate school. 

11. Case Study 3 • M: Hi, Melissa, how’s your project going? Have you thought about going to graduate school?Perhaps you can get into Harvard. • W: Everything is coming along really well. I have been thinking about graduate school. But I’ll talk to my tutor Dr. Garcia first and see what she thinks. • Q: What do you learn about the woman from the conversation? • Key: D

12. Case Study 4 • A) Alice didn’t seem to be nervous during her speech. B) Alice needs more training in making public speeches. C) The man can hardly understand Alice’s presentation. D) The man didn’t think highly of Alice’s presentation.

13. Case Study 4 • W: Did you attend Alice’s presentation last night? It was the first time for her to give a speech to a large audience. • M: How she could be so calm in front of so many people is really beyond me! • Q: What do we learn from the conversation? • Key: A

14. Case Study 5 • A) It’s worse than 30 years ago. B) It remains almost the same as before. C) There are more extremes in the weather. D) There has been a significant rise in temperature.

15. Case Study 5 • W: You’ve been doing weather reports for neatly 30 years. Has the weather got any worse in all these years? • M: Well, not necessarily worse. But we are seeing more swings. • Q: What does the man say about the weather? • Key: C

16. Case Study 6 11 A) It ha been proven to be the best pain-killer. • B) It is a possible cure for heart disease. • C) It can help lower high body temperature effectively. • D) It reduces the chance of death for heart surgery patients. 12 A) It keeps blood vessels from being blocked. • B) It speeds up their recovery after surgery. • C) It increases the blood flow to the heart. • D) It adjusts their blood pressure. 13A) It is harmful to heart surgery patients with stomach bleeding. • B) It should not be taken by heart surgery patients before the operation. • C) It will have considerable side effects if taken in large doses. • D) It should not be given to patients immediately after the operation.

17. Case Study 6 • Q11. What is the finding of the new study of aspirin? • Q12. In what way can aspirin help heart surgery patients according to the doctors? • Q13. What warning did the doctors give about the use of aspirin? • Key: D/A/A

18. Case Study 6 • 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 percent 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.

19. Brief about Composition • 四级写作的要求:能就一定的话题或提纲在半小时内写出120-150词的短文，能写短信或便条，表达意思清楚，无重大语言错误。 • 四级作文最低分制:最后得分= 原统计总分– 6 + 实得作文分 • 四级作文得高分的要领:内容切题; 细节相关; 层次分明; 适当过渡; 贴切地表达。

20. Assessment Criterion • 阅卷标准共分五等：2分、5分、8分、11分、14分。各有标准评卷1-2份。 • 评分标准：5分——基本切题。思想表达不清楚，连贯性差。有较多的严重的语言错误。11分——切题。思想表达清楚，文字连贯，但有少量语言错误。 • 字数不足应酌情扣分：90-99: -1; 80-89: -2; 70-79: -3; 60-69: -5; 50-59: -7; ＜49: -9。 • 只写一段者：0-4分；只写两段者：0-9分（指规定三段的作文）。

21. Composition 1 (13`)

24. Composition 2 (6`)

27. Types of composition

28. Composition Model 1 (对立观点型作文) • ①People’s views/ideas/opinions on ______ vary from person to person. Some people think that ②________. They hold this opinion because ③_________. However, others hold/don’t believe that ④__________, for ⑤________________. • ⑥As to me, I am in favor of the first/ second idea. The following are the reasons of/for my choice/personal inclination. First, ⑦ while it is true that ____________, it doesn’t mean that _________________. Second, ⑧______________________. Furthermore, ⑨_______________________. • ⑩Therefore/In conclusion/From the foregoing, __________.

29. Composition Model 2 (说明利弊型作文) • ①Nowadays, X has/have become …/ play(s) an important part/role in … (X is/are popular/common around us). ②X has/ have brought great benefits/ harm/troubles to ______________________________. • ③Why is/are X so popular/common around us?/Why are there so many X? First, ④______. Second, ⑤_______. • ⑥Undoubtedly, X is/are very beneficial/ harmful to ____________. First, ⑦______________. Besides, ⑧_________. Most important of all/Worst of all, ⑨____. • ⑩From what we have discussed above, we believe that __________________.We should ____________________.

30. Composition Model 3 (解释型作文) • ①Among …, my favorite/ideal _____ is/ are _____. • ②The unique features / advantages may contribute to/be responsible for the reason why I like it best / choose _____ as my favorite/ideal ___________. Firstly, ③__________. Secondly, ④__________. Finally/Above all, ⑤___________________. • ⑥There are many factors/reasons which may account for my preference/choice of ____. The most important reason/factor is that ⑦_______. Besides, ⑧_______. • Therefore/From the foregoing/the above discussion, ⑨__________.

31. Composition Model 4 (解决问题型作文) • ①Nowadays _____, which has aroused close social attention /great concern. // It is widely assumed that ________, they think ________ because ________. Actually/In fact/As a matter of fact, ___________. • ②There are several/many factors that / which may contribute to/ be responsible for/have led to _______. To begin with, ③ _______. Besides, ④________. Last but not least, ⑤__________. • ⑥We can resort to various ways/There are different ways to tackle the problem/cope with the situation. Firstly, ⑦__________. Secondly, ⑧_______. Finally/Lastly, ⑨______________________. • ⑩With _________ , I believe _____________.// Only in this way can we _____________.

32. Composition Model 5 (阐述型作文) • ①The famous ______ that __________ is very (philo-sophical and hence universally) accepted. ②It means ________. ③That is/ In other words, _________. • ④Many examples can be cited to illustrate the __________. ⑤A case in point is ________. • ⑥Another case in point is _______. _______. _________. • ⑦Therefore/In conclusion, it goes without saying that ___________________. ⑧Since we have realized the essence of the ______, we should _________.

33. Ways to Improve Your Composition • Clear and neat writing • Concise and acceptable language • Appropriately applied connecters • Grammatical

34. Checking and Remedying Helps • Avoid sentence fragment • Consistence of … • Misuse of pronouns • Tense • Missing articles • Dangling determiners

35. Good Luck to You Thanks a lot