1999年1月聽(tīng)力題
W：If George misses one more meeting we are going to have to find one new committee secretary.M：We'd better give him an ultimatum.
Q： What does the man suggest they do？
（A） Remove George from the committee immediately.
（B） Warn George that his attendance problem is serious.
（C） Offer to help George during the meeting.（D） Telephone George to see if he's coming to the meeting.？
答案是B.
如果你認(rèn)識(shí)并聽(tīng)懂ultimatum是“最后通牒”的意思的話，你輕而易舉就能選出它的同義轉(zhuǎn)換warn sb about sth（警告）。而第一句同樣說(shuō)明了George是個(gè)不太稱職的secretary，但卻用are going to將來(lái)時(shí)說(shuō)明并非要remove George form the committee immediately.
（2）習(xí)語(yǔ)和短語(yǔ)
習(xí)語(yǔ)和短語(yǔ)，指的是慣用詞組或者常見(jiàn)的口語(yǔ)化表達(dá)。它在托福聽(tīng)力中經(jīng)常出現(xiàn)，而且比較難。原因仍然是我們平時(shí)很少練習(xí)聽(tīng)力。而且口語(yǔ)化的表達(dá)也使一貫重視語(yǔ)法的中國(guó)式英語(yǔ)教育暴露出明顯的缺點(diǎn)。但是，你卻可以通過(guò)我們后面給你總結(jié)的托福聽(tīng)力詞句精選快速地掌握這些常見(jiàn)的口語(yǔ)化表達(dá)和慣用詞組。經(jīng)常出現(xiàn)的詞組比如對(duì)話中說(shuō)： Kathy's effort really paid off.那么選項(xiàng)中出現(xiàn)的Kathy's hard work had a positive result就是正確答案。這里考的是paid off這個(gè)短語(yǔ)的含義?，?BR> 1999年1月聽(tīng)力題
M： Did you see the diamond ring Bill gave to Linda？
W：I sure did. It must have cost him an arm and a leg.
Q： What does the woman imply about the ring.
（A） Linda didn't like it.
（B） Bill lost it.
（C） It was very expensive.
（D） It was very small.？
答案是C.同cost a fortune的意思一樣，cost one an arm and a leg都是形容很貴?，?999年1月聽(tīng)力題
M：Did you watch that comedy special on TV last night？ I don't think I ever laughed so hard.
W：Don't even talk to me about it. The only night I really wanted to watch something and we had a power failure in my building.
Q： What does the woman mean？
（A） She's upset that she missed the television program.
（B） She doesn't think the television program was funny.
（C） She doesn't like talking about television programs.
（D） She watched the television program at a friend's house.？答案是A.這里，重要的是認(rèn)識(shí)并聽(tīng)懂power failure是停電的意思。
W：If George misses one more meeting we are going to have to find one new committee secretary.M：We'd better give him an ultimatum.
Q： What does the man suggest they do？
（A） Remove George from the committee immediately.
（B） Warn George that his attendance problem is serious.
（C） Offer to help George during the meeting.（D） Telephone George to see if he's coming to the meeting.？
答案是B.
如果你認(rèn)識(shí)并聽(tīng)懂ultimatum是“最后通牒”的意思的話，你輕而易舉就能選出它的同義轉(zhuǎn)換warn sb about sth（警告）。而第一句同樣說(shuō)明了George是個(gè)不太稱職的secretary，但卻用are going to將來(lái)時(shí)說(shuō)明并非要remove George form the committee immediately.
（2）習(xí)語(yǔ)和短語(yǔ)
習(xí)語(yǔ)和短語(yǔ)，指的是慣用詞組或者常見(jiàn)的口語(yǔ)化表達(dá)。它在托福聽(tīng)力中經(jīng)常出現(xiàn)，而且比較難。原因仍然是我們平時(shí)很少練習(xí)聽(tīng)力。而且口語(yǔ)化的表達(dá)也使一貫重視語(yǔ)法的中國(guó)式英語(yǔ)教育暴露出明顯的缺點(diǎn)。但是，你卻可以通過(guò)我們后面給你總結(jié)的托福聽(tīng)力詞句精選快速地掌握這些常見(jiàn)的口語(yǔ)化表達(dá)和慣用詞組。經(jīng)常出現(xiàn)的詞組比如對(duì)話中說(shuō)： Kathy's effort really paid off.那么選項(xiàng)中出現(xiàn)的Kathy's hard work had a positive result就是正確答案。這里考的是paid off這個(gè)短語(yǔ)的含義?，?BR> 1999年1月聽(tīng)力題
M： Did you see the diamond ring Bill gave to Linda？
W：I sure did. It must have cost him an arm and a leg.
Q： What does the woman imply about the ring.
（A） Linda didn't like it.
（B） Bill lost it.
（C） It was very expensive.
（D） It was very small.？
答案是C.同cost a fortune的意思一樣，cost one an arm and a leg都是形容很貴?，?999年1月聽(tīng)力題
M：Did you watch that comedy special on TV last night？ I don't think I ever laughed so hard.
W：Don't even talk to me about it. The only night I really wanted to watch something and we had a power failure in my building.
Q： What does the woman mean？
（A） She's upset that she missed the television program.
（B） She doesn't think the television program was funny.
（C） She doesn't like talking about television programs.
（D） She watched the television program at a friend's house.？答案是A.這里，重要的是認(rèn)識(shí)并聽(tīng)懂power failure是停電的意思。