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运用英语思维提高英语六级听力
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是否拥有英语思维能力其实是决定一个人的英语水平是否到达一定层次的重要因素。记得中学时学过一篇讲马克思如何学外语的课文，至今仍然给我很深印象的就是马克思提到，当你想学好一门外语的时候，最重要的一点就是“… learn how to think in that language ．”这其实也就是我们平常所说的英语思维能力。那么如何培养英语思维能力呢 ? 我觉得首先应该改变我们的思维习惯，也就是说，改变最初学习英语时那种将碰到的所有英语都先翻译成汉语的习惯。其实这一点与上面提到的熟悉句子结构也有着密切的联系，因为当我们熟悉了句子结构，克服了以单词为反应单位的习惯之后，我们就能自然而然地放弃最初那种首先把单词都翻译成中文再去理解句意的做法，而会因为对整体句子的把握而直接抓住句子的意思。
另一个与英语思维能力有着密切关系的要素是语感。我们在学习英语的过程中常常会听别人说语感对一个人英语水平的影响，“语感”这种东西说起来有点玄，也似乎难以说清楚它是一种什么东西，但它确实又能使一门语言真正在你的脑海里活起来。语感的培养甚至比语法知识的积累更显得让人难以把握。但其实说到底，只要你对英语足够熟悉，“语感”也就自然而然地形成了。我们人和人之间会“日久生情”，对一门语言也是同样吧。要熟悉一门语言，我们无非也就是通过多读、多写、多听来实现。朗读文章就是培养语感的很好的途径之一。我认为除了我们用作教材的《大学英语》以外，《新概念》的第三册就是一部很好的朗读材料，这是因为里面的文章长短适中，有一定难度，选词考究，更主要的是它的语句结构都非常规范，对语感的培养非常有帮助。下面一篇文章就是选自这本书。这篇文章里出现的都是常用的单词，句式也不复杂，但意思的表达却十分完整，非常符合提高听力能力的要求。
The facts
Editors of newspapers and magazines often go to extremes to provide their readers with unimportant facts and statistics. Last year a journalist had been instructed by a well-known magazine to write an article on the president's palace in a new African republic. When the article arrived, the editor read the first sentence and then refused to publish it. The article began: ‘Hundreds of steps lead to the high wall which surrounds the president's palace. 'The editor at once sent the journalist a fax instructing him to find out the exact number of steps and the height of the wall.
The journalist immediately set out to obtain these important facts, but he took a long time to send them. two more faxes, but received no reply. He sent yet another fax informing the journalist that if he did not reply soon he would be fired. When the journalist again failed to reply, the editor reluctantly published the only had the poor man been arrested, but he had been sent to prison as well. However, he had at last been  a fax in which he informed the editor that he had been arrested while counting the 1, 084 steps leading to the fifteen-foot wall which surrounded the president's palace.
但有一点必须注意的是：《新概念》一书选取的文章都是规范的书面式文体，这些文章与听力考试所考会话式文体还有一定的差距，因此我们还必须通过其他的方法来熟悉会话式文体和口语化的表达方式
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