Xu: Hello, netizens!
Moderator: First of all, please ask xu teacher to introduce the examination paper structure of English II as a whole and the matters needing attention before the exam.
X: Our English Test Band 2 in June 5438+ 10 is coming soon. Some students are very concerned about the difference between this exam and previous exams. In fact, on the whole, the exams in recent years have not changed much, but it doesn't mean that they are exactly the same every time. We know that there is an obvious change in the first half and the second half of each year, that is, there are fewer books for exams in the first half of the year and more books for exams in the second half. Therefore, it is the biggest suspense whether we will continue to test the contents of the book in the second half of this year. As candidates, we should be prepared to know and be familiar with the contents of the book in advance, so that everyone will be prepared whether they take the exam or not. This will make the exam more smooth.
So I'll tell you something about what's in our exam book, what's the exam, and where there's important content in the book. We know that there are seven big questions in the test paper of English 2, among which the first, fourth, sixth and fifth questions are often used when there are many contents in the test paper in previous years. If you are familiar with our questions in June 2005, you can see that the first question has 10 sentences, including A and B in the book. The spelling of the fourth question has been seen in our book, but not necessarily. The fifth question is also a headache for everyone, that is, fill in the blanks in the correct form. This question is all in the book, and many students feel that they are satisfied with the scores they got in that exam. Whether we can seize this good opportunity again this year is a key step. Finally, the Chinese-English translation of the sixth question. In the past, everyone repeatedly said that this question was a headache and I didn't know how to write it. If you write questions directly from the book, you will have at least one impression, and it will be much easier to answer questions. Even if the content of the book is not tested very much in the second half of this year, the Chinese-English translation of the sixth question will come from the book.
For example, in the first half of this year, after the exam, some students said, why is there no content in the book? I read the contents of the book carefully, but it is not the original content. The sentences in Text A did not exist in the first half of this year. There are several important words behind each text, and each word has several example sentences, including English and Chinese. I like to choose a sentence from it to do Chinese-English translation for everyone. In addition, there is a note behind article A, and there will be some example sentences in the note, which have also been tested, although not many. After-class Chinese-English translation exercises, there are two exercises in Text A, mainly the first Chinese-English sentence related to the text. The above is what we summarized for you last year.
The latest discovery this year is also a place I am very proud of. In addition to the above places, we have also developed new sources this year. The vocabulary practice after Text A is the first big question. If you are familiar with this text, you can turn it over. The first big problem is to give different forms of a word, verbs, adjectives and nouns to fill in the blanks. In the Chinese-English translation in the first half of this year, two sentences were selected, one on page 274 and the other on page 60. So, I think this is a newly developed place, and there may be many things that have not been tested yet, so this is a key point. One of our most obvious changes this year is this, so we still have to read the text, but the place where we read the text may be different from before. In the past, it was mainly to ask everyone to thoroughly understand the sentences in A. As long as I am familiar with the text, I will think of this sentence when I meet Chinese-English translation. At least I have seen it before, and I will always be deeply impressed. You won't be at a loss when you write. And everyone knows that the score of this question is also very high. This is a new trend that we remind you of this year.
In addition, there are some old problems. Many students asked whether to test A or B, and what percentage was B? Half of them are when there are many textbooks in the second half of the year. The first and fifth questions will have several sentences in B. Some students haven't finished reading article B yet, so don't worry, because it's too late now, and it's hard for you to grasp it from beginning to end in the last week. If you have been paying attention to our cross talk in China, I have already talked about some key points in B when I talked about the key sentences in the cross talk. So in the last week, you read these sentences over and over again, not all of them, but two or three of them are worth it. Some students are concerned about whether there are more exams in the second volume or the first volume. How to review the first volume? In our many years of examination experience, the first book saw very few exams. There are some basic words and grammar in the book. If you take the exam, you will get some words in spelling. If you don't have time to watch it, you don't have to. You just need to review our outline vocabulary, and the first and second volumes include middle school vocabulary. So, the focus is on the next book.
Let me briefly talk about what we should pay attention to in the process of answering questions. First of all, most people ask cloze, which has nothing to do with the content in our book, so we can't start. Are there any clues to catch? Cloze is actually a test of words and grammar. So when you are preparing for the exam, review the grammar you often take. In cloze, you often take grammar such as clauses, such as attributive clauses or conjunctions of nominal clauses, and list conjunctions such as which and that for you. In addition, it is more about vocabulary, phrases and collocation. So these must be solved by memorizing words. So we emphasize that if you are preparing for cloze, you must not recite words, phrases and collocations in isolation. We all have such phrases in our syllabus. Learn by heart, so that many cloze questions can be worked out. Cloze is different from other types of questions. It has a context. One or two questions are often answered according to the context, and some answers have already appeared in the context. We should make full use of this. You need to see if the blanks we fill in have similar collocation in the context, so that you can copy them down, so don't let such a question go easily. This week, let's do the cloze of the real question we did last year and see if we can sum up some experience. In addition, I suggest that you do cloze at the end, because it takes a lot of time, and the time you spend is not necessarily proportional to your final score.
The next step is reading comprehension, which must not be missed, because it accounts for 30 points. So I suggest you spend a total of 40-50 minutes reading and understanding these three articles, or you can read more and be more careful, so that your answer accuracy will be high. In addition, you must master the method and don't read it from beginning to end. It takes a lot of time to understand the first sentence word for word without purpose, and a lot of information has nothing to do with your answer. You may not take the exam after you understand it. So we can look at the problem first, one problem at a time. Because our questions are basically in order. If you look at a question, the first two paragraphs of the article must have an answer. When you find the answer, do the second question, so that you can read all the questions and the whole article. In addition, you can see these four options. If these two are obviously opposed, the other two may be irrelevant. Generally speaking, one of the two opposing answers must be the answer, so you can increase the possibility by a quarter to a half. Even if you guess, at least this guess is more likely. So everyone can make full use of it.
The most important thing is that the answer to each question should be consistent with the central idea. If the central idea is that a phenomenon is good, and your final answer is that a phenomenon is not good, then this answer is definitely wrong, so these things can help you improve your correctness. The last point is that words that are too absolute in reading comprehension answers, such as only, always, none, etc., are generally incorrect. There are still some answers that are obviously contrary to common sense and must be wrong. At least think twice about some unreasonable sentences and try not to choose them easily. This is reading comprehension.
Some students also ask about reading comprehension articles. It has been like this for many years. My favorite subjects are culture, education, customs, history and even family affairs. I have a lot of popular science knowledge about science, and I will never take some special knowledge of astronomy and geography. Some students asked me if I could help me pass the TOEFL test. You did a lot of TOEFL questions, and finally you didn't do well in the self-taught exam because of your different way of thinking. So much for reading comprehension. If there are any specific problems in the future, we will explain.
The last big problem is grammar. Most of them may be verbs, and one or two may be adjectives. If it is an adjective, it will be much easier. Either superlative adjectives or comparative adjectives. It is easy to test comparative adjectives and superlative adjectives, but it is more difficult to test verbs. Some students mentioned that there are too many things to consider in the fifth question, and sometimes the answer will be almost worse. So I'll give you an idea of answering questions, at least to ensure that you consider all aspects objectively and won't miss a point.
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First, if you see such a sentence, it has three possibilities, which may be the verb sky and the adjective sky, and now there is another word-form conversion. You have to decide which of these three situations is. Suppose you judge that it is a verb, then you should judge whether the verb is a predicate or a non-predicate in the sentence. Non-predicates are other components except predicates, and no mistakes can be made in every step. When you judge it as a predicate, you should first consider the tense. The tenses we test most often are the present perfect tense and the past perfect tense. Today, I simply tell you that there are some specific marks in the completion, such as up to now, up to now or one year or later. From when to now, whenever such a word appears, we should use the present perfect tense. So there must be. You need to see if there is such an adverbial of time in front or behind. When can I use the past perfect tense? By the end of last year, for example, when some time in the past will be completed, the subjunctive mood may involve the past perfect tense. For example, there are two actions in the middle of a sentence, and the last action is the past tense, so in the first action, you can only use the past perfect tense to represent the past.
Therefore, I will focus on the perfect tense of this tense. There are also simple present tense and past tense. The past tense refers to actions that happened at some time in the past and have nothing to do with the present. Generally, the present tense should be regular. I do this every day, which is why I use the simple present tense. Or when we say that the Lord will reappear, the main clause uses the future tense, but the clause is an adverbial of time or a conditional adverbial. You should also use the simple present tense to express the future.
Judge whether you are active or passive after completing the tense. According to the specific circumstances of my sentence, I can make a good judgment. Some students think that my answer will come out here and feel very happy. But in the end, it is simple and complex numbers that are easy to make mistakes. If it is the simple present tense, for example, you should add an "s" to the three people. So we must cultivate this kind of careful and comprehensive analysis. Suppose you judge that the space to be filled is not an adverbial, then you should consider usING ing or to do again. If you judge that it is an ongoing action, then it is active, then it must be a present participle. If it means the future, use the infinitive; If it means the past, it has happened and has a passive meaning, use the past participle. This is the most general.
In addition, I would like to introduce that in the second series of English lectures held in China Dida in 2006, predicate verbs, non-predicate clauses and subjunctive mood were all explained in detail. You can also watch the video above, instead of just saying it now, there are tables, examples and handouts on it. Even if it's only the last week, if you haven't mastered a grammar point, you can have a targeted look. In addition, if you don't have this chance, you can also read the book Grammar Breakthrough before Exam compiled by one of my colleagues, which is specially aimed at English I and English II. What part don't you understand? You can look it up.
The score of answering the fifth question over the years is 1 point, and the highest time is 2 points and 3 points. Only by thoroughly understanding this problem can you get high marks. In Chinese-English translation, you can recite the key sentences I listed when I talked at home, so that Chinese-English translation can pass. Finally, this question is the easiest to score. I suggest you do this problem first when you take the exam. I suggest you do the seventh question first, then the sixth question, and put the cloze at the end. Time allocation is also based on this score. Reading comprehension scores should be the highest, 40-50 minutes, and English-Chinese translation scores are also many, which takes time, so do it first, so as to ensure that there is enough time to complete it. The last part can be finished quickly. Therefore, if everyone distributes according to this time, it will also help your final grade.
We will give you time to ask questions.
Netizen: Are the multiple-choice questions in English II mostly vocabulary questions or grammar questions?
Xu: As I said just now, the fifth question in the pure grammar exam is verb filling in the blanks. The first question and the second question are basically conjunctions of adverbial clauses, and the focus is on vocabulary.
Netizen: I haven't seen it much now. Should I concentrate on reading or do more questions now?
Xu: First of all, look at the key sentences in the text? /TD & gt；
Netizen: Does the test of English II focus on the second book?
X: That's right. There is nothing to see in the first volume now.
Netizen: I think it is not easy to allocate time during the exam. I always feel that the time for the exam is relatively tight.
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X: Reading comprehension takes 40-50 minutes, Chinese-English translation and English-Chinese translation take 40-50 minutes, and other contents take 40-50 minutes.
Netizen: Is it possible to change the examination syllabus in 2007?
Xu: Everyone is talking about it now. I didn't know there was a formal notice, but we took the exam again on June 5438+ 10, 2007, and the question type may have to be changed. Before the exam, the test center will issue sample questions.
Netizen: Can CET-3 replace CET-2?
X: For specific regulations, you can look at the relevant regulations of the self-taught newspaper or the self-taught office. Maybe some students are more accurate than me in this respect.
Moderator: You can check the relevant information.
Netizen: English 2 is the 28th, but our national examination is the 22nd in many places. Is the problem different?
X: It must be different. But try to be consistent in the thinking and difficulty of the proposition.
Netizen: Teacher, how to choose the antecedents of attributive clauses?
There are several antecedents of attributive clauses, such as that, which, in, for example, one of them, and possibly as. Anyway, you can only use that. Generally speaking, there is the superlative in front, or the nouns modified in front are some and any. In this case, you can use it. In some cases, you can only use which, not that. You can't use a preposition after you have it. Second, you can't use it after a comma. When to use as? As may lead to non-restrictive clauses, and the sentences it leads to can be placed at the beginning of the sentence, in the giant or at the end of the sentence, which means what we know. There are also relative pronouns, especially where, which are tested a lot. If the antecedent is placed in the attributive clause, is it the subject or the object, the relative pronoun used, and so on. This point is still very important, and we should sum it up slowly through more practice and exercise.
Netizen: Just now, xu teacher talked about reciting key sentences from Chinese to English. I didn't find it here.
Moderator: You can look at these key sentences in the series.
Netizen: What is absolute construction and its usage?
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Xu: The so-called absolute construction is mainly in the fifth big question, and sometimes it is possible to get the first big question. It is mainly judged by several standards. A sentence basically has a comma in the middle and a space before or after the comma, so you can fill in the independent nominative part, one side is a complete sentence, and the other side is for you to fill in the blanks. There is a noun or pronoun before the space, which is equivalent to a word in the subject position. The verb you want to fill in should be in the form of a non-predicate verb, and there can be no conjunction between the two parts. If these four criteria are met, this is an absolute construction, and who usually acts as an adverbial in a sentence. Why does he use absolute structure? There is a comma in front of the sentence, followed by a subject and a predicate. It is not grammatical to connect two incomplete sentences with commas in English, so the places to be filled in later can only be non-predicates, which can be active present participles, past participles, and occasionally infinitives, but most of them are present participles or past participles. Besides, the absolute structure of what to fill in will not be too complicated. But many students can't see it. I didn't think it was an independent structural test. Fill it in when you think of it, so be sure to keep in mind the four criteria I mentioned above.
Netizen: I just started learning English II. How long does xu teacher think it will take for beginners to pass the exam of this course?
X: I can give you a rough timetable. For students who are starting from scratch, I suggest that you spend half a year learning English I and half a year learning English II when you are free, which makes it easier to learn English. Some students said I was in a hurry. I just came to school and learned English II twice, but the effect is not good. You might as well spend half a year mastering the basics before learning English. No matter whether you teach yourself or listen to the teacher, you will gain a lot. For students who have finished learning English, they can spend half a year learning the first book of English, 60% time studying the text, 80% time studying the A text, and still have time to read the B text. And set aside 40% of the time to do the real questions, one by one, and summarize while doing it. If you have enough time, find some good simulation questions to do. Finally, set aside a month to review all of them. Read the text from the beginning again. Since the first day you started reviewing English II, you have been reciting words and holding the outline vocabulary. Repeat as many times as possible.
Today, I also recommend a new book, Outline Vocabulary, which contains all the words of English I and English II. Every word is followed by Chinese, phonetic symbols and example sentences. For example, this word appears in the exam questions of the past years. We will put the exam questions of the past years together and have some simulation exercises every once in a while. All listening parts can be downloaded from the website of Beihang Press. You can also listen to it when you have time. It should be very helpful for everyone to learn words more often. We also compare synonyms with synonyms that are easily confused. I think this book is carefully compiled, hoping to help everyone.
Netizen: I get 40-50 marks in every English test. I'm at work now and have no time to study. Under this premise, how to improve and pass the exam of this course quickly?
X: It seems that you have taken the exam several times. First of all, look at where you got your 40-50 points and where you lost them. Make up for your weak parts in a limited time. According to my experience, one place where people lose more points is word spelling. To tell the truth, there are no tricks in it, but it still takes more time. It's easy to find three or four more points in spelling words. The second is grammar (the fifth big question), which is also a place where it is easier to get points. Some lectures and books on grammar were introduced earlier, so you can have a look. After listening, many problems may be solved. These two parts are easy to score. But reading comprehension is the most difficult to score. Another point is Chinese-English translation. If you can remember the sentences in the book, your score will rise quickly.
Netizen: I got 55 points without reading for half a year. I want to do the real questions over the years and take the exam again this time. Is there any hope for me to pass?
X: Actually, it's not much different from not reading in the first half of the year. Because I didn't bring books in the first half of the year, there were few exams. But in the second half of the year, at least so far, this rule has always existed. Books account for 40-45 points in the second half of the year. If you don't read books, you may suffer some losses. Finally, you'd better read the things in the book twice and get familiar with them. Especially in the second half of the year, we should do the real questions well.
Netizen: xu teacher just mentioned some high-frequency words. Want to know which words are high frequency words?
X: This is difficult to generalize. For example, it appears in the text of the next volume, then the example sentences in word staty, and then the vocabulary exercises. This may be a more important word. You can read the new book I mentioned just now. Generally speaking, verbs must be more frequent than nouns or adjectives because they are used in many ways. So verbs are more important.
Moderator: Many candidates left messages saying that they were stuck in English II.
X: I understand you very well.
Moderator: Because they are all non-English majors, there are many other subjects, but this subject is missing.
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Netizen: The passive form of past participle or present participle has passive meaning. How to distinguish them?
Xu: The present passive participle only means passive, unfinished and ongoing passive. Let me just give you an example. For example, I was asked a question and I was very nervous. If I am nervous as the subject and the question is adverbial, I will use the passive voice of the present participle. If you want to use the past participle, it means passive and the action has been completed. An example I often give is that this bridge was built in the 1950s and is now in good condition. If you take the present situation as an adverbial, then you can never take the construction under way as the subject between the 1950s. You can judge according to the meaning of your place in the sky. On the one hand, the infinitive should be done, on the other hand, it should be considered whether it is active or passive.
Netizen: How to distinguish between adding ing in a sentence, gerund or present participle?
Xu: Now all grammars are indistinguishable, so it is called ING form, but in our traditional grammar, it will be divided into more details. Remember this, it must be the subject and object in the sentence to add ING as gerund, and occasionally make some attributes. AddING ing is a present participle, mainly used as attribute, adverbial and complement, one is a relative noun and the other is a relative noun. Different parts of speech.
Netizen: Is it necessary to do a real test or a model test for English II?
X: The effect is not very good. The only thing that will help you is to do some reading comprehension. It's too difficult for me to do English II now. I'll just find something easy to improve my self-confidence, mainly to play this role. It's still difficult for you to take the easy final exam, so it won't help much.
Moderator: Because of the time, answer the last question of netizens.
Netizen: What should we pay attention to when reviewing active voice and passive voice? Do you want to focus on reviewing this piece?
X: It must be a key review. This question is rather general. I think it is very important that China people are different from the British. We in China think it should be passive, and English speakers will think it is not passive, but active. For example, if a gun is pointed at you, we think the gun should be passive, but they think it is active. According to our statistics, the passive voice of Chinese is much less than that of English. For example, "Why", we don't think there is any passive meaning, so you have to memorize it. Generally speaking, a good teacher will mention that this place uses the passive voice, which is different from our domestic thinking.
Moderator: Finally, Mr. Xu Can talked with our netizens about the exam.
X: The tenses I summarized for you are the present perfect tense, the past perfect tense, the past perfect tense, the general present tense and the future perfect tense, so the completion time will take up three points, so you should pay more attention when reviewing.
The most frequently tested non-predicate verb, the first one is an independent structure. Then gerund is the object of some verbs, which everyone needs to recite. In addition, whether a non-predicate verb is an attribute or an adverbial must be tested. We know that there are three types of subjunctive mood, and the subjunctive mood that is most frequently tested is the subjunctive mood in the first category, which is contrary to the past facts, including both clauses and main sentences. We also mentioned a point just now, about the attributive clauses that are most frequently tested. One is the attributive clause guided by where. Which one did many students fill in last? The most important thing is to see if they are adverbials in attributive clauses. Another complicated problem is one or some of them. Nominal clauses are attributive clauses guided by what and predicate clauses guided by what. Finally, we can often understand the meaning of conjunctions used to guide adverbial clauses, such as in case (in, in, in), now that (since) and so on. These are some important grammar items. Review them as the key points when you go back. Of course, in the end, I hope everyone can give full play to their level in the exam, preferably beyond the level, and every student can achieve ideal results.
Moderator: Today, our interview is over. Thank you for your presence and participation! Thank you!
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Today, we are very honored to invite Bai Wei, a full-time lecturer from China Dida Education Network, to explain the review plan of English II. Let's ask Mr. Bai to say hello to netizens.
Bai Wei: Hello everyone!
First of all, please ask Mr. Bai to introduce the test paper structure of English II as a whole.
Bai Wei: Let me tell you first that our syllabus was drawn up in May 1998, and it hasn't changed yet, so according to the syllabus, the questions we are about to take should be the same as those in April 17. There should be papers in April, so the structure should be the same. I want to say that you should pay attention to the fact that the structure is 70% objective and 30% subjective. The so-called subjective question is what you want to think and write, just like Chinese-English translation and English-Chinese translation, the volume is still two volumes, 1 and 2 volumes, 1 volume is a multiple-choice question, and 2 volumes are non-choice questions.
This question type has not changed, just like our series.
Moderator: Some netizens asked, is the content of English II in English I?
Bai Wei: As for the content of English One, judging from the examination papers in the past two years, there is very little content in English One, at most one or two sentences, but English One is a foundation of English Two, so the grammatical content, vocabulary and phrases in it must be tested. So, it's not that you don't have to take English one. Some people say that it is wrong to take an English test without taking an English test. The content of the English I can only speak test is not the original sentence, but it is contained in English II, but the focus is on the second volume.
Moderator: Some netizens asked if B was the key point. Bring what?
Bai Wei: We focus on some explanatory sentences at the back of the textbook and the collocation of some words. The vocabulary needs to be reviewed. Vocabulary and collocation phrases in the text must be reviewed.
Moderator: Some netizens asked us what we should pay attention to when reviewing active voice and passive voice.
Bai Wei: The review of active voice and passive voice is mainly to clarify the subject-predicate relationship. 1. What is the relationship between the subject and predicate of active voice and passive voice?
The active voice subject is the executor of the action, and the passive voice subject is the receiver of the action.
It should also be noted that only transitive verbs in passive voice have passive voice. Passive voice is the focus of our review, because in English, the proportion of passive voice is very large or there is a great chance, which is much more than that in Chinese. In Chinese, we usually use the active voice, while in English, we use the passive voice. Therefore, English uses the passive voice whenever it is unwilling or unnecessary to talk about the performer of the action, or when it is necessary to emphasize the object of the action and express objectivity, so English uses the passive voice in a large number.
Moderator: Some netizens asked, do you have to read all the texts before you can watch the series?
Bai Wei: You must read the A text in the next book. The main content of cross talk is review. Read and understand the text in the next book. The grammar points in it are not reading the text. Some students said that they had recited all the texts, but they had not passed the exam. The reason is not to let you recite the text, but to understand all the knowledge points and grammar points in the text.
Moderator: There are still some candidates who ask if English II doesn't take grammar exams, right?
Bai Wei: That's not right. Grammar problems are reflected in the topic, not to say that you will not take the exam. Where is it reflected? For example, structural questions, part-of-speech changes, cloze questions, mainly test English grammar. Even if you don't know grammar when translating, you won't turn Chinese sentences into English, so you must know grammar, because English is a conventional language, and conventional languages can't master it without understanding this law.
Moderator: Some netizens asked how to use reading skills in the exam.
Bai Wei: Reading comprehension has an exam-oriented skill, and there is a special section in our lecture course. Simply put, read more books at ordinary times, speed up, and then you will know the questions to be asked later. There are five questions at the end of each reading. How many questions should we ask?