託福聽力段子比較長，很多考生在聽到結尾後就已經忘記前面的內容了。所以，在積累詞彙努力聽懂段子的同時，大家還需要積累一些託福聽力技巧。下面，新東方網託福頻道就為大家介紹一種託福聽力技巧——場景描述法。
場景法指的是考生通過對話揭示的場景關鍵詞，判斷磁帶上的對話或演講發生的實際生活場景，再根據這一生活場景答題。場景法可行的原因在於託福考試的目的。我們前面已經說過，託福測試的是外國學生在美國學習和生活要用到的基本語言能力，所以託福聽力在內容上永遠離不了學習和生活這一主題。學生生活的圈子不大，典型的仍然像中國的5點式，即宿舍-教室-食堂-圖書館-購物。而託福聽力已經考了幾十年了，學校裡的幾乎每一個角落上都被考過了。只要考生能熟悉學校裡的各個場所經常發生的學生生活場景，僅憑几個詞就可以知道整個對話或演講的大體內容，從而得出(甚至猜出)正確答案。
在場景法的後面，我們將歸納美國大學生活的各個場合及其典型的對話內容。在這裡，我們的先介紹一下如何利用場景法。
為什麼要用場景法？
很多做過託福聽力題的考生都有這種感受：即有些對話裡的詞全都聽懂而且明白單詞的意思，就是選不出答案。更離譜的是，即使讓你看文字答案答題，你也未必會有很高的正確率。為什麼會出現這種情況呢？原因在於場景，即英語裡常說的situation。我們平時碰到有人試圖安慰心情不好的自己時，經常會說「你不是我，你不會明白的」，就是這個道理。在託福的聽力中，「清」的肯定不是「旁觀者」，而只有「當局者」才會最清楚對話到底說的是什麼。而要成為「當局者」，你必須熟悉託福聽力的大學生活背景。下面的例子列舉了熟悉場景的重要性：
He got in and pushed the button for the forth floor.Question: What did he do?
(A) He took the elevator. (B) He sewed the buttons on.
(C) He dropped something on the floor. (D) He made him go upstairs.
這個單句題(現在的聽力部分沒有這種單句題)，如果你不熟悉電梯的話，你會一頭霧水，根本不知其所云何事。但是，如果你一聽到就想到了電梯的話，那麼這根本不是問題。所以，託福的聽力中的有些題目僅憑聽清楚每個單詞的字面意思是不夠的(很多時候甚至是不必要的)，你還必須生動地想像出對話所發生的具體生活場景。
場景法的魅力
例如學生入學時登記註冊的場景。如果你平時記住了關於register的詞彙，如registration，course enrollment form，signed by academic advisor，get the department"s approval，tables set up aIl the way around，stamp your form，approved，pay for tuition，officially enrolled，pick up identification card。
那麼，即使你聽力能力較差，對話的具體細節沒能聽懂，你也能答對題。如果你不相信的話，請試著僅根據註冊這一大學裡發生的場景，而不根據對話的內容，做下面兩道題。
1.When would this talk be given?
(A) At the beginning of a semester. (B) During the mid-semester vacation.
(C) At final examination time. (D) Just before a gymnastics event.Q
2.swheresare the students going tomorrow?
(A) To registration office. (B) To a class reunion.
(C) To their classes. (D) To a track meet.
第1題：該對話肯定發生在學期初。答案確實唾手可得。第2題：既然是講註冊，那肯定是去registration office。此外了解對話內容及相關詞句和美國的大學生活對聽力考試也有幫助。
以下是我們總結的針對對話內容的詞句，記住這些詞句有助於你對對話內容和場景的判斷，從而正確地答案。即使你沒有完全聽懂對話，你也可能根據判斷得出的對話場景正確地答題。
1.東西丟了：lost the key，can"t found the note
2.剃頭：hardly bald, hairstyle change for not covering the eyes, cut curl hair
3.搭車：pick up the third one at the airline, give me a ride to the office
4.穿衣: a jean and T-shirt for interview is casual, clothes is wet before the concert
5.花需要光: put the flower to the window, the bookcase will prevent the sunlight, need the fresh
6.忘了: slip my mind, forgot to give the note to someone
7.圖書館: spend the whole day in the library, make the photocopy at library, meet at the library, return the books to the library, library is a better place to study
8.室友: looking for a roommate, roommate should apologize, roommate is too noisy,
9.吃的:fish can"t be eat, berry is a bush even for a bird, bread is over toasted, vegetables are over cooked, bread may be in the refrigerator,
10.借東西: lend me calculus book(calculator), borrow the money from check, borrow car for shopping
11.天氣：clean up for picnic, cold enough for skating, snowing too much to fly, so hot that we need an air conditioner,
12.作業能否完成：wait till the last minute, chemistry test without time for reading, fill out the financial aid form without the priority, paper extended to the next week
13.第三者: have done it for me
14.排隊: magazine to kill the time, read the magazine twice, go early for not queue
15.得病看醫生: need another doctor, it is open till 10 at the health center, take the pill the doctor assigned,
16.沒空幫忙: can"t give you a ride due to the meeting tomorrow morning,
17.鍛鍊減肥: lost weight, two blue clothes but one with the large size
18.電影或音樂會: see the concert twice make sense again, sell ticket to you so that you come with me, lectured by some professor is worth watching,
19.還書: return so as not to pay fine, help me return the books,
20.重新考慮以前的決定: reconsider your decision,
21.轉讓: movie ticket
22.加入社團: garden club, find another committee member to replace, 23.認不出來: beard, bother is different,
24.住房: find an apartment under 500 dollars, find a larger apartment, live nearer to the campus
25.放鬆: join a entertainment club for leisure, spend more time outdoors,
26.約會: (appointment), reschedule one of the appointment
27.關門了(過期了): museum closed, cafeteria closed,
28.照相: film run out, film not processed, film not good
29.同去: come go with me
30.太吵: too noisy, can"t concentrate
需要大家注意的是，託福聽力技巧只是在比較紮實的英語基礎上提升能力的一種方式，不可以取代託福聽力基礎知識的備考，大家勿要捨本逐末。
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