5、人物意图题
题型特征：第一个人经常提出一个请求、建议或意见等等，第二个人说的话一般以but为标志的句子来说出自己的意见。常见的提问方式：What do you learn from the conversation? 解决思路：关键要听懂第二个人but后面的话，but后面就是正确答案。

真题例题：
1994年1月第4题
1996年1月第10题
1999年1月第3题
1999年6月第3题
2001年1月第6题
2002年1月第1题等等
A) All the passengers were killed.　　　　
B) The plane crashed in the night.　
C) No more survivors have been found. 　
D) It's too late to search for survivors.
W: Is the rescue crew still looking for survivors of the plane crash?
M: Yes, they have been searching the area for hours, but they haven't found anybody else. They will keep searching until night falls.
Q: What do we learn from the conversation?（2002年1月）

6、态度评价题
选项中经常出现的态度类形容词或副词：Oh my God!, happy, worried, panic, luckily, fortunately, unfortunately,impatient, curious, anxious, ridiculous, hopeless.
问题：What does the speaker think of sth.?What's the speaker's idea / attitude / opinion about ...?/ response to ...?

真题例题：
1997年1月第9题
1996年1月第5题
1995年6月第1题
1997年1月第4题
1997年6月第5题
1998年1月第6题
1999年1月第5题
2002年1月第2题等等
A) Its results were just as expected.
B) It wasn't very well designed.
C) It fully reflected the students' ability.
D) Its results fell short of her expectations.
M: How many students passed the final physics exam in your class?
W: Forty, but still as many as 20 percent of the class failed, quite disappointing, isn't it?
Q: What does the woman think of the exam?（2002年1月）

7、动作行为题
题型特点：通过两个人的对话，判断他们要干什么或正在做什么。问题：What's the speaker doing now? What's the speaker going to do? What does the speaker think sb. should do?
注意：着重听出动作发生的先后顺序，还有动作的时态。

真题例题：
2001年1月第3题
1996年6月第1题
1997年1月第2题
1997年6月第2题
1999年1月第4题
1999年6月第2题
2000年6月第1题
2003年1月第10题等等
A) Selecting the best candidate.
B) Choosing a campaign manager.
C) Trying to persuade the woman to vote for him.
D) Running for chairman of the student union.
M: You are my campaign manager. What do you think we should do to win the election? I'm convinced I'm the best candidate for the chairman of the student union.
W: We won't be able to win unless we get the majority votes from the women students.
Q: What is the man doing?（2003年1月）

8、因果关系题
常见的因果关系的表达： since, for, as, because (of), due to, so thattherefore, thus, as a result, hence, in that, now that, but that解题思路：要深入理解说话人的含义。

1995年1月第9题
1995年6月第9题
1997年1月第10题
1997年6月第6题
2000年1月第7题
2003年1月第9题
2003年6月第4题等等
A) She promised to help the man.
B) She came a long way to meet the man.
C) She took the man to where he wanted to go.
D) She suggested a way out of the difficulty for the man.
M: Thank you for your helpful assistance. Otherwise, I'd surely have missed it. The place is so out of the way.
W: It was a pleasure meeting you. Good bye!
Q: Why did the man thank the woman?（2003年6月）

9、意义解释题
重点考查：短语和小词的理解问题：What does the man/speaker mean?

1994年1月第8题
1995年1月第10题
1995年6月第4题
1997年6月第4题
1999年6月第6题
2000年1月第8题
2002年6月第8题
2003年1月第5题等等
A) He is sure they will succeed in the next test.
B) He did no better than the woman in the test.
C) He believes she will pass the test this time.
D) He felt upset because of her failure.
W: Oh, dear. I'm afraid I fail again in the national test. It's the third time I took it.
M: Don't be too upset. I have the same fate. Let's try the fourth time.
Q: What does the man mean?（2003年1月）