冬天来了

由于PTE听力和雅思听力在诸多方面侧重点的不同，导致许多初次尝试PTE的同学在听力上出师不利，PTE的听力题量大且不具备充足的看题时间，因此在听听力的过程中我们需要快速定位信息关键点并抓出听力材料中不易察觉的关键信息和陷阱设置。

今天Angela老师以Highlight correct summary这种题型为主来为大家进行分析

Angela老师

西悉尼大学教育学硕士 

新南威尔士大学新闻与传播硕士 

King’s Own Institute 会计硕士 

拥有澳大利亚三级笔译翻译证书，

雅思8分，

PTE88分

曼拓教育PTE全科讲师

首先，对于这类题型先要提示大家不要与单选题进行混淆，其次注意每个选项的开头与结尾部分，切忌不要精读选项。选项中通常会藏有明显暗示，例如topic sentence和key words，还有是否generalized ideas以及前后文的逻辑关系是否能和听力材料一一对应：

e.g from PTE offline practice test:

1.       Unless major oil consumers invest in exploration now (which would be the first time major funds have been invested since 1964) global oil production will level out and be unable to meet increased demands from India and China.

2.       With the continuation of improvements in technology, geology, and with government support, there is little doubt that further major reserves of oil will be found in the near future. This should result in sustainable oil supplies for a further 150 years.

3.       While we are not about to run out of oil, we are certainly past the peak of oil production, which occurred about 40 years ago. This is despite improvements in technology, geology, and with tax-subsidised investment in exploration.

4.       Oil consumption reached its first peak in 1964. Since that time the world has become increasingly dependent on oil. It is unlikely that there will be any new major oil discoveries in the immediate future or at any subsequent time.

We’re not running out of oil. The first thing that one can say with absolute confidence is that we’re not about to run out of oil, we are definitely not. （在听力材料中，对于not running oil的概念speaker重复提到过两次，并且顺序结构与第三句相符。）

But what we are approaching is the end of the first half, and this is one way to describe it, and this chapter in history lasted about a hundred and fifty year ssince the first oil was produced. （高度注意转折词在听力中的重要作用，一般预示着重要的信息即将出现。）

And we’re coming to the end of that, and you have to find oil before you can produce it, and when we look back into history, we can find that the peak of discovery was in1964,（对于听力材料中的时间点要take notes，这是细节信息的具体定位）and that the discovery of oil has been falling ever since, relentlessly, um, and it’s been falling despite the world wide search, always aimed at the biggest and best prospects, no one’s looking for the smallest and the worst, the biggest and the best. It’s been falling despite amazing technological and geological advances, we understand this business so much more than we did. And finally, it’s been falling despite a very happy economic environment, whereby most of the cost of exploration is written off against tax.（whereby又是转折词来引导重要的补充信息出现，sub points作为新出现的概念，有可能成为summary中的补充信息，需要记笔记）

So I would say in view of all of those incentives, and all of those benefits, if discovery has actually been falling relentlessly, er, there is no good reason to think that this trend is going to change direction. So, in other words, we’ve passed the peak.（后半段中的technological and geological advances进行了着重解释。注意Examples & details和主句的区分，关键信息点转折谨防掉进错误选项陷阱。）