【实例二】听短文，选择正确答案：
（ ）1. What did the man have to do in the morning?
　　 A. He fed the chickens.
　　 B. He cleaned the bath-room.
　　 C. He carried water for the family.
（ ）2.Why did the man go to school on foot?
　　 A. No bus ran in the direction.
　　 B. The school was near.
　　 C. His family was poor.
（ ）3.What did the man do every Sunday?
　　 A. He was taken to church three times.
　　 B. He stayed at home all day.
　　 C. He played in the street.
（ ）4.What can we learn from what the speaker said?
　　 A. He is a retired teacher of history.
　　 B. He thinks children were happier in the past.
　　 C. He lives on a farm far away from cities.

录音原文：
　　Now, you want to know about life in the past, right? I can tell you. When I was a boy, things were different. I had to get up at six every morning. That was not very bad in summer, but in winter it was cold. And we didn't have any hot water in the house. We had to wash in cold water. We didn't have a bath-room. My dad had some chickens. I had to feed them every morning and then I had to walk to school with my little sister. It was two miles to school and two miles back in the evening. And we had to go to bed at seven o'clock every night. We couldn't watch TV because there wasn't any.

分析：本文的篇幅较长，所涉及到的信息教多。但是同学们在做题前浏览一下所提的四个问题和供选项，就会很有效的缩小所听的范围，即重点去听说话人"早上做什么、为何步行上学和每周日做什么"等细节，然后在听完全篇的基础上，概括出第四题的答案就可以了。本题的答案分别是：1.A 2.C 3.A 4.B。