在准备托福考试的过程中，我总共花了14天把新托福考试《听力特训》给听完了，一共是7张光盘的内容。下面说下我对听力特训的使用感受和心得。
每篇passage，我都至少听4遍以上。里面所有的short lecture和short dialogue，虽然语速比iBT speaking section的语速快，内容也多一点，但我仍然全部用来做口语复述用。每个short passage，我至少复述一遍以上。
我觉得生疏的词或短语，和在听力中听了几遍还是不知道的专业词汇，和听了一遍没有迅速反应过来的容易词，我就把它们标出来。共有500个左右，就是下面这些，为了分辨词组，词与词之间和词组之间已用“*”隔开：
(建议在下面的词中，除了部分专业词外，其它所有的词，大家最好即听即懂，反应要快，如果做到条件反射就更好)
be backed up * continuing students * menial * pay my board * up to one's ears * alignment * fiscal * hinge on * case in point * osteoporosis * dietician * bite the bullet * libel * practice written in stone * inn * ergosterol * serotonin * colon * sclerosis * ado * sheriff * loner * spoof * against all odds * overland * all but * aboriginal * hard copy * wilderness retreat * vinyl * cladding * weather-proof * warp * tetanus * bristly * clutter * dyslexic * make allowance * ramp * Baby Buggy * stand up for * confrontational * injunction * on the ball * you're really with it today * truss * pretentious * against the grain * denounce * liven sth up * hippocampus * amygdala * pooped * hop* cauldron * catch up * recap * over one's head * orchid * coral * runaway * terrestrial * gimmick * fickle * desalinization * panoramic * scenes * dust bowl * neon * ice-rink * clay * enzymatic * lip service * strident * bear in mind * hook up * markedly * by leaps on bounds * dementia * Alzheimer's disease * cross-section * cortex * convolution * gerontology * liken * nano * take heart * stalk * boomer generation * on the flip side * swirling * geese * synergies * stratosphere * grasshopper * dispel * to name but a few * catch on * boron * titanium * sacred * disruptive * perk * hold one's back from * comfy * in a pinch of time * cybernetic * prosthetics * auditing * conjure * fluorescent * dabber * noteworthy * perennial * enamor * pastime * slant * out in left field * hypnic * myoclonia * intersperse * exclusively * groggy * sputnik * humiliated * arena * emission * ornamental * registrar * directory * refund * bursary * pneumonia * homestay * go overboard * get-up-and-go * acne * dysentery * scurvy * cholera * partitioned * grievous * cash crop * outlawing incest * phrenology * physiognomy * anatomist * benevolence * deterring * whim * hysteric * enquiry * full * in accordance with * format * try-outs * hone * lucky timing * drop-in * waive * nominal * etcetera * do laps * sort * grassroots * hamper * bonanza * propel * in droves * elusive * interlock * breadbasket * shanty * Roosevelt * mural * disuse * bustling * prophetical * city-states * full wigs * bloomer * banquet * comique * dregs of society * dialysis * donor * reveal * hypocrite * Socratic * validity * dismantle * ensuing * hoop * contentious * stupidity * demoralize * sill * frost * warmth * well-drained * stake * trellis * minute structure * alike * tenet * hold water * lipid * plasma * microbe * fight in part over sth * fiddle * filament * diode * audion * mint * threw * line-up * a set number of * statutory holidays * sound man * a faint university crest * plugged * set off * workout * inundate * label * temporal * parietal * occipital * spatial * lob * turn-about-face * campaign * salutation * via * debit * roaming * circuit * wander * an end * annual dues * tinsmiths * purposeful * call attention to ones * absolution * civilian * leave sth free * aerial * pertinent * well-off * uncaring * tying * tyranny * squalor * degradation * seeming * misery * satirical * miss the boat * cyclone * collide * funnel * vortex * once in a blue moon * subtle * outset * epistemology * go about * mourn * lament * succinct * forthcoming * run-on-sentences * merit * get a rise out of * in the dark about sth * more often than not * a far cry * widower * let the comment slide * affluent * contraceptive * onset * 30-something * sack * quota * level off * spout that * God-awful * big time * downside * sit on the fence with sth * cut and dried * in vitro * sentiment * volatile * envision * calm * openness * relinquish
《听力特训》每篇文章后面的习题我并不怎么喜欢，我觉得有很多是不符合iBT的要求，如考一些数字题、人名题(包括意大利语，俄语和法语的人名)、非常琐碎的细节题，还有ETS禁说的宗教和政治问题。还有重听题的重听内容太多，没有明确的一个比较小的重听范围，在里面就是重听一大段内容之后，问：“why does the professor say this?”，那么this到底是什么呢，就没说啦，晕死。有不少题目的选项十分的vague，模棱两可、有些答案经不起推敲，因为推敲多一点，就会意识到所谓正确的答案也不够正确。
在准备托福听力的过程中，我们往往容易忽视如何使用特定的训练材料。其实专注于一本或基本复习资料，做深入系统的复习，往往比泛泛练习的效率要高得多。以上心得希望对大家使用《听力特训》及备战托福听力有所帮助！祝大家考试顺利！
