In the humanities, authors write to inform you in many ways. These methods can be (36) __________ into three types of informational writing: factual, descriptive, and process.
　　Factual writing provides (37) __________ information on an author, composer, or artist or on a type of music, literature, or art. Examples of factual writing include notes on a book jacket or (38) __________ cover and longer pieces, such as an article describing a style of music which you might read in a music (39) __________ course. This kind of writing provides a (40) __________ for your study of the humanities.
　　As its name (41) __________, descriptive writing simply describes, or provides an (42) __________ of, apiece of music, art, or literature. For example, descriptive writing might list the colors an artist used in a painting or the (43) __________ a composer included in a musical composition, so as to make pictures or sounds in the reader’s mind by calling up specific details of the work. (44) __________________________________________________________________.
　　Process writing explains a series of actions that bring about a result. (45) ________________
　　__________________________________________________________________________. This kind of writing is often found in art, where understanding how an artist created a certain effect is important.
　　(46)_______________________________________________________________________
　　_______________________________.
　　答案
　　36.【聽音指導】根據空前后內容，可推測此空意為“歸類成……”，輕易可以聯想到常考詞classified，構成be classified into結構。
　　37.【聽音指導】事實性寫作方式會提供什么樣的信息，在預讀時，很容易將其推測為形容詞，但background是常見詞，而background information作為背景知識，在日常生活中常常用到。
　　38.【聽音指導】此空中的內容與book，long piece并列，可知此空填寫的詞為名詞，且與book等為一類。album發音特殊，一般不會與其他詞相混，應注意拼寫。
　　39.【聽音指導】由題意很容易判斷此部分應為音樂鑒賞課，此空的難點在于appreciation (“鑒賞”)這個詞的拼寫。appreciate作動詞，意為鑒賞，此空需要其名詞形式。
　　40.【聽音指導】為研究人文學科提供環境，其中context是高頻詞，幾乎在每次考試中都能考到，此題不易失分。
　　41.【聽音指導】此句話應理解為“正如名字所顯示的那樣”，立刻可以聯系到show等詞，而原文中的imply在以往四級考試中也反復出現。
　　42.【聽音指導】描述性的寫作能提供什么?立刻就想到形象、印象。image這個詞很容易填出。
　　43.【聽音指導】作曲家所用的音樂器具，自然為musical instrument。然而此空需要注意的是它的復數形式。
　　44.【聽音指導】此段講述的是descriptive writing，此句位于本段的后一句，應為總結性話語。答案為Descriptive writing in the humanities, particularly in literature is often mixed with critical writing。particularly可替換為especially，be mixed with意為“與……混合”。也可寫為Descriptive writing is mixed with critical writing，那么既保留了句子的大意，而且也能規避如particularly這樣的長難詞。采分點為descriptive writing和critical writing。
　　45.【聽音指導】此段講述的是processing writing，按照慣例此句為對其的總結性解釋。shoot a film，意為拍電影。采分點為how to do something和 technique。
　　46.【聽音指導】整篇文章為總分式，先總述了三種寫作題材，然后分別講述每種寫作題材的適用范圍。此空獨立成句，很可能論述三部分適用范圍的交集。采分點為more than one type of technique is used in writing。
　　原文
　　In the humanities, authors write to inform you in many ways. These methods can be classified into three types of informational writing: factual, descriptive and process.
　　Factual writing provides background information on an author, composer or artist; or on a type of music, literature or art. Examples of factual writing include notes on a book jacket or album cover and longer pieces such as an article, describing a style of music which you might read in a musical appreciation course. This kind of writing provides a context for your study of the humanities. As its name implies, descriptive writing simply describes or provides an image of a piece of music, art or literature. For example, descriptive writing might list the colors an artist used in a painting or the instruments a composer included in a musical composition, so as　to make pictures or sound in a reader’s mind by calling up specific details of the work. Descriptive writing in the humanities, particularly in literature, it often mixed with critical writing. Process writing explains a series of actions that bring about the result. It tells the reader how to do something, for example, explaining the technique used to shoot a film. This kind of writing is often found in art where we understanding how an artist creates certain of fact is important. Authors may actually use more than one type of technique in a given piece of informational writing

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