我們在做英語四級復合式聽寫題時，可以根據(jù)空邊上的詞和語境來猜測填入詞的詞性。在這里我主要帶大家看一下 “平行結構” 的強大作用。注意這里所提到的平行結構，是和空當中的詞具有相同作用的詞或短語。我們在做此類題的時候，應該有一個找“平行結構”的意識。
以2010年6月四級真題為例：
Almost every child, on the first day he sets foot in a school building, is smarter, more______ (36) ,
我們看到上面的句子里面， smarter 和 more , 修飾同一個主語child，
我們可以判斷空中需要填的應該是一個形容詞原級，他與more一起組成了形容詞比較級形式。而且根據(jù)形容詞比較級的變化特征，這個形容詞應該是三個或三個以上音節(jié)。
better at finding and ______ (37) things out,
我們現(xiàn)在找37空的平行結構，非常容易，兩個詞用了一個and連接，很顯然finding和37空不僅詞性相同，我們所填入的還應該是一個 “-ing” 形式的動詞與finding 對應。
persistent and______ (38)
又看到了一個就為的 “and” 連接兩個詞，不用解釋你也知道38空與 persistent詞性相同
very ______ (39) and very lucky
看到了嗎?第39空也不例外。
by paying close attention to and______ (40) with the world and people around him.
第40空，我們找平行結構的時候要看一下and前面的短語 “paying close attention to” 我們可以推斷 “and” 后面也是一個短語，而且根據(jù)我們的結構這個動詞短語應該與paying對應也是一個 “-ing” 動詞。
看到這里，也許你已經(jīng)意識到，在這類題目中，我們所說的“平行結構” 考點非常普遍，他們一般是短語或詞，要么用“and” 連接，要么以排比并列句等形式出現(xiàn)。考生在做題的時候如果能正確的把它分辨出來，必定對我們有很大的幫助。
附 2010年6月四級復合式聽寫題（完整版）：
Almost every child, on the first day he sets foot in a school building, is smarter, more (36)______, less afraid of what he doesn't know, better at finding and (37) ______ things out, more confident, resourceful (機敏的), persistent and (38) ______ than he will ever be again in his schooling – or, unless he is very (39) ______ and very lucky, for the rest of his life. Already, by paying close attention to and (40) ______ with the world and people around him, and without any school-type (41) ______ instruction, he has done a task far more difficult, complicated and (42)______ than anything he will be asked to do in school, or than any of his teachers has done for years. He has solved the (43) ______ of language. He has discovered it – babies don't even know that language exists – and (44) ________________________________________________. He has done it by exploring, by experimenting, by developing his own model of the grammar of language, (45) ________________________________________________ until it does work. And while he has been doing this, he has been learning other things as well, (46) ________________________________________________, and many that are more complicated than the ones they do try to teach him.
