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Little by little, we learn English from what real life provides to us。 Now, we are talking about listening exams!!! They are driving us nuts。 Enough patience to wait for the day when your English finally sees an improvement, but it could be your sixtieth birth-day. Before that, you surely got to take a lot of listening exams。 I think the fundament of English ability is static for a person during a considerable period of time. So, no matter how hard you work, you are working for an improvement in a god-knows-when day. It might well go beyond all your exams。 And the KEY POINT is that, you work hard, you feel no improvement and you get nervous at the same time you listen to the tape. This is VITAL!!! Being nervous has proven to be the cold blood killer of listening exam takers。 You may have this experience in a listening test: There is an occassion of being stuck in a problem when you are not sure about its proper answer. Maybe the tape has left you a vauge pronunciation or maybe you simply do not know that word or phrase. Now, you stop and ponder over it. But the exam goes on and the tape waits for no one. You lagged behind. You then put away the former one. But its too late, you have missed half of the next problem. This is exact the time to trigger your nervousness in the listening part。 As I have stated at the very beginning, the English base is the premise to every individule sub-ablilities. If you dont know a lot of words, you are listening nothing but mysterious codes. You will be mad. Well, no one can save you. Dont take listening exams then, coz you are never going to pass it unless you made up your mind to put enough time and energy to work on your BASE。 | 
