听力是获得有声信息的活动能力,也可以说是一种交际能力。这种能力的强与弱,除了决定人们对语言知识本身的了解外,还决定人们对语言背景文化知识的占有能力。听力主要由两个部分构成,即迅速正确地辨音解义的能力和理解语言内涵的能力。这两种能力表现在英语三级考试上,即为识记录音发出的语音形式,准确地辨析词义,然后从词义、句义到文章中心 Hearing is the ability to obtain sound information, which is also a kind of communicative ability. In addition to determining people’s understanding of language knowledge itself, the strength and weakness of this ability also determine people’s ability to possess knowledge of language background and cultural knowledge. Listening mainly consists of two parts, namely the ability to quickly and correctly discern sounds and understand meanings and the ability to understand language. These two kinds of competencies are shown in the English Level 3 test. They are the forms of speech sounds for recognizing recorded sounds, accurately discriminate the meanings of words, and then go from word meaning and meaning to the center of the article.