大学英语四、六级考试改革的消息一出，立即引发社会各界的热议。有学生指出难度增加，哀叹过级无望;也有人称赞这是顺应教育发展的新举措。

　　There is a saying that a student’s college life isn’t finished until he or she takes the CET. Short for College English Test, the large-scale standardized language test examines the English proficiency of undergraduate students. The CET is supervised by the National College English Testing Committee.

　　大家常说，没有参加过四、六级(CET)考试，你的大学生活就算不上圆满。CET是全国大学英语四、六级考试的缩写，这项大规模标准化语言考试由全国大学英语四、六级考试委员会监管，旨在测试大学生的英语水平。

　　The committee said recently that the CET Band 4 and 6 (CET-4 and CET-6) exams are going to change in terms of their structure and format. Apart from taking out the cloze test, changes have been made in the following three aspects, namely, listening comprehension, reading comprehension, and translation.

　　前不久，全国大学英语四、六级考试委员会表示，将对英语四、六级考试(简称为CET-4、CET-6)的试卷结构和测试题型作局部调整。除了完形填空正式“退出历史舞台”外，以下三个方面“大变脸”，即听力理解，阅读理解和翻译。

　　Listening comprehension

　　听力理解

　　In the new version of the CET, compound dictation is going to be replaced by dictation of words and phrases. In this part, students will hear a passage three times. They should get a general idea of the passage first, and then fill in the blanks with the exact words they’ve just heard.

　　改革后的四、六级考试中，原复合式听写将调整为单词及词组听写。在这部分测试中，将先后播放三遍短文。学生应首先了解短文大意，然后完成单词填空。