四级中的篇章词汇与完型填空类似，都是选词填空，单考查点却不同，完型主要是从句子的层面来考查对易混词的辨析，而篇章词汇却是从整个篇章的角度来考查考生对文章主题及上下文意义的把握。文章挖出10个空来，而备选项有15个，多出的5个便是对所填词的干扰。一个篇章词汇题一般只挖一个副词的空，选项中可能有两个副词供选择，其中一个就是针对正确选项所设的干扰项。篇章词汇题一般在文章的首句是不挖空的，以提供完整的句子供考生把握文章主题，因此，首句通常对全文的理解至关重要。下面我们便以09年12月真题中的篇章词汇题为例来讲一下这类题的解题技巧。

原题

原题：

　　In families with two working parents, fathers may have more impact on a child’s language development than mothers, a new study suggests.

　　Researchers 47 92 families form 11 child care centers before their children were a year old, interviewing each to establish income, level of education and child care arrangements. Overall, it was a group of well-class families, with married parents both living in the home.

　　When the children were 2, researchers videotaped them at home in free-play sessions with both parents, 48 all of their speech. The study will appear in the November issue of The Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology.

　　The scientists measured the 49 number of utterance (话语) of the parents, the number of different words they used, the complexity of their sentences and other 50 of their speech. On average, fathers spoke less than mothers did, but they did not differ in the length of utterances or proportion of questions asked.

　　Finally, the researchers 51 the children’s speech at age 3, using a standardized language test. The only predictors of high scores on the test were the mother’s level of education, the 52 of child care and the number of different words the father used.

　　The researchers are 53 why the father’s speech, and not the mother’s, had an effect.

　　“It’s well 54 that the mother’s language does have an impact,” said Nadya Pancsofar, the lead author of the study. It could be that the high-functioning mothers in the study had 55 had a strong influence on their children’s speech development, Ms. Pancsofar said, “or it may be that mothers are 56 in a way we didn’t measure in the study.”

A) already F) describing K) recruited

B) analyzed G) established L) total

C) aspects H) quality M) unconscious

D) characters I) quoted N) unsure

E) contributing J) recording O) yet

做题点拨

做题点拨：拿到题目后，首先快速浏览全文，从首段我们不难发现，本文主要是讲一种新的研究结果，即父亲对孩子语言能力的影响大于母亲。

47. 分析句子结构可知，本句缺少谓语动词，且由空前的researchers及后面的interviewing推测，所填词大概与调查和研究有关，因此答案锁定在B) analyzed（分析）和K) recruited（招募）之间。由下文的When the children were 2, researchers videotaped them…及the researchers …the children’s speech at age 3可知，researchers的研究对象是固定不变的，即是对选定的92 个families的跟踪调查和研究，由此便可排除具有一次性和随机性意义的B) analyzed（分析），故答案为K) recruited（招募）。

48. 观察整个句子可知，本空所在的短语应该是前面完整句子的状语，因此所填词可能为动词的分词形式，主语为researchers，语态为主动，并且在意义上要与videotaped（录制视频）相近，故答案只能是J) recording（记录）。

49. 由空前的冠词the及空后的number可知，所填词应为形容词，备选项的形容词中只有L) total（总共的）能够与number构成合理意义，故为答案。

50. 由空前的other及空后的of可知，所填词应为名词，由前面的number of utterance，the number of different words及the complexity of their sentences可知，这里说的是语言的各种方面，故只能选C) aspects（方面），而不能选H) quality（质量）。

51. 分析句子结构可知，本句缺少谓语动词，由后面的using a standardized language test推测，所填词可能为“分析，测试”之意，故答案只能为B) analyzed“分析”。

52. 由空前的the及空后的of可知，所填词为名词，并且level of education，the 52 of child care及the number of different words三者应为并列关系，故答案应为H) quality（质量）。

53. 由空后的why…and not…可知，本句表达的是researchers的疑惑，所填词在are之后，可能为形容词或动词的分词形式，故答案为N) unsure（不确定）。

54. well与established是习惯搭配，意为“确定无疑的”，故答案为G) established。

55. 由空前的助动词had及空后的实义动词had可知，所填词应为副词，O) yet（尚，仍，还）通常用于否定句或疑问句，故排除，答案为A) already（已经）。

56. 所填词在be动词之后，故应为形容词或动词的分词形式，由前面提到母亲对孩子有a strong influence可知，所填词应有“影响，作用”有关，故答案为E) contributing“起作用”。