| Abstract in English | 第1-10页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第10-12页 |
| Introduction | 第12-14页 |
| Chapter One Literature Review of Pragmatic Inference | 第14-29页 |
| ·Introduction to Pragmatic inference | 第14-15页 |
| ·Underlying theories of pragmatic inference and their implication in listening comprehension | 第15-29页 |
| ·Pragmatic presupposition | 第16-20页 |
| ·Conversational Implicature | 第20-23页 |
| ·Indirect Speech Act Theory | 第23-26页 |
| ·Relevance Theory | 第26-29页 |
| Chapter Two Theoretical Background of Communicative Listening Tests | 第29-39页 |
| ·A brief overview of communicative tests | 第29-32页 |
| ·The theory of communicative competence | 第29-30页 |
| ·The development of communicative tests | 第30-31页 |
| ·Characteristics of communicative tests | 第31-32页 |
| ·Brief introduction to communicative listening tests | 第32-34页 |
| ·Nature of listening comprehension | 第32-33页 |
| ·Characteristics of communicative listening tests | 第33-34页 |
| ·Overview of the listening comprehension part of College English Test Band-4 | 第34-35页 |
| ·Reasons accounting for the deficiency of listening comprehension | 第35-39页 |
| ·Lack of linguistic knowledge | 第35-37页 |
| ·Lack of background knowledge about the topic concerned | 第37页 |
| ·Lack of pragmatic competence | 第37-39页 |
| Chapter Three Empirical Studies | 第39-57页 |
| ·A preliminary study | 第39-43页 |
| ·General and specific research questions and hypotheses | 第39页 |
| ·Subjects | 第39-40页 |
| ·Materials | 第40页 |
| ·Procedure | 第40-41页 |
| ·Data-analysis | 第41-43页 |
| ·An Experimental Study | 第43-57页 |
| ·General and specific research questions and hypotheses | 第43页 |
| ·Subjects | 第43页 |
| ·Materials | 第43页 |
| ·Procedure | 第43-57页 |
| Chapter Four Suggestions for Communicative Listening Teaching and Testing | 第57-66页 |
| ·Suggestions for communicative listening teaching | 第57-59页 |
| ·Training students’ability to infer by using the possessed knowledge | 第57-58页 |
| ·Bridging the information gap in communicative listening test | 第58页 |
| ·Combining listening practice with speaking practice | 第58-59页 |
| ·Suggestions for the construction of communicative listening test | 第59-65页 |
| ·Selecting the listening materials based on most hearers’mutual knowledge | 第59-61页 |
| ·Selecting the listening materials embodied more particularized implicature | 第61-62页 |
| ·Selecting listening materials based on certain culture-specific content | 第62-63页 |
| ·Combining listening comprehension tests with oral tests | 第63-65页 |
| ·Limitations | 第65-66页 |
| Conclusion | 第66-68页 |
| Bibliography | 第68-71页 |
| Appendix I: Score report for listening of the last two semesters | 第71-74页 |
| Appendix II. Listening comprehension score | 第74-77页 |
| Appendix III | 第77-82页 |
| Appendix IV | 第82-87页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第87-88页 |
| 攻读学位期间发表的学术论文 | 第88页 |
