| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| English Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| Chinese abstract | 第7-8页 |
| Table of Contents | 第8-10页 |
| List of Figures | 第10页 |
| List of Tables | 第10-11页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第11-17页 |
| ·Introduction | 第11-13页 |
| ·Statement of the problem | 第13-14页 |
| ·Purposes of the study | 第14-15页 |
| ·Definition of key terms | 第15-16页 |
| ·The outline of the paper | 第16-17页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第17-43页 |
| ·History of aural comprehension test | 第17-24页 |
| ·The presentation of aural comprehension test | 第17-18页 |
| ·Preliminary stage of aural comprehension test | 第18-19页 |
| ·Wartime aural test and its postwar impact | 第19-20页 |
| ·The appearance of scientific listening comprehension test | 第20-21页 |
| ·The development of scientific listening comprehension test | 第21-22页 |
| ·The progress of scientific listening comprehension test | 第22-24页 |
| ·The nature of the listening comprehension | 第24-26页 |
| ·Models of the listening comprehension | 第26-29页 |
| ·Factors that influence listening comprehension | 第29-30页 |
| ·Types of the listening comprehension | 第30-36页 |
| ·Types of listening situations | 第30-31页 |
| ·Types of listening items | 第31-33页 |
| ·Types of the listening levels | 第33-36页 |
| ·General review about the vocabulary test | 第36-40页 |
| ·The research into vocabulary category | 第37-38页 |
| ·The research into vocabulary size | 第38-39页 |
| ·Sampling of words | 第39-40页 |
| ·The research into the Correlation between vocabulary and receptive skills | 第40-43页 |
| Chapter Three Methodology and Procedure | 第43-53页 |
| ·Hypotheses | 第43页 |
| ·Rationale of the present study | 第43-46页 |
| ·Design of the experiment | 第46-51页 |
| ·Subjects | 第46页 |
| ·Instrument | 第46页 |
| ·The design of vocabulary test papers | 第46-51页 |
| ·The form of the test papers | 第47-49页 |
| ·Sampling of words | 第49-50页 |
| ·Principle of writing alternatives | 第50页 |
| ·Method of writing stems | 第50-51页 |
| ·The Collection of data | 第51-52页 |
| ·Data of the 5 layers of word knowledge | 第51页 |
| ·Data of the results of listening test in final-term examination | 第51-52页 |
| ·Quality analysis of the test papers | 第52-53页 |
| Chapter Four Analysis and Discussion | 第53-69页 |
| ·Result analysis | 第53-65页 |
| ·Listening vocabulary and reading vocabulary are different but connected with each other | 第53-55页 |
| ·The separability of listening words and their mutual relation | 第55-58页 |
| ·The correlation of four layers of listening words and reading words | 第58-60页 |
| ·The impact of vocabulary size on listening comprehension | 第60-62页 |
| ·The impact of vocabulary strength on listening comprehension | 第62-65页 |
| ·Discussion | 第65-69页 |
| ·Listening vocabulary size and reading vocabulary size are close at high word-frequency level | 第65-67页 |
| ·How does vocabulary size impact listening comprehension | 第67-68页 |
| ·Is the word strength significant to listening comprehension | 第68-69页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第69-73页 |
| ·Conclusion | 第69-70页 |
| ·Pedagogical implications | 第70-71页 |
| ·Limitation of the study | 第71-72页 |
| ·Suggestions for further study | 第72-73页 |
| Appendix I | 第73-92页 |
| Appendix II | 第92-94页 |
| References | 第94-98页 |
| 个人简况及联系方式 | 第98-99页 |
| 承诺书 | 第99页 |