TEM 4
TEM 4
2010年英语专业基础阶段统测(TEM4)定于4月17日(星期六)上午8:30开始，由英语专业学生四级考试命题小组负责命题与实施，在各自院校组织进行。
各位同学，时间不多了，此次将时事新闻汇集时间起于2009年3月，止于2010年3月，已经涵盖所有新闻的出题时间。新闻听力占去专业四级和专业八级全卷比例均为5%，可以关注，但是不必太紧张。即便对国际政治一头雾水，也可以按照课堂所学轻松应对。新闻听力时注意以下几点即可：
1、首句。
2、出现数据考点时，注意题干大写、专有、数据词汇。
3、否定性题目使用排除法。
4、忽略那些你听不懂的专有名词，统统不是考点。
同学需要注意，第一部分是10年更新的新闻，其余部分是补充材料中已经出现的新闻。所有内容作泛读学习即可，但需要重点注意黑体以及中文解释词汇。
祝各位成功！
第一部分（2010年新闻更新版本）
2010-3月1日类型：体育——冬奥闭幕
The 2010 Winter Olympics were officially over after a spectacular closing ceremony. Its opening and closing spectacular all took place under a closed roof. A festive crowd of 60,000 jammed into the stadium for the closing ceremony. The Olympic flag was lowered during the event and presented to Sochi(索契) of Russia who will host the next Winter Games in 2014. Anatoly Pakhomov, the mayor of Sochi, received the flag from Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson.
On the whole, the hosts took the overwhelming first place, winning also seven silver and five bronze medals. They are followed by Germany with 10 gold, 13 silver and 7 bronze awards. Americans are third with 9 gold, 15 silver and 13 bronze awards. The US team gained victory by the number of awards-37. Germany has 30 awards and Canada – 26.
2010-3月1日类型：灾难——智利地震
The Chilean government says the death toll of the magnitude-8.8 earthquake has reached 708 and is likely to increase as rescue goes on.
The president says food distribution will begin to help the affected people to stand up to the difficulties.
Also 10,000 troops of the Armed Forces and of the Chilean Police will be deployed in the affected areas to guarantee the security and to collaborate on the aid delivery.
2010-2月20日类型：灾难——巴西海难
A sailing ship owned by a Canadian school sank off the coast of Brazil in strong winds, but all 64 passengers have been rescued from rafts.
Brazil's Navy said a distress signal was picked up from the ship Thursday afternoon. It was located about 300 miles off the coast of Rio de Janeiro.
The Concordia is owned by West Island College International in Nova Scotia.
2010-2月14日类型：灾难——印度恐怖主义袭击
At least eight people were killed and 53 others were injured in an apparent terrorist attack in the western Indian city of Pune.
Police said the blast took place at a landmark German Bakery in a wealthy district, and that among the killed were three foreigners.
2010-1月15日类型：灾难——海地地震
Haitian President Rene Preval is pleading for assistance after Tuesday's 7.3-magnitude earthquake rocked Haiti's capital of Port-au-Prince bringing devastating catastrophe.
The quake collapsed buildings including Preval's presidential residence, parliament, the tax office, and numerous schools and hospitals.
The exact number of casualties is too early to be determined but the operation coordinator of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies estimates up to 100,000 people may have perished in the quake.
A Chinese emergency rescue team has arrived in Port-au-Prince along with
10 tons of food, equipment and medicines.
China's Red Cross Society has pledged to donate 1 million dollars in emergency aid, while the World Bank has pledged 100 million dollars to support recovery and reconstruction.
Additional search and rescue teams from other countries, including the United States, are on their way to aid in rescue efforts.
第二部分（2009年全年重点新闻）
2009-3-23 类型：灾难——日本货机爆炸
A FedEx cargo plane（货机）,crash-lands（迫降）, at Japan's Narita International Airport（日本成田国际机场）.. Red Cross officials say both pilots were killed. Television footage showed the plane explode, shortly after one of its wings, clipped the ground. Reports say the flight from Guangzhou, China, was trying to land in windy conditions.
2009-4-13 类型：国际政治——美古关系改善
U.S. President Barack Obama has lifted restrictions on travel and money transfers by Cuban- Americans to Cuba.A statement said supporting the Cuban people's desire to freely determine their future and that of their country is in the national interest of the United States.
Former Cuban Leader Fidel Castro says U.S. measures to ease restrictions on trips by Cuban-Americans to Cuba were positive, but minimum they could do.
Castro says many other measures are missing, including the elimination of the Law of Cuban Adjustment.
The 1966 law, which the U.S. exclusively applies to Cuba, grants Cubans who reach US soil automatic residency
2009-4-20 类型：国际政治——西班牙埃塔组织领导人被捕
The military leader of the Basque separatist group, ETA, has been arrested in France.
Spain's Interior Ministry says Jurdan Martitegi Lizaso was captured by the French police in southeast France as part of joint cross-border
operation with Spain.
He was the third leader of ETA to be arrested in less than six months.
2009-4-29 类型：灾难——H1N1 flu（Swine flu）开始流行
Mexico's Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova said late Tuesday that the probable death toll from swine flu in Mexico has risen to 159, up from the 152 suspected cases announced earlier Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the swine flu crisis continues to spread worldwide.
At least 16 countries have confirmed or suspected infections.
This comes, as the World Health Organization admits the virus is too widespread to be contained.
It has raised its global alert level, but stopped short of declaring a full-blown pandemic.
There are 64 confirmed cases in the United States and eight cases in Canada.
The US is reacting as if the swine flu outbreak is already a full pandemic.
Countries in Asia and the Middle East are the latest to confirm
virus-related cases.
Oil prices have dropped, amid worries; the outbreak would hurt air travel, and hit demand.
China's Ministry of Health has confirmed that a man in the southern province of Guangdong has tested positive for the H1N1 flu virus.
The patient, who recently returned from a trip to the U.S. and Canada, is the fourth confirmed case in the Chinese mainland.
A suspected case of H1N1 flu has been reported in Tibet.
A female tourist from Italy is currently being treated in a local hospital for flu-like symptoms.23 foreign nationals who traveled with her are now under quarantine at a local hotel.
2009-5-21 类型：灾难——印尼空难
The death toll of Indonesia's Air force Hercules （大力神运输机） plane crash in East Java （爪哇）reached 71, with 27 others wounded, the health ministry said on Wednesday.
Health official reported that there were 15 fatalities in Sudono Hospital with nine people injured, and there were 57 deaths at Iswahyudi Hospital,
with 19 people injured, head of crisis center of the Ministry Rustam Pakaya said.
However the identification and checking on the victims was being conducting, he said.
"It must be avoided two pieces of one body to be counted into two persons," he told Xinhua.
The final result would be announced later after the officials completed their works, said Pakaya.
The Hercules was reported to have ploughed into homes on the ground as it crashed and caught fire in Magetan. The plane C-130 Hercules Alpha 1325 was on its way from Halim Perdanakusuma Airport in Jakarta for Biak in Papua when it crashed only fours kilometer from Iswahyudi Airport.
A metro television footage showed the body of the plane was broken into two parts and burnt into flames.
2009-5-21 类型：灾难——伊拉克爆炸
Iraqi police say at least 34 people have been killed and 72 injured in a car bomb explosion in northwest Baghdad.
An explosive-laden vehicle exploded near a popular restaurant Wednesday evening, destroying at least 10 cars and damaging several shops nearby.
2009-6-2 类型：金融危机——通用破产保护
In the largest industrial bankruptcy ever seen in U.S. history, General Motors has filed for bankruptcy protection.
Hoping to reemerge（重新出现） from bankruptcy protection as a new company within 60 to 90 days, GM will close 11 U.S. factories and idle three others to slash its operating costs.
The GM bankruptcy will also lead to the loss of hundreds of dealers and suppliers as well as hundreds of thousands of jobs.
However, an overnight statement from GM said the impact of its U.S. parent's bankruptcy will be minimal to its China business.
President Barack Obama has promised an additional 30 billion dollars to the carmaker.
2009-6-2 类型：灾难——法航失事
French President Nicolas Sarkozy says chances of finding any survivors are "very small" as an Air France airliner with more than 200 people on board vanished over the Atlantic Ocean.
Air France said earlier the plane was probably hit by lightning and suffered an electrical failure while flying through a storm. The Airbus A330 left Rio de Janeiro on Sunday night for Paris.
The 228 people aboard were from 32 countries, most of whom are French and Brazilians. 8 Chinese nationals were also on board.
The French and Brazilian militaries have been searching around the area where the plane disappeared.
2009-6-2 类型：灾难——重庆山体滑坡
Rescuers have recovered s even bodies from the debris of Friday's landslide in southwest China, as the search continues to find the 65 people still missing.
More than 400 experts, technicians and rescuers have joined the operation in Chongqing.
So far they have carried out two explosions at the site to enable the drilling of holes in order to send food and air to 27 trapped miners.
2009-6-10 类型：灾难——巴基斯坦爆炸
At least 11 people have been killed in a suicide bomb blast at a five-star hotel in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar.
A United Nations worker was among the dead. Dozens of others were inured.
The huge explosion at the Pearl Continental Hotel also destroyed some 40 vehicles.
Witnesses said attackers first started firing at the guards when their vehicle was stopped at the hotel entrance.
2009-6-10 类型：国际政治——制裁朝鲜的决议
The five permanent members of the UN Security Council, along with Japan and South Korea, have reached agreement on a draft resolution（决议） in response to North Korea's recent nuclear test. The resolution includes a range of punitive measures that would severely curtail loans and money transfers to North Korea, as well as an arms embargo.
Diplomats say the earliest date for a vote at the Security Council is likely on Thursday.
2009-8-16 类型：恐怖主义——NATO喀布尔总部爆炸
A powerful suicide car bomb went off outside NATO headquarters Saturday, killing 7 Afghan civilians and wounded over 90 people.
Taliban militants who have vowed to derail the second presidential election in the post-Taliban country, claimed responsibility for the attack.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon has condemned “in the strongest possible terms” the car bomb attack in Kabul , voicing his concerns at "this indiscriminate violence" just five days before the presidential elections.
2009-8月20日类型：灾难——台风莫拉克
Taiwan authorities say more than 600 people are listed dead or missing on the island after one of the island's worst typhoons swept across the island’s south.
The official death toll stands at 153 deaths and 464 missing. Rescue work is still under way.
According to the mainland's State Council Taiwan Affairs Office , relief funds donated from the Chinese mainland to Taiwan have already totaled over 781 million yuan (or 114 million U.S. dollars) .
The mainland says it is willing to provide more relief materials and equipment, including civilian helicopters, to Taiwan.
2009-9-16类型：国际政治——鸠山上台
Prime Minister Taro Aso（麻生太郎） and 17 other Cabinet ministers resigned on Wednesday, paving the way for the launch of a new coalition government scheduled later in the day.
The Democratic Party of Japan secured a landslide victory in the August 30th lower house election.
The DPJ-led coalition with the Social Democratic Party and People's New Party is set to assume the reins of government.
At the special Diet session to be held later in the day, DPJ President Yukio Hatoyama（鸠山由纪夫）will be voted in as the new prime minister
2009-9-25类型：国际会议——G20开幕
The third G20 Summit has kicked off in Pittsburgh.
The two-day meeting will see leaders, including Chinese president Hu Jintao, coordinate their positions on global economic recovery, financial regulatory reform and world trade issues.
G20 Leaders will also coordinate on their macro economic policies to ensure the world economy will grow in a sustainable and more balanced pattern.
2009-9-30 类型：国际政治——美国和北约改善和俄罗斯关系
U.S. President Barack Obama says the United States and NATO want to improve relations with Russia, defending its new missile defense system could lead to further collaboration with Russia.
Obama spoke to reporters after a meeting with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen in the White House.
Obama reiterated the necessity of missile defense deployment in Europe, unveiling a "phased, adaptive approach" for missile defense in the continent.
2009-10-2 类型：灾难——印尼地震
A Indonesian official says the death toll from Wednesday's earthquake could reach thousands as many victims are still trapped under the rubble.
The head of the United Nations Humanitarian Affairs John Holmes has put the death toll from the 7.6-magnitude quake in West Sumatra at 1,100.
Rescue efforts have been disrupted by the damaged roads and telecommunication system and power supply which are still paralyzed.
And heavy rain was pouring down in the hardest-hit area of Padang.
A second 6.8-magnitude earthquake rocked western Indonesia Thursday while rescuers struggled to reach survivors of the previous day's quake.
2009-10-2类型：体育——里约热内卢获得2016奥运主办权
Rio de Janeiro will host the 2016 Olympics after winning a landslide victory over Madrid in the final round of voting among International Olympic Committee members on Friday. In an astonishing start to the voting, Chicago, the odds-on favorite, went out in the first round, despite receiving unprecedented support from United States President Barack Obama and the first lady. Rio will be the first South American city to host the
Games. IOC President Jacques Rogge made the announcement after three rounds of votes.
Rio won the bid after beating rivals Chicago, Tokyo and Madrid.
2009-10-8类型：旅游——国内黄金周数据
China's railways will embrace a new round of travel peak as millions of travelers start returning home after the eight-day National Day holiday.
Short-distance trips became popular, making the high-speed bullet trains packed with travelers.
The China Tourism Academy forecasted before the holiday that the number of tourists on China's mainland could surpass 200 million. Tourist income was expected to be more than 100 billion yuan, roughly 15 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 25 percent over the same period of last year.
2009-10-9类型：未定——奥巴马获得诺贝尔和平奖
President Obama was awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. The first African-American to win the White House, Obama was praised by the Norwegian Nobel Committee for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."
"Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future," the committee said. "His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world's population."
The committee also said Obama has "created a new climate in international politics."
In his short time in office, Obama has acted on a wide range of issues from the economy to terrorism and wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Obama is the fourth U.S. president to receive the award, joining presidents Jimmy Carter, Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt.
This year's peace prize nominees included 172 people and 33 organizations. The committee does not release the names of the nominees.
2009-10-20类型：UN——新的非常安理会成员被选出
Bosnia and Herzegovina（黑塞哥维纳）, Brazil, Gabon（加蓬）, Lebanon and Nigeria have been elected as new non-permanent members of the UN Security Council for two-year terms starting on Jan. 1 next year.
The five countries ran unopposed in their respective regions when voting took place at the UN General Assembly.
2009-10-27 类型：恐怖主义——巴格达大爆炸，有中国人受伤
The death toll in the massive suicide bombings in Baghdad has risen to 147.
The bombs were detonated just 50 meters away from the Chinese Embassy and the Xinhua News Agency that are both located inside the al-Mansour Hotel. Two Chinese chiefs from the hotel's Chinese restaurant were slightly injured and were treated inside the Embassy.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon and US President Barack Obama have also voiced their strong condemnation over the suicide bombings.
2009-11-29 类型：灾难——上海浦东机场货机爆炸
Three staff have died and four others were injured after a cargo plane caught fire at the Shanghai Pudong airport Saturday.
Local officials say the blaze occurred in the morning when the plane veered （转向）off the runway before it took off.
All the seven foreign staff were rushed to the People's Hospital of Pudong New Area, where three of them died and one is in serious condition.
The plane was registered at Zimbabwe. It was scheduled to fly from Shanghai to Bishkek, capital of Kyrgyzstan.
2009-11-20类型：欧盟——Van Rompuy（范龙佩）当选欧盟首任主席
Belgian Prime Minister Herman van Rompuy has been chosen as the first full-time president of the European Union and Britain's EU Trade Commissioner Catherine Ashton as foreign policy chief of the 27-nation bloc.
The two new posts（职位） are regulated by the Lisbon Treaty, which will come into force on December 1, 2009.
2009-11-29类型：恐怖主义——俄罗斯火车出轨系恐怖主义所为
Russian Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev says several people are suspected of bombing the Russian express train that derailed on Friday night.
He's called on citizens who have any related information to report it to police.
The express train, en route to St. Petersburg from Moscow, derailed Friday night, killing at least 26 people and injuring dozens more.
The 14-car train was carrying 653 passengers, including three foreigners, and 29 crew members. The Chinese embassy in Moscow said it has received no report of casualty of Chinese nationals.
A criminal case has been opened on possible terrorist attack and illegal explosives possession charges over the wreck.
Meanwhile, Emergency Situations Minister Sergei Shoigu said rescuers were concluding work at the site.
The 18 people listed as missing after the incident have not been located in the three car that went off the tracks.
2009-12-8类型：灾难——湖南小学踩踏事件
Eight teenagers were killed and 26 others injured in a stampede at a central China school Monday night.
Local authorities in Xiangtan of Hunan Province say the accident happened at a privately-run middle school.
The students were going downstairs when one of them toppled and caused dozens others to lose balance.
The injured students were in hospital.
2009-12-19类型：国际会议——哥本哈根气候大会
Delegates from 190 nations have come to Danish capital Copenhagen to decide on a unified strategy to save the world’s worsening climate. This is the largest and most important UN climate change conference in history.
So far 105 world leaders have accepted the invitation, including US President Barack Obama, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
The UN's top climate change official Yvo de Boer, says governments must agree on fast and effective implementation of immediate action on climate change;ambitious commitments to cut and limit emissions; and a long-term shared vision on low-emissions.
The conference convened Monday in an upbeat mood after a series of promises by rich and emerging economies to curb their greenhouse gases, but with major issues yet to be resolved.
At a press conference on Monday, the UN's top climate change official praised developing nations for their contributions to global efforts to rein in greenhouse gas emissions, saying commitments by developing nations could greatly encourage developed nations to make more ambitious pledges.
However on 12-19，the UN climate change conference failed to adopt the proposed Copenhagen Accord on Saturday morning.
2009-12-22 类型：体育——梅西获得世界足球先生称号
Barcelona and Argentina striker Lionel Messi was named World Player of the Year by world football's ruling body FIFA on Monday.
Messi thus succeeds Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo as the world's top player, as voted by the team captains and coaches of all national teams.
Messi has played a pivotal role in the recent success of Spanish giants Barcelona, who have won a total of six trophies in the past season, including the Champions League title and the World Club Cup trophy last week.
The Argentine forward's talents were given the ultimate thumbs-up earlier this month when he was voted the winner of the Ballon d'Or for the European Footballer of the Year.
Messi, 22, had been in contention with Barcelona teammates Andres Iniesta and Xavi, both from Spain, Brazilian striker Kaka of Real Madrid, the winner in 2007, and last year's winner Cristiano Ronaldo.
2009-12-29 类型：国际政治——伊朗再次发生骚乱
Iran's police have confirmed that five people were killed and more than 300 others arrested during clashes between anti-government protesters and security forces in Tehran.
Iran's deputy police chief Ahmad Reza Radan said Iranian police were not involved in the killings and the incidents were under investigation.
The unrest took place as millions of Iranians held rallies on Sunday across the country to commemorate the Shiite Muslim ritual of Ashura. （12月27日是伊斯兰太阴历元月10日——什叶派穆斯林最重要的宗教纪念日阿舒拉节。）