听力教程4-答案-施心远(1—13)

1.在美国，大学教育的费用会很贵。

2.费用的上涨使越来越多的美国家庭通过借钱来支付上大学的费用。

3.有各种各样的联邦贷款和私人贷款可供学生挑选。

4.在这些贷款品种中，有些品种的利率将从7月1日起上调。

5.人们越来越担心，很多学生将背负沉重的债务从大学毕业。

?News Item 1

A: …about China’s ambitious space program.

B:

1. Landing spot: in the remote grasslands of Inner Mongolia

2. Significance: a source of national pride and international prestige (威望) Future plan

1. 1) Time: 2007

2) Goal: The astronauts will attempt a space walk.

2. Focus of further development: the capability to rendezvous and dock with

other spacecraft

3. Recruitment of astronauts: to recruit female astronauts in the near future.

?News Item 2

There are still question marks though over the stability of the recovery. The property* sector* is showing signs of overheating. The government this week announced measures to try to cool it. At the same time officials decided to extend tax subsidies* for purchases of small vehicles and appliances suggesting that some here still believe Chinese manufacturers need government support.

Growth was strongest in heavy industries such as coal, steel, power generation and automobiles. Consumer prices rose in November for the first time since February. But the rise was small and probably reflected higher food prices caused by early snowstorms which destroyed crops and disrupted transport.

A: … about the growth of China’s economy.

?News Item 3

A: … about China’s large and growing trade with and aid to Africa.

B：

1.In many African capitals, the main football stadium is likely to have been built

with Chinese aid money.

2.It is estimated that Sino-African trade, and aid, amounts to as high as 12 billion

dollars a year.

3.The links between China and Africa could grow to challenge the post-colonial

links between Europe and Africa.

4.On the meeting in Addis Ababa, China promised to cancel debts, grant duty-free

access into China for African products and increase Chinese investments in Africa.

1.有些人担心他们并未从所吃的食物中获取足够的维生素。

2.因此他们服用大剂量维生素制剂。

3.他们认为这些维生素制剂能够增进健康、预防疾病。

4.医学专家没有发现多少能证明这些制剂中的绝大多数能保障或增进健康的证据。

5.但是他们注意到其中一些确实有助于预防疾病。

?News Item 1

A: …about a meeting in Hong Kong trying to reach a new agreement on global trade.

B:

1.Representatives of nearly 150 countries meeting in Hong Kong are still trying to

reach a new agreement on global trade.

2.For many countries the biggest prize they realistically hoped for was a date for

ending the European Union subsidies to help farmers sell their produce on world markets.

3.An EU senior official says they are prepared to name the date as part of a wider

deal.

4.The earliest possible date will be 2010, and 2013 will be the latest date if an

agreement is not reached on this meeting.

5.The United States trade representative Rob Portman says he is trying to be

accommodating, which means the United States will possibly accept the new date. ?News Item 2

A: … about a new consensus reached by the G20 in tackling global problems.

B:

Total amount well over a trillion dollars

Resources available to to treble to seven hundred and fifty billion dollars Special drawing rights increase a tenfold increase

Regulation on financial firms curbs on executive pay and new oversight of large hedge funds

?News Item 3

A: … about the opening of Copenhagen (哥本哈根) climate summit.

B: F F T T F

Unit 3

1.几乎在所有的国家里，女孩子都比男孩子得分高。

2.男女差异一直是激烈争论的焦点。

3.文化和经济的影响起着重要作用。

4.但是最新的发现提示，答案也许在于男女大脑的差异。

5.这些包括学习速度上的差异。

?News Item 1

A: …about the Somali pirates’ strike.

B:

1.Whether this latest attempted hijacking was the promised revenge for the killing

of three Somali pirates by the US navy isn’t clear.

2.No, the pirates haven’t been deterred.

3.Because the financial rewards for a successful hijacking remain so great and

Somalia remains so lawless.

4.At any one time there are only fifteen to eighteen international warships in the

area to police an expanse of sea covering more than a million square kilometers.

5.It may be because of the relatively small scale of the problem.

?News Item 2

A: … about Obama’s military plan in Afghanistan.

B: F T T F F T

?News Item 3

There were traffic jams on the road north, families heading to Gaza City to reunite with friends and relatives. Long lines of cars backed up at the makeshift* roadblocks the Israelis have left behind. But the tanks are gone, only the deep tracks remain.

There were buildings pitted with* Israeli tank rounds*; from the holes that have been punched in the walls it was clear there had also been snipers* waiting for them. North of Khan Younis we saw some of the Qassam fighters returning home, their rifles slung* lazily around their shoulders.

For three weeks the Israelis pounded the tunnels that run beneath the perimeter* wall but last night we met people who insist that some of these tunnels are still open and still some fuel is being pumped from the Egyptian side. If the border crossings remain close, say the Palestinians, these tunnels are their only link to the outside world.

A: … about fragile (脆弱的，易毁的)peace that returns to Gaza.

B:

traffic jams reunite with friends and relatives deep tracks tank rounds waiting for returning home

tunnels open fuel only link Unit 4

1.克拉拉·巴顿极大地改变了许多人的生活。

2.她前往战场护理伤员。

3.她写信支持建立美国红十字会组织。

4.美国国会签署了国际红十字公约。

5.今天，她的工作对于成千上万遭遇困难的人来说仍然很重要。

?News Item 1

A: …about a bomb attack in Russia.

B:

Incident:a bomber drove a truck loaded with explosives…local police headquarters…were standing to attention…receive their orders

Impact:set the building alight…the vehicles…bringing the region under control The president’s claim: the West…blas t…reclaim its status as a world power

?News Item 2

A: … about Malaysia’s street crime problem.

B:

1.Malaysia’s Prime Minister, Najib Razak, announced ambitious targets last week to

tackle street crime.

2.He wants a 20% fall by this time next year.

3.Retired policemen are being brought back and members of Malaysia’s people’s

volunteer corps are being enlisted to fight on the frontline. They’ll join police on street patrols.

4.Of 500 volunteers who were sent for assessment, just 142 were fit enough.

5.The rest were too fat, unfit or had poor overall presentation and grooming.

6.Street crime, particularly mugging, is seen as a serious problem in Malaysia’s

major cities.

7.The opposition has called for the country’s top policeman to be replaced because

of the failure to tackle the issue.

Unit 5

1.股票，债券，土地——人们由于不同原因进行不同的投资。

2.但是所有的投资者都有一个共同的目标。

3.他们希望通过投资获得比投入的资金更多的货币回报。

4.他们今天的投资为将来经济的发展提供了资金。

5.投资者必须决定自己在多长的时间范围内承受多大的风险。

News Item 1

Scientists have produced evidence showing dramatically that the current temperature rise there is highly unusual. For most of the last two thousand years, the Arctic slowly cooled, a consequence of variations in the Earth's orbit.

But over the last century, the cooling abruptly reversed, and the region is now warmer than at any tim e in the 2,000-year record. Writing in the journal Science, the researchers say this shows how quickly the Arctic responds to climatic changes.

A: …about the fact that Arctic is the warmest in two millennia.

?News Item 2

A: …about WWF’s accusation against European toilet and tissue paper manufacturers of contributing to global deforestation by not using enough recycled material.

B:

1.More than a quarter of a million trees are being discarded as tissue paper each day.

2.The report found alarmingly low levels of recycled fibers in the vast majority of

products by European toilet and tissue paper manufacturers.

3.The fibers are taken from natural forests in South Africa, Asia, Europe and across

the Americas.

4.Most of the companies have failed to take effective measures to prevent illegal or

controversial timber from being used in their products.

?News Item 3

A: …about the warnings from scientists that climate change can drive some species of migrating animals towards extinction.

B:

Findings: Climate change can drive some species of migrating animals towards extinction.

Reason: … difficult to f ollow their usual migration patterns.

Example: 1. The spreading Sahara Desert…make their epic journey from Southern Africa.

2. Rising sea levels…many coastal habitats .

3. …some turtle species becoming entirely female.

Unit 6

1.老师们对于博客的使用越来越多。

2.现在很多因特网服务商都提供免费、便捷的制作个人网页的方式。

3.教育工作者并不是从一开始就涉足博客的。

4.很多人担心隐私和安全问题。

5.但是现在在因特网上可以找到成千上万个教师博客网页。

?News Item 1

A: …about the world’s first commercially cloned dog.

B: F T F F T

?News Item 2

A: … about US future space travel.

B：Five years ago President Bush set out his lofty vision(极高的设想)of sending astronauts back to the Moon by the year 2020. It was meant to be the staging post*(中转站) for the next frontier —a manned landing on Mars. Now a panel of space experts says that's pretty much pie in the sky*(空想的计划).

Their report, commissioned by President Obama, says the current US human spaceflight programme appears to be on an unsustainable trajectory*. It suggests the only way forward is to increase the funding of NASA (美国国家航空航天局) by billions of dollars, or to cooperate with private companies now embarking on commercial space flights.

The panel says visits to Near-Earth Objects such as asteroids* are far more realistic too. The experts also argue for keeping the International Space Station going till 2020, rather than pulling the plug in six years' time.

?News Item 3

A: … about the research that shows working protects against dementia.

B:

1.The study looked at nearly 400 men who developed Alzheimer’s disease. It

assessed the time they spent in full-time education, the type of work they did and the point at which they retired.

2.No, the researchers detected no link between the onset of dementia and education

or occupation.

3.Every extra year at work was associated with a six week delay in Alzheimer’s.

4.To lower dementia risk.

5.Much more research is needed in order to understand how to delay or prevent

dementia.

Unit 7

1.每年在美国有两百多万对新人结婚。

2.这些婚庆要花去八百多亿美元。

3.这还不包括新人的蜜月旅行。

4.根据一项古老的传统，新娘在结婚那天必须穿戴一样旧的东西、一样新的东

西、一样借来的东西和一样蓝色的东西。

5.据说这四样东西可以带来好运。

?News Item 1

A: …about the decline of this year’s seal hunt in Canada .

B:

1.Because of the sharp decline of market price for seal pelts.

2.100 dollars

3.The depressed value of the Russian rouble and the subsequent erosion of one of

Canada’s largest markets for seal products, is partially to blame for the decline in numbers.

4.The prospect of a European Union ban on seal products and growing international

disdain for the hunt is becoming a major factor in its near collapse.

5.The European parliament passed the ban in May.

?News Item 2

A: … about the produce price index and its indications for economy.

B：The producer price index is a measurement of prices paid for produced or manufactured items here in the United States. And this number came out today indicating a growth that was greater than we've seen dating back to 1990 and it also tends to reflect the growth in the consumer price index (消费价格指数)that we saw on Friday. That also indicated that the inflation is heating up(加剧) and it is higher than we've seen since January of 1991. And now investors are worried that the Fed* could have to be more aggressive about raising interest rates to slow inflation which in fact might end up slowing corporate earnings (公司收益).

?News Item 3

A: …about the dispute over the cut of government subsidies the European farmers receive for growing sugar beet.

B:

1.The German farmers are arguing that a better deal for sugar farmers in Africa is

going to cost them their livelihoods.

2.The European Union agreed to reduce by almost 40% the guaranteed price

currently paid to Europe’s sugar producers.

3.They argued that their own sugar industries were being adversely affected by the

distortions in the world market caused by European subsidies.

4.The EU plan has unsurprisingly proved very unpopular with Europe’s sugar beet

growers.

5.Germany’s Food Industry Union said the plan would spoil the ante of 46,000

sugar beet farmers and threaten more than 26,000 employees in the sugar industry. Unit 8

1.年龄最大的一批在美国二战后生育高峰出生的人今年将满六十岁。

2.美国和许多工业化国家的退休人口都在增长，而这种增长预计还将持续。

3.当这一代人到达传统退休年龄——65岁时，他们的人数将占美国人口的百分

之二十。

4.战后生育高峰年代出生的人拥有住房的比例高于全国平均水平，其中四分之

一的人拥有一处以上的房产。

5.很多战后生育高峰年代出生的人觉得自己现在还很健康，并且相信如果继续

保持积极的心态，他们将更加长寿，生活得更愉快。

?News Item 1

A: …about a research which has found chemical evidence to support the view that those deprived of affection when young find later life much harder to cope with .

B:

Hypothesis: Children deprived of affection when young find later life much harder to cope with

Method: an orphanage…being taken in by families with their family-raised peers Findings: 1. very depressed…regulating stress …managing social interactions

2. far less cuddled adoptive parents relaxing ?News Item 2

A: …about the success o f Harry Potter series and its impact on the publishing industry.

B:

1.Because the Harry Potter fans are waiting for the arrival of the latest book in the

series, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

2.They are people from different parts of Britain, including the young and not so

young, and some teenagers who have traveled over from the Netherlands.

3.Bloomsbury, the books’ publishers, are also excited about the newest Potter tale.

4.Bloomsbury’s profit forecast is 35 million dollars for this year.

5.The previous five books in the series have sold more than 250 million copies

worldwide and have been translated into 62 languages.

6.According to Lesley Miles, marketing director of the book chain Waterstones,

there has been a 10-fold increase in children’s book publishing across the board, and that’s largely thanks to Potter.

?News Item 3

A: … about Slumdog Millionaire, the winner of the Golden Globe.

B: T F F F T T