-
2016
年新题型
大学英语四级考试
新闻听力补充试卷
十二套(
36
篇)
第一部分
四级听力新题型调整说明
自
2016
年
6
月考试起,
全国大学英语四、
六级考试委员会
将对四级考试的听力试题作局部调整。具体见下
表:
试卷结构
听力理解
测试内容
短对话
8
段
短篇新闻
3
段
长对话
2
段
短文理解
3
段
短文听写
1
段
调整内容说明如下:
1
.取消短对话。
2
.取消短文听写。
3
.新增短篇新闻(
3
段)。
题量
/
7
8
10
/
测试形式
/
分值比例
/
考试时间
旧:
30
分钟
新:
25
分钟
选择题
(四选一)
7%
(
每题
1
分
)
选择题
(四选一)
8%
(
每题
1
分
)
选择题
(四选一)
< br>20%(
每题
2
分
)
/
/
第二部分
新闻听力十二套(
36
篇)
Model Test One
Section A
Directions
:In this section,
you will hear three news
reports.
At the end of each
news report,
you will hear
two or three questions. Both the news
report and the questions will be spoken only once.
After you hear a question,
you must choose the best answer from
the four choices marked A), B), C) and D).
Then mark the corresponding
letter on
Answer Sheet
1
with a single line through the
centre.
Questions 1 and 2
will be based on the following news item.
1. A) More than 5 million.
B) More than 10 million.
C)
More than 25 million.
D)
More than 30 million.
2. A) To help
identify where infectious diseases are developing.
B) To help small and medium size
businesses grow.
C) To help improve
public services.
D) To help two climate
change programs.
Questions 3 and 4 will
be based on the following news item.
3.
A) About 4.12 million units were sold.
B) They declined to their lowest level.
C) There was a decline of 10% than that
in July.
D) They indicated a start of
rise in August.
4. A) They are much
stronger than their expectations.
B)
They might reach to 4.25 million units per year.
C) They will be out of control on next
month’s report.
D) They
indicate the housing industry has recovered.
Questions 5 to 7 will be based on the
following news item.
5. A) Britain has
decided to restrict bankers’
bonuses.
B) Britain has
decided to
raise bankers’
salary.
C) Britain has decided to
curb bankers’
salary.
D) Britain has decided to
raise bankers’
bonuses.
6.
A) Those employees whose payments was over $$ 4000.
B) Those employees whose
payments was $$ 40000.
C) Those employees whose payments was
over $$ 40000.
D) Those employees whose payments was $$
4000.
7. A) Most of it would be paid in
money.
C)
Some of it would be paid in shares.
B) Most of it would be paid
in shares.
D)
Some of it would be paid in money.
Model Test Two
Section A
Questions 1 and 2 will be based on the
following news item.
1. A) 18000.
B) 80000.
C) 60000.
D) 16000.
2.
A) Meet the miners’
original demand.
C) Improve the miners’ working
conditions.
B) Offer more benefits to poor black
miners.
D) Offer a 10% pay rise.
Questions 3 and 4 will be based on the
following news item.
3. A) Chances of
guessing the correct lotto numbers.
B) Rossi’s dreams about
winning t
he lotto.
C) People’s madness for
lotto games in Italy.
D)
Foreigners’
visit to Italy for the lotto drawings.
4. A) A huge amount of money.
C) A free tour in Europe.
B) Free flights to Italy.
D) Tickets for the lotto
games.
Questions 5 to 7 will be based
on the following news item.
5. A)
Stopping renewing an agreement.
C) Renewing an agreement.
B) Blocking an
agreement.
D)
Blocking the renewal of a contract.
6.
A) It provided sufficient privacy safeguards.
C) It provided
insufficient safeguards.
B) It cannot protect privacy
sufficiently.
D)
It failed to safeguard people’s
interests
7. A) The Swift
Money Transfer System.
C) The Lisbon
Treaty.
B) The
Brussels Treaty.
D) The Swift
System.
Model Test Three
Section A
Questions 1 and 2
will be based on the following news item.
1. A) It did not reach analysts’
expectations.
C) It hinted a
decline of Ford’s
net income.
B) It was a favorable news for the
automaker.
D) It spurred a
rise for Ford’s share price.
2. A) There are small losses in North
America.
B)
Prices should be raised in European market.
C) Another
product line should be set up in Europe.
D) Earnings
continued to be good in North America.
Questions 3 and 4 will be based on the
following news item.
3. A) The
development of French engineering firms.
B) Working and living
condition in the city of Dijon.
C) The environmentally-friendly
building in France.
D) A
tour of the landmark buildings in France.
4. A) Metal skirt.
B) Solar panel.
C) Sun shield.
D)
Sandwich.
Questions 5 to 7 will be
based on the following news item.
5. A)
The International Space Station.
C)
The Baikonur Cosmodrome.
B)
The Siberia Vessel.
D) The Progress 45.
6. A) On
Sunday.
B) On Monday.
C) On Tuesday.
D) On Wednesday
7. A) At 4:02 p.m.
B)
At 4:11 p.m.
C) At 4:20 p.m.
D)
At 6:11 p.m.
Model Test
Four
Section A
Questions 1
and 2 will be based on the following news item.
1. A) They made more efforts to find
more new cases.
B) They tried to
prevent the disease out of the capital.
C) They held a public movement on
hygiene information.
D) They boosted
the accuracy and promptness of their report.
2. A) It’s the first time that
ingestion disease has broken out in
Haiti.
B) The death rate of
ingestion disease is too high.
C) Death
number will keep increasing for a long time.
D) Ingestion disease could
join other local diseases in Haiti.
Questions 3 and 4 will be based on the
following news item
3. A)
The children of the international diplomatic
corps.
B) The program of International
Baccalaureate schools.
C) The school
district in the suburb of Detroit, Michigan.
D) “Mother Earth” class in
IB elementary schools.
4. A)
Subject areas are separated.
C)
“Mother Earth” class covers math.
B) Classes are held in the open air,
D) Teachers prepare classes
together.
Questions 5 to 7 will be
based on the following news item
5. A) White ash.
C) Poison gas.
B) High temperature water.
D) Hurricane.
6. A) Less than 10.
B)
About 20.
C) About 120.
D) More than
750.
7. A) They have found too many
dead bodies.
B) They want
to persuade people to move away.
C)
They don’t know what might happen next.
D) They need space to carry out the
research.
Model Test Five
Section A
Questions 1 and 2
will be based on the following news item.
1. A) The Angeles National Forest.
C) The tools used in fire fighting.
B) The fire
fighting in Los Angeles.
D)
The protection of Mount Wilson.
2. A)
Tractors and hand tools.
C) The slightly higher
humidity.
B) Helicopters and airplanes.
D) The
20-kilometer fire lines.
Questions 3
and 4 will be based on the following news item.
3. A) It is the new health care law.
C)
It is the new federal budget law.
B) It
is the short-term spending law.
D)
It is the federal operation law.
4. A)
It will increase the government’s economic
burden.
B) It will lead to a
partial shutdown of the US government.
C) It will give rise to a clash between
the two major political parties.
D) It will oblige people to buy
insurance policies unwillingly.
Questions 5 to 7 will be based on the
following news item.
5. A) The
country’s big labor union.
C) The country’s big
business.
B) The country’s
big government.
D) The country’s big
police.
6. A) They blocked
the traffic.
C) They clashed with community groups.
B) They occupied New York.
D) They
controlled too much wealth.
7. A) It
has now spread to other Asian cities.
B) The protesters have camped in New
York’s cultural district.
C) Members of labor unions joined the
movement on Wednesday.
D) The protesters represent the
wealthiest 99% of Americans.
Model Test Six
Section A
Questions 1 and 2 will be based on the
following news item.
1. A) South
Africa’s multiracial history.
B) Musical New
Year’s tradition in South Africa.
C) Southeast
Asia slaves in Cape Town.
D) Cape Town’s mixed race or “colored”
residents.
2. A) The
dockworkers.
C) The Dutch colonists.
B) European
minstrels.
D) Cape Town’s residents.
Questions 3 and 4 will be based on the
following news item.
3. A) Monitoring
all banks in the country.
C) Providing advice to the President.
B) Ensuring a
safe economic policy.
D)
Offering enough money to the government.
4. A) She once taught at Berkeley
University.
B)
She got tenure at Harvard University.
C) She has a Nobel Prize in
Economic Theory.
D) She has been working in the Federal
Reserve for over 10 years.
Questions 5
to 7 will be based on the following news item.
5. A) To deal with labor unrest in the
country.
B) To
worsen the relationship between police and
protesters.
C)
To suppress the legal protests.
D) To protect the garment
factory workers.
6. A) In two
industrial complexes.
C)
In the garment factories of Chittagong.
B) In the
southern Bangladesh.
D) In the capital Dhaka.
7.
A) It will worsen the relationship between workers
and security forces.
B) It will worsen the relationship
between workers and factory owners.
C) It will worsen the
relationship between union leaders and legitimate
protesters.
D)
It will worsen the relationship between government
and protesters.
Model Test
Seven
Section A
Questions 1
and 2 will be based on the following news item.
1. A) Energy and power shortage in
Kenya.
B)
Emergency measures for the livestock in Kenya.
C) Rockefeller
Foundation’s assistance in Kenya.
D) Kenya’s
emergency plan on food and water
shortage.
2. A) The local
communities.
C) The civil society.
B) The army.
D) The power company.
Questions 3 and 4 will be based on the
following news item.
3. A) When he was
skating in the French Alps.
C) When he was skiing in
the French Alps.
B) When he was skating in the German
Alps.
D) When he was
skiing in the German Alps.
4. A) He is
now in a hospital in Moutiers.
B) He is having a
psychological test now.
C) He has an English friend who is a
trauma specialist.
D) He was taken to a local hospital by
helicopter.
Questions 5 to 7 will be
based on the following news item
5. A)
They were between Christians and Muslims.
B) They were
between local people and Muslims.
C) They were between local
people and Christians.
D) They were between local army and
Muslims.
6. A) It is a large commercial
area to the north.
C) It was burnt
to the ground.
B) It was under military control.
D) There were
no debris and smoldering fires.
7. A)
At least 100.
B) 100.
C)
At least 1000.
D) 1000.
Model Test Eight
Section A
Questions 1 and 2
will be based on the following news
item
1. A) Offering services
to help people stop smoking.
B) Raising
taxes.
C) Warning people about the
dangers of tobacco.
D) Enforcing bans
on tobacco advertising.
2. A) More than
5 million. B) More than 8 million.
C) More than l billion.
D)
More than 10 billion
Questions 3 and 4
will be based on the following news item
3. A) The discovery of voice recording.
C)
Les Paul’s musical experience a
nd
death.
B) The development of guitar and
popular music.
D) Les Paul’s
own radio show in Chicago.
4. A) When he was 10 years old.
C) When he was a host in Chicago.
B) When he was 13 years old.
D) When he was at a local restaurant.
Questions 5 to 7 will be based on the
following news item.
5. A) Sleeping.
B) Holding a meeting.
C) Indulging
themselves.
D)
Quarrelling.
6. A) Soldiers.
B) Teachers.
C) Lawyers.
D) Businessmen.
7. A) Fire.
C) Body bomb.
B) Mobile phone signals.
D)
Light.
Model Test Nine
Section A
Questions 1 and 2
will be based on the following news item.
1. A) The fire erupted in southern
Australia.
B) There may be
more victims.
D) The
temperatures have reached 57 degrees Celsius.
2. A) 108.
B) 47.
C) Up to 400.
D) Dozens of.
Questions 3 and 4 will be based on the
following news item.
3. A) It is set to
expire on December 31.
C) It created
120000 jobs.
B)
It raised the unemployment rate.
D) It made middle class
families benefited.
4. A) When
unemployment rate dropped.
C) When he made
his weekly address.
B) Before Congress
went home for the holidays.
D)
Before private sectors created more jobs.
Questions 5 to 7 will be based on the
following news item.
5. A) Top
industrial countries met in the US for world
finance.
B)
Developing economies met in the US for a summit on
finance.
C) G20
leaders met in the US for a summit on future world
culture.
D)
Developing and top industrial economies met in the
US for a summit on finance.
6. A) 5
billion.
B) 50 billion.
C)
500 billion.
D) 5000 billion.
C) The entire
towns have been lost,
7. A) When to avoid a repeat of the
financial crisis.
B) When to inject money without harming
a recovery.
C)
How to withdraw that support without harming a
recovery.
D)
How to inject money without harming a recovery.
Model Test Ten
Section A
Questions 1 and 2
will be based on the following news item.
1. A) On the first Monday in November.
C)
On the first Monday in December.
B) On the first Tuesday in
November.
D) On the first Tuesday in December.
2. A) Frans Baleni.
B)
Ken Cuccinelli.
C) Terry McAuliffe.
D) Chris
Christie.
Questions 3 and 4 will be
based on the following news item.
3. A)
The general US economic activity.
C) The lower savings rate
in America.
B)
Consumer spending in US economy.
D) The government’s effort on
economy.
4. A) The lower
savings rate in four years.
C)
Special payments by the government.
B) The spending boost by
Americans,
D)
PNC Financial Services Group’s support.
Questions 5 to 7 will be based on the
following news item.
5. A) Labor
Department officials.
C) Lawmakers.
B) Civilians.
D) The army.
6.
A) 0.3%.
B) 3%.
C) 9.7%.
D) 10%.
7. A) Negative.
B) Positive.
C) Hopeless.
D)
Enlightening.
Model Test
Eleven
Section A
Questions 1
and 2 will be based on the following news item
1. A) The women’s marathon at the
historic Brandenburg Gate.
B) The final day of the Championships
competition.
C) Nick Symmonds’ win of
the 800
-meter semifinal heat.
D) T
he final of the men’s
four
-by-400-meter relay.
2
p>
.
A)3
.
B)4
.
C)7
.
D)8
.
Questions 3 and 4 will be based on the
following news item
3. A) It might
hinder people from going shopping.
C)
It might be harmful to some people’s
health.
B) It could cause
serious traffic accident.
D)
It could add more holiday atmosphere.
4. A) In the middle of winter.
C) During Christmas.
B) Just
before Christmas.
D)
After the Christmas holiday.
Questions
5 to 7 will be based on the following news item
5, A) Japan.
C) The United
States,
B) South Korea.
D) Australia.
6. A) Trade imbalances.
C) Regional
disputes.
B) Unstable currency
values.
D)
New members’
applications.
7.
A) 9.
B)
19.
C) 20.
D)
21.
8.
Model Test
Twelve
Section A
Questions 1
and 2 will be based on the following news item.
1. A) The election in Kenya.
C) The
diplomatic relations with other country.
B) The economy
and democracy.
D) The peace in the
country.
2. A) About 30.
B)
More than 300.
C)
Around 3000.
D)
More than 5000.
Questions 3 and 4 will
be based on the following news item.
3.
A) Positive.
B) Reluctant.
C) Optimistic.
D)
Careless.
4. A) 400 million dollars and
100 military experts.
C) 140 million dollars and 100 military
experts.
B) 140
million dollars and 500 soldiers.
D)
400 million dollars and 500 soldiers.
Questions 5 to 7 will be based on the
following news item.
5. A) Negotiations
between developing and industrialized countries.
B) A struggle
to reach a new global agreement on climate change.
C) The deadlock
of United Nations climate talks.
D) A list of demands by
developing nations.
6. A) It’s a global
agreement on climate change.
B) It expired
at the end of last month.
C) It fell into deadlock and continued
into the second round.
D) The United Nations climate talks
have made a replacement for it.
7. A)
Crafting a replacement for the Kyoto Protocol.
B) Reducing
emissions of greenhouse gases.
C) Stopping industrial
emissions of greenhouse gases.
D) Coping with the effects
of climate change respectively.
第三部分
答案解析及听力原文
Model Test One
Section A
Questions 1 and 2 will be based on the
following news item.
The
Internet
search
engine
company
called
Google
has
announced
(1)
it
will
give
more
than
twenty-five
million dollars in money and
investments to help the poor. The money will be
spent over the next five to ten years
in several areas, including poverty
reduction and private business development.
Aleem Walji works for -the
part of the company that gives money to good
causes. He spoke to us
from San
Francisco. California. He said (2) the first
project to receive money will help identify where
infectious
diseases
are
developing.
In
Southeast
Asia
and
Africa,
for
example.
Google.
org
will
work
with
partners
to
strengthen early warning systems and
take action against growing health threats.
1. How much money will
Google spend in helping the poor?
C)
【精析】由句
(1)
可知,
< br>Google
会拿出
2500
多
万美金以现金和投资的形式帮助贫困人群。
2. What
is the first project of the Company intended to
do?
A)
【精析】由句
(2)
p>
可知,第一个资金援助项目用于帮助确定传染病散播的区域。
Questions 3 and 4 will be based on the
following news item.
(3)
Existing
home
sales
climbed
for
the
second
month
in
a
row
in
September,
fueling
some
hope
that
a
housing
recovery
is
underway
. Sales of
previously owned homes rose 10% to a seasonally
adjusted annual rate of
4.53
million
units
last
month,
the
National
Association
of
Realtors
reported
Monday.
That
was
up
from
a
4.12
million rate in August.
The
report came in much stronger than expective. (4)
Economists had forecast sales to
edge
up to
an annual
rate of 4.25
million units, according to
consensus
estimates
市场平均预估
from Briefing. com.
The gains of the
past two months were
welcome news, after home sales sank 27% to their
lowest level in 15 years in July. While
some
economists
say
a
housing
recovery
is
underway,
a
forec
losure
丧失抵押品赎回权
moratorium
暂停
in
October may have
a negative impact on next month’s
report.
3. What
can be concluded from existing home sales in
August?
D)
【精析】
由句<
/p>
(3)
可知,现存房屋销售在
9
月份保持连续两个月的增长势头,由此可推知,销售量于
8
月
份开始增长。
4.
What did the economists think about the sales?
B)
【精析】
由句
(
4)
可知,经济学家们预测销售会渐渐升至年均
425
万套。
Questions 5 to 7
will be based on the following news item.
(5)
Britain has
announced strict measures to curb bankers’
bonuse
s. (6) There will be a
one of fifty percent
tax on all
payments over 40000 dollars. The move follows
criticism of sizable bonuses banks are planning to
pay
while receiving government aid.
An official of the
British
banker association
Angela Knight said she’s
concerned by the decision.
“When it
comes
to
the
broad
issues
of
pay
in
bonuses,
we’d
already
doubted
with
that.
We
put
it
into
regulation
that
contracted bonuses
could be differed for two or three years paid on
consistency of performance only and (7) the
maj
ority of that bonus would
be paid in shares.” She said.
5. What is mainly talked
about in the news item?
A)
【精
析】由句
(5)
可知,英国出台了严格限制银行家分红的相关措
施。
6. Whom will be levied on
as for the tax?
C)
【精析】由句
(6)
可知,对所有收入超过四万美元的银行家,超出部分加收
50%
的税。
7.
What do we know about the b
ankers’
bonus?
B)
【精析】由句
p>
(7)
可知,大部分奖金是以股票形式发放的。
Model Test Two
Section A
Questions 1 and 2
will be based on the following news item.
(1) Eighty thousand gold
miners have begun a strike in South Africa. As the
strike began the national union
of
mine
workers
said
it
would
accept
a
10%
raise
instead
of
their
original
demand
of
60%.
(2)
The
General
Secretary of the National Union of
Mineworkers, Frans Baleni told the BBC that if the
gold companies offered a
10% wage
increase, this would be accepted and the strike
would be called off.
Despite
this
development,
the
main
gold
mining
union
has
also
issued
a
hard-hitting
statement,
saying
the
strike
would change the gold mining landscape forever. It
said it was aware of the devastating impact
industrial
action
would have
on the economy, calling it largely a white man’s
economy with no benefits for
poor black
mine
workers.
1.
How many gold miners took part in the strike in
South Africa?
B)
【精析】
< br>由句
(1)
可知,南非有
8
p>
万名金矿矿工参加了罢工。
2.
What should the gold companies do to call off the
strike?
D)
【精析】
由句<
/p>
(2)
可知,南非全国矿工联盟
(Nat
ional
Union
of
Mineworkers,
NUM)
的秘书长巴兰尼
(Frans
Baleni)
告诉
BBC
,如果金矿企业为工人加薪
10%
,他们就会接受
,罢工也将会被取消。
Questions 3 and 4
will be based on the following news item.
(3 - 1) Italians have been trying for
months to guess the
SuperEnalotto’s
winning six number
combination. No
one
has
managed,
since
January.
This
has
driven
the
winning
prize
to
an
all-time
high
for
Europe.
Chances
of
guessing the correct combination are an
astronomical 622-million-to-one. Fausto Rossi is a
former bank employee
who is now
retired. He plays lotto every week. He says he
dreams that he will win. And, the dreams continue
when
you ask players what they would do
if they won such a huge amount of money. Rossi
says that some people are
prone to lose
their minds if they find out they have won such an
enormous jackpot.
(3 - 2)
Tourists in Italy have also been playing the
SuperEnalotto. And, foreigners have been coming
across
the
border
(边境)
to try their luck,
as well. They have been arriving from Slovenia,
France and Austria. In Germany,
a major
tabloid newspaper has sponsored a competition, (4)
awarding a chance to win free flights to Italy
simply to
buy tickets for the lotto
drawings.
3. What does this
news report mainly talk about?
C)
【精析】
根据句
(3-1)
和句
(3-2)
可知,意大利人六个月以来一直猜测赢得“超级
乐透”的六个号码的组合,
而且在意大利的游客也一直在玩“超级乐透”。由此可知,新
闻的主题是意大利彩票竞猜的狂热状况。
4. What’s
the award provided by the German tabloid
newspaper?
B)
【精析】
根据句
(4)
可知,其奖品为免费提供
飞往意大利的机票。
Questions 5 to 7
will be based on the following news item.
(5)
A
key
committee
of
Euro
MPs
has
moved
to
block
the
renewal
of
an
agreement
which
allows
US
anti-terror
officials
to
access
Europeans
bank
data.
The
European
Parliament’s
civil
liberties
committee
recommended that the full parliament
reject the interim nine-month deal between the EU
and US. (6) MEPs said
the
deal
negotiated
by
EU
governments
provided
insufficient
privacy
safeguards.
The
US
can
access
the
Swift
Money
Transfer
System,
based
in
Brussels.
The
European
Parliament
plans
to
vote
on
the
EU
and
US
data
agreement next Thursday. (7)
The Parliament’s press service says
that if MEPs block it,
they will be
making use of
a new power under the
Lisbon Treaty to veto international agreements.
5.
What is the decision of the Euro MPs? <
/p>
A)
【精析】
根据句
(5)
可知,欧洲议员核心委员会已经决定停止一项协议的续约,该协议允许美反恐
官员进
入欧洲银行数据库。
6.
Why was the deal rejected?
B)
【精析】
根据句
(6)
可知,议员们
认为欧盟政府协商的协议不能充分保护隐私。
7.
What will the MEPs use to
veto international agreements?
C)
【精析】
根据句
(7)
可知
,据议会新闻服务处透露,如果议员阻止该协议,他们将会利用里斯本条约框架
内的新规
定行使对国际协议的否决权。
Model Test Three
Section A
Questions 1 and 2 will be based on the
following news item.
(1)
Ford Motor reported record
third-
quarter net income Tuesday, far
exceeding analysts’
expectations and
continuing a surge in momentum for the
recovering automaker. Dearborn, Mich-based Ford
posted net income of
$$ 1.7
billion, or 43 cents per share, up from $$ 997
million, or 29 cents a share, a year earlier.
Analysts surveyed by
Thomson Reuters
expected Ford to report a 38-cent-a-share
profit. Ford’s previous best
third
-quarter net income
was
$$ 1.1 billion reported in 1997.
The
automaker
cited
a
strong
product
line,
momentum
in
North
America
and
continued
success
at
Ford
Credit as
areas of growth. “It’s been the same story all
year long. (2)
Better pricing in North
America, and that
offsets the small
losses in Europe. The North American market is a
real earnings
driver.”
said
David Whiston, an
automotive analyst at
Morningstar.
1. What do we
know about Ford Motor’s report?
B)
【精析】
根据句
(1)<
/p>
可知,福特汽车第三季度的报告指出,其净收益在汽车制造业的复苏背景下继续保持
激增的势头。
2. What can
be inferred from David Whiston?
D)
【精析】
根据句
(2)
可
知,
David Whiston
认为福特汽车在北美的售价弥
补了其在欧洲的损失,北美市场是
真正的收益市场。
Questions 3 and 4 will be based on the
following news item.
(3)
A
French
engineering
firm
has
built
what
is
being
hailed
as
the
world’s
most
environmentally
sound
building, a structure
that produces more energy than it consumes. The
ten-story building is located in Dijon, and it
is part of concerted effort to put the
city on a sustainable energy path.
The
Elithis
tower
is
a
striking
sight
in
the
heart
of
Dijo
n’s
business
district.
Black,
with
a
red
metal
skirt-which
actually is a sun shield-
it is
sandwiched between the city’s opera house and a
hotel. But the
tower is
more
than just another handsome landmark-from the
ground floor to (4) its solar paneled roof, it is
an experiment
in a greener way of
working and living.
Francois
Pocheron, a senior manager for the Elithis
engineering firm that designed the tower, takes
visitors on
a tour of the building.
Just about every
aspect of its design
and construction is aimed at conserving energy and
using natural elements like sunlight
and rain.
3. What is this
news report mainly about?
C)
【精析】
根据句
(3)
可知,一家法国
的工程公司建立了一个被誉为世界上最环保的建筑,它产生的能量要
比消耗的多。结合下
文对这座建筑物的介绍可知,新闻的主题是法国的一座节能大厦。
4. What is the roof of the Elithis
tower made of?
B)
【精析】
根据句
(4)
可知,其屋顶是由太阳能电池板制成的。
Questions 5 to 7 will be
based on the following news item.
An
unmanned Russian rocket successfully lifted off
with a cargo of supplies for the crew of the
International
Space Station on Sunday,
two months after a similar rocket crashed in
Siberia. (5) (6) The Progress 45 freighter is
slated
to
dock
with
the
station
on
Wednesday
with
three
tons
of
food,
fuel,
water
and
spare
parts
for
the
US,
Russian
and
Japanese
crew
of
the
station.
(7)
The
vessel
took
off
from
Russia
’s
Baikonur
Cosmodrome
in
Kazakhstan at 4:11 p.m.
(6:11 a.m. Eastern Time) and reached its
preliminary orbit in nine minutes, the US space
agency NASA said.
5. What is the name of the unmanned
Russian rocket?
D)
【精析】
根据句
(5)
可知,该运载飞船的名字是
The Progress 45
。
6. When is the freighter supposed to
reach the International Space Station?
D)
【精析】
根据句
(6)
可知,该运载飞船预计周三与国际空间站对接。
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