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2021年广西英语学考听力原文免费听力原文Text 1M：I’ve got two tickets for the movie.Would you like to go with me?W：I’m sorry.I was asked to have a discussion with my cousin about his son’s education.Text 2M：How much are the tickets?W：4 dollars for adults and children are half－price.M：OK.I’d like two adult tickets and two children’s tickets.Text 3M：Why didn’t you attend the class?W：I’m sorry.But my brother was hit by a car and I had to care for him in the hospital.Text 4M：Hi，Mar ia.I’ve heard there is an interesting film.Shall we see it tonight?W：I’d like to.But Mr.Black told me to type some important notices and send them to him by 9：00 pm.M：The job is the most important.Text 5W：Manhattan Square，please.M：All right，madam.When are we supposed to be there?W：I’d like to go around the city，if you don’t mind.Text 6M: Hello! This is City Police Station.W：I need help.My house has been broken into.M：Can you tell me some details?W：When I came home，I found my door broken，and my money，my jewelry，and my camera were gone.M：Was there anybody home?W：No.My son，husband，and I all happened to be out having our dinner after work.M：What is your address?W：No.13，Downing Street.Could you come over at once?M：OK.Don’t worry，madam.We’ll be there in 10 minutes.Text 7M：Hi.What can I do for you?W：I’m hunting for a part－time job.M：Then，you’ve come to the right place.Our office is aimed at helping those like you to find jobs.W：Glad to hear that.I really need to earn some money for my education.M：How many hours would you like to work?W：Ten to twenty hours a week.M：And when are you free to work?W：Every weekday since noon.And I wouldn’t mind working on weekends.M：Great.Now please fill out this form.W：When can I get to work?M：I will call you tomorrow.W：Thank you.Text 8M：This is Henry.I’d like to make sure when we can expect you for a get－together.W：Er...What party is it?M：Our former classmates are planning a get－together.W：Oh，that’s good.M：Are you free these days?W：A little busy somehow.M：Can you come this Saturday evening?W：I’m very sorry，I’ve promised to go to the movies with my daughter.M：Well，how about Sunday then?W：That sounds fine.M：Good.Shall we make it at a quarter to seven?W：I’m sure to be there.Shall we have a dance after that?M：It’s up to you.I’ve learned a new dance these days.Then we can share it.W：That’s great.Text 9W：I’ll take part in a very important party for my friend Amy.M：Really?W：Amy has just been awarded the first prize for her Englishspeech.M：Great.W：Today is her 26th birthday.M：Then you must buy a gift for her.W：What do you think I should buy for her?M：A birthday cake.W：No，she has got one from her boy friend.M：Then，what else?W：I think an MP3 player will be OK.M：Hasn’t she had one already?W：But it is broken.She likes music.I think it’s the best for her.M：You’re right.Then shall I drive you there?W：No.I’ll do it myself.You have to care for my pet dogs and cats.Text 10Hello，everyone.Welcome to our hospital.Now I’m going to tell you something about my hospital，Friendship Hospital.It looks very new and modern.But it has a history going back to three quarters of a century.It was designed to sleep 200 patients，andthen 400.With the development of the new building blocks，it can now sleep 900 patients.It started its life as a general hospital.But now it has developed its new departments and become the teaching hospital that is famous all over the area.It has created new fields for treating heart diseases and eye diseases with a lot of experienced and famous doctors.During the teaching process，it includes a school of baby nursing.In 2001，the President along with the mayor visited the children from flooded areas，and on Christmas Day last year，the Prime Minister had lunch with the patients，talking about their life after the AIDS disease.Ⅰ.听力(共两节，满分30分)第一节(共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分)听下面5段对话。
一Martin seemed wise to others because of his studies at the university. He carefully read the works of Mahatma Gandhi, the Indian leader and thinker. Martin also studied the books of the American philosopher, Henry David Thoreau. Both men wrote about ways to fight injustice. Gandhi had led his people to freedom by peacefully refusing to obey unjust laws. He taught his followers never to use violence. Thoreau also urged people to disobey laws that were not just, and to be willing to go to prison for their beliefs.As he studied, Martin thought he had found the answer for his people. The ideas of Gandhi and Thoreau -- non-violence and civil disobedience -- could be used together to win equal rights for black Americans. Martin knew, then, that his decision to become a preacher was right. He believed that as a preacher he could spread the ideas of Gandhi and Thoreau. Years later he said:"My university studies gave me the basic truths I now believe. I discovered the idea of humanity's oneness and the dignity and value of all human character. "In his first speech as a leader, Martin said:"We must seek to show we are right through peaceful, not violent means. Love must be the ideal guiding our actions. If we protest bravely, and yet with pride and Christian love, then future historians will say: "There lived a great people, a black people, who gave new hope to civilization. With these words, a new movement was born.来源:/Article/200802/28039_2.shtml马丁似乎是明智的,因为他的研究其他的大学。
1. Listening 1OK, everyone, what I want to do today is continue our discussion about cities and the challenges they face, and, I’d like to focus on the city of Venice, in Italy, which is an extraordinary example. So, to begin with, let’s review a few of the points we’ve discussed so far. Remember that, for centuries, the city has been struggling with the problem of flooding. As you know, the regular floodwaters—called the acqua alta—are a big problem in the city. You may also recall（想起）that the government has started the innovative（创新的）MOSE project to build water barriers and stop flooding from the ocean. Now, flooding is an important issue, but many Venetians say that the city has more serious problems than the acqua alta or the MOSE project. And most of these problems have to do with tourism. Of course, tourism has both the positive and negative side—tourism is extremely profitable. But the problem in Venice is too many tourists.For example, in 2007 the number of Venetian residents was 60,000. And what do you think the number of visitors to Venice was in that year? Twenty-one million! Recently, on a single holiday weekend in May, 80,000 tourists visited the city. Public parking lots filled up and were closed. And tourists walked through the streets eating and drinking and leaving a lot of trash behind.The result is that Venice’s city services justcan’t handle（处理，应对) so many people. The city has to pay more and more money for garbage collection to clean up all of the trash. In addition, public transportation on the famous boats and gondolas(平底船) is so crowded that Venetian residents（居民）can barely find room to get on.Along with trash and crowded transportation, city residents also have to deal with higher prices for food and for housing. Food prices continue to rise around the city. Some cafés charge as much as 13 U.S. dollars for a soft drink! In the Rialto Market—an area with many shops and stores—some of the grocery（食品，杂货）stores have been replaced by souvenir shops, which means that Venetians have fewer places to buy their groceries. In popular tourist areas, rent has almost tripled(三倍), and many small local businesses —for example, toy（玩具）stores and hardware（五金）stores—can’t afford to pay.Let me add that there is a serious housing problem in Venice. At one time, there were regulations（规章）making it illegal to convert（改装）residential buildings into hotels. But a law in 1999 removed those regulations, and the housing problem got even worse. Since then, the number of hotels and guesthouses has increased by 600 percent, and the number of houses that are available for local residents has gone down.These days, housing is only affordable for the very rich or for people who already own houses becausethey’ve been passed down by family. Young Venetians simply can’t afford to buy any property （财产）in the city. This has forced a huge number of Venetian residents to move out of the city. Thirty years ago, the population of Venice was around 120,000. Now it’s less than 60,000.So, why does Venice continue to encourage tourism when it causes so many problems? Mainly it’s because tourism in Venice generates（产生）more than two billion U.S. dollars a year in revenue （税）—and many think that the amount is much higher.Also, there’s a lot of financial pressure on Venice. The cleaning of canals（水道）, restoration（恢复）of old structures, and the MOSE project are all very expensive. Tourism brings in money to help the city solve these problems.Another point I want to make is that many people in Venice have jobs related to tourism. As more tourists come to the city, hotels, restaurants, and museums need to hire more workers. In fact, the city of Venice has a lower unemployment rate than the rest of Italy, and it’s likely a result of the tourism industry.Some people think that Venice is to blame for its own problems—that these problems are the result of greed for tourists’money. There’s a lot of talk about limiting tourists, taxing tourists, and even asking tourists to avoid the busy seasons of Easterand Carnival. However, as you can see, maximizing the number of tourists in Venice is also necessary. So, there seem to be no simple solutions to Venice’s tourism problem.好,大家,我今天要做的就是继续讨论城市和他们面临的挑战,我想把重点放在意大利的威尼斯市,这是一个非常好的例子。
大学英语教材4听力原文Unit 1 Life ChangesPart A1. W: I can't believe it's been four years since we started university.M: Yeah, time really flies. It feels like it was just yesterday when we were freshmen.Q: What are the speakers talking about?2. W: I've been feeling so stressed out lately. I have exams coming up next week.M: I understand how you feel. Make sure you take breaks and give yourself time to relax.Q: Why is the woman feeling stressed?3. M: I applied for an internship at a big law firm. I really hope I get it.W: Don't worry, you have a lot of experience and your grades are excellent. I'm sure you'll get the job.Q: What does the woman mean?4. W: Are you going to the club meeting tonight?M: No, I decided to quit. I need to focus on my studies and part-time job.Q: Why is the man quitting the club?5. W: I can't believe my brother is getting married next month. It feels like he was just a baby yesterday.M: I know what you mean. Time really does fly by.Q: What is the woman surprised about?Part BDirections: You will hear information about a university course. Listen carefully and answer the questions.Good morning, everyone. I'm here to introduce a new course that will be offered next semester. The course is called "Introduction to Environmental Science." This course would be of interest to students from different academic backgrounds, as it covers a wide range of topics related to the environment.Firstly, let me provide you with an overview of the course content. The course will explore major environmental issues, such as climate change, pollution, and resource depletion. We will discuss the causes and consequences of these issues, as well as potential solutions. Students will have the opportunity to develop a holistic view of the environment and understand the interconnectedness of various environmental processes.The course will consist of lectures, guest speakers, and group discussions. We will also incorporate field trips to environmental organizations and research institutes, allowing students to apply their knowledge in real-world settings. This hands-on experience will enhance students' understanding and give them a chance to engage with professionals working in the field.Assessment for the course will be based on class participation, assignments, and a final exam. This will encourage students to actively participate in discussions and apply what they have learned to solve environmental problems. Additionally, students will have the option to work on a group project, where they can further explore a specific environmental issue and propose solutions.The prerequisites for this course are an introductory science course and good English proficiency. It is open to both undergraduate and graduate students. For those interested, registration will open next week, and limited seats are available. I encourage you to take advantage of this opportunity to expand your knowledge and contribute to environmental sustainability.That's all for today's introduction. If you have any further questions, please feel free to ask. Thank you.6. What is the purpose of the talk?7. What topics will be covered in the course?8. How will students apply their knowledge in the course?9. What will assessment be based on?10. Who can take the course?Unit 2 Cultural DifferencesPart A1. W: I was surprised to learn that people in this country eat dinner so late in the evening.M: Yes, it's quite different from what I'm used to back home. But I've gotten used to it now.Q: What does the man say about the dinner time in this country?2. W: Excuse me, is it okay to give a gift with one hand in this culture?M: No, it's considered impolite. It's better to use both hands when presenting a gift.Q: What does the man say about giving gifts in this culture?3. M: I find it fascinating how people here greet each other with a bow.W: Yes, it's a sign of respect and politeness in this culture.Q: What do the speakers say about the bowing greeting in this culture?4. W: When I traveled to another country, I found the local customs and traditions to be very different from my own.M: That's what makes traveling so interesting. You get to experience different cultures firsthand.Q: What does the man say about traveling?5. M: I'm having a hard time adjusting to the food here. It's so different from what I'm used to.W: It takes time to get used to new flavors and cuisines. Don't worry, you'll adapt eventually.Q: What advice does the woman give to the man?Part BDirections: You will hear a conversation between a professor and a student who is studying abroad. Listen carefully and answer the questions.Professor: So, how are you finding your study abroad experience so far?Student: It's been great, Professor! I'm really enjoying it. The only thing is, I sometimes feel overwhelmed by the cultural differences.Professor: That's perfectly normal. It can be a bit challenging at first. Which aspect of the culture do you find the most different?Student: The concept of personal space is something I'm still trying to get used to. In my home country, people tend to keep a larger distance when talking to each other. Here, it's much closer, which I find a bit uncomfortable.Professor: Ah, yes. That's a common observation. In this country, physical closeness is seen as a sign of friendliness and warmth. People often stand closer to each other when conversing. It's an interesting cultural difference, isn't it?Student: It definitely is. I'm slowly adapting, but it still feels awkward at times. Another thing I've noticed is that punctuality is highly valued here. Back home, being a few minutes late is usually not a big deal. But here, it seems like everyone is always on time for appointments.Professor: Yes, that's true. Being on time is considered a sign of respect for others' time. It's important to be mindful of that cultural expectation. Are there any other cultural differences that have stood out to you?Student: Well, the food is quite different too. The flavors, spices, and even the eating etiquette are all new to me. It's been an adventure trying outnew dishes, though. I've discovered some amazing flavors I didn't know existed before.Professor: That's one of the joys of traveling and experiencing different cultures. It broadens your perspective and introduces you to new and exciting things. Don't hesitate to reach out if you have any more questions or concerns about adjusting to the cultural differences. I'm here to support you throughout your study abroad journey.11. What does the student find challenging about the cultural differences?12. How do people in the country view physical closeness when conversing?13. Why is punctuality highly valued in the country?14. What does the student say about the food in the country?15. According to the professor, what is one of the benefits of experiencing different cultures?。
Unit 1OutsideviewConversation 1Li:What a wonderful view! This is such a great city!Do you ever get tired of living in London, Andy?A;"When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life, for there is in London all that life can afford" Li:That's a quotation by Samuel Johnson, isn't it?A:Correct,so do you have any plans when you finish at Oxford?Li: I've got another year to go and then I suppose I'll go back home.A; And you will find a job?Li:I think I have to do my Master's before I look for work.But I must admit London is very special.Do you think you would ever leave London?A:Sure, I'd love to come to china one day, and I like traveling. But i think I'll always come back here.Li:Well, your roots are here and there are so many opportunities.A;But have you ever thought of living in London for a year or two?Li:Y es, but what could I do here? I had planned to become a teacher.But i have often thought if there was a job i could do here in publishing,maybe as an editor, I'll go for it.A:That's sounds like a great idea.I think that would really suit youLi:Maybe I should update my CV and send it to one or two publisher.A:Don't make it look too goodLi:Why not?A;Well,if you enjoy working with London Time Off, we don't want you working with anyone else Li:Oh, working with you and Joe it's great fun and really interesting. I couldn't think of a better way to find out about a cityA;So maybe you should think about applying for a job with usLi:But do you think I'd stand a chance(有可能，有希望)?I mean, I'm not sure if Joe likes meA:Don't even think about it!Joe is very straight talking and I promise you that you'd know if he didn't like you.Li:Perhaps we should both update our CVs and look for jobs togetherA:Hey,right!That would be fun.李：什么是美好的景色！这是这样一个伟大的城市！你有没有厌倦过伦敦的生活，安迪？当一个人厌倦了伦敦，他就厌倦了生活，因为在伦敦，所有的生活都能承受李：那是约翰逊塞缪尔的语录，不是吗？答：对，你在牛津结束的时候有什么计划吗？李：我还有一年要走，我想我会回家。
Narrator: Damage from swarms of locusts can reach disastrous proportions. A single swarm of desert locusts can consume over 70,000 metric tons of vegetation a day. There is, however, one continent that’s locust-free: North America.旁白：蝗虫群的伤害可以达到灾难性的程度。
一个单一的沙漠蝗虫可以消耗超过70000吨的植被一天。
然而，有一个大陆是蝗虫自由：美国北部。
Interestingly enough, this wasn’t always true. For hundreds of years, the Rocky Mountain locust was a common pest in the American West. Back in the mid-1800s, thousands of pioneers journeyed across the . in search of free land and new opportunities. They settled on the frontier of the western states, and began to farm the land intensively, growing corn and other crops.有趣的是，这并不总是真实的。
几百年来，落基山脉的蝗虫是美国西部的一种常见害虫。
早在19世纪中叶，成千上万的先驱者跨越美国在自由的土地和寻找新的机会。
他们定居在西部边境，并开始对土地进行集中耕种，种植玉米和其他农作物。
Then, in 1875, out of nowhere, a rare combination of air currents, drought, and basic biology produced the right conditions for an unthinkable event, the worst storm ever recorded, the “perfect swarm.” It came over the horizon like a strange, dark cloud. Not millions, not billions, but trillions of insects, sweeping through the land like a living tornado. Those who saw the incredible event and survived never forgot what they witnessed.然后，在1875，走出无处，一个罕见的组合，空气电流，干旱，和基本生物学产生了正确的条件为一个不可想象的事件，最坏的风暴有史以来，“完美的群”，它在地平线上像一个奇怪的，黑暗的云。
The Hospital WindowJack and Ben, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room. Jack, whose bed was next to the room's only window, was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon to help drain the fluid from his lung s. But Ben had to spend all day and night lying flat o n his bed. To kill time the two men began to talk. They talked for hours about their wives, families, their homes, their jobs, their involvement in the military service, and where they had been on vacation. As days went by, a deep friendship began to develop between them.Every afternoon when Jack could sit up, he would pass the time by describing to Ben all the things he could see outside the window. And Ben began to live for those one-hour periods where his world would be broadened and enlivened by all the activity and color of the world outside.The window overlooked a park with a lovely lake.Ducks and swans played on the water while children sailed t heir model boats. Young lovers walked arm in arm amid flowers of every color of the rainbow. Grand old trees beautified the landscape, and a fine view of the city skyline could be seen in the distance.As Jack described all this in great detail, Ben would close his eyes and imagine the wonderful scenes.One warm afternoon Jack described a parade passing by. Although Ben couldn't hear the band — he could see it in his mind's eye as Jack described it with colorful words.Days and weeks passed. One morning the day nurse arrived to bring water for their baths only to find the lifeless body of Jack, who had died peacefully in his sleep. She was very sad and called the hospital attendant s to take the body away.Ben was heartbroken. Life without Jack was even more unbearable. How he longed to hear Jack's voice and his fine descriptions of the outside world! As he looked at the window, an idea suddenly occurred to him. Perhaps he could see for himself what it was like outside. As soon as it seemed appropriate, Ben asked if he could be moved next to the window. The nurse was happy to make the switch, and after making sure he was comfortable, she left him alone.Slowly, painfully, he propped (支撑) himself up on one elbow to take his first look at the world outside. Finally, he would have the joy of seeing it for himself! He strained（尽全力）to slowly turn to look out the window beside the bed. It faced a blank wall!"What could have compelled my roommate to describe such wonderful things outside this window?" Ben asked the nurse when she returned."Perhaps he just wanted to encourage you to live on," she said."You know, he was blind and could not even see the wall".How Our Memory WorksHuman beings have amazing memories. Apart from all our personal memories about our own lives, we can recall between 20,000 and 100,000 words in our own language as well as possibly thousands more in a foreign language. We have all sorts of information about different subjects such as history, science, and geography, and we have complex skills such as driving a car or playing a musical instrument. All these things and countless others depend on our memory.How well you remember things depends on many different factors. Firstly, some people naturally have better memories than others, in just the same way as some people are taller than others, or have different color eyes. Some top chess players, for example, can remember every move of every game that they have ever seen or played.Secondly, research shows that different things are stored in different parts of the brain. Ideas, words, and numbers are stored in the left-hand side, while the right-hand side remembers images, sounds, and smells. In most people one side of the brain is more developed than the other, and this may explain why some people can rememberpeople's faces easily, but can't remember their names.Thirdly, we all remember exciting, frightening, or dramatic events more easily. This is because these experiences produce chemicals such as adrenaline, which boost （改善）your memory.Fourthly, the context（环境）in which you learn something can affect how well you remember it. Tests on divers, for example, showed that when they learned things underwater, they could also remember those things best when they were underwater.Lastly, the more often you recall a memory the more likely you are to remember it. If you don't use it, you'll lose it. A telephone number that you dial frequently will stay in your memory easily, but you will probably have to write down one that you use only now and again.Last Gasp for SmokersIt was a normal day and in their New York office, Ken and his colleagues stopped for their coffee break. But while his colleagues were able to sit at their desks and drink their coffee, Ken had to go outside. He couldn't stay inside, because he wanted to smoke. If the smokers of the Big Apple want to enjoy a cigarette,the authorities have decided they must go out into the street or up onto the rooftops.Throughout the United States, the number of places where people are allowed to smoke has gradually dwindled（缩小，减少）. First it was banned on trains, buses, and planes, then in public places such as theaters and airports. Now you can't smoke in any workplace. Nonsmokers are definitely winning the battle. "Why should we breathe their smoke?" they say.If they're lucky, smokers can still find some bars and restaurants or parks and recreation（娱乐，消遣）centers where they can light up a cigarette, but it may soon be banned there, too. In fact, smoking in parks and recreation centers is already banned in California. On August 9, 2001, Los Angeles City and County officials announced the implementation（实施，执行）of a smoke-free park policy, officially designating （指定）smoke-free zones in all 375 parks and recreation centers in the city. And since January 1, 2002 all parks in California have become smoke-free to safeguard children from the harmful effects of secondhand tobacco smoke and dangerous tobacco waste. Anti-smoking groups even think that smoking ought to be banned in people's homes. Under new plans you won't be able to smoke in any house where there are more than ten visitors in a week, or where there are children.In 1996, nicotine was classed as a dru g, like cannabis, cocaine or heroin. And scientists all over the world agree that exposure（暴露）tosecondhand smoke poses（造成，提出问题）a s erious health risk and there is no safe level of exposure. It is especially dangerous for children because when they are exposed to tobacco smoke, they have much higher rates of lung diseases such as bronchitis and pneumonia and are also at greater risks of developing asthma.In the country that gave tobacco to the world, smoking might one day be illegal. And then Ken will have to give up.Chairman:Welcome to this special birthday edition of One World. Tonight we have a special program dedicated to birthday celebrations around the world. With us in the studio we have Shaheen Hag and Pat Cane, who have a weekly column on birthdays in the Toronto Daily Star. Shaheen: Good evening.Pat: Good evening.Chairman:Shaheen, perhaps we could begin with you. How are birthdays celebrated in India?Shaheen: Well, perhaps we're all assuming that everyone in the world celebrates their birthdays. This just isn't the case. Low-income families in India, for instance, simply can't afford any festivities. And most Muslims don't celebrate their birthdays.Pat: I think Shaheen has raised an interesting point here. The Christianchurch, too, was actively against celebrating birthdays.Shaheen: Of course some Muslims do celebrate their birthdays. In Egypt, Turkey and Indonesia, for example, the rich people invite friends and families around. But not in small villages.Chairman: Here in England your twenty-first used to be the big one. But now it seems to have moved to eighteen. Is that true?Pat: Yes, in most parts of the West eighteen is now the most important birthday. In Finland, for example, eighteen is the age when you can vote, you know, or buy wines, drive a car and so on. But in Japan I think you have to wait till you're twenty before you can smoke or drink. Shaheen: I know in Senegal, which is another Muslim country, girls get to vote at sixteen and boys at eighteen. And in Bangladesh, girls at eighteen and boys at twenty-one.Chairman: That's interesting. I mean is it typical that around the world girls are considered to be more mature than boys?Shaheen: Yes, I think so, and in Mexico and Argentina, for example, they have enormous parties for 15-year-old girls.Pat: You know in Norway they have a great party for anyone who's not married by the time they're thirty. It's kind of embarrassing. I mean you get pepper thrown at you.Chairman: Pepper? Why pepper?Pat: I'm not really sure.Shaheen: So does that mean that on your 29th birthday you can start thinking "God I better get married"?Pat: Well, I'm not sure how seriously they take it.Chairman: In England we have quite big parties for your fortieth, fiftieth, sixtieth and so on.Pat: Well, in Japan your eighty-eighth is considered ...Chairman: Eighty-eighth?Pat: to be the luckiest birthday. Eight is a very lucky number in Japan.Embarrassing ExperiencesInterviewer: Rob, you went to Brazil, didn't you?Rob: Yes, I did.Interviewer: So, what happened?Rob: Well, I went into this meeting and there were about, er ... seven or eight people in there and I just said "Hello" to everybody and sat down. Apparently, what I should have done is to go round the room shaking hands with everyone individually. Well, you know, it's silly of me because I found out later it upset everyone. I think they felt I was taking them for granted.Kate: Well, I know that because when I was in France the first time, Ifinished a meeting with "Goodbye, everyone!" to all the people in the room. Well, I later found out that the polite thing to do is shake hands with everyone in the group before leaving.Interviewer: Well, people shake hands in different ways, don't they? Rob: Oh, yes, they do. See, normally I shake hands quite gently when I meet someone. So when I went to the US for the first time, I think people there thought my weak handshake was a sign of weakness. Apparently, people there tend to shake hands quite firmly.Kate: Oh, gosh, that reminds me of my first trip to Germany many years ago, I was introduced to the boss in the company when he passed us in the corridor. Well, I wasn't prepared, and I had my left hand in my pocket. And when we shook hands I realized my left hand was still in my pocket. Well, that was, you know, very bad manners and I was quite embarrassed.Interviewer:And how about using first names? Have you made any mistakes there?Rob: Oh, yes, I have! When I first went to Italy I thought it was OK to use everyone's first name so as to seem friendly. And I later discovered that in business you shouldn't use someone's first name unless you are invited to. Oh, and you should always use thei r title as well.Kate:Hm, yeah, well, when I met people in Russia, you know, they seemed to be puzzled when I shook hands with them and said "How doyou do?" Well, what they do when they greet a stranger is to say their own names, so I had that all wrong!Rob: Oh, yes, I agree with that. Remembering names is very important. Interviewer: Shall we take a break? When we come back we'll move on to our next topic.Kate & Rob: OK.College Hunks （健美的男子）of JunkIt's the universal cry of parents, generally heard by the second day of college summer breaks: "Get a job!" Omar Soliman's mother joined the chorus. "You have to do something," she told him.Soliman's friends had obtained prestigious（享有声望的）internships（实习职位）in his hometown of Washington, D.C. But he couldn't imagine himself sitting at a desk all day. After years of delivering furniture for his mother's store, he remembered that a lot of people had stuff they wanted to get rid of. If he borrowed his mom's van （厢式货车）, he could make a little money hauling their trash （垃圾）away for them.That night, Soliman came up with a name for his new business: College Hunks Hauling Junk. He distributed flyers（小广告传单）the nextday, and within hours, his phone was ringing. He asked his friend Nick Friedman to help out. They made $220 in three hours cleaning out a woman's garage.Soliman and Nick pocketed（将放入衣袋）$10,000 that summer. But the two weren't ready to become full-time trashmen after graduation. "We were trained to finish college and get a good job," says Soliman. He graduated with a business degree from the University of Miami and first went into marketing at a research firm. Friedman, who had an economics degree from Pomona College in California, became an economic analyst for a consulting compan y. Months later, they quit their jobs and started their junk business full time.At first they had trouble finding a bank willing to lend them money as they didn't have much of a credit rating. After five turndowns, one bank decided to gamble $50,000 on their idea. They put together another $60,000 from their parents and their own savings. They bought a truck, hired a graphic artist（平面造型设计师）t o design a logo, ran newspaper and radio ads and recruited（招聘）haulers on campuses. Wearing bright orange hats and green polos and khakis these college "hunks" will haul away everything from construction materials to old couches（床）. To cut down the cost of unloading at landfills, they have learned to recycle metals and electronics and donate to charities over 60 percent of what they collect. They also give away a portion（部分）oftheir earnings from each job to local college scholarship programs.And now, just four years later, they run a nationwide company that pulled in（获得利益报酬）$3 million in 2008. They employ 130 people and have 16 franchises（加盟连锁店）in 10 states and D.C. and plan to expand to 80 franchises by 2012.The Embarrassment of RichesThe meaning of wealth today is usually defined as the amount of money and material goods that one has accumulated and the ability to purchase more goods at an ever-increasing rate. A wealthy person possesses so much money that it would be difficult for him to spend it all in his lifetime without being wasteful and extravagant.Speaking from a strictly practical point of view, the trouble with wealth is not that it arouses envy in the hearts of others but that it weighs very heavily upon the resources of its owner. Those who have never tasted luxury imagine that a new Porsche, a Picasso in the drawing room, an apartment in the Trump Tower, will bring them ease and happiness. If that were true, owners of the Porsches, Picassos, and Trumps of the world would all be happy souls. One glance at history tells you they are not.The problem is not simply that owning goods feeds upon itself, generating desires to possess more and to outdo(超过) other owners in a competitive madness. It's that goods themselves are an endless responsibility. They must be not only paid for but also stored, insured, and publicly admired. All of those cost not just money but personal freedom. As James Boswell, the famous British biographer, once wrote in his diary, "If a man with a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing. Nothing except glittering baggage that must be attended to."In some Oriental countries poverty has never been such a disgrace（耻辱）as it is in the "get-rich-quick" zone. Wise men from these lands often remark on the tyranny（暴政，专制）of goods. According to an old Persian proverb, "The larger a man's roof, the more snow it collects." And in his discussion of "Houses", a Lebanese poet and philosopher compares the lust（欲望）for comfort to a "stealthy（（偷偷摸摸的）thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master."The same sentiment（意见，观点）is also expressed here in America by the great philosopher Ralph Emerson, who scorns（轻蔑）the acquisitiveness（对金钱的渴望和贪婪）of his day with the famous line "Things are in the saddle（马鞍）, and ride mankind."Life Goes OnThe city of Ypres in Belgium has been invaded19 times, most famously in World War I. Some time ago I went with two friends to visit the battlefields and cemeteries（墓地）there, and particularly to see the tomb of my uncle who was killed in the war at the age of 20.Michael, our silver-haired（发白如银的）guide, took us first to a British cemetery, just outside the town. There are lines of gravestones （墓碑）, neatly planted with herbs（香草）and flowers, and surrounded by low walls blooming（开花）with wisteria（紫藤）. Michael pointed out my uncle's grave （墓穴）to me.I walked hesitantly toward it, wondering what I would feel. And suddenly there it was, and there were hundreds of others. Nothing could have prepared me for the realization that in this area alone about 250,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers were killed. There are 75 British cemeteries, but we visited just a few.Next, Michael took us to a place on the other side of the city. The names of 55,000 missing soldiers are engraved（雕刻）on its walls. We stared in awe（敬畏的）. "More than half a million horses and mules（骡子）were lost, and fifteen tons of unexploded ammunition（军火）are still collected each year from the fields," Michael told us.Then we came to the largest British cemetery in the world. Someheadstones（墓碑）have words of love or gratitude: "He died that we might live," "Gone from our sight but not from our hearts.""I'd like you to visit a German cemetery before finishing," Michael said. The cemetery is in wooded（树木繁茂的）land. But there are no headstones, only slabs（平板）in the grass. There are no flowers, either. The whole place is dark and dank.（潮湿的）With some relief we returned to the car. After some time, we drew up（集合）at a gate. Here, hidden from the road, lies the Pool of Peace. "It was created by an explosion so loud it was heard in Downing Street," said Michael. We looked at the still water reflecting the trees surrounding it. There is hardly （几乎没）a sound.By the time we returned to Ypres, it was evening. The city was preparing for the annual Festival of the Cats, which dates from（追溯）medieval （中世纪的）times. Soon there would be dancing in the square.A Terrible DiseaseThe phone rang and it was my husband Jack asking me to take some lunch to his office. As I drove off, I noticed a new shopping center. Strange I hadn't noticed it before. Near his office I also saw a fire station （消防站）I didn't r ecognize."When did they build that new shopping center?" I asked Jack."And I'm glad to see that new fire station. It'll give a good landmark.""Diana, they've been there for ages," Jack scolded.Bewildered, I became angry and, starting up the engine, began to pull away（离开）. Then I braked. Where was the exit? Suddenly, nothing was familiar. I realized I had no idea how to get home. I had to stop again and again to ask for directions. Eventually, I got home. A 30-minute drive had taken me four hours.Two months later, at the office where I worked as a legal researcher, a smart young man approached me."Hi, Diana. Good to see you," he said, smiling.I hesitated, then smiled with resignation（屈从，顺从）."Please forgive me, it's one of those days. I simply can't bring your name to mind.""Diana, I'm your cousin Richard," he said very slowly.After that, I was constantly making mistakes and kept forgetting my way around the building. In the end, I made the painful decision to resign from work.Desperate to discover what was wrong with me, I made an appointment with a neurologist.After various tests he told me I had Alzheimer's disease. I felt numb. I'd hoped to find I was worrying about nothing, but now my worst fears were confirmed. And I was only 53!When I told Jack and my three grown-up children about mydisease, their reaction was quiet but supportive. "Stop worrying," Jack said. "We'll take good care of you."Now at 57, on good days I'm filled with hope and determination, but on bad days I have the worst sense of being alone. I've started a support group for other sufferers,for I know it's essential to have contact with people who are walking through the same maze（迷宫）. Jack's coping well. While he still dreams of waking up to find all this has been a horrible nightmare, he's assured me that I can depend on him. When we married he didn't know "for better or worse" included Alzheimer's. But neither did I.Home-Schooling on a World CruiseI've never believed that the only way to get an education is to sit at a desk with four walls around you. The world is our classroom and our home, a 41-foot sailing boat, takes us there. My husband and I dreamed of sailing around the world before our daughters were even born. Their arrivals only increased our desire to live the cruising lifestyle, a way of life that has given us the opportunity for lots of quality and quantity family time. Educating our two daughters while living afloat on our sailing boat has added a wonderful new dimension to our lives.We started out years ago with a kindergarten correspondence (一致)course f or our daughter Kate. As she found it very easy we devised our own curriculum for her.Choosing courses of study for Kate was great fun. We looked at where we would be sailing to during the school year, or where we would be stopping to work, and all sorts of topics of interest presented themselves. For example, while cruising（乘船巡游）down the East Coast to Florida, we chose space exploration for a unit of study. Our studies included both fictional and non-fictional reading, experiments and writing assignments. The finale（结尾）was watching a shuttle（航天飞机）launch and visiting the Kennedy Space Center museums.We do miss out on（错过好机会）a few things that most school children are able to take advantage of. Our sailing boat is small. School is held on a small dining table and it's difficult to leave artwork, science experiments or projects on the table for later use. We also have limited room for school books and so those we have must be chosen carefully. Perhaps the thing we miss the most is not always having access to a library.But the advantages of our floating school far outweigh（比。
广西大学广播电视中心新闻·英语调频节目单( FM 86. 95 )PROGRAM SCHEDULE OF RADIO G.X.UNIVNo.第1期9月19日--- 9月23日周一至五：早上----------- 8:00 ~10:00 教学节目晚上----------- 19:30 ~ 23:30 娱乐休闲英语& 教学节目（重播）周一至五：早上----------- 8:00 ~10:00 教学节目8:00~9:00 Listening for Grade 2005Focus Listening 1 --- Lesson 1 – 2《全新版大学英语听说教程1》—Unit 19:00~10:00 Listening for Grade 2005Focus Listening 2 --- Lesson 1 – 2《全新版大学英语听说教程2》—Unit 1周一至五：晚上----------- 19:30 ~ 23:30 娱乐休闲英语& 教学节目（重播）19:30~20:00 Family Album, U.S.A. 《走遍美国》—1 /1420:00~21:00 Listening for Grade 2005 （重播）Focus Listening 1 --- Lesson 1 – 2《全新版大学英语听说教程1》—Unit 121:00~22:00 Listening for Grade 2005 （重播）Focus Listening 2 --- Lesson 1 – 2《全新版大学英语听说教程2》—Unit 122:00~22:30 Listening for Grade 2004Focus Listening 3 --- Lesson 1 – 222:30~23:30 探索英语系列------ 美国特种部队American Commandos生词：demolition 破坏活动guerrilla 游击战basic training 基础训练forces of all specialties 各种专业军人field fighting 实地演习elite squad 精锐部队hand to hand combat 徒手搏击established rapport建立良好关系army unite 军事单位intensive training 大强度训练indigenous people 当地居民mission 任务hide in stealth 秘密隐藏conspirator 同谋者注：需要节目表的老师和同学们请登陆广西大学雨无声网站广西大学广播电视中心新闻·英语调频节目单( FM 86. 95 )PROGRAM SCHEDULE OF RADIO G.X.UNIVNo.第2期9月26日--- 9月30日周一至五：早上----------- 8:00 ~10:00 教学节目晚上----------- 19:30 ~ 23:30 娱乐休闲英语& 教学节目（重播）周一至五：早上----------- 8:00 ~10:00 教学节目8:00~9:00 Listening for Grade 2005Focus Listening 1 --- Lesson 1 – 2《全新版大学英语听说教程1》—Unit 19:00~10:00 Listening for Grade 2005Focus Listening 2 --- Lesson 1 – 2《全新版大学英语听说教程2》—Unit 1周一至五：晚上----------- 19:30 ~ 23:30 娱乐休闲英语& 教学节目（重播）19:30~20:00 Family Album, U.S.A. 《走遍美国》—2 /1420:00~21:00 Listening for Grade 2005 （重播）Focus Listening 1 --- Lesson 1 – 2《全新版大学英语听说教程1》—Unit 121:00~22:00 Listening for Grade 2005 （重播）Focus Listening 2 --- Lesson 1 – 2《全新版大学英语听说教程2》—Unit 122:00~22:30 Listening for Grade 2004Focus Listening 3 --- Lesson 1 – 222:30~23:30 探索英语系列------ 猛禽大观Birds of Prey生词：eagle 老鹰golden eagle 金雕falcon 猎鹰hawk 苍鹰red-tailed hawk 红尾鹰buzzard 雕vulture 秃鹫turkey vulture 美洲鹫black vulture 黑兀鹫king vulture 帝王秃鹫gray owl 灰鹰long-eared owl 长耳猫头鹰owl 猫头鹰kite 鸳snail kite 蜗牛鸳peregrine 游鹰kestrel 茶鹰注：需要节目表的老师和同学们请登陆广西大学雨无声网站。
Unit OneTrack4-1-OL-lA. Jay and Elise are talking about an accident. Listen and check the correct picture.Jay: Come in here Elise. You should see this showElise: What is itJay: Its called quotThe Titanic of the Sky.quot Its about the Hindenburg a great engineering feat.Elise: The Hindenburg ...Jay: You know that giant zeppelin that crashed in 1934. Thirty-five people died.Elise: Oh yeah I remember now. It was flying from Germany to the United States. It crashed as it was landing. Jay: Right. Its so funny looking dont you think It doesnt look anything like the airplanes as have today.Elise: Thats true. Why would people ride in a zeppelin anyway It seems so dangerous.Jay: Well some people called the Hindenburg quotmans greatest achievement in flight.quot They thought it was safe I guess.Elise: Who rode in it anywayJay: Mostly wealthy people. It accommodated between 30 and 40 passengers and crew. One person said it was like aquotflyinghotel.quotEise: It sounds pretty great.Jay: Yeah and it was fast. Thats why people rode it. They wanted to get to their destination faster.Elise: Why didnt they just take a jet planeJay: Elise You know they didnt have jets back then. Look in 1934 it took five days to travel from Germany to the U.S. by ship. The zeppelin could do it in half that time. It was speedy.Elise: Well maybe Ill sit down and watch a little bit. Maybe Ill learn something ... Track4-1-OL-2B. Listen again. How was the zeppelin described Check your answers.Track 4-1-OL-3A. Listen to the conversation and check the correct picture.Jack: I think we should buy a bigger car. Big cars are safer.Kayla: Yes but on the other hand they consume more oil.Jack: They also look really cool.Kayla: Thats true but there are some SUVs which are not big but also very beautiful.Jack: And 1 think big cars are more fun to drive.Kayla: But then again its very expensive.Jack: Well lets get more information about several kinds of cars okayTrack4-1-OL-4Listen to another person talking about famous buildings in his country and fill in the blanks with information youhear. My country has two very famous buildings called the Petronas Towers. The buildings are made of glass steel and concrete. They were designed by an American architect but he used a Malaysian style. They were finished in 1998 and they were the tallest buildings in the world at that time. Each tower has 88 floors and is 452 meters high.I really like the Petronas Towers. They show both the modern and the traditional side of my country. Track4-1-OL-5A. Listen to a talk on controversies about modern buildings. Then fill in the blanks to complete the sentences.Modern buildings: We love them We hate them The world-famous Louvre Museum in Paris is almost 500 years old and it faced a very modern problem:There simply wasnt enough space for six million visitors each year. In 1989 American architect I.M. Pei designeda striking glass pyramid in the buildings center to be a visitor entrance and shopping arcade. But he also started anangry debate. Some people felt his glass building was a piece of art like the ones inside the museum. Others said itwas just an ugly modern mistake. Kyoto Japan is the countrys ancient capital and the heart of its culture. Its railroad station was too small forthe millions of visitors. In 1997 the city completed a new station in a huge shopping center right in the oldest partof the city. Designed by Hiroshi Hara the building also contains a hotel and department store. Before it was builtcritics said that the high wide modern building would destroy the citys traditional look. On the other handsupporters said it would bring new life into the city center.Track 4-1-OL-6B. Now listen again and complete the chart with the information you hear.Track 4-1-OL-7B. Listen to the interview with Erika Van Beek an engineer. According to Erika what should be done aboutovercrowding in citiesThe future building boomInterviewer: What do you think isthe biggest problem facing our citiesErika: I think its overcrowding. Talk to anyone living in a major metropolitan area and they will say the same thing: Theres no space. Even the suburbs are getting crowded.Interviewer: Well in some places there simply isnt any land left for building rightErika: Yes thats true but you have to think creatively. You cant give up so easily.Interviewer: Think creatively What do you suggestErika: What Im saying is that we can build more structures underground. We can add parking lots mallshotels and even apartment buildings. Theres plenty of space.Interviewer: Isnt it expensiveErika: Yes it can be. In the past building underground has been very expensive. However we have newtechnology that will bring the cost down. It involves using robots. You dont have to pay robots a salaryInterviewer: Isnt quotbuilding downquot more dangerous than other kind of construction k:Eri a Actually I think its safer than building skyscrapers for example. Remember we already do it. We havesubways and underground shopping malls. Im just suggesting we invest in a variety of bigger projects and that we digdeeper.Interviewer: What would you say to people who doubt your idea ri a:Ek I can understand their feelings. Whenever theres a new idea it can cause controversy. But quotbuilding downquotis not some kind of impractical idea. It makes sense. There is so much space underground: It can accommodate a lot oftraffic storage and people. With the new technology we have wed be crazy not to consider the idea — its the wave ofthe futureTrack 4-1-OL-8C. Listen again. Check the statements you think Erika would agree. Unit 2Track 4-2-OL-1Pam: Well Lynn I must be going. It was great to see you –Lynn:By Pam.Pam: What‘s thatLynn: Oh … that‘s Ollie.Pam: Ollie: I didn‘t know you had a dogLynn: Well we don‘t … really.Pam: What do you meanLynn: Come here.Pam: Oh my goodness. It‘s a robotLynn: That‘s right. It‘s a dog robot. They call it a ―dogbot.‖Pam: How interesting … But it‘s a little strange don‘t you thinkLynn: Well I wanted to get an interactive toy for the kids. They love it. So I‘m happy.Pam: How much did it costLynn: Don‘t ask. It wasn‘t very affordable. It‘s cheaper than having a real dog though. We don‘t ever have to buy dog food And the batteries are rechargeable.Juliana: Hey Henrik. Look.Henrik: What is it JulianaJuliana: What‘s that guy doing over thereHenrik: Which guy Juliana: The one over there. Wearing a suit. H‘s punching so many buttons on his cell phone.Henrik: Oh him. He‘s probably playing a game.Juliana: ReallyHenrik: A lot of people have games on their cell phones. It‘s really popular here in Finland. They play them everywhere.Juliana: Do you play them tooHenrik: Yes I do.Juliana: I only use my phone to make telephone calls. I guess I‘m old-fashioned.Henrik: I heard that some people play games even at work. They can play quietly during business meetings. No one k nows about it.Juliana: I‘d like to try it.Henrik: Here use mineTrack 4-2-OL-3Penny: Hello. Your Computer World sales department.Ted: Hi Penny. It‘s Ted.Penny: Oh hi Ted. What‘s upTed: well my computer has crashed again.Penny: Oh noTed: Oh yes. That‘s why I‘m calling. You know it‘s five years old. And I need to speak to Scott about getting a new one.Penny: well you‘ve called at a good time. We have some attractive new models.Ted: Great I‘m looking for something affordable. And I want to get something portabl e this time.Penny: I‘m sure Scott can help you with that… Let‘s see he is in a meeting until 3:30. I‘ll ask him to call you.Ted: No that‘s OK. I‘ll call him after 3:30. Please give him the message. E-mail is my favourite way to communicate. I think it is as fast as a fax machine and it is as easy as a cell phone.Of course e-mail has some problems too. It isn‘t as affordable as ordinary mail because you need a computer andInternet service. And I don‘t think it is as reliable as a fax machine. Sometimes e-mail messagesget lost. But in myopinion e-mail is as convenient as a cell phone. I can send a message from my home or office and my friends canread it when they have time.Track 4-2-OL-5 In today‘s report we look at a new technology called pervasive computing. Pervasive computing means putting tiny computers into everyday electronic appliances such as toasters andmicrowaves. With pervasive computing appliances can communicate with their users – and with other appliances Some companies now sell pervasive computing products like a ―smart‖ toaster. It remembers your favouritekind of toast: light or dark. Companies are designing a ―smart‖ coffee maker and a ―smart‖ clock. The coffeemaker can measure the water and coffee. It can even put milk in your breakfast coffee and make black coffee in theafternoon. The clock will check the time on other clocks in your house and give information about otherappliances. For example it can tell you ―Your coffee maker needs more water.‖ And that‘s only the beginning. One company is now advertising ―Save time –phone your washing machine‖engineers are making a ―smart‖ house. In this house the lights heater and air conditioner change automaticallywhen family members come home. This makes the home comfortable and it saves a lot of energy. Pervasivecomputing could change many parts of our daily lives. But do people really want pervasive computing Do they really need technology everywhere One companyasked people about their opinions on ―smart‖ appliances. There were surprises.A ―smart‖ refrigerator can buymore food on the internet but people didn‘t want it because it might make mistakes. ―Pervasive computing is as important as a telephone‖ says Rebecca Blair president of InnoTech Corporation.But some of these products are not useful or even practical. Companies should learn more about the technologythat people really want.Track 4-2-OL-7Local girl rescued She may have a broken leg but she can‘t be happier. Morgan Bailey 11 is happy to be alive. Tuesday was like any other day for Morgan. She was at school. It was fourth period and she was the firststudent to arrive in the gymnasium for her physical education class. Suddenly there was a loud noise. ―There was a sharp cracking noise and then a loud boom. After that I don‘t remember anything‖ said Morgan. The roof of the gymnasium had collapsed under the heavy snow. Morgan was trapped underneath. She couldn‘tescape. ―I woke up and there was a big piece of wood on my leg. I couldn‘t move it. I was starting to get cold.‖ Fortunately help was nearby. A new program using ―rescue robots‖ was tried for the first time. ―We were nervous about using the robot‖ said Derrick Sneed the man in charge of the program.―But in the endthe robot gave us reliable information. It went extremely well.‖ The rescue robo t was able to go into the gym and locate Morgan‘s exact position. ―We send in robots first because it may not be safe for humans‖ said Mr. Sneed. ―Human beings are not asuseful as robots in some situations. A gas leak for example could kill you or me butw ouldn‘t hurt a robot.‖ Although it didn‘t happen in Morgan‘s case some rescue robots can bring fresh air or water to people who aretrapped.Rescue robots go into rough dangerous places. They work in life or death situations. They have to be durable.Doctors say that Morgan is doing well. She should be going home in two or three days. What is the first thing shewants to do after she gets out of the hospital ―I want to meet my hero‖ laughs Morgan. ―That little robot that saved my life‖Track 4-2-OL-9The first word processorMrs. Morgan: Good. So change the first part and make those corrections and your paper will be great.Tara: OK. Thanks for all your help Professor Morgan. I‘ll e-mail my paper to you later today.Mrs. Morgan: You know technology is amazing. In high school I used to write my term papers on a typewriter.Tara: It must have taken a longtime to write a paper on a typewriter.Mrs. Morgan: Well I was pretty fast but I made some mistakes. Actually the typewriters weren‘t that bad. Now as for the firstcomp uters … oh my goshTara: What do you meanMrs. Morgan: The first computers were so unreliable. They used to crash all the time. And they were not as affordable or as fast as they are now.Tara: Mine‘s pretty fast but not as fast as some of the newer more expensive ones.Mrs. Morgan: I know And nowadays almost everyone has a computer. In those days nobody had their own computer. We used to use the ones at theuniversity.Tara: In the computer labMrs. Morgan: Yeah that‘s all we had. I‘ll never forget one spring during final exams. Everybody was working on their term papers and the electricity went outTara: So No big deal … laptops have batteries …Mrs. Morgan: Yes but remember in those days we didn‘t have laptops. If your computer crashed you lost everything.Tara: EverythingMrs. Morgan: Everything. We used to lose information all the time but that time it was terrible. Everybody lost their papers that afternoon … including me.Tara: What did you doMrs. Morgan: I went back to the good old-fashioned way.Tara: You mean typewritersMrs. Morgan: Nope. I used something more affordable portable reliable disposable something that alwaysworked.Tara: What was thatMrs. Morgan: holds up pencil and paper The first word processor. Unit3Track4-3-OL-1/Track4-3-OL-2Joe: What are you reading MariaMaria: The Daily News.Joe: The News Ugh That‘s a terrible paper.Maria: Oh Joe it‘s not so bad.Joe: Not so bad Look at that headline on the front page It‘s so sensational.Maria: Well they‘ve got great comics. I can‘t live without my comics.Joe: I know. But the news coverage is so poor ... especially the international news. It‘s a joke really.Maria: I‘m not so interested in the international news. Besides they have so many other good features.Joe: Like whatMaria: Like… the daily horoscope for example. I love it.Joe: That‘s not a good reason to buy a newspaper … for the horoscopeMaria: Look the newspaper only costs 50 cents. What so you expectJoe: Good point.Maria: Besides the horoscope I also like the entertainment news. I like to read about the stars and their loveaffairs.Joe: Well you can keep The Daily News. I‘m going to stick with The Times.Track 4-3-OL-3 Amy: JohnI‘ve never notice this old photo of your family before.John: My mother just found it in the attic. She decided to hang it up.Amy: It‘s a nice picture of your family.John：I think it‘s embarrassing. And I look stupid.Amy: Well you could‗ve combed your hair … it‘s a nice shot though. Look at how young you are How old wereyou in the photoJohn:Eight … no wait I‘d just turned nine.Amy: I gue ss these two people are your parents.John: Yep. They were married when that picture was taken. Now they‘re divorced.Amy: Oh. What do they doJohn: My father‘s retired. Mom works in a hospital.Amy: What are their namesJohn：Well my father‘s name is Joseph. M y mother is Olivia---she was named after a popular actress.Amy: How great I have an aunt with the same name..。
新闻听力Test 1【参考答案】1. A2. C3. A4. D5. D6. B7. A 【听力原文】N e w s R e p o r t O n eIranians have taken to the streets of Tehran to celebrate a landmark nuclear deal with world powers which should lead to the lifting of crippling economic sanctions. In return, strict limits will be imposed on Iran’s nuclear activities. The country’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, praised the hard work of Iranian negotiators. President Hassan Rouhani said that the agreement proved that constructive engagement worked. Both Iran and the United States say the deal is a historical opportunity.The deal which has aimed at pushing an end to the roar of Iran’s nuclear programme represents the biggest step towards easing hostility between Iran and the West since the Iranian Revolution in 1979. Iran has agreed toscale back its sensitive nuclear activities. It will reduce its capacity to enrich uranium, and has signed up to intensive inspections by UN inspectors.Questions 1 and 2 are based on the news report you have just heard.Q1. What is the result of the nuclear deal?Q2. Who will benefit a lot from the nuclear deal?N e w s R e p o r t T w oThe authorities in Nepal say more than 3,500 people are now known to have died in Saturday’s catastrophic earthquake. But as rescuers reached the more remote areas, it’s feared the figure could rise further. With more aftershocks, many frightened residents of the capital opted to spend Sunday night in vast tented settlements. Sanjoy Majumder is in Katmandu.“Even in the smarter neighborhoods, the re are people who set out little carpets or brought their mattresses out in front of their homes and have been staying there through the day, through the night. If you walk into the market areas, you can see people sitting on the kerb. All people are just walking around. It looks asalmost nobody in the city is indoors at any given moment. Now what the authorities are getting very concerned about is the lack of c lean drinking water.”Questions 3 and 4 are based on the news report you have just heard.Q3. What is the result of the earthquake?Q4. What is the situation of people in the smarter neighborhoods?N e w s R e p o r t T h r e eHunger hit Africa hard this year as climate change, conflict and enduring poverty ravaged multiple countries and let tens of millions of people in dire straits.Countries as diverse as South Sudan, Malawi and the Central African Republic have sounded the alarm in recent months. The U.N. World Food Program says sub-Saharan Africa already has the world’s highest prevalence of hunger: one person in four is undernourished. Every day in Africa, 23 million children go to school hungry.The agency’s David Orr said that in the lower half of Africa, where weather is the main culprit, 2015 hasbeen an unusually difficult year.I think what makes things different this year is the combination of drought and then an El Nino weather event coming right after that, so that people are effectively being hit by two consecutive years of reduced rainfall. And it’s particularly difficult on a region where 70 percent of the population are subsistence farmers.Questions 5 to 7 are based on the news report you have just heard.Q5. Which country has suffered from hunger according to the news?Q6. In Africa, how many children are suffering from hunger?Q7. According to David Orr, which is the major reason for the straits in the lower half of Africa?Test 2【参考答案】1. D2. D3. A4. C5. D6. A7. C 【听力原文】N e w s R e p o r t O n eW hat’s the biggest online shopping day in the world?Not Valentine’s Day.Not Cyber Monday or Black Friday. They are the days that follow Thanksgiving in the U. S. and usher in the start of the holiday shopping season. The winner is C hina’s S ingles’ Day, celebrated November 11, or 11.11.Singles’ Day began as a day for unmarried or uncoupled people to celebrate their lives. Single students, looking for an excuse to buy themselves presents, started it on November 11, 1993, reported The Guardian.It is symbolized by the four number ones in the date of November 11 —11. 11 —and is also called Double Eleven, in reference to the day it was started, said the BBC.It became a major shopping day in 2009. The CEO of an online shopping site —Alibaba —sought to increase sales at the e-commerce company. The CEO, Daniel Zhang, launched an annual online sale that day, said Fortune.When it first began, “Singles’ Day was very much an offline solace for actual single people,” n oted the website Atlas Obscura. “A small group of students at Nanjing University are said to have chosen 11.11 as aday that singles could do activities like karaoke together.”It quickly became a cultural phenomenon.Questions 1 and 2 are based on the news report you have just heard.Q1. What’s the biggest online shopping day in the world?Q2. When did the Singles’Day become a major shopping day?N e w s R e p o r t T w oTechnology Company Google has brought reliable Internet connections to Kampala, Uganda. Google is expanding high-speed Internet in the city, the company said. The project includes 120 locations in the Ugandan capital. It is part of an attempt to improve web infrastructure in Africa. Higher capacity means faster and cheaper access to customers. One day of unlimited data using the new network should cost 1,000 Ugandan shillings, the company said. That is equal to 30 American cents. About 8.5 million people use the Internet in Uganda. That is about 23 percent of the country’spopulation. Many in that country use cellular phone technology, but Internet service is not popular because it was expensive before Google’s Project Link. Broadband access to the Internet is still hard to find in many places in Africa. Project Link moved into the Ghana cities of Accra and Kumasi this autumn. Other big players on the Internet also aided Africa. Social media’s Facebook announced this fall better access to the Internet in Africa by using satellites.Questions 3 and 4 are based on the news report you have just heard.Q3. Which is the main idea of this news report?Q4. What is the population of Uganda?N e w s R e p o r t T h r e eCairo is known for its overcrowded roads, irregular driving practices and shaky old vehicles, but also for its air pollution. In recent months, though, environmental studies indicate there have been signs of improvement. That’s due in part to the removal of many of the capital’s old-fashioned black and white taxis. Most of these dated back to the 1960s and 70s and were in a poor state ofrepair.After new legislation demanded their removal from the roads, a low interest loan scheme was set up with three Egyptian banks so drivers could buy new cars. The government pays about $900 for old ones to be discarded and advertising on the new vehicles helps cover repayments.The idea has proved popular with customers—they can now travel in air-conditioned comfort and because the new cabs are metered, they don’t have to argue over fares. Banks and car manufacturers are glad for the extra business in tough economic times. As for the taxi drivers, most are delighted to be behind the wheel of new cars, although there have been a few complaints about switching from black and white to a plain white color.Questions 5 to 7 are based on the news report you have just heard.Q5. What change took place in Cairo recently?Q6. What helped bring about the change?Q7. Why do customers no longer argue with new cab drivers?Test 3【参考答案】1. B2. C3. C4. A5. B6. C7. B 【听力原文】N e w s R e p o r t O n eThere are about 650,000 school-aged Syrian refugee children in Turkey. Government officials estimate only about one-third of them are going to school. Educating the refugee children is an enormous task. One U. S. official says that a huge school system like the one in New York City would be overwhelmed. The United States says it is working with the United Nations to help bridge the education gap for refugee children. Without school, the effects will be negative and long-lasting. The United States provided Turkey with aid for education earlier. In December, it offered an additional 24 million dollars. Human Rights Watch says a quality education will ensure a more stable future for these children. The organization says about 90 percent of children in refugee camps run by the Turkish government attend school. But most of the children living outside of those camps are notreceiving education.Questions 1 and 2 are based on the news report you have just heard.Q1. What is the news report mainly about?Q2. What did the United States do to help refugee children?N e w s R e p o r t T w oEleven Taliban fighters attacked an important airport in southern Afghanistan early Tuesday, killing at least 50 people, Afghan officials said. The Afghan Defense Ministry said 38 civilians, 10 soldiers and two police officers were killed.The attack on the Kandahar Air Field lasted 20 hours, reported The Washington Post. Among the dead were women and children, the newspaper wrote. The airport includes a military base with troops from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO. There were no reports that NATO troops were killed or injured in the attack.A spokesman for the Taliban says fighters entered the base and attacked local and foreign military troops.He said more than 150 soldiers were killed in the attack. The Taliban often makes claims about the results of their attacks that are not true. Taliban attacks have grown in number and strength in Afghanistan this year after the withdrawal last year of combat troops from other countries.Questions 3 and 4 are based on the news report you have just heard.Q3. What did Taliban fighters do early Tuesday?Q4. What led to the growth of Taliban attacks in Afghanistan?N e w s R e p o r t T h r e eThe Australian state of Tasmania is considering raising the legal age for buying cigarettes to at least 21 and potentially as high as 25. If the plan goes ahead it will give Tasmania some of the toughest tobacco laws in the world. The current legal age to purchase, possess or smoke cigarettes in all Australian states is 18. Critics have complained the proposed restrictions would be a violation of civil liberties. Australia already has some of the world’s toughest anti-smoking policies. It introducedso-called plain packaging four years ago, where packs are colored an identical olive brown and are covered in health warnings that include pictures. The country is also one of the most expensive places in the world to buy cigarettes —from around $15 a pack.Parts of the world already ban cigarette sales to those under 21, including Kuwait and, from next year, Hawaii. Around one-in-five Tasmanians smoke, with the vast majority taking up the habit before the age of 25. The Tasmanian government proposals are part of a five-year plan to make the state Australia’s healthiest by 2025.Questions 5 to 7 are based on the news report you have just heard.Q5. What does the state of Tasmania plan to do?Q6. According to plain packaging, what should be included in the packs of cigarette?Q7. W hat’s the purpose of the Tasmanian government proposals?Test 4【参考答案】1. B2. D3. C4. A5. D6. B7. C 【听力原文】N e w s R e p o r t O n eFrance is facing potentially more than one billion dollars in lost revenue this year due to huge declines in tourism. Safety concerns have been one of the biggest reasons why the country has lost over half a billion in revenue already in the first six months of 2016. The terror attacks in Paris last November were called Europe’s worst in the past decade. Besides violence, workers’ strikes and heavy floods are said to have also been why international tourists have stayed away. So far in the Paris region, there’s been a 46% decline in Japanese visitors, 35% fewer Russians and 27% fewer Italians.American travelers seem the least affected. Their numbers have only dropped by roughly 5%. According to the French government, the country is the No.1 tourist destination in the world, and tourism is extremely important to the French economy. The sector represents roughly 9% of its GDP. The head of Paris Tourism Board said, “It’s time to realize that the tourism sector is goingthrough an industrial disaster.”Questions 1 and 2 are based on the news report you have just heard.Q1. What accounts most for the huge declines in tourism in France?Q2. What do we learn from the report about tourism in France?N e w s R e p o r t T w oA small plane with two sick US workers arrived safely in Chile late Wednesday after leaving Antarctica in a daring rescue mission from a remote South Pole research station. After making a stop for a few hours at a British station on the edge of Antarctica, the two workers were flown to the southernmost Chilean city of Punta Arenas. In a chaotic two days of flying, the rescue team flew 3,000 miles roundtrip from the British station Rothera to pick up the workers at the US Amundsen-Scott st ation at the South Pole. “The two patients aboard will be transported to a medical facility that can provide a level of care that is not available at Amundsen-Scott,” says a spokesperson. Normally planesdon’t go to the polar post from February to October because of the dangers of flying in the pitch-dark and cold. “Antarctica creates a hostile environment,” says the operations director for the British Antarctic Survey. “If you are not careful, it’ll come around and bite you.”Questions 3 and 4 are based on the news report you have just heard.Q3. What was the small plane’s mission to Antarctica?Q4. What makes flying to Antarctica dangerous from February to October?N e w s R e p o r t T h r e eA pilot from Virginia removed his son’s loose tooth using a helicopter. Rick Rahim from Virginia flies helicopters for a living, and when his seven-year-old son’s tooth became loose, he did not waste time by tying it to a door handle. Instead, Mr. Rahim tied one end of a string around his son’s tooth and the other end to his full-sized commercial helicopter. The father of four posted video clip of his playful venture on Facebook, advising parents to do fun and creative stuff with theirkids. The video shows him launching the helicopter into the air and flying just far enough to successfully remove the loose tooth. At the end of the video, Mr. Rahim assures watchers that the circumstances were safe, and that he has 13 years of helicopter flying experience behind him. “You’ve got to do everything safe in life, and that’s what I did today,” he said. Mr. Rahim later said that although some parents have used remote control helicopters to pull teeth before, he might be the first to use a full-sized aircraft, as he can’t find evidence that it has been done before.Questions 5 to 7 are based on the news report you have just heard.Q5. How did Rick Rahim remove his son’s loose tooth?Q6. What does the news report say about Rick Rahim?Q7. What did Rick Rahim advise parents to do with their kids?。
广西英语4级试题及答案一、听力理解（共20分）1. A) 根据所听对话，选择正确答案。
A. 他喜欢游泳。
B. 他喜欢跑步。
C. 他喜欢打篮球。
D. 他喜欢踢足球。
[答案] A2. B) 根据所听短文，回答以下问题。
What is the main idea of the passage?A. 环境保护的重要性。
B. 健康饮食的建议。
C. 学习英语的方法。
D. 旅游目的地的推荐。
[答案] B二、阅读理解（共30分）1. 阅读以下短文，选择最佳答案。
In the passage, what does the author mainly discuss?A. The impact of technology on society.B. The benefits of physical exercise.C. The history of a famous city.D. The role of education in personal development.[答案] A2. 根据短文内容，判断以下陈述是否正确。
- The author believes that technology has brought more convenience to our lives.- The author argues that technology has also caused some problems.[答案] True, True三、词汇与语法（共20分）1. 选择适当的词填空。
The weather was _______ cold that we decided to stay indoors.A. suchB. soC. veryD. quite[答案] B2. 改写句子，使其意思不变。
She is too young to go to school.A. She is not old enough to go to school.B. She is too old to go to school.C. She is old enough to go to school.D. She is not too young to go to school.[答案] A四、翻译（共15分）1. 将以下中文句子翻译成英文。
四级新闻听力原文一、政治新闻新闻标题：中美领导人会晤，共同探讨全球治理新闻内容：近日，中国和美国领导人举行了会晤，就全球治理、贸易、气候变化等议题进行了深入探讨。
双方表示，愿共同努力，推动全球治理体系更加完善，为世界和平与发展作出积极贡献。
二、经济动态新闻标题：欧洲央行宣布降息，以刺激经济增长新闻内容：欧洲央行近日宣布降息，以刺激经济增长。
此次降息旨在降低企业和个人融资成本，促进投资和消费。
分析人士认为，此举将有助于缓解欧洲经济困境。
三、社会热点新闻标题：新型毒品问题引关注，专家呼吁加强监管新闻内容：近年来，新型毒品问题日益严重，对社会造成极大危害。
专家呼吁政府加强监管，加大打击力度，提高公众对毒品的认知和警惕性。
同时，也需要加强国际合作，共同应对毒品问题。
四、科技进展新闻标题：科学家研发出新型太阳能电池，效率大幅提升新闻内容：科学家们研发出一种新型太阳能电池，其光电转换效率大幅提升，有望为可再生能源产业带来革命性变革。
据悉，这种新型太阳能电池基于钙钛矿材料制成，具有成本低、制造工艺简单等优点。
五、文化活动新闻标题：音乐节盛大开幕，国内外歌手齐聚一堂新闻内容：近日，一场盛大的音乐节在某城市拉开帷幕，来自国内外的知名歌手和乐队纷纷登台献艺。
音乐节期间还举办了文化交流活动和艺术展览，吸引了大批游客和音乐爱好者前来参与。
六、自然灾害新闻标题：台风袭击某地，造成严重灾害新闻内容：近日，台风袭击了某地区，带来了强降雨和风暴潮等极端天气现象。
灾害造成大量房屋、道路、桥梁等基础设施损坏，给当地居民生活带来极大影响。
政府正全力开展抢险救灾工作，并呼吁社会各界提供支持。
七、国际关系新闻标题：联合国呼吁加强国际合作，共同应对气候变化挑战新闻内容：联合国秘书长在近日发表的声明中呼吁各国加强国际合作，共同应对气候变化挑战。
他强调各国应遵循共同但有区别的责任原则，采取切实行动减缓气候变化影响，推动绿色发展。
同时，国际社会也应加强技术交流与合作，共同提高应对气候变化的能力。
Water Problems1Task One: Water Supply Suspension in Taizhou, Zhejiang Meanwhile continuous rain has lifted reservoirs’ water level in South China’s Taizhou, Zhejiang Province. Most reservoirs, including the largest Changtan reservoirof Taizhou, passed the alarm level.High water pressure burst a pipeline on Sunday which caused a water supply suspension in Taizhou. The water shortage was resolved Tuesday afternoon but the crisis is still causing concern for local citizens.Last Sunday night, a main water supply pipeline at the Changtan Reservoir burst. 7000 cubic meters of water was wasted hourly. The water supply in many areas was suspended.(Yan Chuanhua, Head of Changtan reservoir)“Changtan reservoir’s water line has reached nearly 35 meters, which surpa ssesthe alarm line. The pipelines have been used for more than 15 years. Now we are trying to replace the broken pipeline as soon as possible.”After the pipeline burst, rescue teams made great efforts to make a replacement. Meanwhile, water supply downtown was severed. More than 300 thousand people lacked drinking water. The local government adopted various methods to guarantee people’s basic requirements.Taizhou firehouse sent out fire engine filled with clean water to communities and hospitals.Officials dispatched water 4 to 5 times a day.Schools took measures to tackle water shortages. The Headmaster of the Huangyan Experimental Middle School says they started using their back-up water facility right after the water suspension.(Kong Qingzhou, Huangyan Experimental Middle School)“I asked all teachers to tell their students to save water as much as possible.”2 In Jiufeng Park, a one thousand year old well serviced hundreds of people. A sense of urgency overwhelmed the crowd as people competed with their barrels, buckets and water bottles for the precious water.(Mrs. Zhao, Citizen)“In the past only 10 people get water from here.”Older people are going to the front of the line when it comes to water. This lady surnamed Wang, is in her 70s, and in only 2 hours’ time she was able to get a whole tricycle of water.(Lady Wang)I bring all the barrels in my home to here to get the water.Luckily the crisis was over quickly. On Tuesday afternoon the broken pipeline was replaced and the water supply returned to normal.Task Two: Water Pollution in China AlarmingThe theme of China’s Water Week Campaign is to secure sustainable development through a strict water management system. Water pollution in China poses a huge threat to the development of a sustainable water management.Statistics of a joint report from several Chinese universities show more than one third of the country’s industrial waste water flows directly into rivers and lakes.The water environment in most cities around the country is declining.An official report from the Ministry of Environmental Protection shows amongthe investigated 131 rivers that flow through cities, 36 are severely contaminated, and nearly 60 others polluted.Since the Songhua River benzene pollution incident in 2005, over 140 pollution cases have been reported.The Yellow River, an important water resource for North China, is suffering from serious pollution. Nearly 40 percent of its mainstream has been severely affected.The country’s longest river, the Yangtze, is being thr eatened by a continuous flow of billions of tons of polluted water.And situation is no better for the Huaihe River, in which the country has investedmost. It remains a severely polluted river.3 Water pollution has resulted in enormous economic losses. Experts point out that water pollution is a joint result of human factors, society and economic development. Task Three: Agricultural Pollution in FocusAgricultural pollution is another feature of the first national census on pollution sources. Rather than m any people’s impression, waste water from agriculture and people’s daily lives greatly exceeds the amount of polluted water produced by urban factories and industries.Untreated waste water running into the river. This has become a common sight in China’s large rural areas.As many counties focus much on agricultural production, efforts on environmental protection have long been ignored.Many regions lack basic waste disposal systems, and facilities to treat polluted water.But the long-term threat is highlighted by the newly released national census on pollution sources. It shows that more than 80% of the country’s water pollution comes from agricultural production and people’s daily lives. This means water pollution in rural areas is much worse than in urban areas. In terms of chemical pollutants such as nitrogen the same picture.Much of the agricultural pollution comes from farms. Plastic materials used for greenhouses are not biodegradable ( 生物所能分解的). And booming rural enterprises are also devastating the fragile environment. Mine exploration triggered a number of pollution and poisoning cases last year.Environmental protection authorities are determined to pay more attention to rural pollution. (Zhuang Guotai, Official of Ministry of Environmental Protection) “We should not only focus on environmental problems in the cities and urban industries, but we also need to focus more on rural environmental problems.”The central government has set up a special fund for environmental protection in rural areas. More than 4.5 billion yuan is expected to be spent this year, to deal with rural pollution, and provide technical support.Some villages in affluent ( 富裕的) provinces have introduced environmentalfacilities and methods. Farmers in this Zhejiang village are using flush toilets. Waste4 water flows to a local water purification center for recycling. Farmers are learning to classify their garbage.(A farmer)“I put all the garbage from the kitchen in one pack, and put plastic bottles in another pack for recycling.”More effort is needed to set up a complete waste disposal system. And it could bea long term task to improve the habits of hundreds of million farmers.What’s Wrong with the ClimateIn the summer of 2007, the Huai River valley experienced its heaviest floodingin over fifty years. The Anhui Flood Control Headquarters opened 9 flood diversion and storage areas in order to protect the 1.2 million people living along the river’s banks.The Ni River is one of the diversion rivers 分流河道；改道河流；导流for the Huai River. Usually, water flows from the Ni into the Huai. When the Huai is diverting flood water, the sluice gate 水闸leaving from the Ni to the Huai is closed. Thus, water flows from the Huai to the Ni. Liulong Village, located next to the Ni River becomes an indirect diversion area.After the heavy rain on July 7 and 8, Liulong Village was like a pot full of water.The flood water came so rapidly that the villagers could only take what they could carry as they were evacuated.In temporary tents, the villagers tried to continue as normally as possible.The village entrance is a dividing line between homes and the refugee tent. The villagers’ flooded homes are inside this line. Every day, some people row a small boatto see whether their houses are still there. Mr. Li went every 2 or 3 days. At this timethe streets have become streams, and familiar entrances of their courtyards are now docks.Villagers are helpless in the face of flooding. They never imagined that extremeclimatic events caused by global warming would make them homeless.5 In the summer of 2007, villagers beside Dongting Lake weren’t victims of floods, but something just as destructive hit them. Beginning in late June, they found their rice fields were infested with rats. Stretching a long rope across the field, they were able to drive out large numbers of rats.In the peanut field, the plants above ground looked fine, but once you pulled onthe stalk, all the peanuts at the roots had been eaten. Water melon, pumpkin, sugar cane and corn crops had all been destroyed, including even the lotus seeds grown in water. The rats also destroyed the roots of the willow trees.The rats are reed 芦苇voles 野鼠，鼹鼠，called water mice by the locals. They live in soft soil and lake beaches. In recent years, the Dongting Lake area received little rain, and lake sides were high and dry for much more time than before. The 700,000 acres of beach area around the lake became a suitable home for the rat population.But in the middle of 2007, heavy rainstorms hit the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and the Dongting Lake beaches were flooded once again. The rats were forcedto move out.A war between man and rodent ( 啮齿类动物) broke out.They used every method available including acctacking the rats, trying to flood them out, digging and poisoning them. Man was finally victorious. But the villagers were not sure if the rats would return. Experts warned people that there were still rats remaining on the floating trees and weeds. Extreme weather may trigger a chain reaction.When one area is hit by floods, another place has a drought. Tongjiang City atthe junction of the Songhua and Heilongjiang Rivers was such a site. 280,000 out of a total of 300,000 acres of crops dried up. In Chenzhou, Hunan, rice fields were punched to the point of cracking.Jiangxi Province was also experiencing a serious drought. The farmers there set their hopes on drought resistant chemicals and waited for rain. But the rain brought by monsoons had already gone. Could it rain again? However, the typhoons in 2007 didn’t bring rain but disasters instead.In Fuzhou, the streets are flooded and violent wind storms are destroying6 everything in sight. In Zhejiang, an 8 kilometer long and 800 meter-wide tornado toured through Longgang Township, and destroyed 156 houses. Finally, typhoon Sepat swept over seven provinces in the south, and caused a loss of 10 billion RMB.But, a later typhoon was no less ferocious. On October 6, the super typhoon Krosa entered the Taiwan Straits at a speed of 15 kilometers per second. It hit Taiwan twice then landed the third time at the junction of Zhejiang and Fujian bringing torrential rains. In Cangnan County, Zhejiang Province, hundreds of people were stranded by floods. It took over 3 hours for soldiers to evacuate the victims. Torrential rains hit Fuzhou, Fujian and Lianjiang. In Daguangban District of Liangjiang,17million acres of reclaimed land were flooded again.The growing number of extreme climate events can be ascribed to global warming, and the ultimate responsibility rests squarely with us. By wastefully burning fuels, we’re sending more and more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. If we’re everto slow, and perhaps even reverse climate change, we must conserve energy and reduce carbon dioxide emissions. That’s all for Nature and Science on CCTV international. I’m Dang Bing, by for now.练习答案Unit Four Water ProblemsTask One: Water supply suspension in Taizhou, Zhejiang1. Multiple Choices1) C 2) C 3) B 4) B 5) A2. Spot Dictation1) burst 2) suspended 3) alarm line 4) 15 years5) replace 6) rescue 7) downtown 8) guarantee9) sent out fire engines filled with clean water to communities and hospitals10) they started using their back-up water facility right after the water suspensionTask Two: Water pollution in China alarming1. Multiple Choices1) BD 2) ABD 3) CD 4) ACD 5) CD2. Spot dictation: numbers1) 131 2) 36 3) 60 4) 140 5) 40Task Three: Agricultural pollution in focusMultiple Choices.1) ABCD 2) ABCD 3) ABD 4) BCD 5) ABCD。
一Martin seemed wise to others because of his studies at the university. He carefully read the works of Mahatma Gandhi, the Indian leader and thinker. Martin also studied the books of the American philosopher, Henry David Thoreau. Both men wrote about ways to fight injustice. Gandhi had led his people to freedom by peacefully refusing to obey unjust laws. He taught his followers never to use violence. Thoreau also urged people to disobey laws that were not just, and to be willing to go to prison for their beliefs.As he studied, Martin thought he had found the answer for his people. The ideas of Gandhi and Thoreau -- non-violence and civil disobedience -- could be used together to win equal rights for black Americans. Martin knew, then, that his decision to become a preacher was right. He believed that as a preacher he could spread the ideas of Gandhi and Thoreau. Years later he said:"My university studies gave me the basic truths I now believe. I discovered the idea of humanity's oneness and the dignity and value of all human character. "In his first speech as a leader, Martin said:"We must seek to show we are right through peaceful, not violent means. Love must be the ideal guiding our actions. If we protest bravely, and yet with pride and Christian love, then future historians will say: "There lived a great people, a black people, who gave new hope to civilization. With these words, a new movement was born.来源:/Article/200802/28039_2.shtml马丁似乎是明智的,因为他的研究其他的大学。
他仔细阅读圣雄甘地的作品,印度领导人和思想家。
马丁还研究了美国哲学家之书,亨利·戴维·索罗)。
两人写的关于不公平的方法来解决。
甘地曾带领他的人民自由的和平不听从不公正的法律。
他教导他的追随者不使用暴力。
梭罗也敦促人们不仅仅是违反法律,并愿意去监狱为自己的信仰。
当他研究,马丁认为自己找到答案也必代替他的民。
甘地和梭罗的想法——非暴力和非暴力反抗——能通过联合使用来赢得美国黑人均等权利。
马丁知道,然后,他决定成为一名传教士是正确的。
他相信他能成为传教士传播思想的甘地和梭罗。
多年后他说:“我的大学学习给我的基本真理现在我相信。
我发现人类的单一性的想法和所有人类的尊严和价值的性格。
“在他的第一句话作为一个领导人,马丁说:“我们必须展示我们是正确的,而不是通过暴力手段和平。
爱情必须理想的指导我们的行动。
如果我们勇敢地抗议,却带着骄傲和基督教的爱,那么未来的历史学家会说:“这里住着一个伟大的民族,一个黑人,谁给新的希望的文明。
说完这些话,一个新的运动诞生二On Monday, six nations signed an agreement in Beijing that would end North Korea’s nuclear arms program. But North Korea almost immediately demanded a civilian nuclear power station before it would destroy its nuclear weapons.The agreement was reached after two years of negotiations among North Korea, the United States, China, Japan, Russia and South Korea. The agreement says North Korea will end its nuclear arms program in exchange for economic aid and security guarantees.North Korea agreed to return to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and again permit international inspectors to make sure its nuclear arms program has ended.North Korea also received recognition of its desire to keep a civilian nuclear program for electric powerproduction.This will involve building what is called a light-water reactor. And the agreement says the nations will discuss building light-water reactors at the right time. But it does not saywhen that will be.One day later, on Tuesday, North Korea announced that it will not end its nuclear arms program until it gets light-water reactors from the United States. The Bush administrationhas rejected this kind of negotiating.The American State Department reacted by saying that North Korea should carefully think about the agreement that it signed. Japan called North Korea’s demand unacceptable.China said it expects all the nations involved to carry out their responsibilities in a serious way. South Korea said it would support North Korea’s desire for peaceful nuclear energy on two conditions. One is that the country must first rejoin the non-proliferation treaty. The other is that it must bring back United Nations inspectors.在星期一，六个国家在北京签署了一项协议，将结束北朝鲜核武器计划。
但是北朝鲜几乎立即要求民用核电厂之前，它会破坏其核武器。
该协议是经过两年的谈判在朝鲜，美国，中国，日本，俄罗斯和韩国。
该协议说北朝鲜结束其核武器计划，以换取经济援助和安全保障。
北朝鲜同意重返不扩散核武器条约并再次允许国际核查，以确保其核武器计划已经结束。
北朝鲜也得到了承认其渴望保持民用核计划，为电力生产。
这将涉及建立所谓的轻水反应堆。
和协议的国家将讨论建设轻水反应堆，在正确的时间。
但那并不是说那会是什么时候。
一天后，星期二，北朝鲜宣布将终止其核武器计划直到得到轻水反应堆，从美国。
布希政府已经拒绝这种谈判。
美国国务院回应说，朝鲜应该仔细想想，它签署协议。
日本称北朝鲜的要求是不可接受的。
中国表示它希望所有参与国履行其职责的一个严重的方式。
韩国表示将支持北朝鲜的渴望和平核能源的条件。
一是国家必须先加入不扩散条约。
另一个是它必须恢复联合国检查员。
三Deep in the forests in the northern part of the Republic of Congo, scientists have made a surprising discovery. Researchers discovered more than one hundred twenty-five thousand critically endangered western lowland gorillas.In the nineteen eighties, scientists estimated that the total population of western lowland gorillas in Central Africa was fewer than one hundred thousand. Since then however, the scientists believed this number had been reduced by at least half. They thought the animals were being killed off by hunters and disease, especially the deadly Ebola virus.VOICE TWO:The new population count was the result of intensive work by the Wildlife Conservation Society, based in New Y ork City, and scientists of the Republic of Congo. They searched rainforests and swamps, looking for gorilla nests.Gorillas build beds, or nests, for sleeping each night. They use leaves and other parts of trees. The researchers use the number of nests they find to help estimate the local gorilla population. They found some forests had population densities that were among the highest ever recorded. The researchers studied an area of forty-seven thousand square kilometers. They announced the results of their population count at a meeting of the International Primatological Society Congress in Edinburgh, Scotland.VOICE ONE:The scientists say the higher number of gorillas is the result of efforts by the Republic of Congo to take care of its protected areas. The gorillas have also done well because they live in areas far away from people. And they have plenty to eat. Wildlife Conservation Society President Steven Sanderson said the success of the gorillas is proof that humans can help protect animal species in danger of disappearing.在深深的森林北部刚果共和国的一部分，科学家有了一个惊人的发现。
