,第1单元：全球经济
第一部分，准备阶段：1、A A D
2、T T F T
第二部分，听力任务1、T T F T
2、billions of dollars economic growth fund
3、stimulus plan Congress boost resumed the slide
budget current fiscal year
第三部分，补充听力：1、fell 2319.441 soared regulator discounted
2、monthly amount code
第2单元：科学与技术
第一部分，准备阶段：1、F F F T F
2、B C C
3、rigorously dozens complaints technology installing
metal cleared proceed security cut down
第二部分，听力任务: 1、F T F T T
2、B D A
3、predict prevent
4、zone extends series tools global positioning
satellites model forecast decades from now
regions software tragedies
第三部分，补充听力：1、D C D
2、F T F F F
3、data coastal communities
4、impact coastline in a position threat swimmers
boats harbors over-warn ensures sensitive
monitoring depth and strength
5、comfortably mechanical heart
alternative
6、heart transplants alternative experimental close
to
第3单元：文化交流
第一部分，准备阶段：1、T T F T F
2、B C A D D
第二部分，听力任务1、F F F F T
2、boom Enrollment gone up regular
programming edge rising moonlight reflection
recites
第三部分(94分)，补充听力：1、F F T F
2、senior marketing manufacturers 1900s small-scale
expanded broader technological advance
3、preference king Valentine’s Day
第4单元：教育与培训
第一部分，准备阶段：1、B D
2、A-levels undergraduate degree foundation
personalized emphasis global job market
guidance
第二部分，听力任务: 1、F F T F
2、fee paying private school academic headmaster
native Chinese pupils radical good record
portfolio
第三部分，补充听力：1、Manchester accountant
2、25% instrument 40% classical violin
第5单元：体育项目
第一部分，准备阶段：1、F F T
2、secured schedule surpass competitor first eight
six two four seven talented current steady
impressive
第二部分，听力任务:1、F T F T
2、overshadowed selected expect whatever overlooked
highly season odd reputation court air-conditioning
jersey
第三部分，补充听力：1、B B C
2、A C
第6单元：娱乐
第一部分，准备阶段：1、A D A
2、T F F T
第二部分，听力任务: 1、Edinburgh the end of July classical Blues Castle
2、the main event military music an important place
3、multicultural drums
第三部分，补充听力：1、beautiful woman the Kiss of the Dragon film debut
2、professional independent New York Audiences
disappoint stylish characters
第7单元：节日与庆祝
第一部分，准备阶段：1、D B A D
2、T T F F T
第二部分，听力任务: 1、F F T F T
2、theories calendar celebrated tricks pull through
coin broadcasting amazing calories
第三部分，补充听力：1、Mother’s Day third Sunday what a great
2、decorations counting
第8单元:名人
第一部分：1、F F T T F
2、car crash hotly debated troubled media recall
generous moron extraordinary remarkable inspire
open remain silent
第二部分：1、F F T T
2、widely tempered harshly aftermath popularity office
beating terrorist claimed step down Hand heart
nothing else
第三部分：1 C D A
2、captain challenges contract sellout crowd
第9单元：冲突与战争
第一部分：1、fighting crying dying breeding feeding leading deny lies Peace remind trust feeds buries
第二部分：1、F F T T F T F
2、forgiven attacks 36 distance capable armed approach
estimate take place peacefully Hong Kong crew
第三部分：1、D D C
2、F T T F
3、suspended aid truck informed deeply regretted security
have rejected cease-fire
第10单元：自然灾害
第一部分，准备阶段：1、C D C D
2、F T F T F
第二部分，听力任务: 1、F F F T T
2、helicopters overhead evacuating blocked snakes
surrounding jammed medical collapsed free
separatist suspension devastated
第三部分，补充听力：1、two and a half 300
2、southern hurricane 1703
2016-2017学年第一学期新闻听力练习 Unit 1: 事故灾难篇 News items News item 1 1. A. Category 3. B. Category 4. C. Category 5 D. Category 6. 2. A. Cooler ocean temperatures. B. Warmer ocean temperatures. C. Large ocean waves. D. Strong ocean currents. News item 2 3. A. Eighteen. B. Forty-five. C. More than eighty. D. At least one hundred and forty. 4. A. It was snowy. B. It was foggy. C. It was rainy. D. It was shiny. 5. A. 10 to 12 B. 60 to 70. C. 80 to 90. D. 140 to 150. Intensive Training No.1 1. A. On a northern island of Japan. B. On a southern island of Japan. C. On Japan’s southernmost main island of Kyushu. D. Off the east coast of Japan. 2. A. It would delay the plant’s restarting for a few months. B. It would lead to the cancellation of the plant’s restarting plan. C. It was not immediately clear if it would affect the plant’s restarting plan. D. It would incur more safety hurdles for the plant. No.2 3.A. Eleven. B. Thirteen. C. Twenty-six. D. Fifty. 4. A. The Greek coast guard. B. The International Organization for Migration. C. The Italian coast guard and Navy. D. The Greek Navy. No.3 5.A. Because traffic on the road was light when the quake occurred. B. Because the city’s buildings and highways were made more resistant to quakes. C. Because the city’s residents were well educated about earthquakes. D. Bothe A and B. 6. A. Steel and other strong metals. B. Steel and rubber. C. Steel and some special alloys(合金). D. Various metals and plastics. 7. A. Counterbalancing and earthquake’s action on the building. B. Predicting the coming of an earthquake with accuracy.
Unit 5 Disasters and Calamities Section A warming up 1. snowfalls blizzards disputed 2. worsening drought 3. struck aftershocks 4. collapsed 5. debris trapped crushed 6. relief supplies devastating 7. tornado forecasters 8. locusts 9. tropical storm hurricane 10. battling toxic spill spill Section B 1. C 2.C 3.D 4.B 5.A Tapescript: 1.An Air France passenger plane has skidded off the runway and burst into flames on landing at Pearson Airport in Toronto, Canada. 2.In Nigeria at least 12 people were reported drowned after an overcrowded dugout canoe capsized in a remote creek in the oil-producing Niger Delta. 3.A full-scale relief operation is underway on Indonesia’s Java Islan d where a tsunami hit Monday, killing at least 340 people. 4.The bodies of 10 New Jersey senior citizens killed in this week’s tour bus crash in the mountains of northern Chile are being flown home. 5.Hurricane John has been downgraded to a tropical storm after hitting the Baja California Peninsula on the west coast of Mexico. The storm struck the tourist port city of Lepas, bringing down trees and power lines and flooding streets. It had earlier inundated the seaside resort of Los Cabos. Section C Item 1 1—(H) 2—(G) 3—(D,F) 4---B 5---(J) Tapescript: Iraqi police say more than 640 people have been killed in a stampede that broke out today near a Shiite shrine in Baghdad. Authorities say some 300 were hurt in ths stampede that erupted on a Tigris River bridge when thousands of people crushed a railing and plunged into the river. Officials say bodies are still being recovered from the river and that the final death toll could rise. The incident occurred when a rumor spread that a suicide bomber was in the crowd. Item 2 Task 1 1. T 2.F 3.T 4.T 5.T
,第1单元：全球经济 第一部分，准备阶段：1、A A D 2、T T F T 第二部分，听力任务1、T T F T 2、billions of dollars economic growth fund 3、stimulus plan Congress boost resumed the slide budget current fiscal year 第三部分，补充听力：1、fell 2319.441 soared regulator discounted 2、monthly amount code 第2单元：科学与技术 第一部分，准备阶段：1、F F F T F 2、B C C 3、rigorously dozens complaints technology installing metal cleared proceed security cut down 第二部分，听力任务: 1、F T F T T 2、B D A 3、predict prevent 4、zone extends series tools global positioning satellites model forecast decades from now regions software tragedies 第三部分，补充听力：1、D C D 2、F T F F F 3、data coastal communities 4、impact coastline in a position threat swimmers boats harbors over-warn ensures sensitive monitoring depth and strength 5、comfortably mechanical heart alternative 6、heart transplants alternative experimental close to 第3单元：文化交流 第一部分，准备阶段：1、T T F T F 2、B C A D D 第二部分，听力任务1、F F F F T 2、boom Enrollment gone up regular programming edge rising moonlight reflection recites 第三部分(94分)，补充听力：1、F F T F 2、senior marketing manufacturers 1900s small-scale expanded broader technological advance 3、preference king Valentine’s Day 第4单元：教育与培训
《英语听力》课程教学大纲 第一部分听力阶段 一、课程性质、课程目标与教学要求 听力课是英语教学中四项基本技能之一也是中国学生的一个难点。突破这个难关不仅有助于其它单项技能的训练同时也为培养学生的英语交际能力奠定一个良好的基础。听力课是英语专业的基础课目的是系统地训练和培养学生的英语视听和说的能力并在四年之通过专业四、八级考试。视听说能力是语言交际必不可少的手段之一也是中学教学中课堂教学的重要部分。因此培养具有一定听说能力并能用英语作为课堂教学语言的合格中学教师和相当水准的英语翻译人才是学院英语专业听力课程教学目的之所在。听力课是一门综合了语音、词汇、语法、惯用法、背景知识、记忆以及概括能力的学科它要求学生通过这门课的学习增长语言知识提高语言技能以及扩大知识面。听力课不同于书面语教学它要求学生注意力集中养成良好听力习惯提高英语语感包括音的辨别、句子结构的分析、容的判断乃至短期和长期记忆的提高等。 二、关于教材与学习参考书的建议 本课程所使用教材 1、 Listen This Way Book I II III IV 2、《听力教程》第一、二、三、四册主要参考书 1、《八级听力训练》. 2、《VOA听力教程》。 3、《BBC听力教程》 4、《托福听力基础教程》 5、《英语专业四级听写与听力理解》6、《TOEFL听力模考题精选》 7、《初级Listen to This》、《中级Listen to This》Listen This Way 这套教材涉略广泛攘括了家庭教育、环境保护、儿童理财等方方面面。但该套教材难度梯度区分不大特别是第一册的教材对于大一的新生来说难度偏大所以教学进度得放慢此外教师应适当补充难度较适合学生的材料如《初级Listen to This》、《托福听力基础教程》以便培养学生的学习兴趣、树立学生的自信心。《听力教程》这套教材学生普遍反映太难且每单元的容量颇大较适合大二以上学生使用建议为学生订一套难度接近Listen This Way的课外补充教材。 三、课程教学容纲要 第一学期 Unit 1 Can I Take a Message I 2学时 Unit 2 Can I Take a Message II 2学时 Unit 3 Clear or Cloudy 2学时 Unit 4 Can time More Backward 2学时 Unit 5 Flying In and Out. 2学时 Unit 6 By Bus or By Train 2学时 Quiz Unit 7 This Way or That Way 2学时 Unit 8 Cash or Cheque 2学时 Unit 9 Toward Better Health I 2学时 Unit 10 Toward Better Health II 2学时 Mid-term Exam Unit 11 The Interview’s Eye 2学时 VOA Special English 2学时 VOA Special English 2学时
(1)掌握新闻报道的结构新闻报道往往采用“倒金字塔体”。所谓“倒金字塔体”，也称为倒途法，即按新闻事实重要性的程度由要点到细节逐步扩展，安排全文。把最重要的事实置于全文的第一个句子中，这个句子被称为新闻导语(the news lead)。它告知听众最关心最重要的事实，如事件(what)、时间(when)、地点(where)、人物(who)，以及原因和方式(why，how，即新闻导语包含了我们常说的五个WH和一个H构成的“新闻六大要素”。新闻导语是整条新闻的高度浓缩形式，听懂了导语，也就听懂了新闻的主要内容。当然，由于新闻报道的侧重点不同，有时新闻导语也可能只包含其中部分要素 (2)扩大词汇量，熟记新闻报道中的常用词汇 ①普通词汇。尽管新闻报道所使用的词汇量很大，但是语言的基本词汇是稳定的。如VOA 广播中的special English(特别节目)的新闻报告中常用词汇约1 500个，这的重复率在报道中是很高的，如cease-fire，presidential election等政治性词汇，finance banking group等经济词汇以ace shuttle，robot等科技词汇。而新闻英语中的特有用语就更具稳定性。若能掌握这些词汇，再加上一些听力技巧，基本听懂新闻报道就不是件难事了。 ②专有词汇。新闻报道是有关世界范围的最新消息，因在报道中常涉及许多人名、地名、国名。除此之外，新闻报道中还常常出现一些河流、山脉及名胜古迹等专有名词熟悉这些专有名词可使听者更快更准确地了解所听的新闻 (3)掌握一定数量的缩略语(acronym) 由于新闻报道时间的限制，不少机构的名称常采用其缩略形式，即由该名称中数个词的首字母的大写形式组成，如：PLO是the Palestine Liberation Organization的缩写形式。需要注意的是，听者不仅要了解这些缩略语的确切含义，而且还应知道它们的正确读音。 (4)掌握数字的不同读法 在新闻报道中经常出现许多数字，大到几十亿，上百亿，小到分数或小数。尤其对一些多位数的数字，要想立刻听准这些数字的确不容易，其主要难点在于位数过多。因此在听多位数的数字时，应对billion(十亿)、million(百万)、thousand(千)、hundred(百)等词尤为重视。同时，要注意一个数字的多种读法，如播音员把两个足球队比赛结果2：0读作two to nothing而不是读成two to nought或two to zero． (5)掌握循序渐进，从慢到快的原则 目前，许多外台(如BBC，VOA)的新闻英语报道有特别英语(Special English)和标准英语(Standard English)两种。所谓Special English也可称为慢速英语，即新闻播放的语速较慢。
Unit I Shopping and Banking Online Spot dictation. Fill in the blanks with the words you hear. Listen to a news report. Supply the missing information. Consumers who want to shop online are suggested to bear the following things in mind: Evaluate the site. Always buy goods from well-known and trustworthy companies. Deal with companies which offer customer service, a complaints procedure and have a refund policy. Talk to merchant. E-mail and wait for responses. Take down the addresses and phone numbers of those companies and make sure they are real by calling them up before buying any products and services. Ensure secure connection. Since buyers must submit personal information like number and
新闻部分听力技巧： 一．新闻报道3大特点 根据西方新闻理论，新闻通常由三个部分组成，及标题（headline）,导语（lead）和正文（body）。了解新闻报道的基本问题特征，能帮助考生更好地听懂英语新闻。下面主要从新闻报道的结构，句法和所用词汇等方面来简要分析新闻报道的文体特征。 1.结构特点 新闻种类繁多，但就其写作形式与结构而言，则常用倒金字塔结构和时间顺序结构这两种写作方式。 A.倒金字塔结构（the Inverted Pyramid Form） 也称倒叙法。即指在新闻报道中把最重要的新闻事实放在整个报道的开头有，作为 导语（lead），把次要的我新闻事实放在导语之后，把最不重要的新闻事实放在整个 报道的末尾，这样就是倒金字塔结构。大部分新闻都采用此结构。 导语是新闻最重要的内容或事件的概述，只要听懂了导语，新闻概要就掌握得八九 不离十。听新闻要抓住6要素，即who,what,why,when,where,how，一般情况下导语 中应当回答这6要素的2要素。 B.时间顺序结构（the Chronological Style） 就是根据新闻事实发生的时间先后顺序报道。这一结构多用于体育比赛，文艺演出，和犯罪案件等。这种结构的新闻报道通常在整篇报道的结尾才给出新闻事实的结 果。 解题时注意先审题，听清第一句话，注意细节信息。去除听力中的“回读”习惯，忽略不熟悉的人名地名，解题时要先细节后归纳。 2.句法特点 就新闻报道的句法结构而言，一般使用结构简短的句子，但有时为了在一个句子中包含尽可能多的新闻事实或信息，采用合并句子或加入插入语的方式，即将原来两句或两句以上方可表达的事实合并在一句里，组成语法结构复杂，松散，冗长的句子。 A.含宾语从句的复合句 这类复合句大都接在say, tell, ask, report, quote, deny, confirm等一类动词后的间接引 语，所表达的内容往往比较重要，许多对细节考查的题目就针对此句式 Eg. American Coast Guard officials in Florida say they have returned to Cuba a group of would-be migrants B.含定语从句的复合句 此类句型通常结构复杂，信息量大，是新闻听力的难点。对于这类疑难句，考生应在平时报刊阅读以及听力训练中注意抓住句子的主题部分，即主，谓，宾，自爱此基础上理解句子的附加成分，明确他们与主体部分之间的关系。 Eg: they had to remain at the abandoned base where there were only flour and cooking fat. C.同位语及插入语 新闻英语除了文字简练的特点之外，最显著的一个特点就是要尽可能多地传递信息，因此不可避免的大量使用同位语。如在新闻中提到人就必须根据需要交代与该新闻有关的他的职务，年龄，专业等，如提到组织结构就必须交代与该新闻相关的地点，性质等以便听者更好地了解。
Unit 6Public Health Section A warming up 1. life expectancy 2. regulators abortion 3. rabies 4. infected with cases 5. bird flu immune 6. outbreaks-borne 7. prescription medicines 8. AIDS 9. antiviral10. Medicare Section B 1. B Tapescript: 1. The problem of obesity is spreading into many different aspects of Americans ’ lives. Now researchers have confirmed that some children are so fat they can’ t fit into car safety seats designed fordski. 2. Two more Indian states have banned the sale of soft drinks produced by . giants Coca-cola and Pepsi-cola after a test by an environmental group showed high pesticide levels. This brings the total number of states to six where there is a partial or full ban of the soft drinks. 3.An Asian expert says disease and natural disasters may pose a great security threat to the region than conventional political conflicts. 4.The United Nations say opium cultivation in Afghanistan has declined for the first time since 2001 as tens of thousands of farmers have given up opium poppies for legal crops. 5.The authorities in Iran have warned that if the dangerously high level of air pollution in the capital‘’ Teheran continues, there could be thousandsiesof. casualt Section C Item 1 1. A Tapescript: The number of people infected with HIV, the virus that can lead to AIDS, is still rising and has passed 14 million worldwide for the first time. The United Nations said there had been five million new infections this year and warned that AIDS was outstripping global and national efforts to contain it. Sub-Saharan Africa remains the worst affected region. In Asia, where more than eight million people are infected, the UN says infection rates are rising sharply. It warned that Pakistan, in particular, was on the verge of a serious epidemic. Item 2 Task 11. T Task 2 1. international conference malaria West African state scientific findings in lost GDP 3. world population’s is transmitted Tapescript: The biggest ever international conference on malaria has begun in the West African state of Cameroon to discuss the latest scientific findings on the disease which kills more than million people worldwide each year. 75 percent of those victims are African children. Of the 2,000 delegates meeting in the capital Yaounde, 80% are from Africa. The disease costs the continent more than 12 billion dollars in lost GDP each year. The latest research suggests that 41% ofthe world ’ s population live in areas where malaria is transmitted. Item 3 1. Whether more than one food company is responsible for an outbreak of E. coli bacteria. 2. Bad spinach from Natural Selection foods 3. Earth Bound Farm 4. It has recalled the spinach. 5. get rid of any fresh spinach in bags or other containers. 6.
Test 1 Questions 1 and 2 will be based on the following news item. [1] In a statement, the US president says he is taking the action, because the conflict in Darfur threatens the national security and foreign policy of the United States. The asset freeze is being imposed on four Sudanese identified by the . Security Council as being involved in organizing and carrying out cruel and violent actions in Darfur. The president’s order comes days before rallies are planned in Washington and throughout the United States to protest the three-year war in Darfur. [2]Celebrities such as Academy Award winning actor George Clooney are scheduled to speak at the rally. Clooney, who just returned from a trip to the Darfur region, told reporters in Washington the world’s attention need to be focused on what he called the “first massive murder of the 21st century.” 1. Why is the . president taking actions in Darfur 2. Who is scheduled to speak at the rally Questions 3 and 4 will be based on the following news item. [3] In October the Ugandan opposition leader, Kizza Basigye, returned to Kampala to prepare for the presidential elections next year. Three weeks later he was arrested. The Ugandan government says he must answer the charges, but his supporters say it’s an attempt by Ugandan President Museveni to Prevent Dr. Basigye running against him. [4]The incident is threatening to darken the country’s first multi-party elections in two decades. Western nations which provide essential economic support to Uganda have held up Uganda as a role model in the region, opposition leaders are calling on them to take a stand. In this edition of Analysis, Lucy Williamson looks at whether Uganda’s relationship with its donors is feeling the strain. 3. Why did Kizza Basigye return to Kampala 4. What is the consequence of Basigye’s incident Questions 5 and 7 will be based on the following news item. [5]Up to 32 people were killed in two bomb attacks Monday in the Syrian city of Homs, near the border with Lebanon. The second attack killed people who gathered to see the damage of an earlier car bomb. A suicide bomber entered the crowd and exploded a bomb hidden in clothing. The attacks took place in the al-Zahraa district, in the central part of the city. [6]State-controlled media say 19 people were killed in the two bombings. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says 32 people were killed. Many
UNIT 4 Statements and Comments Section A concern remarks charges warned for accused troubled baseless the importance Section B 1. The Canadian Prime Minister Steven Harper has announced the construction of two military faci lities in the Arctic and a move to assert his country’s sovereignty over the contested region, which is estimated to contain billions of dollars of oil and gas deposits. 2. A speaker purporting to be al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is accusing the US and the European Union of backing a war against Islam. 3. The former president of Iran Mohammad Khatami says American attempts to impose western-style democracy on the Middle East are flawed because democracy is not something that can be exported. 4. The Pentagon has issued a memo to rebut the criticism from several retired generals who called for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to resign. 5. British Prime Minister Tony Blair says his country is taking tough new measures to figh t extremism following last month’s deadly terrorist attacks in London. Answer：3A 4D 5C Section C Item 1Russian President Vladimir Putin says his country is prepared to help Kyrgyzstan’s new leaders establish stability in the wake of a pol itical upheaval. Mr. Putin made these comments today following a telephone discussion with Kyrgyzstan’s opposition leader Kurmanbek Bakiyev who was appointed by parliament to lead an interim government. Kyrgyzstan’s new leaders are trying to restore order after two days of massive looting and street violence that left at least three people dead and injured many more. Answer：1-(B,D) 2-(A,D) 3-(G) 4-(E) Item 2 British officials in Iran have denied allegations of any British involvement in violence in the southwestern province of Khuzestan where at least four people were killed in two bomb attacks on Saturday. The British embassy in Tehran condemned the attacks and said Britain rejected allegations linking it to terrorist outrages. Several Iranian officials have made statements implicating British troops stationed across the border inside southern Iraq in the bombings and in previous attacks earlier this year which killed 10 people. Answer：Task1：1F 2F 3F 4T 5F Task2: rejected linking to officials implicating bombings previous attacks Item 3 For the first time, President Bush has said it could be accurate to compare the recent escalation of violence in Iraq to the 1968 Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War. The Tet Offensive marked a strong downturn in public support for both the Vietnam War and then-President Lyndon Johnson. Mr. Bush spoke in an ABC TV interview in which he addressed increased violence in Iraq. The comparison of the insurgency in Iraq to the Tet Offensive in Vietnam was made in a column by Tom Friedman in the New York Times.
高考英语听力技巧 1. 数字题听力试题所涉及的数字包括年代、时间、年龄、距离、速度、价格、数量等,要求回答某事在什么时间发生;或某人在什么时间做某事;或价格、数量等。 在做数字计算题时,考生除了应该听清具体的数字,还应该注意表示倍数、百分率等的单词。考察数字的辨音。其中考生觉得较难的是"十几"和"几十"的区别,-teen/ˋt i:n/和-ty/ti/。比如,fifteen 和fifty 的区分。与价格有关的数字表达方式: 1).商品"打几折"的读法:有两种方法:可以直接读at a x% discount 或y% off,如70 折at a 30% discount 或30% off. 2).其它一些与数字有关的常用表达:一对couple,一打dozen,两周fortnight, 几天前 a few days ago 或the other day. 3). 注意以下单位: inch(英寸), foot( 英尺), yard( 码), mile( 英里), meter/m( 米), centimeter/cm( 厘米), kilometer/km 米), cubic meter(立方米), liter(升)等。 4). 记住下面这些表示数字与数字之间的关系词:表加减关系的词,如more(多)、less(少)、late(晚)、early(早)、fast(快)、slow(慢)、before(前)、after(后)等。表乘除关系的词,如times(倍)、twice(两倍)、percentage(百分比) a pair of(一双)、half of(一半)、double(双倍)、quarter(四分之一)等。 2. 关于人物关系、职业、身份的试题此类试题在对话中没有对人物身份、关系等作直接的说明,而是要根据对话中所提供的
Unit 6 Public Health Section A warming up 1. life expectancy 2. regulators abortion 3. rabies 4. infected with cases 5. bird flu immune 6. outbreaks -borne 7. prescription medicines 8. AIDS 9. antiviral 10. Medicare Section B 1. B Tapescript: 1. The problem of obesity is spreading into many different aspects of Americans’ lives. Now researchers have confirmed that some children are so fat they can’t fit into car safety seats designed for ki ds. 2. Two more Indian states have banned the sale of soft drinks produced by . giants Coca-cola and Pepsi-cola after a test by an environmental group showed high pesticide levels. This brings the total number of states to six where there is a partial or full ban of the soft drinks. 3. An Asian expert says disease and natural disasters may pose a great security threat to the region than conventional political conflicts. 4. The United Nations say opium cultivation in Afghanistan has declined for the first time since 2001 as tens of thousands of farmers have given up opium poppies for legal crops. 5. The authorities in Iran have warned that if the dangerously high level of air pollution in the capital ‘’Teheran continues, there could be thousands of casualt ies. Section C Item 1 1. A Tapescript: The number of people infected with HIV, the virus that can lead to AIDS, is still rising and has passed 14 million worldwide for the first time. The United Nations said there had been five million new infections this year and warned that AIDS was outstripping global and national efforts to contain it. Sub-Saharan Africa remains the worst affected region. In Asia, where more than eight million people are infected, the UN says infection rates are rising sharply. It warned that Pakistan, in particular, was on the verge of a serious epidemic. Item 2 Task 1 1. T Task 2 1. international conference malaria West African state scientific findings in lost GDP 3. world’s population is transmitted Tapescript:The biggest ever international conference on malaria has begun in the West African state of Cameroon to discuss the latest scientific findings on the disease which kills more than million people worldwide each year. 75 percent of those victims are African children. Of the 2,000 delegates meeting in the capital Yaounde, 80% are from Africa. The disease costs the continent more than 12 billion dollars in lost GDP each year. The latest research suggests that 41% of the world’s population live in areas where malaria is transmitted. Item 3 1. Whether more than one food company is responsible for an outbreak of E. coli bacteria. 2. Bad spinach from Natural Selection foods 3. Earth Bound Farm 4. It has recalled the spinach. 5. get rid of any fresh spinach in bags or other containers. 6.