单选题Questions 26 to 28 are based on the .following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions. Now, listen to the news.
单选题
Which two states have declared states of emergency?
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[听力原文] 26-28 A massive storm is battering the East Coast and Carolinas all the way to New England. The acting governor of [27] New Jersey is now telling the state citizens not to leave their houses. The governor of Connecticut is doing the same and [26] both states have declared states of emergency. Inland from the coast, [28] the storm has buried northeastern states in snow, actually up to 17 inches fell in Vermont alone. And the snow is still falling in upstate New York, Pennsylvania and Maine. [考点] 本题出题点在细节处。 [精析] 新闻提到暴风雪袭击了美国东海岸和南北卡罗来纳州,新泽西州和康涅狄格州宣布进入紧急状态,故选B。
单选题
What did the governor of New Jersey tell the citizens to do?
单选题
Which part of the country has been buried in snow?
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[考点] 本题出题点在细节处。 [精析] 新闻提到,美国东北部地区被大雪覆盖,故选A。
单选题
Those logging contracts mentioned involve ______ hectares of forest in Congo.
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[听力原文] 29-30 The environmental group Greenpeace says that more than a hundred new contracts have been issued over the past five years [29] for extensive logging in an area covering15 million hectares of forest in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Copies of the contracts obtained by the campaigning group show that an exchange for the agreement of local communities to grant 25-year concessions to the forest areas, some logging companies have offered them gifts worth less than 100 US dollars, [30] others have made promises that they've never been kept .have been issued over the past five years [29] for extensive logging in an area covering15 million hectares of forest in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Copies of the contracts obtained by the campaigning group show that an exchange for the agreement of local communities to grant 25-year concessions to the forest areas, some logging companies have offered them gifts worth less than 100 US dollars, [30] others have made promises that they've never been kept. [考点] 本题出题点在数字处。 [精析] 新闻提到绿色和平组织称在过去的5年里,有关大面积采伐刚果民主共和国的1500万公顷的森林的协议就超过了100个,故选A。