【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[听力原文] President Obama has urged top Republican anti Democrat leaders to speed up majority regulatory reforms, major regulatory reforms of the US financial system, widely seen as his next big political challenge at home. In face-to-face talks with senior politicians, Mr. Obama urged them to approve the reform bill, saying the United States could not afford another financial meltdown. At a news conference in Washington, the US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner explained why he thought the bill was important. "I think it's an important moment for reform, a promising moment. A lot of hard work, a lot of progress. It's been two and a half years since this crisis started, more than a year since we first laid out a comprehensive set of reforms and I think we know what we need to know about the choices we face. It's just time to decide and time to move." Republican figures said that in its present form, the legislation would only institutionalise the bailing out of failed banks. 主旨题。听音时应注意捕捉首句信息。首句提到奥巴马总统敦促共和党和民主党高级领袖加速对美国金融体系进行重大调控改革，因此答案为A“奥巴马急于改革美国的金融体系”。根据录音可知，B、D是新闻涉及的内容，表述均正确，但不是主旨；C有误，改革法案还未通过。

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】信息辨认题。听音时应注意捕捉美国财政部长盖特纳的谈话信息。据盖特纳解释，改革法案重要的原因包括：这是改革的关键时刻，充满希望的时刻；自危机开始以来，已经过去两年半的时间，自开展第一次全面改革也已经有一年多的时间；现在应该是决定的时刻，是应该采取行动的时刻。因此A、C、D均正确，B无中生有，为答案。