判断题
The North Korea has millions of dollars deposited in a Macau bank.
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[听力原文]
North Korea says it will not shut down its nuclear program as agreed until the United States releases millions of dollars frozen in a Macau bank. US officials say that decision is up to Macau. The comments come ahead of Monday's resumption in Beijing on North Korea's nuclear disarmament.
[难点] 新闻透露的信息很新，如果不知道美国对朝鲜有这个指控的话，可能不会认为澳门与朝鲜会挂钩。
判断题
The failure of the jet engine is the cause of the accident.
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[听力原文]
Seven people were killed and dozens of others were injured On Saturday in a crash landing of a Russian air. liner. A spokeswoman for the Emergency Situation Ministry said the Tu-134 jet made a hard landing in the city of Samara in southeastern Russia when its landing gear failed to deploy.
[难点] 关键是听出最后一个单词“landing gear”。如果抓不住这个词，就会想当然认为是“engine”出现了故障。
判断题
The Senate won the vote by a large margin.
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[听力原文]
The United States' Senate has voted to set a target date of next March for withdrawing American combat troops from Iraq. The Senate narrowly rejected an attempt to remove specific timings for the withdrawal from a bill on funding the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
[难点] 关键是能否把握“narrowly”这个词的意思。
判断题
The boys were promised a good future before they were taken abroad.
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[听力原文]
The International Organization for Migration says it has returned 34 boys to their homes in Ivory Coast after they were promised highly-paid contracts in European Football and taken abroad. But instead of ending up in Rome, Madrid or London, the boys found themselves in neighboring Mali, where they were held against their will.
[难点] 基本不难，因为所用的单词都很常见，且整段话表达意思基本一致，容易根据上下文判断。
判断题
The cellist and conductor celebrated his 80th birthday in Kremlin partly because of his fight for democracy.
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[听力原文]
The Russian President Vladmir Putin has paid lavish tribute to the internationally renowned cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich on his 80th birthday. At a gala dinner held in his honor of the Kremlin on Tuesday, Mr. Rostropovich spoke briefly of his happiness on this occasion. Mr. Putin lauded Mr. Rostropovich's brilliant musical career and described him as an uncompromising fighter of democracy.
[难点] 该段的主要干扰在于俄罗斯人的名字与英文的不同，同时其内容与普京总统的一贯行为可能有所出入：普京很少大肆夸奖人。