【答案解析】每个美国家庭平均拥有1.8辆车，也就是说，这一人口26800万的国家有14700万辆车；平均每辆车每年以每小时50英里的速度开1万英里。大多数车都用于日常交通；乘公共交通工具上班的美国人还不到6%。现在一些非常好的高速公路上，每天的汽车流量是其设计流量的三倍甚至更多，而且每天两次，高速公路会变得宛如停车场。旧金山和华盛顿这两个城市荣膺最差城市交通奖。 [听力原文] According to government statistics in 2001, the average American household has 1.8 vehicles, that is, 147 million vehicles in a country of 268 million people; each vehicle is driven an average of 10,000 miles per year at an average highway speed of 59 miles per hour. Most cars are used for daily commuting; less than 6% of the American workforce uses public transportation to get to work. Some of the country's wonderful high-speed highways now carry three or more times the intended amount of traffic and twice a day turn into parking lots. San Francisco and Washington D. C win the prize for the two cities with the worst congestion.

【答案解析】根据一份著名杂志提供的报告，去年全世界的广告开支达到了2250亿美元。其中的14%即320亿美元投放于杂志广告。在欧洲，消费性杂志广告开支为120亿美元，占整个欧洲 570亿美元广告开支的21%。但是，这一比例比起15年前的30%已经下跌。下跌尤为严重的是比利时和德国。这两个国家相对较晚才引进了商业电视。 [听力原文] Advertising expenditure worldwide was $225 billion last year, according to a report of a leading magazine. $32 billion of this, or 14%, was taken by magazines. In Europe, the share of consumer magazine advertising expenditure was $12 billion, or 21% of an estimated overall spend of $57 billion. But the share has dropped in the past 15 years from 30 per cent, with decline having been particularly severe in Belgium and Germany where commercial television was introduced relatively late.