【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[听力原文] 28-30
[28]The momentum is building ahead of next month's G8 summit in Scotland where the leaders of the world's richest nations will debate what they can do to help some of the world's poorest. Africa is the priority and the politicians will discuss reducing the debt burden, ending trade regulations which put the continent's economy at a disadvantage, and giving more aid. Mark Doyle, who's reported from Africa for many years, looks at why aid is necessary, and why much of what's been donated in the past has not worked. All around the edge of Africa—along the coastline, near the continents' ports—[29]are monuments to exploitation. On the island of Goree, for example, just off the coast of Senegal, there's the Slave House. [30]This was the last place many Africans saw before being shipped off to a lifetime of slavery in the Americas or, just as often, to death on the high seas. [29]There are many more places like this dating from the three hundred and fifty years or so of the African slave trade. When people wonder why Africa is SO poor, they need look no further for the start of an explanation. The end of the slavery was followed by a century of colonialism. Some people argue that colonialism brought limited development—railways and schools and so on—[29]the system was principally designed to turn Africa into a vast plantation and mining site for the profit of outsides.
[解析] 新闻提到，八国峰会上，世界上最富有的几个国家的领导人将会讨论他们能做些什么来帮助世界上最穷的国家。非洲是他们帮助的主要对象。政治家们将讨论减少非洲的债务负担，结束那些束缚非洲经济发展的贸易规则，而且要给予非洲更多的援助。选项D说明“构建民主，反对腐败”，这不是八国峰会讨论的议题。故正确答案为D。
[点睛] 预读时可发现选项D相对其他选项来说与poor的关系不大，很可能为答案，听音时再作进一步求证。

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[解析] 新闻提到，在非洲的一些海岸线上，大陆港口附近矗立着很多关于剥削的纪念碑。当人们问到非洲为什么会这样穷时，他们不需要听其他的解释。奴隶制度结束以后，非洲又经历了殖民统治。殖民统治使非洲成为一个巨大的种植园和矿区，来满足外人的利益要求。奴隶制度和殖民统治共同构成了对非洲人民系统的剥削。故正确答案为A。
[点睛] 通过预读可确定听音重点为：exploitation(剥削)。选项B中的climate(气候)和D中的war(战争)在文中没有提及，选项C中的donation是Mark Doyle要解释的其中一方面，但不是poor的直接原因。

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[解析] 新闻提到，在离塞内加尔海岸线不远处的戈雷(Goree)有一个奴隶交易所，这是许多非洲人被运出非洲成为终生奴隶之前所能看到的最后一个地方。因此选项B正确。
[点睛] 根据常识Senegal(塞内加尔)是一个国家，而不是一个岛，因此，选项A和D可排除，从而缩小选择范围。