In this section, you will hear five short news items. After
each item, which will be read only once, there will be a pause. During the
pause, read the question and the three choices marked A, B and C, and decide
which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the answer sheet
with a single line through the centre.
单选题
Who do International medical guidelines call for to use a combination of AIDS drugs? A. Pregnant women with AIDS. B. Pregnant women with AIDS and their newly - born babies. C. Pregnant women with advanced HIV.
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[听力原文]
International medical guidelines call for pregnant women with advanced HIV to get a combination of AIDS drugs including nevirapine to prevent passing their infection on to their newborns during delivery. But in poor countries, combinations have been expensive and nevirapine has often been used alone, since studies have shown that a single dose can cut the transmission rate in half.
开头便阐明了呼吁患艾滋病的怀孕妇女使用混合药物防止孩子感染艾滋病。
单选题
How much money does Argentine want to borrow from the International Monetary Fund?
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[听力原文]
Argentine President Eduardo Duhalde has warned that the nation's economic crisis threatens democracy in Argentina. Mr. Duhalde said Pope John Paul was correct when he made a similar statement. The leader of the Catholic Church also blamed bad management and financial wrong doing for the economic crisis. President Duhalde said a public work plan would be announced by the end of this month. Argentine officials say they have had good meetings this week in Washington. The officials met with the International Monetary Fund and American government officials. Argentina wants to borrow as much as 23,000 million dollars from the IMF. The money would help support the value of the Argentine peso.
新闻明确指出Argentina想要从IMF借“as much as 23,000 million dollars”。
单选题
What happened to the temporary minister of air-transport and tourism of Afghanistan? A. He has been murdered at Kabul Airport. B. He has been shot at Kabul Airport. C. He has been beaten to death at Kabul Airport.
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[听力原文]
The temporary Minister of Air Transport and Tourism of Afghanistan has been beaten to death at Kabul Airport. A crowd of Afghan religious travelers beat Abdul Rahman because they were angry about travel delays to Mecca. Afghan government reports say the minister was at the airport to fly on an official trip. In other news, American forces at a base in Kandahar Airport are trying to stop a huge grass fire. The fire was started by devices used to light areas around the base at night.
新闻开头就提到航空运输旅游公司的临时部长在机场“has been beaten to death.”。
单选题
What is India's Prime Minister appealing for?
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[听力原文]
India's Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee is appealing for calm after a mob in the state of Gujarat burned a train carrying Hindu activists. The attackers were said to be Muslems. The attack killed 57 people. Officials have ordered a curfew in the town of Godhra where the attack happened. The train carried members of a Hindu nationalist group from a gathering in the northern town of Ayodhya. Local officials say the Hindus were shouting statements that angered Muslems in Godhra. The Hindu group wants to build a holy place in Ayodhya on the ruins of an ancient mosque. Hindus destroyed the Islamic center 10 years ago.
新闻第一句明确指出印度总理“is appealing for calm”。
单选题
How many African children were forced into child labor in the past year?
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[听力原文]
A 3-day international conference on fighting the African trade in child labor has ended in Ivory Coast. Discussions centered on developing international cooperation to stop the trade. The United Nations estimates that about 200,000 children were forced into child labor in the past year in Africa. The UN says the problem could be getting worse.
新闻提到联合国认为去年有“about 200, 000 children”被迫成为童工。