单选题
单选题 What can be inferred from the news?
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[听力原文]
This afternoon we have identified a case of Ebola in a patient in the USA. Both health ministry and public health authorities are working together to give the best care to the patient and to guarantee the safety of all citizens. Officials said other nurses and doctors who work with her would be monitored. Meanwhile, an American cameraman infected with Ebola in Liberia has been flown home and admitted to hospital in the United States, the fifth American to return for treatment. Ashoka Mukpo who was diagnosed early was taken to a bio-containment center.

[解析] 新闻中间谈及官方的态度及其对保护医生和护士所采取的措施,即“会一直观察照顾她的护士和医生”(would be monitored)。证明这些护士和医生有患病的危险,所以需要观察情况,因此选择C项。
单选题 Which of the following statements is TRUE?
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[听力原文]
More than 130,000 Syrian Kurdish refugees have flooded into Turkey in the past few days, as the Islamic State militant group bears down on the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobane. Turkish authorities have clashed with hundreds of Kurdish protesters, many of whom want to cross into Syria to defend fellow Kurds from the onslaught. The militant group, also known as ISIL, released a statement on Monday urging Muslims to kill Westerners whose countries have joined the campaign against it.

[解析] 新闻中谈到土耳其政府与上百名库尔德人发生冲突,因为他们欲穿过叙利亚去保护同胞,因此选择C项。
单选题 What is the advantage of the new technology being developed by Nur Energy Company?
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[听力原文]
According to the European Commission"s Institute for Energy, just 0.3 percent of the Saharan Desert"s intense solar energy can provide Europe with all the electrical power it needs. A company called Nut Energy plans to capture some of it by building a solar plant similar to an Israeli one in the Negev desert that uses heliotropic mirrors. This technology, unlike photovoltaic cells, can generate energy even when the sky is overcast or at night. Thousands of mirrors, spread over 100 square kilometers, will concentrate sunlight to a tower where it heats and melts a special salt.

[解析] 新闻最后谈到该技术的优势,即“天阴或在晚上也可以生成能量”,所以利用该技术只需很少的光就可以实现能量生成,因此选择C项。
单选题 What is the score that makes Real Madrid tour wins from four in the Champions League?
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[听力原文]
No team has ever retained the Champions League title since the competition was revamped in 1992—but perhaps, finally, this will be the year. Karim Benzema ensured Real Madrid"s place in the last-16 by firing his side to a 1-0 win over Liverpool to make it four wins from four. The winner after Real was made to work hard against a much-changed visiting side. Cristiano Ronaldo, who wasted a number of opportunities, was left frustrated after failing to overturn Raul"s Champions League goals record.

[解析] 新闻中谈到马德里实现四连胜时说到其“以1-0击败利物浦实现四连胜”,因此选择A项。
单选题 What is the significance of the new research finding?
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[听力原文]
A research team in Japan said Friday that it has succeeded in replicating contraction and stretching in a small muscle grown from rat cells, local media reported Friday. The development, to be detailed at an international conference in the United States starting Sunday, is expected to prove useful in the field of regenerative medicine, Kyodo reported Friday. "It could also lead to the development of robots able to move naturally using muscles," said the team leader Shoji Takeuchi, a professor at the University of Tokyo.

[解析] 新闻先介绍日本团队在老鼠细胞里复制肌肉收缩和拉伸实验成功,然后介绍了该科学发现的重要意义,即“在再生药物(regenerative medicine)领域发挥作用”,因此选择D项。