【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[听力原文] The reality is that the level of distress here definitely knocked down a couple of notches today. Stocks ended slightly higher, investors paid little attention to a worse-thah-expected inflation report, and comments from former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, who said problems in the sub prime mortgage market could spread to other sectors of the economy. So details now, the Dow Industrials as you can see at the Big Board adding 26 points and firmly back above that 12,000 level, the NASDAQ composite are up more than a quarter of a percent, the S&P 500 adding more than a third of a percent. [难点] 这篇文章是经济方面的，里面有专业术语，可能会影响理解，而且其中有数字的混淆，考生可能会将注意力放在数字上，但题目出在了一个很细微的地方，如果考生不知道“sub prime mortgage”的含义，这个题目将会较难。

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[听力原文] The spread of malaria is like a two-way street. The disease is spread to humans through the bite of mosquitoes infected with malaria parasites, the most dangerous of these being plasmodium falciparum. Uninfected mosquitoes become infected with the parasite by biting infected animals. In sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Asia an estimated 300 million people are infected every year, more than one million of them are children, many of whom die. Years of attempting to cure the disease with antibiotics and quinine drugs have caused the parasite to become resistant to treatment. Scientists are trying to come up with novel strategies for conquering malaria. One idea that has been around for a number of years is the creation of genetically altered mosquitoes that could be released into the environment. [难点] 这篇文章属于医疗卫生方面的，是谈对于疟疾的抗生素治疗，虽然有“quinine”这个生词，但整篇文章不是很难，题目比较细微，答案的选项中混淆性比较大，因为其 他几个选项也在文中提到了。

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[听力原文] China has never hidden its desire to become a major force in the aviation in airspace industries. And Sunday's announcement that plans to challenge Airbus and Boeing's current duopoly by building big passenger jets isn't it exactly a shock. I don't think there is any surprise that the Chinese are saying that they are good to build their own aircraft in due course. But I think it would at least a couple of decades before they have an aircraft that makes any meaningful dent in the market: and quite possibly several decades. [难点] 文章信息量较大，而且是涉及中国的航空事业，可能对于一部分考生来说很陌生，问题的设置也属于归纳全篇中心的类型，这就要求译员对全文都要有一个全部的理解和把握。

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[听力原文] The trouble with Sony. It's not a Hitchcock film, but the last few months have been a thriller for the world's No. 2 consumer electronics firm, with battery recalls, product delays, and analyst and market disappointment. The creator of the Walkman hopes to rebound under foreign CEO Howard Stringer, but brand analyst Martin Roll says Sony has lost its way. "Sony definitely has a myth, but of late, the last couple of years they have been overrun by realign the iPods, the Samsungs, a lot of different competitors in different industries. And it seems like they have lost the touch in terms of design and innovation. They used to be a trendsetter, and now they have become a trend follower." [难点] 文章出现了一些技术性词语，主要是讲索尼在技术开发时所遇到的困难，题目的设置其实也就是全文的中心，所以要抓住中心思想。答案中的混淆系数相对较小，因为除了第一个选项外，其余几个只是文章的细枝末节。

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[听力原文] Stronger typhoons, more flooding in low lying regions, deepening drought -- all possible, if not likely, according to a report from British climatologists. They say 2007 has a 60 percent probability of being the hottest year on record, citing high levels of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere, and El Nino, now underway in the Pacific and expected to last until May. Temperature studies for 2006 are not yet complete. But the new study, noting that the world's ten warmest years since 1850 have occurred in the past decade, says 2006 is set to be the sixth warmest year globally, and 2007 is likely to set a new all time high. [难点] 文章中有很多年份，这可能对某些考生造成误导，会把精力投入到数字中，但是问题的设置却是一个偏离数字的问题，而且这个题目主要考查对于细节的把握，采取的形式又是提问哪一项是不正确的，有很大的难度。