Test 1
【参考答案】
1. A
2. C
3. A
4. D
5. D
6. B
7. A 【听力原文】
N e w s R e p o r t O n e
Iranians have taken to the streets of Tehran to celebrate a landmark nuclear deal with world powers which should lead to the lifting of crippling economic sanctions. In return, strict limits will be imposed on Iran’s nuclear activities. The country’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, praised the hard work of Iranian negotiators. President Hassan Rouhani said that the agreement proved that constructive engagement worked. Both Iran and the United States say the deal is a historical opportunity.
The deal which has aimed at pushing an end to the roar of Iran’s nuclear programme represents the biggest step towards easing hostility between Iran and the West since the Iranian Revolution in 1979. Iran has agreed to
scale back its sensitive nuclear activities. It will reduce its capacity to enrich uranium, and has signed up to intensive inspections by UN inspectors.
Questions 1 and 2 are based on the news report you have just heard.
Q1. What is the result of the nuclear deal?
Q2. Who will benefit a lot from the nuclear deal?
N e w s R e p o r t T w o
The authorities in Nepal say more than 3,500 people are now known to have died in Saturday’s catastrophic earthquake. But as rescuers reached the more remote areas, it’s feared the figure could rise further. With more aftershocks, many frightened residents of the capital opted to spend Sunday night in vast tented settlements. Sanjoy Majumder is in Katmandu.
“Even in the smarter neighborhoods, the re are people who set out little carpets or brought their mattresses out in front of their homes and have been staying there through the day, through the night. If you walk into the market areas, you can see people sitting on the kerb. All people are just walking around. It looks as
almost nobody in the city is indoors at any given moment. Now what the authorities are getting very concerned about is the lack of c lean drinking water.”
Questions 3 and 4 are based on the news report you have just heard.
Q3. What is the result of the earthquake?
四级听力Q4. What is the situation of people in the smarter neighborhoods?
N e w s R e p o r t T h r e e
Hunger hit Africa hard this year as climate change, conflict and enduring poverty ravaged multiple countries and let tens of millions of people in dire straits.
Countries as diverse as South Sudan, Malawi and the Central African Republic have sounded the alarm in recent months. The U.N. World Food Program says sub-Saharan Africa already has the world’s highest prevalence of hunger: one person in four is undernourished. Every day in Africa, 23 million children go to school hungry.
The agency’s David Orr said that in the lower half of Africa, where weather is the main culprit, 2015 has
been an unusually difficult year.
I think what makes things different this year is the combination of drought and then an El Nino weather event coming right after that, so that people are effectively being hit by two consecutive years of reduced rainfall. And it’s particularly difficult on a region where 70 percent of the population are subsistence farmers.
Questions 5 to 7 are based on the news report you have just heard.
Q5. Which country has suffered from hunger according to the news?
Q6. In Africa, how many children are suffering from hunger?
Q7. According to David Orr, which is the major reason for the straits in the lower half of Africa?
Test 2
【参考答案】
1. D
2. D
3. A
4. C
5. D
6. A
7. C 【听力原文】
N e w s R e p o r t O n e
W hat’s the biggest online shopping day in the world?
Not Valentine’s Day.Not Cyber Monday or Black Friday. They are the days that follow Thanksgiving in the U. S. and usher in the start of the holiday shopping season. The winner is C hina’s S ingles’ Day, celebrated November 11, or 11.11.
Singles’ Day began as a day for unmarried or uncoupled people to celebrate their lives. Single students, looking for an excuse to buy themselves presents, started it on November 11, 1993, reported The Guardian.
It is symbolized by the four number ones in the date of November 11 —11. 11 —and is also called Double Eleven, in reference to the day it was started, said the BBC.
It became a major shopping day in 2009. The CEO of an online shopping site —Alibaba —sought to in
crease sales at the e-commerce company. The CEO, Daniel Zhang, launched an annual online sale that day, said Fortune.
When it first began, “Singles’ Day was very much an offline solace for actual single people,” n oted the website Atlas Obscura. “A small group of students at Nanjing University are said to have chosen 11.11 as a