英语四级标准听力强化训练(MP3+文本) 第29期:短文(8)

【听力答案】

4. D 5. B 6. D

【听力原文】

Passage 2

This year's Consumer Electronics Show opened Thursday in Las Vegas. The event is the world's biggest technology trade show.（4）More than three hundred companies are presenting more than twenty thousand new products.（三百多家公司展出了超过两万多件新产品。）The goal is to build excitement, make deals—and hopefully get good reviews in the media.（5）The experts predicted that one area of strong sales this year will be mobile phones.（专家们预测今年最具竞争力的领域将会是移动电话领域。）That includes fifty-two million smartphones expected to be sold in the United States. Smartphones run applications and access the Internet.

（6-1）Google is launching the Nexus One—which it calls a "superphone." The Nexus One will compete withApple's popular iPhone. Apple is reportedly about to introduce a new digital tablet.（谷歌推出一个被称为超级电话的产品Nexus—代，这个产品将和现在市场上热卖的iPhone争夺市场。据报道，苹果公司将向消费者们介绍新型的平板数字电脑。）Tablets are easy-to-hold screens that let you read and watch media or search the Web. An example is the Amazon Kindle. Like netbooks, tablets cost less than traditional laptop computers. But that can also mean smaller profits for manufacturers and sellers.（6-2）Companies like Sony and Panasonic are introducing new television sets for watching three-dimensional TV.（像索尼和松下这样的公司向消费者们展示了可以看3D电视的新型电视机。）A three-D TV costs more than three thousand dollars. Americans are expected to buy four million of them this year.（6-3）Sports broadcaster ESPN and the Discovery Channel plan to start their own three-D channels.（体育广播电视台 ESPN 和《探索·发现》频道计划开始创办们自己的3D电视频道。）

【核心词汇】

access v.接通；进入

application n.应用程序

electronics n.电子学

launch v.开始，着手

manufacturer n.制造商

tablet n.药片,片状物

make deal 成交；约定