英语专业八级满分听力 Chapter Four

　
[04:47.64]UNIT 2
[05:12.59]In this section, you will hear everything ONCE ONLY.
[05:16.32]Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow.
[05:20.04]Question 1 is based on the following news.
[05:23.09]At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the question.
[05:28.89]Now listen to the news.
[05:31.19]Police in Iraq say a British helicopter has crashed in the southern city of Basra,
[05:38.29]apparently after being hit by a rocket or missile.
[05:42.47]Officials say the helicopter went down in a residential area today,
[05:47.61]and the bodies of the four crew members were found in the wreckage.
[05:51.65]Iraqi police say four people were killed in a clash
[05:56.16]between British troops and a crowd of Iraqis at the crash site.
[06:00.64]The Iraqis cheered the crash,
[06:03.14]threw stones at the troops and set fire to British armored vehicles.

[06:19.38]Question 2 is based on the following news.
[06:22.66]At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the question.
[06:29.67]Now listen to the news.
[06:32.29]Leaders of the Palestinian militant group Hamas
[06:36.00]have met the Russian foreign minister in Moscow for talks
[06:39.52]described by Hamas as open and constructive.
[06:42.46]The meeting was the first of its kind between Hamas
[06:46.39]and any of the group of countries mediating in the Middle East peace process.
[06:50.43]The Russian Minister Sergey Lavrov warned Hamas that
[06:54.79]following its recent election victory,
[06:56.86]it must transform itself into a purely political institution.
[07:00.49]Mr. Lavrov also urged the group to abide by previous agreements
[07:05.63]made between the Palestinian authority and Israel.
[07:08.61]But its overall response was positive.
　　
[07:21.18]Question 3 is based on the following news.
[07:25.23]At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the question.
[07:30.90]Now listen to the news.
[07:33.32]The United Nations food agency has warned that
[07:38.46]millions of Kenyans and Somalis are at grave risk of starvation
[07:43.38]if aid does not reach the region soon.
[07:46.32]On a visit to Northern Kenya, the head of the World Food Program said
[07:52.12]the situation there was as desperate as anything he had ever seen.
[07:56.94]There have been a few showers in Kenya in the past week,
[08:01.07]but hardly enough to even wet the ground in many areas.
[08:05.34]The head of the World Food Program has been the boarder with Somalia,
[08:10.82]where hundreds of cattle and goats have died,
[08:13.93]and the human population is struggling to survive.
[08:17.53]He said the world had not yet woken up to the crisis
[08:21.23]that is facing Kenya and the whole of Africa.

[08:33.59]Questions 4 and 5 are based on the following news.
[08:39.19]At the end of the news item,
[08:41.91]you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the two questions.
[08:46.39]Now listen to the news.
[08:49.03]Diplomats from nearly 30 countries have condemned a major campaign
[08:54.06]against the media in Kenya for which the Kenyan government has admitted responsibility.
[08:58.98]The diplomats described the action as an unacceptable attack on the freedom of the press.
[09:04.57]Earlier the Kenyan government confirmed that
[09:07.61]it had ordered police to carry out an overnight armed raid
[09:11.21]on the offices of a leading newspaper and its sister television station.
[09:15.39]They burned thousands of copies of the newspaper,The Standard.
[09:19.46]Three journalists from the paper later have appeared in court
[09:23.41]charged with publishing a false statement intended to cause alarm.
[09:26.79]John Michuki, the Kenyan Minister of State Security,
[09:30.19]was the first to admit the government was behind the raid.