英语专业八级满分听力 test-3

[15:33.01]Section C  NEWS BROADCAST
[15:38.14]In this section, you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow.
[15:45.25]Questions 6 to 7 are based on the following news.
[15:48.97]At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the two questions.
[15:55.75]Now listen to the news.
[15:58.59]At one time, scientists thought the space between Earth and Sun was a vacuum.
[16:04.39]But we now know that the sun fills it with gusts of hot,
[16:08.22]electrically charged atomic particles called the solar wind.
[16:12.15]Sometimes this wind blows hard. When the Sun's outer layer is very active,
[16:16.97]it hurls nearly one-third of its gaseous matter outward at supersonic speeds.
[16:21.78]The U.S. government's oceans and atmosphere agency NOAA,
[16:27.14]has a Space Environment Center to monitor these discharges.
[16:30.42]The center's director, Ernest Hildner, says intense solar emissions are not dangerous to people on the ground,
[16:37.09]but can be a hazard to airplane occupants and astronauts.
[16:40.48]They can also shut down satellites, power networks, communications, and other technical systems.
[17:07.21]Question 8 is based on the following news.
[17:11.48]At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the question.
[17:17.48]Now listen to the news.
[17:19.61]Today Yasmine El-Safy is getting ready to send the latest issue of MG Magazine out to its subscribers.
[17:28.03]Yasmine El-Safy is MG magazine's founder, publisher and editor-in-chief. She is thirteen and a half years old.
[17:37.11]She says she started this magazine for Muslim girls because she couldn't relate to anything in the mainstream media.
[17:44.55]Living in a neighborhood in the Los Angeles area of California, with few other Muslim families,
[17:51.11]the magazine has also been a way for Yasmine to meet Muslim girls like herself.
[17:56.36]Through websites and Internet discussion groups, Yasmine recruited other girls, one from as far away as Kuwait,
[18:04.24]to contribute to the magazine. They write about things such as peers pressure
[18:08.88]and dressing modestly, and being a Muslim in a non-Muslim world. While MG Magazine is produced by Muslim girls,
[18:16.21]there is adult supervision provided by Yasmine's mother Lyla El-Safy,
[18:20.58]who says that the articles in the magazine reflect Muslim values.
[18:35.48]Questions 9 and 10 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item,
[18:43.24]you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the two questions.
[18:47.40]Now listen to the news.
[18:50.02]Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomes Chinese President Hu Jintao
[18:56.67]to Moscow Thursday for a four-day official visit.
[19:00.28]The two leaders are expected to talk on strengthening bilateral relations,
[19:04.76]especially in the areas of energy and trade.
[19:07.61]One day before President Putin was to host his Chinese counterpart,
[19:11.87]the Kremlin announced that 2006 would officially be named the Year of Russia in China,
[19:17.23]with the Year of China to follow in Russia in 2007.
[19:20.84]The growing sense of accord between the two neighbors, is not lost on analysts.
[19:25.68]Many say that while this week's talks will not likely lead to any real breakthroughs,
[19:30.71]they will go a long way toward forging what officials on both sides are calling, a new relationship.