英语专业八级满分听力 test-6

[15:05.85]Section C  NEWS BROADCAST
[15:08.36]In this section, you will hear everything ONCE ONLY.
[15:11.75]Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow.
[15:15.26]Questions 6 to 7 are based on the following news.
[15:21.05]At the end of the news item,
[15:23.79]you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the two questions.
[15:28.05]Now listen to the news.
[15:30.45]This is Nicodemus, the first all-black pioneer town,
[15:36.03]established on the prairie 128 years ago.
[15:40.30]Every summer this tiny town holds a homecoming
[15:43.03]with a gathering and parade to celebrate its heritage.
[15:46.76]In 1877 freed slaves came to a barren spot in Kansas to make a place
[15:53.53]where they could determine their own lives.
[15:56.16]They had been encouraged to come to the barren prairie by unscrupulous land agents.
[16:01.19]Living in earth-covered huts the settlers used their determination and farming skills
[16:07.10]and a town began to take shape.
[16:09.61]Some of the original structures remain.
[16:12.35]First built were two churches, then a schoolhouse and later a small hotel and a town hall.
[16:19.12]Today, Nicodemus is like many struggling mid-western towns
[16:23.72]where the young people leave for the cities.
[16:26.02]It is now a National Historic Site and tourists and African-Americans
[16:31.05]from all over come to see where black pioneers built their own town from the ground up.
[16:58.30]Question 8 is based on the following news.
[17:01.47]At the end of the news item,
[17:04.97]you will be given 10 seconds to answer the question.
[17:09.02]Now listen to the news.
[17:11.97]Mechanized carnival attractions draw big crowds at the Maryland State Fair.
[17:17.99]But there is another side to this event.
[17:20.61]It is a scene that looks like it is right off the farm.
[17:23.56]The fair is a yearly event that helps America's largely urban-dwelling population
[17:28.93]reconnect with its agrarian roots.
[17:31.44]Fairs were originated hundreds of years ago
[17:35.05]in various forms and certainly the fair as we know it is about a hundred years old.
[17:40.19]It was a place for the agricultural community to get together and show off
[17:44.79]what they had done over the past year.
[17:46.86]Farmland scenes like this have become ever less common across the United States.
[17:51.78]But it seems they will always be preserved at America's state fairs.
[18:07.41]Questions 9 and 10 are based on the following news.
[18:10.15]At the end of the news item,
[18:12.99]you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the two questions.
[18:17.26]Now listen to the news.
[18:19.77]The World Health Organization warns
[18:24.04]between 25 and 35 percent of the world population
[18:28.08]could be affected by a human influenza pandemic,
[18:32.24]but the WHO says most people would survive.
[18:35.52]Health experts are meeting at the World Health Organization
[18:39.78]in Geneva to map out a plan of action to combat the possible spread of avian flu.
[18:46.08]The World Health Organization Global Influenza Program
[18:50.78]Director Klaus Stohr says between two and seven million people
[18:55.48]would die from a mild pandemic and up to 28 million would be hospitalized.
[19:00.73]He adds everything has to be put into perspective.
[19:04.56]The WHO calculation is based on the prospect of a mild influenza outbreak,
[19:10.36]such as those which occurred in 1957 and 1968.
[19:15.17]Those pandemics killed three million people.
[19:18.78]It acknowledges that deaths could skyrocket
[19:21.73]in the event of a severe influenza pandemic,
[19:24.68]such as the one that swept the world in 1918,
[19:28.29]killing more than 40 million people.