2008英语专业八级考试全真试题附答案

SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST

In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Mark the correct answer to each question on your coloured answer sheet.

　　Question 6 is based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the question. Now listen to the news.

6. What is the main idea of the news item?

　　A. A new government was formed after Sundays elections.

　　B. The new government intends to change the welfare system.

　　C. The Social Democratic Party founded the welfare system.

　　D. The Social Democratic Party was responsible for high unemployment.

　　Questions 7 and 8 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions.Now listen to the news.

7. The tapes of the Apollo-11 mission were first stored in

　　A. a U.S. government archives warehouse.

　　B. a NASA ground tracking station.

　　C. the Goddard Space Flight Centre.

　　D. none of the above places.

8. What does the news item say about Richard Nafzger?

　　A. He is assigned the task to look for the tapes.www.enmajor.com

　　B. He believes that the tapes are probably lost.

　　C. He works in a NASA ground receiving site.

　　D. He had asked for the tapes in the 1970s.

　　Questions 9 and 10 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions.Now listen to the news.

9. The example in the news item is cited mainly to show

　　A. that doctors are sometimes professionally incompetent

　　B. that in cases like that hospitals have to pay huge compensations.

　　C. that language barriers might lower the quality of treatment.

　　D. that language barriers can result in fatal consequences.

10. According to Dr. Flores, hospitals and clinics

　　A. have seen the need for hiring trained interpreters.

　　B. have realized the problems of language barriers.

　　C. have begun training their staff to be bilinguals.

　　D. have taken steps to provide accurate diagnosis.