The time is 9 o’clock, and this is Marine Snow with thenews。
The German authorities are sending investigators to discoverthe cause of the plane crash late yesterday on the island of Tiena Reef.The plane, a Bowing 737, taking German holiday makers to the island, crashedinto a hill side as it circled while preparing to land. The plane was carrying180 passengers. It’s thought there’re no survivals. Rescue workers were at thescene。
The British industrialist James Louis held by kidnappersin Central Africa for the past 8 months wasreleased unharmed yesterday. The kidnappers had been demanding 1million poundsfor the release of Mr. Louis. The London Bank and their agents who had been negotiatingwith the kidnappers have not said whether any amount of money has been paid。
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Motor’s workers who have been on strike in High town for the past 3 weeks wentback to work this morning. These follow successful talks between management andunion representatives which resulted in a new agreement on working hours andconditions. A spokesman for the management said they had hoped now they couldnow give back to producing cars. And they lost a lot of money and orders overthis dispute。
And finally the weather. After a cold start, most of thecountry should be warm and sunny. But towards late afternoon, rain would spreadfrom Scotland to cover most parts by midnight。
Questions 26 to 29 are based on the passage you have justheard
26. What does the news say about the Bowing 737 plane?
27. What happened to British industrialist James Louis?
28. How did the three-week strike in High town end?
29. What kind of weather would be expected by midnight inmost parts of the country?
Passage2
Huang Louise, a junior geology major, decided to give aninformative speech about how earthquakes occur. From his audience analysis, helearnt that only two or three of his classmates knew much of anything aboutgeology. Huang realized then that he must present his speech at an elementary level and with a minimum ofscientific language. As he prepared the speech, Huang kept asking himself:“ how can I make this clear and meaningful to someone whoknows nothing about earthquakes or geological principles？” Since he was speaking in the Midwest, he decided tobegin by noting that the most severe earthquake in American history took placenot in California or Alaska, but at New Madrid, Missouri in 1811. If such anearthquake happened today, it would be felt from the Rocky Mountains to theAtlantic Ocean and would flatten most of the cities in the Mississippi Valley.That, he figured, should get his classmates’ attention. Throughout the body ofthe speech, Huang doubt only with the basic mechanics of earthquakes andcarefully avoided technical terms. He also prepared visual aids diagramming photolines so his classmates wouldn’t get confused. To be absolutely safe, Huangasked his roommate who was not a geology major to listen to the speech. “Stopme”， he said, “Anytime I say something you don’t understand”. Huang’s roommatestopped him four times. And at each spot, Huang worked out a way to make hispoint more clearly. Finally, he had a speech that was interesting and perfectlyunderstandable to his audience。
Question 30: What did Huang Louise learn from theanalysis of his audience?
Question 31: How did Huang Louise start his speech?
Question 32: What did Huang ask his roommate to do whenhe was making is trial speech?
Passage3
Esperanto is an artificial languagedesigned to serve internationally as an auxiliary means of communication amongspeakers of different languages. It is created by Ludwig Lejzer Zamenhof, a Polish-Jewish doctor specialized in eyediseases. Esperanto was first presented in 1887. An international movement waslaunched to promote its use. Despite arguments and disagreements, the movementhas continued to flourish and has members in more than 80 countries. Esperantois used internationally across language boundaries by at least 1 millionpeople, particularly in specialized fields. It is used in personal contacts, onradio broadcasts, and in a number of publications as well as in translations ofboth modern works and classics. Its popularity has spread from Europe, botheast and west, to such countries as Brazil and Japan. It is, however, in Chinathat Esperanto has had its greatest impact. It is taught in universities andused in many translations, often in scientific or technological works. El Popola Cinio, which means From People’sChina, is a monthly magazine in Esperanto, and is read worldwide. RadioBeijing’s Esperanto program is the most popular program in Esperanto in theworld。
Esperanto’s vocabulary is drawn primarilyfrom Latin, the Romance languages, English, and German. Spelling is completelyregular. A simple and consistent set of endings indicates grammatical functionsof words. Thus, for example, every noun ends in o, every adjective in a, andthe basic form of every verb in i. Esperanto also has a highly productivesystem of constructing new words from old ones。
Questions 33 to 35 are based on the passageyou have just heard。
33. What does the speaker tell us about theEsperanto?
34. What is said about the internationalmovement to promote the use of Esperanto?
35. What does the speaker say aboutEsperanto in China?
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