短篇新闻听力 Test 2

Questions 1 and 2 will be based on the following news item. The number of girls married in Africa is expected to double in the next 35 years, experts say.That means almost half,or 310 million girls,by 2050 will be married before they reach adulthood,says a United Nation’s report. The African Union says it wants to end child marriage in Africa.Delegates at a summit in Zambia are expected to set 18 years old as the lowest legal age for marriage across the continent. Marriage before age 18 is already against the law in most African countries.Yet the UN says more than 125 million African women and girls alive today were married before their 18th birthday. Experts say most were given to men in traditional or religious unions in violation of the law. African Union chairwoman Nkosozana Dlamini Zuma says local culture that undervalues girls and women is to blame.Poverty and lack of education are also responsible, experts say. 1. What do we learn from the United Nation’s report? a) The number of adult girls is expected to double by 2050 b) Child marriage in Africa will be ended by 2050 c) Half women will be married before reaching adulthood by 2050 d) The legal marriage age will set above 10 to 2050 2. What is the reason for child marriage in Africa? a) Poverty and lack of education b) Local culture that undervalues children c) The low legal age for marriage d) High risks of becoming teenage mothers Questions 3 and 4 will be based on the following news item. Waste products from a popular alcoholic drink could be used in the future to make biofuel. Researchers say the new fuel,based on whisky,could reduce demand for oil.They say using less oil could cut pollution that studies have linked to climate change.Scotland is the largest producer of whisky in the world.And a Scottish professor has found how to take the waste products from distilling whisky and turn them into a form of alcohol called biobutanol.Biobutanol can be used as a fuel.Whisky comes from grain,such as corn and wheat.Martin Tangney is director of the Biofuel Research Centre at Napier University in Edinburgh.He says less than 10 percent of what comes out can be considered whisky.The rest is mainly one of two unwanted products:strong beer and wheat.Tangney says the two byproducts can be produced to create a new material: biobutanol. 3. What is the news report mainly about? a) Waste products of Whisky could make biofuel b) Scotland is the largest producer of whisky in the world c) A new fuel called Biobutanol is found by a Scottish professor d) There are many waste products in making whisky 4. What are the unwanted products in making whisky? a) Corn and sugar cane b) Rye and corn c)Strong beer and wheat d) Rice and wheat Questions 5 to 7 will be based on the following news item. For several years,human resources director Pete Tapaskar says it’s been a challenge to fill all the jobs at his suburban Chicago-based technology company.Getting high skilled people is still a challenge.Elizabeth Sue is principal policy analyst for the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning,who studies Chicago's recent immigration trends.She said “They are slowly moving into the south,especially Texas, and Atlanta, Georgia.What we are seeing right now is a substantially decreased total of international in-migrations.Prior to the recession we were between 50 and 60 thousand most years.Now, since 2010,we’ve been at about 23- to 24-thousand international in-migrations on a net basis.” She says that dramatic drop---as much as two-thirds some years---contributes to Chicago’s overall still population growth.Tapaskar says there are many reasons why immigrants choose to live in Southern states instead of Chicago.“The environment there is ideal for starting a business,could be the taxes there are low,and employers are getting a lot of benefits from the state government.”But Tapaskar says one thing that could bring new immigrants to Chicago is increasing the number of work visas that would attract the highly skilled tech workers his business needs. 5. What is the problem for the technology companies in Chicago? a)Getting high silled people b)Promoting company's technology c)Finding enough employees d)Incresing members of immigrants 6. What do we learn about international in-migrations in Chicago? a)The number of them decreases dramatically b)They mainly move from south states c) They come to Chicago without work visa d) The number of them increases after the recession 7. Why do immigrants choose southern states instead of Chicago? a)The law of immigrants b)The environment of companies c)The number of work visas d) Higher salary and better titles