介绍:
Questions 1 and 2 will be based on the following news item.
Two months ago,
[00:46.74]Zogby International,
[00:48.30]a Washington-based research organization,
[00:50.68]conducted a public opinion poll in six Arab countries:
[00:55.01]Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco,
[00:58.35]Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
[01:01.83]The respondents,
[01:03.03]randomly chosen from different neighborhoods
[01:05.28]in various cities of each country,
[01:07.18]were asked to give their opinion on a number of issues,
[01:10.51]including concerns facing their country and their personal life,
[01:14.65]economic development,
[01:16.10]employment opportunities and the likelihood of peace
[01:19.23]in the Middle East.
[01:20.87]Overall,
[01:21.82]respondents expressed more satisfaction with their lives
[01:24.90]and more optimism about their future
[01:26.97]than they did in the poll conducted ten years ago.
[01:29.67]In Lebanon,
[01:31.26]both satisfaction and optimism have doubled.
[01:34.26]This is not surprising,
[01:36.31]says James Rauch,
[01:37.60]a professor at the University of California.
[01:40.04]“The Lebanese have experienced an enormous change now
[01:43.18]with the end of the Syrian occupation.
[01:45.88]They would have good reasons to be optimistic.”
1. What were the respondents asked to comment on?
a)Their personal life
b) Education opportunities
c) Political development
d) Their views on international issues
2. What do we learn about the result of the poll?
a)In Morocco,both satisfaction and optimism have doubled.
b)Optimism grows generally in the Arab world in recent years
c)Many Arab countries have improved the income of their citizens
d) There is an acceleration of the economic growth in the Arab world
Questions 3 and 4 will be based on the following news item.
In October the Ugandan opposition leader,
[02:38.77]Kizza Basigye,
[02:40.36]returned to Kampala to prepare for the presidential elections next year.
[02:45.84]Three weeks later he was arrested.
[02:48.63]The Ugandan government says he must answer the charges,
[02:53.06]but his supporters say
[02:54.88]it’s an attempt by Ugandan President Museveni
[02:58.46]to prevent Dr. Basigye running against him.
[03:02.59]The incident is threatening
[03:04.73]to darken the country’s first multi-party elections in two decades.
[03:10.10]Western nations which provide essential economic support to Uganda
[03:15.04]have held up Uganda as a role model in the region,
[03:19.22]opposition leaders are calling on them to take a stand.
[03:23.15]In this edition of Analysis,
[03:25.49]Lucy Williamson looks at
[03:27.25]whether Uganda’s relationship with its donors is feeling the strain.
3.Why did Kizza Basigye return to Kampala?
a)To arrest the leader of the opposition party
b) To prepare for the presidential elections
c) To answer his charges at home
d) To protect his supporters
4. What is the consequence of Basigye’s incident?
a)Uganda's multi-party elections were darkened
b) Economic support from western nations was cut off
c) Uganda's role model in the region was canceled
d) Uganda's relationship with its donors felt strained.
Questions 5 to 7 will be based on the following news item.
At the end of every year,
[04:20.83]U.S. weather researchers look back at
[04:23.03]what the nation’s weather was like,
[04:25.13]and what they saw last year was weird.
[04:28.06]The year was hot and annoyed
[04:30.40]by all manner of extreme weather events
[04:32.64]that did a lot of expensive damage.
[04:35.18]December, in fact, was a fitting end.
[04:38.02]“This is the first time in our 121-year period of record
[04:42.40]that a month has been both the wettest
[04:44.78]and the warmest month on record,”
[04:46.92]says Jake Crouch,
[04:48.17]a weather researcher.
[04:50.31]The rest of the year was very wet and hot too, he says
[04:53.99]---the second-hottest period on record for the U.S.
[04:57.42]The cause: a warming climate and a super strong El Nino.
[05:02.80]El Nino is a weather phenomenon out of the ocean
[05:06.87]that hits every few years and affects weather globally.
[05:10.65]Together,
[05:11.65]climate and a very strong El Nino pushed the weather
[05:15.14]in the U.S. as warm as its 20th century average.
[05:19.36]And even when the atmosphere is only that much warmer,
[05:22.61]it holds more moisture,
[05:24.73]leading to record snows in the Northeast last February and March,
[05:29.36]and record rain in the South and Midwest.
5. What was weather in the U.S. like last year?
a)it was wet and cold
b) it was hot and dry
c) it was cold and terrible
d) it was hot and terrible
6. What made last year’s weather so wired?
a)All the extreme weather events
b) El Nino and a warmer climate
c) Light snows and record rain
d) The land's surrounded by ocean
7. What happened in the Northwest of the U.S. last February and March?
a)There was record-breaking snowfall
b) There was recording-breaking rainfall
c) It were the warmest months ever recordec
d) it were the wettest months ever recorded.
