2002年英语专八真题听力原文

　　SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST

　　News Item One (For Question 11)

　　The first International Tibetan Traditional Medicine Conference will be held July 15th to 17th inLasha, capital city of Tibet autonomous region. China's Ethnic Medicine Institute, Tibetan Bureauand Tibetan Medical College will co-host the conference. The conference has received morethan 500 research papers from China and abroad. The organizing committee primarily selected290 articles to be discussed at the conference. More than 50 foreign guests from UnitedStates, Russia. Britain, India. Germany, France, Italy and Nepal will attend the meeting. TheChinese mainland has sent delegation consisting of 250 Tibetan medicine experts to theconference.

　　News Item Two (For Questions 12—13)

　　The government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region were actively adoptinginformation technology and building an electronic government, a senior Hong Kong official saidyesterday. This is an integral part of Hong Kong's Digital 21 Strategy formulated in 1998 tomake Hong Kong both a regional and world-wide internet centre, said Carrion, secretary forinformation technology and broadcasting. She outlined three policy objectives in developing ane-government in Hong Kong at the IBM Asian Pacific E-government Executive Seminar. The firstpolicy objective is to develop an electronic and paperless government so as to improve theefficiency, cost-effectiveness and quality of public services. The second is to promote thewide adoption of e-commerce with the government setting a leading example. The third is,through the e-government program, to integrate service delivery across multiple departmentand agencies.

　　News Item Three (For Questions 14—15)

　　Canadian Olympic 100-meter champion Donovan Bailey showed he was on his way back to thetop form on Tuesday by winning 100-meter at the athletic meeting in Switzerland in the time of9.98 seconds. Despite unfavorable windy conditions. Bailey recorded the second best time ofthe year short of the 9. 91 set by double world champion Moris Greene of the United Stateson May 13th in Nosoka, Japan. "I would have run 9.80 if I'd really pushed myself." said Bailey, 1996 Olympic and 1995 world champion. The Canadian has been fighting for form before theSidney Olympics, following a long-term injury which resulted in a disappointing series of startsin the season.

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