2006年英语专八真题听力原文

　　SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST

　　News Item 1 (for questions 6 and 7)

　　A man stole a small aircraft at gunpoint Sunday and flew it over downtown Frankfurt, circlingskyscrapets and threatening tp crash into the European Central Bank. He landed safely afterabout two hours and was arrested.

　　The man told a television station he wanted to call attention to Judith Resnik, a U. S. astronautkilled in the 1986 post-launch explosion of the space shuttle Challenger. ( Q6) Military jetschased the stolen , two-seat motorized glider as the man began circling slowly aboveFrankfurt's banking dis¬trict. Thousands of people were evacuated from the main railwaystation, two opera houses and sever¬al skyscrapers. Police identified the man as a 31-year-old German student from Darmstadt, a city about 25 miles south of Frankfurt. In radio contactwith air traffic controllers , the man threatened to crash into the. European Central Bankheadquarters unless he was allowed the TV interview as well as a call to Baltimore. ( Q7 ) Helater said he wanted to commit suicide by plunging the plane into the Maine River. It wasunclear if the man was forced to land or talked down. Air traffic controllers and a policepsychologist had been in contact with him.

　　News Item 2 (for question 8)

　　Shanghai plans to build a vast underground network of malls , restaurants and parking lots tomake up for a lack of space above ground according to a recent government report. ( Q8 )

　　The development will cover 600,000 square meters , the equivalent of 120 soccer fields,spread across four underground floors, the city government reported on its website. The cityis accepting bids from builders. Shanghai has about 20 million people , plus factories , officetowers and high-rise apartments , crowded into a small triangular territory near the mouth ofthe Yangtze River. The plans called for the project due to be finished by 2006 to expandexisting facilities scattered along Shanghai subway system. The project will need advancedtechnology to supply fresh air and ensure safety.

　　But the biggest concern is the stability off` the soil under the city. Shanghai is sinking by 1. 5centimeters a year. Lands subsidence has been aggravated by over-pumping of undergroundwater and the construction of thousands of high-rise buildings. Shanghai's foundations arebuilt on soft soil. So building multi-storey spaces underground would be like digging holes in thepiece of bean curd, the government report says.

　　The difficulties are easy to see.

　　News Item 3 (for questions 9 and 10)

　　A credit card that only works when it hears its owner's voice has been developed by USscien¬tists. Researchers hope that the device, which comes with a built-in voice recognitionchip and mi¬crophone will be a weapon in the battle against credit card fraud. ( Q9) Even ifthieves know a card's password and personal identification number, they will still have to copythe owner's voice accurate¬ly. The trial card was created by scientists at B Card in California,US. The first version is 3 times as thick as a normal credit card, but researchers believe smallerchips will allow the card to slim down to a more conventional size. The card is apparently thefirst to put a voice recognition chip, 'a micro¬phone speaker and battery into a credit card. (Q10) To use the card, the owner first presses a but¬ton and hears the prompt: say yourpassword. If the password is correct and spoken by the right per¬son, the card emits anidentification signal which is processed by a computer connected to the Inter¬net.Researchers hope to get the card to handle ten transactions per day for two years before itsnon- replaceable battery runs out.

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