2008年英语专八真题听力原文

　　SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST听力试题

　　In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY.Listen carefully and then answer the questions thatfollow. Mark the correct answer to each question on your coloured answer sheet.

　　Question 6 is based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10seconds to answer the question.

　　Now listen to the news.

　　6. What is the main idea of the news item?

　　A. A new government was formed after Sunday's elections.

　　B. The new government intends to change the welfare system.

　　C. The Social Democratic Party founded the welfare system.

　　D. The Social Democratic Party was responsible for high unemployment.

　　Questions 7 and 8 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will begiven 20 seconds to answer the questions.

　　Now listen to the news.

　　7. The tapes of the Apollo-11 mission were first stored in ________.

　　A. a U.S. government archives warehouse

　　B. a NASA ground tracking station

　　C. the Goddard Space Flight Centre

　　D. none of the above places

　　8. What does the news item say about Richard Nafzger?

　　A. He is assigned the task to look for the tapes.

　　B. He believes that the tapes are probably lost.

　　C. He works in a NASA ground receiving site.

　　D. He had asked for the tapes in the 1970s.

　　Questions 9 and 10 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will begiven 20 seconds to answer the questions.

　　Now listen to the news.

　　9. The example in the news item is cited mainly to show ________.

　　A. that doctors are sometimes professionally incompetent

　　B. that in cases like that hospitals have to pay huge compensations

　　C. that language barriers might lower the quality of treatment

　　D. that language barriers can result in fatal consequences

　　10. According to Dr. Flores, hospitals and clinics ________.

　　A. have seen the need for hiring trained interpreters

　　B. have realized the problems of language barriers

　　C. have begun training their staff to be bilinguals

　　D. have taken steps to provide accurate diagnosis

　　SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST听力原文

　　In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY.Listen carefully and answer the questions that follow.Mark the correct answer to each question on yourcoloured answer sheet. Question 6 is based on thefollowing news . At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer thequestion.

　　Now listen to the news.

　　The New Moderates Party began forming the new Swedish government on Monday. In Sunday’selections, the New Moderates Party defeated the Social Democrats. The Social Democratic Partyhas controlled Sweden for all but 9 years since 1932, building up the country’s generouswelfare state. But the New Moderates wants to change it. Sweden’s welfare system is famedaround the world, ]but the system encourages people to be lazy. And unemployment is alsohigh in Sweden. One reason is the high tax on companies which makes it difficult to employnew people.

　　Questions 7 and 8 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will begiven 20 seconds to answer the questions.

　　Now listen to the news.

　　Much of the world was watching on television when the commander of the Apollo-11 mission,Neil Armstrong, took the first steps on the moon in July, 1969. The pictures of that historicfootstep and everything else about that and subsequent Apollo moon landings were recordedon magnetic tapes at three NASA ground tracking stations around the world. The tapes werethen shipped to a NASA operations center near Washington, the Goddard Space Flight Center.

　　In late 1969, the space agency began transferring them and tens of thousands of tapes fromother space missions to a nearby U.S. government archives warehouse. NASA says it askedfor them back in the 1970s, but now does not know where they are. “I probably am overlysensitive to the word ‘lost’. I did not feel they are lost,” said Richard Nafzger, a Goddard SpaceFlight Center engineer who was in charge of television processing from all of NASA’s groundreceiving sites.

　　The space agency has authorized him to set aside his other duties for the foreseeable futureand devote his time to the hunt for the tapes. Nafzger says they are stored somewhere.

　　Questions 9 and 10 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will begiven 20 seconds to answer the questions.

　　Now listen to the news.

　　More than 22 million people who live in the United States don’t speak or understand Englishvery well and that can be deadly. In a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine,Dr. Glenn Flores highlights some cases where language barriers prevented patients fromcommunicating with health care providers — with serious consequences. Dr. Flores recalls oneincident in which English-speaking doctors thought a Spanish-speaking man was sufferingfrom a drug overdose. “He was in the hospital basically for two days being worked up for drugabuse,” Flores says. “They finally did a head CT scan and realized he had had a major bleed intohis brain. He ended up being paralyzed and he got a $71 million settlement award from thehospital.” Dr. Flores, a professor at the Medical College of Wisconsin says that despite exampleslike that, the majority of U.S. health care facilities still do not have trained interpreters on site.But he acknowledges that increasing numbers of health care workers are bilingual, and thatmore clinics and hospitals do make sure their staff and patients understand each other. This isthe end of listening comprehension, please proceed to the next part.

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