听力教程4（第二版） - 答案 - 施心远(1—13) - 图文

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Section 3 News Item 1

For years evidence has been mounting that night working causes ill health, from disturbed sleep patterns to increased accidents. But these are the first government payments to women who've developed breast cancer after long spells(一段工作时间) on the night-shift. Ulla Mahnkopf, a former flight attendant (乘务员), is one of them:

(Ulla Mahnkopf) \fly for that many years, I wouldn't, definitely not. Because it's cancer you can die from, so I'd like to stay alive.\

The Danish authorities acted following a decision by the International Agency for Research and Cancer. The agency, part of the UN World Health Organisation, now ranks night working as a probable cancer risk, just one category below known carcinogens* (致癌物质)like asbestos*.

Union leaders have told Radio Scotland, the investigation programme, that the UK government isn't doing enough to deal with the dangers. The Health and Safety Executive says it's commissioned its own study but its conclusions aren't expected for another two years.

A: …about the evidence that night working causes ill health . B:

For years evidence has been mounting that night working causes ill health, from disturbed sleep patterns to increased accidents. // The International Agency for Research and Cancer now ranks night working as a probable cancer risk, just one category below known carcinogens* like asbestos*. // The Danish authorities acted following a decision by The agency. // But these are the first government payments to women who've developed breast cancer after long spells on the night-shift. Ulla Mahnkopf, a former flight attendant, is one of them.

Union leaders say that the UK government isn't doing enough to deal with the dangers. The Health and Safety Executive says it's commissioned its own study but its conclusions aren't expected for another two years.

News Item 2

India may be one of the world's fastest growing economies but the benefit of its growing prosperity is not reaching everyone. According to the ActionAid report, 46% of its children are malnourished*(营养不良的) and the number of people growing hungry is increasing instead of coming down.

It's not that India doesn't grow enough food — in fact it's a major exporter of farm produce. The problem is that many people, especially poor communities, cannot access (获得) it for a variety of reasons, including rising food prices and poor distribution.

Government schemes, such as mandatory (强制性的) school meals, have not been effectively implemented across the country. Invariably women and children are the most vulnerable.

But there are some positive signs. A landmark rural jobs programme launched four years ago is showing some signs of success in battling poverty. Analysts say it now needs to be persisted with and spread out to more parts of the country.

A: … about hunger and pverty in India.

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B:

1. India may be one of the world’s fastest growing economies but the benefit of its growing prosperity is not reaching everyone.

2. According to the ActionAid report, 46% of its children are malnourished and the number of people growing hungry is increasing instead of coming down.

3. Yes, India grows enough food – in fact it’s a major exporter of farm produce.

4. The problem is that many people, especially poor communities, cannot access it for a variety of reasons, including rising food prices and poor distribution.

5. Yes. A landmark rural jobs programme launched four years ago is showing some signs of success in battling poverty.

6. Analysts say it now needs to be persisted with and spread out to more parts of the country.

News Item 3

Scientists predict Peru will be one of the three countries most impacted* by climate change. The problems are largely geographic and demographic*(人口统计学的). Two thirds of the population live in the main cities on the desert coast with a tiny proportion of the nation's rainfall. They rely heavily on the fact that Peru is also home to 70% of the world's tropical glaciers*(冰川).

Peru is also home to the second largest swathe* of Amazon rainforest which is under enormous pressure from deforestation and oil and gas exploration. Scientists say it's crucial to preserve it not only for Peru's water supply but for the global climate system. Researchers say half of Peru's main rivers are polluted, mostly by mining operations (采矿作业) in the Andes Mountains(安地斯山脉). Added to this is the ever more frequent El Nino phenomenon which alternately causes drought and flooding.

A: … about the impact of climate change and disasters on Peru .

B: F F F T T

Supplementary Exercises:

McDonald's recently celebrated its 50th birthday, and the fast food giant is plan-ning to make its second half-century as revolutionary as its first. As it faces increased competition from other types of food outlets, the world's largest restaurant chain is stepping out in a brand-new style, hoping to attract new fans with a new emphasis on healthier foods like salads. And at some McDonald's restaurants, the emphasis is decidedly high-tech, and not at all related to hamburgers.

On a recent, hot summer afternoon, 23-year-old Patrick Gue, stopped at a Mc-Donald's in the upscale* Chicago suburb of Oak Brook. He just wanted to \says, he was stunned to find himself in a sleek*, two-story lounge lined with plasma*-screen TVs showing baseball games. Mr. Gue got to download a brand-new CD' and ring tone for his cell phone, thanks to high-tech kiosks now available exclusively at the Oak Brook McDonald's. 'Who would have thought you get this at McDonald's? You come here and watch television, eat your food and download ring tones! This is awesome.\

Words like that are music to the ears of McDonald's executive Bill Whitman.

He says the Oak Brook restaurant, located just a stone's throw away from McDonald's world headquarters, serves as a national test site for new concepts. \

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represents, in part, the future of McDonald's.\

In addition to the music kiosks, which can also print out digital photos, the Oak Brook restaurant offers wireless Internet access, Web-surfing stations, and a McCafe serving cheesecake and lattes*. Customers here like the high-tech atmosphere.

McDonald's has also hired a fashion consultant to design new, hipper uniforms for its staff. According to media critic and marketing consultant Joseph Jaffe, the changes would be good for McDonald's.

. But David Greising, senior business analyst for the Chicago Tribune*, thinks the global restaurant chain would do better to stick with what it does best.

The Starbucks Coffee Company has been very successful selling \like CDs and board games to its customers, along with their lattes and espressos.

McDonald's is hoping to replicate that achievement. But Mr. Greising says consumers never had rigid expectations of the \experience.\He suggests the innovations at Oak Brook represent too much of a change for McDonald's. \had the opportunity to define the 'Starbucks experience' as including music.

McDonald's doesn't really have that opportunity. We as consumers believe we know what we expect when we go into a McDonald's: We expect good hamburgers, thick shakes, hot fries. That's what we expect. We don't want or need anything else from McDonald's, and don't expect it and won't pay for it!\

McDonald's has rolled out similar high-tech machines in Munich, Germany and plans to soon install some in Berlin locations, too. But Bill Whitman says for now, customers of the more than 30,000 McDonald's franchises around the world are unlikely to get all the \tones, of the flagship Oak Brook store.

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