2016年新题型 大学英语四级考试 新闻听力补充试卷 十二套（36篇）
第一部分 四级听力新题型调整说明
自2016年6月考试起，全国大学英语四、六级考试委员会将对四级考试的听力试题作局部调整。具体见下表： 试卷结构 听力理解 测试内容 短对话8段 短篇新闻3段 长对话2段 短文理解3段 短文听写1段 调整内容说明如下： 1．取消短对话。 2．取消短文听写。
3．新增短篇新闻（3段）。
题量 / 7 8 10 / 测试形式 / 分值比例 / 考试时间 旧：30分钟 新：25分钟 选择题（四选一） 7% (每题1分) 选择题（四选一） 8% (每题1分) 选择题（四选一） 20%(每题2分) / / 第二部分 新闻听力十二套（36篇）
Model Test One
Section A
Directions:In this section, you will hear three news reports. At the end of each news report, you will hear two or three questions. Both the news report and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre. Questions 1 and 2 will be based on the following news item.
1. A) More than 5 million. B) More than 10 million. C) More than 25 million. D) More than 30 million. 2. A) To help identify where infectious diseases are developing. B) To help small and medium size businesses grow. C) To help improve public services. D) To help two climate change programs.
Questions 3 and 4 will be based on the following news item. 3. A) About 4.12 million units were sold. B) They declined to their lowest level. C) There was a decline of 10% than that in July. D) They indicated a start of rise in August. 4. A) They are much stronger than their expectations. B) They might reach to 4.25 million units per year. C) They will be out of control on next month’s report. D) They indicate the housing industry has recovered. Questions 5 to 7 will be based on the following news item. 5. A) Britain has decided to restrict bankers’ bonuses. B) Britain has decided to raise bankers’ salary. C) Britain has decided to curb bankers’ salary. D) Britain has decided to raise bankers’ bonuses. 6. A) Those employees whose payments was over $ 4000. B) Those employees whose payments was $ 40000. C) Those employees whose payments was over $ 40000. D) Those employees whose payments was $ 4000.
7. A) Most of it would be paid in money. C) Some of it would be paid in shares. B) Most of it would be paid in shares. D) Some of it would be paid in money.
Model Test Two
Section A
Questions 1 and 2 will be based on the following news item.
1. A) 18000. B) 80000. C) 60000. D) 16000. 2. A) Meet the miners’ original demand. C) Improve the miners’ working conditions. B) Offer more benefits to poor black miners. D) Offer a 10% pay rise. Questions 3 and 4 will be based on the following news item. 3. A) Chances of guessing the correct lotto numbers.
B) Rossi’s dreams about winning the lotto. C) People’s madness for lotto games in Italy. D) Foreigners’ visit to Italy for the lotto drawings.
4. A) A huge amount of money. C) A free tour in Europe. B) Free flights to Italy. D) Tickets for the lotto games. Questions 5 to 7 will be based on the following news item.
5. A) Stopping renewing an agreement. C) Renewing an agreement.
B) Blocking an agreement. D) Blocking the renewal of a contract. 6. A) It provided sufficient privacy safeguards. C) It provided insufficient safeguards. B) It cannot protect privacy sufficiently. D) It failed to safeguard people’s interests 7. A) The Swift Money Transfer System. C) The Lisbon Treaty. B) The Brussels Treaty. D) The Swift System.
Model Test Three
Section A
Questions 1 and 2 will be based on the following news item.
1. A) It did not reach analysts’ expectations. C) It hinted a decline of Ford’s net income. B) It was a favorable news for the automaker. D) It spurred a rise for Ford’s share price. 2. A) There are small losses in North America. B) Prices should be raised in European market. C) Another product line should be set up in Europe. D) Earnings continued to be good in North America. Questions 3 and 4 will be based on the following news item. 3. A) The development of French engineering firms. B) Working and living condition in the city of Dijon. C) The environmentally-friendly building in France. D) A tour of the landmark buildings in France.
4. A) Metal skirt. B) Solar panel. C) Sun shield. D) Sandwich. Questions 5 to 7 will be based on the following news item.
5. A) The International Space Station. C) The Baikonur Cosmodrome. B) The Siberia Vessel. D) The Progress 45.
6. A) On Sunday. B) On Monday. C) On Tuesday. D) On Wednesday 7. A) At 4:02 p.m. B) At 4:11 p.m. C) At 4:20 p.m. D) At 6:11 p.m.
Model Test Four
Section A
Questions 1 and 2 will be based on the following news item. 1. A) They made more efforts to find more new cases. B) They tried to prevent the disease out of the capital. C) They held a public movement on hygiene information. D) They boosted the accuracy and promptness of their report. 2. A) It’s the first time that ingestion disease has broken out in Haiti. B) The death rate of ingestion disease is too high. C) Death number will keep increasing for a long time.
D) Ingestion disease could join other local diseases in Haiti. Questions 3 and 4 will be based on the following news item 3. A) The children of the international diplomatic corps. B) The program of International Baccalaureate schools. C) The school district in the suburb of Detroit, Michigan. D) “Mother Earth” class in IB elementary schools.
4. A) Subject areas are separated. C) “Mother Earth” class covers math. B) Classes are held in the open air, D) Teachers prepare classes together. Questions 5 to 7 will be based on the following news item
5. A) White ash. C) Poison gas. B) High temperature water. D) Hurricane.
6. A) Less than 10. B) About 20. C) About 120. D) More than 750. 7. A) They have found too many dead bodies. B) They want to persuade people to move away. C) They don’t know what might happen next. D) They need space to carry out the research.
Model Test Five
Section A
Questions 1 and 2 will be based on the following news item.
1. A) The Angeles National Forest. C) The tools used in fire fighting. B) The fire fighting in Los Angeles. D) The protection of Mount Wilson. 2. A) Tractors and hand tools. C) The slightly higher humidity. B) Helicopters and airplanes. D) The 20-kilometer fire lines. Questions 3 and 4 will be based on the following news item.
3. A) It is the new health care law. C) It is the new federal budget law. B) It is the short-term spending law. D) It is the federal operation law. 4. A) It will increase the government’s economic burden. B) It will lead to a partial shutdown of the US government. C) It will give rise to a clash between the two major political parties. D) It will oblige people to buy insurance policies unwillingly. Questions 5 to 7 will be based on the following news item.
5. A) The country’s big labor union. C) The country’s big business. B) The country’s big government. D) The country’s big police.
6. A) They blocked the traffic. C) They clashed with community groups. B) They occupied New York. D) They controlled too much wealth. 7. A) It has now spread to other Asian cities.
B) The protesters have camped in New York’s cultural district. C) Members of labor unions joined the movement on Wednesday. D) The protesters represent the wealthiest 99% of Americans.
Model Test Six
Section A
Questions 1 and 2 will be based on the following news item.
1. A) South Africa’s multiracial history.
B) Musical New Year’s tradition in South Africa. C) Southeast Asia slaves in Cape Town.
D) Cape Town’s mixed race or “colored” residents.
2. A) The dockworkers. C) The Dutch colonists. B) European minstrels. D) Cape Town’s residents. Questions 3 and 4 will be based on the following news item.
3. A) Monitoring all banks in the country. C) Providing advice to the President.
B) Ensuring a safe economic policy. D) Offering enough money to the government. 4. A) She once taught at Berkeley University. B) She got tenure at Harvard University. C) She has a Nobel Prize in Economic Theory.
D) She has been working in the Federal Reserve for over 10 years. Questions 5 to 7 will be based on the following news item. 5. A) To deal with labor unrest in the country.
B) To worsen the relationship between police and protesters. C) To suppress the legal protests. D) To protect the garment factory workers.
6. A) In two industrial complexes. C) In the garment factories of Chittagong. B) In the southern Bangladesh. D) In the capital Dhaka. 7. A) It will worsen the relationship between workers and security forces. B) It will worsen the relationship between workers and factory owners.
C) It will worsen the relationship between union leaders and legitimate protesters. D) It will worsen the relationship between government and protesters.
Model Test Seven
Section A
Questions 1 and 2 will be based on the following news item. 1. A) Energy and power shortage in Kenya.
B) Emergency measures for the livestock in Kenya. C) Rockefeller Foundation’s assistance in Kenya. D) Kenya’s emergency plan on food and water shortage.
2. A) The local communities. C) The civil society. B) The army. D) The power company. Questions 3 and 4 will be based on the following news item.
3. A) When he was skating in the French Alps. C) When he was skiing in the French Alps. B) When he was skating in the German Alps. D) When he was skiing in the German Alps. 4. A) He is now in a hospital in Moutiers. B) He is having a psychological test now.
C) He has an English friend who is a trauma specialist. D) He was taken to a local hospital by helicopter. Questions 5 to 7 will be based on the following news item 5. A) They were between Christians and Muslims. B) They were between local people and Muslims.