英语四级标准听力强化训练(MP3+文本) 第75期:新闻(20)
日期:2015-05-03 16:17

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听力试题

Test 5
Questions 1 to 3 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item,you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions.
Now listen to the news.
1. What is the decision of the Euro MPs which allows US officials to access Europeans,bank data?
A. Stopping renewing an agreement.
B. Blocking an agreement.
C. Renewing an agreement.
D. Blocking the renewal of an contract
2. Why did the committee recommend a rejection against the interim nine-month deal between the EU and US?
A. Because it provided sufficient privacy safeguards.
B. Because it can not protect privacy sufficiently.
C. Because it provided insufficient safeguards.
D. Because it failed to safeguard people's interests.
3. MEPs try to access their veto power under_____.
A. the Swift money transfer system
B. the Brussels Treaty
C. the Lisbon Treaty
D. the Swift system
答案详解

【答案】

1. A 2. B 3. C

【原文】

(1)A key committee of Euro MPs has moved to block the renewal of an agreement which allows US anti-terror officials to access Europeans' bank data.(欧洲议员核心委员会已经决定停止一项协议的续约,该协议允许美反恐官员进入欧洲银行数据库。)The European Parliament's civil liberties committee recommended that the full parliament reject the interim nine-month deal between the EU and US.(2)MEPs said the deal negotiated by EU governments provided insufficient privacy safeguards.(议员们认为欧盟政府 协商的协议不能充分保护隐私。)The US can access the Swift money transfer system, based in Brussels. The European Parliament plans to vote on the EU-US data agreement next Thursday.(3)The Parliament's press service says that if MEPs block it,they will be making use of a new power under the Lisbon Treaty to veto international agreements.(据议会新闻服务处透露,如果议员阻止该协议,他们将会利用里斯本条约框架内的新规定行使对国际协议的否决权。)

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