一、真题讲解一

新闻题解题技巧：

1、 首句原则

2、 新闻词汇的总结积累

试卷一　Questions 6 to 10

Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following news.

6. (A) The digging of a major tunnel was slowing down.

(B) A water supply project failed because of unexpected difficulties.

(C) Eight people were killed in a train accident.

(D) A helicopter was reported missing.

7. (A) To go on providing humanitarian aid. (B) To increase the food supply.

(C) To revise the oil-for-food programme. (D) To lift the embargo on his country.

humanitarian aid　人道援助

oil-for-food programme　　石油换食品计划

lift the embargo　解除禁运

8. (A) To cut down on the US military presence in Europe.

(B) To increase the European Union's military influence.

(C) To make combined efforts to sustain its economic growth.

(D) To take concrete actions to stop arms race.

9. (A) Sex discrimination in the U.S troops is far less obvious than in other fields of American life.

(B) Race relations have considerably improved in the US military.

(C) There are more black or Hispanic officers in the armed services than before.

(D) Many minority military personnel complained about negative race relations.

Hispanic　拉丁裔的

10. (A) 4.4%. (B) 11.2% (C) 14.4%. (D) 44%.

Questions 6 to 10

Question No. 6. What happened according to the report from Manila?

6. (A) The digging of a major tunnel was slowing down.

(B) A water supply project failed because of unexpected difficulties.

(C) Eight people were killed in a train accident.

(D) A helicopter was reported missing.

MANILA: A helicopter carrying eight people was reported missing after it unloaded a cargo of food and other provisions for workers digging a major tunnel for a water supply project for Manila, an official said yesterday.

Question No. 7. What did the Iraqi Ambassador ask the United Nations to do?

7. (A) To go on providing humanitarian aid. (B) To increase the food supply.

(C) To revise the oil-for-food programme. (D) To lift the embargo on his country.

UNITED NATIONS: Iraq asked the United Nations to continue providing humanitarian aid despite cutting off exports of crude oil under the UN's oil-for-food programme, UN officials said.

Question No. 8. What was proposed at the joint meeting staged by the European Union?

8. (A) To cut down on the US military presence in Europe.

(B) To increase the European Union's military influence.

(C) To make combined efforts to sustain its economic growth.

(D) To take concrete actions to stop arms race.

LONDON: For the first time in its 42-year history, the European Union (EU) staged a joint meeting of foreign affairs and defence ministers to debate how the union can acquire a security dimension consistent with its economic strength.

During that meeting, Britain and France proposed that Europe, by either 2002 or 2003, should possess the capacity to deploy a rapid reaction force of some 50, 000 troops in a peacekeeping operation in or around the EU.

The proposal received a strong response, which is indicative that the EU is making concrete efforts to bolster its military clout in Europe.

Question No. 9. What was disclosed in a survey released by the US Defence Department on Tuesday?

9. (A) Sex discrimination in the U.S troops is far less obvious than in other fields of American life.

(B) Race relations have considerably improved in the US military.

(C) There are more black or Hispanic officers in the armed services than before.

(D) Many minority military personnel complained about negative race relations.

WASHINGTON: A high percentage of blacks, Hispanics and other minorities in the US military complained in a survey released by the Pentagon on Tuesday that they have experienced racially offensive behaviour in the armed services.

In the virtually unprecedented Defence Department survey of more than 40,000 US troops, one in five blacks responding also said they felt race relations played a negative part in their prospects for promotion or assignment. But the survey, taken in 1997, indicated that military personnel felt Pentagon efforts to promote good race relations and equal opportunity were succeeding and that discrimination in uniform was far less pronounced than in other areas of American life.

Question No. 10. As compared with the same period last year, how much did Japan's trade surplus drop?

TOKYO: Japan's trade surplus plunged 14. 4 per cent in October from its level a year ago, the government said yesterday.

Government official blamed the strong yen for severely damaging exports.

The trade surplus dropped to US $ 11. 2 billion, the Finance Ministry reported, making October the seventh month in a row for a drop in the trade surplus. "Japan's exports have been pressed by the sharp appreciation of the yen against the US dollar, which mainly contributed to the surplus fall," said Naoko Ogata, an analyst at the Sakura Research Institute. "With the yen rising to current levels, exporters are finding it difficult to make a profit."

10. (A) 4.4%. (B) 11.2% (C) 14.4%. (D) 44%.

经济类词汇补充　　　　

二、真题分析二

Questions 6 to 10

Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following news.

6. (A) 1.3 billon dollars. (B) 500 million dollars.

(C) 20 million dollars. (D) 10 million dollars.

7. (A) That the boy not be granted an asylum hearing.

(B) That the boy’s Miami relatives have the right to keep the boy.

(C) That the boy be prevented from leaving the country.

(D) That only a parent can act for the boy.

8. (A) Because the government has introduced new investment policies.

(B) Because the inflation rate hit an all-time low in Jana.

(C) Because high-tech industries have drawn a lot of investment from other countries.

(D) Because foreign companies bought shares of Japanese firms.

9. (A) To discuss Israel’s new peace proposals.

(B) To decide on a secret location for a new round of peace talks.

(C) To work out a framework peace deal.

(D) To negotiate the date for Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon.

10. (A) A major breakthrough has been made in the talks between the opposing sides.

(B) More than 30 foreign hostages are still held by the rebels.

(C) A new government will be formed within the next 24 to 36 hours.

(D) Foreign intervention is very much needed to stable the domestic situation.

Questions 6 to 10

Question No. 6. How much money has been paid to the Nazi Germany Holocaust survivors?

6. (A) 1.3 billon dollars. (B) 500 million dollars.

(C) 20 million dollars. (D) 10 million dollars.

Though the US $ 1. 3 billion Swiss bank settlement with Nazi Germany Holocaust survivors has yet to be finalized, $ 20 million already has been paid to some 2,500 claimants, the World Jewish Congress said on Wednesday.

Question No. 7. What's the ruling by the US Circuit Court of Appeals?

7. (A) That the boy not be granted an asylum hearing.

(B) That the boy’s Miami relatives have the right to keep the boy.

(C) That the boy be prevented from leaving the country.

(D) That only a parent can act for the boy.

A federal appeals court yesterday sided with the father of Elian Gonzalez, rejecting a request by the Cuban boy's Miami relatives that he be granted an asylum hearing with immigration officials.

A three-judge panel of the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals said the Immigration and Naturalization Service's decision that only a parent can act for his 6-year-old child in immigration matters "comes within the range of reasonable choices." It said that held true even if the parent was in another country and the child was in the United States.

Immigration and Naturalization Service's美国移民局

Question No. 8. Why did foreign investment in Japan rise to a record high?

8. (A) Because the government has introduced new investment policies.

(B) Because the inflation rate hit an all-time low in Jana.

(C) Because high-tech industries have drawn a lot of investment from other countries.

(D) Because foreign companies bought shares of Japanese firms.

The major reason for the strong increase was purchases of shares in Japanese companies as seen in large business deals such as the tie-up by Renault and Nissan.

Question No. 9. What's the purpose of the resumed negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians?

9. (A) To discuss Israel’s new peace proposals.

(B) To decide on a secret location for a new round of peace talks.

(C) To work out a framework peace deal.

(D) To negotiate the date for Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon.

Israel and the Palestinians were expected to resume negotiations at a secret location yesterday aimed at hammering out a framework deal as controversy swirled about reports of Israeli "concessions" to win peace.

hammer out敲定

Question No. 10. Which of the following statements is true about the situation in Fiji?

10. (A) A major breakthrough has been made in the talks between the opposing sides.

(B) More than 30 foreign hostages are still held by the rebels.

(C) A new government will be formed within the next 24 to 36 hours.

(D) Foreign intervention is very much needed to stable the domestic situation.

三、真题分析三

Questions 6 to 10　

6. (A) To issue a final statement propped by the US.

(B) To support a US missile defence plan.

(C) To continue consultations with the US on the issue.

(D) To review the situation of US military presence in Europe.

7. (A) The schedule for government talks on trade between the two countries.

(B) A wide but unspecified range of world issues of mutual interest.

(C) The US agricultural exports to Japan.

(D) Plans to reform Japan’s economy.

8. (A) Below 1 per cent.

(B) Around 2.5 per cent.

(C) 2.9 per cent.

(D) From 4.75 per cent to 4.5 per cent.

9. (A) Police blamed the riots mainly on ultra-rightwing nationalists and white power supremacist.

(B) The riots were triggered by the general election scheduled for June.

(C) The riots occurred in a rundown town of South England.

(D) A considerable number of deaths and injuries were reported in local newspaper.

rundown　筋疲力尽、破败

10. (A) Three people on a village lane.

(B) A bridge built to commemorate the Olympics.

(C) Several vehicles on a suburban highway.

(D) A building near a police station.

highway 公路

Questions 6 to 10

Question No. 6. What did the NATO foreign ministers decide at the meeting yesterday?

6. (A) To issue a final statement propped by the US.

(B) To support a US missile defence plan.

(C) To continue consultations with the US on the issue.

(D) To review the situation of US military presence in Europe.

BUDAPEST: NATO foreign ministers yesterday decided not to back a US missile defence plan but agreed to continue consultations with Washington on the issue.

NATO　北约

The final statement by the council of NATO foreign ministers, the decision-making body of the western military alliance, said the NATO allies welcomed consultations initiated by US President George W. Bush on the American strategic review, including missile defence.

Body　此处指决策机构

Question No. 7. What is the Japanese Prime Minister expected to talk about during his first meeting with the US President?

7. (A) The schedule for government talks on trade between the two countries.

(B) A wide but unspecified range of world issues of mutual interest.

(C) The US agricultural exports to Japan.

(D) Plans to reform Japan’s economy.

Question No. 8. According to the president of the European Central Bank, what might be the inflation rate in the Euro-zone for the year 2002?

8. (A) Below 1 per cent.

(B) Around 2.5 per cent.

(C) 2.9 per cent.

(D) From 4.75 per cent to 4.5 per cent.

Question No. 9. Which of the following statements is true about the recent race riots in England?

9. (A) Police blamed the riots mainly on ultra-rightwing nationalists and white power supremacist.

(B) The riots were triggered by the general election scheduled for June.

(C) The riots occurred in a rundown town of South England.

(D) A considerable number of deaths and injuries were reported in local newspaper.

Rundown　筋疲力尽、破败

Britain's worst race riots for years have brought into the open the determination of Asian and black youths to challenge a mainly white society in which their immigrant parents were simply happy to find a place to live.

The weekend violence, which burst onto the British political agenda in the middle of an election campaign, typified the struggle for identity many of the youths in immigrant communities endure in modern Britain.

Question No. 10. According to the news, what did a South Korean military helicopter crash onto?

10. (A) Three people on a village lane.

(B) A bridge built to commemorate the Olympics.

(C) Several vehicles on a suburban highway.

(D) A building near a police station.