【题目】Directions: In this section, you will hear three news reports. At the end of each news report, you will heatwo orthree questions. Both the news report and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hearquestion, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then marthe corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Questions 1 and 2 are based on the news report you have just heard1. A) He wanted to buy a home.C) He lost a huge sum of money.B)He suffered from a shock.D)He did an unusual good deed.2. A) Invite the waiter to a fancy dinner.C)Give some money to the waiter.B)Tell her story to the Daily News.D)Pay the waiter's school tuition.Questions 3 and 4 are based on the news report you have just heard.3. A) Whether or not to move to the state's mainland.B) How to keep the village from sinking into the sea.C) Where to get the funds for rebuilding their village.D) What to do about the rising level of the seawatcr.4. A) It takes too long a time.C) It has to wait for the state's final approval.B)It costs too much moncy.D) It faces strong opposition from many villagers.Questions 5 to 7 are based on the news report you have just heard.5. A) To investigate whether people are gratefulfor help.B) To see whether people hold doors open for strangers.C) To explore ways of inducing gratitude in people.D) To find out how people express gratitude.6. A) They induced strangers to talk with them.B) They helped 15 to 20 people in a bad mood.C) They held doors open for people at various places.D) They interviewed people who didnt say thank you.7. A) People can be educated to be grateful.C) Most people have bad days now and then.B)Most people express gratitude for help.D) People are ungrateful when in a bad mood.

【解析】Questions 1 and 2 are based on the news report you have just heard(1)A waiter has returned a check worth nearly $424,000 to the retired social worker who lost it. Thewaiter found a bank envelope while cleaning off a table lat Saturday at a restaurant. He ran outside but thecustomer was gone. He opened the envelope and got a shock. After an unsuccessful search, the restaurant'sowner called the Daily News for help. The “relieved" customer was reunited with her check on Wednesday. Itcontained money from her apartment sale, already planned for a down payment on a new home. The customerdid not tip the waiter after her meal. (2)She tried to give him money later on, but he graciously declined. Thewaiter, who's working his way through school, did accept the customer's apology and gratitude and said he washappy to have helped her.答案详解1. What does the news report say about the waiter?2. What did the customer try to do when she got herD)【精析】细节推断题。新闻开头即点明了服务员所check back?做的事情,他将一张面值四十多万美元的支票还给C)【精析】细节辨认题。新闻中提到,那位丢失支票了失主——一位退休的社工。由此可知,这位服务的顾客想给服务员一笔钱,但是服务员婉言谢员做了件不同寻常的好事绝了Questions 3 and 4 are based on the news report you have just heard.3)The village of Maref in Alaska voted on Tuesday to move to the state's mainland. The move is due toglobal warming and rising sea levels. Most of the illage's 169 registered voters took part in the town hallmeeting. They decided in a vote of 89 to 78 to move from their land on Sarichef Island, near the Arctie Circle.(4)Maref Council Secretary Donna Barr said the vote was largely symbolic. It will be costly financially to thecommunity. "About 15 years ago, they estimated the cost at $180 million. I would figure it's much highernow," Barr said. “We don't see the move happening in our lifetime because of the funding." The village'sroughly 650 residents have seen warming temperatures melt sea ice and permanently frozen land. This hasresulted in houses falling into the water. At least 31 villages in Alaska face "immediate threats" due to climatechange, the Government Accountability Office reported in 2009答案详解3. What is Maref's vote on Tuesday about?B)【精析】目的原因题。新闻中提到,DonnaBarr说A)【精析】细节辨认题。新闻开篇指出,马廖夫村的这次投票基本上是象征性的,此举会对社区造成经村民周二投票是为了决定是否搬往该州的内陆济损失。15年前,预计搬迁成本是1.8亿美元,现地区4. Why did Donna Barr say they wouldn't see the如今的费用只会更高。Barr认为,由于资金问题plan carried out any time soon?这一项目恐怕难以实施Questions 5 to 7 are based on the news report you have just heard.(5)A man in Halifax, Canada, wanted to find out if people were thankful for someone holding the dooropen for them. (7)The social experiment showed that 99 out of 100 people expressed gratitude. “I didn't thinkwe were going to get 99. I don't know why, but I was pleasantly surprised because it went beyond just "thankyou.' People got into conversations with us," said Steve Foran, CEO of Gratitude at Work. "What we knowfrom research is that from grateful people come good things," he said. (6)"A simple way to induce gratitude inpeople is opening doors and so we went to six places and opened the doors for people. " For the experimentForan's team went to a shopping center, a mall, two office buildings, and a coffee shop. The door was held for15 to 20 people at a time at each location. “We did have one that didn't say thank you. We're not here to judgethem because on any given day, that could be me or you. I suspect out of the 100 people, there were probablya bunch of them having a bad day, but grateful people make people grateful, " said Foran.答案详解5. What is the purpose of the social experiment?一个方法就是帮他们敞开方便之门,在实验中A)【精析】细节辨认题。新闻开头提到,加拿大哈利Foran的团队去了几个不同的地方,分别是一个购法克斯的一位男士想要弄清楚人们是否会对那些物中心,一个大型商场、两栋办公楼和一家咖啡馆帮他们开门的人表达感谢7. What do we learn from the news report?6. What did Steve Foran and his team do in theB)【精析】细节辨认题。新闻中提到,实验发现,99%experiment?的人都对帮他们开门的人表达了感谢。也就是说C)【精析】细节辨认题,新闻中说,让人心存感激的大多数人会对帮助表达感谢