6月大学英语四级考试听力原文卷二

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6月大学英语四级考试听力原文卷二

　　Section A

6月大学英语四级考试听力原文卷二

　　News 1

　　(1) A 9-year-old Central California boy braved strong currents and cold water to swim from San Francisco to Alcatraz Island and back.

　　A California television station in Fresno reported Tuesday that James Savage set a record as the youngest swimmer to make the journey to the former prison.

　　The TV station reported that by completing the swim, the fourth-grader student from Los Banos broke a record previously held by a 10-year-old boy.

　　James said that waves in the San Francisco Bay hitting him in the face 30 minutes into his swim made him want to give up.

　　(2) His father said he had offered his son $100 as a reward. To encourage his struggling son, he doubled it to $200.

　　James pushed forward, making it to Alcatraz Island and back in a little more than two hours.

　　Alcatraz is over a mile from the mainland.

　　1. What did the boy from Central California do according to the report?

　　2. What did the father do to encourage his son?

　　News 2

　　On the 1st of January, new regulations will come into effect which eliminate an annual leave bonus for people who put off marrying until the age of 23 for women, and 25 for men, the South China Morning Post reports. (3) The holiday bonus was designed to encourage young people to delay getting married in line with China’s one child policy. But with that policy now being abolished, this holiday incentive is no longer necessary, the government says.

　　In Shanghai, a young couple at a marriage registration office told the paper that they decided to register their marriage as soon as possible to take advantage of the existing policy, because an extra holiday was a big deal for them. In Beijing, one registration office had about 300 couples seeking to get married the day after the changes were announced, rather than the usual number of between 70 and 80. (4) But one lawyer tells the paper that the changes still have to be adopted by local governments and these procedures take time, so people who are rushing to register for marriage can relax.

　　Question 3: What was the purpose of the annual leave bonus in China?

　　Question 4: What do we learn about the new regulations?

　　News 3

　　(6) Everyone loves a good house party, but the cleaning up the next morning isn’t as enjoyable.

　　(5) Now, however, a New Zealand-based startup company aims to bring messy homes and even splitting headaches back to normal. The properly-named startup Morning-After Maids was launched about a month ago in Auckland by roommates Rebecca Foley and Catherine Ashurst. Aside from cleaning up, the two will also cook breakfast and even get coffee and painkillers for recovering merrymakers. Although they’re both gainfully employed, they fit cleaning jobs into their nights and weekends (which is when their service is in most demand anyway).

　　(7) Besides being flooded with requests from across the country, Foley and Ashurst have also received requests from the US and Canada to provide services there. They are reportedly meeting with lawyers to see how best to take the business forward.

　　Question 5: What is the news report mainly about?

　　Question 6: What is a common problem with a house party?

　　Question 7: What are Rebecca Foley and Catherine Ashurst planning to do?

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