新東方大學英語四級考試模擬題1-20xx05聽力原文及答案-資料下載頁

　　

【正文】 ect our begin with, let?s expand a little bit on the question, what is land pollution? Land pollution is the destruction of the earth?s land surfaces, often directly or indirectly as a result of man?s activities and their misuse of land occurs when waste is not dealt with properly, or can occur when humans throw chemicals onto the activities have also contributed to the worsening of the earth?s actions have caused many large areas of land to lose or reduce their capacity to support life is known as land that land degradation can result from many factors, and land pollution is only one of regard to different sources of land pollution, many publications group them us see these four main sources: Firstly, solid waste is the first source of land waste includes all the various kinds of rubbish we make at home, school, hospitals, markets and like paper, plastic containers, bottles, cans, food and even used cars and broken electronic goods, broken furniture and hospital waste are all examples of solid of these can be easily coped with or decay into organic include food droppings, paper products as well as plants like grass and tree , others are not environment friendly, and they include plastics, metals and aluminum cans, broken puter and car these do not easily decay, they pile up in places where all the city?s rubbish are sent and stored, where they stay for thousands of bring great harm to the land and people around second source is the use of pesticides and farming activities engage in the application of fertilizers, pesticides and insecticides for higher crop is good because we get more food, but can you think of what happens to the chemicals that end up on the crops and soils? Sometimes, insects and small animals are killed and bigger animals that eat tiny animals(as in food chains)are also , the chemicals may be washed down as it rains and over time, they end up in the water, causing water third source is…… the eyes of the speaker, who should be responsible for land pollution? does the speaker mention “broken electronic goods”? do people use fertilizers in farming activities? will the speaker probably talk about immediately after the passage? Now listen to the following recording and answer questions 20 to 70 million children across the world are prevented from going to school each day, a study published today living in northeastern Africa are the least likely to receive a good education—or any education at all, an umbrella body of charities and teaching unions known as the Global Campaign for Education has ranks the world?s poorest countries according to their education has the least functional system in the world with just 10% of children going to primary school, while Eritrea is second , Comoros and Ethiopia are in the similar report?s authors, from charities including Plan and ActionAid, measured the likelihood of children attending primary school, a country?s political will to improve its education system, and the quality of its schools to create the study—Back to School? The Worst Places in the World—warns that attempts to ensure all children can attend school are under severe 2015, there will be more children out of school than there are today, unless the richest countries dramatically increase the aid they give to the poorest nations, the authors argue.“Poor countries are facing a worsening situation, as severe and deepening pressure from the economic downturn caused by the crisis of the rich world?s banking system bites on their budgets,” David Archer, one of the authors from ActionAid 163。 is expected to be lost to education budgets in subSaharan Africa because of the economic crisis, he , which is rated in the 50 worst countries for education, delayed plans to provide a free primary school education to million children in global economic crisis was one reason given for are far less likely to attend school than boys in many of the world?s poorest countries, the authors have Malawi, of those that enroll, % of boys plete primary pared to % of rural Burkina Faso, 61% of girls are married by the age of 18 and over 85% never get to see the inside of a secondary rich countries have failed to keep their promises to help poor countries improve their education systems, according to the the UK is active in aiding those countries, along with the Netherlands, Norway and Switzerland and Ireland, others—such as Greece, Austria, Italy and Germany—are not giving nearly as much as they is said about Somalia? should be done to prevent more children dropping out of school by 2015? does the study say about girls in the world?s poorest countries? Now listen to the following recording and answer questions 23 to the best known nutrition fact about iron is that meats—particularly red meats—are rich in this is true, it is also true that a number of plant foods are also rich in may e as a surprise that researchers have found that people eating plantbased diets eat as much or more iron as people who regularly rely on animal , you?ll see that the remended list of excellent iron sources is largely dominated by plant question, more human health problems worldwide are caused by iron deficiency than by lack of any other well known is the fact that excessive iron stores are also responsible for a large burden of illness such, iron is a very important nutrient to understand not only for researchers and nutritionists but everyone, since we need to be aware of finding the right iron balance from our , iron really plays a big role in health of the tissues in our body need a near constant supply of oxygen to maintain maintain this oxygen delivery by the red cells in our have an ironcontaining protein called hemoglobin, which is a perfect transporter for oxygen, in that it both picks up and releases oxygen in an exact and targeted average man has about 2 grams of iron in his blood cells at any given time while women have about the dietary iron intak