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第二部分大学英语四级听力新题型原文与解析Practice Test 7Part II Tape Script of Listening Comprehension?Section ADirections: In this section, you will hear three news reports. At the end of each news report, you will hear two or three questions. Both the news report and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Questions 1 and 2 will be based on the following news item.Christmas lights in American household used up more electricity during the holy season than some small countries consumed in an entire year. According to researchers from the Center of Global Development, that’s more power than is used annually by Ethiopia, Tanzania or El Salvador. The study says that America burnt 6.63 billion kilowatt hours over the Christmas season, shining brightlycolored lights at trees and cross roof tops. That’s enough power to run 14 million refrigerators. But it’s still only a tiny fraction of what the US uses in a year;compared to El Salvador,its annual electricity consumption is 5.35 billion kilowatt hours. The researchers say they are not anti-Christmas; and the lights, they say, are a beautiful scene. But they do want to show the difference in energy use between rich and poorer countries./broadcast/201512/418196_4.shtml1. How many kilowatt hours did America burn over the Christmas season?【答案】D) 6.63 billion 2. What do researchers want to show?【答案】C) The difference in energy use between rich and poorer countries.New Words and ExpressionsNews Report One1. annually[?nju?li]每年2. Ethiopia[?i:θi?upi?]埃塞俄比亚,全称埃塞俄比亚联邦民主共和国，位于非洲东北部3. Tanzania[?t?nz??ni?]坦桑尼亚，全称坦桑尼亚联合共和国，位于非洲东部、赤道以南，是联合国宣布的世界最不发达国家之一4. El Salvador[els?lv?d?:]萨尔瓦多，是中美洲面积最小的国家5. kilowatt[kil?wɑt][电]千瓦（功率单位）6. fraction??[fr?k?(?)n]??部分Difficult SentencesNews Report One【译文】这份研究表明，在圣诞节期间美国人装点树木和屋顶所用的彩灯要消耗66.3亿千瓦的电。【译文】但这只是美国年耗电量的很小的一部分，而萨尔瓦多整个国家每