2016年大学英语四级模拟听力原文

Model Test Three

Part ⅡListening Comprehension

Section A

Directions: 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.

More than 100 million people in Nigeria are not connected to the Internet. There are only a few networks that offer service and it is costly and unreliable. Now, a new project provides a resource for off-line viewing at no cost. A non-profit organization called “The WiderNet Project”has developed the offline eGranary Digital Library. The service puts millions of digital documents, multimedia work and websites onto a server. The information is then available to students, medical workers, and researchers at no cost, whether there is Internet or not. Users can access informative websites that eGranary updates every day such as Wikipedia, Khan Academy, Project Gutenberg, MIT OpenCourseWare, and MIT BLOSSOMS (which is Math and Science video lessons for high school students).Other resources on the service include university and medical publications, computer software, and educational games.

1. What is the news report mainly about?

2. Who can use the offline digital information for free?

Questions 3 and 4 will be based on the following news item.

The United States‟ job market has millions of unfilled jobs. Many of those jobs require technical skills. However, employers say many of those jobs are vacant because they cannot find people with the right skills to do the work.

Labor experts call this phenomenon the “skills gap.” In the United States, the cost of a traditional four-year college education can be very high. US colleges and universities produce many graduates every year. Yet unemployment rates among new graduates are high. Labor experts say, to solve this problem, it is vital to get technical skills that are of immediate value to an employer. They add that it is important to get transferrable skills—those that can be used in more than one job. This is because technology and the nature of the workplace are changing at a faster rate than before.

3. Why are there millions of unfilled jobs in the US?

4. Why is it important to get transferrable skills?

Questions 5 to 7 will be based on the following news item.

Egyptian officials are making plans to open a newly-expanded Suez Canal on August 6th. Officials say the “new” canal will more than double the waterway‟s earnings over the next 10 years. But some experts say the project alone will not be able to turn aroun d Egypt‟s economy. Experts say the success of the canal will depend largely on the health of the world‟s shipping industry. They say that is something Egypt cannot control. And they say even if the expanded canal is successful, it won‟t improve the lives of average Egyptians. People in Egypt are facing rising poverty rates and prices. The economy is slowly recovering from recent financial and