英语新闻听力教程unit6原文及答案

Unit 6 Public Health

Section A warming up

1. life expectancy

2. regulators abortion

3. rabies

4. infected with cases

5. bird flu immune

6. outbreaks -borne

7. prescription medicines

8. AIDS

9. antiviral 10. Medicare

Section B 1. B

Tapescript: 1. The problem of obesity is spreading into many different aspects of Americans’ lives. Now researchers have confirmed that some children are so fat they can’t fit into car safety seats designed for ki ds.

2. Two more Indian states have banned the sale of soft drinks produced by . giants Coca-cola and Pepsi-cola after a test by an environmental group showed high pesticide levels. This brings the total number of states to six where there is a partial or full ban of the soft drinks.

3. An Asian expert says disease and natural disasters may pose a great security threat to the region than conventional political conflicts.

4. The United Nations say opium cultivation in Afghanistan has declined for the first time since 2001 as tens of thousands of farmers have given up opium poppies for legal crops.

5. The authorities in Iran have warned that if the dangerously high level of air pollution in the capital ‘’Teheran continues, there could be thousands of casualt ies. Section C

Item 1 1. A

Tapescript: The number of people infected with HIV, the virus that can lead to AIDS, is still rising and has passed 14 million worldwide for the first time. The United Nations said there had been five million new infections this year and warned that AIDS was outstripping global and national efforts to contain it. Sub-Saharan Africa remains the worst affected region. In Asia, where more than eight million people are infected, the UN says infection rates are rising sharply. It warned that Pakistan, in particular, was on the verge of a serious epidemic.

Item 2 Task 1 1. T

Task 2 1. international conference malaria West African state scientific findings

in lost GDP

3. world’s population is transmitted

Tapescript:The biggest ever international conference on malaria has begun in the West African state of Cameroon to discuss the latest scientific findings on the disease which kills more than million people worldwide each year. 75 percent of those victims are African children. Of the 2,000 delegates meeting in the capital Yaounde, 80% are from Africa. The disease costs the continent more than 12 billion dollars in lost GDP each year. The latest research suggests that 41% of the world’s population live in areas where malaria is transmitted.

Item 3 1. Whether more than one food company is responsible for an outbreak of E. coli bacteria. 2. Bad spinach from Natural Selection foods 3. Earth Bound Farm 4. It has recalled the spinach. 5. get rid of any fresh spinach in bags or other containers. 6.