英语新闻听力教程unit5

Item 3
1. A train crash
2. Near Osaka, western Japan; morning rush hour, Monday
3. five hundred and eighty commuters
4. It smashed into an apartment building
Section C
Item 1
1—(H) 2—(G) 3—(D,F) 4---B 5---(J)
Tapescript:
Iraqi police say more than 640 people have been killed in a stampede that broke out today near a Shiite shrine in Baghdad. Authorities say some 300 were hurt in ths stampede that erupted on a Tigris River bridge when thousands of people crushed a railing and plunged into the river. Officials say bodies are still being recovered from the river and that the final death toll could rise. The incident occurred when a rumor spread that a suicide bomber was in the crowd.
Why Not (5) known
Casualties (6) 17 were killed, a (7) half of them children; (8) 30 were injured
Firefighting Efforts Some (9) 200 firefighters were sent to (10) extinguish the fire
2.In Nigeria at least 12 people were reported drowned after an overcrowded dugout canoe capsized in a remote creek in the oil-producing Niger Delta.
3.A full-scale relief operation is underway on Indonesia’s Java Island where a tsunami hit Monday, killing at least 340 people.
Item 2
Task 1
1. C 2.A 3.B
Task 2
1. F 2.F 3. T 4.F 5.T 6.F
Tapescript:
A small aircraft has crashed into the 20th floor of a high-rise apartment building in New York City, killing at least two people. The plane burst into flames on the impact and fire spread through several floors of the building. The White House said all the indications were that the crash was an accident. Investigators are at the scene gathering evidence, but the authorities don’t believe the incident was linked to terrorism. The BBC’s Gitto Harry was at the scene shortly after the incident and sent this report.
4.The bodies of 10 New Jersey senior citizens killed in this week’s tour bus crash in the mountains of northern Chile are being flown home.
5.Hurricane John has been downgraded to a tropical storm after hitting the Baja California Peninsula on the west coast of Mexico. The storm struck the tourist port city of Lepas, bringing down trees and power lines and flooding streets. It had earlier inundated the seaside resort of Los Cabos.
Item 2
Task 1
1. T 2.F 3.T 4.T 5.T
Task 2
1. Peruvian airliner crew members killing
2. an emergency landing
3. foreign nationals Italian an American
5. debris trapped crushed
6. relief supplies devastating
7. tornado forecasters
8. locusts
9. tropical storm hurricane
10. battling toxic spill spill
Section D
Paris (1) Apartment building Fire
When (2) Shortly after midnight
Where (3) In a stairwell of a dilapidated building
Who African (4) immigrants
The April Incident A resident (11) accidentally started a (12) blaze at a Paris Hotel
(13) catering mostly to African and European immigrants, (14) killing 23 people
Tapescript:
A fire at a Paris apartment building housing African immigrants has killed at least 17 people, a half of them children. French officials say some 30 others were injured in the blaze that broke out shortly after midnight in a stairwell of the dilapidated building. Authorities say it took more than two hours for some 200 firefighters to extinguish the blaze. The cause isn’t known. French media are reporting the victims are from African countries such as Senegal and Mali. Officials say about 100 children and 30 adults lived in the building, which was run by a humanitarian association. In April a fire at a Paris hotel catering mostly to African and European immigrants killed 23 people. One of the hotel’s residents admitted to accidentally starting that blaze.
5. Trying to reach some of the trapped passengers
6. speed and driver inexperience
Tapescript:
Officials in Japan say the train crash near Osaka in western Japan has killed as many as 57 people, injured more than 400. A commuter train carrying around 580 passengers during morning rush hour Monday smashed into an apartment building near Amagasaki, about 400 kilometers west of Tokyo. Workers are still trying to reach some of the passengers trapped in the wreckage. The accident was Japan’s worst in more than four decades. Investigators say speed and driver inexperience may be factors in the crash.