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college english test band four part two listening 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 one with a single line through the center news report a poisonous fish which has a sting strong enough to kill a human is invading the mediterranean warn scientists the international union for the conservation of nature has raised concerns after the poisonous fish was spotted in the waters around turkey cyprus and the eastern mediterranean native to the south pacific and indian ocean the potentially deadly fish has poisonous hooks and a painful sting capable of killing people although fatalities are rare the stings can cause extreme pain and stop people breathing the fish often known as devil firefish is a highly invasive species and environmentalist fear its arrival could endanger other types of marine life after being spotted in the mediterranean, a marine scientist says the fish is spreading and that's a course for concern questions one and two are based on the news report you have just heard question one what is reported in the news question? what is the environmentalist concern about the spread of devil firefish in the mediterranean news report two almost half the center of paris will be accessible only by foot or bicycle this sunday to mark world car free day this is in response to rising air pollution that made paris the most polluted city in the world for a brief time mayor anne ethalgo promoted the first world car free day last year ethalgo also has supported a paris breathe's day on the first sunday of every month paris clears traffic from eight lanes of the main road about four hundred miles of streets will be close to cars it is expected to bring significant reduction in pollution levels last year's car free day showed a forty percent drop in pollution levels in some parts of the city according to an independent air pollution monitor reports the guardian and sound levels dropped by fifty percent in the city's center questions, three and four are based on the news report you have just heard question three what will happen on world car free day in paris question four what motivated the mayor of maris to promote the first world car free day in her city? news report three a philippine fisherman was feeling down on his luck when a house fire forced him to clear out his possessions and change locations then a good luck charm that he had kept under his bed changed his life the unidentified man had fished out a giant pearl from the ocean when his anchor got stuck on the rock, while sailing off a coastal island in the philippines ten years ago when he was forced to sell it the shocked tourist agent at puerto princesska told him that the 77 pound giant pearl that he'd kept hidden in his rundown wooden house was the biggest pearl in the world, which was valued at 76 million pounds the pearl of allah, which is currently on display in a new york museum only weighs 14 pounds that is five times smaller than the pearl that the fishermen just handed in the monstrous pearl measured at one foot wide and two point two feet long is going to be verified by local experts and international authorities before hopefully going on display to attract more tourists in the little town questions five to seven are based on the news report you have just heard question five what happened to the philippine fishermen one day question six what was the fisherman forced to do question seven? what did the fisherman learn from the tourist agent section b directions in this section you'll hear two long conversations at the end of each conversation you will hear four questions both the conversation 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 one with a single line through the center conversation one mr smith it's a pleasure meeting you nice to meet you too what can i do for you well, i'm here to show you what our firm can can do for you astro consultants has branches in over 50 countries offering different business services we are a global company with 75 years of history and our clients include some of the world's largest companies thank you missus houston i know astra consultants is a famous company, but you said you would show me what you could do for me well what exactly can your firm do for my company we advise businesses on all matters from market analysis to legal issues anything a business like yours could need our firm offers expert advice could i ask you mister smith to tell me a little about your company and the challenges you face that way i could better respond as to how we can help you okay sure this is a family business started by my grandfather in nineteen fifty we employed just over one hundred people we manufacture an export stone for buildings and other constructions our clients usually want a special kind of stone cut in a special design and that's what we do in our factory our main challenge is that our national currency is rising and we're losing competitive advantage to stone producers in india i see that's very interesting i would suggest that you let us first conduct a financial analysis of your company together with an analysis of your competitors in india that way we could offer the best advice on different ways forward for you questions eight to eleven are based on the conversation you have just heard question eight what do we learn about the woman's company question nine what does the man say about his own company question ten what is the main problem with the man's company question eleven what does the woman suggest doing to help the man's company conversation too wow congratulations simon the place looks absolutely amazing really you think so of course i love it it looks like you had a professional interior designer but you didn't did you no, i did it all by myself with a little help from my brother greg, he's actually in the construction business which was really helpful i honestly i'm impressed i know i could probably repaint the walls in my house over a weekend or something, but not a full renovation where did you get your ideas i wouldn't know where to start well for a while now i've been regularly buying home design magazines every now and then i'd save a picture i liked believe it or not i had a full notebook of magazine pages since my overall style was quite minimal, i thought and hoped a whole renovation wouldn't be too difficult and sure enough with greg's help it was very achievable was it very expensive i imagine a project like this could be actually it was surprisingly affordable i managed to sell a lot of my old furniture and put that extra money towards the new material greg was also able to get some discount of materials from a recent project he was working on as well great if you don't mind i'd like to pick your brain a bit more jonathan and i are thinking of renovating our sitting room not the whole house not yet anyway and we'd love to get some inspiration from your experience are you free to come over for a coffee early next week questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard question 12 what do we learn about the woman from the conversation question thirteen where did the man get his ideas for the project question fourteen what did the man say about the project he recently completed question fifteen why does the woman invite the man to her house next week section c directions in this section you'll hear three passages at the end of each passage you'll hear three or four questions both the passage 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 center passage one removing foreign objects from ears and noses costs england almost three million pounds a year a study suggests children were responsible for the vast majority of cases ninety five percent of objects removed from noses and eighty five percent from ears every year an average of one thousand two hundred eighteen nose and two thousand four hundred seventy nine ear removals took place between two thousand ten and two thousand sixteen according to england's hospital episodes statistics children aged one to four were the most likely to need help from doctors for a foreign object in their nose to nine year olds come to the hospital with something in their ears the most jewelry items accounted for up to forty percent of cases in both the ears and noses of children paper and plastic toys were the items removed next most from noses, cotton buds and pencils were also found in ears according to the study the occurrence of foreign objects in children is generally attributed to curiosity children have an impulse to explore their noses and ears this results in the accidental entry of foreign objects any ear nose and throat surgeon has many weird stories about wonderful objects found in the noses and ears of children and adults batteries compose a particular danger in all places prevention is better than cure this is why many toys contain warnings about small parts recognizing problems, early and seeking medical attention is important question 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard question 16 what does england spend an annual three million pounds on question seventeen what do we learn from england's hospital episodes statistics question 18 what does generally believe to account for children putting things in their ears or noses passage two good morning today, i would like to talk to you about my charity re bicycle but before that let me introduce someone this is leila rahimi she was so scared when she first moved to new zealand that she struggled to leave the house and would spend days working up the courage to walk to the supermarket for basic supplies after a few months of being quite down and unhappy she was invited to join a local bite club at this time rebicycle got involved and gave layla a second hand bicycle within weeks her depression had begun to ease as she cycled the bicycle totally changed her life giving her hope and a true feeling of freedom to date rebicycle has donated more than two hundred bikes to those need and is now expanding bike riding lessons as demand source with a bike newcomers here can travel farther but for almost no cost the three hours a day they used to spend walking two and from english language lessons has been reduced to just one hour our bike riding lessons are so successful that we are urgently looking for more volunteers learning to ride a bike is almost always more difficult for an adult and this can take days and weeks rather than hours so if any of you have some free time during the weekend, please come join us at re bicycle and make a difference in someone's life questions nineteen to twenty one are based on the passage you have just heard question nineteen what did re bicycle do to help leila rahimi question twenty what is read bicycle doing to help those in need question twenty one what do we learn from the passage about rebicycle passage three thanks to the international space station we know quite a bit about the effects of low gravity on the human body, but nasa scientists want to learn more to that end they have been studying how other species deal with low gravity specifically focusing on mice, the results are both interesting and humorous the scientists first sent some mice an especially designed cage to the international space station the cage allowed them to study the behavior of the mice remotely from earth via video as you'll notice in the video the mice definitely seem uncomfortable at the beginning of the experiment they move around clumsily drifting within the small confines of the cage and do their best to figure out which way is up but without success however, it's not long before the mice begin to catch on they adapt remarkably well to their new environment and even use the lack of gravity to their advantage as they push themselves around the cage that's when things really get wild the eleventh day of the experiment shows the mice are not just dealing with the gravity change, but actually seemed to be enjoying it several of the mice are observed running around the cage walls the scientist wanted to see whether the mice would continue doing the same kinds of activities they were observed doing on earth the study showed that the mice kept much of the routines intact including cleaning themselves and eating when hungry questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard question 22 what do nasa scientists want to learn about question twenty three what does the passage say about the mice at the beginning of the experiment question twenty four what was observed about the mice on the eleventh day of the experiment question twenty five what did the scientists find about the mice from the experiment that's the end of listening comprehension。



college english test band four part two listening 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 she'd one with a single line through the center news report one a device that weighs less than one kilogram is part of a mission that will allow scientists to deliver fourth generation or for g mobile coverage to the moon in two thousand nineteen if successful the tiny device will provide the moon with its first ever mobile phone network the lunar network will support high definition streaming of video and data between the moon and earth the network is part of mission to the moon this is a project with the goal of landing the first privately paid for mission to the moon the fourge mission is set to launch from cake pronoval in the united states on a spacex falcon nine rocket in two thousand nineteen mission to the moon intends to establish and test the first elements of a communications network on the moon the scientists working on the project opted to build a four g rather than a fifth generation or five g network this is because fifth generation networks are still in testing and trial phases this means that a five g network may not yet be stable enough to work on the moon's surface questions one and two are based on the news report you have just heard question one what are scientists planning to do question two? why did scientists choose to set up a forging network in their mission news report to firefighters responded to a fire wednesday night at an abandoned mall in hayward the fire was reported at nine twenty six p m at an old shopping center on mission avenue, leocent mary's church six fire engines two trucks and two chiefs responded to the scene crews had the fire under control in about forty five minutes and managed to contain the fire to which point of origin there were some people inside the building when the fire broke out, but they were no reports of any injuries fire investigators have responded to the scene, but have not yet determined the cause of the fire firefighters will remain on the scene until late of this morning to ensure that the fire doesn't start up again the shopping mole had not been in use since two thousand and two in two thousand and fourteen city hall developed a plan to knock down the building and replace it with affordable housing however, the plan was dropped due to lack of funds questions three and four are based on the news report you have just heard question three what does the news item say about the fire question four what had city hall plan to do。

这是最新的二三年六月的新闻题。首先我们先来预判一下啊,第一题, 马上看到考察女士对不对? involving conflict with birth lovers。 他怎么样啊? conflict 冲突和谁? 它涉及到跟鸟类爱好者们的冲突,爱鸟的人对吧? bird lover b 呢? charge with misreading animals, mistreat 叫虐待, treat 叫对待。是不是 mistreat 呢?虐待,哈哈,他因为虐待动物被怎么了? charge 在这啥意思啊? 控告指控特别好,因为叉指有很多意思,他可以指负责,可以指充电收费。控告都是咱们的考点。那因为这个语境应该是控告控诉某人 see better neighbor, 他跟邻居怎么了?他跟邻居 better 怎么了?关系很差。 term 等于 relation, relationship 好的, accuse of violating a city law be accused of doing。 也是一固定搭配,直接背。考过太多次了,什么意思啊? 控告跟那个 charge 一个意思?指控对 violet 违背,违反,他被指控违反城市法规。嗯,所以这个女士应该是遇到了一些麻烦或者不利的事儿,对吗? 冲突被控告关系不好?哦,对,坏事很好。那第二题咱们听什么? take time to solve the rat problem rat 指什么呀? rat 是咱们最常考的一种小动物, 老鼠,老鼠还可以怎么说? mice m i c e。 当然还有 mouse m o u s e。 哎,因为咱们中经常用它来做实验小白鼠。嗯,当然 rat 也是老鼠啊,说需要花时间来解决鼠患老鼠问题,还是所有的野生动物应该 好好保护? well, protected 受到良好的保护?还是说这个女士不应该为这种情况负责? be to blame for 也是考点 blame 责怪责备对不对?哦?说他不应该受到制作受到责怪?第一是说 no one should go on punish。 大家发现没,这是一个双重否定啊。 no one unpunished。 没有人应该不受惩罚,那是不就是所有人都应该受惩罚呀?什么人违反法规的人 violet 好。所以第二题 讲的是什么呀?解决这个问题吧。跟什么相关的问题?有野生动物,有老鼠?貌似跟动物有点关系啊。好了,我们先来先自己听一遍听音做题。 结合我们讲的前四步, a woman was charged with allegedly violating a road island city law against feeding wild animals the fifty five year old woman's neighbors blame her for making the area's rat problem worse newly installed cameras captured several rats active in the middle of the day neighbors say that it's even worse during the night the woman and her parents who own the home told reporters that she's being charged for feeding birds who would have known just loving animals gets you that much trouble she said it is prohibited to feed any wild animals including birds in road island city nevertheless while the woman's intention was to feed birds it is clear that rats were also benefiting antony muretti director of the city administration said he saw more than twenty rats near the woman's home he said it will take months to get the problem under control questions one and two are based on the news report you have just heard question one what do we learn from the report about the 55 year old woman。 好,我把中间的间隔空过去了,直接放问题 question two, what did the director of the city administration say at the end of the news report? 因为这两道题其实都不太用听问题对吗?他都没有多项匹配或者是多项一剑封喉吧?没有啊,看看答案。 好,我们一起来做一遍聆听聆听加对答案。所以我在这要插一嘴了啊,过去的两周,你们都有在做聆听吗?每一天, 你要么是自己根据咱们课上讲的步骤以及我布置的作业去认真完成,要么是在女儿班每一天跟着练。 没有为什么?不想过是吗?这次随便考一考过就过,不过拉倒。那如果你是这种心态的话,我没什么可说的。但如果你想过我,请恳请你从今天开始每天练习, 因为不练真的是不行,听不懂就是要练精听做题,没法解决听不懂的问题。哦,好了,那我们一起来吧,我带大家逐句听啊。当然,同时咱们要找一下定位处。好,先来听第一句, a woman was charged with allegedly violating a road island city law against feeding wild animals the fifty five year old woman's neighbors blame her for making the area's rat problem worse。 果然,第一句就是新闻开门见山,既是主旨又是 答案。这个女的到底怎么了? a woman was charged with allegedly violating a road island city law。 是一道一剑封喉题吧?这其实不是今天讲的了 啊,有替换有替换,哪个词换了? a woman was charged with allegedly violating a road island city law against feeding wild animals the fifty five year old woman's neighbors blame her for making the area's rat problem worse very good。 一名女士被指控 violating city law 啊,一个什么如罗德岛的城市法规,它违反。违反了哪一条呢? against fitting white animals, 它违规去投喂野生动物。 好,所以在这儿被指控被控告。 charge 和 accuse 统一替换了。嗯,其他的地方是完全播读对不对?那有读到他的邻居怎么了吗?有人选 c 吗? fifty five year woman's neighbors blame her for making the area's red problem worse。 哦,它是让这个地区的鼠患老鼠问题变得更糟糕了。但有没有说跟邻居关系不好啊? bad term。 这就是伪答案。没读到啊,不全。 还有人选币了。虐待动物?你没有听到虐待?嗯,也没有关系不好,自己看看尾答案都是怎么错的,你要明确的知道对是怎么对,错是怎么错的。好了,继续第二句。 newly installed cameras captured several rats active in the middle of the day neighbors say that it's even worse during the night。 怎么发现这事的?有没有听到一个 installed camera? 反应过来了吗?反应不过来,跟我看 install install 安装 camera 叫摄像头说最近安装的摄像头 capture 捕捉捕获,拍摄下了这个画面, 他就捕捉到几只老鼠很活跃。 in the mid of the day。 在白天老鼠都很活跃。 neighbors say 邻居说 even worse during the night。 晚上就更糟糕了,那老鼠满街乱窜。 install camera 安装摄像头啊,好,但这句话没有定位,咱们先过了下一句。 the woman and her parents who own the home told reporters that she's being in charged for feeding birds。 是不是又读到了一次 charge 啊?他背怎么了? charge the woman and her parents who own the home told reporters that she's being charged for feeding birds。 这个女士和他的父母住在这间房子里,拥有这栋房子,那么据报导他被指控喂鸟。 feed you know feed 喂养投喂禁止喂鸟。嗯, 没有人选 a 吧,说他跟什么爱鸟者冲突了?他本身其实是爱鸟喂他,但没有想到反而犯法了,违法了。 go on who would have known just loving animals gets you that much trouble she said。 他说什么 who would have known? 谁会知道啊? just love animals get you that much trouble。 我只是热爱小动物,却给自己惹上了这么多麻烦。本来是好心,但是违违规了。 violet city law 好了,什么时候换题准备着啊。 it is prohibited to feed any wild animals including birds in road island city nevertheless while the woman's intention was to feed birds it is clear that rats were also benefiting。 好在这个岛上法律禁止。什么事啊?你有听到禁止他有哪个词吗? prohibit prohibited prohibited 这词背过吧,好看一眼。禁止禁止喂养任何野生动物,包括鸟。在这个城市, nevertheless 常见的信号词 跟我读 nevertheless, nevertheless nevertheless 那啥意思啊?然而它表转折啊。然而 while the woman's intention was to feed birth。 虽然女士的意图是喂鸟 intention 目的意图,但很显然 rats 老鼠也从中获益了。 benefiting 也喂了老鼠,老鼠也给喂肥了啊,所以导致了鼠患嘛,对不对? go on antony muretti director of the city administration said he saw more than twenty rats near the woman's home, he said it will take months to get the problem under control。 最终这个问题怎么解决啊? he said it will take months to get the problem under control he said it will take months to get the problem under control take months take months the problem under control。 匹配关系找到了吗? take months 花几个月的时间,那就是花时间吧。几个月是不是时间 get problem under control 使这个问题得到控制?是不是解决这个问题啊?控制住鼠患,那就是解决鼠患问题。 soft 解决这两处替换。所以选 a 做对了吗? 其他是没有播读对不对啊?第二题的 b、 c、 d 其实都构不成尾答案啊,所以只有一个真答案,你只要找到他的这个替换和定位就行了。 说这话的是一个什么城市管理局的主管说的啊?你看这人名不用听,头衔不用听,你只要听他说了啥,是吧?他说了啥?结论,他的话。

college english test band four part two listening 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 one with a single line through the center news report one a waiter has returned to check worth nearly four hundred and twenty four thousand dollars to retired social worker who lost it the waiter found a bank envelope while cleaning off a table last saturday at a restaurant he ran outside, but the customers gone he opened the envelope and got a shock after an unsuccessful search the restaurant's owner called the daily news for help the relieved customer was reunited with her check on wednesday it contained money from her apartment sale already planned for a down payment on a new home the customer did not tip the waiter after her meal she tried to give him money later on, but he graciously declined the waiter who's working his way through school did accept the customers apology and gratitude and said he was happy to have helped her questions one and two are based on the news report you have just heard question one what does the news report say about the waiter question two what did the customer try to do when she got her check back news report two the village of merith in alaska, voted on tuesday to move to the state's mainland the move is due to global warming and rising sea levels most of the villages one hundred sixty nine registered voters took part in the town hall meeting they decided in a vote of eighty nine to seventy eight to move from their land on serge chef island near the arctic circle meriff council secretary donna bar said the vote was largely symbolic it will be costly financially to the community about fifteen years ago they estimated the cost at one hundred eighty million dollars i would figure it's much higher now bar said we don't see the move happening in our lifetime because of the funding the villages roughly six hundred fifty residents have seen warming temperatures, melt sea, ice and permanently frozen land this has resulted in houses falling into the water at least thirty one villages in alaska face immediate threats due to climate change the government accountability office reported in two thousand nine questions, three and four are based on the new support you have just heard question three what is meriff's vote on tuesday about question four why did donna bar say they wouldn't see the plan carried out any time soon news report three a man in halifax canada wanted to find out if people were thankful for someone holding the door open for them the social experiment showed that ninety nine out of one hundred people expressed gratitude i didn't think we were going to get ninety nine, i don't know why but i was pleasantly surprised because it went beyond just thank you people got into conversations with us said steve foran ceo of gratitude at work what we know from research is that from grateful people come good things he said a simple way to induce gratitude and people is opening doors and so we went to six places and opened the doors for people for the experiment foran's team went to a shopping center, a mole, two office buildings and a coffee shop the door was held for fifteen to twenty people at a time at each location we did have one that didn't say thank you we're not here to judge them because on any given day that could be me or you i suspect out of the one hundred people there were probably a bunch of them having a bad day but grateful people make people grateful said foran questions five to seven are based on the news report you have just heard question five what is the purpose of the social experiment question six what did steve foreren and his team do in the experiment question seven what do we learn from the news report section b directions in this section you'll hear two long conversations at the end of each conversation you will hear four questions both the conversation 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 one with a single line through the center conversation one raise solar lisa speaking how can i help hi my name is winston i wish to inquire about solar panel in installations yes, what would you like to know well my neighbor installed panels on his roof about a year ago in order to power his hot water he tells me it has saved him over five hundred dollars thus far does that sound about right to you well, i'm not familiar with your neighbor or his particular set up, but that amount is definitely possible i can tell you that the average four bedroom house may typically have a roof with fifty square meters of surface area four panels on one side of that roof could save a family of four around three hundred dollars a year okay that sounds about right then my house is about the size you described, but my neighbors is bigger i'm not sure how many panels he has up there yeah, but he does have a large family of six are you interested in installing some solar panels on your roof? sir, yes, i'm considering it if you wish to come into our office we could show you the different solutions we offer okay i might do that, but just quickly if you don't mind could you tell me approximately how much a typical installation costs like say four panels prices do vary depending on different factors, but as a rough estimate it's around two thousand dollars but you know a typical household will make back that initial investment in about five years okay, i see thank you questions eight to eleven are based on the conversation you have just heard question eight? what is the hands purpose for calling the woman question nine what do we learn about the man's neighbor from the conversation question ten what is one of the man's chief concerns question eleven how long will it take a typical household to make back the initial investment conversation two good afternoon sorry to have kept you waiting how can i help you oh no problem i'm interested in booking, a holiday to australia and wonder if you could tell me what deals you have sure are you only looking for flights or a package holiday with everything included when you say everything would you mean well a package holiday would include your flights hotels meals day trips to different places of interest and transport to and from the airport yeah that sounds pretty good i'm going with my family so it would be nice to have everything taken care of so what sort of deals do you have for package holidays? then all sorts really how long do you want to go for and on what dates two weeks around christmas time would be great okay let me check that for you here's one 14 nights in southeastern, australia, five nights in sydney and five nights in melbourne and then for the other four nights you can choose from a list of trips to other places nearby you could visit canberra for example or the blue mountains or you could go for a drive down the great ocean road also, if you're interested in wine you could go on a tour of the places where they grow grapes and make wine that sounds great it's good we can choose some activities ourselves questions twelve to fifteen are based on the conversation you have just heard question twelve where is the conversation taking place question thirteen why is the woman interest in pack package holidays question fourteen how long does the woman want to go for the holiday question fifteen? what does the woman say she likes about the holiday package section c directions in this section you'll hear three passages at the end of each passage you'll hear three or four questions both the passage 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 one with a single line through the center passage one tourists taking a holiday in the indonesian island of bali are facing a new fourteen dollar per person tax when they arrive on the holiday island from next year, but this is a green tax which bali governor wyan coster has been working on for months and which is designed to help clean up the island's natural environment and with good reason too indonesia is drowning in plastics recycling is not one of the country's strong points it's not uncommon to be offered many more plastic bags than one could ever need when visiting supermarkets and shopping malls, but slowly things are starting to change for the better back in two thousand sixteen the medium sized city of bonjar mason banned single use plastic bags the city of bogore followed suit in two thousand eighteen a few months ago coster announced a plan that would not only ban single use plastic bags from supermarkets and convenience stores, but plastic bags and straws across the island the regulation will come into full effect next month we received a fast and quick response from the balinese people not only positive responses from the balinese we received good responses from the central government, other local governments and even from overseas costor told the sydney morning harold this week during an interview the governor is a determined environmentalist and he has more laws plan to protect the island's waterways in particular and to support the introduction of electric vehicles too on the passage you have just heard question 16 what will tourists have to do when they visit indonesia's barley island question seventeen what does the passage say about indonesia question eighteen what is the new plan governor costa recently announced passage two an endangered species of whale is experiencing a small baby boom of the coast of america the north atlantic right whale is one of the rarest species a whale on the planet numbering only about four hundred and eleven, but the center for coastal studies said friday that is aerial survey team spotted a mum with two babies in kate cod bay a day earlier that brings the number scene in nearby waters alone this year to three that's big new because the whale population has been falling and no baby whales were seen last year in all seven baby whales have been spotted so far this year the whale population has become endangered due to commercial wailing activities in recent years this is because they are sometimes hunted for their meat or their skin over hunting could lead to the disappearance of the whale population possibly causing major problems to the global food chain the whales give birth off the southeast coast of america in the winter and travel to feeding grounds of the north east coast in the early spring, the northeast coast is a critically important source of food the animals often feed close to shore this provides watches on land with unbeatable views of one of the rarest of marine mammals it's illegal to get within one thousand five hundred feet of the animals without a federal research permit, so whale watchers are discouraged from attempting to get close to the whales questions nineteen to twenty one are based on the passage you have just heard question nineteen what do we learn from the passage about the north atlantic right whale question twenty what has caused the decline of the whale population in recent years question twenty one why do the whales travel to the northeast coast of america in the early spring passage three an average person consumes one hundred forty four pints of milk a year, but forty percent of that is poured on the cereal and sixty percent of the those people are children, but what was once advertised as nutritious is becoming unpopular americans drink thirty seven percent less milk than they did in the nineteen seventies and in the uk dairy consumption overall has fallen by a third in the past twenty years milk is increasingly being described in a negative light a recent blog suggested maybe people are drinking less milk because it is poisonous to many of us lactose is the sugar found in milk and dairy products it needs a series of complex proteins to break it down without enough of these proteins the lactose is broken down by bacteria in the human body this can cause physical pain and produce gas in the stomach however after we have finished breast or formula feeding most of us don't continue producing the complex proteins in our body, which are necessary to break down the lactose despite the problems in digesting milk it does provide many benefits milk is nutritious it contains vitamins a and d as well as protein and isn't full of calories you can test yourself by drinking a large glass of milk if you get sick in your stomach within the next twenty four hours you are lacking the proteins to digest milk questions twenty two to twenty five based on the passage you have just heard question twenty two what does the passage say about americans question twenty three how do americans and british people think of milk nowadays question twenty four why does drinking milk cause pain in some people question twenty five what does the passage? say is a benefit of milk that's the end of listening comprehension?