英语新闻听力教程Unit 5原文及答案

Unit 5 Disasters and Calamities

Section A

warming up

1. snowfalls blizzards disputed

2. worsening drought

3. struck aftershocks

4. collapsed

5. debris trapped crushed

6. relief supplies devastating

7. tornado forecasters

8. locusts

9. tropical storm hurricane

10. battling toxic spill spill

Section B

1. C

2.C

3.D

4.B

5.A

Tapescript:

1.An Air France passenger plane has skidded off the runway and burst into flames on landing at Pearson Airport in Toronto, Canada.

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 Islan d where a tsunami hit Monday, killing at least 340 people.

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.

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.

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

4. 52 survived at area hospitals

Tapescript:

A Peruvian airliner carrying 100 passengers and crew members has crashed in a northeastern jungle town, killing at least 40 people. Officials say the TANS Air Flight 204 went down Tuesday while attempting an emergency landing during a severe storm. Police at the scene say foreign nationals are among the dead, including at least one Italian and an American. Officials say at least 52 people survived the accident with most being treated at area hospitals.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

“Fire engines, police cars, ambulances completely blocking the avenue, people having been pushed onto the sidewalks. All they know at this stage is that either a plane or a helicopter has crashed into a building. There are helicopters circling above. There is smoke in the air. There are police running around. They are is being cordoned off.”The authorities in New York now say that four people were killed in the plane crash in Manhattan. Reports from the United States say the plane was being piloted by the New Yankee’s baseball pitcher Cory Lidle, who died in the incident.

Item 3

1. They are still being evacuated from New Orleans

2. They have been taken by bus to an emergency shelter at a sports stadium in Texas more than 550 kilometers from New Orleans.

3. They are working to evacuate thousands of additional flood refugees in and near the city’s former convention centre.

4. the center is now a building without power, water, or toilet facilities, overflowing with crowds calling for food, water and other assistance.

5. He is scheduled to visit parts of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana that were wrecked by the hurricane.

Tapescript:

Thousands of victims of Hurricane Katrina are still being evacuated from New Orleans. More than 10,000 people already have been taken by bus to an emergency shelter at a sports stadium in Texas more than 550 kilometers from New Orleans.

Rescuers in New Orleans are working to evacuate thousands of additional flood refugees in and near the city’s former convention center, a large building without power, water or toilet facilities, overflowing with crowds calling for food, water and other assistance. Meanwhile President Bush is to visit the devastated area today. He is schedule to visit parts of Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana that were wrecked by the powerful hurricane.

Section E

1. the government of Jamaica has issued a hurricane watch

2. that they had called the police as long as an hour before the collapse

3. asking for donations of bottled water

4. hit an area off the southern coast of India

5. the city accounts for about half of the Monsoon-related deaths so far