英语专四 新闻听力 news 4-2-3

 新闻

Questions 25 to 27 are based on the following news.

If cigars are your thing, you need to check out the city of Tampa, on Florida’s west coast, along the Gulf¹ of Mexico. Tampa slumbered² as a little fishing village while East Coast beach towns began to boom as vacation resorts in the late 1800s.

Around the same time，Key West, off the southern tip of the Florida Peninsula, became the center of the cigar industry. It had largely moved out of Spanish-owned Cuba because of tensions that would eventually lead to war between Spain and the United States.  When those tensions spread to Key West, and some factories were burned， Tampa's leaders invited its biggest cigar maker³, Don Vicente Martinez Ybor, to relocate there. (25) He did，importing mild Cuban tobacco by ship.

In their first year alone, workers in two little factories hand-rolled more than 1,000,000 cigars. And before long, the waterfront neighborhood that became known as Ybor City had 250 cigar factories.

In the days when millions of men smoked cigars at work and at home, Ybor City was the undisputed cigar capital of the world, and brands like Have-a-Tampa became household names.

(26) But by the 1960s, cigar manufacturing had become highly mechanized，the government was heavily taxing tobacco products, and the importation of fine-leaf tobacco from Cuba was forbidden.

(27) By the hundreds，Tampa’s cigar factories closed，and Ybor City became a blighted⁴ slum.

(27) But it has made a huge comeback and not just because more than a dozen small factories are rolling tobacco leaves again. Ybor City is full of bustling⁵ restaurants， nightclubs, and art galleries.

 

题目

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Questions 25 to 27 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item，you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions ?

Now, listen to the news.

25 :According to the news we can know that  the early cigars were imported from Key West

A. Mexico B. Tampa C.Key West      D. Cuba

26. When did cigar manufacturing become highly mechanized?

A. By the 1950s. B.

C. By the 1960s. D.

27. Now in Ybor City,  are hard to find.

A. restaurants B. nightclubs  C.galleries D. slums 

 

答案解析

News 2

25. D 细节题。原文为 importing mild Cuban tobacco by ship，故选 D。

26. C细节判断题。本题就注意年代与年份的差别，答案为C。

27.  D细节题。现如今的Ybor City早已不是当年破败的贫民窟了，故选D。

1 gulf   

n.海湾；深渊，鸿沟；分歧，隔阂

参考例句：

• The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
• There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。

2 slumbered   

微睡，睡眠（slumber的过去式与过去分词形式）

参考例句：

• The baby slumbered in his cradle. 婴儿安睡在摇篮中。
• At that time my virtue slumbered; my evil, kept awake by ambition. 就在那时，我的善的一面睡着了，我的邪恶面因野心勃勃而清醒着。

3 maker   

n.制造者，制造商

参考例句：

• He is a trouble maker，You must be distant with him.他是个捣蛋鬼，你不要跟他在一起。
• A cabinet maker must be a master craftsman.家具木工必须是技艺高超的手艺人。

4 blighted   

adj.枯萎的，摧毁的

参考例句：

• Blighted stems often canker.有病的茎往往溃烂。
• She threw away a blighted rose.她把枯萎的玫瑰花扔掉了。

5 bustling   

adj.喧闹的

参考例句：

• The market was bustling with life. 市场上生机勃勃。
• This district is getting more and more prosperous and bustling. 这一带越来越繁华了。