Questions 21 to 22 are based on the following news^

Japan’s super-fast maglev train has broken the world’s train speed record previously set by itself. (21) The magnetically levitated train reached five hundred and eighty-one kilometers per hour or three hundred and sixty-one miles per hour on a test track west of Tokyo. Racing to a new record. The MLx-01 clocks in the world’s fastest ever train speed at three hundred and sixty-one miles per hour. No one was on board the maglev train as it hurtled across the eleven-mile test just outside Tokyo. It was remote controlled by the these engineers. Just two days ago，this team broke their old record by sending the maglev to three hundred and forty-eight miles per hour. Now, after reaching three hundred and sixty-one miles or five hundred and eighty-one kilometers per hour, they’re celebrating another world record for the super-fast train.

The president has signed the first ever legislation outlawing certain kinds of SPAM messages that plague computer users with unwanted junk e-mail. The new law has a long name. Officially it’s called， the Controlling the Assault of the Nonsolicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003 ? (22) The White House says SAPM is not just annoying，but it also hurts productivity, jams up computers, and thus，is costly to the economy. The law makes it a crime, punishable by large, multi-million dollars fines for violators and possibly jail time，forbidding mass e-mails with misleading subject lines or with the sender’s identity disguised.

 

题目

News 1

In this section you will hear several news items ? Listen to them carefully and then answer the questions that follow.

Questions 21 to 22 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item，you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions,

Now, listen to the news.

21. What is the new world’s train speed record?

A. 361 miles per hour.

B. 581 miles per hour.

C. 348 miles per hour.

D. 518 miles per hour.

22. Which is NOT the bad influence from SPAM messages?

A. Inefficiency of productivity.

B. Jams of computers.

C. Lost of economy.

D. Cyber fraud.

 

答案解析

News 1

21. A数字判断题。答对这道题的关键是要注意数宇后面的单位，新闻中出现 kilometer及mile两种单位，列车的速度达581千米每小时或361英里每小时，故 选A。

22. D细节判断题。新闻中曾提到：“白宫称垃圾电子邮件不禁令人厌恶，还造成生产 率下降和网络的堵塞，由此导致巨额经济损失。”这是为什么白宫制定该法案的原 因。根据这些信息，我们可以判断选项中D项并没有提到，因此，它就是我们要选 择的正确答案（注意题干中的NOT)。