新闻英语视听说(Unit 4) 听力文本与练习答案.pdf

新闻英语视听说 Unit 4 1 Water Problems Part View Listen and Speak Task One Water Supply Suspension in Taizhou Zhejiang Meanwhile continuous rain has lifted reservoirs water level in South China s Taizhou Zhejiang Province Most reservoirs including the largest Changtan reservoir of Taizhou passed the alarm level High water pressure burst a pipeline on Sunday which caused a water supply suspension in Taizhou The water shortage was resolved Tuesday afternoon but the crisis is still causing concern for local citizens Last Sunday night a main water supply pipeline at the Changtan Reservoir burst 7000 cubic meters of water was wasted hourly The water supply in many areas was suspended Yan Chuanhua Head of Changtan reservoir Changtan reservoir s water line has reached nearly 35 meters which surpasses the alarm line The pipelines have been used for more than 15 years Now we are trying to replace the broken pipeline as soon as possible After the pipeline burst rescue teams made great efforts to make a replacement Meanwhile water supply downtown was severed More than 300 thousand people lacked drinking water The local government adopted various methods to guarantee people s basic requirements Taizhou firehouse sent out fire engine filled with clean water to communities and hospitals Officials dispatched water 4 to 5 times a day Schools took measures to tackle water shortages The Headmaster of the Huangyan Experimental Middle School says they started using their back up water facility right after the water suspension Kong Qingzhou Huangyan Experimental Middle School 新闻英语视听说 Unit 4 2 I asked all teachers to tell their students to save water as much as possible In Jiufeng Park a one thousand year old well serviced hundreds of people A sense of urgency overwhelmed the crowd as people competed with their barrels buckets and water bottles for the precious water Mrs Zhao Citizen In the past only 10 people get water from here Older people are going to the front of the line when it comes to water This lady surnamed Wang is in her 70s and in only 2 hours time she was able to get a whole tricycle of water Lady Wang I bring all the barrels in my home to here to get the water Luckily the crisis was over quickly On Tuesday afternoon the broken pipeline was replaced and the water supply returned to normal Task Two Water Pollution in China Alarming The theme of China s Water Week Campaign is to secure sustainable development through a strict water management system Water pollution in China poses a huge threat to the development of a sustainable water management Statistics of a joint report from several Chinese universities show more than one third of the country s industrial waste water flows directly into rivers and lakes The water environment in most cities around the country is declining An official report from the Ministry of Environmental Protection shows among the investigated 131 rivers that flow through cities 36 are severely contaminated and nearly 60 others polluted Since the Songhua River benzene pollution incident in 2005 over 140 pollution cases have been reported The Yellow River an important water resource for North China is suffering from serious pollution Nearly 40 percent of its mainstream has been severely affected The country s longest river the Yangtze is being threatened by a continuous flow of billions of tons of polluted water And situation is no better for the Huaihe River in which the country has invested 新闻英语视听说 Unit 4 3 most It remains a severely polluted river Water pollution has resulted in enormous economic losses Experts point out that water pollution is a joint result of human factors society and economic development Task Three Agricultural Pollution in Focus Agricultural pollution is another feature of the first national census on pollution sources Rather than many people s impression waste water from agriculture and people s daily lives greatly exceeds the amount of polluted water produced by urban factories and industries Untreated waste water running into the river This has become a common sight in China s large rural areas As many counties focus much on agricultural production efforts on environmental protection have long been ignored Many regions lack basic waste disposal systems and facilities to treat polluted water But the long term threat is highlighted by the newly released national census on pollution sources It shows that more than 80 of the country s water pollution comes from agricultural production and people s daily lives This means water pollution in rural areas is much worse than in urban areas In terms of chemical pollutants such as nitrogen the same picture Much of the agricultural pollution comes from farms Plastic materials used for greenhouses are not biodegradable 生物所能分解的 And booming rural enterprises are also devastating the fragile environment Mine exploration triggered a number of pollution and poisoning cases last year Environmental protection authorities are determined to pay more attention to rural pollution Zhuang Guotai Official of Ministry of Environmental Protection We should not only focus on environmental problems in the cities and urban industries but we also need to focus more on rural environmental problems The central government has set up a special fund for environmental protection in rural areas More than 4 5 billion yuan is expected to be spent this year to deal with rural pollution and provide technical support Some villages in affluent 富裕的 provinces have introduced environmental 新闻英语视听说 Unit 4 4 facilities and methods Farmers in this Zhejiang village are using flush toilets Waste water flows to a local water purification center for recycling Farmers are learning to classify their garbage A farmer I put all the garbage from the kitchen in one pack and put plastic bottles in another pack for recycling More effort is needed to set up a complete waste disposal system And it could be a long term task to improve the habits of hundreds of million farmers Part Further Development What s Wrong with the Climate In the summer of 2007 the Huai River valley experienced its heaviest flooding in over fifty years The Anhui Flood Control Headquarters opened 9 flood diversion and storage areas in order to protect the 1 2 million people living along the river s banks The Ni River is one of the diversion rivers 分流河道 改道河流 导流 for the Huai River Usually water flows from the Ni into the Huai When the Huai is diverting flood water the sluice gate 水闸 leaving from the Ni to the Huai is closed Thus water flows from the Huai to the Ni Liulong Village located next to the Ni River becomes an indirect diversion area After the heavy rain on July 7 and 8 Liulong Village was like a pot full of water The flood water came so rapidly that the villagers could only take what they could carry as they were evacuated In temporary tents the villagers tried to continue as normally as possible The village entrance is a dividing line between homes and the refugee tent The villagers flooded homes are inside this line Every day some people row a small boat to see whether their houses are still there Mr Li went every 2 or 3 days At this time the streets have become streams and familiar entrances of their courtyards are now docks Villagers are helpless in the face of flooding They never imagined that extreme 新闻英语视听说 Unit 4 5 climatic events caused by global warming would make them homeless In the summer of 2007 villagers beside Dongting Lake weren t victims of floods but something just as destructive hit them Beginning in late June they found their rice fields were infested with rats Stretching a long rope across the field they were able to drive out large numbers of rats In the peanut field the plants above ground looked fine but once you pulled on the stalk all the peanuts at the roots had been eaten Water melon pumpkin sugar cane and corn crops had all been destroyed including even the lotus seeds grown in water The rats also destroyed the roots of the willow trees The rats are reed 芦苇 voles 野鼠 鼹鼠 called water mice by the locals They live in soft soil and lake beaches In recent years the Dongting Lake area received little rain and lake sides were high and dry for much more time than before The 700 000 acres of beach area around the lake became a suitable home for the rat population But in the middle of 2007 heavy rainstorms hit the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and the Dongting Lake beaches were flooded once again The rats were forced to move out A war between man and rodent 啮齿类动物 broke out They used every method available including acctacking the rats trying to flood them out digging and poisoning them Man was finally victorious But the villagers were not sure if the rats would return Experts warned people that there were still rats remaining on the floating trees and weeds Extreme weather may trigger a chain reaction When one area is hit by floods another place has a drought Tongjiang City at the junction of the Songhua and Heilongjiang Rivers was such a site 280 000 out of a total of 300 000 acres of crops dried up In Chenzhou Hunan rice fields were punched to the point of cracking Jiangxi Province was also experiencing a serious drought The farmers there set their hopes on drought resistant chemicals and waited for rain But the rain brought by monsoons had already gone Could it rain again However the typhoons in 2007 didn t bring rain but disasters instead 新闻英语视听说 Unit 4 6 In Fuzhou the streets are flooded and violent wind storms are destroying everything in sight In Zhejiang an 8 kilometer long and 800 meter wide tornado toured through Longgang Township and destroyed 156 houses Finally typhoon Sepat swept over seven provinces in the south and caused a loss of 10 billion RMB But a later typhoon was no less ferocious On October 6 the super typhoon Krosa entered the Taiwan Straits at a speed of 15 kilometers per second It hit Taiwan twice then landed the third time at the junction of Zhejiang and Fujian bringing torrential rains In Cangnan County Zhejiang Province hundreds of people were stranded by floods It took over 3 hours for soldiers to evacuate the victims Torrential rains hit Fuzhou Fujian and Lianjiang In