2019年6月四级听力真题（第1套）—新闻报道

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A 9-year-old Central California boy braved strong currents and cold water to swim from San Francisco to Alcatraz Island and back. A California television station Enfresno, reported Tuesday that Jim Savage, set a record as the youngest swimmer to make the journey to the former prison. The TV station reported that by completing the swim, the fourth-grade student from Los Banios broke a record previously held by a 10-year-old boy. Jim said that waves in the San Francisco Bay hitting him in the face 30 minutes into this swim, made him want to give up. His father said, he had offered his son 100 dollars as a reward. To encourage his struggling son, he doubled it to 200 dollars. James pushed forward, making it to Alktrask Island and back in a little more than 2 hours. Alktrask is over a mile from the mainland.

一个9岁的加州中部男孩冒着激流和刺骨的冷水从三藩市游到阿尔卡特兹岛再游回来。加州一家电视台周二报道称，吉姆·萨维奇创下了前往这座前监狱的年龄最小的游泳运动员的纪录。据电视台报道，这位来自Los Banios的四年级学生游泳结束后，其成绩打破了此前由一名10岁男孩保持的记录。吉姆说，他在圣弗朗西斯科湾游泳时，海浪拍击在他的脸上达30分钟左右，这使得他很想放弃。他的父亲说他给了儿子100美元作为奖励。为了鼓励他苦苦挣扎的儿子，他把奖励给到200美元。詹姆斯向前方游去，到达阿尔克曲克岛，两个多小时后他返回起始点。阿尔克曲克岛屿距离陆地超过一英里。

Questions 1 and 2 are based on the news report you have just heard.

请根据刚才所听的新闻报道回答1-2题。

Question 1 What did the boy from central California do according to report?

问题1：据报道，这个来自加州中部的男孩做了什么？

Question 2 What did the father do to encourage his son?

问题2：父亲做了什么来鼓励他的儿子？

On the first January, new regulations were coming to a fact which eliminated an annual leave bonus for people who put off marriage until the age of 23 for women and 25 for men, the South China morning post reports. The holiday bonus was to design to encourage young people to delay getting married, in lines with China's one-child policy, but with the policy now been abolished, this holiday incentive is no longer necessary. The government says. In shanghai, the young couple at the marriage registration office told the paper that they decided to register their marriage as soon as possible to take advantage of the existing policy. Because an extra holiday was a big deal for them. In Beijing, one registration office had about 300 couples seeking to get married the day after the changes were announced. Rather than the usual number of between 70 and 80, but one lawyer tells the paper the changes still have to be adopted by local governments and these procedures take time, so people who are rushing to register for marriage can relax.

1月1日，新的法规开始实施，取消了对那些人的年假奖金，这些人包括将结婚年龄推迟到23岁的女性和25岁的男性，南华早报报道。根据中国的独生子女政策，节日奖金旨在鼓励年轻人推迟结婚，政府表示，随着这项政策现在被废除，这种假日激励已不再必要。在上海，在婚姻登记办公室的这对年轻夫妇告诉该报，他们决定尽快登记结婚，以利用现行政策。因为额外的假期对他们来说很重要。在北京的政策官宣修改后的第二天，大约有300对夫妇在一个登记办公室排队登记结婚。而不是通常在70到80对夫妇这样的数目，但一位律师告诉该报，地方政府仍需做出改变，这些程序需要时间，因此急于登记结婚的人可以松口气。

Question 3 and 4 are based on the news report you have just heard.

请根据刚才所听到的新闻报道回答3-4题。

Question 3 What was the purpose of the annual leave bonus of China?

问题3：中国的年假奖金的目的是什么？

Question 4 What do we learn about the new regulations?

问题4：我们对新规定了解多少？

Everyone loves a good house party, but the cleaning up the next morning isn't as enjoyable. Now, however, a New Zealand based startup company aims to bring messy homes and even splitting headaches back to normal. The properly named startup Morning After Maids was launched about 1 month ago in Auckland by room-maids Rebecca Folly and Catherine Ashers. Aside from cleaning up, the two will also cook breakfast and even get coffee and painkillers for recovering merrymakers. Although they are both gainfully employed, they did cleaning jobs into their nights and weekends which is when their service is in most demand anyway. Besides being flatted with request from across the country, Folly and Ashers have also received request from the U. S. and Canada to provide the services there, they are reportedly meeting with lawyers to see how best to take the business forward.

每个人都喜欢一个很棒的家庭聚会，但第二天早上的打扫清洁并不那么让人愉快。然而现在，一家总部位于新西兰的创业公司针对凌乱的家庭卫生状况等头疼的问题，使其恢复到原始的整洁状态。大约一个月前，由客房服务员丽贝卡·弗利和凯瑟琳·阿什尔斯在奥克兰创办了这个的公司，它叫Morning After Maids，该公司的命名符合其创立初衷。除了打扫卫生，他们两人还会做早餐，甚至还会为康复中的寻欢作乐者买咖啡和止痛药。虽然他们都是有偿工作，他们晚上和周末时间都用来做清洁，无论怎么说，他们的服务是最抢手的，需求量很大。弗利和阿什尔斯除了处理了来自全国各地的服务订单请求外，还收到了美国和加拿大需要提供服务的请求，据报道，他们正在与律师会面，看如何最好地推动公司业务向前发展。

Question 5—7 are based on the news report you have just heard.

请依据刚才所听到的新闻报道回答5-7题。

Question 5 What is the news report mainly about?

问题5：这篇新闻报道主要是关于什么的？

Question 6 What is a common problem with the house party?

问题6：家庭聚会后带来的的常见问题是什么？

Question 7 What are Rebecca Folly and Catherine Ashers planning to do?

问题7：丽贝卡·弗利和凯瑟琳·阿什尔斯打算做什么？