2019年6月四级听力真题（第2套）— 新闻报道

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France is facing potentially more than one billion dollars in lost revenue this year, due to huge declines in tourism. Safety concerns have been one of the biggest reasons why the country has lost over half a billion in revenue already in the first six months of 2016. The terror attacks in Paris last November, we were called Europe's worst in the past decade, besides violence, workers strikes and heavy floods are said to have also been why international tourists have stayed away. So far in the Paris region, there's been a forty-six percent decline in Japanese visitors, thirty-five percent fewer Russians and twenty-seven percent fewer Italians. American travelers seemed the least affected, Their numbers have only dropped by roughly five percent. According to the French government, the country is the number one tourist destination in the world, and tourism is extremely important to the French economy. The sector represents roughly nine percent of its GDP. The Head of Paris's Tourism Board said:"it's time to realize that the tourism sector is going through an industrial disaster."

由于旅游业的大幅下滑，法国今年可能面临超过10亿美元的收入损失。安全问题一直是该国在2016年前6个月已经损失逾5亿营收的最大原因之一。去年11月在巴黎发生的恐怖袭击，我们被称为过去10年来欧洲最严重的恐怖袭击，据说除了暴力、工人罢工和大洪水之外，也是国际游客避而远之的原因。到目前为止，在巴黎地区，日本游客减少了46%，俄罗斯游客减少了35%，意大利游客减少了27%。美国游客似乎受到的影响最小，他们的人数只下降了大约5%。法国政府称，法国是世界第一大旅游目的地，旅游业对法国经济极为重要。旅游收入约占其GDP的9%。巴黎旅游局局长表示：“是时候意识到旅游业正在经历一场工业灾难了”。

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 counts most for the huge declines in tourism in France?

问题1：法国旅游业收入的大幅下滑最重要的原因是什么？

Question 2 What do we learn from the report about tourism in France?

问题2：我们从法国旅游业的报告中获得哪些信息？

A small plane with two sick U. S. workers arrived safely in Chile late Wednesday after leaving Antarctica in a daring rescue mission from are mote South Pole research station. After making a stop for a few hours at a British station on the edge of Antarctica, the two workers were flown to the southernmost Chilean city of Punta Arenas. In a chaotic two days of flying, the rescue team flew 3, 000 miles round-trip from the British station Rothera to pick up the workers at the US Amundsen-Scott Station at the South Pole. The two patients aboard will be transported to a medical facility that can provide a level of care that is not available at Amundsen-Scott, says a spokesperson. Normally, planes don't go to the polar post from February to October because of the dangers of flying in the pitch-dark and cold. "Antarctica creates a hostile environment," says the operations director for the British Antarctic Survey, "if you are not careful, it'll come around and bite you."

一架载有两名患病的美国工人的小型飞机周三晚间安全抵达智利。此前，这架小型飞机从遥远的南极研究站出发，离开南极洲执行一项大胆的救援任务。在南极洲边缘的一个英国站停留了几个小时后，这两名工人被空运到智利最南端的城市Punta Arenas。在艰难的两天飞行中，救援队从英国罗思时代站往返3000英里，在美国南极阿蒙森-斯科特站接应工人。一名发言人说，机上的两名病人将被送往一家医疗机构，提供阿蒙森-斯科特医院无法提供的医疗护理水平。通常情况下，从2月到10月，考虑到在黑暗和寒冷中飞行的危险性，飞机不会飞到极地。“南极洲创造了一个充满敌意的环境，”英国南极调查局的运维主任说，“如果你粗心大意，它就会回来趁机咬你一口。”

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 small plane's mission to Antarctica?

问题3：那架小型飞机去南极洲是执行什么任务？

Question 4 What makes flying to Antarctica dangerous from February to October?

问题4：从2月到10月飞往南极洲有什么危险？

A pilot from Virginia removed his son's loose too thusing a helicopter. Rick Rahim from Virginia flies helicopters for a living, and when his seven-year-old son's tooth became loose, he did not waste time by tying it to a door handle. Instead, Mr. Rahim tie done end of a string around his son's tooth and the other end to his full-sized commercial helicopter. The father of four posted video clip of his playful venture on Facebook, advising parents to do fun and creative stuff with their kids. The video shows him launching the helicopter into the air and flying just far enough to successfully remove the loose tooth. At the end of the video, Mr. Regi measures watchers that the circumstances were safe and that he has 13 years of helicopter flying experience behind him. "You've got to do everything safe in life, and that's what I did today," he said. Mr. Rahim later said that although some parents have used remote control helicopters to pull teeth before, he might be the first to use a full-sized aircraft, as he can't find evidence that it has been done before.

一位来自弗吉尼亚的飞行员用直升机拔掉了他儿子的一颗松动的牙齿。来自弗吉尼亚州的里克·拉希姆以驾驶直升机为生，当他7岁的儿子的牙齿松动时，他没有浪费时间把它绑在门把手上。相反，拉希姆把绳子的一端系在儿子的牙齿上，另一端系在他的全尺寸商用直升机上。这位四个孩子的父亲在Facebook上发布了他好玩的冒险视频片段，建议父母和孩子一起做有趣和有创意的事情。视频显示，他将直升机开到空中，飞得足够远，成功地去除松动的牙齿。在视频的最后，拉希姆先生向观察员保证，情况是安全的，因为他有13年的直升机飞行经验。“生活中一切事情安全第一，我今天做到了这一点，”他说。拉希姆先生后来说，尽管一些家长以前用过遥控直升机拔牙，但他可能是第一个使用全尺寸飞机的人，因为他找不到证据证明以前这么做过。

Questions 5 to 7 are based on the news report you have just heard.

请依据刚才所听到的内容回答5-7题。

Question 5 How did Rick Rahim remove his son's loose tooth?

问题5：Rick Rahim是如何拔掉他儿子的松动牙齿的？

Question 6 What does the news reports say about Rick Rahim?

问题6：从新闻报道中关于对里克·拉希姆有何描述？

Question 7 What did Rick Rahim advise parents to do with their kids?

问题7：里克·拉希姆建议父母如何与他们的孩子相处？