在准备四级听力的过程中，首先保证每天都有听英语。建议每天抽出40分钟时间专攻听力，新闻，综艺节目，有声读物或者电影等，但是你一定要集中注意力，沉浸在英文环境中。以下是yjbys网小编整理的关于英语四级听力短篇新闻练习，供大家备考。
听力问题
Questions 1 and 2 will be based on thefollowing news item.
1.
A) Two.
B) Three.
C) Four.
D) One.
2.
A) Close all the tourist attractions.
B) Forbid using animals as a vehicle.
C) Increase the trains and flights.
D) Restore the May Day holiday.
听力原文
News Item One
(1)Recently, a photo showing a visitor on the Great Wall last week aroused a heated discussion on the Internet. They called it the "great queue of China". It was, with the famous structure snaking to the horizon behind him completely hidden by a mass of other tourists. (1) The vast imperial palace, the Forbidden City, at one point welcomed more than 180,000 visitors in a single day.
(1)In the desert at Dunhuang, at least two camels transporting tourists reportedly died from overwork in the Golden Week. And Chinese media said road traffic was up by thirteen percent on last year, causing unprecedented jams. Many people in China save their travelling for the two big annual public holidays—the other is at Chinese New Year. Then, it seems as if the whole country has shut down and everyone is on the road or on the train. (2) Thus there've been renewed appeals for a third public holiday, in May, to be lengthened to spread the strain.
many tourist attractions have been mentioned in the news?
do people want to do for easing the current situation according to the news?
短篇新闻
近日，一名游客上周在长城上拍的照片引起网友们热烈的讨论。人们称其为"中国的长龙"。那是因为这名游客身后那蜿蜒的`古建筑上几乎看不到一块砖，密密麻麻地被游客们覆盖着。故宫也一度创下单日接待18万名游客的记录。
再来看看敦煌沙漠，据悉在黄金周期间，至少两匹骆驼死于过度劳累。据中国媒体报道：日均拥堵指数比去年上涨了30%，可谓达到历史高峰。多数中国人选择在黄金周(五一和十一)出游，另外一个出游高峰则是在春节假期。之后，整个城市像是突然搬空了一样，大家不是在火车上就是在赶火车的路上。因此有民众呼吁国家出台第三个法定假期以分散并缓解5月份巨大的客流压力。
问题1.新闻中提到多少个旅游景点?
问题2.为缓解这种现状，人们呼吁国家采取什么样的措施?
参考答案：
【小题1】B
【小题2】D
习题解析：
【小题1】本题考查细节，问新闻中一共提到几处旅游景点。具体来看，新闻中先后提到了 the Great Wall(长城)，the Forbidden City (故宫)和 Dunhuang (敦煌)，共三处，故选B。
【小题2】新闻先阐述了中国人在黄金周期间普遍存在的旅游景点排长队、交通拥堵、接待游客的动物过劳死等现象，最后总结说 Thus there've been renewed appeals for a third public holiday, in May, to belengthened to spread the strain.指出人们希望能够恢复五一长假来缓解十一和春节两个公共长假的压力，故选D。
拓展阅读：
新闻听力常用词汇之政治
Topic one: Politics
protectorate (被)保护国
asylum 庇护，避难
boundary negotiation 边界谈判
disputed area 有争议地区
consultation 磋商
joint action 共同行动
international waters 国际水域
maritime resource 海洋资源
territorial sea 领海
right of residence 居留权
arms dealer, merchant of death 军火商
inalienability of territory 领土的不可割让性
refugee camp 难民营
dual nationality 双重国籍
non-governmental organization (NGO)非政府组织
neutral state 中立国
extradition引渡
bilateral ties 双边关系
sanction 制裁
forum论坛
set back 阻碍
peninsula 半岛
move 行动
counterbalance 抗衡
G8 (Group of Eight)八国集团
G20 (Group of 20) 二十国集团
ROK：Republic of Korea 大韩民国
DPRK：Democratic People’s Republic of Korea 朝鲜民主主义人民共和国
cabinet 内阁
chaos 混乱
civil rights 民权
civil war 内战
congress 议会
conspiracy 阴谋
conservative 保守的
deficit 赤字
democracy 民主
downsize 裁员
minimum wage最低工资
monopoly 垄断
racism 种族主义
scandal 丑闻
secede 脱离、退出
sexism 性别歧视
amendment 修正案
bureaucracy 官僚主义
impeachment 弹劾、控告
lobby 游说
militant 激进分子
partisan 坚定的支持者
propaganda 宣传
monarchy 君主制度
unilateralism 单边主义
militarized 军事化的
call for 要求、呼吁
comprehensively 广泛地
separatism 分裂主义
extremism 极端主义
play out 进行到底
rally 集会
mob 暴民
prompt 激起、促使
shell 炮轰
the General Assembly 联合国大会
NATO the North Atlantic Treaty Organization 北约
dictator 独裁者
dispel 消除
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