原文：

　　Long conversation one

　　W: You’re the editor of Public Eye. What kind of topics does your program cover?

　　M: Well, there are essentially domestic stories. We don’t cover international stories. We don’t cover party politics or economics. We do issues of general social concern (19題答案，視聽基本一致原則)to our British audience. They can be anything from the future of the health service to the way the environment is going downhill.

　　W: How do you choose the topic? (聽到choose the topic，同時看到20題選項by和based on，即可猜到20題是與這個問題關聯的)Do you choose one because it’s what the public wants to know about or because it’s what you feel the public ought to know about?

　　M: I think it’s a mixture of both.(第20題答案，需要簡單概括歸納)Sometimes you have a strong feeling that something is important and you want to see it examined and you want to contribute to a public debate. Sometimes people come to you with things they are worried about and they can be quite small things. They can be a story about corruption in local government, something they cannot quite understand, why it doesn’t seem to be working out properly, like they are not having their litter collected properly or the dustbins emptied.

　　W: How do you know that you’ve got a really successful program? One that is just right for the time?

　　M: I think you get a sense about it after working in it in a number of years(21題答案，同義替換practical experience). You know which stories are going to get the attention. They are going to be published just the point when the public are concerned about that.

　　Q19-21

　　19. What kind of topics does Public Eye cover?

　　20. How does Public Eye choose its topics?

　　21. What factor plays an important role in running a successful program?

　　例題：

　　2009年6月六級考試第3篇短文聽力第34題

　　34.. A. There was a bomb scare.

　　B. There was a terrorist attack.

　　C. A fire alarm was set off by mistake.

　　D. 50 pounds of explosives were found.

　　答案：A

　　原文：

　　There was another bomb scare in a large London store last night(34題答案，視聽基本一致原則) during late night shopping. Following a telephone call to the police from an anonymous caller, hundreds of shoppers were shepherded out of the store while roads in the area were sealed off. Police dogs spent hours searching the store for a bag which the caller claimed contained 50 pounds of explosives. Nothing was found and the store was given the all-clear by opening time this morning. A police spokesman said that this was the third bomb scare within a week and that we should all be on our guard.

　　Q34: Why did people have to leave the London store last night?

　　例題：

　　2002年12月六級考試第1篇短文聽力：

　　Questions 19 to 21 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

　　11.A. To find ways to treat human wastes.

　　B. To study the problems of local industries.

　　C. To conduct a study on fishing in the Biramichi River.

　　D. To investigate the annual catch of fish in the Biramichi River.

　　12.A. Serious pollution upstream.

　　B. Lack of oxygen.

　　C. Overgrowth of water plants.

　　D. Low water level.

　　13.A. They’ll be closed down.

　　B. They’ll be moved to other places.

　　C. They’re going to dismiss some of their employees.

　　D. They have no money to build chemical treatment plants.

　　14.A. Because the local fishing cooperative decided to reduce its catch.

　　B. Because the local Chamber of Commerce tried preserve fishes.

　　C. Because there were fewer fish in the river.

　　D. Because over-fishing was prohibited.

　　答案：CBDC

　　原文：

　　There are some serious problems in the Biramichi River. The local chamber of commerce, which represents the industry in the area, hired me as a consultant to do a one year study on fishing in the Biramichi River(第11題答案，視聽基本一致原則) and write a report for them. This is my report:

　　One of the major problems in the Biramichi River is that the level of oxygen in the water is too low.(第12題答案，視聽基本一致原則，注意major的定位作用) Several chemicals have displaced the oxygen. This chemical pollution has two sources: the factories which dump polluted water directly into the river and the local community which dumps untreated human wastes into the river. The local town government has already spent 2 million dollars on waste water treatment projects, but it will cost another 27 million to complete the projects. It will take at least 15 years for the town to collect enough revenue from taxes to complete these projects. The factories here employ 17,000 people in an area where there is very little alternative employment. It is not economically practical to close or relocate the factories. Also the factories cannot afford to finance chemical treatment plants by themselves.(第13題答案，視聽基本一致原則)

　　Another problem is that the members of the Biramichi fishing cooperative are overfishing. Fishes are caught when they are on the way upstream to lay eggs. Consequently, not enough fish are left to reproduce in large number. The members of cooperative say that they had already reduced their annual catch by 50 percent. However, my studies indicate that they took fewer fish because there were fewer fish to catch(第14題答案，視聽基本一致原則，注意because的定位作用), not because they were trying to preserve fishes.

　　11.　　What was the speaker assigned to do in the past year?

　　12.　　What is one of the problems in the Biramichi River?

　　13.　　What does the passage tell us about the factories along the river?

　　14.　　Why was the annual catch of fish in the Biramichi River reduced according to the speaker?