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专四复习攻略
TEM 4
< br>2010
年英语专业基础阶段统测
(TEM4)
定于
4
月
17
日
(
星期六
)
上午
8:30
开始，由英语专
< br>业学生四级考试命题小组负责命题与实施，在各自院校组织进行。
各位同学，时间不多了，此次将时事新闻汇集时间起于
2009
年
3
月，止于
2010
年
3
月，
已经涵盖
所有新闻的出题时间。新闻听力占去专业四级和专业八级全卷比例均为
5%
，可以
关注，
但是不必太紧张。
即便对国际政治一头雾水，也可以按照课堂所学轻松应对。新闻听
力时注意以下几点
即可：
1
、首句。
2
、出现数据考点时，注意题干大写、专有、数据词汇。
3
、否定性题目使用排除法。
4
、忽略那些你听不懂的专有名词，统统不是考点。
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同学需要注意，
第一部分
是<
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10
年更新的新闻，其余部分是补充材料中已经出现的新闻。所<
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有内容作泛读学习即可，但需要重点注意黑体以及中文解释词汇。
祝各位成功！
第一部分（
2010
年新闻更新版本）
2010-3
月
< br>1
日
类型：体育——冬奥闭幕
E
搭车
The 2010 Winter Olympics were
officially over after a spectacular closing
ceremony.
Its opening and closing
spectacular all took place under a closed roof. A
festive
crowd of 60,000 jammed into the
stadium for the closing ceremony. The Olympic
flag was lowered during the event and
presented to
Sochi(
索契
)
of Russia who will
host the next Winter Games in 2014.
Anatoly Pakhomov, the mayor of Sochi,
received the flag from Vancouver Mayor
Gregor Robertson.
On the whole, the
hosts took the overwhelming first place, winning
also seven silver
and five bronze
medals. They are
followed by
Germany with 10 gold, 13 silver and
7
bronze awards. Americans are third with 9 gold, 15
silver and 13 bronze awards.
The US
team gained victory by the number of awards-37.
Germany has 30 awards
and Canada
–
26.
2010-3
月
1
日
类型：灾难——智利地震
The
Chilean
government says the
death toll of the magnitude-8.8 earthquake has
reached 708 and is likely to increase
as rescue goes on.
The president says
food distribution will begin to help the affected
people to stand
up to the difficulties.
Also 10,000 troops of the Armed Forces
and of the Chilean Police will be deployed
in the affected areas to guarantee the
security and to collaborate on the aid
delivery.
2010-
2
月
20
日
类型：灾难——巴西海难
A sailing ship owned by a Canadian
school sank off the coast of Brazil in strong
winds, but all 64 passengers have been
rescued from rafts.
Brazil's Navy said
a distress signal was picked up from the ship
Thursday afternoon.
It was located
about 300 miles off the coast of Rio de Janeiro.
The Concordia is owned by West Island
College International in Nova Scotia.
2010-2
月
14
日
类型：灾难
——印度恐怖主义袭击
At
least eight people were killed and 53 others were
injured in an
apparent
terrorist attack
in the
western Indian city of Pune.
Police
said the blast took place at a landmark German
Bakery in a wealthy district,
and that
among the killed were three foreigners.
2010-1
月
< br>15
日
类型：灾难——海地地震
Haitian President Rene Preval is
pleading for assistance after Tuesday's
7.3-magnitude earthquake rocked Haiti's
capital of
Port-au-Prince
bringing
devastating
catastrophe
.
The
quake collapsed buildings including Preval's
presidential residence, parliament,
the
tax office, and numerous schools and hospitals.
The exact number of casualties is too
early to be determined but the operation
coordinator of the International
Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent
Societies estimates up to 100,000
people may have perished in the quake.
A Chinese emergency rescue team has
arrived in Port-au-Prince along with 10 tons
of food, equipment and medicines.
China's Red Cross Society has pledged
to donate 1 million dollars in emergency aid,
while the World Bank has pledged 100
million dollars to support recovery
and
reconstruction
.
Additional search and rescue teams from
other countries, including the United
States, are on their way to aid in
rescue efforts.
第二部分（
2009
年全年重点新闻）
2009-3-23
类型：灾难——日本货机爆炸
A FedEx
cargo
plane
（货机）
,
crash-lands
（迫降）
,
at Japan's Narita International
Airport
（日本成田国际机场）
.. Red Cross
officials say both pilots were killed. Television
footage showed the plane explode,
shortly after one of its wings, clipped the
ground. Reports say the flight from
Guangzhou, China, was trying to land in windy
conditions.
2009-4-13
类型：国际政治——美古关系改善
U.S. President Barack Obama has lifted
restrictions on travel and money transfers
by Cuban- Americans to Cuba.A statement
said supporting the Cuban people's
desire to freely determine their future
and that of their country is in the national
interest of the United States.
Former Cuban Leader Fidel Castro says
U.S. measures to ease restrictions on trips
by Cuban-Americans to Cuba were
positive, but minimum they could do.
Castro says many other measures are
missing, including the elimination of the Law
of Cuban Adjustment.
The
1966 law, which the U.S. exclusively applies to
Cuba, grants Cubans who reach
US soil
automatic residency
2009-4-20
类型：国际政治——西班牙埃塔组织领导人被捕
The military leader of the Basque
separatist group, ETA, has been
arrested
in
France.
Spain's Interior
Ministry says Jurdan Martitegi Lizaso was
captured
by the French
police in southeast France as part of
joint cross-border operation with Spain.
He was the third leader of ETA to be
arrested in less than six months.
2009-4-29
类型：灾难——
H1N1
flu
（
Swine flu
）
开始流行
Mexico's Health Minister Jose Angel
Cordova said late Tuesday that the
probable
death
toll
from swine flu in Mexico has risen
to 159, up from the 152
suspected cases
announced earlier Tuesday.
Meanwhile,
the swine flu crisis continues to spread
worldwide.
At least 16 countries have
confirmed or suspected infections.
This
comes, as the World Health Organization admits the
virus is too widespread to
be
contained.
It has raised its global
alert level, but stopped short of declaring a
full-blown
pandemic.
There
are 64
confirmed cases
in
the United States and eight cases in Canada.
The US is reacting as if the swine flu
outbreak is already a full pandemic.
Countries in Asia and the Middle East
are the latest to confirm virus-related cases.
Oil prices have dropped, amid worries;
the outbreak would hurt air travel, and hit
demand.
China's Ministry of
Health has confirmed that a man in the southern
province of
Guangdong has tested
positive for the H1N1 flu virus.
The
patient, who recently returned from a trip to the
U.S. and Canada, is the fourth
confirmed case in the Chinese mainland.
A suspected case
of H1N1 flu
has been reported in Tibet.
A female
tourist from Italy is currently being treated in a
local hospital for
flu-like
symptoms.
23 foreign
nationals who traveled with her are now under
quarantine at a local hotel.
2009-5-21
类型：灾难——印尼空难
The
death toll of Indonesia's Air force Hercules
（大力神运输机）
plane
crash in East
Java
（爪哇）
reached 71, with 27
others wounded, the health ministry said on
Wednesday.
Health official
reported that there were 15
fatalities
in Sudono
Hospital with nine
people injured, and
there were 57 deaths at Iswahyudi Hospital, with
19 people
injured, head of crisis
center of the Ministry Rustam Pakaya said.
However the
identification
and checking
on the victims was being
conducting, he
said.
told Xinhua.
The
final result would be announced later after the
officials completed their works,
said
Pakaya.
The Hercules was reported to
have ploughed into homes on the ground as it
crashed and caught fire in Magetan. The
plane C-130 Hercules Alpha 1325 was on
its way from Halim Perdanakusuma
Airport in Jakarta for Biak in Papua when it
crashed only fours kilometer from
Iswahyudi Airport.
A metro television
footage showed the body of the plane was broken
into two
parts and burnt into flames.
2009-5-21
类型：灾难——伊拉克爆炸
Iraqi police say at least 34 people
have been killed and 72 injured in a car bomb
explosion in northwest Baghdad.
An
explosive-laden
vehicle
exploded near a popular
restaurant Wednesday
evening,
destroying at least 10 cars and damaging several
shops nearby.
2009-6-2
类型：金融危机——通用破产保护
In the largest industrial
bankruptcy
ever seen in U.S.
history, General Motors
has
filed for bankruptcy
protection.
Hoping to
reemerge
（重新出现）
from bankruptcy
protection as a new company
within 60
to 90 days, GM will close 11 U.S. factories and
idle three others to slash its
operating costs.
The GM
bankruptcy will also lead to the loss of hundreds
of dealers and suppliers
as well as
hundreds of thousands of jobs.
However,
an overnight statement from GM said the impact of
its U.S. parent's
bankruptcy will be
minimal to its China business.
President Barack Obama has promised an
additional 30 billion dollars to the
carmaker.
2009-6-2
类型：灾难——法航失事
French President Nicolas
Sarkozy
says chances of
finding any survivors are
small
the Atlantic Ocean.
Air France said earlier the plane was
probably hit by lightning and suffered an
electrical failure while flying through
a storm. The Airbus A330 left
Rio de
Janeiro
on Sunday night for
Paris.
The 228 people aboard were from
32 countries, most of whom are French and
Brazilians. 8 Chinese nationals were
also on board.
The French and Brazilian
militaries have been searching around the area
where the
plane disappeared.
2009-6-2
类型：灾难——重庆山体滑坡
Rescuers have
recovered
s
even bodies from the debris of
Friday's landslide in
southwest China,
as the search continues to find the 65 people
still missing.
More than 400 experts,
technicians and rescuers have joined the operation
in
Chongqing.
So far they
have carried out two explosions at the site to
enable the drilling of holes
in order
to send food and air to 27 trapped miners.
2009-6-10
类型：灾难——巴基斯坦爆炸
At
least 11 people have been killed in a suicide bomb
blast at a five-star hotel in the
northwestern Pakistani city of
Peshawar.
A United Nations worker was
among the dead. Dozens of others were inured.
The huge explosion at the Pearl
Continental Hotel also destroyed some 40 vehicles.
Witnesses said attackers first started
firing at the guards when their vehicle was
stopped at the hotel entrance.
2009-6-10
类型：国际政治——制裁朝鲜的决议
The five permanent members of the UN
Security Council, along with Japan and
South Korea, have reached agreement on
a draft
resolution
（决议）
in
response to
North Korea's recent
nuclear test. The resolution includes a range of
punitive
measures that would severely
curtail loans and money transfers to North Korea,
as
well as an arms embargo.
Diplomats say the earliest date for a
vote at the Security Council is
likely
on
Thursday.
2009-8-16
类型：恐怖主义——
NATO
喀布尔总部爆炸
A powerful
suicide car bomb went off outside NATO
headquarters Saturday, killing
7 Afghan
civilians and wounded over 90 people.
Taliban militants who have vowed to
derail the second presidential election in the
post-Taliban country, claimed
responsibility for the attack.
UN
Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon
has
condemned
“
in the strongest
possible
terms
”
the car bomb attack in Kabul , voicing
his concerns at
violence
2009
-8
月
20
日
类型：灾难——台风莫拉克
Taiwan authorities say more than 600
people are listed dead or missing on the
island after one of the island's worst
typhoons
swept across the
island
’
s south.