高级口译0703听力原文汇总合集（3）

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　　高级口译0703听力原文汇总合集（3）

　　Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following news:

　　New York:

　　Stock sales by America’s corporate chieftains exceeded purchases last month by the widest margin since 1987, suggesting they do not share the confidence of investors who sent the Standard & Poor’s 500 index to a 6-year high. Executives including Microsoft corporation’s Bill Gates, Google Incorporated’s H. Schmidt, and Kohl's Corp.'s William Kellogg in aggregate sold $63.18 of shares for every one US dollar they bought in November, an analysis by Bloomberg data from Washington Service of Research Firm showed. That’s the highest since at least January 1987. Stocks have rallied even as analysts forecast that a streak of average profit growth of above 10% for S& P’s 500 companies would end this quarter. The US economy expanded at a 2.2% annual rate in the 3rd quarter, down from a 5.6% pace in the first quarter.

　　Cape Canaveral, United States:

　　After a fiery ascent that had turned night into the day, space shuttle “Discovery” and its crew headed to the international space station yesterday to rewire the orbital outpost. Astronauts in orbit yesterday inspected the shuttle for potentially critical heat-shell damage. Discovery will dock with the space station today, and the intricate work will begin. 3 complicated space walks are planned to rewire the space station from a temporary to a permanent power source. NASA had to beat the odds to get off the launch pad on Saturday in the first night-time launch in 4 years. After only a 30% chance of good weather earlier in the day, and a 2-hour delay in fuelling, Discovery streaked through a moonless sky at 0145 GMT yesterday.

　　United Nations:

　　The head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime yesterday called for a global political decision to fight against corruption, and urged world governments to set up task forces. “People around the world must do more to fight the corruption, we need a political decision”, Antonio Maria Costa told the first session of a conference of parties to the United Nations’ Convention against Corruption. The Convention, the first legally binding international tool to battle corruption was adopted by the UN General Assembly in October 2003. Nearly 150 countries have signed the convention but only 80 have ratified it so far, according to the Office.

　　Moscow:

　　9 patients of a clinic for the mentally ill in Siberia died in a fire yesterday, a day after a blaze at a Moscow drug treatment center killed 45, official said. The fire in the psychiatric hospital in the town of Taigar in central Siberia, about 7500 km east of Moscow, erupted shortly after midnight local time. 9 patients of the clinic died and 15 were hospitalized, said Valery Korchagin a spokesman for the regional branch of Russia’s Emergency Situations Ministry. In a fire in Moscow early Saturday, 45 women died in a fire at a drug treatment center when they were trapped behind locked gates and barred windows. The fire was likely caused by arson, a senior fire fighter said.

　　Hamburg, Germany:

　　Traces of radiation found at 2 sites in Germany linked to a contact of poisoned former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko are likely the rare radioactive substance polonium 210, authority said yesterday. Police said on Saturday that traces of Alpha radiation have been found at properties in and near Hamburg used by the ex-wife and former mother-in-law of Dmitry Kovtun . The Russian businessman met Litvinenko in London on November 1st, the day the former spy is believed to have fallen ill. Litvinenko was killed by Polonium 210. Germany’s Federal Office for Radiation Protection said in a statement yesterday that small traces of radioactive substances were detected, and there is a high degree of probabilities that it is Polonium.

　　Question 6: What can we find about the stock market in the US from the News Report?

　　Question 7: What is the major mission of space shuttle Discovery during this trip?

　　Question 8: How many countries have ratified the United Nations’ Convention against Corruption so far?

　　Question 9: Which of the following statements is true about the fire in a town in central Siberia, Russia?

　　Question 10: What did the German authorities find about the case of the former Russian spy being poisoned?

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