高级口译0709听力原文汇总合集（3）

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　　高级口译0709听力原文汇总合集（3）

　　Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following news.

　　Washington

　　All eyes are focusing in on Las Vegas as the Sporting Goods industry closes in on its first true industry gathering in years. The much anticipated spring market will make its debut June 11th to 13th in Las Vegas, and the industry’s leading sporting goods companies will be on hand to display their latest gear. The exhibit floor will showcase the latest in, athletic footwear, fitness-related equipment, accessories for fitness, as well as spring teen sports products. “In today’s trade show environment, the marketplace demands that we offer more than just the opportunity to promote new products”, explained Tom Cove, president of Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association, “we’re committed to drive the exchange of cutting-edge knowledge and best practices to complement the action on the floor.” Along with many of the industry’s most influential brands, a number of groups, associations and media organizations within the sporting goods industry have decided to use the trade show as a business rendezvous.

　　San Francisco

　　Apple today introduced Safari 3, the world’s fastest and easiest-to-use web browser for Windows PCs and Macs. Safari has always been the fastest browser on the Mac, and now it’s the fastest browser on the Windows, loading and drawing web pages up to twice as fast as Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, and up to 1.6 times faster than Mozilla Firefox 2. Safari 3 features easy-to-manage bookmarks, effortless browsing with easy-to-organize tabs, and a built-in RSS reader to quickly scan the latest information. Other Safari features now available to Windows users includes snapback, one-click access to an initial search query, resizable text fields, and private browsing to ensure that information about an individual’s browsing history isn’t stored.

　　Afghanistan

　　Floods triggered by heavy rain killed 23 people and destroyed scores of houses in Afghanistan’s northeastern province of Badakhshan, the provincial governor said on Friday. Authorities were searching for missing people after the flooding, which hit on Thursday night in an area of impoverished and mountainous province near the border with Tajikistan, China, and Pakistan. After years of harsh drought, Afghanistan received much more snow and rain this year.

　　Cuba

　　Two Cuban soldiers tried to hijack a passenger plane to escape to a foreign country with hostages on Monday, but were arrested after killing an unarmed military officer on board, the government said. The soldiers, who had escaped from an army base where they were doing military service, hijacked a bus with passengers, took it to the domestic terminal of Havana Airport, and seized an empty passenger jet before dawn. They killed one of the hostages, an army lieutenant colonel, when he tried to stop the hijacking, but were then captured by a military unit, the government said in a statement.

　　Canada

　　The Royal Canadian Mint unveiled a welcome addition to any piggy bank on Wednesday -- a monster gold coin with a face value of 1 million Canadian dollars that it says is the world's biggest, purest and highest denomination coin. The Canadian mint introduced the mega-coin, which is the size of an extra-large pizza, and weighs in at 100 kilograms alongside the one-ounce gold bullion coins it is mass producing at its Ottawa plant. Originally designed to promote the new one-ounce coins, the colossal coins will be issued in a very limited quantity. While they have a 1 million Canadian dollar face value, the coins are worth twice that amount, given the current gold price of $683.30 per ounce.

　　Question 6: What is happening in Las Vegas from June 11th to 13th?

　　Question 7: What has Apple introduced today?

　　Question 8: What happened in Afghanistan’s northeastern province of Badakhshan?

　　Question 9: Which of the following statements is true about the hijacking of a passenger plane in Cuba?

　　Question10: What is the current worth of the mega coin produced by the Royal Canadian Mint?

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