本資料選取了BBC，VOA兩大世界主流權威媒體的新聞報道，內容原汁原味、真實可信。而且BBC與VOA新聞也是TEM-4試題的選材來源。此外，本書選取的都是最具代表性的熱點新聞，在幫助考生提高新聞聽力水平的同時，也提供了最具價值的時事資料。本書所有材料的長度、難度、情景都力求與真題保持一致，使考生在進行新聞聽力訓練時猶如實戰(zhàn)。

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Mudslide: 泥流

A powerful storm moved along the California's Coast Monday and Tuesday, causing highway-blocking mudslides, flooding and power outages.
2004-12-29

Shiite: 什葉派教徒

A main Sunni Muslim political party withdrew from Iraq's upcoming elections on Monday, and a suicide bomb attack on the nation's largest Shiite party killed at least six people and wounded 33 others, police said.
2004-12-29

Sanitation: 公共衛(wèi)生設施

The disaster could be the costliest in history as well, with "many billions of dollars" of damage, said U.N. Undersecretary Jan Egeland, who is in charge of emergency relief coordination. Hundreds of thousands have lost everything, and millions face a hazardous future because of polluted drinking water, a lack of sanitation and no health services, he said.
2004-12-28

Fraudulent: 欺騙性的，欺詐的

"We have been independent for 14 years but we were not free," Yushchenko told the festive crowd in Kiev's central Independence Square, the center of weeks of protests after the fraudulent and now-annulled Nov. 21 ballot in which Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych had been declared the winner.
2004-12-27

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