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Question 6 is based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the question. Now listen to the news.[听力原文]The European Union has agreed a deal placing new limits on bankers’ bonuses from next year. (6) Under a deal agreed with the European Parliament, bankers will receive no more than 30% of their bonus immediately and in cash, or 20% for larger bonuses. The remaining bonus payments will be delayed and linked to long-term performance, with 50% paid in shares. Hedge funds will also be covered by the new rules, reporters have learned. That will place the pay of hedge fund managers in the City of London under regulation for the first time, the BBC’s business editor Robert Piston said. "The new rules won’t make a big difference to bankers based in London," he said. Under the deal agreed with the European parliament, bonuses bankers may get as low as（）.
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TEXT CEvery morning at four-thirty, sixty concrete trucks—from Brooklyn, from Queens, from New Jersey— race in the dark over bridges and through tunnels and converge at the intersection of West and Verse Streets, where One World Trade Center is going up. Concrete is perishable, A load will spoil in ninety minutes once it has left the hatching plant. The trucks pull up to the construction site. They dump their loads into big baskets with hydraulic pumping systems. Eleven thousand three hundred tons of superstructure steel are waiting. The other day, Chris Ward, the executive director of the Port Authority, which is supervising the project, stood three hundred feet in the air, on what will be the twentieth of One World Trade Center’s hundred and four floors, and said, "This site will be understood by the public on how well this tower rises, but the real metric is how quickly the concrete gets poured. " Toward the building’s core, where office workers will one day ride elevators, members of Local 46 of the Metallic Lathers and Reinforcing Ironworkers union were torch-cutting rebar. Sparks flew. Below, tiny fluorescent-vested figures trundled dollies and hoisted planks in what looked like a scene from "Fraggle Rock. "Ward, who is fifty-five, took the Port Authority job in May of 2008. He inherited a huge, politically impossible mess: nineteen public agencies, two developers, a hundred and one contractors, and thirty-three architects have stakes in the World Trade Center redevelopment project. Ward’s first act was to order a reevaluation of the plans for the site. Thanks to him, a memorial will be completed in time for the tenth anniversary of September 11th—sooner than it might have been, but, for a lot of people, not soon enough. Ward wears a blue suit and speaks like a technocrat, but his handshake is a crusher and he knows his girders. He didn’t like the name Freedom Tower—as One World Trade Center was originally called—any more than anyone else did. He said, "That sense that New York needs a new downtown, that we need to defeat the terrorists—was it inevitable, that language I don’t know, but I can understand why it happened. "He is concerned that large-scale, sentimental thinking—"monumentalism," he calls it—has paralyzed the rebuilding process. "The political rhetoric, the sense that New York had to do everything huge at one time, obscured the construction reality," he said. He pointed out some steel bundles, dangling from a crane, and explained how the speeded-up schedule for the memorial affected the sequencing of PATH service, which affected the building of the "1 box"—the pod that encases the tracks of the No. 1 train, which runs directly through the site—which, in turn, affected the building of Larry Silverstein’s Three World Trade Center. To Ward, the site is a delicate, mutating mesh of counterweighted considerations—a high-stakes game of pickup sticks.New York is not Dubai. "People always say, ’How come One World Trade Center is taking so long The Empire State Building was built in fifteen months,’ " Ward said. "Yeah, well, people forget that five people died building the Empire State Building. " He noted that, while Dubai "can literally rip up and relocate an entire town," plans for a floating swimming-pool barge in city waters were delayed for years because of red tape. Walking, on ground level, through dirt and nails—but little garbage—he spotted the looming jackknife of the new Goldman Sachs tower, at 200 West Street. "People say, ’This Goldman Sachs building got built in four years. Why is One World Trade Center taking so long ’ Well, one reason is that this is getting built on top of a PATH train, and Goldman Sachs got built on top of a fucking parking lot !"The memorial is starting to come together. Standing on a concrete platform facing north, you can envision water gushing from spigots, which have been provisionally duct-taped in place, and rushing down thirty-foot granite walls into a pair of reflecting pools. The other day, workers were affixing slabs of granite to the wails.In mid-May, construction on One World Trade Center reached the twentieth floor, or what is called the "typical office floor"—the point beyond which the rest of the stories are easily replicated—and the hope is that, from now on, the building will rise about a floor every ten days."It’s thrilling when you see it, but it’s nerve-racking," Ward said. "The margin for error in this town is tough. \ As to the World Trade Center, which of the following is NOT mentioned in the first paragraph？（）
[听力原文]M: Now, do you make the best of your time In the studio today, we’ve got Roberta Wilson who’s a time management consultant. Good morning, Roberta.W: Good morning, Paul.M:Roberta,what exactly do time management consultants doW:Well, Paul. (1) It’s all about helping people to organize the work in an effective way, maximize efficiency, minimize stress.M: Sounds like something I need. Who are your clientsW: Era,mainly business people, but I’ve also worked with politicians, civil servants and university lecturers.M:Em, quite a range there.W: Em.M:Then what sorts of things help people to organize their time I suppose punctuality is importantW:Em, yes and no. It’s easier to finish a meeting on time if it starts on time. But in international context, so you do have to be aware of cultural differences.M: For exampleW:Well,in Britain, big formal meetings usually start on time, but less formal meetings often begin a few minutes late. In Germany, on the other hand, people expect all meetings to begin on time. In some countries, era, for example, Latin America, there is a more relaxed attitude, (2) so you do have to adapt to circumstances.M: One in RomeW: Yes, to some extent, yes.M: It sounds like even if you manage your own time very well, you still can’t control what other people do.W:Well, you can set limits. If you’re meeting a friend who always arrives late, you can say "Well, I’m going to wait for 15 minutes. " If they aren’t there by then, I’ll leave.M:Em, I’ve got one friend who’s always late. I don’t think I’ll ever see her if I did that.W: But people who are always late are the ones you need to set limits with. If they know that you would go away, then perhaps, they would make an effort.M:Isn’t that rather hardW: No, not really. Someone who comes eternally late is putting a low value on your time. Let them know you’ve got other things to do and (3)I’m not suggesting you do that with everyone, just the persistent latecomers. Though again, different cultures do have different view points on what constitutes serious lateness.M:What about interruptions I often come into the studio with something important I need to do. Then the phone rings or someone comes to see me. Before I know it, the day is over and I haven’t done what I planned.W: (4 A,D) Em, you need to defend your time. If you’re looking on something important, some one drops in to see you, get your diary out, politely tell them you’re busy and make an appointment for another time. If it isn’t important anyway, well, just go away. If it is, go and make an appointment so you can deal with it properly.M: Sounds practical.W: (4 B,C)Again, you do have to be careful. In some cultures, particularly Latin ones, this technique can upset people. But here in the United States, almost no one will be offended.M: So, does everything depend on cultureW:No, attitudes of time are one of the big differences between culture, but how you organize your own work is up to you. And there are a lot of techniques here. (5)For example, imagine you’ve got two important things to do. One of them is pleasant and the other isn’t. Always try to do the unpleasant task first. That way,the pleasant task is a reward for finishing. If you do it the other way round, you tend to slow down the pleasant task. Because you don’t want to do the unpleasant one.M: I’ll remember that. Finally, what, for you, is a hard-working personW: Em. I’m not very interested in hard-working people. You can spend 12 hours a day at the office without doing very much. I’m interested in productive and happy people.M:On another note, I have to say we’ve run out of time. Thank you Roberta, and over to Jazzmen to him the news. With whom do you need to set time limits？（）
Questions 9 and 10 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to the news.[听力原文] 9-10(9) As the HIV/AIDS epidemic continues to spread, new research shows it’s taking an increasing toll on menhaving-sex-with-men or MSM. The issue was addressed at the 18th International AIDS conference in Vienna, with calls for greater funding and human rights efforts.Activists say men having sex with men have been hit hard by the epidemic, but have not received nearly as much attention or resources as many other groups. They’re hoping scientific data on the effects of HIV on MSM—released at the conference—will change that.Shivananda Khan of India is with Naz Foundation International, which provides technical and development assistance to MSM groups in South Asia. (10)Khan says data from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health comes none too soon.(10) "We’ve been waiting a long time for this data. I’ve been engaged in this area for 20 years and this is the first time I’m hearing this sort of data when from a day-to-day perspective we watch people every day for the last 20 years, getting infected and dying from HIV," he says. Khan says scientific data on the effects of HIV on MSM（）.
Questions 7 and 8 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to the news.[听力原文] 7-8An estimated 500,000 pieces of debris litter the Earth’s orbit as a result of man’s exploration of space. Some satellites have been hit by fast-moving pieces of junk. The remains of old rockets can be the size of a bus, while other fragments are simply tiny flecks of paint.(7) An Australian company, Electro Optic Systems, has received a $ 3.5 million government grant to develop the world’s first automated, high-precision, laser tracking technology. It would replace existing radar networks that currently monitor that part of space. The goal is to track small objects with great accuracy. Dr. Craig Smith, the chief executive of Electro Optic Systems, says laser beams fired from the ground could protect astronauts and satellites by targeting space junk that travels at potentially devastating speeds.(8) The laser tracking system would work by giving space craft and satellites, which are able to be maneuvered, time to move out of the way of an incoming chunk of debris.The Australian government said the technology was part of the country’s "proud history" in space science and research. The project is part of an international consortium. Other members of the consortium include the Australian National University and other institutions in Germany and the United States. Where does the financial support of Electro Optic Systems’ laser tracking technology come from？（）
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