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2002年专四听力答案 PART I DICTATION Disappearing forests The world’s forests are dispearing .∕As much as a third of the total tree cover has benn lost/ since agriculture began some 10000years ago./ The ramaining forests are home to half of the world species, /thus becoming the chief resource for their survival. /Tropical rain foreats once covered 12％ of the land of the planet / as well as supporting at least half of the world species of plants and animals./ There rain forests are home to millions of pepole,/ but there are other demands on them ./For example,much has been cut for timber,/ and an increasing amount of forestland has been used for industurial purposes/ or for agricultural development, such as crop growing./By the 1900s,less than half of the earth’s original rain forests remained,/ and they continue to disappear at an alaming rate every year./ Asa result, the world’s forests are now facing a gradual extinction. PART II LISTENING COMPREHENSION SECTION A CONVERSATIONS Questions I to 3 are based on the following conversation. M: Do you agree that newspapers seem impersonal? W: Yes. Therere no personalities involved as in radio or TV. M: Yes. But being impersonal does not mean objectivity. (1) Newspapers are written by people who have biases and prejudices. W: (3) You said it. (1) On the other hand, radio and television can be just as biased as, if not more biased than, news- M: People on radio and television are trying to stick closely to a script. W: Even without a script, people will let their biases show. M: So the difference between newspapers on the one hand and radio and television on the other is personality. W: Yes. When you read a newspaper article, its kind of cold, M: (2) Therere no voice inflections. W: (2) And therere no facial expressions or body language, either. M: It could be a real exciting story, and all you can do is put exclamation marks. W: But on camera, people can interpret the w