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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’sforests 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. Yes. But being impersonal does not mean objectivity. (1) Newspapers are written by people who have biases and prejudices. (3) You said it. (1) On the other hand, radio and television can be just as biased as, if not more biased than, news- People on radio and television are trying to stick closely to a script. Even without a script, people will let their biases show. So the difference between newspapers on the one hand and radio and television on the other is personality. Yes. When you read a newspaper article, its kind of cold, (2) Therere no voice inflections. (2) And therere no facial expressions or body language, either. It could be a real exciting story, and all you can do is put exclamation marks. But on camera, people can interpret the words of a script in their voices and expressions. That would have an impact on the audience