Standard English 广播的特点与难点
1.词汇量大
Next Thursday, an estimated 16 million smokers will try not to light up during the annual Great American Smoke Out sponsored by the American Cancer Society…and approximately one million smokers will quit for good.
Negotiators are still wrestling with some technical problems.
United States baseball team pounded the Spanish team at the World Baseball Championships in Italy. The score was 28 to nothing. In another game, defending champion （卫冕冠军）Cuba beat Italy 11 to 1. Japan shut out Nicaragua 7 to nothing. South Korea crushed Netherlands 12 to nothing.
South Korea police have arrested thousands of workers who staged a sit-in during Thursday morning rush hour. The strike paralyzed Seoul subway system and stranded hundreds of thousands of commuters.
专有名词随着新闻热点出现e.g., HAMAS哈马斯（伊斯兰抵抗组织），West Bank（约旦河）西岸，Gaza Strip加沙地带
约定俗成地用地名或建筑物表示某国政府或机构:Moscow、the Kremlin代表俄国政府，Washington、the White House代表美国政府，the Pentagon（五角大楼）代表美国国防部，Capital Hill（国会大厦）代表美国国会
提到某某人时，其格式通常是：国籍+职位或身份+姓名
缩略词: CSCE后立即说Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe（欧洲安全和合作会议）
2.语速快135 words/minute
a.不适应连读、吃音、弱读
We have no any sort of artificial timetable to launch a ground attack.
Two weeks ago, Baghdad cut gas sales to the public and then restarted with strict rationing.
The president has been working hard and needs a rest.
b.多个词误听为一个
A miracle medicine: American medicine
An act of self-defense: an active self-defense
c.难以分辨相近的音
They were killed by soldiers assigned to guard them: garden
Shops and stores have been raided: Shops and stores have operated.
3.句子结构复杂
The government of Sudan resorted to flogging protesters Tuesday as new bread riots shocked the capital Khartoum. The court ordered 35 people, most of them students, flogged for allegedly instigating violent protests over bread shortages. At least two people have died in demonstration. Bakeshops refused to bake bread on the ground of the new government regulations on the weight of loaf that made bread unprofitable.
插入成分多，句子松散: for what he (they) called, be quoted as saying, as what he (they) said, as what he (they) termed (named)
Pentagon officials say US troops may be sent to check a site in east Afghanistan where US missile hit a convoy that may have included senior leader…
The verbal battle began last month when the President called Iran a part of as what he called an "axis of evil" that supports terror.
4.题材范围广
Sports, features, science, medicine, environment, business and economic news, politics…defending
5.新闻导语突出重点
新闻导语（lead）指的是每条新闻的第一句话
导语通常只突出六个要素中的几项
An Argentine congressional committee has taken the first step toward impeachment proceedings against the nine members of the Supreme Court facing accusations of colonialism and corruption.
6.播音方式活泼
7.语音南强北调
制约听力的因素
1.语言知识（词汇量与语音、语法知识）
2.理解速度慢
3.背景知识
新闻英语的命题规律
1.考察对新闻细节的捕捉：数字、人物、时间、行为及事务等
2.考察对新闻内容的理解：新闻尾句常考——针对时间顺序结构
3.考察对新闻大意的理解：新闻首句常考——针对倒金字塔结构
Model Test 6
Section C News Broadcast
21. How did the attack in London affect the global financial markets?
A. It led to steep falls on global exchanges.
B. It brought a little rise on European exchange.
C. It had no affects at all.
D. It didn’t cause any sustained falls.
22. How did Tokyo’s Nikkei average change?
A. It was up 0.3%
B. It was down 0.3%
C. It was up 0.5%
D. It was down 0.5%
23. Which of the following details is INCORRECT?
A. The film, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, will definitely be a hit.

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