本资料选取了BBC，VOA两大世界主流权威媒体的新闻报道，内容原汁原味、真实可信。而且BBC与VOA新闻也是TEM-4试题的选材来源。此外，本书选取的都是最具代表性的热点新闻，在帮助考生提高新闻听力水平的同时，也提供了最具价值的时事资料。本书所有材料的长度、难度、情景都力求与真题保持一致，使考生在进行新闻听力训练时犹如实战。
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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: 什叶派教徒
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: 公共卫生设施
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: 欺骗性的，欺诈的
"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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