1、图书在版编目(CIP)数据 BBC主播教你学英语赵晓彤编著.北京:中国纺织出版社,2019.5 ISBN978-7-5180-5100-7 .B.赵.新闻-英语-听说教学-自学参考资料.G210 中国版本图书馆CIP数据核字(2018)第120174号策划编辑:武洋洋 责任编辑:武洋洋责任设计:晏子茹责任印制:储志伟中国纺织出版社出版发行地址:北京市朝阳区百子湾东里A407号楼 邮政编码:100124销售电话:010-67004422传真:010-87155801http:/www.c-E-mail:faxingc-中国纺织出版社天猫旗舰店官方微博http:/ 各地新华书店经销2019年5月第
2、1版第1次印刷开本:8801230132印张:6.75字数:200 千字定价:39.80 元凡购本书,如有缺页、倒页、脱页,由本社图书营销中心调换I前 言Preface听力是学习语言的必备基础技能,英语听力水平当然就是学好英语的第一阶梯了。很多人说,英语听力太难了,老外说话根本听不明白,英语影视剧只能看字幕,英语广播节目更听不懂了。这些问题,其实是平时很少听英语,或者听力素材不够全面,或者没有专门进行听力训练等造成的。学好英语,就要从提高英语听力开始!“千里之行,始于足下。”听英语应该耳到、嘴到、心到,听的过程就是将语言信息进行识别、整理和分析的过程,是全身心投入的过程。听说不分家,只听不说,
3、效果打折扣;听说结合,能说出来才是真正地听懂了!提高英语听力,应该选择合适的听力素材。英语新闻是听说训练的绝佳素材,也是提高英语听力的有效途径,听懂了会说了,马上就能用,也可将最新热点新闻与身边的朋友分享!新闻报道语言通俗鲜活,内容反映最新生活动态和世界热点,还有时髦的新词和新含义。我们只需每天花5分钟来听听英语新闻,一定会成为英语听力达人!为帮助广大英语学习者,尤其是为了大学英语四六级、雅思、托福的考生提高英语听力水平,本书精心挑选BBC热点新闻,包括“教育热点”“经济聚焦”“科技前沿”“能源与环境”“农业看点”“体育娱乐”“卫生与健康”7部分,每条新闻设置“新闻导读”“新闻正文”“参考译文
4、”“听力理解”“新闻热词”“精彩解析”6个版块,真正实现将每一条新闻理解透彻,有效提升听力理解能力。编者2018年6月I目 录ContentsChapter 1 教育热点.0011.我的孩子不上学:彻底的非学校教育法 No School for My Kids:Radical Unschooling Methods.0022.让儿童爱上古典音乐 Getting Children Interested in Classical Music .0083.通过“新一代英国”项目在中国学习和工作 Study and Work in China with Generation UK.0134.在线学习如
5、何改变高等教育?How Is Online Learning Changing Higher Education?.0195.最新联合国报告显示小学教育不容乐观 A New UN Report Said Primary Education Isnt Optimistic.024Chapter 2 经济聚焦.0296.80%的英国公司男性比女性工资高 80 Percent of Companies Pay Men More Than Women.0307.按逗留时间付款的咖啡店开业 Pay-Per-Minute Caf Opens.0358.汇丰银行大幅削减运营成本 HSBC Will Shar
6、ply Cut Operating Costs.040II9.伦敦住房危机 The London Housing Crisis.04410.什么是欧盟海关联盟?What Is the EU Customs Union?.04911.希腊债务协议可能很快达成 A Deal About Greek Debt May Be Close at Hand.054Chapter 3 科技前沿.05912.荷兰团队是如何用3D打印造出全尺寸房子的?How Is Dutch Team 3D-printing a Full-sized House?.06013.吉隆坡旨在为城市注入新的活力 Kuala Lump
7、ur Seeks to Inject New Life into Urban Areas.06514.计算机更擅长推测我们的性格 Computers Can Be Better at Predicting Our Personality.07015.世界移动通信大会聚焦未来人工智能设备 Mobile World Congress Focuses On the Future of Smart Devices in AI.07516.嗅觉灵敏的智能手机 Smell-sensing Smartphone.08017.英国科学家用石墨烯过滤器过滤脏水 UK Scientists Use Graphen
8、e Filter to Make Dirty Water Drinkable.08518.用数学方法制作完美咖啡 Use Mathematical Methods to Make Perfect Coffee .090Chapter 4 能源与环境.09519.一种破坏性步行鱼的蔓延 The Spread of a Destructive Walking Fish.096III20.中国寻求“刹住”共享单车的方法 Chinese Seek to Put Brakes on Bike-sharing.100Chapter 5 农业看点.10521.红杉树因偷猎者砍伐受到威胁 Redwood Un
9、der Threat From Poachers.10622.尼日利亚无土生菜工厂 Nigerias Soil-free Salad Factory.11023.瑞士牛铃铛有害牛的健康 Swiss Cow Bells Are Harmful to the Cows Health .11424.沙漠种菜不是梦:荷兰科学家发明沙漠种植术 Dutch Scientists Close to“Breakthrough”Method of Growing Crops in Deserts.11925.山羊竟然吃自行车轮胎 Goats Can Eat Bicycle Tires.12526.英国农业生物技
10、术的机遇 Opportunities for Agricultural Biotechnology in the UK.13027.英国珍稀蝙蝠濒临灭绝 Rare Bat on Brink of UK Extinction.135Chapter 6 体育娱乐.14128.Instagram上的网红吐舌猫 Meet the Tongue-Out Instagram Cat.14229.拉斯维加斯百万美元象棋大赛 Million-Dollar Chess Tournament in Las Vegas.146IV30.伦敦旅馆发现已逝雷鬼教父磁带 Some Recordings of Reggae
11、s Deceased Superstar Found in a London Hotel.15031.拥有450辆车的收藏家 A Collector with 450 Cars.15532.一生都在赢 A Lifetime of Winning Competitions.15933.英国电影学院奖颁布地心引力成最大赢家 Gravity Was the Greatest Winner in the British Academy Film Awards.16434.作曲家门德尔松“失踪”作品重现 “Lost”Mendelssohn Song Re-discovered.169Chapter 7
12、卫生与健康.17535.变老的好处 The Advantages of Getting Old.17636.发展中国家禁烟成大难题 Smoking Ban in Developing Countries Becomes a Problem.18037.激光帮助医生锁定脑肿瘤边缘 A New Laser Helps Doctors Find the Outside Edge of Brain Tumors.18438.可他敏可治疗抑郁症 Ketamine Has Anti-depressant Effect.18939.首个埃博拉孕妇治疗中心成立 The First Ebola Treatmen
13、t Center for Pregnant Women Has Been Set Up.19440.新仿生手使得截肢者拥有触觉 New Bionic Hand Allows Amputee to Feel.19941.新血液检测技术:CancerSEEK Cancer SEEK to Detect the Disease with a New Blood Test.204教育热点1Chapter002教育热点Chapter 1我的孩子不上学:彻底的非学校教育法No School for My Kids:Radical Un-schooling MethodsNews Background新闻导
14、读传统的教学方式就是孩子们每天上学学习学校开设的固定课程,在老师的指导监督下获取知识,获得生活所必需的技能。玛丽安娜一家采用打破常规的教学方式,孩子们不去学校接受常规的教育,而是按照自己的意愿和兴趣,通过所见所闻学习解决问题的方法和生活技能。尽管这个方式在玛丽安娜孩子们的身上教育效果显著,但目前却很难被其他人接受,希望将来的某一天,每个孩子都可以实现“今天可以不去上学”的愿望。News Transcript新闻正文“I think unschooling gives my kids and other kids more freedom of choice to learn,it allows
15、 you to look at learning in a whole new way.”For most children across the country,school is a big part of life.But not for Rio and Bryden.The siblings from Gorebridge,Scotland dont learn math,English or science in the traditional sense.Instead,mum Maryanne Jacobs is part of a new wave of parents cal
16、led radical unschoolers,who say their children learn naturally.BBCBBC003我的孩子不上学:彻底的非学校教育法No School for My Kids:Radical Unschooling Methods“Learn from everything they touch,everything they listen to,everything they do in daily life.Its hard to explain how natural learning works but I trust that it works because I can see that it works.”The unconventional lifestyle is legal,the children dont have to follow a national curriculum,and their progress doesnt have to be monitored.Maryanne says the famil