2013年12月四级听力模拟试题十一_大学英语听力

2013年12月四级听力模拟试题十一

　　The U. N. health chief urged North Koreas foreign and health ministers to spend more money on health care, but acknowledged the international community will have to step in with millions of dollars to make a difference. These are not overdone appeals and it is in no way more than needed, so that is a challenge, she said.

　　During her trip to North Korea, Dr. Brundtland opened the U. N. World Health Organizations first permanent office in Pyongyang.

　　Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.

　　26. What kind of disease has reappeared in North Korea?

　　27. Which has not been mentioned in this passage as having a bad effect on North Koreas health care system?

　　28. Which of the following statements is not true according to the passage?

　　Passage Two

　　In sports, the sexes are separate, because women are weaker than men. That is what people say. Women are called the weaker sex, or, if men want to please them, the fair sex. But boys and girls are taught together at schools and universities. There are women who are famous Prime Ministers, scientists and writers. And women live longer than men. A European woman can expect to live until the age of seventy-four, and a man, only until he is sixty-eight. Are womens bodies really weaker? .

　　The fastest men can run a mile in under four minutes. The best women need four and a half minutes. Womens times are always slower than mens, but some facts are a surprise. Some of the fastest women swimmers today are teenage girls. This does not mean that women are catching up with men. Conditions are very different now, and sports have become much more serious. It is so serious that some women athletes are given hormone injections. At the Olympics, a doctor has to check whether the women athletes are really women or not. It seems sad that sports have such problems. Life can be very complicated when there are two separate sexes! .