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Section C: In this section, you will hear five short news items.
第三节：在本节中，你将听到五段短新闻。
After each item, which will be read only once, there will be a twenty-second pause.
每段新闻只读一遍。每段新闻后有20秒钟的停顿。
During the pause, read the question and the four choices marked A, B, C and D, and decide which is the best answer.
在停顿期间，阅读问题和A、B、C、D四个选项，并选出最佳答案。
Then mark the corresponding letter on the answer sheet with a single line through the centre.
然后在答题纸上用一条线标出相应的字母，线划在字母的中间。
16.NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has made the first visit to Pluto, speeding past at 14 km per second.
16.美国国家航空航天局的新地平线号探测器以每秒14公里的速度首次访问冥王星。
Earlier, the space agency released the most detailed picture yet as it hurtled towards the dwarf planet on Tuesday.
早些时候，该航天局发布了迄今为止最详细的照片，周二它正冲向这颗矮行星。
The probe was sent to grab more pictures and other science data on the planet, as it passed 12, 500 km from the surface.
发射该探测器的目的是获取更多关于这颗行星的照片和其他科学数据，当时它经过了距离其表面12500公里的地方。
17.The Swiss city of Geneva is planning activities to regain the title of “peace capital of the World”.
17.瑞士日内瓦正在筹划重新获得“世界和平之都”称号的活动。
Geneva is home to the United Nations European headquarters.
日内瓦是联合国欧洲总部所在地。
Many peace negotiations have taken place in the city.
这座城市举办了多次和平谈判。
The United States and the Soviet Union met there to talk about controlling nuclear weapons.
美国和苏联在那里开会讨论控制核武器的问题。
Other talks included ways to end wars in Afghanistan and Lebanon.
其他谈判包括结束阿富汗和黎巴嫩战争的方法。
Talks to end those wars took place in Geneva throughout the 1990s.
在整个20世纪90年代，结束这些战争的谈判都在日内瓦举行。
They were led by the United Nations.
它们是由联合国领导的。
18.The American dictionary Merriam-Webster’s 2015 Word of the Year is not even a word.
18.美国词典《韦氏词典》评选的2015年度词汇甚至不是一个单词。
It is a three-letter suffix:-ism.
它是一个由三个字母组成的后缀：-ism。
-ism is a noun suffix.
-ism是名词后缀。
Merriam-Webster.com defines it as the act, practice, or process of doing something.
Merriam-Webster.com将其定义为做某事的行为、做法或过程。
Major -ism words in 2015 centered on politics, beliefs, and discrimination.
2015年以-ism结尾的主要词汇集中在政治、信仰和歧视上。
Merriam-Webster chooses its Word of the Year based on how many people look up each word in its online dictionary.
《韦氏词典》根据在其在线词典中查询每个单词的人数来评选年度词汇。
It found that seven of the highest-ranking words this year ended in -ism.
它发现，今年排名最高的词汇中有7个以-ism结尾。
19.Most recently, representatives from nearly 200 nations gathered in Paris to fight climate change.
19.最近，来自近200个国家的代表齐聚巴黎共同应对气候变化。
Almost every country agreed to limit the rise in global temperatures.
几乎所有国家都同意限制全球气温上升。
They agreed that the world should not get any warmer than 2 degrees Celsius above what it was in the mid-1700s.
他们一致认为，世界气温不应比18世纪中期的气温高出2摄氏度。
This will require nations to reduce their greenhouse gases, like carbon dioxide.
这将要求各国减少二氧化碳等温室气体的排放。
Those gases are released from the burning of fossil fuels, like oil and gasoline, and they are blamed for raising the temperature of the planet.
这些气体是石油和汽油等化石燃料燃烧时释放出来的，它们是导致地球温度上升的罪魁祸首。
20.The British government reports that the country’s richest people are increasing their wealth three times as fast as the poorest.
20.英国政府报告称，该国最富有人群的财富增长速度是最贫穷人群的三倍。
The report is adding to worries about inequality in Britain.
这份报告加剧了人们对英国不平等的担忧。
The Office of National Statistics says the wealth of the richest 10 percent of British households increased by 21 percent between 2012 and 2014.
英国国家统计局表示，2012至2014年间，英国最富有的10%家庭的财富增长了21%。
It says much of the increase came from a rise in private retirement payments, called pensions.
它称，财富增长的很大一部分来自私人退休金（即养老金）的增加。
The wealth of the lowest half of all households increased by just seven percent during the same time.
同期，收入最低的一半家庭的财富仅增加了7%。
