CET-4 Listening News Reports: Free Bikes for Students and Libraries as Cool Rooms

News Report Two.

A university in the Netherlands is lending a free bicycle to every first-year student.

Students can keep the bikes for the whole academic year.

They only pay a small deposit, which they get back at the end.

The university says the scheme has two main goals.

First, it wants to cut traffic and pollution around the campus.

Second, it hopes cycling will help students stay fit and make new friends.

And there's a surprise: two of the campus car parks will become gardens!

So far, more than three thousand students have signed up.

Questions three and four are based on the news report you have just heard.

Question three. What do students have to do to get a bike?

Question four. What will happen to two of the campus car parks?

News Report Three.

Temperatures in the south of Spain passed forty-four degrees this week.

In Seville, the city has turned to an unusual place for help: its libraries.

Twelve libraries now stay open until ten at night as cool rooms.

Anyone can come in, sit down and get a free glass of water.

Staff have also added board games and films for children.

Doctors say older people and babies are most at risk in extreme heat.

They advise people to stay indoors between noon and five in the afternoon.

On the first day alone, more than four thousand people visited the cool rooms!

The city plans to keep the scheme going until the end of August.

Questions five to seven are based on the news report you have just heard.

Question five. Why have libraries in Seville changed their opening hours?

Question six. What can visitors get in the cool rooms?

Question seven. What do doctors advise people to do?