CET-4 Listening News Reports: Panda Twins and a Library Fine Amnesty

News Report Two.

There's exciting news from Edinburgh Zoo this week!

Its giant panda has given birth to twins, a boy and a girl.

Each baby weighed less than two hundred grams at birth.

Panda twins are rare, and keepers say the first weeks are the most difficult.

In the wild, a mother often can only look after one baby.

So keepers swap the twins every few hours,

so that both get time with their mother.

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

Question three. What is the news report mainly about?

Question four. Why do the keepers swap the twins every few hours?

News Report Three.

A city library in Chicago has stopped charging fines for late books.

For years, readers paid twenty cents for every day a book was late.

But the library found that many families simply stopped coming.

They were afraid of the money they owed.

In the first month without fines, over ten thousand books came back!

One book had been missing for more than thirty years!

Visits by children have also gone up by fifteen percent.

The library says that a book on someone's shelf helps no one.

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

Question five. Why did many families stop going to the library?

Question six. What happened in the first month without fines?

Question seven. What does the library say about books on someone's shelf?