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

News Report Two.

新聞報導二。

There's exciting news from Edinburgh Zoo this week!

本週愛丁堡動物園傳來了好消息！

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

園內的大貓熊生下一對雙胞胎，一公一母。

Each baby weighed less than two hundred grams at birth.

兩隻幼崽出生時體重都不到兩百公克。

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

貓熊雙胞胎很少見，保育員說最初幾週是最辛苦的。

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

在野外，貓熊媽媽常常只能照顧一隻幼崽。

So keepers swap the twins every few hours,

所以保育員每隔幾個小時就把兩隻幼崽交換一次，

so that both get time with their mother.

讓兩隻都有時間待在媽媽身邊。

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

第3題和第4題根據你剛才聽到的新聞報導。

Question three. What is the news report mainly about?

第3題。這則新聞報導主要在講什麼？

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

第4題。保育員為什麼每隔幾個小時交換一次雙胞胎？

News Report Three.

新聞報導三。

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

芝加哥一間市立圖書館不再對逾期還書收取罰款。

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

多年來，讀者每逾期一天就要付二十美分。

But the library found that many families simply stopped coming.

但圖書館發現，很多家庭乾脆不再來了。

They were afraid of the money they owed.

他們害怕自己欠下的錢。

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

取消罰款後的第一個月，就有一萬多本書被還了回來！

One book had been missing for more than thirty years!

其中一本書已經失蹤了三十多年！

Visits by children have also gone up by fifteen percent.

兒童到館人次也增加了百分之十五。

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

圖書館表示，一本放在別人書架上的書幫不了任何人。

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

第5題到第7題根據你剛才聽到的新聞報導。

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

第5題。為什麼很多家庭不再去圖書館？

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

第6題。取消罰款後的第一個月發生了什麼事？

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

第7題。圖書館對放在別人書架上的書怎麼說？