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

News Report Two.

新闻报道二。

There's exciting news from Edinburgh Zoo this week!

本周爱丁堡动物园传来了好消息！

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

园里的大熊猫生下了一对双胞胎，一雄一雌。

Each baby weighed less than two hundred grams at birth.

两只幼崽出生时的体重都不到两百克。

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

大熊猫双胞胎很罕见，饲养员说最初几周是最困难的。

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

在野外，熊猫妈妈往往只能照顾一只幼崽。

So keepers swap the twins every few hours,

所以饲养员每隔几个小时就把两只幼崽交换一次，

so that both get time with their mother.

让它们都能有时间和妈妈待在一起。

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

第3题和第4题基于你刚才听到的新闻报道。

Question three. What is the news report mainly about?

第3题。这则新闻报道主要讲的是什么？

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

第4题。饲养员为什么每隔几个小时交换一次双胞胎？

News Report Three.

新闻报道三。

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

芝加哥的一家市立图书馆不再对逾期还书收取罚款。

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

多年来，读者每逾期一天就要付二十美分。

But the library found that many families simply stopped coming.

但图书馆发现，很多家庭干脆不再来了。

They were afraid of the money they owed.

他们害怕自己欠下的钱。

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

取消罚款后的第一个月，就有一万多本书被还了回来！

One book had been missing for more than thirty years!

其中有一本书已经丢失了三十多年！

Visits by children have also gone up by fifteen percent.

儿童的到馆人次也增加了百分之十五。

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

图书馆表示，一本躺在别人书架上的书帮不了任何人。

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

第5题到第7题基于你刚才听到的新闻报道。

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

第5题。为什么很多家庭不再去图书馆了？

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

第6题。取消罚款后的第一个月发生了什么？

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

第7题。图书馆对放在别人书架上的书是怎么说的？