初二英语听力练习

初二英语听力：古巴环保行动

It's an island known for its rich cultural history and environmental treasures but human activities such as tourism and deforestation threaten some of Cuba’s key habitats, which is why the World Wildlife Funds Julia Langer collaborates with local partners to protect the island’s moist forests, wetlands and coral reefs.

“The most satisfying thing about my work in Cuba this year really has been on the marine part of the program, the Caribbean turtle population is in serious decline and that’s why all these species are listed on the endangered species list.”

The biggest threat to marine conservation is the high volume of tourist, over a million people visit each year and that number is expected to swell. Such massive tourism growth could have serious impacts on the marine ecosystem, including endangered marine turtles who compete for nesting space on the popular tourist beaches. Once abundant in Caribbean waters, marine turtles have been hunted to the brink of extinction for their meat, eggs and beautiful shells.

“I was actually quite surprised to find tortoise shell products right out on the open, but you can't allow any of it to happen, because if people buy it, then there’s the demand.”

For many years, Cuba retained a legal fishery of five hundred hawksbill turtles a year, but thanks to a joint effort by WWF and the Cuban Ministry of Fisheries, the nation has banned the harvesting of all marine turtle species.

And while WWF Canada's conservation expertise is making an impact in Cuba, Canada can learn a great deal in turn. Cuba is currently the only country in the world to meet WWF’scriteria for sustainable development, minimizing its ecological footprint while preserving a healthy standard of living. Organic farming plays a significant role in Cuba's success.

“I was just walk up into the Escambray Mountains in Cuba, this is the perfect area for growing coffee and these bushes grow quite well, especially up on the mountain sides, a lot of coffee these days are just plantation, where the forests are completely cut down.”

Organic farming practices help preserve the environment, but it's still necessary to set aside protected areas. Therefore national parks and preserves cover nearly a third of the island, of these , Ciénaga de Zapata is the largest park and covers over two thousand square miles of coasts, swamps and mangroves

初二英语听力：扳倒默克尔

Germany’s parliamentary election

德国国会选举

Charging at Merkel

冲!扳倒默克尔!

The Social Democrats pick their candidate to challenge Angela Merkel

社民党候选人VS安吉拉·默克尔

Peer Steinbruck is a rare German politician in that his sense of irony, delivered in the staccato Hanseatic dialect of his native Hamburg, is sharp, even hilarious. His favourite animal is the rhinoceros, and rhetorically he charges ahead in much the same way. His main hobby is chess, at which he seems to excel. In sheer intellect, he can match Angela Merkel, Germany’s chancellor, whom Mr Steinbruck will challenge in next year’s parliamentary election. “It won’t be a boring campaign,” Mr Steinbruck promised wryly on October 1st, after the leaders of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) nominated him.

佩尔·施泰因布吕克是为数不多的能让自己的讽刺既听起来尖酸又令人发笑的德国政治家，他带着家乡汉堡间断的汉撒方言。他最喜欢犀牛，从修辞的角度看，他向前冲的方式也与犀牛非常相似。国际象棋是他的业余爱好，在这方面他似乎造诣深厚。就纯粹才智而言，他能媲美现任总理默克尔，明年他俩将角逐国会选举。10月1日在被社民党(SPD)领导人提名为候选人后，施泰因布吕克带点自嘲地地保证“不会让选战太无聊”。

初二英语听力：面包-Bread

面包 Bread

Todd: Marika, do you like bread?

Marika: Yes, I do.

Todd: OK. What kind of bread do you eat?

Marika: I try to eat whole grain bread or bagels or something that's dark.

Todd: OK. What do you like to put on bread?

Marika: My favorite thing to put on bread is tomatoes and I also like honey.

Todd: OK. But not together?

Marika: Not together, no.

Todd: Do you like mustard?

Marika: No, I don't like mustard.

Todd: Oh, I love mustard. I eat mustard and bread just plain.

Marika: No, no. I know people that eat mustard sandwiches, and no!

Todd: OK. Can you make bread?

Marika: Yes, I can. Actually, I'm a baker.

Todd: Really.

Marika: Yeah!

Todd: Wow!

Marika: I'm a pastry chef.

Todd: That's incredible.

Marika: Although, bread is kind of a different branch. I do cakes and stuff like that. I can make bread. My grandmother makes bread all the time.