2016漳州理工职业学院高职招考英语模拟试题(附答案)
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February 24, 1942
Those words were from the Voice of America's first broadcast during World War Ⅱ.
Today more than 80 million listeners tune in every day. The broadcast network is the largest in the world and reaches millions of listeners in Africa in English, French, Hausa , Portuguese, and Swahili. The program is broadcast in Spanish and Portuguese for Central and South America. The Middle East receives its news in Arabic and Parsi .
South Asia picks up signals in Bengali, Hindi, and Urdu. The Russian-language service is on 14 hours a day.
All of the broadcasts come from the Voice of America headquarters(总部) in
Washington D. C. Visitors can push a red button outside any of the twenty-five glass-walled studios and listen to the broadcast, in Hindi, that Indian citizens are listening to at that very moment in India.
In addition to news broadcasts , the Voice of America sents out interviews and a wide variety of programs. For example, special broadcasts in easy English are written for students of English as a foreign language. Among the most popular features (特色) of the Voice of
America are the musical programs which offer every kind of music from Bach to Rock.
The Voice of America is the offcial voice of the United States government, but it presents opposing opinions as well. To give an objective analysis (客观分析) of the news, the
station gets advice from newspapers, news services, reporters, and correspondents (通讯员) from all over the world.
63．According to the text , the Voice of America broadcast
______during World War Ⅱ.
A．only good news B．only bad news C．the real news D．uncertain news
64．It can be inferred that South Asian people speak ______. A．Arabic and Chinese