CET6基本功拓展训练.docx

听力基本功拓展训练第一节 单词听写能力训练Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 passages. For each passage there are 20 words missing, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Listen carefully: the passage is read twice.Exercise 1The WTO was created in 1995 after the (1) ______________round of world trade talks. The rounds began in 1947, each one on different areas of trade. The WTO tried to launch a ninth round in Seattle in 1999. But trade (2) ______________ argued and free trade (3) ______________ rioted. The WTO launched the ninth round in Doha, Qatar, in November of 2001. The new round was named the Doha Development Agenda. This was meant to show developing countries that the goals included reducing (4) ______________. Two other ministerial (5) ______________ took place: in Cancun, Mexico, in 2003 and Hong Kong in 2005. There was little progress toward (6) ______________ on major issues.WTO Director General Pascal Lamy of France (7) ______________the negotiations last July. But talks (8) ______________ strong (9) ______________ in January. Mister Lamy said he planned to send a this week to leaders of the Group of Eight and other nations at meetings in Germany. He said their active support is needed for a successful and (10) ______________ outcome. Last month he said the negotiations were (11) ______________ but not very fast.Twenty-one issues are listed under the Doha Development agenda. At the heart, though, is agriculture. Developing nations want industrial countries to end farm supports that (12) ______________ say drive down prices on world markets. The United States has (13) ______________ for as much as an eighty-five percent (14) ______________ and .an 15) ______________ list of banned subsidies. European countries have (16) ______________ deep cuts. Last week, the new French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, said France would 17) ______________any agreement that did not meet its (18) ______________EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelso