12月英语四级考试慢速听力练习2.docxVIP

Word文档下载后（可任意编辑） 第 第 PAGE 1 页 共 NUMPAGES 1 页 12月英语四级考试慢速听力练习2 英语四级考试今日分享英语四级听力之慢速英语，大家都知道，BBC新闻也可以作为同学们练习听力的素材，因为往年真题有的也是从BBC新闻里找的素材改编的，所以大家可以培养听新闻的习惯，慢慢提升自己，下面就开始今天的练习吧，希望大家有所收获。 太阳能路灯提高了印度村庄人民的生活质量  A government program in India helps provide solar-powered street lights to rural communities.  印度一项政府项目帮助为农村社区提供太阳能路灯。  Solar lighting is bringing changes to many areas, including the village of Balla, near the Himalayas in the northern state of Himachal Pradesh.  太阳能照明正在改变很多地区，其中就包括印度北部喜马偕尔邦邻近喜马拉雅山脉的巴拉村。  In the past, many villagers never left homes after the sun went down. The reason: the streets usually went completely dark at night.  过去，很多村民在太阳落山后就从未出过家门。原因是街上到了晚上通常就一片漆黑。  We used to be scared. This is a lonely area and wild animals used to come, villager Umesh Chandra Awasthi told VOA.  当地村民优曼许·钱德拉·阿瓦斯蒂对美国之音表示：“我们过去很害怕，这里地处荒凉，经常有野兽出没。”  But life changed a lot in this rural community after solar-powered lamps were set up on Ballas streets. Now we have a free pass to go outdoors after dark. Animals, even pigs that wandered into our gardens, dont trouble us any longer, Awasthi said.  但是在巴拉村街道装好太阳能路灯之后，这个农村社区的生活就发生了很大变化。阿瓦斯蒂说：“现在我们晚上出门有了保障。动物、甚至是闯入过我们花园的猪再也不会困扰我们了。”  The addition of the lamps is part of a government program to expand solar energy in rural areas. Most people living in rural and mountainous areas have limited access to the main electrical system.  这些新增路灯是政府扩大农村地区使用太阳能项目的一部分。生活在农村和山区的很多群众鲜有机会接入主要电力系统。  The program was launched three years ago with the goal of adding tens of thousands of solar-powered street lights. Today the lamps are found in hundreds of villages in the northern Himalayas, as well as poor, underdeveloped states like Bihar and Jharkhand in Indias east.  该项目于3年前启动，目标是增加数万盏太阳能路灯。今天，喜马拉雅山脉北部以及印度东部贫困欠发达的比哈尔邦和贾坎德邦的数百个村庄都装上了这种路灯。  Nationwide about 240 million people lack access to dependable power supplies because of oper