This exercise involves listening to a 5-minute Chinese news broadcast and answering questions about it. It is best to do this exercise in the Language Resource Center (2nd floor MLB), where you can hear the audio with headphones, and without disturbing others. (Don't try this at home! The audio file is too big to be conveniently downloaded over an ordinary phone line; but on campus, where there are EtherNet connections, it downloads in less than a minute.)
If all goes well, your browser will be properly configured so that when you click on the link below, it will open a helper application and play the audio file for you. (If all doesn't go well, click here...)
Print out this page first, so that you have the questions in front of you; then play the audio file as many times as you like. Write your answers in the blank spaces, put your name at the top, and turn the sheet(s) in on Friday.
Here is the 5-minute Chinese news broadcast from the Voice of America (2.2Mb), which aired earlier this week.
How do you say the following in Chinese? (write pinyin, with tone marks, if you don't know the characters):
| English expression |
Time interval |
Chinese expression |
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1 |
space shuttle "Discovery" |
1:00 - 1:36 |
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2 |
astronaut |
1:00 - 1:36 |
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3 |
Hubble telescope (or Hubble space telescope) |
1:00 - 1:36 |
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4 |
Hwang Jong-yop (the North Korean leader who defected to the South Korean embassy in Beijing) |
1:36 - 2:36 |
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5 |
Pakistan |
3:05 - 3:41 |
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6 |
overwhelming majority |
3:05 - 3:41 |
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7 |
Indonesia |
3:41 - 4:10 |
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8 |
Soeharto |
3:41 - 4:10 |
Answer the following questions in English, based on the information in the broadcast:
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9 |
By what vote (how many for, how many against) did Pakistan's Parliament elect its new president? |
| 10 | What three countries will President Soeharto of Indonesia be visiting? |