英语听力精选进阶版 16419

 

Business Matters: Would you allow Apple to freeze your eggs? 15 Oct 14

Thu, 16 Oct 14

Colin Peacock at Radio New Zealand and Paddy Hirsch at our US sister programme, Marketplace, join Roger Hearing to discuss whether Apple's offer to freeze female employees' eggs is a good thing, and whether plastic bags beat paper in the environmental stakes. From Gaza we're joined by Hatem Hassouna whose cement factory was destroyed during Operation Protective Edge. He now faces the task of rebuilding the family business for the third time. Guess the TV theme tune¹. We play a medley² of favourites from the US and challenge you to guess the shows before Roger gives the game away. Plus Tamasin Ford reports from Burkina Faso where an entrepreneurial artisan has developed a method of making furniture from recycled plastic containers

1 tune   

n.调子；和谐，协调；v.调音，调节，调整

参考例句：

• He'd written a tune,and played it to us on the piano.他写了一段曲子，并在钢琴上弹给我们听。
• The boy beat out a tune on a tin can.那男孩在易拉罐上敲出一首曲子。

2 medley   

n.混合

参考例句：

• Today's sports meeting doesn't seem to include medley relay swimming.现在的运动会好象还没有混合接力泳这个比赛项目。
• China won the Men's 200 metres Individual Medley.中国赢得了男子200米个人混合泳比赛。