英語六級聽力是一項日積月累的`練習，兩三天不聽耳朵就會對英語很生疏。以下是yjbys網小編整理的關於英語六級常速VOA聽力訓練，供大家備考。
2016下半年英語六級常速VOA聽力訓練一：
LONDON—
Human rights group Amnesty International has strongly criticized the reinstatement of a Nigerian army commander, who it says is implicated in war crimes during the country’s battle with Islamist Boko Haram militants. The Nigerian government has denied the accusations.
In one of the most disturbing allegations, Amnesty International says the Nigerian military executed more than 640 prisoners who briefly escaped during an attack by Boko Haram on a detention center in Giwa in March 2014.
Daniel Eyre from Amnesty says the man in command of operations that day was Major General Ahmadu Mohammed.
“He was also in charge of that military detention facility,” said Eyer. "And suspects on that facility died on an almost daily basis as a result of horrific conditions. They were tortured, starved, and even died of disease in that facility.”
Major General Ahmadu Mohammed was retired in 2014 for unrelated reasons, but Amnesty says he was reinstated last month.
In a report published last June, the group alleged that more than 7,000 detainees were starved, suffocated, and tortured to death in detention camps, and a further 1,200 were unlawfully killed.
A spokesperson for the Nigerian Ministry of Defense said Amnesty’s claims remain allegations unless they are proven beyond any reasonable doubt. Amnesty’s Daniel Eyre says the evidence is clear.
“Our report was based on interviews with more than 400 witnesses, including military sources,” said Eyer. "We also used video evidence of war crimes, including the execution of unarmed men by Nigerian soldiers.”
When the report was published in June, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari wrote on Twitter the allegations would be investigated.
“We are still waiting for those investigations, they have not begun yet; but, it is unthinkable that someone who was named in our report could be put in control of troops again, without those investigations having taken place,” said Eyer.
In recent days more than 150 people have been reported killed in Boko Haram attacks in Nigeria’s northeast. At least 65 people died when militants attacked civilians and set fire to houses in Maiduguri.
聽力技能補充：
標誌詞常出現的位置
1.在每個層次的啟承處
判斷層次的啟承主要有兩種方法一種是聽序數項標誌詞如：on the other hand / another / second等等;第二種是聽“氣”即語速，語音，語調有所變化的地方。
2.段落開頭、結尾處，前三後二
2016下半年英語六級常速VOA聽力訓練二：
NAIROBI, KENYA—
A 2011 World Bank survey found that only about one-tenth of Kenya's population earned enough to support a mortgage. However, that situation may be changing, with more affordable apartment units on the outskirts of Nairobi selling out even before the start of construction.
Anthony Wamburu, a 35-year-old technology enthusiast, is in the market for his first property.
Wamburu has been saving for a while now, and has his eye on an apartment — valued at $50,000 — in Kenya's capital, Nairobi. The units are dubbed "starter homes" by Suraya properties, the firm behind the venture.
"They are not very expensive for somebody like me who is looking to start a family quite soon,” he said. “And also I like the way it comes with different benefits. It comes with a gym. It also comes with a swimming pool, so I would not have to get gym membership somewhere else. So a starter home would be quite perfect for me."
Begun four years ago, Suraya Properties has built starter homes in the Kenyan capital and its outskirts with a view toward tapping into the low- and middle-income market. Most of their units range between $10,000 and $80,000.
Unexpected buyers
The company was started to supply affordable homes to first-time home buyers, said CEO Peter Muraya, but a market was uncovered that he had not anticipated.
"Surprisingly, we have found that there's a lot of people heading to retirement who have looked at it differently and they are thinking, 'We [were] going to maybe the countryside retirement home' but they want a place in town where they can be coming and where it's their own," Muraya said.
The new apartment complexes in Thika and Syokimau are still under construction, but already are sold out.
Still, homeownership remains beyond the reach of most Kenyans. The Mortgage Company, a Kenyan real estate firm, estimates that only a fifth of Kenyans can afford a home priced at $10,000.
Part of the problem is the high interest rates charged by Kenyan banks.
"You're talking about borrowing at [rates of] eighteen, nineteen, twenty and even in some cases higher than that,” said economic analyst Aly Khan Satchu. “It's very expensive to borrow money from the bank and until we see significantly lower rates, I think we'll continue to see poor mortgage penetration because it's just too expensive."
Another real estate company, Hass Consult, says only 30,000 Kenyans hold mortgages, a tiny fraction of the country's 42 million people.
聽力技能補充：
複合式聽寫答題順序及技巧
聽之前：pre – listening
1.對全文進行全域性性預覽：尤其是第一句(topic)最後一句(conclusion)
2.觀察空格前後的特殊現象，判斷詞性，單複數，時態語態
聽之時：while - listening
原則：精聽，速記，以聽為主，以記為輔。
