2011/4/1 You and Yours Listening Notes

C1: VAT loophole 海峽群島的增值稅漏洞

The Chancellor has signalled a crackdown on (取締) the sale of cheap CDs and DVDs from the Channel Islands.
(1) LVCR
(2) The loopholes are exploited.
(3) political gesture
http://www.vatloophole.co.uk/lvcr-covered-bbc-channel-islands-tv/569/


C2: The South Downs南唐斯丘陵從4月開始正式成為英格蘭國家公園

Having taken sixty years to become a National Park, we hear from the woman who has campaigned for the South Downs to receive National Park status for the last decade.
(1) iconic landscape
(2) serial compainer or one-issue

C3: High Speed Rail 新的聲音科技使預定高鐵沿線的居民能聽到一小時內28台火車經過的聲音

New sound technology enables people living near the proposed route of the high speed rail line will be able to hear what the twenty eight trains an hour would sound like.
(1) collect signatures on the petition 收集請願書簽名
(2) industrial, commercial and residential properties 工業區商業區及住宅區的建物

C4: Valuable Consumer Data 信用卡公司如何利用消費者購物的歷史來清楚知道消費者需求

How card companies use customer purchase histories to build up a picture of consumer needs and wants.
(1) aggregate and anomalize
(2) Is a service or invasion?


C5: Misleading Websites: OFT 取締不實特價的網站Webuyanycar.com
The Office of Fair Trading has clamped down on misleading web offers from the website Webuyanycar.com
(1) enforcement action 執法
(2) instant hit
(3) reappraisal 重新評價

C6: DAB follow-up 數位廣播DAB 後續報導 (Digital Audio Broadcasting)

David Blunkett MP speaks up for listeners frustrated by the limitations of DAB radio.
(1) 90 percent of coverage 百分之九十覆蓋率
(2) The burble, the breakaway and the lack of good sound
(3) a big overclaim of DAB

C7: Beach Cash:

Headlines about a poor seaside council spending money on trips to the beach for local children are not what they seem.
(1) splash out on sth 花大錢...
(2) economically disadvantaged 經濟弱勢者
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00zt4h1