数字类新闻题：在新东方口译课堂上，我们反复强调此类题目最易考察首句导语中的数字，但由于导语含义不同，数字在不同语境下所出现的形式也就不同。主要分为三大类。
1）分数 此类题需要对基本分数的口语表达非常熟悉。如1/3 one third, 3/4 three out of four 或 3 quarters , 1/2 one half。
WASHINGTON -- A new national poll indicates that nearly three out of four Americans are scared about the way things are going in the country today.
Seventy-three percent of those questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Monday say they're very or somewhat scared about the way things are going in the United States. That's six points higher than in an October poll.
Nearly eight in 10 say things are going badly in the country, with just 21 percent suggesting that things are going well. The survey also says that three out of four Americans are angry about the way things are going in the country. But three out of four questioned say that things are going well for them personally.
National poll ：全国民意调查
survey : 调查
2）死亡人数 （考试从未考过受伤多伤人，死亡人数才是真正有效答案数字，最稳妥的方法是选出数字后，旁边记录关键词，因为有时会考如：“飞机坠毁，机上死了多少人，地面死了多少人，最后问一共死了多少人” ）
The African union responded angrily and defiantly to the killing of at least 11 Burundian soldiers in an apparent suicide bomb attack Sunday in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu.
The 11 soldiers were on a peacekeeping mission for the African Union. The attack also seriously injured 15 people.
A spokesman for al-Shabab, a radical Islamist militia with ties to al Qaeda, claimed responsibility for the attack, saying at a news conference that it had been carried out by two "martyrs."
The attackers "have no care for Somalia, and their sole aim is to destroy and bring about more violence to the country," El-Ghassim Wane, an African union spokesman, said from the organization's headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
suicide bomb attack ：自杀式炸弹袭击
radical Islamist: 伊斯兰激进派
peace-keeping mission: 维和行动
claim responsibility for: 对该事件负责
3） 指标类数字：
此类考题考察对象为：贸易顺差、股指、CPI等上升或下降多少，通常为百分数，即…percent，此类数字，通常考试为下降，但一般无需听出上升还是下降，只听出关键数字即可。但考生需要一点耐心，避免一些无效数字，例如本题中，“12 years，May 1997，S&P500”这类与指数数值无关的数字的干扰。
New York -- An major rout on Wall Street carried over into Asia Tuesday as doubts over U.S. President Obama's plans to rescue ailing banks pushed markets to crisis lows.
Share prices were down across the board in Asia, while Europe markets also opened lower after key U.S. indices tumbled to levels not seen in nearly 12 years.
The Dow Jones Industrial average lost 3.4 percent, ending at its weakest point since May 1997, while the S&P 500 hit its lowest since April of the same year.
另外，大家需了解一些基本词汇含义：
Dow Jones Industrial average : 道琼斯工业指数
NASDAQ ： 纳斯达克
S&P 500 : 标准普尔
HSI : 恒生指数Hang Seng Index
Nikkei Average : 日经指数
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