VOA常速讲解2011-09-21
2011-9-22听力材料
E011.About 6 hundred years ago, golf was invited in Scotland. So naturally Scotland has more golfcourses per head than anyone else in the world.2.Overeating has become a serious social problem in the United States with over 3 hundredthousand Americans eating themselves to death every year.3.If you come to study in the UK, you will be asked to common on teaching performance at the endof each course.4.In order to treat water pollution, 1.07 billion Kilometer of water has been diverted from(从…转移到…) Yangtze River to Taihu.5.Economic gross is closely related to the development of information industry, the greater theinternet exercise, the faster economic gross.6.Oil chins share and BP are expected to announce that a profits down by 70% for the thirdquarter(第三季度) of this year.7.City bank became the first international bank to offer financial services to Chinese customers,after china it had assission to the world trade organization.8.Bilateral trade(双边贸易) between china and Russia has enjoyed fast development in recent year,and it expects to reached 11 billion US dollars this year.9.Chinese reformed economic exercise over the past 2 decades has rest living standard of hundredmillions of Chinese citizens.10.Sino-EU relationship is one of the best forms of relationship of china; especially compared withSino-US and Sino-Japanese relations in the late 1990s.11.Founded in 1956, the Europe vision sum context aim at proving the nations Europe together insome and promoting peace and harmony.12.In recent years，lottery(彩票)['lɔtəri] has become popular way for local and center governmentsto save many for charities(慈善机构) ['tʃærətis] and other social projects.13.Many body language schools have much experience of making special school arrangements forinternational students, in showing that they can prove their English if necessary.14.If the ecological [,i:kə'lɔdʒikəl, ,ekə-] environment(生态环境) in the western part of country isnot to improve. It’s impossible to escape the thrums of sun storms.15.It is expected that the artificial elbows using selves and taking frog, we possibly enable blindpeople to reweek vision in the future.16.The new HP declared last week, the Chinese market would continue to be one of the mostimportant in his globe development.17.As the analysts(分析家) say that America trade deficit「‘defisit」(贸易赤字) is waking the UScurrency and dollar depreciation[di,pri:ʃi'eiʃən]（贬值）, probably we will be welcome to the near future.18.China is now the central trade partner for Asia countries, while the US is becoming someone lessimportant in the face of(面对) china’s rise[raiz, rais].19.City banks coming to china was significant step to open China’s financial sector(财政部门) to theoutside world, and this system too more reputation.20.The bush administration has hardened understood toward China on the Taiwan issue, and makesno effort to height its intention to interfere.21.The country enjoys a land perfect for trying every kind of outdoor sports imaginable, but one ofhis best boating assets['æset]资产is his ways.22.According to statistics issued, out of 3000 undergraduates 200 have already tour up the jobcontracts sign with their employer this year.（sign a contract签合同）23.A good lecturer emphasizes that the prospect of thinking and working together in learning, it’s avaluable life skill for every student.24.Driven by the new laws on the air pollution, the words leading out makers are completing innerraise to create a comfortable equal friendly cars.25.On May 14th, Nokia announced the first Multimedia Messaging Service(彩信) Network in China,which was also the first GPRS based MMS in Asia.26.The operating in come up Disney ['dizni] draft by 66% to 22 million US dollars because of poorbox of performance compared last year strong quarter.27.It is predicted that the ship of stock market likely to be a big bed bare punctuated by a littlerebounding bowl.28.Both side grads to diversify pattern of trade in order to realize the full potential bilateral trade(双边贸易) and economic relations.29.The land reform can get a route course of poverty（贫困）in the city, but it seems that someofficials(官员) have no interesting in true reform.30.In September 11th, there are sharp contrast between the impressing US tendency（趋势）ofunilateralism [,ju:ni'lætərəlizəm]（单方面的）and the multilateral(多方的) cooperation as advocated ['ædvəkeit, 'ædvəkət]（倡导）by Europe, Russia and china.E021.Men and women found happiness in different ways. Sunny weather being with family, losingweight and romanc e are more often influence some women’s happiness, while hobbies, victories by their favorite sports team and exercise are most important to man.2.Image that it was email, and not telephone, that was invented in 1876. And it was telephone, andnot email, th at was developed a century later. Wouldn’t we all praise telephone as the hottest new communication medium of our time?3. A common problem in English education at the kindergarten and primary school, is that Englishtextbook makes children feel that they are being faults to learn English, at the same time their teachers and parents get just as sport.4.If china’s automobile industry continue s to grow current trade, the country’s petrol importvolume will have existed will 100 billion times by the end of the year, which were intensify energy pressure as well as igzosted and noisy pollution.5.Digital photographs are in the phonate easy to mulnuplate and distribute, and the image can beseen on the small LCD scream at the back of most digital cameras. One of the important elements in digital photography is a picks of number.6.According to World Bank, it is distasted made it that the globally economy were recover this year,growing much 2.5% as US rebound(回弹、回升) of probably 2.6% starts to poor Europe and Asia out of sluggishness['slʌgiʃnis](迟缓；惰性；萧条).7.People in big cities have become a more importance of personal financial services, a numberfinancial institutions including banks, insurance companies and individuals, have picked up on this job. However, the results are less than ideal.n exports are rebounding on the straight service rapid economic expansion as china buysmore from his Asian neighbors. At the same time china is climbing more foriding vestment with a record of 48.6% billion US dollars this year.9.In order to expend the business on Chinese mainland market of 1.3 billion people, many overseasbanks urge [ə:dʒ]（强烈要求）central bank(中央银行) and other Chinese regulators调整者to open Chinese financial industries, at a faster pace including banking, securities[si'kjuəritis] [金融] 有价证券as a such as management and insurance.10.In the post cold period, the union polar world promoted by the US has not taking route. We arestill living in multipolar international arina where the US, EU, Asia, China and Japan continue to occupy crucial positions.11.David cop filed the American murgition who was called yearous joint of magic made his first visitto China in 1986. On wet trip he shocked millions of Chinese people when he walked throughchina’s greatest land mark, the great wall.12.With successful biding for the world X-boll 2010; the Shanghai government has declared a totalinvestment of 20 billion Yuan, 2.4 billion US dollars in infrastructure['infrə,strʌktʃə]基础设施；公共建设projects that it involve transport, Power Stations(发电站) and value building in the next few years.13.Oral communicate skills do not only rely on vocabulary. Many British teachers have found thatChinese students more touch greeting importance to vocabulary, but at the same time the comment that students’ usage of words is inner appropriate in …communication.14.The European union correctly applies its emission[i'miʃən] standard ['stændəd] (标准)排放标准usual 3. A system followed by most countries in the world. It would be replaced by the usual 4 in the next few years. The usual 1 and the usual 2 are introduced 1992 and 1996 respectively [ri'spektivli]分别地.15.The digital video cameras not only look…than traditional film cameras, but also reproduceabroad range of colors and have a higher resolution. The radio and audio information can be stored, manipulated[mə'nipjuleit](操作) and replayed just like any other computer data.16.After almost decade of planning and building, the century business district CBD in Beijing hasbecome a dynamic and modern area with over 6% of city far cooperation’s big office complexes shopping malls and luxury['lʌkʃəri, 'lʌɡʒəri] apartments(豪华公寓).17.With aim to be come the second bank on China’s main land to sell shells [ʃel] (贝壳) abroad, MinSheng banking cooperation, China’s only profits lander plants to sell shells in Hong Kong or New York in the first half of next year.18.The United States is the most significant trading partner for Central America(中美洲) with has itexports and imports go into and from the US. Central America is a bigger market for the US than for Russia, India and… as a whole.19.Policy support政策倾斜from different levels of government. It’s required in area like socialsecurity for lay off(解雇) employees. As China in box on employment reform in it 1.8 million state old institutions, without which such reform would not be success.20.Among the global challenges of the 20 of century, none with important than eliminating thedanger of the nuclear war together Russia, the United States and other countries substantially [səb'stænʃəli]充分地mineris this threat and began process of limiting nuclear arsenal['ɑ:sənəl]核军火库.21.The English … people and value customs and traditions about almost everything. It’s not seemedto matter just where traditions have come from or why they have survived. They are traditions and …is enough for them.22.C011.生活在这个城市的人们就像坐在高速，但又是十分拥挤的地铁中。
2011年英语专业八级真题完整答案及详细解析word版
TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2011)GRADE EIGHT TIME LIMIT: 195 MINPART I LISTENING COMPREHENSIONSECTION A MINI-LECTUREIn this section you will hear a mini-lecture. You will hear the lecture ONCE ONL Y. While listening, take notes on the important points. Your notes will not be marked, but you will need them to complete a gap-filling task after the mini-lecture. When the lecture is over, you will be given two minutes to check your notes, and another ten minutes to complete the gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE. Some of the gaps may require a maximum of THREE words. Make sure the word(s) you fill in is (are) both grammatically and semantically acceptable. You may refer to your notes while completing the task. Use the blank sheet for note-taking.Now, listen to the mini-lecture.Classifications of CulturesAccording to Edward Hall, different cultures result in different ideas about the world. Hall is an anthropologist. He is interested in relations between cultures.I. High-context cultureA. feature- context: more important than the message- meaning: (1)__________i.e. more attention paid to (2) ___________ than to the message itselfB. examples- personal space- preference for (3)__________- less respect for privacy / personal space- attention to (4)___________- concept of time- belief in (5)____________ interpretation of time- no concern for punctuality- no control over timeII. Low-context cultureA. feature- message: separate from context- meaning: (6)___________B. examples- personal space- desire / respect for individuality / privacy- less attention to body language- more concern for (7)___________- attitude toward time- concept of time: (8)____________- dislike of (9)_____________- time seen as commodityIII. ConclusionAwareness of different cultural assumptions- relevance in work and lifee.g. business, negotiation, etc.- (10)_____________ in successful communication参考答案：(1) context of message(2) what's happening / the context(3) closeness to people(4) body language(5) poly-chronic(6) message itself(7) the message(8) mono-chronic(9) lateness(10) great influence / significanceTIPS：(1) 根据原文中一句“A high-context culture is a culture in which the context of the message, or the action, or an event carries a large part of its meaning and significance.”可知答案。
VOA建国史话文本(中英对照)031-040
VOA建国史话文本（中英对照）目录31How a Dispute Helped Lead to Modern Party System (1)32John Adams Is Elected Nation’s Second President (7)33Adams Avoids War With France,Signs Alien and Sedition Acts (14)34Jefferson Is Elected President in1800,But Only on the36th Vote (20)35Jefferson,at Inaugural,Urges Unity of Hearts and Minds (27)36Jefferson Begins Presidency With a Loyal Cabinet (30)37Jefferson Moves to Cut Debt,Spending (36)38Jefferson Gets Louisiana Territory From France (42)39A Supreme Court Justice Is Put on Trial in1805 (49)40The Treason Trial of Aaron Burr,Former VP (56)31How a Dispute Helped Lead to Modern Party System第31集汉密尔顿的联邦党和杰斐逊的共和党Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION–American history in VOA Special English.Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton had opposing ideas about how the new nation should be governed.Their dispute helped create the system of political par-ties in the United States.This week in our series,Maurice Joyce and Blake Lanum have more in our story of these two early American leaders.在上次的建国史话中，我们讲到，在美国第一届总统乔治·华盛顿任期里，美国的两大政党逐渐形成，分别由当时的财政部长亚历山大·汉密尔顿和当时的国务卿托马斯·杰斐逊领导。
VOALearningEnglish英语学习笔记时政短文
1 FromVOA L earni ng En glish, thi s isthe A gricu lture Repo rt.这里是美国之音慢速英语农业报道。
On W orldEnvir onmen t Day in J une,the U nited Nati ons r eport ed at leas t one thir d ofall f ood p roduc ed is wast ed. T he re portcameat atimewhenmanypeopl e are conc erned abou t how to f eed a grow ing w orldpopul ation.联合国在6月的世界环境日报告声称生产出来的食物至少有三分之一被浪费。
报告出台之际正值许多人都在关注如何养活日益增长的世界人口。
In t he Un itedState s, Fa rmers whoare s trugg lingto ea rn mo ney f ind t he si tuati on di fficu lt to deal with. The Unit ed St atesDepar tment of A gricu lture foun d tha t mor e tha n hal f ofthe s mallfarms in C alifo rniado no t mak e a p rofit.在美国，竭力赚钱的农民发现这一情况很难处理。
美国农业部发现，加利福尼亚州一半以上的小型农场赚不到钱。
On e Cal iforn ia fa rm fa milyis us ing s ocial medi a inan ef fortto ch angethe s ituat ion a nd re ducewaste d foo d. Ni ck Pa padop oulos is g enera l man agerof Bl oomfi eld F armsinSo nomaCount y. It wasdiffi cultfor h im to watc h his empl oyees retu rning fromseve ral w eeken d far mer's mark ets w ith t op qu ality unso ld pr oduce.加利福尼亚州一个农场家庭正使用社交媒体，以试图改变这一状况并减少食品浪费。
BBC新闻讲解2011-05-23第701期
BBC新闻讲解附字幕:英女王对爱尔兰进行历史性访问(2011-05-23)第一部分：听力文本BBC News with Julie CandlerIn what correspondents describe as a dramatic escalation of American pressure on Syria,the US has imposed its first ever sanctions against President Bashar al-Assad.Washington says he and eight others have been targeted for violence and repression during the two-month uprising in Syria. The State Department spokesman Mark Toner said it was time to increase the pressure on President Assad."I think we're looking at what next steps,what possible additional pressure we can provide reallyto crystallise our message to the Syrian government,which is that your current behaviour is unacceptable and the violence must stop.The Syrian government has talked a lot about reform, has made a lot of promises but done very little.So again,we're trying to seek additional ways to apply pressure on them."Earlier,President Assad said the Syrian security forces had made mistakes in their handling of the protests,while the BBC received new reports of army attacks on civilians.A senior Chinese army general,Chen Bingde,has said China has no intention of attempting to match US military power.Speaking in Washington at the National Defense University,General Chen said that the United States military forces were far more advanced than their Chinese counterparts.He said there was a20-year difference between US and Chinese military capabilities, but that China's military forces had improved considerably in recent years.China has acknowledged that the controversial Three Gorges dam has created major problems. The country's policy-making body,the State Council,says it plans to deal with the difficulties. Paddy Clark reports.The problems posed by the Three Gorges dam were discussed at a meeting of the State Council, chaired by the Prime Minister Wen Jiabao.A statement issued afterwards said there was an urgent need for ecological protection,the prevention of geological disasters and the smooth relocation of displaced residents.It said problems also existed for transport,irrigation and water supplies further down the Yangtze River,which the dam straddle s.The dam,which cost nearly $40bn,led to the submerg ing of towns,fields and heritage sites,and forced more than a million and a quarter people to move.The World Bank says the Indian government's main programmes for the poor are only delivering limited benefits,with much of the money lost to corruption and bad management.India spends more than2%of its gross domestic product on poverty reduction,but the World Bank says that itsfood distribution scheme suffers so much from corruption that only about40%of its grain reaches the poor.There's been an almost sixfold rise in the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. Satellite images from the government show that between March and April last year,around100sq km of vegetation were destroyed.But this year,that figure was almost600.The worst affected state is Mato Grosso.World News from the BBCIn the first address of her historic visit to the Irish Republic,Queen Elizabeth has extended her "deep sympathy"to those who she said had suffered during the troubled past of the two countries. She spoke of the painful legacy of history,but added that Britain and Ireland were now firm friends and equal partners.From Dublin,Peter Hunt reports.At Dublin Castle,where once previous monarchs came as rulers,this monarch,wearing a dress adorned with hand-sewn embroidered shamrocks,came to reflect.She impressed her audience immediately by opening her speech in Gaelic with the words"President and friends".The Queen said she wanted to extend her"sincere thoughts and deep sympathy"to all those who had suffered as a consequence of the UK and Ireland's shared troubled past.She went on,"With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all."Libya has released four international journalists who had been detained for several weeks.Two Americans,a British man and a Spaniard disappeared while covering the conflict in Libya.The four are said to be in good health.Andrew North reports from Tripoli.They were all brought to the Tripoli hotel where the foreign media covering the conflict are staying,looking tired and somewhat bewilder ed by the scrum of journalists awaiting them. Libyan officials say the four had been freed by a judge after being given a one-year suspended prison sentence for illegally entering the country.There's been no word on the fate of a South African citizen,photographer Anton Hammerl,who's believed to have been detained in Libya in early April.Astronomers in Japan say they've found10planets the size of Jupiter which do not appear to orbit any star.Writing in the science journal Nature,the researchers say it's unclear how the planets, which are near the centre of the Milky Way galaxy,came to be without a star to orbit.One theory is that the planets may have been eject ed from infant solar systems by gravitational forces or inter-planetary collisions.BBC News提示：文本转自普特听力论坛第二部分：参考翻译通讯员表示，美国对叙利亚施加的压力迅速增加，美国对阿萨德总统实施了首次制裁。
26.6.070211_VOA News
July 2, 2011070211.01Gaza Flotilla Determined to Sail Despite SetbacksRobert Berger | JerusalemPro-Palestinian activists organizing theaid flotilla say they still intend tochallenge Israel's blockade on Gaza, aday after an American boat wasintercepted by the Greek coast guardand turned back to Athens. AmericanGreta Berlin, who was on board thevessel, blames Israel and the UnitedStates for the setback."The Greek government is under a huge amount of pressure from the Israeli government and probably our own government as well," said Berlin.Israel and the U.S. have urged the flotilla not to violate the Gazablockade, warning that the mission is dangerous and provocative. Last year ago, Israeli naval commandos intercepted a Gaza aid flotilla, and in the botched raid, nine pro-Palestinian activists were killed. The incident sparked international outrage and raised regional tensions.The United Nations and European Union have backed the Israeli and U.S. position, which calls for the flotilla to dock in Israeli or Egyptian ports and transfer their cargo to Gaza legally over land.But activists reject that, charging that the blockade is illegal andimmoral. Speaking from Athens, Greta Berlin says the mission to Gazawill go ahead. The activist run boat "Audacity of Hope" is escorted by the Greek coast guard in port ofPerama, near Athens, Greece, July 1, 2011."Our intent is to sail; it's always been our intent," Berlin added. "And we don't give up very easily. We will continue to sail until Gaza is free."Organizers hope to bring up to eight boats and two cargo ships laden with supplies to Gaza, along with about 300 people, including politicians, journalists, writers and religious figures. But two boats have been disabled, allegedly by Israeli sabotage, and now Greece says it will not allow the six ships docked in its ports to depart for Gaza. Because of the delays, dozens of activists have run out of time and returned home.Israel has warned that if the flotilla does sail to Gaza, it will be intercepted by the Navy. It says the naval blockade is necessary to prevent weapons from reaching the Palestinian militant group Hamas that rules Gaza. Israel and the West consider Hamas a terrorist organization.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel has the full right to thwart any attempt to facilitate the smuggling of missiles, rockets and other weapons to what he described as the "Hamas terrorist enclave." 070211.02Fast-Growing Internet Communities Share Human MilkZulima PalacioLindsey Ward, 23, has two children. Because she isn't able to produce enough breast milk, she fed her first child formula. But when her second baby, Joshua, arrived nine months ago, she decided to give him the best of all baby foods: human breast milk."When he is ready to eat I take one of these out and put it in cold water so I can thaw it out," said Ward. "Right now, I have milk from three different women in this freezer."For the past 9 months Ward has used breast milk from 15 women. She met them through a variety of Internet-based social networks, andonline breast-milk sharing groups such as Eats on Feets, and MilkShare."What I would do is I post on the [Facebook] 'wall' something like 'I need milk for my 9-month-old son,'" Ward explained.And within a few hours, women respond. They chat online; they agree to meet to pick up the bags of frozen milk. No money changes hands. Ward says her baby has been healthy and gained weight normally on his breast-milk diet. She says she's also made great friends, like Amanda Brewer.Amanda has four children and has breastfed them all. She became a member of Eats on Feets when she had to stop feeding her two month-old baby temporarily because the dairy milk she was drinking was passing through her own milk and triggering an allergic reaction in her baby."So we found two donor moms who didn't drink dairy either and so they donated to him for two weeks," Brewer called.After two weeks off dairy, she was able to feed her baby again. But in the meantime, because her breasts were still producing milk, she pumped and stored it for donation.Since then she has been both a donor and recipient.There are many reasons to give or receive breast milk. Heidi Briguglio, the Washington DC regional coordinator for Eats on Feets, had a personal reason for founding the chapter: "I was adopted when I was a baby, I was three days old and my parents adopted me. My mother would have done this for me," she explained.Briguglio has always breast fed her 19-month-old baby Azure and has not donated milk yet. She says the number of lactating women joining breast milk-sharing communities online is growing worldwide.As these groups proliferate, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration iswarning against feeding babies with breast milk obtained from donors not screened for infectious diseases.Dr. Stephen Wall, an adviser for the international organization Save the Children, supports breast milk-sharing, but he echoes the FDA warning:"The benefits of breast milk, over formula have been demonstrated for pre-term babies, so there is a benefit in having breast milk, but only in the setting where that baby can be provided that safely without risk of infection and without risk of contamination," noted Wall.Some of those risks include the Hepatitis B or C viruses, and HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. But milk-sharing groups like Eats on Feets believe the safety issue is an individual responsibility."The responsibility for safety and knowing their source, getting information about how they want to handle the milk is up to the mothers themselves," Briguglio explained.For Lindsey Ward and Amanda Brewer, as for many other women meeting through the Internet and sharing their breast milk with many babies, it's a matter of trust and mother's instinct.。
2011英语专四听力真题及答案
Part I DICTATION (15MIN)Listen to the floowing passage. Altogether the passage will be read to you fou r times. Duringthe first reading, which will be done at normal speed, listen an d try to understand themeaning. For the second and third reading, the pass age will be read sentece by sentece, or phrase by phrase, with intervals of 1 5 sencond. The last reading will be read at normal speedagain and during the time you should check your work. You will then be given 2 minutes to check through your work once more.Please write the whole passage on ANSWER S HEET ONE.PART Ⅱ LISTENING COMPREHE (20 MIN)In sections A, B and C you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully a nd thenanswer the questions that follow. Mark the correct answer to each que stion on youranswer sheet.SECTION A CONVERSATIONSIn this section you will hear several conversations. Listen to the conversations carefullyand then answer the questions that follow.Questions 1 to 3 are based on the following conversation. At the end of the conversation, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions.Now, lis ten to the conversation.1. Which of the statements about the auto show is INCORRECT?A. The show will have more stands this year.B. The show will have more visitors this year.C. The number of overseas visitors will be the same this year.D. The number of exhibition days will be the same this year.2. According to the conversation, the price for a stand would includeA. a catalogue.B. a poster.C. two desks.D. four chairs.3. During the conversation, the man seems to be more interested inA. the size of the show.B. the cost of the stand.C. the basic furniture.D. the visitor number.Questions 4 to 7 are based on the following conversation. At the end of the conversation, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions.Now, lis ten to the conversation.4. What is Jim interested in?A. Investing in the company’s product.B. Buying a new educational computer.C. Joining the computer company.D. Reading the campaign plan.5. The advertisements will be placed in all the following EXCEPTA. family magazines.B. Sunday newspapers.C. morning television.D. teenage magazines.6. The advertisements are intended to be seen byA. parents only.B. children only.C. school teachers.D. whole families.7. Linda sounds______about the success of the campaign plan.A. confidentB. hesitantC. uncertainD. delightedQuestions 8 to 10 are based on the following conversation. At the end of th e conversation, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions.Now, li sten to the conversation.8. John has worked in all the following places EXCEPTA. a book shop.B. a paper factory.C. a school.D. a fastfood restaurant.9. From the conversation, we learn that JohnA. has no interest.B. has only one interest.C. has two interests.D. has quite a few interests.10. Sue Green seems to be more interested in John’s experience ofA. working in a paper factory.B. working in a youth club.C. looking after his brother and sister.D. looking after his young friends.SECTION B PASSAGESIn this section ,you will hear several passages. Listen to the passages carefull y andthen answer the questions that follow.Questions 11 to 13 are based on the following passage. At the end of the pas sage, youwill be given 15 seconds to answer the questions.Now, listen to the passage.11. According to the passage, the average age of the fleet of Delta/Northwest isA. 10 years.B. 14 years.C. 16 years.D. 20 years.12. It can be learned from the passage thatA. air journeys are quite often far from comfortable.B. air travellers usually enjoy luxury during flight.C. air travellers usually enjoy upgraded conditions.D. airlines always provide good in-flight entertainment.13. Older planes can stay safe for more than 25 years because of the following EXCEPTA. new engines.B. strong materials.C. proper maintenance.D. new interior.Questions 14 to 17 are based on the following passage. At the end of the pas sage, youwill be given 20 seconds to answer the questions.Now, listen to the passage.14. Which job will involve supervising workers using dangerous equipment?A. Assistant site manager.B. Carpenter supervisor.C. Assembly supervisor.D. Automobile service station manager.15. Who will also decide on the prices of products and services?A. Airlines’flight service manager.B. Automobile service station manager.C. Assistant site manager.D. Carpenter supervisor.16. Who may also do some of the work he supervises?A. Assistant site manager.B. Airlines’flight service manager.C. Assembly supervisor.D. Carpenter supervisor.17. Which job offers the highest salary?A. Assistant site manager.B. Automobile service station manager.C. Carpenter supervisor.D. Ai rlines’flight service manager.Questions 18 to 20 are based on the following passage. At the end of the pas sage, youwill be given 15 seconds to answer the questions.Now, listen to the passage.18. Where were the two men filmed?A. In the jewelry shop.B. In the City Mall.C. Near the lorry.D. In the parking lot.19. Witnesses saw the two menA. leave the lorry together.B. leave the lorry without hoods.C. run back to the lorry separately.D. run back to the lorry without hoods.20. Which of the following details is CORRECT?A. The lorry was originally painted white.B. The lorry had no registration plates.C. The shorter man was the passenger.D. The taller man was the driver.SECTION C NEWS BROADCASTIn this section ,you will hear several news items. Listen to them carefully and thenanswer the questions that follow.Questions 21 and 22 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item,you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions.Now, listen to the news.21. What did NASA’s Constellation Programme originally plan to do?A. To set up a moon colony by 2020.B. To send astronauts again to the moon by 2020.C. To continue the current shuttle missions till 2020.D. To create more jobs for NASA till 2020.22. NA SA’s Constellation Programme would be cancelled mainly becauseA. there were important space missions.B. the space agency lacked funding for the programme.C. the current shuttle missions would continue.D. Congress failed to pass President Obama’s budget.Questions 23 and 24 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item,you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions.Now, listen to the news.23. The Russian cargo ship was sinking. What was the direct cause?A. No explanation of the problem.B. Long distance away from land.C. Slow rescue efforts.D. Severe weather.24. Which of the following was NOT mentioned as a possible means of rescue?A. Aircraft.B. Tugboat.C. Nearby cargo ship.D. Vessels at the oil rig.Questions 25 and 26 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item,you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions.Now, listen to the news.25. Why did the singers meet in Hollywood?A. To raise money for African humanitarian efforts.B. To raise money for Haitian earthquake victims.C. To sing in memory of Michael Jackson.D. To make a recording of the original version of the song.26. Which o the following details about the news is INCORRECT?A. The organizer is one of the co-writers of the first song.B. Singers will use the same recording studio as in 1985.C. The recording session s expected to last long.D. Stars from the original version will take part.Question 27 and 28 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, youwill be given 10 seconds to answer the questions.Now, listen to the news.27. The additional 2 billion dollars will mainly be used toA. upgrade its network capacity.B. improve customer services.C. develop new products.D. market more iPhones.28. Where does AT&T face difficulties in particular?A. Nationwide.B. Overseas.C. In large cities.D. In remote towns.Questions 29 and 30 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item,you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions.Now, listen to the news.29. Where is the presence of security patrols most evident?A. Where matches take place.B. Where protests may take place.C. In downtown Vancouver.D. Around the athletes’ village.30. What is this news item mainly about?A. Political protest during the Olympics.B. Security operations during the Olympics.C. Olympics’security forces.D. Security measures in buildings.Part I DICTATION (15MIN)British Holidaying HabitsIn the late 1970s, air travel became affordable for the average family in the UK, and morepeople started travelling abroad for their summer holidays. Afte r all, the British weather wasn’tvery good, even in summer, so a lot of people left the country for a vacation.In the 1980s and 1990s, young people in the UK became wealthier on averag e. As a result, theystarted to go abroad in groups, to places such as Spain an d Greece. Once they arrived at their destination, they met with other groups of young people and had one long party.British holidaying habits have begun to change, however. Climate change me ans that the UKnow has a hotter climate, so people do not need to go oversea s to find good weather. Also,going abroad is more expensive. As a result, mor e British people are choosing to spend theirsummer holidays in the UK.PART Ⅱ LISTENING COMPREHE (20 MIN)SECTION A CONVERSATIONSQuestions 1 to 3 are based on the following conversation.Woman: Good afternoon, International Trade Center Exhibition Services. How can I help?Man: Oh, hello. I’d like some information about exhibiting at the International Automobile Show.Woman: The Auto Show? So, what would you like to know?Man: First, can you give me an idea of how big the fair is?Woman: Well,121 companies had stands last year and that figure should be up to 140 thist ime.Man: Sorry, how many?Woman: 140.Man: What about visiting numbers?Woman: Over the two days, we had 16,500 visitors, so with more stands we’d hope for morepeople this time.Man: And where did they typically come from?Woman: About 57% were from overseas: America and Europe, Japan, Singap ore and SouthKorea. The remained were local people.Man:That’s interesting. Now, a few practical questions. We’re thinking of taking a stand about45 square meters. How much will that cost us?Woman: $400 per square meter.Man: Sorry, can you give me the cost again?Woman: Yes. It’s $400. So if you’re looking at 45 square meters, it would be, let me see, $18000. But that’s just the cost for a basic stand.Man: What does the price include?Woman: You get a listing in the catalogue in both Chinese and English, some basic furniture——a desk and four chairs, and electricity in lighting.Man: So anything else would be extra like a poster.Woman:That’s right.Questions 4 to 7 are based on the following conversation.Man: Hello Linda.Woman: Hello Jim.Man:I’m thinking of investing in your new educational computer that your co mpany hasproduced. And I’m interested in the advertising campaign. Woman: Oh, thank you. What would you like to know?Man:I’ve read your campaign plan. It looks OK. I only have a couple of ques tions, mainlyabout where you intend to place these advertisements. Woman: Well, as you can see from the plan, we intend to place them in famil y magazines andon early evening television. We want whole families that par ents and children to see them.Man:Mmm…but are you sure they’ll be the right families?Woman: The right families? Well…Man: I mean are you certain that the parents who read those magazines and watch thosetelevision programs are the people who will buy an educational c omputer for their children?Woman: Yes, we are quite certain. A market research shows that…Man: Good. I’m sure you’re right. And I see that you’re thinking of placing ad vertisements inteenage magazines as well.Woman: Yes, we intend to place them in some teenage magazines, the more serious ones,you know. And we’re also thinking of putting them in Sunday ne wspapers because it’s likelythat the whole family will be together on Sundays. Man: I see, but do you really think that the parents and children will like the s ameadvertisements?Woman:We’ve done the research and we think they’ll like our advertisements. Man: Good.Questions 8 to 10 are based on the following conversation.Woman: Hello. I’m Sue Green. You must be John Fox.Man: Yes, I am.Woman: Thanks for coming to the job interview. Let me ask you a few quest ions.Man: Yes, please.Woman: Have you got any work experience?Man: Yes. I had a job in a paper factory for a few months after I left school. T hen I worked inthe summer holidays in the university, first in a fast-food rest aurant, then at a book shop.Woman: Ok. Do you drive? Have you got a driving license?Man: Yes, I have.Woman:That’s fine then. So what kind of interests do you have?Man: Interests? Well, I like travelling. I play a lot of sports and I play the pian o.Woman: What sorts of sports do you like?Man: Football, tennis and swimming.Woman: Right. And what sort of music do you play?Man: Oh, a lot of, different types, classical, jazz.Woman: Ok, the most important question now. What experience have you ha d with children?Man: Well, I’ve looked after my brother and sister as babies and as they’re yo ung children. Ialso worked with children in a youth club.Woman: A youth club?Man: Yes. I’ve been working as a helper in a youth club since I studied in univ ersity as a sort ofa volunteer with teenagers.Woman: Good. Ok, well, let you know our decisions in a few days.Man: Thank you.SECTION B PASSAGESQuestions 11 to 13 are based on the following passage.Few people expect luxury while flying, but these days, even the basic seems to be in badshape. It’s not uncommon to find your trade table broken, the in -flight entertainment system not working and your seat cushion worn. All of this can make you think how old is this plane anyway.The reality for many US air travelers is that most of their journeys take place on planes thathave been in service for a decade or more. The average age of the fleet of the seven large USApassenger airlines is about 14 years old accor ding to the airline monitor. It found American andDelta Northwest have the ol dest fleets at about 16 years on average.At the end of 2008, a small percentage of the merged Delta Northwest planes dated back to thelate 1960s.“US. fleets are among the oldest in the world,” said Richard Albelafia, an elev ation analyst,“I’m not really sure that people should read that much into that.” Albelafia sa id,“ Forthe safe ty’s stand point, a lot of the old planes will build tougher and wit h proper maintenance. There’s no reason why a plane can stay safe for 25 t o 30 years. It’s alsoimportant to remember that the plane may be 20 years o ld, but its engines and other majorsystems could be recently manufactured an d upgraded.” said Albelafia,“There’s less pressure on the airlines to upgrade the interior unless the safet y issue or redesign that will save money.Questions 14 to 17 are based on the following passage.Higher education isn’t for everyone and people have a variety of parts to cho ose from oncethey graduate from high school. They might know from the star t that they want to go street tothe professional world. If you’re in the marke t for a job that doesn’t require a degree but doescome with a nice salary, her e are a few jobs to consider:Assembly supervisors oversee workers who put together products by using p ower tools orother dangerous equipment; the annual salary is $59,926.At construction side assistant site managers report to the head site manage r and plan, directand coordinate the necessary tasks to complete that day’s activities. Salary: $86,584.And automobile service station manager draws up guidelines for gas stations and automobilerepair shops and decides on our operations, a signs of job duti es, and sets prices for servicesand products. Salary: $81,793.Carpenter supervisors oversee carpentry work on a specify project to ensur e that workers onschedule and executing the plan accordingly. The supervisor s also perform some of carpenter duties if time permits. Salary: $70,565.Airlines flight services managers ensure that flight attendance adhere to pe rsonal experienceand pre-flight requirements. They also compile fly reports. Salary: $ 67,766.Illustrators design funs and imges for variety of media from website to printi ng campaigns andvideo. They often work for advertisement agencies. Salary: $54,995.Questions 18 to 20 are based on the following passage.The police released the first video images yesterday of the two men believed t o have beeninvolved in robbing a jewelry shop in the city seven days ago. B ut the video pictures taken aweek ago were not very clear. The camera which filmed the men was about 200 meters awayfrom a parked lorry which the ro bbers later used as a get-away vehicle. The men were alsofilmed wearing ho ods as they ran towards the lorry after the robbery. The pictures are timed at 9:05 a.m. last Saturday, just half an hour before the robbery occurred. Witne sses have confirmed that at some time during this half hour, they saw the tw o men without hoods leavethe lorry separately. Despite the quality of the vid eo, the police believe the robbers are distinct enough to be identified. The fi rst suspect who got out of the driver side of the lorry wasabout 5 foot 6 inch es tall and fat. He was wearing a grey jacket with a hood and dark trousers. The passenger was slimmer and slightly taller, about 5 foot 8 inches and was wearing light bluejeans and a white jacket with a hooded jogging top. Accord ing to the police, the lorry stored inthe parking lot of the city mall last month had been repainted from white to silver and fadedwith false registration plate s.ECTION C NEWS BROADCASTNews Item 1 (For Questions 21 and 22)American astronauts would not return to the moon as planed if US congress passes presidentObama’s proposed budget. Obama’s budget which aims to c ut funding in certain areas whileincreasing money used to create jobs would cancel NASA’s constellation programme. Theprogramme has sought to send a stronauts back to the moon by 2020. NASA’s programme also intended to stu dy the idea of establishing a moon colony. The programme was set to followt he US space agency’s shuttle missions which are due to end in September. O n its website, theWhite House Budget Office says the programme to send astr onauts to the moon is behindschedule, over budget and overall less importa nt than other space investments.“Using abroad range of criteria, an independent review panel determined t hat even if fully fundedNASA’s programme to repeat many of the achievemen ts of the Appolo era,50 years later wasthe least attractive approach to space exploration as co mpared to potential alternatives.”the site says.News Item 2 (For Questions 23 and 24)A Russian cargo ship with about 30 crew members aboard was in danger of sinking offRussia’s eastern coast while storming weather interfered with resc ue efforts , sate-run Itar-Tass news agency said Friday.Ice had formed on the outside of the ship and the crew was chipping it off. T he crew sent outthe distressed signal but there was no explanation of the problem. Because of the severe weather aircraft can’t be used to rescue the crew. According to Itar-Tass the vessel is about19 miles from the oil rig wh ere rescue vessels are based, while a tugboat dispatched from landwere still about 4 times farther away.“The cargo ship had been on route to a fishing areawhen it experienced pr oblems.” The news agency reported, “The ship hauls fish from boats toports.”News Item 3 (For Questions 25 and 26)Dozens of recording stars began converging on a Hollywood studio Monday t o add their voicesto a song. They hoped to raise millions of dollars for Haitian earthquake relief. The words andmusic are updated version of we’re the wo rld, a song that raised at least $30 million for Africanhumanitarian programm e 25 years ago. Lionel Richie who co-worked the first song with MachaelJacks on is organizing the effort. The original producer Quincy Jones is using the s ame studiohe used in 1985. Reporters and security surrounded Hanson Studios, anticipating the arrival oflimousines delivering stars on Monday afternoon for what is expect to be a marathon recording session. Smoky Robinson who sang on the original said the at least 100 singers asked to takepart does not include any of the 45 stars from the previous version. Organizers have not s aidwhen the song might be ready for the world to hear.News Item 4 (For Questions 27 and 28)AT & T plans to spend 18 billion dollars in 2010 upgrading its wireless ne tworks to handle the increasing amount of new traffic. This is roughly 2 billion dollars more than the company hadinvested in the previous year. Specificall y AT & T will add 2000 new cell sites and upgrade existing cell sites wit h 3 times more fiber links than it had in 2009. This will increase capacity to c onnect the cell towers to AT & T’s main network. AT & T, which is theonly wireless operator in the US selling iPhone, had been a target of much criticism over thispast year as many iPhone subscribers, particularly in densel y populated urban areas havecomplained about dropped calls, slow Internet access and poor service. Some critics claimed thecompany has not been spen ding enough on network upgrades to keep up with growingdemand. AT &am p; T has acknowledged that it has faced some difficulties particularly in bigciti es, but the company is closing the gap.News Item 5 (For Questions 29 and 30)An Olympics security plan, five years in the making, is taking shape in Vanco uver this week.The Canadian police since handing up the 900 million dollars s ecurity operation the largest inCanada’s history. It would involve 15,000 pol ice, private security and military personnel. TheWinter Olympics would take pace Feb.12 to 28 in 2010 in Vancouver. Political protest may postbig threats to the g ames. The threat of a terrorist attack is really as low, but the memory ofthe 1972 Monich Olympics has not gone away. That year a terrorist group attacke d the athletes’village,eventually killing 11 Israeli athletes and coaches. It is no coincidence that in Vancouver security patrols are particularly evident ar ound the low-rise apartment buildings where theathletes would be housed. In downtown Vancouver some roads are already closed and rings of security fe ncing surround some key venues. Perched on top of fencing is never work fro m 900surveillance cameras to detect intrusions.。
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《东方时代环球时事解读.时事节简版》星期五11年09月02日2011-9-4 9伊朗回击萨科齐称：伊朗核能研究仅具和平用途【德黑兰消息】据媒体报道，继法国总统萨科齐抛出“伊朗若继续研发核武器将遭到先制军事打击”的言论之后，伊朗国营电视台于当地时间9月1日做出回应称，伊朗的核能研究仅限于和平用途。
伊朗国营电视台评论称，萨科齐不应该根据“不实的信息”对伊朗发表任何评论。
该电视台还指出：“我们已经重复过多次，伊朗的核能活动是完全和平的，国际核能组织对此已经予以证实。
”此前，法国总统萨科齐曾发表讲话称：“伊朗在军用核能以及远程打击技术方面的野心，已经构成了一种正在成长的威胁。
这可能导致其它国家率先对其发起攻击。
法国将不惜一切代价阻止这样的局面出现。
”不过，他并没有明确指出“其它国家”是哪个或哪些国家。
土耳其因以色列拒绝为袭击加沙救援船道歉驱逐其大使【卡拉奇消息】据媒体报道，由于以色列拒绝就去年袭击前往加沙的国际援助船队道歉，土耳其于9月2日宣布，将驱逐以色列驻土大使，限其在9月7日前离开土耳其境内，并断绝与以色列签署的所有军事协议。
美联社9月2日报道称，土耳其外交部长达武特奥卢2日称，土耳其将与以色列的外交关系降至二等秘书层次，并要求以色列驻土大使于下周三，即9月7日离开土耳其境内。
达武特奥卢还说，土耳其将暂停与以色列作为盟友签署的所有军事协议，认为“现在是以色列付出代价的时候了。
”对于土耳其的这些举动，据以色列一位高级政府官员透露，以总理内塔尼亚胡的办公室正在举行紧急磋商会谈，以决定如何做出反应。
【时事点评】在东方评论员看来，就这个所谓的“回击”，特别是之前的、由法国总统萨科齐抛出的那份“伊朗若继续研发核武器将遭到预防性军事打击”的言论，不论是“时间”还是“内容”，都非常耐人寻味。
请大家注意这两段文字，原文是分别是：第一，继法国总统萨科齐抛出“伊朗若继续研发核武器将遭到先制军事打击”的言论之后，伊朗国营电视台于当地时间9月1日做出回应称，伊朗的核能研究仅限于和平用途。
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VOA新闻听力100篇News Item 1This week, the chairman of America 's nuclear agency said there islittle chance that harmful radiation from Japan could reach the United States. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko also said America has a strong program in place to deal with earthquake threats. No new nuclear power centers have been built in the United States since nineteen seventy- nine. That was when America 's worst nuclear accident happened at the Three Mile Island center in Pennsylvania. The accident began to turn public opinion against nuclear energy.News Item 2Most restaurants in the United States offer their customers a glass of tap water at no charge with their meal, but this week many restaurants are asking diners to pay a dollar, or more, for a glass of water. Placards on their tables explain that this small amount helps bring clean water to children around the world. It ' s called the UNICEFTap Project.News Item 3Japan has confirmed radiation contamination of some agricultural produ cts near a nuclear power plant crippled by last week 's earthquake and tsunami that is still spewing radiation. Yukio Edano, the chief Cabinet secretary, says high levels of radiation have been detected in milk in Fukushima prefecture and spinach from Ibaraki prefecture have been found to be contaminated. He tells reporters there is no immediate health risk and the government is consideringregulating shipments of farm products from the affected area. At the Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant efforts continue to try to cool overheating reactor cores and water in tanks containing spent fuel rods.News Item 4Some of America 's brightest students came to Washington for the2011 Intel Science Talent Search,the nation 's oldest and most prestigious science competi tion. The awards ceremony was theculmination of an intense week during which the 40 finalists were queried by judges and the public. They met with scientists, politicians and even President Barack Obama, who welcomed them to the White House. These high a chievers were whittled down from nearly 2,000 contestantsnationwide, representing excellence across many disciplines.News Item 5The billionaires ' club is growing. Forbes magazine 's annual list shows there are now 1,210 billionaires around the world —that is 199 more than last year. Although the world 's top threeearners are unchanged from last year, the newcomers in the list of the world 's richest did not come from the U.S. or Western Europe, but from Russia and the Asia Pacific region. Magazine chairman Steve Forbessays of the 200 new billionaires this year, the majority are from theBRIC1countries —Brazil, Russia, India and China.News Item 6Defense attorneys for former Liberian president Charles Taylor say testimony from prosecution witnesses is tainted by cash payments from a special fund provided by the United States. Mr. Taylor 's war crimestrial is drawing to a close after more than three years. Defense attorney Terry Munyard says money “lavished ” on prosecution witnesses has polluted “the pure waters of justice. ” He told the court that those payments went far beyond the simple reimbursement ofexpenses and were used in such a way “as to taint the testimony ofsome of the prosecutionwitnesses. ”News Item 7Many world leaders are expressing shock and sympathy following the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan, and are offering to assist the country as it struggles to recover from the disaster. U.S. President Barack Obama pledged assistance for what he called a potentially catastr ophic disaster in Japan. Mr. Obama called Japan one of America 's strongest allies and said the U.S. is offering whatever assistance is needed. U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said a preliminaryassessment indicates that American troops, ships and military facilities were not seriously damaged by the quake or tsunami.News Item 8Women are joining together all over the world to mark the 100th anniversary of International Women 's Day on March 8. Women pouredthrough London 's streets on Tuesday singing loudly for women 's rights.The banners they carried trained a spotlight on the range of issues still at hand: health, education, and politics to name a few.News Item 9Food prices continue to rise, threatening to push more and more people into poverty and hunger. A new report from the UN food agency says one of the best ways to boost agricultural productivity worldwide would be to remove the barriers women farmers face that their male counterparts do not. Studies show when women have financial resources, they are more likely than men to spend them on food, health and educating their children. Women farmers tend to be less productive than men, but there are good reasons for that, says Agnes Quisumbing, an economist with the International Food Policy Research Institute.News Item 10Ronald Reagan's Hometown Celebrates His 100th Birthday. Though he gained prominence as an actor in Hollywood and later as President of the United States, the people of Dixon, Illinois, remember Ronald Reagan as a hometown hero who saved the lives of 77 people while working as2a lifeguard. The town is honoring Reagan ' s 100th birthday this year,with a year-long celebration.The 40th President 's hometown was never very far from his heart.News Item 11The National Football League wrapped up the 2010 season with the biggest football game of the year: Super Bowl XLV —played in a huge stadium in Arlington, Texas. But without the small, Midwestern town of Ada, Ohio —population 5,400 —the game would not have been the same. Adais where the Wilson Sporting Goods company makes footballs. Wilson has been the official football maker of the National Football League since 1941, and many of the 130 employees at its factory in Ada have spent most of their lives there —many working for 25 to 45 years.News Item 12Scientists say a common headache medicine dramatically reduces the risk of developing Parkinson 's disease, a physically -disabling brain disorder that mostly strikes elderly adults. In a six-year study of just over 136,000 nurses and health professionals, researchers at Harvard University School of Public Health in Massachusetts found that people who take ibuprofen（布洛芬镇痛药）regularly for headache or other pain reduced their risk of developing Parkinson 'sdisease by nearly 40 percent. Taking one or two pills of ibuprofen two or more timesper week was considered regular use. Other non-2prescription pain relievers, including aspirin and acetaminophen, did not show a similar protective benefit.News Item 13Insurgents opposed to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi continue to hold two strategic towns along the road to eastern Libya, after unsuccessful attempts by pro-Gadhafi forces to retake them. Libyan warplanes launched new air strikes Thursday against the key eastern oil port of Brega, but the son of embattled leader Moammar Gadhafi says the bombs were only intended to “frighten ”rebels there.Libyan warplanes struck at the rebel-held oil port ofBrega on Thursday, a day after anti-government fighters turned back an assault by forces loyal t o the country 's longtime leaderMoammar Gadhafi.News Item 14A new study of more than 1.1 million people in six Asian countries finds that, like Westerners, Asians are more likely to die if they are overweight or obese. However, some of the highest death rates were seen in people who were severely underweight. Many previous studies have found that the risk of death increases as body-mass index increases. Body-mass index, or BMI, is a measure of body fat based on height and weight. The trouble is, those studies mostly analyzed Europeans and other Westerners. So scientists couldn 't be sure if the results appliedto other groups.News Item 15Agriculture is one of the most important economic activities in Africa. In addition to providing employment, agriculture has the potential to transform African societiesthrough the increased export of produce to Western markets. Many agree that transformation will not take place without increased investment in agriculture, including public or private loans to small farmers. Statistics show that Africa has about 12% of the world 's arable land but 80% of it is not in use.News Item 16In July 2012, the world 's largest AIDS conference comes toWashington, D.C. It 's the first time the gathering will be held in the United States since 1990 and preparations are already underway. Despite the massive U.S. financial, medical and scientific contributions to the fight against HIV/AIDS, a major issue blocked the conference from being held here. That was a law that prohibited HIV infected people from traveling to the United States. It was passed in 1987 in the early days of theHIV/AIDS epidemic. Effortsto lift the ban began during President George W. Bush 's second administration. It was finally repealed in January 2010 under President Obama.News Item 17As Discovery begins its 39th and final mission into Earth 's orbit Thursday, America ' s 30 -yearspace shuttle program comes one step closer to its scheduled end this April. Discovery has been a regular visitor to Earth 's orb it sinceits maiden flight in 1984. It is the oldest and longest-servingvehicle in the U.S. space agency ' s shuttle fleet. Discovery ' sfinal flight follows several delays dueto technical problems and repairs to its external fuel tank, but NASA' s missionlaunch directorMike Leinbach says the shuttle is still space-ready.News Item 18Not long ago, most professional musicians lived in a world far removed from the nitty-gritty of business management, distribution and promotion. But today, social media, laptop production techniques and fragmented musical tastes have largely replaced the old relationship between musicians, their audiences and the marketplace, making entrepreneurial savvy more important than ever. A leading U.S. conservatory now teaches students how to create successful careers in this brave new world.News Item 19Egypt 's most famous tourism sites, including the great pyramids and the antiquities museum inCairo, have reopened after being closed during the popular uprising and political tumult. Egypt 's key industry —tourism —returns afterweeks of protests and celebrations, while other countries in the region deal with unrest. The sound of hooves as horses pull jostling carts ofpeople within the Giza pyramids ' complex is the sound of mone y to the men who make their livings fromtourism —a dominant industry in Egypt.4News Item 20Demonstrations against long-serving governments continue to roil theMiddle East and North Africa Friday from Libya eastward to Bahrain. InLibya, more protests as well as funerals for those killed in recent unrest were held aftermidday prayers, and witnesses said demonstrators gathered in the port city Benghazi, a bastion of resentment against the government. Human Rights Watch said Friday that 24 people have been killed in recent violence in Libya, many of them in Benghazi. Graphic videos posted on the Internet have shown shootings described as being inflicted by armed forces against protesters.News Item 21The National Park Service says the largest slave village in the Washington region is buried on the grounds. Archeologist Joy Beasley walks across the land now known as Best Farm. But approximately 200 years ago, it was a 300- hectare plantation called L'Hermitage, owned bytheVincendieres, French farmers from Haiti. Their stone home and outbuildings still stand. The National Park Service archeologist says her team discovered evidence of six other homes on the property where slaves were kept. The Vincendieres owned 90 slaves.News Item 22Cameroon's new mineral research center will begin operations this year. South Korean miningresearchers are making trips to Cameroon to determine the overall cost of the facility, to be located in the capital, Yaounde. They say the center will cost several millions of dollars and will ultimately be offered to the Cameroon government as a gift. The Korean investors say the facility will also have geological engineers to help in the design and construction of mines —andeconomic geologists to determine the commercial feasibility of projects. They will decide whether there are enough minerals to justify the cost of a mining venture.News Item 23A major study by the World Health Organization shows that most people with high cholesterol levels around the world are not getting the treatment they need, to avoid such serious diseases as heart attacks and strokes. And the authors of the study —the—say largest ever undertakentheproblem is especially serious in the developing world. The study was done on 147 million people, and found an increasing incidence of high levels of cholesterol the world over. Even more worrying, the researchers say, is that many of those patients are going untreated.News Item 24A huge crowd has gathered in central Cairo calling for President Hosni Mubarak to step down. The opposition has called for one million people to protest. Crowds headed on foot for Cairo ' s Tahrir Square throughout the day Tuesday. They included women with babies in strollers. Their confidence is boosted after the army, in an official statement, described the demonstrations as5legitimate and promised it would not fire on demonstrators. Army helicopters dropped leaflets calling on demonstrators to keep the protests peaceful.News Item 25The popular revolts roiling Egypt and other Arab countries are being driven by young people clamoring to oust autocratic governments they have known all their lives. The hardscrabble Tunis neighborhood of Ettadhamen provides a representative look at the hardships, and aspirations, of some of the young people behind Tunisia 's so -calledJasmine Revolution.News Item 26A new study has tracked how low self-control can predict poor health, money troubles and even a criminal record in their adult years. The study began with 1,000 children in New Zealand. Researchers followed them for decades. They observed the level of self-control the youngsters displayed. Parents, teachers, even the kids themselves, scored the youngsters on measures like “acting before thinking” and “persistence in reaching goal s. ” Thechildren of the study are now adults in their thirties. Terrie Moffitt of Duke University found that kids with selfcontrol issues tended to grow up to become adults with a far more troubling set of issues to deal with.News Item 27President Barack Obama delivers his second State of the Union Address to the nation on Tuesday, before a joint session of the U.S. Congress. President Barack Obama will face a dramatically altered balance of power in the House of Representatives when he addresses Congress and the nation Tuesday in his State of the Union address. Republicans are now in the majority in the House, and they have already approved a repeal of Mr. Obama 's landmark reform of the U.S.health care system. The move was symbolic, since the bill will die in the U.S. Senate, where Democrats and Independents still hold a majority.News Item 28New research suggests a relatively simple blood test might make it possible to predict who is at a higher risk for developing dementia. The most common form o f dementia is Alzheimer 's Disease, and currently, it can only be definitively diagnosed in an autopsy, by examining the brain. Beta- amyloid is a protein that shows up the brains of Alzheimer 's victims. It 's also present inspinal fluid and, in very small quantities, in the blood.News Item 29Health Services in eastern and central Kenya are getting a big boost through a new $100 million dollar program. The U.S. development agency, USAID, has awardedthe funds to an international non-profit organization affiliated with Johns Hopkins University. For the past four years, Jhpiego has led a nearly $34 million program in eastern Kenya called APHIA II. APHIA stands for AIDS,6Population and Health Integrated Assistance. The goal is to “empower front -line heal th workers ”with effective, low cost solutionsto delivering quality health care.News Item 30Over the past 20 years, the United Nations says the Asia-Pacific population has been growing, but at a slower rate compared to the rest of the world. Asian fertility fell by 39 percent in a 20-year period from the late 1960s while remaining above the population-replacement level of 2.1 children per woman. By 1990, nearly two-thirds of Asian countries had experienced declines of at least 25 percent.News Item 31President Barack Obama will go to Tucson, Arizona, Wednesday to speak at a memorial service for those killed in Saturday 's shootings.The president will try to help the nation deal with therampage, which left six people dead and a U.S. congresswoman critically wounded. President Obama and his wife Michelle will cross thecountry to attend Wednesday night 's memorial service at the Universityof Arizona.The president will speak there, in an effort to help Americans cope with the tragedy.News Item 32New medical research into a possible cure for Parkinson 's diseaseis focusing on finding biomarkers in patients so that doctors can start treatment early before tremors and other symptoms start. Actor Michael J. Fox's recent commitment of $40 million towar d finding a cure for Parkinson ' s is helping to fund the new research. The current clinical diagnosis of Parkinson 's isbased on visible tremors and stiffness of limbs. But researchers say a more comprehensive diagnosis is needed.News Item 33U.S. President Barack Obama used his weekly radio and Internet address Saturday to outline the benefits of a tax cut package he signed into law in December. He says the tax cut compromise reached with Republicans will help grow the U.S. economy. Mr. Obama encouraged business owners to take advantage of a new incentive included in the legislation that allows any business to write off the full cost of most of their capital investments for one year.News Item 34A U.S. congress woman is in critical condition and six people are dead after a gunman opened fire in an Arizona parking lot where Representative Gabrielle Giffords was meeting with constituents. The dead include a federal judge. More than a dozen people were wounded, including Giffords. A federal probe has been launched amid a national outpouring of sorrow and outrage.7News Item 35Three-dimensional cell phones and batteries that last much longer are just two ofthe technologies that could become commonplace in the next few years. For the fifth year, IBM has looked at the horizons of research, picked five technologies and announced them as tomorrow 's innovations. “Individual technologies take different times to matriculate, ” says John Cohn, IBM 's ChiefScientist. “But the thing that 's common about them is that wethink in 2015, all these predictionswill actually be something that we take forgranted. ”News Item 36The killing of the governor of Pakistan 's most populous provincehas highlighted the ongoingclash in Pakistani society between secularism and religious radicalism. Some of that radicalism is fueled by resentment against privileged and often secular-minded elite who govern the country.News Item 37In India 's main tea -growing region, scientists say tea production is being impacted by climate change. India produces nearly one third ofthe world ' s tea. The rolling Himalayan hills in India 's northeastern state, Assam, are carpeted with lush tea bushes whose leaves produce some of the world ' s finest teas. But there are concerns that rising temperatures may be affecting the tea plantations, resulting in declining productivity of the brew to which millions of people across the world wake up.News Item 38African leaders are in Abidjan for more talks with Ivory Coast 'srival presidents. The countr y'spolitical crisis has sent thousands of refugees into Liberia.Leaders met with defiant Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo Monday, offering him an amnesty deal on condition he cedes power to rival Alassane Ouattara.News Item 39More signs that the U.S. economy is moving in the right direction:The U.S. Labor Department says new claims for unemployment benefits declined last week, dropping below 400,000 for the first time since July 2008. Other data also shows that businesses expanded in the month of December while home sales grew modestly in November. Despite the encouraging numbers, investors remain cautious as 2010 comes to a close. New estimates show the snowstorm that lashed parts of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic last week cost retailers about a billion dollars in lost sales.News Item 40The Holy Land enjoyed a flood of visitors last year, which benefited Israelis and Palestinians alike. It was a record year for tourism in Israel thanks to a lull in violence. There were 3.45 million visitors in 2010, 14 percent more than the previous record two years ago. Mark Feldman, who heads the Israeli travel agency Zion Tours, says tourism is booming. Most of the visitors were Jews and Evangelical Christians. Some 625,000 Americans came, more than any other country.News Item 41Voters in Ivory Coast have official results from only a small number of polling stations outside the country. About 10,000 ballots in an election of more than fourmillion registered voters shows former Prime Minister Alassane Ouattara leading President Laurent Gbagbo by about 60 percent to 40 percent. As the wait for domestic results continues, President Gbagbo 's party is already calling on the electoral commission to annul returns from three northern districts. Both the Gbagbo and Ouattara campaigns say some of their supporters were prevented from entering polling stations Sunday.News Item 42Diplomatic cables released by the website Wikileaks indicate the U.S. is concerned about the security of Pakistani nuclear material. They also indicate questions about Pakistan 's commitment to fighting insurgentsalong the country ' s border with Afghanistan. The New York Times and the Guardian newspapers reported details of the cables today. A French newsagency quoted a Pakistani Foreign Office spokesman as saying the fears are misplaced. Meanwhile, Interpol has placed Wikileaks ' founder Julian Assange on its most wanted list after Sweden issued an arrestwarrant for him as part of a rape investigation.News Item 43U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe needs to boost its role in Afghanistan and foster greater economic development throughout the region. Clinton spoke today at the OSCE Summit in Kazakhstan. “Our goal here in Astanashould be to move forward on democracy, human rights, economic growth and strengthening our security community. In other words, let ' sembrace the vision of Helsinki and apply it faithfully in this new century. ” The OSCE is celebrating the 35th an niversary of the Helsinki Accords, which gave birth to the OSCE structure. Clinton said insecurity anywhere in Central Asia is a challenge for all members and that protracted conflicts remain dangerously unresolved.News Item 44Russia 's prime minister s ays his country will have to build up itsown nuclear weapons capability if the United States fails to ratify the new strategic arms reduction treaty signed earlier this year. Vladimir Putin told CNN 's Larry King program in an interview to be aired later today that the newtreaty is in the United States best interest and it would be, inhis words, dumb for U.S. legislators to ignore that. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed the new9START in April. The agreement would cut nuclear stockpiles in theU.S. and Russia by about 30 percent.News Item 45Thai police say they arrested two Pakistani men and one Thai woman this week on forgery charges, as they attempted to flee to neighboring Laos. The three were arrested in cooperation with Spanish authorities, who on Thursday arrested six Pakistanis and one Nigerian in raids in Barcelona. Spanish authorities believe the group supplied fake passports used by Muslim militants who bombed Madrid commuter trains in 2004. They also suspect the group supplied fake passports to al-Qaeda-linked Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Pakistan-based group accused of the 2008 Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people.News Item 46The U.S. unemployment rate rose in November while the economy added far fewer jobs than expected. Today ' s closely -watched report from the Labor Department says the unemployment rate rose 0.2% to 9.8%. The economy had a net gain of 39,000 jobs far fewer than the 150,000 most experts had predicted.News Item 47Iranian media reports say officials are calling for the removal of aStar of David painted on the roof of the headquarters of the country 's national airline after the Jewish symbol was revealed in a satellite image. Reports say Internet media company Google took the image of the building which was reportedly built by Israeli engineers who worked in Iran before the 1979 Islamic Revolution.News Item 48President Obama is calling a new free-trade deal between the U.S.and South Korea a landmark agreement. Mr. Obama accepted the deal Friday after a three- year stalemate and said it will deepen the two nations ' alliance, and he urged the U.S. Congress to ratify it. President said the agreement will increase U.S. exports by up to $11 billion a year and support at least 70,000 jobs. As part of the deal, South Korea has agreed to let the U.S. keep a 2.5% tariff on Korean-built cars for five more years rather than end it immediately.News Item 49The World Food Program is teaming up with the World Meteorological Organization and other agencies to help subsistence farmers increase their crop yields. The WFP says 2010 has been a year with many climate related emergencies which have created a havoc with the agricultural produce of many developing countries.News Item 5010Some of the most dramatic, climate-related emergencies include flooding in Pakistan, Haiti, Burma and Burkina Faso. World Food Program spokeswoman Emilia Casella says the number of people affected is expected to reach about 375 million a year by 2015. “We are estimating that by2020, some countries having their agricultural yields halved by weather&climate emergencies- drought or flood. ” Casella says a detailed food insecurity analysis could pinpointareas that are most at risk. She says WFP is working with the Food and Agriculture Organization to help small subsistence farmers increase their food yields.News Item 51International firefighting teams are battling day three of what officials are calling the worst fire in Israel 's history. Police said Saturday the huge wildfires continued to burn out of control near the northern port of Haifa. The firefighting aircraft are coming in from Russia and have been dropping water on the blaze with additional help from the U.S., France and Britain. Middle East neighbors Jordan and Egypt sent equipment. So far, 41 people, at least, have been killed and thousands have been forced to evacuate from the area.News Item 52A Russian rocket carrying three navigation satellites has crashed into the Pacific Ocean after failing to reach orbit. Russian news11。
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菅直人“大破”小泽一郎(1/2)An official of the Democratic Party of Japan announces that Prime Minister Naoto Kan has won the party leadership post.Mr. Kan won 721 votes in Tuesday's election, compared with Ichiro Ozawa's 491 ballots.Since the DPJ controls the lower house of Japan's parliament, as leader of the party, Mr. Kan will stay on as prime minister.Speaking immediately following his re-election, Mr. Kan appealed for unity and pledged to revitalize Japan.The prime minister says he will keep his promise to help the people. He expresses heartfelt appreciation for the support that was shown to him, especially by the DPJ's rank and file.Ordinary party members overwhelmingly backed him. His opponent Ozawa, a veteran power broker, captured the votes of nearly half of the DPJ's members of parliament.Ozawa resigned from the DPJ's second-highest post 3 months ago in a political funding scandal. He faces possible indictment on criminal charges.日本民主党的一位官员宣布，首相菅直人在党首选举中获胜。
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VOA常速讲解2011-9-21QIHUI制作可可英语:www.kekenet.com1VOA常速讲解附字幕:埃塞俄比亚移民被困也门查看原文
第一部分：原文中英对照OverthreethousandEthiopianmigrants–whoriskedtheirlivesleavingtheHornofAfrica–findthemselvesstrandedinYemen,neartheSaudiArabianborder.Themigrantswanttoreturnhome,buttheInternationalOrganizationforMigrationsaidithasnomoneytoevacuatethem.
ThetriptoYemenisperilous.MigrantsoftenhiresmugglerstotakethemacrosstheGulfofAdenorRedSea.Everyyear,manydieatthehandsofthesmugglersorarerobbedandleftwithnothing.ThosewhosurvivethetraffickersormakethelongjourneytonorthernYemenareusuallyhungry,exhaustedorsick.
Nevertheless,manyhavemanagedtoreachYemen.TheIOMsaysthereareabout70,000EthiopianmigrantswholiveinYemendoingdomesticworkoremployedonKhatplantations.
ButwhilemanydecidetoremaininYemen,largenumberswanttogotoSaudiArabia.Amongthemarethe3,000migrantsnowstrandedattheSaudiborder.
"TheultimategoalofmostofthemistoactuallygothroughandearnthemselvesajobinSaudi.Unfortunately,visastoSaudiareveryrestrictiveandsomostofthemtrygettingacrossbyirregularmeansandthroughtraffickers,"NicolettaGiordanoistheIOMChiefofMissioninYemen.ThetraffickersoftenabusethemigrantsinthesamewaysmugglersdidincrossingtheGulfofAdenandRedSea.冒着生命危险逃离非洲之角的3,000多名埃塞俄比亚人被困在也门，沙特阿拉伯边境附近。这些移民想要回家，但是国际移民组织告诉他们，已经没有足够的资金来进行撤离工作。通往也门的路程非常艰险。移民们通常雇佣走私船搭载他们渡过亚丁湾或红海。每年都有许多移民死在走私者手中，或者被抢劫，最终一无所有。侥幸逃过人贩子，长途跋涉到达也门北部的人通常非常饥饿，疲劳或生病。然而，许多人成功到达也门。国际移民组织表示，大约有70,000名埃塞俄比亚人居住在利比亚，从事家庭工作或受雇于阿拉伯茶场。但是，尽管许多人决定留在也门，仍然有一些人想要前往沙特阿拉伯，其中包括现在被困在沙特边境的3,000名移民。“大部分人的最终目标是穿越边境，在沙特境内找到一份工作。不幸的是，通往沙特的签证限制条件非常高，所以，大部分人试图通过非正常手段或者通过人贩子来穿越边境。”国际移民组织驻也门任务负责人NicolettaGiordano表示。这些人贩子采取的方式与渡过亚丁湾和红海一样。VOA常速讲解2011-9-21QIHUI制作可可英语:www.kekenet.com2"TheSaudiborderhasbeenperhapsmoreporousinthepast,butwiththecurrentinstabilityinYementheSaudishavecertainlytighteneduptheircontrols.Andsothat'swhythere'sahugesurgeattheborderandatthisbordertownHaradh,whichissmackinthemiddleofthedesertwithquiteextremeweatherconditions.AndthemigrantsareamonganumberofvulnerablegroupsalreadyhostedinHaradhandthesurroundingarea,"shesaid.
MostofthosewhodomakeitacrosstheSaudiArabianborderareforcedtoreturntoYemen.
"Wecomeacrossdesperatecasesofpeoplewho'vebeenreturnedtoYemenunderduress.AndwhohavemostprobablyundergonequitestrenuouscircumstancesinordertogetacrosstoSaudi,"shesaid.
TheEthiopiangovernmentisdoingwhatitcantoassistthemigrantsandhasaskedtheinternationalOrganizationformigrationforhelp.Sincelastyear,IOMhasevacuatedabout5,000so-calledirregularEthiopianmigrants.Butnow,it'soutofmoney.It'saskingdonorsfor$2.5millionsoitcanresumetheevacuationsoftheEthiopianmigrants.“过去，沙特边境可能更加疏漏，但是由于也门目前的动荡局势，沙特加强了对边境的控制。这就是边境人数突然增加的原因。边境小镇Haradh就位于沙漠中心，天气条件极端恶劣。这些移民和其他一些弱势群体已经聚集在Haradh和周边地区。”侥幸穿越边境进入沙特阿拉伯境内的大部分人被迫返回也门。“我们遇到一些非常绝望的人，他们被强制押回也门境内。为了进入沙特阿拉伯境内，他们遭遇了很多困难。”埃塞俄比亚政府正在采取措施帮助这些移民，并且请求国际移民组织提供帮助。自去年以来，国际移民组织已经撤离了大约5,000名所谓的不合法埃塞俄比亚移民。但是现在，该组织已经没有资金运转。国际移民组织现在已经呼吁250万美元的捐款，以恢复对埃塞俄比亚移民的撤离工作。VOA常速讲解2011-9-21QIHUI制作可可英语:www.kekenet.com
3第二部分：词汇学习1.riskvt.冒险;冒…险例句：Don'triskyourhealth.不要拿你的健康冒险。
Theboatmanwaswillingtoriskferryingthemacross.船夫愿冒险渡他们过江。
2.strandvt.使滞留,使搁浅3.evacuatevt.vi.撤离,疏散例句：Theyallevacuatedwhentheenemyapproachedthecity.敌人逼近这个城市时他们已撤退了。
4.perilousadj.危险的;冒险的例句：Thejourneythroughthejunglewasperilous.穿过丛林的旅行充满了危险。
5.ultimateadj.最后的,最终的例句：Whatwashisultimategoal?他的最终目标是什么?
6.restrictiveadj.限制(性)的,约束(性)的例句：Hearguedthatthelawwasundulyrestrictive.他辩称法律的约束性有些过分了。
7.porousadj.能穿透的,能渗透的例句：Headdedsandtothesoiltomakeitmoreporous.他往土里掺沙子以提高渗水性能。
8.vulnerableadj.易受伤的,脆弱的,敏感的例句：Hevolunteeredtoprotectherasshelookedsovulnerable.她看上去很脆弱,他就主动去保护她。
9.strenuousadj.费力的;须用力应付的;繁重的;艰苦的例句：Hemadestrenuousattemptstostopher.他为阻止她付出了极大的努力。VOA常速讲解2011-9-21QIHUI制作可可英语:www.kekenet.com410.resumevt.vi.重新开始;重新获得；重新占用；恢复，重返例句：We'llstopnowandresumeattwoo'clock.我们现在停下来,到两点再干。
continue，resume，succeed，goon这些动词或短语动词均有“继续”之意。continue普通用词。或指持续而不停止，或有一段中断后又继续下去。resume指中断后的继续。succeed侧重指有规律地连续。goon通俗用词，多用于口语中。goon+-ing表暂停后继续做原事，即后继续的内容与原来的内容相同。goon+不定式指做完某事后，接着做不同的另一件事。
第三部分：内容解析1.Nevertheless,manyhavemanagedtoreachYemen.manageto达成,设法例句：barelymanagetorestrainone'sanger勉强捺住心头的怒火
Nevertheless表示转折Nonetheless表示转折，however,yet,nevertheless,nonetheless这些词后面都表示转折。
2.butwiththecurrentinstabilityinYementheSaudishavecertainlytighteneduptheircontrols.tightenup使紧密;加强例句：Hesaidhewouldtakestepstotightenupthelaw.他说他将采取措施使法律更严格有效。
3.Wecomeacrossdesperatecasesofpeoplewho'vebeenreturnedtoYemenunderduress.comeacross偶然发现,偶然遇见例句：Icameacrosshiminthestreetyesterday.昨天我在街上无意中碰到了他。