新闻听力答案
新闻听力答案
Unit 1
Section A:
1. Dispute with
2. Normal relations
3. Deported
4. Unity
5. Expressed gratitude embassy
6. Cut ties expel
7. Opened reestablished went to war
8. Cooled expulsion expulsion
9. Challenged demarcate their border
10.Partnership
Section B
原文
1.North Korea say it wants a relationship of trust and mutual respect with the United States.
2.And Brazil has granted asylum to deposed Ecuadorian President Lucio Gutierrez who has
taken refuge in the Brazil embassy since his ouster Wednesday.
3.The United States government has frozen the assets of over 150 individuals and institutions
from Zimbabwe.
4.U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has again expressed regret to Italy over tha
accidental killing of an Italian intelligence agent in Iraq.
5.Diplomatic relations between Venezuela and Mexico have worsened sharply in a row over
comments by the Venezuelan president Hugo Charvez about the Mexican leader Vicente Fox. Section C
原文
Item 1
Egypt has announced it will reduce its diplomatic staff in Iraq following the killing of its top envoy in Baghdad Ehad al-Sherif. The Egyptian Foreign Ministry called it a security measure. But Iraq‘s Foreign Minstry appealed to Arab and Islamic countries not to be swayed by the kidnapping and killing o Mr. Sherif, which it said was meant to deter them from upgrading their diplomatic missions in Iraq.
Item 2
Pakistani President Pervez Muhsharaf says Pakistan and India are both optimistic about resolving their dispute over the Himalayan region of Kashmir, which both countries claim. In an exclusive interview with the associated Press, General Musharraf says he hopes to settle the issue with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh while they‘re both in power. Mr. Singh and General Musharraf are expected to try to move their peace dialogue forward when they meet next week in New York at the United Nations General Assembly meeting.
Item 3
North Korea is demanding that Tokyo immediately lift sanctions imposed on Pyongyang in response to its test-launch of missiles. A North Korean envoy to Japan
says his country will retaliate with stronger measures if the sanctions are not lifted. After North Korea test-fired seven missiles, Tokyo barred a North Korean ferry from Japanese ports for six months and banned North Korean officials from entering the country. South Korea today rejected Pyongyang‘s request for military talks, saying they were inappropriate at this time. But it said ministerial talks will go ahead as scheduled next week.
Section D
News item 1
1. Fifth
2. Tokyo
3. Sharp protests
4. Prompted
5. Condoning atrocities
6. Grave provocation
7. Issued
8. Glorifies
9. Despite the wishes
News item 2
Task 1
1. B
2. D
Task 2
FFFTTF
News item 3
1.It has expressed regret for the killing of a Japanese fisherman today
2. a Russian patrol vessel fired a warning shot at the fishing boat near the disputed Kuril Islands
3.Japan does not curb Japanese fishing in Russian waters
4.The islands were seized from Japan by the Soviet Union in the closing days of World War 2
5.He summoned Russia‘s deputy ambassador and told reporters in Tokyo that the killing was an
outrageous act.
Unit 2
Section A
1. Unannounced visit
2. En route stop
3. Standing ovation
4. A measure of progress
5. Confer with
6. Concluded deadlock
7. Walked out of
8. Reached agreement sign
9. At odds standoff
10. Wrapped up
Section B
1.President Bush is due in Mongolia in the next few hours, the first American leader to visit the
country.
2.the American Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has left China after his first visit there
since taking office in 2001.
3.The Russia President Secretary Vladimir Putin is due to arrive in Japan shortly for talks about
expanding economic ties ,and particularly increasing cooperation in the energy sector.
4.South Africa leaders are holding final talks on the closing day of their summit in the
Bangladeshi capital Dhaka.
5.President Bush has ended a visit to Brazil with a speech outlining his ideas for democracy and
economic development in Latin America.
Section C
Item 1: typescript
President Bush has met with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf at the White House to discuss a wide range of international and regional issues. The two leaders told a joint news conference that the talks were candid and reinforced trust and confidence in each other. Ahead of the meeting, a controversy developed when President Musharraf told a television interviewer that an American official had threatened to bomb Pakistan if it did not cooperate in the U.S., -led war on terrorism. That issue was raised in an exchange with reporters.
Item 2: typescript
And a meting in New York between the foreign ministers of Guatemala and Venezuela has failed to resolve the deadlock over which country will represent Latin America and the Caribbean as a non-permanent member on the United Nations Security Council. In a BBC interview after the meeting, the Venezuelan Foreign Minster Nicolas Maduro blamed Guatemala for the ongoing impasse. He said it had shown no interest in agreeing to a compromised candidate.
Item 3: typescript
Africa‘s first female elected leader met with President Bush at the White House today. Liberian president Ellen Johnson-Sir leaf met with Mr. Bush in the Oval Office and then the two had lunch together in the White House‘s East Room. Among the issues
the two discussed, there is a request for Nigeria to hand over former Liberian President Charles Taylor, who is wanted on war crimes charges. She told reporter today that she has asked Mr. Bush for help. Taylor has been living in exile in Nigeria. Many Liberians blamed him for fueling a civil war that ravaged the country.
Section D
Item 1
The president of Kazakhstan has started a U.S. visit. Nursultan Nzarbayev spent part of Tuesday and yesterday in Maine. A guest of former President George H.W. Bush, he‘s to meet with Mr. Bush‘s son president Bush at the White House tomorrow. Today, he‘s to unveil a monument to his country‘s independence from the Soviet Union in Washington DC. Kazakhstan is important to the U.S. for its oil supplies. It‘s also a focus of human rights advocates who say that it has a poor record of protecting the rights of individuals. And that topic is likely to be on the White House agenda tomorrow. Nazarbayev has been Kazakhstan‘s only leader since it gained independence in 1991.
Item 1
1. President of Kazakhstan
2. Only leader
3. In 1991
4. Maine
5. Guest
6. Unveil a monument
7. Washington D.C.
8. Meet with
9. Poor record
10. Rights
Item 2
Environment ministers and officials from more than 20 countries have ended four days of informal talks in Greenland in efforts to deal with global warming. Danish Environment Minister Connie Hedegaard, the meeting‘s host, called on participants to stop blaming one another for global warming and take concerted action. Participants of the meeting in Greenland‘s Arctic town of Elucigot included the United States, China and several European countries. They focused on possible action after the first phase of the Kyoto Protocol, an accord on reducing global warming. It expires until 2012. U.N. studies show that global warming could melt polar icecaps and push thousands of species close to extinction.
Item 2
Task 1
A. C
Task 2
FFTTF
Item 3
G-8 leaders are gathering near Edinburgh, Scotland at this hour for a summit that will focus on aid to Africa and protecting the environment. They are expected to endorse a write-off of more than 40 billion dollars in debt owed by 18 African countries mainly in the sub-Saharan region. On a
stop in Denmark en route to Scotland, President Bush said he would emphasize the need for African nations to commit to good government to get the increased aid. In villages near the G-8 conference sit demonstrators smashed car windows and fought with riot police. Some tried to storm barricades surrounding the conference site and dozens were arrested.
Item 3
1.Aid to Africa and environment protection
2.They are expected endorse a write-off of more than 40 billion dollars in debt owed by 18
African countries mainly in the sub-Saharan region
3.President Bush said he would emphasize the need for African nations to commit to good
government to get the increased aid.
4.In Denmark en route to Scotland
5.Demonstrators smashed car windows and fought with riot police. Some tried to storm
barricades surrounding the conferences sit and dozens were arrested.
Unit 3
Section A:
1.Security Council
2.special fund man-made
3.permanent members
4.closed-door
5.Goodwill Ambassador
6.urgent meeting crisis
7.General Assembly opened
8.antipoverty
9.Human Rights Committee
10.Red Cross
11.resolutions
Section B
1.The United Nations has released new data showing that rich countries have made little overall
progress in reducing the output of the gases blamed for climate change.
2.Qatar has become the fist Arab country to pledge troops for a UN peacekeeping mission in
Lebanon, offering to send up to 300 troops to monitor the cease fire between Israel and Hezbollah.
3.In a speech to the 191-member General Assembly, Mr. Annan urged an enlargement of the
Security Council by adding 6 new members.
4.World leaders speaking on the second day of the United Nations World Summit have called
for reform of the international body and have urged it to play a key role in the fight against terrorism.
5.The United Nations has launched its biggest annual appeal for humanitarian assistance, asking
for 4.7 billion dollars to help the victims of War, famine and natural disasters around the world.
Section C
Item 1
The United Nations children‘s agency UNICEF is beginning a huge campaign in Pakistan today to immunize 800,000 children affected by the earthquake last month. The agency is sending 600 health teams into towns and mountain villages to vaccinate children against measles, polio, diphtheria and tetanus. UNICEF staff say it would be a race against time to reach children scattered in remote mountain communities before winter snows arrive. The agency has already vaccinated 300,000 children.
Item 2
The United Nations relief agency says an attack on a displaced persons‘ camp in Sudan‘s western Darfur region has reportedly left 29 people dead and 10 seriously injured. A spokeswoman for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees told VOA it‘s the first time that a displaced persons‘ camp has been attacked in more than two years of civil war. The spokesman says up to 300 armed Arab men on horses and camels attacked the camp on Wednesday.
Item 3
The United Nations World food Program has appealed urgently for donations of more than 150 million dollars to prevent a food crisis in southern Africa. It warned that almost 10 million people across 6 countries—Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique, Lesotho and Swaziland—urgently needed food aid. The shortages are blamed on drought and the effects of HIV/AIDS and chronic poverty. A BBC correspondent in southern Africa says that in Zimbabwe, children in rural areas have already started to show signs of malnutrition. She says some eat only once a day.
Section D
Item 1
The South Koran Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon has won the support of all five permanent members of the UN Security Council in his bid to become the next Secretary General of the UN. Mr. Ban had been the favorite to succeed Kofi Annan in the post, and had come first in three previous informal ballots held by members of the Security Council. However, until this latest vote it had not been known whether his candidacy might be vetoes by one of the five permanent members, the United States, China, Russia, France or Britain. It‘s expected that a formal vote will be held next week. The U.S. ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton said ned candidates could come forward, but that was unlikely.
Item 1
1.secretary General
2.Foreign Minister
3.won the support
4.succeed
https://www.wendangku.net/doc/2d11695043.html,rmal ballots
6.veto candidacy
7.unlikely
Item 2
Despite U.S. objections, the United Nations General Assembly today overwhelmingly voted to create a new human rights council to improve the UN‘s ability to deal with human rights offenders.
The council replaces the discredited UN Human Rights Commission based in Geneva U.S. ambassador to the UN John Bolton told the Assembly today that UN made some improvements but they are not enough. Bolton told the Assembly that rules for the new council are too weak to prevent human rights violators from obtaining seats. Under the resolution adopted today, the old commission will be abolished June 16th, and the new council will convene three days later.
Item 2
CC FTFTTT
Item 3
The United Nations has welcomed new pledges by donor countries of nearly 600 million dollars to fund relief efforts after the South Asian earthquake. But the UN‘s chief relief coordinator Jan Egeland said it was not clear how much was for immediate emergency relief and how much for longer-term work. Pakistan says 79,000 people have died and Mr. Egeland had early warned that hundreds of thousands more could die without an immediate big boost in funds. Winter snow is expected in the earthquake zone within weeks. A top Pakistani relief official, General Farooq Ahmed, told the BBC that an extra 30,000 troops were in the area to help.
Item 3
1.Donor nations have made pledges of nearly 600 million dollars to und relief efforts after the
South Asian earthquake.
2.Mr. Egeland is the UN chief relief coordinator. He said it was not clear how much money was
for immediate emergency relief and how much for longer-term work.
3.Pakistan says 79,000 people have died and Mr. Egeland had warned that hundreds of
thousands more could die without an immediate big boost in funds.
4.Winter snow is expected in the earthquake zone within weeks.
5.An extra 30,000 troops were in the earthquake-hit area to help.
Unit 4
Section A
1.expressed concern
2.apologized remarks
3.denied charges warned
4.condemned
5.called for
6.threatened accused of
7.deeply troubled
8.allegations baseless
9.reiterated
10.stressed the importance
Section B
1.The Canadian Prime Minister Steven Harper has announced the construction of two military
facilities in the Arctic and a move to assert his country‘s sovereignty over the contested region, which is estimated to contain billions of dollars of oil and gas deposits.
2. A speaker purporting to be al-qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is accusing the U.S. and the
European Union of backing a war against Islam.
3.The former president of Iran Mohammad Khatami says American attempts to impose
western-style democracy on the Middle East are flawed because democracy is not something that can be exported.
4.The Pentagon has issued a memo to rebut the criticism from several retired generals who
called for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to resign.
5.British Prime Minister Tony Blair says his country is taking tough new measures to fight
extremism following last month‘s deadly terrorist attacks in London.
Section C
Item 1
Russian President Vladimir Putin says his country is prepared to help …new leaders establish stability in the wake of a political upheaval. Mr. Putin made these comments today following a telephone discussion with …opposition leader…who was appointed by parliament to lead an interim government. Kyrgyzstan‘s new leaders are trying to restore order after two days massive looting and street violence that left at least 3 people dead and injured many more.
Item 2
British officials in Iran have denied allegations of any British involvement in violence in the southwestern province of …where at least four people were killed in two bomb attacks on Saturday. The British embassy in Tehran condemned the attacks and said Britain rejected allegations link it to terrorist outrages. Several Iranian officials have made statements implication British troops stationed across the border inside southern Iraq in the bombings and in previous attacks earlier this year which killed 10 people.
Item 3
For the first time, President Bush has said it could be accurate to compare the recent escalation of violence in Iraq to the 1968 Tet Offfensive during the Vietnam War. The Tet Offensive marked a strong downturn in public support for both the Vietnam War and then-President Lyndon Johnson. Mr. Bush spoke in an ABC TV interview in which he addressed increased violence in Iraq. The
comparison of the insurgency in Iraq to the Tet Offensive in Vietnam was made in a column by Tom Friedman in the New York Times.
Section D
News item 1
Iran‘s president is denying reports he gave an interview to an Arab newspaper in which he threatened to halt oil sales if Tehran was referred to the United Nations Security Council. Iran‘s Presidetial Media Department made that denial in a statement issued today in a reaction to an article published in the Khaleej Times. Earlier today the United Arab Emirates-based newspaper reported that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad threatened in an interview to stop oil sales if Iran is sent to the council for its nuclear activities. The reports from a French news agency say the reporter is astonished by the denial, but the news agency also says, the publisher of the newspaper says the confusion may be due to the reporter not adequately identifying herself as a journalist. News item 1
1.denying
2.halt oil sales
3.referred to
4.nuclear activities
5.media
6.made that denial
7.reaction
8.French news agency
9.astonished
News item 2
South Korea and Japan say they have not detected any radioactivity to confirm North Korea‘s claim that it conducted an underground nuclear test on Monday. Late Friday unnamed U.S. officials said U.S. aircraft have detected traces of radiation in the air samples collected near the suspected North Korea test site, but they stressed no final determination had been made. Word of the latest findings comes as the UN Security Council members continue to hammer out details of a draft resolution that would imposed sanctions on North Korea for conducting the reported test. A vote on the resolution was expected Saturday. The UN draft resolution includes economic and weapons sanctions against North Korea, including a travel ban and financial restrictions.
News item 2
D B
TFFFTFT
New Item 3
Russian President Vladimir Putin says he will not allow foreign powers to dictate Russia‘s energy policy or interfere in any of its internal affairs. In an interview broadcast from Saint Petersburg today, Mr. Putin told NBC News that recent Western criticism of Russia is a mix of cold war and colonialist thinking. Mr. Putin singled out U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney‘s recent criticism of Russian energy policy in which Cheney accused Russia of using its vast oil and gas resources as tools of intimidation. Putin compared those comments to an errant gunshot by Cheney that wounded a companion on a hunting trip earlier this year. The Russian leader host President BUhs and other world leaders later this week in a summit of the G-8 industrialized nations. Mr. Putin said Russia is ready to hear well-intentioned criticism from foreign leaders, but said he will
categorically reject what he called interference in Russia‘s internal affairs.
News item 3
1.He would not allow foreign powers to dictate Russia‘s energy policy or interfere in any of its
internal affairs
2.in an NBC interview broadcast from Saint Petersburg today
3.He called it a mix of cold war and colonialist thinking
4.Cheney accused Russia of using its vast oil and gas resources as tools of intimidation
5.He compared them to an errant gunshot by Cheney that wounded a companion on a hunting
trip earlier this year
6.Russia welcomes well-intentioned criticism from foreign leaders.
Unit 5
Section A
1. snowfalls Blizzards disrupted
2. worsening drought
3. struck aftershocks
4. collapsed
5. debris crushed
6. relief supplies
7. tornado forecasters
8. locusts
9. tropical storm hurricane
10. battling toxic spill
Section B
C C
D B A
1. An Air France passenger plane has skidded off the runway and burst into flames on landing Pearson Airport in Toronto, Canada.
2. In Nigeria at least 12 people were reported drowned after an overcrowded dugout canoe capsized in a remoter creek in the oil-producing Niger Delta.
3. A full-scale relief operation is underway on Indonesia‘s Java Island where a tsunami hit Monday, killing at least 340 people.
4. The bodies of 10 New Jersey senior citizens killed in this week‘s tour bus crash in the mountains of northern Chile are being flown home.
5. Hurricane John has been downgraded to a tropical storm after hitting the Baja California Peninsula on the west coast of Mexico. The storm struck the tourist port city of Lepas, bringing down trees and power lines and flooding streets. It had earlier inundated the seaside resort of los Cabos.
Section C
News item 1
Iraqi police say more than 640 people have been killed in a stampede that broke out today near a Shiite shrine in Baghdad. Authorities say some 300 were hurt in the stampede that erupted on a Tigris River bridge when thousands of people crushed a railing and plunged into the river. Officials say bodies are still being recovered from the river and that the final death toll could rise. The incident occurred when a rumor spread that a suicide bomber was in the crowd.
News item 2
A Peruvian airliner carrying 100 passengers and crew members has crashed in a northeastern jungle town, killing at least 40 people. Officials say the TAN Air Flight 204 went down Tuesday while attempting an emergency landing during a severe storm. Police at the scene say foreign nationals are among the dead, including at least one Italian and an American. Officials say at least 52 people survived the accident with most being treated at area hospitals.
News item 3
Officials in Japan say the train crash near Osaka in western Japan has killed as many as 57 people, injured more than 400. a commuter train carrying around 580 passengers during morning rush hour Monday smashed into an apartment building near Amagasaki, about 400 kilometers west of Tokyo. Workers are still trying to reach some of the passengers trapped in the wreckage. The
accident was Japan‘s worst in more than four decades. Investigators say speed and diver inexperience may be factors in the crash.
Section D
New item 1
A fire at a Paris apartment building housing African immigrants has killed at least 17 people, a half of them children. French officials say some 30 others were injured in the blaze that broke out shortly after midnight in a stairwell of the dilapidated building. Authorities say it took more than two hours for some 200 firefighters to extinguish the blaze. The cause isn‘t known. French media are reporting the victims are from African countries such as Senegal and Mali. Officials say about 100 children and 30 adults lived in the building, which was run by a humanitarian association. In April a fire at a Paris hotel catering mostly to African and European immigrants killed 23 people. One of the hotel‘s residents admitted to accidentally starting that blaze.
News item 2
A small aircraft has crashed into the 20th floor of a high-rise apartment building in New York city, killing at least two people. The plane burst into flames on the impact and fire spread through several floors of the building. The White House said all the indications were that the crash was an accident. Investigators are at the scene gathering evidence, but the authorities don‘t believe the incident was linked to terrorism. The BBC‘s Gitto Harry was at the scene shortly after the incident and sent this report.
The authorities in New York now say that four people were killed in the plane cash in Manhattan. Reports from the United States say the plane was being piloted by the New York Yankee‘s baseball pitcher Cory Lidle, who dies in the accident.
New item 3
Thousands of victims of Hurricane Katrina are still being evacuated from New Orleans. More than 10,000 people already have been taken by bus to an emergency shelter at a sports stadium in Texas more than 550 kilometers from New Orleans. Rescuers in New Orleans are working to evacuate thousands of additional flood refugees in and near the city‘s former convention center, a large building without power, water or toilet facilities, overflowing with crowds calling today. He is scheduled to visit parts of Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana that were wretched by the powerful hurricane.
Unit 6
Section A
1.life expectancy
2.regulators abortion
3.rabies
4.infected with cases
5.bird flu immune
6.outbreaks borne
7.prescription medicines
8.AIDS
9.antiviral
10.medicare
Section B
B D A
C B
1. The problem of obesity is spreading into many different aspects of Americans‘lives. Now researchers have confirmed that some children are so fat they can‘t fit into car safety seats designed for kids.
2. Two more Indian states have banned the sale of soft drinks produced by U.S.giants Coca-cola and Pepsi-cola after a test by an environmental group showed high pesticide levels. This brings the total number of states to six where there is a partial r full ban of the soft drinks.
3. An Asian expert says disease and natural disease and natural disasters may pose a greater security threat to the region than conventional political conflicts.
4. The United Nations says opium cultivation in Afghanistan has declined for the first time since 2001 as tens of thousands of farmers have given up opium poppies for legal crops.
5. The authorities in Iran have warned that if the dangerously high level of air pollution in the capital Teheran continues, there could be thousands of casualties.
Section C
Item 1
The number of people infected with HIV, the virus that can lead to AIDS, is still rising and has passed 14 million worldwide for the first time. The United Nations said there had been 5 million new infections this year and warned that AIDS was outstripping global and national efforts to contain it. Sub-Saharan Africa remains the worst affected region. In Asia, where more than eight million people are infected, the UN says infection rates are rising sharply. It warned that Pakistan, in particular, was on the verge of a serious epidemic.
Item 2
The biggest ever international conference on malaria has begun in the West African state of Cameroon to discuss the latest scientific findings on the disease which kills more than 1.5 million people worldwide each year. 75% of those victims are African children. Of the 2,000 delegates meeting in the capital Yaounde, 80% are from Africa. The disease costs the continent more than 12 billion dollars in lost GDP each year. The latest research suggests that 41% of the world‘s population live in areas where malaria is transmitted.
Item 3
The Food and Drug Administration is investigating whether more than one food company is responsible for an outbreak of E. coli bacteria. Officials have linked bad spinach from Natural
Selection Foods as one source of the E. coli. The company says the products are sold under the brand name Earth Bound Farm. Doctor David Atchison with the FDA says natural selection Foods has voluntarily recalled the spinach. The FDA advises shoppers to get rid of any fresh spinach in bags or other containers. At least one person has died. Dozens of others have gotten sick in at least 19states.
Section D
Item 1
European health experts have gathered in Brussels to formulate a response to recent bird flu outbreaks among migratory birds. The panel today endorsed measures that would increase surveillance and toughen import bans, such as the European Union‘s plan, suspending the imports of untreated feathers from non-EU countries. The European Commission has dedicated an additional 2.2 million dollars for bird surveillance and testing programs. German authorities today confirmed the presence of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus in wild swans on an island in the Baltic Sea. Outbreaks have been confirmed in the Balkans, Turkey, the Caspian Sea areas and elsewhere. Several EU countries have ordered farmers to keep poultries indoors to prevent transmission of the disease. But the World Organization for Animal Health in Paris says this is not necessary at the present time.
Item 2
A week after a toxic waste scandal brought down the government of Ivory Coast, teams of Ivorian and French experts are still trying to establish exactly what the material was composed of. Tons of waste from a ship were dumped in leaking drums in at least 11 open air locations in Ivory Coast‘s biggest city Abidjian. Our correspondent James Copnall is there.
The latest health ministry figures show that the health situation is deteriorating just as rapidly, however, a state of panic seems to have set in. meanwhile, teams of French and Ivorian experts were attempting to find out what exactly the toxic waste was composed of.
Item 3
The White House has issued an updated version of its strategy for dealing with a possible influenza pandemic. The plan warns cities, states and businesses that they should prepare now to keep operating on their own and not count on federal help, and says that a flu pandemic could make up to 40% of the workforce too sick to work for two weeks at a time and that the infection could remain active in a community for up to two months. In the worst case, the report says, a pandemic could cause as many as two million deaths in the United States. Influenza pandemics tend to break out when a never-before-seen strain of the virus starts passing from person to person. Scientists are currently worried that the Asian bird flu might mutate into that kind of virus.
Unit 7
Section A
1.interim
2.quit post
3.sworn in
4.step down
https://www.wendangku.net/doc/2d11695043.html,d chief
6.monarch reign
7.resigned in bribes
8.tapped top
9.allegations in office
10.replacing in the job nominated take over
Section B
1.Democrats in the House of Representatives have unanimously confirmed Nancy Pelosi as the
United States‘ first woman speaker. Mrs. Pelosi will be the second in line to the presidency after Vice President Dick Cheney when she takes office in January.
2.President Bush has nominated the head of his Council of Economic Advisors Ben Bernanke
as chairman of the Federal Reserve, the U.S. central bank. He succeeds the outgoing chairman Alan Greenspan.
3.Salva Kiir Mayardit was sworn in as Sudan‘s senior vice president today to replace John
Garang who died in a helicopter crash.
4.President Bush‘s nominee for U.S. United Nations ambassador told the Senate hearing
Monday he will work to make the world body more effective.
5.An outspoken aide to the Russian president Vladimir Putin has resigned in protest against
changes in government policy.
Section C
Item 1
White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan announced today that he‘ll leave his post as part of a shakeup of White House personnel. McClellan has come under fire from Republicans who have complained that he has not done enough to keep the president‘s popularity from sliding. The White House also announced that top presidential adviser Karl Rove will give up his policy-making role in order to focus on maintaining Republican control of Congress during the next election.
Item 2
World Bank executive directors meet Thursday in Washington to vote on the nomination of U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz as the bank‘s mew president. Mr. Wolfowitz passed a major hurdle Wednesday when European Union officials said they have no objection to his nomination. The nomination had been controversial in Europe because of Mr. Wolfowitz‘s strong support for the war in Iraq. Mr. Wolfowitz acknowledges he is a polarizing person. Washington traditionally nominates World Bank presidents while Europe chooses the head of the International Monetary Fund.
Item 3
Argentina‘s Finance Minister Roberto Lacagna who helped to oversee the country‘s recovery from virtual economic collapse in 2001 has resigned. Mr. Lavagna quit amid reports of personal clashes
with President Nestor Kirchner as well as disagreements about future economic policy. Mr. Lavagna reportedly wanted tough measures to stop inflation returning, while the president favored more investment to stimulate growth.
Section D
Item 1
President Bush‘s nominee for a vacancy on the U.S. Supreme court Harriet Myers has announced she is withdrawing her candidacy. She said she was concerned that the confirmations process presented a burden for the White House. The BBC Washington correspondent says her withdrawal is a huge blow for President Bush. Ms. Myers is an experienced lawyer but has never been a judge, leading to criticism from both Democrats and Republicans. One of the Democratic members of the Judiciary Committee, Senator Edward Kennedy, hoped the future nominee would be acceptable to both the main parties.
Item 2
Embattled Federal Emergency Management chief Michael Brown has been relieved of his duties as managing the massive hurricane relief effort. Homeland Secretary Michael Chertoff Friday in Baton Rouge said Coast Guard Vice Admiral Thad Allen will take charge of federal operations in the area. The Admiral has been overseeing the rescue and recovery efforts in New Orleans. Mr. Chertoff said Mr. Brown is to return to Washington to oversee the federal Emergency Management Agency‘s operations nationwide. A number of congressional leaders and Louisiana officials have fiercely criticized the federal government‘s initial response to the disaster and called on President Bush to fire Mr. Brown. Several Democratic Senators said reclaiming Mr. Brown to oversee the Emergency management Agency in Washington is a bad decision. They said his continued presence in the critical position endangers the success of the recovery efforts.
Item 3
Japan‘s parliament has officially chosen Shinzo Abe as the country‘s new prime minister. VOA ?s Steve Herman has more from Tokyo.
With the Liberal Democratic Party firmly in control of Japan‘s parliament, there was no doubt Tuesday who would be selected as prime minister. Lawmakers cheered the announcement of the Lower House vote, showing the LDP President Shinzo Abe defeating his rivals by a large margin. Within hours of his election, Mr. Abe spoke to the nation, assuring it that he would not back away from the reform the reform program implemented by his predecessor Junichiro Koizumi. Mr. Abe instead vowed to accelerate the administrative reform. The new prime Minister also reiterated his campaign pledge to make Tokyo a more equal partner in its security alliance with Washington. Steve Herman, VOA News, Tokyo.
Unit 8
Section A
1. signing up for booms
2. layoffs competitive
3. consumer spending upsurge
4. take over
5. opening up
6. inflation interest rates
7. subsidies
8. retailer drop in profits
9. stake
10 in stock stockholders
Section B
1.The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up 104 points to 11,076 in active trading today. The
NASDQ closed up 12 at 2,262. and the S&P closed up 9 points today to 1,281. the S&P was down 5 points for the week.
2.American beef is back in the Japanese market and slated to return to South Korea soon. But
for America‘s beef exporters who lost two of the three largest markets in 2003 after a few cases of mad cow disease were discovered in the U.S., it is going to be an uphill struggle.
3.The executive board of the International Monetary Fund meeting in Washington has agreed to
write off more than three billion dollars in debt owed to it by some of the world‘s poorest countries.
4.Ford Motor Company plans to close truck manufacturing plants in Virginia and Minnesota in
2008. The closure is a part of Ford‘s effort to make its North American operations profitable again.
5.The New York Stock Exchange enters a new era tomorrow morning. For the first time in its
history the exchange will become a for-profit entity that sells its own shares to the public. Section C
Item 1
The European Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson is facing criticism from France and some other countries over negotiations on a new global trade agreement. At today‘s EU foreign ministers meeting Mr. Mandelson is being called on to clarify concessions he is said to have made to reduce EU farm subsidies as part of a deal to help less-developed countries. There were suggestions the cuts are more generous than those agree by EU member states and that Mr. Mandelson is exceeding his mandate. He‘s denied the accusation.
Item 2
Oil prices hit a record high of more than 71 dollars a barrel today in part because traders were worried about possible disruptions in supply. Analysts said there is concern(s) about the nuclear dispute with Iran and civil violence in Nigeria, both important oil suppliers. The rise in oil prices comes despite a new report from OPEC that predicts a weakening in world demand for oil. Analysts said if it weren‘t for concern about supplies, growing inventories of crude oil would be forcing prices down.
Item 3
Boeing has agreed to pay 15 million dollars to settle a dispute with the State Department over
foreign sales of commercial aircraft equipped with a small gyro chip that has military applications. The chip is used in some missile guidance systems. The fine is among the largest ever paid by a company for violation of the Arms Export Control Act. Boeing failed to get the license required fro foreign sales of the gyro chip and then continued the sales even after the State Department told the firm to stop. Boeing spokesman says in hindsight the company should have handled the matter differently.
Section D
Item 1
The International Monetary Fund says the world economy will enjoy strong growth is 2006 marking the 4th consecutive year of expansion. The IMF released its twice-yearly report on the global economy today at a joint meeting with the World Bank in Singapore. The lending agency predicts the world economy will grow 5.1%, this year and 4.9% in 2007. Both forecasts are slightly higher than previous estimates in April. The IMF also warns of some economic threats, including rising inflation, increasing oil prices and the slowing of the U.S. housing market. Meanwhile the World Bank is criticizing Singapore for barring some invited activists from entering the country to attend the meeting.
Item 2
The European aircraft manufacturer Airbus has confirmed that deliveries of its giant new A380 airliner will be delayed by a further year. The Dubai-based airline Emirates, the largest customer for the new plane, said it would review its options following the announcement. Here is our business reporter Theo Legit.
It‘s the latest in a series of delays which have called the credibility of the 14-billion dollar project into question. Airbus says it‘s in discussions with its customers over how much compensation they will be paid. The company has announced plan for an aggressive cost-cutting program intended to save two and a half billion dollars a year. However, it is yet to confirm whether this will involve job losses at its plants in Germany, France and Britain. The parent company of Airbus, EADS, says that the delays to the A380 will cut 6 billion dollars from its profits over the next four years. Item 3
China has passed another milestone in the growth of its global economic influence. Its reserves of foreign currency have hit one trillion dollars. This massive sum has been built up by the success of China‘s exports which has created a huge trade surplus with the rest of the world. Our economic correspondent Andrew Walker reports.
This is yet another indication of China‘s fast-growing economic influence. Japan with around 860 billion dollars has the next largest reserves. The figure for the United States is less than a tenth of China‘s. this huge portfolio has been built up essentially as an indirect result of the surplus in China‘s trade with the rest of the world.
Unit 9
Section A
1 Ammunitions depot rocked
2 offensive operations
3 exchanged gunfire
4 handing to
5 NATO expansion
6 guerillas commando
7 pulled out move
8 battled with
9 court marshal
10 military presence
Section B
1 Lebanon is asking the United States to extend the term of an interim peacekeeping force following clashes between Hezbollah militia and Israeli forces over the past three days along a disputed border area separating the two countries
2 Saudi Arabia signed a multibillion-dollar arms deal to buy a new fleet of fighter aircraft from Britain .The terms of the deal are confidential, but reports from Saudi Arabia say that more than 70 jets have been purchased for nearly 20 million dollars
3 The United States armed forces have set up a new public relations unit to put across their version of events in Iraq and elsewhere eight months after the Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said they lagged behind America‘s enemies in the propaganda war
4 Top US defense officials say the United States hopes to sharply reduce its forces in Iraq by the middle of next year
5 The America secretary of state Condoleezza Rice has signed an agreement which will enable the United States to set up four permanent military bases in Romania
Section c
Item 1
The Americans say they‘ve carried out a successful test of their anti-missile defense system. The missile defense agency said an improved interceptor missile, launched from an airbase in
California, homed in on a dummy armed missile fired from Alaska abd destroyed it. Only five of the ten tests carried out before this exercise had been successful. At a news conference in the Pentagon, the head of the US missile defense agency Lieutenant General Henry Obeying said the test represented significant progress in protecting the US and its allies
Item 2
A United Nations disarmament conference is underway in Japan. Involving government officials and experts from 15 countries, officials say at the three-day conference in Yokohama, the participants plan to discuss nuclear programs in North Korea and Iran and regional security. Among the participants of the conference are Japan, the United States and Iran. Japanese public broadcaster NHK reports that a global framework which has been failing apart. The envoy says that the United States, a major nuclear weapons-possessing nation, is not cooperating in nuclear arms reduction
Item 3
Thousands of Marine Corps reservists in the United Nations face the prospect of being recalled to military duty and send to Iraq or Afghanistan because of a shortage of volunteers to fill specialist roles. The call has been given permission by president bush to order up to 2,500reservists to report for duty in the first instance. This is the first the US marine have used such a procedure, known as ―involuntary recalls‖, since the invasion of Iraq in 2003. The call said it was facing a shortfall of about 1,200 marines in units due to be deployed in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Section D
North Korea fired a 7th missile today hours after earlier missile tests sparked international condemnation. Six of the missiles fired were short-range and fell into the Sea of Japan, one was the long-range Taepodong-II rocket, which is capable of reaching the united states . the white house says officials believed the missile failed less than one minute after launch and was not aborted. It fell into the Sea of Japan. North Korea‘s foreign ministry described the missile tests as a matter of national sovereignty. Ministry officials say no country has the right to judge North Korea for carrying out the tests. The United Nations Security Council is holding an emergency session today to discuss the tests. White house spokesman Tony Snow says the key is to get North Korea back to the six-party disarmament talks. He says the United States and its foreign negotiating partners in the talks will determine together how to move forward.