新世纪高等院校本科生系列教材(修订版)听力教程4 Unit 1-10 Listening and translation 和news item.

U4News 1

France's busiest airport will reopen part of a terminal that was not damaged when a segment of the roof collapsed in May, killing four people.

The Transport Minister Gilles de Robien said a segment of the three-building 2E terminal at Charles de Gaulle airport would return to service on July 15. In the May 23 disaster, failing glass, steel and masonry killed four travelers -- two Chinese,

one Czech and one Lebanese. Three others were injured.

A preliminary report by experts said Tuesday that a weakness in the concrete that formed the futuristic terminal's vaulted roof may have contributed to the collapse.

Officials are still unsure about what exactly caused it to collapse.

News 2

An Antonov 26 plane crashed in northwestern Congo shortly after take-off on Saturday, killing all 22 Congolese passengers and the crew.

It was not known how many crew members were on the plane when it crashed near the town of Boende, more than 600 km northeast of the capital Kinshasa. The cause of the crash was unknown.

A string of accidents this week has underlined the parlous* state of Democratic Republic of Congo's transport infrastructure* after five years of war and decades of misrule.

More than 160 people drowned when a ferry sank during a storm on Lake Mai-Ndombe, north east of Kinshasa, on Tuesday.

On Saturday, 18 people were killed or injured when a small truck experienced brake trouble and crashed near the eastern town of Goma.

News3

In the United States lawyers for Raed Jarrar, an airline passenger forced to cover his T- shirt because it displayed an Arabic script, say he has been awarded a total of $240,000 in compensation.

Lawyers representing Raed Garrar say the Payout is a victory for free speech and a blow to the practice of racial profiling. Back in 2006 Mr Jarrar

read”We will not be silent” in English and Arabic. His lawyer claim he was ordered to remove the item of clothing by staff who said other passengers felt uncomfortable with the Arabic slogan. He eventually agreed to cover the shirt and boarded the plane, but says he was made to sit at the back.

U5News1

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says Israel will not agree to a truce in Gaza unless an Israeli solider held by Palestinian militants is freed. Gilad Shalit was captured by Palestinian militants in 2006. There have been reports that Egypt was close to brokering a long-term truce between Hamas and Israel. A punishing three-week Isreaeli assault on Gaza aimed at stopping militant rocket fire on Israel ended with separate ceasefires in January. The uneasy calm has been punctuated by exchanges of fire between the two sides. On Thursday, Hamas officials said they expected a truce with Israel to be announced within days.

News2

There were fierce battles in Gaza on Friday as Hamas and Israel both rejected a United Nations call for an immediate ceasefire. The densely populated area faces shortages of food, medicine, water and electric power. Israel says its air and ground attacks are targeting only Hamas-related targets. It blames the Palestinian group for positioning fighters and rockets in civilian areas.

Hamas continued to fire rockets into southern Israel. A Hamas leader said in Damascus that the call for a truce would mean a surrender. But he also said Hamas was preparing to send a delegation to Cairo to further discuss an Egyptian peace plan.

The United states didn’t vote on the ceasefire resolution passed Thursday by the Security Council.

Friday, the top U.N. human rights official called for an independent investigation into possible war crimes by both sides in the conflict.

Gaza medical officials say more than eight hundred Palestinians have been

Israelis have been killed, including at least nine soldiers. Hamas rockets have hit farther inside Israel than before. Fighting continued Saturday.

News3

Israel tanks and soldiers are beginning to withdraw from Gaza and life in the Strip is beginning to return to some sort of normality, as a tense calm follows threee weeks of fighting between Israel and Hamas.

There were traffic jams on the road north, families heading to Gaza City to renunite with friends and relatives. Long lines of cars backed up at the makeshift road blocks the Israelis have left behind. But the tanks are gone, only the deep tracks remain.

The destruction has largely been inflicted on the Hamas infrastructure : police stations, military outposts, government buildings.

For three weeks the Israelis pounded the tunnels that run beneath the perimeter wall but people insist that some of these tunnels are still open and still some fuel is being pumped from the Egyptain side. They say they are determined to reopen them andto dig them deeper. If the border crossing s remain closed, these tunnels are their only link to the outside world.

U6News 1

USSecretary of State Hillary Clinton has said that the US is keen to broaden and deepen its ties with Asia. Speaking to the BBC ahead of an Asian tour, Mrs Clinton said North Korea’s unclear plans, the economic cri sis and climate change would top the agenda. Her week-long tour will take in Japan, China, South Korea and Indonesia. The stops reflect the diversity if ties the US has in the region. Going to Asia signals that the US is not just a transatlantic power but a transpacific power. She also stressed that the US is not just keen to work more collaboratively with China. Mrs Clinton said there real opportunities to develop a good relationship with Beijing on issues such as climate change and clean energy. It is the first time in 60 years that a secretary of state has made Asia the destination of a first trip in office.

News 2

A new round of six-nation talks on North Korea's nuclear program will be held next week in Beijing.

The talks involving China, Russia, Japan, the United States, and North and South Korea have been scheduled for June 23-26. Working group talks set for June 21-22 will lay the groundwork for discussions later in the week.

Beijing has already hosted two rounds of the so-called six-party talks, but both have made little headway into resolving the standoff*.

China hopes all sides will deepen their discussions based on previously reached agreements, including to resolve.the crisis peacefully through dialogue and reaching the final goal of a nuclear freed Korean Peninsula.

The United States and its key Asian allies, South Korea and Japan, have been pushing Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear program since the extent of the program became known in December 2002.

News3

At a major security forum, Vice President Joe Biden said the new US administration was determined to strike a new tone in its relations around the world. It also wanted to press the “reset button” in ties with Russia after a “dangerous drift” in recent years, and was open to talks with Iran. B ut while the US was ready to do more, it would expect more from its partners. The new US vice president also warned no strategy in Afghanistan in the region was a security threat for all countries, not just the US. Mr Biden’s wide-ranging speech to international leaders and security experts in Munich set out foreign policy directions for the Obama administration and also covered climate change and the global economic crisis.

U7 News1

One in thee of us will be diagnosed with cancer during our life. The disease tends to affect older people——but can strike at any time. Excluding certain skin cancers, there were more than 270,000 new cases of disease in

breast, are becoming more common, while new cases of lung cancer fall away due to the drop in the number of smokers. However, while the overall number of new cancers is not falling, the good news is that successful rates for many of the most common types are improving rapidly.

News2

A new World Bank study warns that HIV and AIDS may damage African economies far worse than had been believed. The reports said African nations with high rates of AIDS could see as much as half of their entire domestic product disappear within 90 years. The study shows that AIDS kills mostly young adults. Many children are then left without parents. It said children whose parents die of AIDS are less likely to complete their education. As a result, they failed to gain the skills to make them productive adults. The study said that immediate action must be taken to keep infected people alive so that they can care for and educate their children.

News3

The annual AIDS report from the United Nations said Tuesday that almost 5 million people became infected with HIV last year -- the largest number of new infections since the disease was discovered in 1981.

The report called for expanded AIDS-prevention efforts, which it said reach just one in five people worldwide.

The face of AIDS has become increasingly female and young -- nearly half of the almost 38 million people infected with HIV worldwide are women and half are between the ages of 15 and 24.

Almost three million people died from AIDS last year, bringing to more than 20 million the number of AIDS deaths in more than two decades.

Sub-Saharan Africa -- with just I 0 percent of the world's population is home to more than 60 percent of people living with HIV -- remained the hardest-hit region. An estimated 25 million people are infected with HIV, 2.2 million in the last year.

U8News1

A car bomb has exploded in eastern Columbia. At least five civilians have been killed. Two of them were children. The explosion took place near a military base where 70 United States special forces soldiers are training Columbian troops. Officials say a military security group that was passing by was the target. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack. Officials are offering a $17,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest. In another development reports say the president has increased his security. The move follows reports that Columbia's largest rebel group is planning to kill the president.

News 2

The Government of Mail says all 14 Europeans held hostage by Algerian militants in

the Sahara Desert have been released. A Malian official said the former hostages are with government officials. The hostages include 9 Germans, 4 Swiss and I Dutchmen. They were held for 5 months. Officials gave no details about the hostages' condition. Officials also did not say if they paid the militants to release the hostages. The hostages were among 32 Europeans kidnapped by militants in southern Algeria in February. The Algerian army freed 17 of the hostages in a rescue operation in May. One hostage is said to have died of the extreme heat.

News3

American's Secretary of State Colin L. Powell* says negotiators are close to an agreement for Libya to accept responsibility for the bombing of a passenger plane over Scotland. Mr Powell spoke Monday after talks in London between American, British and Libyan officials. Reports say Libya would place almost $3,000 million in a Swiss bank for the families of those who died in the bombing. Libya would also declare that it accepts responsibility for the bombing of the Pam Am Airline in 1988. The explosion killed all 259 people on the plane. 11 others on the ground in Lockerbie were killed. A Libyan agent is in prison for life for placing a bomb on the plane.

U9 News1

Australian police are stopping some residents of bushfire-hit areas from returning to their homes, saying the scenes would be too gruesome. In Marysville, north of Melbourne, there were still a number of charred bodies to be removed. While 181 deaths have been confirmed across the affected area so far, there are dozens of people missing. Firefighters are still struggling against more than 20 fires, most of which are not yet under control. Authorities in the state of Victoria, which for four days have been ravaged by the worst bushfires in Australia’s history, say they are confidents of catching arsonists who they suspect are partly responsible. Police are searching for two men suspected of starting a blaze late on Tuesday, which is now threatening a town in the region. There have also been several reports of looting in the affected areas.

News2

The Palestinian authority has ordered security forces to find the militants responsible for the bombing in Jerusalem Tuesday. The attack killed twenty people and wounded more than one hundred others.

Earlier Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas ended communications with Hamas* and Islamic Jihad*. The two groups claimed the responsibility for the bombing. Hamas and Islamic Jihad officials say the attack does not mean an end to the cease-fire their groups announced in late June. The officials said the bombing was to answer the killing of one of their members.

Mr Abbas has cancelled the planned trip to Norway and Italy to deal with the crisis. Israel has cancelled the talks with Palestinians and planned surrender* of two Palestinian towns. The Israeli army also has closed all borders connecting to the West Bank and Gaza.

News3

A powerful winter storm battered parts of the UK and France on Monday, causing flooding and travel disruptions. The storm developed over the weekend from an area of low pressure off the western coast of France. It tracked through the English Channel on Monday, bringing heavy rain to southern Britain and hurricane force winds to northern France.

French Aviation officials ordered the closure of three airports in Paris on Monday, with wind gusts reaching 87mph (140kph) overnight. It is the second storm to hit France in less than a month. On Jan.24 winds of up to 118 mph(190kph) lashed the south-west of the country leaving four people dead and thousands without power.

The storm also brought a mixture of heavy rain, sleet and snow to much of southern Britain, along with gale force winds. Most of the snow fell across the Midlands and the south-west, with 7cm (2.7 inches) of snow falling in Nottingham through the 24 hours of Monday.

U10News1

NASA officials on Saturday ordered a 48-hour delay in the launch of an atmospheric studies

satellite after engineers discovered that a shield* was not aligned* properly.

The Aura satellite was to have been launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 3:01 a.m. Sunday.

An inspector spotted an apparent problem with the satellite's fairing* during a standard walkdown* Friday. The fairing is a shield that surrounds the satellite during liftoff. Aura, which cost $785 million to develop, carries instruments to study the composition of Earth's atmosphere.

The mission's goal is to answer questions about whether the depleted* stratospheric* ozone

Layer is recovering, what processes control air quality, and how climate is changing.

News2

Astronomers have discovered a planet orbiting a star in the constellation* Orion* -- without ever actually seeing it.

They watched the star, about 140 light-years or roughly 800 trillion miles away, and deduced the presence of a planet by how much the star twisted.

The planet, called HD 37605b, is a gas giant at least 2.8 times the mass of Jupiter. It is 123rd planet known beyond the solar system.

News3

A revitalized* Brazilian space program, whose morale and reputation were damaged by a deadly accident in 2003, will launch the country's first rocket by 2006.

The program was dealt a huge blow in August 2003 when its VLS rocket and launching platform exploded in a fiery ball at the space agency's Alcantara launch center in Maranhao state, 850 miles (1,400 kilometers) north of Brasilia. The accident killed 21 space agency employees.

A government report on the accident, issued earlier this year, blamed poor maintenance for a series of mechanical failures that led to the explosion. Space agency director resigned following lease of the report in March.