新闻听力教程

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 action 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 5. informal 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 DB 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 trapped crushed 6. relief supplies devastating7. tornado forecasters 8. locusts 9. tropical storm hurr