英语新闻听力教程（杨世登）答案UNIT2

Unit 2 Visits and Talks
Section A
1.Japan’s Foreign Minister has arrived in Baghdad for an unannounced visit---the first to the
Iraqi capital by a Japanese minister since U.S.-led invasion in 2003.
2.President Bush is en route back to Washington after a final stop in Eastern Europe.
3.V enezuelan President Hugo Chavez got a standing ovation with a speech against President
Bush at Cooper Union in New Y ork City last night.
4.Diplomats say a measure of progress has been made at talks in London to end the border
dispute between Ethiopia and Eritrea.
5.Diplomats say negotiators will return to their capitals for three weeks to confer with their
governments after they failed to reach an agreement on a joint statement.
6.European leaders have concluded their first session of negotiations to try to break political
deadlock over the Union’s long-term budget.
7.The Ugandan rebel Lord’s Resistance Army, the LRA, says it’s walked out of peace talks with
the government aimed at ending two decades of conflict in the north of the country.
8.Russian and American officials say they’ve reached agreement on Russia’s entry into the
World Trade Organizaiton. They plan to sign the agreement in Hanoi next week.
9.U.S. and Russian negotiators remained at odds Wednesday in a growing diplomatic standoff
over Iran’s suspected nuclear program.
10.NA TO foreign ministers have wrapped up two days of talks focusing on the future of missions
in Afghanistan, Iraq and Kosovo as well as prospect for peace in the Middle East and the situation in Sudan’s Darfur region.
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 Russian president 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 Asian 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
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 jiont news conference that the talks were candid and reinforced trust and confidence in each other. Aahead 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
And a meeting in New Y ork between the foreign ministers of Guatemala andV enezuela 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 V enezuelan Foreign Minister Micolas Maduro blamed Guatemala for the ongoing impasse. He said it has shown no interest in agreeing to a compromised candidate.
Item 3
Africa’s first female elected leader met with President Bush at the White House today. Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf 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 reporters today that she 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 Nazarbayev 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 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 Eluc igot 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 warning
It expires until 2012. U.N. studies show that global warming could melt polar icecaps and push thousands of species close to extinction.
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 site demonstrators smashed car windows and fought with riot police. Some tried to storm barricades surrounding the conference site and dozens were arrested.
Keys:
Section A 1-4 BDBC
Section B 1-5 BADAC
Section C
Item1 2.5.7.8
Item2 Task1 FFFTF
Task2 1.failed deadlock non-permanent member
2 the ongoing impasse
3 no interest compromised candidate
Item3 1. Africa's first female elected leader/Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Dirleaf.
2. INthe Oval Office.
3. The two had lunch together.
4. Hand over Liberia's former president.
5. War crimes charges.
6. Fueling a civil war in Liberia.
Section D
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
Item2 Task 1 AC
Task 2 FFTTF
Item3 1. Aid to African and environment protection.
2. They are expected to endorse a write-off of more than 40 billion dollars in debt owed by 18 African country mainly in the sub-Saharan region.
3. President Bush said he would emphasize the need for African nation 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 conference site and dozens were arrested.。