外研社版英语新闻听力Unit1-9 SectionA答案

1.Britain says Turkey’s dispute with Cyprus should not hold up the opening of negotiations next month on
Turkey’s eventual membership in the European Union.
2.The Bush Administration said Monday that progress is being made toward normal relations with Libya,
thought it discouraged talk of an imminent breakthough.
3.Russia has deported a planeload of Georgians it accused of being illegal migrants, and continued a
crackdown on Georgian-owned business.
4.The leaders of Brazil, India and South Africa have called for greater unity between the world’s
developing countries.
5.The United States has expressed gratitude to Syria for preventing an attack on the U.S. embassy in
Damascus in which three gunmen were killed and a fourth man was captured.
6.Chadian President Idriss Derby cut diplomatic ties with Sudan Friday after what he said was a
“Sudanese-backed rebel attack”on Chad’s capital N’djamena. Mr. Derby also has threateded to expel 200,000 refugees in Chad.
7.Chad and Sudan have opened their common border and reestablished diplomatic relations only a few
months after the two countries nearly went to war over alleged Sudanese support for Chadian rebels. 8.Relations between India and Pakistan have cooled with a mutual expulsion of diplomats. Officials in
India said they’d given a pakistani diplomat 48 hours to leave the country after Pakistan ordered the expulsion of an Indian diplomat.
9.Lebanon’s Prime Minister Fuad Siniora has challenged Syria to establish diplomatic relations and
demarcate their border.
10.Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he is preparing a formal request to President Bush for a long-term
security partnership that would include a permanent U.S. military presence.
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.Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez got a standing ovation with a speech against President Bush at
Cooper Union in New York 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.NATO 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.
1. A summit-level meeting of the UN Security Council has formally urged all member nations to outlaw
incitement to terrorism.
2.The United Nations is setting up a special fund to help it deal with some of the biggest natural or
man-made disasters as soon as possible after they happen.
3.Senior diplomats from the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany
gathered in New York today to map out a strategy to deal with Iran’s suspected nuclear weapons program.
4.The UN Security Council is expected to hold closed-door consultations today on a British-U.S.
peacekeeping plan for Sudan’s Darfur region.
5.Hollywood movie star and United Nations Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie is appealing for
international help in repatriating millions of Afghan refugees now living in Pakistan.
6.Meanwhile the United Nations Security Council is to hold an urgent meeting at the request of Lebanon
today on the crisis.
7.(The) United Nations General Assembly has opened in New York with forceful calls for action in the
Sudanese region of Darfur.
8.The United Nations is reporting signs of some progress in meeting global antipoverty goals set in 2000.
9.The United Nations Human Rights Committee has called on the American government to immediately
close all secret detention facilities and grant access to the Red Cross to anybody detained in connection with an armed conflict.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the United Nations’resolutions against North Korea leave
Pyongyang to choice but to return to the negotiating table.
1.The US has expressed concern following the completion of a two-billion-dollar arms deal between
Venezuela and Spain.
2.The former American presidential candidate John Kerry has apologized for controversial remarks he
made about US troops in Iraq. On Monday Senator Kerry warned students at a university in California that if they neglected their education they might get stuck in Iraq.
3.An Iranian government spokesman has denied charges that Iran is aiding the Lebanon-based Shiite
group Hezbollah. He also warned Isreal of dire consequences if it attacks Syria.
4.The US has condemned Tuesday’s military coup in Thailand and called for the restoration of democracy
as quickly as possible.
5.The US anti-drug chief has called for a strong military action by NATO forces to destroy the opium
industry in southern Afghanistan.
6.Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has threatened to cut off oil exports to the US. Speaking at a youth
festival in Caracas, Mr. Chavez accused the US government of aggression against Venezuela.
7.The US says it’s deeply troubled by Iran’s Guardian Council decision to bar more than 1000 presidential
candidates form running in next month’s elections.
8.Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam told reporters Tuesday the allegations that
money was diverted from charities to terror groups are completely baseless.
9.Iran has reiterated its determination to develop nuclear technology for peaceful uses.
10.The British Prime Minister Tony Blair and the German Chancellor Angela Merkel have stressed the
importance of raising international awareness of the threat posed by climate change.
1.The heaviest snowfalls in Japan for decades have killed at least five people. Blizzards in the north of the
country cut power supplies, disrupted road and rail links, and led to the cancellation of many domestic
flights.
2.Officials in Brazil have now extended an emergency to the entire Amazonas State in the Amazon Basin
because of worsening drought.
3.Officials in Indonesia say the number of people now known to have been killed by a powerful
earthquake that struck Java on Saturday morning has risen to more than 3,000. Many residents have spent the life outdoors, fearing more aftershocks.
4. A merry-go-round collapsed Saturday at a zoo in southern Spain, injuring 15 children and three adults.
5.Near Montreal workers are digging through debris, searching for people trapped by the collapse of a
highway overpass yesterday. Tons of concrete crushed at least two cars.
6.Relief supplies are beginning to arrive in some of the towns worst-affected by the devastating South
Asian earthquake five days ago, but its distribution is failing to reach all areas.
7.Severe storms and at least one tornado left a trail of damage through parts of Indiana last night.
Forecasters say more storms are expected tonight and tomorrow.
8.Swarms of desert locusts are threatening crops in northern Ethiopia.
9.And a tropical storm that has already killed more than 30 people in El Salvador has become a hurricane
as it heads towards Mexico.
10.Spanish officials are battling to reduce the impact of a highly toxic chemical spill into the Umia River
in the northwestern region of Galicia. A fire at a chemical plant caused the spill. The three-kilometer slick is slowly heading towards the Atlantic Ocean, killing fish and plants in its path.
1.Life expectancy in the US has reached a record high. That’s according to statistics released today by the
federal government.
2.Federal health regulators say two more women have died after using the abortion pill RU-486.
3.Officials in Leesburg, Virginia say nearly a thousand girl scouts may have been exposed to rabies.
4.The number of Indonesian children infected with the crippling polio virus has risen to 155 with a
discovery of 33 new cases in the last two weeks.
5.Researchers investigating the H5N1 strain of bird flu say it provokes an excessive immune reaction.
6.India is struggling to cope with outbreaks of mosquito-borne disease that have killed more than 100
people and infected thousands of others in recent weeks.
7.More than 5,000,000 Californians will receive significant discounts on prescription medicines under a
deal reached with the governor and legislative leaders.
8.The UN is launching a global campaign today to help millions of children affected by AIDS.
9.Taiwan says it’s making its own version of the best-selling antiviral drug Tamiflu whether its original
manufacturers ultimately agree or not.
10.Medicare officials say enrollment in the new prescription drug benefit has reached its target even before
next month’s deadline.
1.An interim prime minister has finally been chosen to lead Ivory Coast to presidential elections next
year.
2.Six British officials have quit their government post over the refusal of Prime Minister Tony Blair to
name a date for resigning as the leader of the Labor Party.
3.The United States’ first National Intelligence Director John Negroponte was sworn in Wednesday.
4.Afghanistan’s Interior Minister Ali Ahmad Jalali says he will step down to resume his academic career
in the United States.
5.The president has named U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman to be his new budget chief.
6.Indigenous Maori leaders in New Zealand have named a new king. Fifty-one-year-old Tuheitia Paki is
the elder son of the previous monarch who died last week at the age of 75 after a reign of 40 years.
7. A Republican congressman in the US has resigned after admitting he took nearly 2.5 million dollars in
bribes from a defense contractor.
8.President Bush has tapped lawmaker Robert Portman to be the nation’s new top trade negotiator.
9.Sweden’s new Trade Minister Maria Borelius is resigning over allegations of tax evasion after just one
week in office.
10.President Bush has responded to a severe setback in mid-term elections by replacing Donald Rumsfeld
as defense secretary after some six years in the job. Mr. Bush said Mr. Rumsfeld had agreed it was time for a fresh perspective. A former director of the CIA Robert Gates has been nominated to take over the Pentagon.
1.In India, five million news subscribers are signing up for mobile phone connections every month as the
wireless telecommunication market booms.
2.General Motors has started the white-collar layoffs it’s promised as it struggles to become more
competitive.
3.The Commerce Department says consumer spending weakened in February after an upsurge in
January.
4. A Dubai company says it’s ready to give up its attempt to take over some management operations at six
US seaports.
5.Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree opening up the country’s biggest company, the
energy giant Gazprom, to foreign investors.
6. A strong set of jobs numbers from the Labor Department has raised inflation concerns and caused an
upsurge in interest rates.
7.The US has proposed cutting by 60% those subsidies to its farmers that distort world trade.
8.The world’s biggest retailer, the American company Wal-Mart, has reported its first drop in profits for
more than 10 years. They’ve fallen by 26% in the past three months mainly because of costs linked to the sale of its businesses in Germany.
9.General Motors is selling most of its stake in Japanese automaker Suzuki.
10.AT&T says it will buy BellSouth for 67 billion dollars in stock, a move the company says will offer
substantial financial benefits for stockholders of both companies.
1. A fire at a US ammunitions depot in southern Baghdad last night ignited ordnance and set off
explosions that rocked the Iraqi capital for hours.
2.The US military has launched a new offensive in western Iraq against what they say are “insurgents
linked to al-Qaeda”, the latest in a series of such operations.
3.Two US navy warships exchanged gunfire with suspected pirates off the coast of Somalia today.
4.India has arrested a soldier for allegedly handing secret military documents to a Pakistani official,
sparking a new diplomatic controversy between the two nuclear-armed neighbors.
5.Meanwhile a senior US State Department official says any further NATO expansion should wait until at
least 2008.
6.In Afghanistan, a US military spokesman has denied Taliban claims that guerillas captured and executed
a US Special Forces commando.
7.The British Army has pulled out of one of its biggest bases in southern Iraq. Officers said the move
followed an assessment that Iraqi police were capable of dealing with any continuing security problems in the area in Maysan province.
8.Pakistani forces battled with insurgents along the Afghan border today, killing nearly 50 people.
9. A member of the US Navy has testified at his court marshal in California that he watched as two
American marines shot an Iraqi civilian in the head.
10.Parliament in Canada is deciding whether the Canadian military presence in Afghanistan should be
extended by another two years.。