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CNN STUDENT NEWSMarch 20THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.CARL AZUZ, CNN ANCHOR: There are many theories about what happened to a missing Malaysia Airlines plane, but confirmed information is hard to come by. We`ll tell you what we know today on CNN STUDENT NEWS.It`s been 13 days since the flight with 239 people aboard vanished over Southeast Asia. There are 26 countries involved in the search. The area is almost 3 million square miles from Eastern Europe to the Southern Indian Ocean. It even extends to the pilot`s house. A flight simulator was there, and yesterday, Malaysian officials said some files have been deleted from its hard drive. Investigators are trying to recover those to see if they hold any clues, though it could be just another dead end. U.S. officials say the aircraft`s most likely location is the bottom of the Indian Ocean.(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)TOM FOREMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The big complete area is still enormous. You are still talking about an area around the size of the United States. But the area they are focused on most today is about the size of Arizona. Remember, we`ve talked about these two arcs out here, the northern and southern arcs. This is along the southern arcs. And they are specifically focused on this area about 1400 miles or so away from the West Coast of Australia. This is a moving target, by the way. This was bigger yesterday. You put it on the floor now. And it was a little bit further to the West, but because of drifting patterns and things like that, they adjusted with the hours. This is all based on something from mathematics called Bayesian theory, which is basically saying, as all of your parameters change hour to hour, day to day in a search, you adjust the probability of where you will find it. And now that equation has led them to focus most on this area.And one of the reasons we know they are focusing on it so far or so hard right now, is this, this airplane. This is the P8 Poseidon, it`s made by the Navy, or the Navy has them out there. This is the result of a $35 billion program. Each plane costs around a quarter billion dollars. And many people consider this the most effective sub-hunting plane in the world now because when it looks down at all this water, which you and I would look at with our eyes, we would see sunlight glinting off, and making it hard for us to see things. And we might see white caps. And all sorts of things that make it visually hard to see something. It uses radar to scan many, many, many miles of this. Thousands in a day to spot even little tiny items. So, the fact that this plane, this quarter billion dollar plane has been moved down to search that specific area, shows you that their sense of probability that it could be one of the more important search areas has reason substantially. It doesn`t mean they aregoing to find anything, but it means they think they might fight debris on the surface. But remember, even if you find something on the surface, even if all the calculations by NTSB and everybody else says it should be down here somewhere, if you find something, the bigger challenge lies ahead, because this plane vanished over about 200 feet of water. But if you fly into this part of the Indian Ocean, and you keep going down below the surface, look what you get - you get the kind of topography that you would get on the surface. A geography of hills and ridges and valleys and all sorts of places where that pinger that they might search for could be difficult to locate.(END VIDEOTAPE)AZUZ: The families of the missing are in anguish. They are frustrated with the lack of search progress. Some accused the Malaysian government of withholding information. There is some technology that was launched too late to help with this incident. But astronaut Chris Hadfield describes how it could help in the future.(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)CHRIS HADFIELD, RETIRED CANADIAN ASTRONAUT: Five weeks ago, the space station released 28 little tiny satellite cameras that are now orbiting the world. They are about the size of a long skinny shoebox. And each of them goes around the world every 90 minutes, and they can see things down maybe to about the size of a car.The beauty of those will be, they will take a picture of basically every second, and you go five miles a second. So, every five miles they will take a picture of the world and continuously stream that information back to us, giving us a look at the planet like we`ve never before.(END VIDEO CLIP)UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Time for the "Shoutout." What`s the world`s oldest currency still in use? Is it, the British pound, Indian rupee, Japanese yen, or Swiss franc? You`ve got three seconds, go!The British pound was established more than 1,000 years ago when Anglo- Saxon kingdoms began using sterlings or silver currency. That`s your answer and that`s your "Shoutout."AZUZ: There`s a new pound in town, at least there will be in 2017, and here it is. 12 sides, two metals, two tone. The United Kingdom made the change in hopes of confounding counterfeiters. This is supposed to be the world`s most secure coin. Britain`s Royal Mint estimates that three percent of the pound coins currently in circulation are fakes. That would total out to about 46 million pounds or $76 million. Making the new coin will cost the country. New machinery will be needs. And wending machine operator will have to altertheir machines to accept the new coin. And that will cost them. But one expert says, it`s also wending machines that tend to be ripped off the most by fakes.The current pound coin was introduced 30 years ago. At today`s exchange rate it`s worth about a $1.66.Now, if converting currency or doing any kind of math for that matter really, really bothers you, it just might be in your genes. As in genetics. A new study out of Ohio State University looked at people`s anxiety levels when it comes to math. It found that the genetics aren`t the main reason why some people dread numbers or angles or solving for X. But it may account for 40 percent of the reason. That if your parents or your siblings struggle with math, you might two. Other reasons for math anxiety may be even bigger reasons include environment. So, if you don`t get enough support at school, for example it may make you anxious. And if others in your family get that way about math, it could make the problem worth.Why does this matter if you`ve still got to learn and then do math? Researchers say that the more aware educators are about students anxiety, the more prepared they`ll be to tailor their lesson plans to help.There`s plenty of math in figure skating from the triple axels and quad touloups (ph) we saw in the Sochi Olympics to angular momentum and vertical velocity. Physics, that`s factored in to those jumps. But there`s a broader reason why Sharon Cohen is getting young people involved. She`s working to help a group of girls in Harlem, on and off the ice. She`s a CNN Hero and a woman improving other women`s life this women`s history month.(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I love the crispy feeling of the air. The sound of my skate crunching on the ice. Skating relieves me from everything. I just want to fly, I just don`t want to stop.SHARON COHEN: I heard that there were some girls who wanted to figure skate in Harlem. Growing up I was a competitive figure skater and I knew that skating was not a diverse sport. There was not access for kids in low-income communities. They were so eager to get started I began teaching them and it was really inspiring to me. Now, we serve over 200 girls a year.Wow! Look at those spins! You did it!The best part about skating is that it gives you qualities that you use for the rest of your life. They gain discipline, perseverance.Step, cross. Step, cross. Excellent, girls.They fall down and they get back up and they learn they can do that in anything. It`s a building block. Skating is the hook, but education comes first.UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Is that how you spell when?UNIDENTIFIED GIRLS: Oh.COHEN: Before they even get on the ice, they have to get their homework done, they get tutoring. The minimum of three afternoons a week.UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: So that`ll be Z minus 12.UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Algebra was not my best subject and I failed it. Ms. Sharon hired a special tutor for me that felt like, hey, you have to get back up.It was that simple?Now, I`m doing way better in school.UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Ladies and gentlemen, Harlem Ice.COHEN: We want girls to believe and know they can do anything they put their hearts and minds to.(APPLAUSE)UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It`s not all about skating. Miss Sharon is teaching us to be the best we can be in life.(END VIDEOTAPE)AZUZ: We are headed west for today`s CNN STUDENT NEWS roll call like really far west. In the Pacific state of Hawaii, we`ve got the bulldogs on today`s roll. They are watching from Le Jardin Academy in Kailua (ph). Back in the continent, hello to Roosevelt Junior High School in Roosevelt, Utah. That`s Roosevelt isn`t teddy because these are the rough writers. And one state south, it`s all about the bears and grizzlies. They are online in Shonto Preparatory Middle and High School in Shonto, Arizona ...Probably, you can`t get college credit for this, especially from the professors who wrote some of these books. But a group of students in Poland did get a Guinness world record for knocking them down like dominoes. They lined up 4998 books, don`t know why they didn`t just go for an even 5,000, but with one quick tip they toppled the previous record of4845 books. And earned themselves a place in the record. Book. Might not be the most productive chapter in their lives, but the experiment didn`t put them in a bind, it fell together nicely, it moved at a steady page. They were domino problems, even though they had a lot of ground to cover. I can read your thoughts from here. We`ve reached the tipping point with these puns. So, we`ll close the book on today`s show and hope you`ll book ten minutes with us again on Friday.END作业地址/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=21&extra=page%3D1。
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1 College Diet大学食谱With all their classes, tuition bills and homework, many college students don't make eating right a priority. 大学生们上课、交学费、做功课，却不把正确饮食当回事。
When I have a lot of tests, or I have to do a lot of studying, I have to get something fast.For lunch, it's really whatever I can grab. I usually snack. 我的确是抓到什么吃什么。
经常吃零食。
Fast foods like French fries, chicken tenders and hamburgers, are college dining halls most popular items, according to recent surveys. Carol Kelley, a nutritionist at Emory University, gave us a lesson in college diets, 101. 据最新调查发现，象法国炸薯条、嫩鸡肉和汉堡包那样的快餐是大学食堂最受常见的食品。
爱莫利大学的营养学家卡罗尔·凯利给我们上一堂大学饮食的初级课。
Students will choose foods that are quick and easy to eat, on the run, and sometimes that comes at the expense of having more balance with their diet.卡罗尔·凯利学生，总会选些快而简单的食品来吃，边走边吃，但有时候，这是以饮食失衡为代价的。
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CNN 新闻100 篇CNN News Item 1 政治：美国因安全问题关闭在也门的大使馆The U.S. government closes its embassy in the Middle Eastern country of Y emen, and that is because of security concerns. One official says that a group called al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula might be planning an attack against the facility. That same group said it was behind an attempted plot to set off an explosive onboard a plane heading to Detroit, Michigan. That took place on Christmas day. The suspect allegedly brought the explosives on the plane in his underwear. The plan failed when the device he tried to use didn’t detonate correctly. Some people have asked how the suspect made it past security. One U.S. official says it’s because of human error. President Obama has promised that everyone involved in the attack will be held accountable for it. But some critics argue that the president’s response to the situation hasn’t been fast enough, hasn’t been aggressive enough.CNN News Item 2 政治：印度石油工人结束三天的罢工It’s back to work for Indian government oil worker s after a three-day strike that crippled Indian commerce. Some 45,000 oil workers walked off the job after the government refused their demands for higher pay. The labor standoff ended after days of intense government pressure, including threats of job loss and even arrest to strikers. Meantime, talks with a second group of nationwide strikers may soon be underway. The Indo-Asian News-Service says India’s transport minister is ready to discuss demands from truckers. Many across India have parked their rigs, calling for reduction in diesel and tyre prices.CNN News Item 3 政治：备受争议的安全港法案修正案获得通过Lawmakers in Nebraska have approved a big change to the state’s controversial safe haven law. Under the new measure, children older than 30 days can not b e dropped off at state hospitals. 35 children, many of them, preteens or even teenagers, have been abandoned in hospitals since the original law took effect in July. State lawmakers say it was intended to prevent newborns from being dumped in trash bins or even worse. The new law is expected to go into effect at midnight.CNN News Item 4 政治：欧美担心伊朗建国会发生暴乱The nation of Iran marking a milestone later on this week. On Thursday, the country will celebrate the anniversary of when it became an Islamic republic. This goes back to 1979, when supporters of the Ayatollah Khomeini, a religious leader, overthrew the country’s government. Khomeini became the supreme leader of Iran, and the nation officially became an Islamic state. The United States and the European Union are worried about potential violence during Thursday’s celebrations. U.S. and Euro pean Union are urging the Middle Eastern nation to “end its abuses against its own people.” Iranian leaders have denied any accusations that the government has abused citizens.CNN News Item 5 政治：伊拉克全国选举投票结束Iraqis put democracy into action today in elections held across the country. The polls have closed and a vote-counting has begun. Voters went to 6,000 polling stations to pick from among 14,000 candidates including 4,000 women. Security is very tight though, voters were searched before they entered the polls. The borders with Iran and Syria were sealed and a curfew has been put into place. Now even the United Nations was involved in monitoring those elections.CNN News Item 6 政治：伊朗前总统将参加六月份总统竞选Iranian media reports former President Mohammad Khatami has announced he will run in the June presidential elections. T oday’s announcement ends weeks of speculation. Khatami is considered a reformist and overwhelmingly won the presidency in 1997 but h e couldn’t bring about religious and democratic freedoms because of strong opposition from the country’s religious establishment. Khatami was succeeded by current President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad four years ago.CNN News Item 7 政治：奥巴马行程Meanwhile U.S. President Barack Obama is taking crisis talks to an international level. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is traveling to the United States on Monday to push for global solutions to the economic crisis. He will be the first E.U. leader to meet the new president in Washington and Mr. Obama will meet the remaining E.U. leaders at a special summit in Prague in April. That will be his first trip to Europe since taking office. Also on that trip, the G20 summit on the economic crisis and a NATO meeting. CNN News Item 8 政治：英国航空公司机舱服务员罢工计划Strike is off, the judge says plans for a walkout by a British Airway’s Cabin Crew cannot happen. As we reported yesterday, this strike which would have last through the holidays could have effected a million passengers’ holiday t ravel plans. But the judge has blocked it from happening. Now the airline says it hopes the Cabin Crews Labor Union would take some time to think about its next steps. The union representatives say this dispute is not over and unless the two sides can come to a solution,they could vote to strike again, but after Christmas.CNN News Item 9 政治：泰国内乱Heading overseas to Thailand where grenade attacks in the capital city of Bangkok have killed at least three people. A Thai official said the grenades came from an area where people who were protesting the government were gathered together. The protesters say they are not responsible. They have been fighting with police for a while here you can see them throwing rocks and other things at police. They support the country’s former prime minister and they want the current leader to leave office. After these recent attacks, Thailand’s prime minister called an emergency meeting to figure out how to deal with the situation.CNN News Item 10 政治：十字架纪念碑争议获最高法院裁定U.S. Supreme Court says that a memorial out in the Mojave Desert does not violate the U.S. Constitution. The memorial is a large cross. It was put up in 1934 to honor fallen soldiers. But it’s located in a national park, and some people argue that it’s a religious symbol that goes against the concept of separation of church and state. The cross was boarded up because of the legal battle. Y esterday’s Supreme Court decision was close: 5 to 4. Writing for the majority, Justice Anthony Kenned y said that this cross represents “far more than religion.” But in opposition, Justice John Paul Stevens argued the government can’t lawfully endorse a religious symbol as a way to pay tribute to veterans.CNN News Item 11 政治：三名美国人质关押五年后获自由Freed at last after five years in captivity, three Americans held hostage by leftist rebels in Colombia are back on U.S. soil and will be reunited with their families. Marc Gonsalves, Thomas Howes and Keith Stansell were among those rescued during an incredible operation yesterday. Columbian secret agents tricked leftist rebels into handing them over without a single shot being fired. The men are now undergoing tests at an army medical center in San Antonio, T exas.CNN News Item 12 政治：奥巴马总统的医疗改革案阻力重重Health care reform enters a new era in about two hours. President Obama is scheduled to sign that bill into law. Then, he is going to travel around the country to sell the plan to skeptics. But Republicans say that battle is on to get ready for legal challenges, nearly a dozen states plan to argue that it’s not constitutional. As early as tomorrow, the debate moves to the Senate where lawmakers will consider a companion measure, and Republicans plan, parliamentary objections that could change that bill and force it back to the House. Now, even before the first votes were cast in the health care debate, Barack Obama’s overall approval rating dropped to his lowest level ever recorded.CNN News Item 13 政治：美国参议员和众议员本月会面商讨医改终案Members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives will be meeting this month to put together a final health care reform bill. The Senate passed its version on Christmas Eve. The House had already passed its bill. But there are some pretty big differences between the two. One of them: cost. The Senate bill checks in at $871 billion. The House version: Over $1 trillion. Another issue: the so-called public option, a government-run health insurance program. House bill includes it; S enate bill doesn’t. So, some compromises need to be made to come up with a final bill. And since that then has to be approved by both Houses of Congress, there are some concerns about whether it will pass.CNN News Item 14 政治：津巴布韦总统遭遇国际压力Another day of international pressure levied against Zimbabwe’s embattled President Robert Mugabe. British officials have announced they are stripping Robert Mugabe’s honorary knighthood title. Nobel Prize winner Desmond T utu is also speaki ng out about the election mess there. He’s urging the nations of the world to intervene. The calls come after opposition leader Morgan T svangirai withdrew from the election, citing violence against his party. The Zimbabwean Electoral Commission ruled today that the presidential election will go on as planned.CNN News Item 15 政治：茶党出炉支持和反对的候选人名单The T ea Party movement is getting ready for the mid-term elections coming up in November. The group has released a list of heroes and targets. The heroes on the list are candidates that the T ea Party plans to support in the elections. The targets are anyone that the group would like to see voted out of office. Of course lists are not the only way that the T ea Party gets its message out. Rallies are the group’s bread and butter. This one in Washington DC yesterday was a wrapping up of a three-week tour across the U.S. The timing? No coincidence. Y esterday, of course, was tax day. And the group is opposed to what it sees as the government overspending.CNN News Item 16 政治：奥巴马欲与伊朗冰释前嫌T oday marks the 30th anniversary of the Iranian hostage crisis. And President Obama said that he wants to move beyond the past and build a relationship with Iran based on mutual interest and mutual respect. U.S.-Iran relations had been hostile since the day that Islamic students stormed the U.S. embassy in T ehran and held 52 Americans hostage for more than 400 days. Iran’s governmentholds rally every year to celebrate that event. T oday there’s something different though, anti-government protesters are also on the streets. We are also getting some reports of clashes with those police. No word about any injury yet.CNN News Item 17 政治：参议员考虑医疗保健立法的部分替代方案Senators are considering alternatives to part of their healthcare legislation, specifically, the so-called public option, government-run health insurance program. Senate republicans and some democrats and independents are against that plan. A group of Democratic Senators was working to come up with some other ideas they could replace the public option. And late last night, they said they had reached an agreement. If the Senate passes its healthcare bill, that does not make it law, woul d still need to be combined with Health bill and then that final version would need to pass both the House and the Senate.CNN News Item 18 经济：施瓦辛格呼吁立法者关注加州财政赤字Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger says he refuses to borrow money to keep his state running, he wants legislators to focus on the state's 24 billion dollar deficit or the state could be forced to cut thousands of jobs, eliminate health care for a million low income children. Meanwhile lawmakers are debating hundreds of other bills including creating a state blueberry commission. Banning toy cigarette lighters and mandating a larger font size for medical worker name tags.CNN News Item 19 经济：丰田汽车公司感谢美交通部长对召回事件的澄清Ray LaHood, the head of the U.S. Transportation Department, is weighing in on T oyota’s recall of millions of vehicles due to a faulty gas pedal. But what Mr. LaHood is saying might be causing some confusion. During a hearing on Capitol Hill yesterday, Secretary LaHood said that anyone who owns one of the cars affected by the recall should “stop driving it and take it to a dealer.” That scared and frustrated a lot of owners, and later in the day, LaHood corrected himself. T oyota rele ased a statement thanking Secretary LaHood for clarifying his remarks. They also said, “We want to make sure that our customers understand that this situation is rare and generally does not occur suddenly. If you experience any issues with your accelerator pedal, please contact your dealer without delay. If you are not experiencing any issues with your pedal, we are confident that your vehicle is safe to drive.”CNN News Item 20 经济：油门事件让丰田汽车公司蒙受损失T oyota says that a glitch in the electronic brakes could c ause a delay when you step on the pedal. They say it only affects 2010 models sold last year. And it’s those very same cars that are being credited with T oyota’s cash cow. New numbers just out say they made $1.7 billion last quarter, but it won’t last for long. For the first time, T oyota is admitting it’s going to take a huge beating due to this gas pedal nightmare. $2 billion for repairs and lost sales.CNN News Item 21 经济：美国国际集团发放高管奖金AIG is trying to prevent a new wave of backlash over paying out bonuses to its top executives. The Washington Post reports the company has asked the Obama Administration to approve millions of dollars in promised bonuses. The payments are s cheduled to go out next week. AIG doesn’t actually need approval. Because the payments were linked to contracts from last year before received aid from the federal bailout funds. But the Post reports executives still are reluctant to pay without official approval. An earlier round of 2008 AIG employee bonuses drew widespread criticism earlier this year. CNN News Item 22 经济：医疗保险改革方案之争The raw politics of health is heating up in the Senate. Just before air last night, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced a group of 10 liberal and conservative Democrats had reached a deal to replace the hotly debated public option with a package of alternatives. Senator Reid offered few details. But today, President Obama praised the emerging compromise. Now, the public plan deal came just hours after the Senate killed a controversial amendment to restrict abortion coverage in its health care bill to ensure that no federal funds go toward covering any kind of abortion in this new reform. Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson had introduced that amendment. He called it a deal-breaker. He’s also one of the 10 senators to hammer out the deal to drop the public plan.CNN News Item 23 经济：欧洲一些国家经济前景堪忧Over in Europe, the financial outlook for a few countries isn’t looking too good. The investment ratings for Spain, Portugal and Greece all went down this week. Greece might be the worst situation. Exper ts are using the word “junk” to describe that nation’s investment rating. Basically, they’re saying that it’s very risky to put your money there. Greece has a massive debt, nearly $400 billion. That’s bigger than the country’s economy. Greece is developing ways to cut spending, but Greek workers aren’t too happy about some of those plans, and they’ve been protesting about it. Greece is also asking for financial help from the European Union: a bailout of more than $50 billion.CNN News Item 24 经济：新加坡经济前景黯淡W ell moving around to the East of Asia now, Southeast of Asia, a gloomy forecast out of Singapore. The government says its economy will likely shrink by between 6 and 9% this year. The announcement comes as the city-state’s first quarter GDP f ell almost 12% from the, from a year ago. In seasonally adjusted terms it was even more brutal than that actually. Singapore is reducing its output for the third time this year, as demand for its exports continues to fall amidst a worsening financial crisis. It previously predicted just a 5% contraction for the full year.CNN News Item 25 经济：九大金融机构将收到政府的资金援助The T reasury says the country’s largest banks will start receiving 125-billion dollars this week. Beginning the biggest government bailout in history, the money is being sent to 9 major financial institutions including Bank of America, Citigroup and JP Morgan chase. The government is also in talks with a group of more than a dozen regional banks about sharing part of an additional 125-billion dollars. T reasury Secretary Henry Paulson says 250 of the 700-billion-dollar bailout package will be spent by the end of the year.CNN News Item 26 经济：奥巴马就小企业贷款问题会见美国银行巨头In the United States, President Obama is scheduled to sit down today with the heads of some of the country’s biggest banks to talk about small businesses, ones that have 500 or fewer employees. Many of them are having a hard time getting loans from banks. But banks argue that the policies put in place because of this financial crisis have affected how they can offer the loans.CNN News Item 27 经济：高盛集团新表现Goldman Sachs surprised investors on Monday with an early release of its quarterly profits, which were way better than analysts had expected, twice as good, in terms of earnings per share. Now profits for the first 3 months of the year came into a total of $1.81 billion. Goldman also announced plans for a $5 billion share sale to help back its, help pay back rather, its so called T ARP loan from the U.S. government. $10 billion under the troubled assets relief program.CNN News Item 28 经济：两党会面以解决7000 亿美元救助法案的分歧Lawmakers say they’re close to a deal on the 700-billion-dollar package to rescue the troubled financial system. A bipartisan group has been meeting today to hash out differences. Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer, chairman of the joint economic committee, says he hopes to reach a deal by this afternoon. Among the details being hammered out, how much the plan will cost? The most common amount being talked about is 700-billion dollars; another key point in the negotiations is whether the government will actually become a shareholder in troubled companies. One part of the plan that seems certain to become a law will be a provision to limit executive pay and bonuses at companies that sell assets to the T reasury.CNN News Item 29 经济：奥巴马就增加就业和拯救经济发表演讲During a speech yesterday, President Obama offered some ideas on how to create new jobs and help out the country’s economy. Offering tax breaks to small businesses, expanding some of the government’s stimulus programs, and spending mor e money on infrastructure projects things like roads, bridges and water systems. The thing is, all of that costs money and that’s where the T ARP comes in. That’s the T roubled Asset Relief Program, the financial industry bailout passed last year. The bailout ended up not costing as much as expected and President Obama thinks the extra could be used to help out in other ways.CNN News Item 30 经济：欧佩克石油产量再减OPEC is going ahead with another oil production cut. OPEC has agreed to cut production by 2.2 million barrels a day. U.S. crude for January delivery dropped to just over 42 dollars a barrel after the announcement. Crude oil prices have dropped nearly 70% since July. OPEC cut production in September and October, but those cuts didn’t have much impact on prices.CNN News Item 31 经济：美国克莱斯勒公司重组协议Chrysler and Italian automaker Fiat has signed off on a deal brokered by Uncle Sam to become what’s k nown as Chrysler Group. Fiat will initially take a 20 percent stake. It can’t take a majority stake until the new Chrysler pays back the 15.5 billion dollars it took from the T reasury Department. The UA W holds a 55 percent stake, leaving an 8 percent stake for the U.S., 2 percent for Canada. The Supreme Court cleared the way for the deal yesterday, after delaying the sale pending review of a case brought by Indiana state pension 6 funds.CNN News Item 32 经济：通用汽车公司面临危机Major concerns now about the U.S. auto industry, these numbers are just out, and T oyota finally overtook GM as the world’s biggest automaker in terms of sales for all of last year. That’s a title GM has held for nearly eight decades. Even wor se than that, a GM executive warns the company will run out of cash by March 31st if it doesn’t get that second installment of government funds soon.GM is supposed to get the five-billion installment within a matter of days.CNN News Item 33 经济：对伯纳德•\u40614X道夫的保释听证会今日取消Some new developments in the Wall Street investment fraud case, the bail hearing for Bernard Madoff has been canceled for today, meaning he will remain free for the time being. Meantime, the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission is criticizing his own agency for failing to spot the investment scheme by former NASDAQ Chairman Bernard Madoff. SEC Chairman Christopher Cox says there were many instances over a decade that should have been flagged.CNN News Item 34 经济：美国三大汽车公司CEO 办理贷款事宜CEOs from Ford, Chrysler and General Motors are making their case for a 25-billion-dollar emergency loan. They want Congress to tap into the 700-billion-dollar Wall Street bailout approved last month. Many Republican critics point to financial mismana gement at the Big Three and argue the companies don’t deserve any help. Most Democrats disagree, saying the auto industry is too important to the overall economy to fail.CNN News Item 35 经济：中美财长会晤中国北京China is where U.S. T reasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was yesterday. During a week-long trip to Asia that he is taking, Secretary Geithner stopped over in Beijing and meet with his Chinese counterpart. One issue they were expected to talk about was the value of the yuan; that’s China’s currency. Some U.S.officials claim that China is undervaluing the yuan; they’re accusing China of saying that the yuan is worth less than what it should be. China denies that. This matters because the yuan and the dollar are connected. And if the value of the yuan is down, it could encourage people to spend more on Chinese products than on American ones.CNN News Item 36 经济：7870 亿美元的经济刺激法案之争将结束The battle over the 787-billion-dollar stimulus bill officially ends after President’s Day. President Obama says he will sign the bill into law in Denver On T uesday. He is calling the measure “a major milestone in the recovery of the U.S. economy.” Administration officials say the President wants to get away from the politics of Washington and sign the bill in an area hit hard by the recession. They say Denver is a place that will see the bill’s benefits in hiring workers.CNN News Item 37 军事：一名重要的恐怖分子丧命One of the FBI’s most wanted terrorists is dead. Imad Mougniyeh was killed in an explosion in Syria this morning. Mougniyeh was a top Hezbollah commander. He was blamed for several high-profile terrorist acts that left hundreds of Americans and Israelis dead, including the 17-day hijacking of a TW A Flight in 1985. He was also suspected of masterminding the attacks on the U.S. embassy and Marine barracks in Lebanon that killed more than 260 Americans in 1983.CNN News Item 38 军事：伊朗进行为期三天的大规模军事演练Moving from Thailand to the Persian Gulf now, where Iran is running a massive military drill expected to last three days. An Iranian official says the goal is to show off the country’s military strength. It might look like a real battle what you are s eeing here is just practice. U.S. Navy says Iran has done this sort of thing in the past. This one is getting more attention because Iran talked about it ahead of time.CNN News Item 39 军事：奥巴马外政顾问出来辟谣No commitment by President-elect Barack Obama on a mi ssile defense program in Eastern Europe. That’s according to a senior Obama advisor. The statement comes after claims on the Polish president’s website —The two had a call on the matter and that Obama said he intended to continue the program. Obama’s seni or foreign policy advisor denied that claim. He said Obama talked with the Polish president about continuing military and political cooperation and possibly meeting in person some time soon.CNN News Item 40 军事：胡德堡枪击受伤士兵获紫心勋章Congress considers a new bill that would make some soldiers eligible for the Purple Heart. Representative John Carter introduced the new legislation yesterday. The Fort Hood army post is located in his home district in T exas. This bill is focused on the victims of the recent shooting there. The Purple Heart first created in 1782 is given to any U.S. service member who is wounded and killed while serving in action against an enemy or in a terrorist attack. Representative Carter says the Fort Hood victims deserved the Purple Heart because he considers the shooting to be an enemy attack.CNN News Item 41 军事：美国宣布停止制造新核武器The U.S. government says it will stop making new, nuclear weapons, and it’s reconsidering what to do with the weapons that already exist. The announcement came yesterday, two days before President Obama is scheduled to sign a treaty with Russia that would reduce how many nuclear weapons both countries have. It also comes one week before he hosts a global meeting on nuclear security. More than 40 countries are expected to attend that. But back to yesterday’s announcement. This newpolicy would stop production of nuclear weapons. It would also invest about $5 billion in extending the life of weapons that already exist. Seven countries are officially recognized as nuclear powers, meaning they have nuclear weapons. But there are other countries that are suspected of trying to make them. U.S. officials hope this change from America will encourage other countries —all countries —to help control the spread of nuclear weapons. U.S. has promised not to use its own nukes against anyone who does that. But as Defense Secretary Robert Gates pointed out, that doesn’t mean retaliation is out of the question in every situation.CNN News Item 42 军事：加沙遭遇四十年来最严重的人道主义危机Gaza is facing its worst humanitarian crisis in more than 40 years. A new report by aid agencies and humanitarian groups says things haven’t been this dismal since Israel’s 1967 occupation. It says the Israeli blockade has left more t han one million Palestinians isolated, dealing with poverty, dealing with unemployment, with little access to education and healthcare services. It found water and sewage systems are on the verge of collapse. Israel blames the hardships on Hamas militants who keep firing rockets into Israel.CNN News Item 43 军事：美俄签署核武器削减条约W e are getting things started with ST ART. It stands for Strategic Arms Reduction T reaty. It’s an agreement between the United States and Russia for both countries to reduce the number of nuclear weapons they have. President Obama also says i t’s part of the effort to “reset” the relationship between the two countries. Y esterday, he and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev got together in the Czech Republic to sign off on ST ART. The agreement cuts the number of nuclear weapons that the U.S. and Ru ssia have by about a third. The White House is scheduled to hold a meeting on nuclear security next week. It’s something that President Obama says affects the entire world.CNN News Item 44 军事：伊朗炫耀其军事防御能力Just how far will Iran push the international community this weekend? W ell today, it reportedly tested two types of short-range missiles and a launching system. Iran’s military freely admitted it was showing off its defense capabilities. And it planned to keep up the missile exercises for 10 or 11 more days. In other news, the show-off force does come just days after words that Iran is building a second uranium enrichment plant. These satellite images supposedly show the location by the city of Qom. The U.S. and its allies quickly condemned this project. And T ehran says it’s just a civilian energy program, but U.S. official believed it was a cover for developing nuclear weapons. The Iranian say they will allow international inspectors into the plants.CNN News Item 45 军事：巴以冲突不停There is no letup of Israel’s assault on Gaza and Hamas’s rocket attacks into Israel. The fighting has entered a third week with mounting casualties on both sides. Israel says Hamas commander in charge of launching rockets into Israel from Gaza City was killed by ground fire. Also during a three-hour lull today Israel dropped leaflets warning residence to evacuate their homes. An United Stations spokesman says the pausing fighting was not longer enough to resume aid deliveries into Gaza. The humanitarian situation there is described as desperate and Palestinian medical sources say at least 800 people have been killed in Gaza since Israeli offensive began. 13 Israelies including 10 soldiers have also died.CNN News Item 46 军事：伊朗下月将进行大规模军事演习 A holy day in Iran marked by violence as protesters clashed with police forces about a week ago. Demonstrators have spoken out against the country’s government for months now, but the clashes on the Muslim holy day of Ashura were the worst so far. At least seven people killed in the violence, though protesters and security forces disagree on how those deaths happened. Meantime, Iran’s government says it’s getting ready to hold a “large-scale military exercise” next month. The country s ays the goal is to prepare its forces to fight against an attack by the nation’s enemies. There’s been a lot of tension based around Iran’s nuclear program. The country says the program is for peaceful purposes. Other countries, including the U.S., believe Iran might be trying to build nuclear weapons.CNN News Item 47 灾难：美国25 年来最严重的矿难Officials there are trying to figure out what caused the worst U.S. mining disaster in 25 years. It happened Monday afternoon at the Upper Big Branch South Mine: a massive blast inside the coal mine that killed at least 25 people, left 4 others trapped. Rescue workers are trying to drill their way into the mine, but they need to get 1,200 feet down inside of it, and that could take a while. Not only is the process slow, it’s dangerous. Crews are having to deal with potentially harmful gases. President Obama and other officials, including both of West Virginia’s U.S. senators, have offered their thoughts and prayers to the families of the miners. They’ve also said they’re dete rmined to find out what happened and how it can b e prevented in the future. One government official said, “Miners should never have to sacrifice their lives for their。
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TranscriptTHIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: A very warm welcome to Ms. Gould's creative carvers at Annandale High School and to all of our CNN Student News audience worldwide. I'm Carl Azuz, let's go!First Up: Economic IndicatorsAZUZ: A few headlines from the financial world seem to offer a mixed view on how the U.S. economy's doing. First, a new report says U.S. companies cut just over 200,000 jobs in October. Obviously, job cuts: not good news. But this is the seventh month in a row when the number of cuts was lower than the previous month.However, the number of Americans filing personal bankruptcies went up about nine percent last month. About a third of those were Chapter 13 bankruptcies. That's when the individual is put on a five-year repayment plan.And finally, the Federal Reserve, the country's central bank, decided not to change a key interest rate which affects things like credit cards and home loans. In the past, the Fed had lowered the rate to try to boost the economy. So, the decision to leave it where it is might indicate things are getting better.Education ReformAZUZ: President Obama is pushing for some big reforms in U.S. schools. In Wisconsin yesterday he talked about the "Race to the Top" program. Now it's local and state governments that make decisions about education policies. But the federal government can give money to states, and that's what "Race to the Top" is about.The program is a fund of more than $4 billion. States would be able to apply for some of that money, and whether or not they got any would be based on if they met certain guidelines. For example, achieving certain educational standards, recruiting and keeping successful teachers, and finding ways to measure students' success. Some testing experts have expressed concerns that states might use just one test to determine students' and teachers' success.Fast FactsMICHELLE WRIGHT, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Time for some Fast Facts! In the late 1970s, Iran was politically unstable. The shah, Iran's leader, pushed for reform. But his critics rallied around Ayatollah Khomeini, a religious leader. In 1979, the shah left Iran. And on November 4 of that year, about 500 Iranian students took control of the U.S. embassy in Tehran. They held 66 embassy workers hostage. The students demanded that the shah be sent back to Iran from the U.S., where he was getting medical treatment. The Ayatollah assumed full power of Iran's government, and some of the hostages were released soon after. As the crisis intensified, Iran canceled military treaties with the U.S., while America cut diplomatic ties with the Middle Eastern country and ordered that Iranian money in U.S. banks be frozen. Eventually, the U.S. and Iran signed an agreement to release the hostages and free up the Iranian money. And on January 20, 1981, 444 days after the crisis started, the remaining 52 hostages were released.Iran ProtestsAZUZ: Iran actually celebrates November 4th, the day that hostage crisis started, as an official holiday. Thousands of people showed up at the former U.S. embassy yesterday to hear anti-American speeches. But Iranians who oppose the country's government took the opportunity to express their criticism. Thousands of protestors took to the streets, ignoring warnings from Iranian authorities to stay home. Witnesses reported that there were clashes between the protesters and police. Similar demonstrations took place back in June over the disputed results of Iran's presidential election.Is this Legit?BRENDAN GAGE, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Is this legit? Every 10 years, the government is required to count every person living in the United States. True! It's called the census, and it was established by the U.S. Constitution.Census and CitizenshipAZUZ: And it's coming up next year. The census helps determine how many seats a state gets in the U.S. House of Representatives, and how billions of dollars in federal funding are spent. The census ins't long, it's just 10 questions. But some lawmakers want to add an eleventh. And as Carol Costello explains, that request is raising some eyebrows. (BEGIN VIDEO)CAROL COSTELLO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: In a few months, the 2010 census form will arrive by mail at every U.S. household. It will ask how many people are living in this house, and what is the person's sex, age. What it won't ask is this: Are you a U.S. citizen? Republican Senator David Vitter says it should. He's pushing an amendment to force the Census Bureau to add that question to the 2010 census.SEN. DAVID VITTER, (R) LOUISIANA: It simply says, sure, count everybody, but ask if this person is a citizen or a non-citizen, so we simply know what we're dealing with. COSTELLO: The Constitution says the government must count the whole number of persons in each state. It's important the census get an accurate count because it determines how many lawmakers represent each state. Vitter, who represents Louisiana, says his state is projected to lose one of its seven seats in the House of Representatives after the 2010 census. He says it's because Louisiana has few illegal immigrants and states like California have a lot. He says that's not fair.VITTER: We don't put the population of France into the count or the population of Brazil, so why would we factor in non-citizens in determining how many U.S. House members every state gets?COSTELLO: Some Democratic lawmakers say Vitter's effort is unconstitutional and immoral.REP. BARBARA LEE, (D) CALIFORNIA: So we cannot allow lawmakers to use divisive tactics to scare people into not participating in the 2010 census.UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's 1920, and census time in the United States.COSTELLO: Counting all people has long been a struggle for the U.S. Census Bureau. Many minorities, legal and illegal, mistrust the government. This urging minorities to participate came out in the old news reel days.UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Census taker checks citizens of Japanese extraction, and somewhere else, the Chinese population is added to totals.ROBERT GROVES, DIRECTOR, U.S. CENSUS BUREAU: A lot of the forms are already...COSTELLO: Dr. Robert Groves heads up the U.S. Census Bureau.But would you object to that question on the 2010 census form?GROVES: We can't do a census with that question.COSTELLO: Not because he necessarily objects to it, but because 425 million 2010 census forms have already been printed up. Groves says Sen. Vitter's request comes too late.GROVES: My problem is we have an April 1, 2010 census date. We can't meet that deadline with a change in the questionnaire.COSTELLO: Still, the senator is not giving up, even if it will cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars to add that simple question: Are you a U.S. citizen?(END VIDEO)Quick VoteAZUZ: Speaking of counting, we have a tally on that poll we posted on our blog yesterday. We asked what you would do if you found a lost, diamond ring in your Halloween basket. So far, 73 percent of you say you'd return it. 19 percent say you'd keep it. And 9 percent say they're not sure what they'd do. Keep the comments and votes coming.Test your KnowledgeAZUZ: There's probably someone in your class who thinks he or she owns our Shoutouts. Someone who regularly plays trivia and brags on the score. I'm calling you out! We've got a new challenge for you, online, and it's anything but easy.(BEGIN VIDEO)AZUZ: So, we're here at the CNN SmartBoard to illustrate the CNN Challenge. You can get to this one of two ways: Go to and click on either the Entertainment or the Living page. And that way you can get there; you'll see CNN Challenge near your right rail here. Click on that bad baby, and away you go.Now, the first thing you do in the Challenge is to select your anchor. Now, I'm not one of these folks, but this is a slew of our anchors here at CNN. I usually select Wolf Blitzer because he says he trimmed his beard for the occasion, and I'm all about looking your best. So, we'll go ahead with Wolf and move forward here.Gameplay: pretty simple stuff. It's multiple choice; they give you a question, and they give you a timer. Now, the faster you answer that question, the more points you're going to get. So, just to illustrate -- got a question coming up here -- and that will be -- cool animation, too -- "Where." We have different kinds of questions: who, what, when, where, why. This is a "where" question. Which was the first nation to give women the right to vote? It's New Zealand. I know that not because I'm smart, but because I played it earlier.So, we go onto the next section here. And after you have two rounds, both with timers, multiple choice questions -- the second round you have less time to answer the questions, but they're worth more points -- you go to the lightning round. The lightning round is fast and furious. Part of the reason for that is not all of your options are multiple choice. You have some that are fill-in-the-blank, and that can get really tough, where you just type it on your keyboard. You try to get it done again within a time period.And once you've wrapped up, what's really cool is you can go to the top right, you're going to see newsbin, leaderboard, and challenge others. This is a chance for you to see how well your friends' scores stack up against yours. You can see what the top scores of the day are on the leaderboard. And in the newsbin -- this is kind of cool, too -- it has links to stories that the questions are about. So, the CNN Challenge not only quizzes your knowledge of the news, but it increases your knowledge of the stories that are in the news.(END VIDEO)Before We GoAZUZ: Right now, it's probably a bit cold to go out and swim. Best to do it indoors, like this four-legged fella! For about 15 minutes, this deer managed to get in some laps at a pool in North Carolina. Officials weren't sure how it got in, then they looked up. The animal jumped from a balcony, through the glass roof, and took a dip until a maintenance supervisor grabbed a net and herded it out of the pool.GoodbyeAZUZ: Dangerous? Of course. But we've known animals like that to occasionally be a little deering. That's your pun and show for the day! I'm Carl Azuz for CNN Student News.。
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常州八年级英语下册期中模拟试卷一．听力1-20（略）二．单项选择(1*10=10’)21.- Is Central Park_______ largest city park in the USA?- Yes. It is_______ perfect place for people to rest after_______ hard day's work.A. a; the; aB. the; a; aC. a; a; theD. the; a; the22. Is he ______ the driving test this time?A. enough lucky passingB. lucky enough passingC. enough lucky to passD. lucky enough to pass23. Suzhou has been famous_______ its gardens._______ them is Lingering Garden.A. for; AmongB. as; BetweenC. for; BetweenD. as; Among24. --- Where is your father, Jack?---He _____ to New York on business. He ____ the airport at five in the morning.A. has gone; has left forB. has been; has left forC. has gone; left forD. has been; left to25 . ---Can a plane fly _____ the Atlantic Ocean?--- Yes, but it needs to go ______ the clouds for hours.A. across ; throughB. across ; acrossC. through; acrossD. through; through26. My grandpa ______ in the city , but now he_______ the life in the country.A. used to work, is used toed to do, is used toC. used to work , used toD. is used to do, is used to27. I know nothing about the accident _______he told me.A. whenB. untilC. sinceD. if28. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by the _____ writer Victor Hugo really ______ me.A. French; touchedB. Germany; movedC. French; feltD. Germany; felt29. The problems are difficult to solve．Please give me_______．A．some advices B．all advice C．advices D．some advice30. --- Would you mind ______ the paper for me?---____________.A. handing in; My pleasureB. handing in; With pleasureC. hand in; For pleasureD. hand in; It’s pleasure三、完形填空(每小题1分，共10分)Imagine a life without arms or legs! You can't hold anyone and you can't walk anywhere. How would you last a day like that? Would you 31 at yourself in the mirror like Nick Vujicic, the 30-year-old Australian?Nick was born without limbs(四肢), so life was not 32 for him. At school many students played jokes on him 33 he looked different from everyone else.Other students didn't want to make friends with him, so he always felt 34 . However, he faced that bravely. He 35 to type and write with two toes at the age of six, and he could 36 surf and play golf. In college, he made great success and was among the excellent students in the studies. And he decided on 37 to do later in his life─to encourage others to work hard for their dreams.Now Nick is one of the most popular 38 in the world. He travels to many countries and gives speeches about his story. "Living life fully is about looking at what you 39 not what you don't have, " he said. His story encourages millions of people."I tell people to keep on getting up when they 40 and to always love themselves, " he said. "If I can encourage just one person, then my job in this life is done. "31.A. laugh B. cry C. smile D. shout32.A. old B. easy C. modern D. difficult33.A. because B. if C. until D. when34.A. happy B. relaxed C. lonely D. surprised35.A. failed B. forgot C. helped D. learnt36.A. just B. ever C. never D. even37.A. how B. who C. what D. where38.A. doctors B. speakers C. scientists D. managers39.A. make B. have C. lose D. want40.A. fall B. play C. listen D. exercise四、阅读理解（2*10=20’)AYou may find a lot of energy drinks in a shop. People say these drinks can make people feel more energetic（精力充沛的）and think more clearly. These drinks have names like Red Bull, Monster, Ripped Force, Speed Force, Speed Stack and 5-Hour Energy. Young people like them very much.Scientists found three main things about the energy drinks. First, there are hundreds of brands(品牌)of energy drinks in most large countries. Second, the drinks are not clearly written with enough information. And third, the caffeine(咖啡因)in the energy drinks is different greatly. Some have as little as fifty milligrams, others as much as five hundred. Too much caffeine is bad for our body.Some people put wine into energy drinks while drinking. They think they can drink more wine in that way and it is not bad for their body. But studies find that the wine still works. So the makers should write down clear information, such as how much caffeine it has and so on. For example, some makers of energy drinks give us advice. A popular energy drink asks women who are having a baby, nursing a baby or children under the age of 12 not to drink.The study about energy drinks is still going on. They are now looking for the young people who have had a bad feeling after drinking them.41.The three things about the energy drinks are the following EXCEPT .A. hundreds of brandsB. without enough informationC. different caffeineD. something bad for the body42.Some people like drinking wine with energy drinks because they think .A. that is coolB. they can drink moreC. it is the most popular wayD. that will have less caffeine43.Which of the following is TRUE?A. Women who are having a baby can drink all kinds of energy drinks.B. Energy drinks are bad only for old people.C. Children under the age of 12 should drink a lot of energy drinks.D. Young people like energy drinks very much.BA grown-up person has ten or eleven pints(品脱) of blood inside his or her body. We can lose a pint of blood without feeling anything. But if we lose a great deal of blood, we feel weak and cold. Our faces become very white. We may die.This is what often happens when somebody is hurt in an accident or a soldier is hurt in a fighting. Many people used to die in this way. If they are given enough blood at once, they'll feel better. Their faces will become red again. They won't die.Where does this blood come from? People who are healthy give some blood so that it can be used in this way. Every three months they can go to a place where blood is collected. A special kind of needle is put into the arm. It does not hurt. The blood runs through the needle and through a rubber tube(管)into a bottle. A pint of blood is taken away. Then the person who has given the blood drinks a cup of tea or coffee. He sits for a few minutes. Then he feels quite well and goes off. Three months later he comes back and gives another pint.A person who gives blood in this way feels happy. He knows that his blood will be used to save someone's life. Perhaps one day he himself will need blood.When you are older, you may decide to give blood in this way. But you can't dothis until you are eighteen.44.A person who has given blood sits a few minutes because he or she .A. is so happyB. needs a short restC. feels a little sorryD. has to drink something45.Which of the following is TRUE according to the text?A. A person who gives blood can make some money.B. Many people died in the past because no blood could be sent into bodies in time.C. A person gives blood because he or she will need it in the future.D. One will feel very cold and weak if he or she gives a pint of blood every 3 weeks.46. In this text the writer mainly tells readers .A. grown-up person has about 10 pints of bloodB. blood is very useful for everybodyC. giving blood is a good way to save one's lifeD. blood is taking out and kept in a bottleCA change to its population policy(人口政策）for the world's most populated country(人口最多的国家), that is where we start this new week on CNN (美国有线新闻网络，以提供即时电视新闻报导而闻名)STUDENT NEWS.China introduced(提出）its so-called one-child policy(独生子女政策）in the late 1970s. It's been believed to help control China's population growth(控制人口增长). It's also been against for forcing(强迫) parents to make difficult personalchoices(选择）, or in some cases（某些情况）face huge fines（面临巨额罚款).The policy said that in big cities or towns, parents could only have one child, although（尽管) there were some exceptions(例外), for example, the famous director Zhang Yimou, who was ordered to pay the heavy fines for his three children.The new rule(法规) says that if either parent(父母亲一方) is an only child, then they are able to have two children of their own.One reason for the change is economics(经济).In China, many people care for their elderly relatives, so a single(单个的) child could not afford (能做)to look after his parents and grandparents. This new policy could help with that.Another reason, China says it wants to improve human rights(改善人权).( )47Which may be the best title of the article?___________.A. The one-child policyB. The population policyC. The human rightsD. China's population growth( )48.Where can you get this news _______.A. on TVB. from your booksC. from a magazineD. in the newspaper( )49.Which of the following is not true?A. China is the world's most populated country.B. The one-child policy did help control China's population growth.C. All the families in big cities only have one child.D. There is a change to China’s population policy.( )50.We can infer(推断）from the article that the next paragraph（段落) is about .A. the population growthB. the population policyC. the economic changeD. the human rights五、阅读表达（共5题；满分5分）（每空一词）As people become richer and richer (富有), the prices of new cars are falling down quickly. The government has built many new roads. Many Chinese people think it is enjoyable to have their own cars instead of bikes. The large number of cars has started a new cultural revolution (革命), changing the life and society just like what happened in America 50 years ago.In Shanghai, more and more cars have appeared (出现) on the roads since 2002. At rush hour, it can take more than an hour for a taxi to ride from one side of Huangpu River Bridge to the other side. As the government has done a lot to make the traffic condition better, the number of cars on the roads is rising all the time.Private (私人的) cars have brought about a new class of society, who drive to their offices from large, modern houses in the suburbs (郊区). “I enjoy the drive,” said a big company manager of the 30-minute-trip to his office in the center of Shanghai. “I know that driving cars costs more money than travelling by bus,” he said. “But this way, I feel more comfortable and it is much faster.”六．单词拼写（共5 小题：3小题1分，满分5分）A）根据句意，用所给单词的适当形式填空。
英语听力材料怎么选择
【导语】听⼒学习同其他内容⼀样，⼀定要从基础抓起，尤其是语⾳的矫正与辨别不容忽视。
只有从基础的语⾳⼊⼿，逐步过渡到单词、短语、句⼦、对话和语篇，才能真正起到提⾼听⼒的作⽤。
那么，英语听⼒材料怎么选择？下⾯是⽆忧考分享的相关信息，欢迎阅读参考！1.英语听⼒材料怎么选择 第⼀：先测词汇量 建议⼤家选择2款测试词汇量的软件，双管齐下测试⼀下⾃⼰的词汇量⽔平（2种app测试如果词汇量都在某⼀⽔平范围内，⾜以说明我们的英语⽔平成都）。
单词量在4000以下：⾼中英语要求掌握的词汇量，可以选择新概念英语1,2和VOA慢速英语；单词量在4000-8000之间：六级、雅思、托福要求掌握的词汇量，可以选择新概念3和CNN Student News；单词量在 8000 以上：可以选择新概念4和VOA常速或者BBC。
第⼆：根据学习⽬的选择语速 四级考试的语速在每分钟130词；六级约每分钟150词；雅思在150以上；⽇常对话的语速在120-200词。
选择语速和⾃⼰⽬标⼀致的语料练就可以。
如果感觉跟不上，不⽤着急，先听慢⼀点的，（⼀般app都可以调节语速）逐步提升之后就能听懂更快的语料。
第三：选择你感兴趣的听⼒材料 现在听⼒材料⽐任何时候都丰富多彩，但是要紧扣⼀个原则：材料必须是你喜欢的，或者⾄少你是不讨厌的。
正所谓兴趣是的⽼师，选择你感兴趣的⽅向，在不知不觉的情况下“习得”，⽐我们有意识地去“学得”效果要好的多。
因为“习得”好⽐主动吸收，“学得”好⽐被动接受。
提⾼听⼒的关键并不在于你听了多少，⽽是在于你把听到的东西内化了⼏分，掌握了⼏成。
所以建议⼤家做好听⼒的选材后再对每⼀篇⽂章精听细化，化为⼰⽤，可以有以下⼏个步骤： 第⼀遍：泛听原⽂，不要看字幕或脚本，清楚录⾳的内容。
⽬的是为了让⾃⼰流畅的听完，对听⼒的内容有⼀个整体的掌握。
第⼆遍：先听原⽂，根据内容段落，开始复述内容，并录⾳。
这⼀步的⽬的是强迫⾃⼰调⽤已经学过的知识，组织语⾔和进⾏练习。
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Once everyone was back up on the surface, Chile's president, Sebastian Pinera, put a metal cap on top of the hole that was used for the rescue. Officials haven't decided whether or not to close that up for good. President Pinera estimated that the rescue mission cost around $10 to $20 million, but he said that every dollar was well spent. All of the miners were taken to a nearby hospital as planned. Officials were hoping to release most of them sometime Thursday. They said, for the most part, the miners are doing really well. The worst case was one man who had pneumonia, but he had a lung condition before the cave-in.
We mentioned before that this story isn't over. Chile's government plans to try and increase safety at mines, especially smaller mines, which one official said often have lower standards. For the miners themselves, they're about to be hit with a major spotlight. There are bound to be book, TV and movie offers. But at least one miner, Mario Sepulveda, said he didn't want any of that. He said, "The only thing I ask, personally, is that you please not treat us like celebrities or journalists. I want to continue being treated like Mario... the worker, the miner."
2022年适合小学生的时国际闻报道以及新闻来源(中英对照简述)
2022年适合小学生的时国际闻报道以及新闻来源，并附中英对照简述中国火星探测任务成功-来源：新华网China's Mars exploration mission succeeds - Source: Xinhua News Agency中国成功实施了第一次火星探测任务，这是中国探索太空的一次重要里程碑。
这则报道可以帮助小学生了解中国在太空领域的发展和成就。
China has successfully completed its first Mars exploration mission, marking an important milestone in China's explorationof space. This news can help primary school students understand China's development and achievements in space exploration.美国宣布退出巴黎气候协定-来源：CNNUS announces withdrawal from Paris climate agreement -Source: CNN美国宣布退出巴黎气候协定，这是一个有关全球气候变化的协议。
这则报道可以引导小学生关注环境保护问题，并理解不同国家在环境保护方面的政策和立场。
The United States has announced its withdrawal from theParis climate agreement, which is an agreement on global climate change. This news can encourage primary school students to pay attention to environmental protection issues and understand the policies and positions of different countries on environmental protection.印度南部洪灾导致死亡和失踪-来源：印度时报Floods in southern India lead to deaths and missing people- Source: The Times of India印度南部发生了严重的洪灾，导致许多人死亡和失踪。
美剧学习
美剧是比较不错的材料，但是不是适合“学习”，就有待讨论了这个暂时先放下，首先从“对英文能力培养有一定帮助”的角度上来说两句：1，坊间比较流行的说法是Friends适合初看美剧人入门，傲慢与偏见适合初读原版书人接触，美则美矣，其实是一厢情愿罢了——情景喜剧可绝对不能算是入门好材料，语速绝对不慢，更重要的是背景知识过于丰富，对于外语者很难搞懂，入门绝对不推荐真正语体用法比较常见，语速不是快到飞起的，应该首选动画片，不是迪斯尼拍的过于低幼的动画长片，而是电视动画，首推DC和Marvel家的96-00年出过一版Superman The Animated Series，共四季，其中过场众多DC家英雄，包括和超人相爱相杀的老爷，过瘾无比《超人动画版》(Superman: The Animated Series)全4季58集全+2007剧场版[TVRip]+[DVDRip]正义联盟：2001年11月首播，2006年5月结束，共播出五季，91集。
2004年7月，动画《无限正义联盟》(Justice League Unlimited / JLU)作为《正义联盟》的续集播出，共播出三季，每季13集，共39集。
在国内，《正义联盟》和《无限正义联盟》动画一般被称为《超人正义联盟》至于闪电侠，蝙蝠侠，蜘蛛侠，X战警等等，出过的动画就更多了，数也数不清，尤其推荐老爷的两部黑暗骑士归来（不过这个是动画长片了）另外更要推荐的是降世神通第一季(豆瓣)，画面质朴优美，浓厚的东方元素美不胜收，剧情风趣幽默，老少咸宜，对话俏皮但不急促，语速较慢，第一部The Last Airbender最后的气宗出了三季，后来又出了第二部The Legend of Korra，目前正在连载到第二季，质量比第一部稍微差点至于什么变形金刚，特种部队，太空堡垒，地球超人什么的就更老了，有兴趣怀旧的同学自己可以找找以上的动画语速不快，对白超简，最好无字幕观看2，较为难一点的就是情景喜剧，情景剧和一般电视剧略微不同，因为背景笑声的存在可以明显检查是否听懂——如果背景笑了你却茫然无所依然，说明要么是没跟上语速，要么是文化常识不懂但是情景剧也要选择——有很多情景剧故意玩悬念玩设计，很多所谓文化知识根本没必要知道，像老爸老妈浪漫史中Barney说的很多话我找不到笑点，也没兴趣一一谷歌，这个分类比较推荐的是Friends 编剧功底要比HIMYM高出一截，情节笑点和背景知识没那么生硬，看这部电视起码会让你明白spaghetti和lasagna的区别，推荐Everybody Loves Raymond 比老友记更贴近普通生活，家长里短鸡毛蒜皮，各种对话用法对生活口语更常用加一个没有背景笑声的喜剧：Moder family LS说了，最大的优势是伪纪录片的形式让对白更加真实口语化。
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TranscriptTHIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: Today's awesome edition of CNN Student News is dedicated to the students and teachers of M.D. Roberts Middle School in Jonesboro, Georgia. Thanks for stopping by CNN Center yesterday! I'm Carl Azuz, andI'm here to bring you the headlines.First Up: U.S.-Mexico MeetingAZUZ: First up, Mexican President Felipe Calderon travels north of the border for atwo-day visit to the U.S. He's scheduled to meet with American business leaders, leaders in Congress, and he's meeting with President Obama, the two leaders getting together yesterday at the White House. They talked about immigration policies, organized crime and violence along the U.S./Mexico border. And of course, they discussed trade. Mexico is America's third-largest trading partner. And it's the second-largest market for American products that get sold outside the U.S.And it wasn't just the presidents who got together on Thursday. First lady Michelle Obama and the first lady of Mexico went to a D.C.-area elementary school as part of the "Read Across America" efforts. And one thing about the school they visited: it's bilingual. The students learn in English and Spanish.Crisis in LibyaAZUZ: The North African nation of Libya is anything but stable. The Libyan military dropped more bombs on towns that are under control of anti-government rebels. These air attacks have some U.S. officials pushing for a no-fly zone. Now, a no-fly zone is when airplanes -- both military and civilian -- are not allowed to fly over an area without permission. Meanwhile, the International Criminal Court says it's investigating Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi for alleged crimes against humanity. The court says if Libyan troops commit crimes, Colonel Gadhafi could be held responsible. That's what's going on now. Michael Holmes takes a look back to give us some background on Libya, its leader Gadhafi, and how this situation got started.(BEGIN VIDEO)MICHAEL HOLMES, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR AND CORRESPONDENT: You had these people for 42 years being angry, upset, disenfranchised. And what they saw happen in those other countries emboldened them to speak out.What we're seeing happen in Libya is really just sort of a replay of what we saw happen right throughout the Middle East and North Africa. It started with some common denominators: high unemployment, massively young populations who are unemployed, over-educated in some cases, in some of the countries. Unable to have a say in what's going on in their own countries; disenfranchised from the system. And when we've seen them speak out in the past over the 42 years of Gadhafi's rein, we've seen those protests, if you like, or uprisings put down in brutal fashion, with thousands of people being killed over the years.At the moment, it would appear that Gadhafi's goal is just simply to survive. I mean, he seems to have adopted a "head in sand" attitude that none of this is going on. He deniedthere'd even been protests in Tripoli; said everybody loves him. He seems to be in survival mode at the moment. He is clearly encircled. Clearly, his future is not bright.The tribal nature of Libya can't be understated. It is, like a lot of the Middle East, very tribal. And he has been able to control the mood of the tribes, if you like, basically paying them off or threatening them. Gadhafi himself is from a very small tribe. He was born in a tent in the desert. But he's been able to, through patronage and fear, keep it under control. What we've seen lately is even the tribes starting to turn against him and say, "Well, we don't back him anymore." Saw that first in the east. We're now seeing that in parts of the west, as well. The tribes turning against him has been very significant, as, of course, have been the defections from the military, when people, soldiers have basically switched sides. It's taken a lot of the sting out of his ability to strike back. What we have seen, though, he still can strike back. He's had jets bombing places in his own country. He's had soldiers on the street shooting at his own people.(END VIDEO)Is This Legit?JOHN LISK, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Is this legit? The U.S. government releases the national unemployment rate once a month. Legit! And that report is coming out today. EconomyAZUZ: Unemployment's one of the big factors that people use to get an idea of how the U.S. economy is doing. CNN Money put together information on five major economic categories, and we're going to walk you through some of them right now. First, unemployment. What this chart does is measure from 1980 through 2010. You see that the worst unemployment rate during that time was in 1982, when it hit 10.8 percent. Best rate? 3.8 percent in 2000. At the start of this year, it was back up to nine percent.Next, savings. On average right now, Americans are saving a little more than 5 percent every month. Worst level in the last 30 years? That would be in April 2005, when Americans saved less than 1 percent.Like we said, these charts look at five different economic categories. You can check out all of them from the link we have up in the In Depth section of our home page, .Wisconsin Budget BattleAZUZ: We've reported on the budget battle happening in Wisconsin, and the situation is heating up. You know that 14 Democratic state Senators who left the state on February 17th have not come back. They left to block a vote on Republican Governor ScottWalker's budget proposal. On Wednesday, the senators who are there approved a resolution that would fine those missing Democrats $100 for every day they're absent. Yesterday, the Senators approved another resolution that would hold the absent Democrats in contempt. What that means is that state police could issue a warrant in an effort to bring the missing senators back to Wisconsin.ShoutoutTOMEKA JONES, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Today's Shoutout goes out to Ms. Gayer's students at St. Paul High School in St. Paul, Oregon! This is the flag of what country? You know what to do! Is it: A) Australia, B) New Zealand, C) Venezuela or D) United Kingdom?You've got three seconds -- GO! This is New Zealand's flag, whose four red stars distinguish it from Australia's six white ones. That's your answer and that's your Shoutout! Time Capsules FoundAZUZ: Parts of New Zealand are recovering from a devastating earthquake that hit the city of Christchurch a little more than a week ago. There's a lot of work to do there. But one worker found something in the middle of the rubble left behind by the quake. And officials are calling this discovery a sign of hope. TVNZ's Simon Dallow filed this report on what was discovered.(BEGIN VIDEO)SIMON DALLOW, TVNZ REPORTER: Hiding under this symbol of a broken city, two capsules holding secrets of Christchurch's past.ANTHONY WRIGHT, CHRISTCHURCH MUSEUM DIRECTOR: This morning, a crane driver working in the square noticed something on top of the plinth remaining that the statue was on. And what those things were were this time capsule and this glass bottle with a rolled parchment inside it.DALLOW: Today's unexpected find bringing smiles to faces of those whose worlds were shaken to the core in last week's quake.WRIGHT: It's one of those symbols of hope. It does go right back to the founding of Canterbury, so from that point of view, it is great in all this turmoil to have these icons of where we've come from.DALLOW: The statue hiding the city's secrets is of John Robert Godley, Christchurch's founder.BOB PARKER, CHRISTCHURCH MAYOR: I'm hoping that there's some very interesting thoughts and visions in here, and to honor not just those who founded this place but those who have given their lives as a result of this dreadful earthquake.DALLOW: The statue was erected in 1867 and badly damaged in the quake. Today, the major announced it'll be urgently repaired. The capsules are now at Canterbury Museum, being carefully stablized before a detailed examination begins on them.PARKER: We think that in these two things contained the vision of our forebares. We think that when we open these, we will gain an extra understanding of why they came here, why they wanted to be here, what was their hope, what was their vision, what was their goal. DALLOW: Understanding Christchurch's past as work begins towards rebuilding its future. (END VIDEO)Today's Blog QuestionAZUZ: All right, this story got us thinking: how would you represent your generation to someone in the future? It's sort of what we're asking in today's blog. If you were to build a time capsule, what is the one thing you would include in order to tell people about the time we live in? You can share your encapsulating ideas at .Before We GoAZUZ: And before we go, you may think dancing's for the birds. And in this case, you're right! This is some serious head banging. Check it out: synchronized head bobbing. The whole thing looks like a talon-tapping good time. We have to say, watching the people you're about to see, yeah, that's almost as funny as watching the bird. Just throw yourhands in the air! Uh, lady, I don't have hands. But I do have a righteous mohawk. And the bird knows how to get down!GoodbyeAZUZ: We don't think he has any set moves, though. He's just kinda winging it. You know what his favorite dance is? The funky chicken. And if he really likes a song, he'll ask you to put it on re-beak. That's enough fowl puns for now. Time for us to fly. One more thing, though: this pillow I occasionally like to toss at the camera? It was named at /CNNStudentNews by someone named Latimer. He called it The Closer, and here's why.。
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CNN Student News目录1、CNN Student News2、学习方法介绍3、理解与表达4、简单语法介绍(CNN Student News) -- June 1, 2016Unique Challenges Complicate the Upcoming Olympics in Rio; NOAA Releases Its Hurricane Forecast; How Digital Technology Revolutionized PhotographyTHIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. ***CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: Welcome to Wednesday`s edition of CNN STUDENT NEWS. My name is Carl Azuz. We`re grateful to have you watching.First up, every city that`s hosted the Olympic Games in recent years has faced considerable challenges. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is no exception.The cost of hosting the games, which is in the billions, keeping residents and visitors safe, just making sure they can all get around from place to place, and building many of the venues where athletes will compete. These are common obstacles.But there are a number of unique challenges to Rio and Brazil as a whole that officials worldwide are concerned about. Olympic organizers and city officials say these games which are the first ever to be held in South America will be a big success. So, why do some critics have doubts?(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)IVAN WATSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: This has been a particularly rough run-up to the Olympic Games, which was scheduled to start here in Rio in just over two months, a whole set of challenges facing not only Rio, the host city, but Brazil as a whole.(voice-over): It`s hard not to be seduced by Rio de Janeiro. This spectacular city soon to be the host of the 2016 Summer Olympics.Two months before the start of the games, construction crews are putting in the final touches at the Olympic venues.GUSTAVO NASCIMENTO, HEAD OF OLYMPIC VENUE MANAGEMENT: Everything`s going to be ready on time. We`re going to deliver the park fully commissioned the 24th of July.WATSON (on camera): But despite Rio`s beauty, the city and Brazil as a whole are facing some pretty daunting challenges. A whole series of unexpected setbacks leading some to wonder, are Rio`s Olympics somehow cursed?(voice-over): Just days ago, a warning from more than 100 international doctors, calling for the games to be postponed or moved, because the mosquito-born Zika virus could threaten an expected half a million foreign visitors.That view rejected by the World Health Organization, which does advise pregnant women to avoid the Olympics entirely, because of the risk of severe deformities to unborn children.And then there`s the political and economic crisis. Turmoil after Congress suspended Brazil`s elected president in an impeachment process last month, and high-level corruption scandals, during the worst economic recession in generations, which has left more than 10 million Brazilians unemployed.The economic hardship aggravating Rio`s endemic problems with violent crime. Daily gun battles between police and drug gangs in the city`s impoverished favelas, as well as a surge in robberies.This month, members of the Spanish Olympic sailing team mugged at gunpoint.FERNANDO ECHEVARRI, SPANISH OLYMPIC SAILOR: We just turn around to see what was happening and we saw the pistols, like this.WATSON: Olympic sailors also worried about Rio`s notoriously polluted bay, a dumping ground for much of the city`s raw sewage.VICTORIA JURCZOK, GERMAN OLYMPIC SAILOR: We don`t want to swim in it.WATSON: Rio`s mayor warns this isn`t a first world city.MAYOR EDUARDO PAES, RIO DE JANEIRO: Don`t come here expecting that everything will be, you know, perfect. We live in a country that has an economic crisis, a country with lots of inequality. With all the problems we have seen concerning corruption, briberies. But the city will be much better than it was when we got the games.WATSON: But even one of the mayor`s new infrastructure projects is now a deadly failure.(on camera): This brand-new spectacular cliff side bike path was supposed to be a showcase project for the Olympics. Instead, it became a tragic setback when the waves took out part of the trail, killing two people last month.(voice-over): In the turbulent run up to the Olympics, a virtual storm of bad new that leads you wondering, what could possibly happen next?(END VIDEOTAPE)AZUZ: Across the Pacific Ocean, Southeast China is where we`re starting today`s call of the roll.In the city of Foshan, thank you for watching from Nanhai Senior High School.To the U.S. state of West Virginia, we`ve got some Vikings there. Petersburg High School is in the city of Petersburg.And watch out for the Hornets. They`re making a buzz in Charlotte, North Carolina, where you`ll find Albemarle Road Middle School.The term "500-year flood event" basically means there`s a rare 1-in-500 chance that a particular flood would hit in a given year. Southeast Texas has seen two of these 500-year flood events in two months, what a CNN meteorologist described as very bad luck.Last week, there were record-setting rains in the region. At one point, the city of Brenham got 19 inches of rain in 48 hours. It stopped falling last Friday night, but not before swelling flood waters that killed six people, some of whom were trapped in cars and high water.The National Weather Service has given several warnings, telling people not to drive through flooded areas and to be careful need riverbanks. Hundreds of homes have been flooded or swept away. Another storm is in the forecast for later this week.Today is the official start of the Atlantic hurricane season. It runs from June 1st through November 30th, though forecasters say that these storms can form at any time. This is just when they`re more likely.Predicting how many storms will form in a given season is not an exact science and predictions are often inaccurate. But they give coastal residents, emergency workers and insurance companies an idea of what to look out for.(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)JENNIFER GRAY, CNN METEOROLOGIST: NOAA has just released their numbers for the upcoming hurricane season. Their predictions on how active this season will be and they`ve actually predicteda very normal season, 10 to 16 named storms, four to eight hurricanes, and one to four major storms. It`s pretty much all in line with what the other agencies are saying, 12 to 14 named storms.Now, a normal year, you may say, so what? But it`s actually been a while since we`ve had a normal year. You have to go back to 2012. Ever since then, we have had below normal seasons. So, forecasting a normal season, this year, will actually mean more storms, possibly.One reason we have had some pretty slow years is because of El Nino. The jet stream shifts to the south during an El Nino year, increasing the wind shear which will rip those storms apart. But we are forecasted to go into La Nina, which means that jet stream will shift back up to the north.We`ll have decrease in wind shear and it could be just that perfect environment to get some of the storms going in the Atlantic.(END VIDEOTAPE)AZUZ: CNN has used a lot of hurricane footage that people captured on their phones. Digital photography is something we just tend to use without thinking about it. But 41 years ago, when the first digital camera was made, it weighed around eight pounds, it took 23 seconds to record its first picture and the resolution was 1/100 of 1 megapixel.So, maybe all that`s why Kodak wasn`t in a hurry to invest in the technology.(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)RACHEL CRANE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The great irony of Frankenstein is that the doctor`s greatest discovery, creating a living, breathing human from dead matter led to his demise. Kodak can relate.One of their engineers, Steven Sasson, invented the first digital camera in 1975.They called the technology filmless photography. But they were never able to capitalize on it. In fact, their competitors trounced them in the digital photography space. And in 2012, 131 years after its founding, the company filed for bankruptcy protection. By then, an estimated 2.5 billion people owned digital cameras.And that changed the business, too -- especially this business, journalism. Video and images captured on digital cameras could be instantly reviewed and transmitted all across the world.The first journalists to use digital camera for the "Associated Press" did so at the first Bush inauguration in 1989, and cell phone cameras have made every citizen a potential reporter.Time and time again, footage captured by amateurs on digital cameras has been vital first hand sources of information, even medicine has benefitted.Doctors can see inside your body, thanks to tiny digital cameras, and then they can store and share those images quickly and easily with colleagues across the globe.The list goes on and on, but if you could excuse me, I have to go Facetime with my mom.(END VIDEOTAPE)AZUZ: On the golf course, you might encounter a bunker or a lake, hazards you generally want to avoid. Here`s another kind: this massive scale reptilian beast of a hazard was seen in the greens at a Florida golf course, recently. The alligator is estimated to be 15 feet long. The man who shot this video said the thing was so big, it looked like two guys in an alligator suit.It didn`t cause any problems, besides maybe abject terror. Good thing no one tried to club it. Its teeth could leave a hole in one attacker. It doesn`t need to take a shot to take a slice, and its simple presence is off putting. You know what a golfer yells when an alligator is on the course?Carni-four (ph)!I`m Carl Azuz and we`ll see you gator.END返回目录2、学习方法介绍：CNN Student News是专门给美国中学生制作的新闻节目，介绍最近全球热点新闻。
取得雅思听力高分的技巧
取得雅思听力高分的技巧作者：李咪来源：《知识窗·教师版》2015年第12期摘要：雅思（IELTS）考试和托福等其他语言水平测试一样，现已成为世界各地公认的权威性英语语言能力测试体系之一。
本文针对如何在雅思听力考试中获得高分，进行了一番探讨。
关键词：雅思考试听力高分技巧雅思（IELTS），全称为国际英语测试系统（International English Language Testing System），是著名的国际性英语标准化水平测试之一，由英国文化协会、剑桥大学考试委员会和澳大利亚教育国际开发署（IDP）共同举办。
雅思成绩被英国、爱尔兰、澳大利亚、加拿大、新西兰、南非等英联邦许多教育机构，以及越来越多的美国教育机构和各国的专业组织接受。
由于大多数中国学生英语考试成绩一般，且深受传统中式英语教育方式的影响，即过于强调语法、词汇的掌握，不重视语言实际运用，所以在雅思考试时，大部分考生很难获得高分。
本文针对如何在雅思考试听力部分取得高分，作了一些分析。
雅思听力分为四个部分：第一部分是两人对话，经常涉及吃饭、租房、看病、旅游等与生活息息相关的内容，题型主要以填空题和单项选择题的形式出现；第二部分是非学术性的讲座，主要介绍了一些旅游活动或经典场景；第三部分是学生和学生的对话或者学生和教师之间的对话，经常涉及课程安排、选课，以及关于某个课题的研究调查或者学习方法的讨论等；第四部分是专家或者大学教授的演讲、讲座等，话题涵盖广泛，包括文化、环境、犯罪、健康等各种社科类话题以及少数科普知识；第四部分是听力考试最难的部分，但是涉及的问题与专业知识没有太大关系，而且所用的词汇没有超出大部分考生掌握的词汇范围。
总结雅思听力考试，笔者发现它的考查重点有两个：第一，考查考生对应掌握词汇的反应速度和拼写能力。
针对这个考查点，笔者认为一个比较有效的解决方式就是精听。
对于绝大部分考生来说，准备雅思考试的时间是有限的，所以笔者建议，考生应在精听材料的选择上有明确的目的性，如使用剑桥雅思真题听力文本的第三和第四部分。
高中英语教学中学生语用能力的培养
１．利用课 堂主 阵地，开展多样化的教学活动 课 堂是 学生 学 习语言 的主 阵地 。教师 需根据 教 学 内容 ，创 设 真实 的语 言情 境，创造 机会 让学生 开 口 说 英 语 。主 要 可 采 用模 拟 （Ｓｉｍｕｌａｔｉｏｎ）、角 色 扮 演 （Ｒｏｌｅ－ｐｌａｙ）、分 组 活 动 （Ｇｒｏｕｐ Ａｃｔｉｖｉｔｉｅｓ）、小 辩 论 （Ｄｅｂａｔｅ）、演 讲 （Ｓｐｅｅｃｈ）、主题 报 告 （Ｐｒｅｓｅｎｔａｔｉｏｎ） 等方 式，做 到人人参与 ，人人有机会展现 自己。
３．坚持收听央视英语新 闻，了解时事，拓展视野 我建 议学 生每 天利用 晚餐 时间收 听央视 国 际新 闻频道 的新 闻，再用一至三 五个 句子对某 一重大 事件 加 以概 括 ，并利用 课前 时 间进 行交流 。这样 ，学生在 吸收更 多样 的听力信 息的同时，还能及时 了解 当下国 内国际大事 ，不 失为拓展学生视野的好方法 。
【关键 词 】高 中英语 语 用能力
很 多学 生虽然 己积 累 了一定 的词汇 ，熟练地 掌握 了语 法 规则 ，且有 较 强 的阅读 能 力 ，但 他们 一旦 置 身 于实 际生活 语言环 境 中，便感觉 力不从心 。造成这 一 现 象主 要有 以下 几 点原 因：一 是听 力 “输 入 ”的 单一 与 实 际交 际 情 景复 杂 性 间 的矛 盾；二 是学 生低 质 口 头语 言 的 “输 出”与复杂 心理 因素 的干扰 ；三是 思辨 能 力 的薄 弱 与英 语 思 维 能力 培 养 的缺 失；四是英 语 教材 实用 性 的局 限和补 充听说材 料 的匮乏 。因此 ，笔 者 觉得很 有必要 通过 教学实 践，积极探 究培养 学生语 用 能力 的有 效方法 。
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新闻英语视听说
A change to its population policy for the world`s most populated country,that is where we start this new week on CNN STUDENT NEWS.China introduced its so-called one-child policy in the late1970s.It`s been credited with helping to control China`s population growth.It`s also been criticized for forcing parents to make difficult personal choices,or in some cases face huge fines.The policy said that in urban areas,parents could only have one child,although there were some exceptions.The new rule says that if either parent is an only child,then they are eligible to have two children of their own.One reason for the change,economics.In China,many people care for their elderly relatives,so a single child could end up being financially responsible for parents and grandparents.This new policy could help with that.Another reason,China says it wants to improve human rights.That`s also why it says it`s getting rid of its labor camps.Since 1957,Chinese authorities could hold people in these camps without a trial.Now,China`s government is expected to shut the camps down.改变世界`人口政策最密集的国家，这是我们开始新的一周美国有线电视新闻网学生新闻。
英语练习买哪种最好
英语练习买哪种最好英语练习是提高语言技能的重要环节。
选择合适的练习材料，可以更有效地提升听、说、读、写各方面的能力。
以下是一些建议，帮助你选择最适合你的英语练习材料。
基础英语练习如果你是初学者，可以从基础英语练习开始。
这包括：- 儿童读物：简单的词汇和句型，适合初学者。
- 英语教材：如《新概念英语》等，系统地学习语法和词汇。
- 英语练习册：配合教材使用，加强练习。
中级英语练习对于已经有一定基础的学习者，可以选择更高级的练习材料：- 英语小说：选择一些经典作品，如《傲慢与偏见》或《动物农场》，提高阅读能力。
- 英语新闻网站：如BBC Learning English，CNN Student News等，了解时事并练习听力和阅读。
- 英语电影和电视剧：通过观看英语原声影视作品，提高听力和理解能力。
高级英语练习对于高级学习者，可以挑战更复杂的材料：- 学术文章：阅读学术论文，提高专业英语水平。
- TED演讲：观看TED演讲，学习地道的英语表达和演讲技巧。
- 英语辩论：参加英语辩论会，锻炼口语和逻辑思维。
实用英语练习如果你希望提高实际应用能力，可以考虑以下资源：- 商务英语课程：学习商务场合中的英语使用。
- 旅游英语手册：学习旅游中常用的英语对话和表达。
- 日常英语对话练习：通过模拟日常场景，练习英语交流。
在线资源和应用利用现代技术，你还可以：- 英语学习APP：如Duolingo、Rosetta Stone等，随时随地练习。
- 在线课程：如Coursera、edX等平台提供的英语课程。
- 社交媒体：加入英语学习社群，与他人交流和练习。
选择适合自己的英语练习材料，是提高英语水平的关键。
同时，持续的练习和不断的挑战自我，也是成功学习英语的重要因素。
如何提高高中英语听力教学的有效性
如何提高高中英语听力教学的有效性摘要：听力是英语教学中的重要组成部分，良好的听力能力也是学生必备的一项英语综合素质与素养。
英语作为一门国际化的语言，教师应以培养学生基本的语言交流能力为教学任务，改变传统教学下“书面英语”的模式，为学生创造更多的语言技能提升与发展的机会。
关键词：高中英语；听力能力；教学策略造成学生听力差、听力教学低效的原因是多方面的：学生语音基础知识掌握不牢靠,无法有效辨别一些词语的发音;对英语背景知识了解不充分，无法迅速抓到材料中的关键信息以及教师缺乏对学生听力方法技巧的指导、良好听力习惯的培养等等。
作为高中英语教师，我们应从这些问题出发，积极探究有效的方法和策略开展听力教学，以此来改善听力教学效果，切实提高学生的听力水平，为提高听力教学的有效性不断做出努力。
一、通过构建听力训练情境加强语音词汇练习在传统的高中听力教学中，因为没有足够专业的听力设备，没有科学的听力教学方案，以及少量的课堂听力时间，致使学生没有从内心建立起对于英语听力的重视。
笔者还注意到这样一种现象，有的教师在播放完听力之后，就只是将答案公布出来，让学生自己订正，没有讲解，没有让学生自主探究，凡此种种都使高中英语教学不断陷入僵局。
在素质教育的时代背景下，高中英语教师必须对听力教学引起重视，摒弃旧的方法和观念，创新教学方式，将任务型教学法与听力教学结合起来，加强语音和词汇的练习，最大程度的提高学生的听力能力。
比如，以“Healthy eating”这一内容为例，本课的教学任务主要是掌握一些最基本的烹饪词汇，对饮食习惯和健康有初步的了解，并能用本单元的知识写出自己钟爱的食谱。
笔者通过小组合作的组织形式，让学生在“做中学”，通过协作得出“何为健康食品”“什么样的饮食习惯是健康的”“要如何养成健康的饮食习惯”等问题的结论。
学生在这样的任务设置中，显得极为的活跃，积极参与到听力课堂中，听力教学的效果得到了明显的提升。
由此可见，在具体的教学情境中，学生会全身心地投入到课堂中去。