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Not a bunch of raging aids, egos and all kinds of transference, modified only by the soothing diffidence of a frog.The glorious mayhem of the Muppet Show as crazy bears, old codgers, chickens and, of course, Kermit the Frog first appeared together on the American television in the mid-70s with a distinctive opening theme, a situation, an unlikely vaudeville show and high-profile special guests. Now more than 30 years later, comes a film in which the Muppet gang get together once more with the help of rather 1950s couple played by Jason Segel and Amy Adams. There are plenty of jokes about the passage of time. Miss Piggy is channelling Meryl Streep in the Devil Wears Prada for example. Some new special guests like Jack Black and big Hollywood-style musical numbers. The director James Bobin certainly knows about prestige. He made the Ali G series and Flight of the Conchords. But the Muppets, had they been part of his formative years?译文：一只青蛙的镇静与卑谦只能感染为数不多的一些心情而已，如情不自禁地助人之心，自尊心和移情别恋的情绪。

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HW Mar 13BBC News with David AustinThe White House says the killing of 16 Afghans by an American soldier on Sunday won't change its strategy or objectives in the country. It said the plan was still for Afghans to take over security operations by 2014. The Afghan parliament has demanded to put the suspect on trial in an Afghan court. From Kabul, here's Quentin Sommerville.Identity of the gunman still hasn't been revealed, but more is known: he's in his late 30s, and has children of his own. A staff sergeant, he's been in the army 11 years. This is his first tour of Afghanistan, but he served three tours in Iraq. The Pentagon insists he acted alone. Fully armed, he was wearing night vision goggles as he carried out the killings. He was working with special forces in the area, protecting their combat outpost – that, said one officer, would have allowed him to come and go as he pleased. But his motivation for the attacks remains a mystery.The American Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has told United Nations Security Council foreign ministers gather to discuss Syria that the council shouldn't remain silent when governments massacre their own people. Mrs Clinton accused the Syrian forces of premeditated murder, and urged the council to stand up for the Syrian people."The Syrian people deserve the same opportunity to shape their future that the Tunisians, Egyptians, Libyans and Yemenis now enjoy. And our work here at the Security Council is just one part of what the international community must do to assist democratic transitions all across the Middle East and North Africa."Earlier, opposition activists in Syria accused the government of President Bashar al-Assad of slaughtering women and children in Homs and other cities. The opposition Syrian National Council called for urgent foreign military intervention in Syria. SNC representatives are due to meet the international envoy to Syria Kofi Annan in Turkey on Tuesday.Hundreds of mourners have paid their respects to one of the world's most celebrated war correspondents, Marie Colvin. She was killed last month in the Syrian city of Homs. The funeral was held in her hometown of Oyster Bay in New York state. The eulogy paid tribute to a fearless woman who had a passion for her work. Marie Colvin was covering the uprising in Syria for the British Sunday Times newspaper when the house she and other journalists were reporting from was shelled by Syrian government forces. A French photo journalist Remi Ochlik was also killed in the attack.The authorities in South Sudan say that more than 200 people are now known to have been killed in an outbreak of ethnic violence. Hundreds more are missing after attackers from the Murle ethnic group carried out raids in Upper Nile state on Friday. Violence sparked by cattle raids and revenge attacks between the Murle and the Lou Nuer peoples have left thousands dead since South Sudan became independent last July.World News from the BBCThe head of Brazil's football federation, Ricardo Teixeira, has stepped down. He also resigned from the 2014 World Cup organizing committee amid corruption allegations which he's denied. Here's Alex Capstick.Ricardo Teixeira has been at the helm of Brazilian football, the CBF for the past 23 years. But his stint in charge of the most successful nation in World Cup history has often been contentious. Over the past few years, he's been forced to defend himself amid allegations of corruption both in his role as president of the CBF and as a senior member of FIFA's ruling executive committee. In a parting statement, Mr Teixeira said he's sacrificed his health to do his job; he said he'd been criticized in the losses and undervalued in the victories.The European Union has insisted it'll press ahead with plans to charge foreign airlines for the carbon emissions they produce during European flights. Nine of Europe's leading aviation groups have written a joint letter calling for a compromise to avert what they say would be a "damaging trade conflict".The controversial art historian Maurizio Seracini says he's on the trail of lost masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci, The Battle of Anghiari. Professor Seracini says samples from a hidden wall in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence contain traces of paint that was only used by the Renaissance master. The work is hidden behind another masterpiece of the period by Giorgio Vasari. The discovery has been hailed by Terry Garcia of the US National Geographic Society which sponsored the research."I'm quite convinced that something has been found. Yes, it is a very historic day. And, you know, I mean, this is a combination of a number of factors – one as Dr Seracini pointed out, there is overwhelming historical documentation that indicates that the Leonardo was painted, that it was behind the wall and that it was an existence of the time that Vasari painted his fresco."And those are the latest stories from BBC News.。

BBC听力文本2013年3月14日

3.14I'm Tommy Andrey from CNN radio, I'm filling in for Carl as we start a new week of CNN student news. 我是CNN电台的汤米·安德烈,我今天顶替卡尔开始我们新一周的CNN学生新闻。

First up, we're heading to Kenya, it has the largest economy in East Africa. 首先,我们要前往肯尼亚,它拥有非洲东部最大的经济。

It's a relatively stable country in the region, that isn't always stable. 这是一个在该地区相对稳定的国家,然而并不总是稳定。

And it's a major U.S ally in the war against terrorism. 而且这是一个在战争时期打击恐怖主义的美国的主要盟国。

So what happens in Kenya can have a big impact on other countries. 所以发生在肯尼亚的事情可以对其他国家造成很大的影响。

Here is what happened there this weekend. 下面就是在这个周末发生的事情。

I therefore declare Uhuru Kenyatta the duly elected president of the Republic Kenya. 我在此宣布乌呼鲁·肯雅塔成为选举产生的合法肯尼亚共和国总统。

Now it is clear that the constitutionally-sanctioned process of electing a new set of leaders to take us to the next level has been thwarted by another tainted election. 现在很明显宪法批准的流程选出一组带领我们进入下一个新纪元的新领导人们已经受到了另一次污染选举的阻挠。

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[00:04.49]Egypt’s Supreme Election Commission says the new constitution has been approved by almost 64% of voters.埃及最高选举委员会称新宪法以近64%的支持率通过。

[00:12.41]Announcing the official results of the referendum, Judge Samir Abul al-Maati said the commission had investigated all the complaints of irregularities.Bethany Bell is in Cairo.Judge Samir Abul al-Maati宣布了公投的官方结果，称委员会已调查有关违规行为的诉讼。

Bethany Bell在开罗报道。

[00:23.54]Almost two years after the fall of Egypt’s authoritarian leader Hosni Mubarak, Egypt has a new constitution.就在埃及独裁统治者侯赛尼·穆巴拉克倒台两年后，埃及终于有了一部新宪法。

[00:30.79]It’s a victory for President Mohammed Morsi and his Islamist supporters. He says it will bring stability to the country.这对总统穆罕默德·穆尔西及其支持者来说是场胜利，他说新宪法将给埃及带来稳定，[00:38.76]It paves the way for parliamentary elections in the next two months. 并为两个月后的议会选举铺平道路。

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White House Sressing Job CreationA White House economic advisor says there is an "overwhelming" need to do more to spur U.S. job creation and solidify a fragile economic recovery. The comment follows a disappointing monthly unemployment report that showed continuing job losses in the United States.Less than a year after Pres ident Barack Obama signed into law the biggest economic stimulus package in U.S. history, the head of his Council of Economic Advisers says additional measures are needed."The sense that we need to do more is overwhelming," Christina Romer said on ABC's This Week program. She said key elements of last year's $787-billion stimulus package - like unemployment benefits and aid to state governments - should be extended.But Romer also called for new measures like tax incentives for businesses to hire new workers and cash rebates for people who make their homes more energy efficient.Friday, the U.S. Labor Department reported a net 85,000 job loss in the United States last month, with unemployment holding steady at 10 percent. The numbers were a disappointment to economists who had held out hope that December might have recorded the first net job gains seen in the United States in nearly two years."It was somewhat of a setback," said the economic advisor.Romer added that mild job losses and a stable unemployment rate are an improvement over the situation that existed a year ago, when hundreds of thousands of jobs were being lost each month and the unemployment rate was soaring."In the first quarter of 2009 when we [the Obama administration] first came in, we were losing on average 691,000 jobs a month. The job losses are moderating."But Republicans say it is time for President Obama to make good on his promise to actually improve America's economic conditions, rather than slowing the rate of decline. Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele spoke on Fox News Sunday."What are we about to celebrate as we go into the one-year anniversary of this [Obama] administration? We have no jobs, no health care [reform], $13-trillion worth of debt, and no sense of direction in how we are going to create thosejobs," he said.Last month, the Democratically-controlled House of Representatives passed a second stimulus bill aimed at jump-starting U.S. employment. The Senate is expected to consider the measure in coming weeks. Top economic voices in the Obama administration applaud the initiative, but add that, ultimately, America's private sector must lead the way in job creation and economic expansion.The consensus view among economists is that the U.S. unemployment rate will gradually decline in coming months as the economy rebounds from the worst recession since World War II. But some well-known economists are considerably more pessimistic, arguing that unemployment could rise further and the United States could slip back into recession by year's end.Cold Weather Driving Oil Prices HigherInvestors are seeing new opportunities to make money on oil. The price of crude oil rose to its highest level in 15 months on Wednesday amid speculation that a weak dollar and cold weather across many parts of the world will boost energy demand. But despite increasing demand in emerging markets, some say higher inventories and recessionary pullbacks in the West could drive prices lower.Severe winter weather across parts of Europe, Asia and the United States helped push the price of oil above $83 a barrel on Wednesday, before falling below that mark again on Thursday.In the U.S., a 20 percent increase in demand for heating oil, along with higher gasoline prices had some investors speculating about a return to record highs.With demand continuing to rise in emerging economies such as China and India, energy trader Ray Carbone says oil futures are a good bet."To me, we could be at triple digits in the not long period of time and of course we know that we can go well into the triple digits if the right confluence of events comes about," said Ray Carbone.But after 10 days of consecutive gains, some investors may be having second thoughts. On Thursday, oil futures fell below $83 a barrel amid concerns about higher than expected surpluses and a strengthening U.S. dollar.Energy analyst Mike Fitzpatrick says a sluggish recovery in the U.S. could also drive prices lower."I think that the fundamentals aren't there," said Mike Fitzpatrick. "I mean thereis plenty of supply. Demand in the industrial West remains severely restricted because of the recession."Oil prices topped out at $145 a barrel in 2008, driven largely by speculators hedging their bets on a weak U.S. dollar. Analysts don't expect prices to reach similar levels anytime soon but they say oil markets could remain a hot spot for investors - if energy demand increases as the U.S. economy gradually starts to improve.Global Markets Edge Higher as Dubai's Debt Woes EaseThe government-owned company, Dubai World, has reassured investors abroad by revealing details of its restructuring plans, nearly a week after hinting it may not have enough money to repay its debts.Dubai World says it will restructure $26 billion in debt, less than half of the nearly $60 billion it owes.The new scheme will look at options for deleveraging, including asset sales, and will apply to the conglomerate's main property firms, Nakheel and Limitless. Its smaller companies will not be covered.The head of Middle East research at Swiss-based financial firm UBS, Saud Masud, says it is a step in the right direction."I think, structurally this is a long-term positive with some short-term pain," Masud said.Asian and European stocks were up, Tuesday, following news of the restructuring. However, it was a different story back in the United Arab Emirates, where the main indexes in Dubai and Abu Dhabi fell shortly after opening.Both were down by about six percent, after recording even higher losses on Monday.Masud says the situation has most people in the UAE feeling vulnerable."If you walk around and look at what the everyday person is thinking," Masud said. "They're clearly concerned with what restructuring or what type of debt renegotiation, will mean for them and their companies."Dubai World helped transform Dubai into a regional hub for finance. It sent markets across the planet tumbling, last week, when executives asked creditors for a six-month extension on repaying its debts.Monday, the emirate's government announced it would not provide the company with a bailout.Officials say they want to set the record straight that, although Dubai owns Dubai World, the company is independent and not guaranteed by the government.Dubai World's debts grew from projects initiated during Dubai's property boom, including man-made islands in the shape of palm trees and the world's tallest building.。

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Lily:
The third year student is perhaps in the best situation with middle
class parents.
Carol:
Middle class parents 的意思就是父母属于中产阶级，收入还不错。
Lily: 变。 NhomakorabeaStudent Finance大学生理财
Lily: Hello and welcome to BBC Learning English. I am Lily.
Carol: 大家好！我是
Carol。对于大学生和那些即将跨入大学校园的朋友来说，了解
英国大学生的校园生活可能也会给你带来有益的启示。
He went to the end of his overdraft a couple of times because he
went on big holidays.
Carol: Overdraft 透支。
Lily: He said that travelling around the world is a wicked experience but
Lily: Today we are going to look at one important aspect of university
life: student finance.
Carol: 在今天的节目中我们将向你介绍英国的大学生家长们究竟能给正在上大学的孩
子们多大的财政支持？以及英国大学生是如何学习理财的？
Carol:
这名学生认为，读书是为了自己，所以读书所需要的开销也应该靠自己来解
决。

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A Fat Tax for America? 向胖人征税？If a new idea in America becomes a law, people who suffer from obesity could suffer financially too.The US state of Arizona wants to charge overweight citizens $50 (325 Yuan) annually if they fail to follow their doctors' advice. People with children or who are overweight because they suffer from a medical condition would be exempt. If the idea is approved by Congress, smokers and diabetics who fail to stick to a healthy lifestyle will also have to pay.Medicaid, the organisation which provides healthcare to the poor in the USA, costs the government $339bn (2.2 trillion Yuan) a year. Monica Coury, assistant director at Arizona's Medicaid programme, said that this proposal would ask people to give something back.She said that Arizona would take a carrot and stick approach to the problem. As well as penalising people who go against their doctor's wishes, incentives would be offered for following advice, possibly a keep-fit video.Arizona's senator Kyrsten Sinema has not backed the plans, saying that there isn't a system to decide whether someone is or isn't following medical advice. Other critics claim that people don't need the government to look after them; if they want to be fat and smoke, the 'nanny state' shouldn't try to stop them. Wes Benedict of the Libertarian Party said:"If you want to save the state money... cut Medicaid across the board, but don't single out overweight people and smokers."最伟大的魔术师The Greatest MagicianEdinburgh has been remembering one of the world's greatest magicians. The Great Lafayette was the stage name of the German illusionist Sigmund Neuberger. At the time of his death a century ago he was the world'shighest-paid performer and 250,000 people went to his funeral.Lafayette's grand finale was a famous stunt called The Lion's Bride. A female assistant would walk into a cage containing a real lion. When the lion was about to kill her, its skin would be pulled off to reveal… The Great Lafayette.Of course it was all done with smoke and mirrors, as well as Lafayette's great sleight of hand. But on 9 May 1911 something went horribly wrong. Halfway through his routine, a gas lamp was knocked over and the stage scenery caught fire. The audience all thought it was part of the act and refused to leave the theatre until the band played the national anthem.Lafayette died along with 10 other people, a horse and the famous lion. But he continued to play tricks on people even after his death.Three days after the fire, another body was discovered in the theatre wearing Lafayette's clothes. This, it emerged, was the magician himself; the first body had been that of an assistant.One hundred years on, the great magician continues to work his magic. Last weekend, the Edinburgh Festival Theatre hosted a series of special events in honour of the magician, including a séance.BBC News with Jonathan Wheatley美国暴风雪上千航班被取消上万旅客受影响A winter storm is causing major disruption along the eastern seaboard of the United States. Hundreds of flights have been canceled and states of emergency have been declared in Maryland, North Carolina and Virginia. Rajini Vaidyanathan reports from Washington.The snow has started to fall here in the nation’s capital. And across the east coast, a severe weather storm is forecast. The National Weather Service has issued a blizzard warning for the next 24 hours for major cities including New York and Boston, predicting between 14 to 15 centimetres of snow and winds of 55 kilometres per hour. Hundreds of flights have been grounded at airports including at New York’s JFK, Newark, Washington DC and Boston. Both international and domestic services are affected.科特迪瓦新“总统”号召罢工抗议现任领导人下台The party of the would-be president of Ivory Coast Alassane Ouattara has called for a general strike for Monday until the incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo steps down. A party statement said, “we should no allow them steal our victory.” Both men say they won Ivory Coast presidential election, but Mr Gbagbo has held onto day-to-day power despite international appeals to him to leave office.尼日利亚乔斯市再次发生武装冲突至少1人死亡There’ve been clashes between the armed Christian and Muslim groups in the central Nigerian city of Jos less than two days after bombings killed 32 people. Security forces dispersed the crowds and there is no official word on casualties, but witnesses reported several dead bodies. Jos, in Nigeria’s Platea u state, has been at the heart of ethnic and religious hostility in recent years. But the Anglican Archbishop of Jos Ben Kwashi told the BBC Friday’s bomb blasts were nothing to do with religion. He blamed the international media for inflaming tensions.“One bomb went off in the beer parlour. Another bomb went off near the church. And the other bomb went off near the market. These are public places and have nothing to do with the religion. These are criminal issues. We have worked very hard of leaders of religion in Jos. To work together, we were gaining ground until this one.”以色列外长称以方不会就袭船事件向土耳其道歉The Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has said Israel will not apologise to Turkey for a military raid on an aid ship bound for the Gaza Strip in which nine activists were killed. “It was Turkey who should apologise” Mr Lieb erman said. “for supporting terror, including the IHH, the Turkish organisation which sent the ship to Gaza.”“On the apology issue is boarders’ unrudeness, it’s even beyond rudeness. If anyone has to apologise, it is the Turkish government to Israel for its cooperation with terror entities, for supporting terror, for supporting the IHH Hamas and Hezbollah. There will be no apology. And if there was to be one, it would be from the Turkish government and not the other way around.”World News from the BBC荷兰逮捕12名索马里犯罪嫌疑人其中五名已洗清嫌疑Prosecutors in the Netherlands say they’ve cleared five of the 12 Somali men arrested on Friday on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack. The men were detained in Rotterdam after Dutch intelligence reports indicated an attack might be imminent. Officials said there was no criminal evidence against the five.乌克兰前内政部长遛狗时被捕涉嫌侵占国家财产In Ukraine, the former Interior Minister Yuri Lutsenko has been detained as part of a winding investigation into allegations of abuse of office and diverting public funds. The opposition says this inquiry is a political vendetta launched byPresident Viktor Yanukovich against members of the previous government. The former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is also under investigation. David Stern now reports from Kiev.According to Yuri Lutsenko’s press service, 11 security agents seized the former interior minister when he was walking his dog on Sunday afternoon. Authorities had opened a criminal case against Mr Lutsenko earlier this month for abuse of power. He is the latest and so far highest profile member of Yulia Tymoshenko’s government to be arrested. Mrs Tymoshenko herself are two separate charges filed against her this last week for misuse of funds and abuse of power when she was prime minister one year ago.斯里兰卡200名在监前猛虎成员通过A级考试The Sri Lankan government says 200 former Tamil Tiger rebels it is holding in custody have passed A-level exams normally taken at the age of 18. They are among 5,000 former rebels the authorities say they are still holding following the Tamil Tiger’s defeat last year. However, human rights groups have denied that those sitting the exam are former fighters at all.研究人员称已确定制一品种可可树的多数基因序列Researchers say they’ve sequenced to most of the genetic code of a type of cocoa plant used in making high-quality chocolate, meaning they might be able to improve its resistance to disease. The French group said they’d found almost 29,000 genes for the criollo variety of cocoa. Criollos produce low yields and are very vulnerable to fungal disease.。

BBC听力材料文本总结 G20

The Group of 20 nations have a consensus on which way they need to go in terms of currencies. That is the word from Canada's finance minister, Jim Flaherty. He spoke Friday just before the G20 finance ministers and central bank —governors--- began their meeting."Where we're trying to get to is an action plan that will avoid the temptation by some countries to protect their currencies in differentways," Flaherty said.None of the G20 members, he explained, wants to be confrontational or leave here without an –agreement--.Officials from host South Korea predict some progress will be made on—resolving--- the currency issue.There are growing concerns that many nations may competitively depreciate their currencies to protect–exports--.Many economists, however, --caution--- not to expect any sort of grand bargain similar to the 1985 Plaza Accord―广场协议‖ 后的美元爆跌, which addressed the value of the U.S. dollar. Ahead of the G20 session, ministers of the G7 economies huddled. Canada's Flaherty, who –chaired-- those talks, said there was a "frank exchangeof views" at the informal meetingChina, as the number two economy, faces pressure to stop controlling its currency, which the United States, European Union and Japan say is undervalued.The weakened U.S. dollar has prompted more money to pour into Asian currencies where there is a better return on investment. But there are concerns thatthis flow of money could destabilize economies.But research fellow Jeong Young-Sik at the Samsung Economic Research Institute in Seoul does not envision a unified Asian –stance -- at this G20 meeting.Jeong expects that Japan, as a highly developed country, will take a stance closer to that of the United States. South Korea and China, he explains, will be moresensitive to the –appreciation-- of their own currencies.Japan's finance minister, Yoshihiko Noda, earlier this month said South Korea's role as –the summer-- chair would be called into question if it repeatedly intervened to weaken its currency, the won.But Noda, on Friday, also rebuffed a U.S. proposal that all G20 nations agree on atarget for current account balances往来帐余额；经常帐户收支to ease currency tensions. He called numerical targets "unrealistic."U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner in a letter to G20 members, urges countries running big trade surpluses/deficit - notably China - to change policies to –boost -- domestic sources of growth and support global demand. At the sametime, he says countries that have trade and budget deficits, such as the U.S., should focus on sustainable policies to cut both.The meeting here, which ends Saturday, is to set the –agenda-- for next month's G20 leaders' summit in Seoul.。

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bbc英语听力原文English: The original text of a BBC English listening exercise might vary depending on the specific content and context. However, it typically consists of a spoken dialogue or monologue accompaniedby some background sounds or music. The dialogue or monologue is usually spoken by native English speakers, often with varying accents and speech patterns to expose learners to different forms of English pronunciation. The content of the listening exercise can cover a wide range of topics, including news reports, interviews, discussions, or everyday conversations. These exercises are designed to improve listening comprehension skills, vocabulary acquisition, and overall English language proficiency. They often include comprehension questions or tasks to test understanding and encourage active engagement with the material.中文翻译: BBC英语听力练习的原文可能因具体内容和背景而异。

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BBC听力house prices原文monetaryFinance and Economics;Global house prices;Downdraft;European house prices are finding it harder to defy gravity;From the late 1990s home prices across the rich world soared relentlessly upward, borne aloft on a gale of cheap capital. In 2006 some overvalued markets began crashing to earth. Until recently, however, the correction seemed remarkably contained. American and Irish home prices plunged, giving up all the gains of the previous decade, but others have fallen far less steeply. Some markets faltered and then stable. The latest update of The Economist's global house-price indicators hints that this period of post-crisis calm may be coming to an end.Europe's gravity-defying act has been the most striking. Most of its largest housing markets—Germany is the big exception—boomed in the early 2000s and stumbled during the crisis. But fortunes have diverged since then. Irish prices plunged and continue to sink. House prices in most other markets are still well above “fair value”, which we define as the long-run average of two measures: the price-to-income ratio, a gauge of affordability, and the price-to-rents ratio, an analogue of the price-to-earnings ratio used to judge the equity value of listed firms. Spanish markets are still overvalued by a quarter on these measures,although prices are falling. In Belgium and France, prices are well above fair value and they continue to rise.Such buoyancy can largely be attributed to a combination of low interest rates and a preponderance of variable-rate mortgages. But from the third quarter of 2011 to the fourth, as recession bit and bond markets wobbled, European house prices came under downward pressure. The pace of depreciation quickened around the periphery of the euro zone. Appreciation slowed in Germany and France. The euro area's downturn probably continued into the first quarter of 2012 and may persist beyond that. Unemployment is rising across the continent and banks are under pressure to shore up balance-sheets (see article). Prices will struggle to rise in such conditions, in over- and undervalued markets alike.Housing markets have also cooled in far healthier economies. China's government spent much of 2011 reining in its scorching housing sector by limiting multiple home purchases, raising interest rates and hiking banks' reserve requirements. Soaring prices now look a thing of the past: values were essentially flat in the year to the fourth quarter of 2011. A fragile Europe and a cooling China have taken the wind out of other Asian housing markets. Values continue to rise in Singapore but more slowly than in the third quarter of last year. Australian home values fell faster in the fourth quarter than in the third.America's housing-market correction has gone further than most. On our gauge, prices nationally are 19% below fair value. Economic conditions are improving, and the unemployment rate is down sharply from a year ago. Home sales and construction are depressed relative to normal levels but rose substantially in early 2012 from the prior year. Prices keep falling, however. According to the latest release of theS&P/case shilled index of home prices, home values in large markets were down by 3.8% in the year to January. That was better than a 4.1% drop in December but still horribly disappointing.Better times are in sight. Buying a house looks like an increasingly good bet compared with renting, according to The Economist's calculations. Indeed, rising rents are helping to cut into a backlog of unsold homes; in February, 23% of home sales were to investors, many of whom will switch the properties into rentals.Canadians have reason to quake at the wrenching correction going on south of the border. House prices in Canada are above their 2007 mark, and appreciation accelerated from the third quarter of 2011 to the fourth. The price-to-rent ratio now indicates that Canadian properties are 76% overvalued, though things look less bubbly on the income measure and Canadian lenders are a far more disciplined bunch thanAmerican lenders were. The government hopes to prod markets into a slowdown by toughening financing rules.In large, global cities there is another dimension to house-price movements. Where foreign demand is an important part of the local property market, exchange rates matter for affordability, as our analysis of prices adjusted for trade-weighted exchange rates indicates (see chart). Consider London. Homes there may feel as expensive as ever to Britons, but a large sterling depreciation means houses look some 15% cheaper to foreigners now than they did five years ago. Dollar weakness has left New York homes some 30% cheaper for international buyers than in 2006. By contrast, a dearer loonie has driven up Toronto home values by nearly 90% since 2006, compared with a rise of 32% inlocal-currency terms. The yuan's slow but steady rise has magnified appreciation in Shanghai. Small wonder Chinese buyers are so visible in London and Manhattan.。

高中英语BBC听力素材1精选(doc双译)1104素材

BBC英语听力（文本＋翻译Up to 15 million people on the east coastof the United Statesare preparing for the arrival of Hurricane Sandy which is expected to makelandfall in the coming hours. Speaking at the White House, President Obamaissued a warning that the storm would cause many days of severe disturbance andpossible fatal consequences. Sandy has continuedto pick up strength over the Atlantic Oceanthroughout the day. Public transport has been shut down in New York. Dirtry Parker from the city'sMetropolitan Transport Authority says they feared the subways themselves couldbe flooded.美国东海岸近1500万人正为将即将到来的飓风做准备，飓风桑迪可能会在未来几小时内着陆。

总统奥巴马在白宫发出警告，台风可能会对生活造成数天的严重干扰，并可能带来致命后果。

这几天桑迪一直在从大西洋积攒力量。

纽约公交系统已经关闭，该大都市运输局的Dirtry Parker解释道，他们担心洪水会淹没地铁。

The worst storm has not hit us yet, we arealert to what's going on in the under-river tubes. We are also removing some ofour signal equipment. You know our governor has said salt water and subwaysdon't mix. We can continue pumping water out if we lose electricity our pumpwill not be operable, so it really depends on how much damage we sustain.这场最严重的风暴目前还未袭击我们，但我们要时刻警惕地下水管的动静。

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bbc英语听力文章英语听力对于日常交流来说四非常重要的，多听多练才能提高自己的水平，下面是店铺带来的，欢迎阅读!bbc英语听力文章Mayday's story When the world tells you there’s no way you can realize your dream, you have two choices: give up, or keep going. Five friends who grew up together had a dream, a dream everyone said was impossible. But they chose to keep going. They made the impossible possible, making Taiwanese music history along the way. Indeed, they’re still going. Mayday, a five-piece rock band from Taiwan, formed in a classroom in Taipei in 1997. They’d come from all corners of island. Just another teenage rock band, but they worked tirelessly for 15 years, from street performances to pubs, to school campus and on to huge arenas, all the way to what must count as the crowning glory of their careers three unforgettable sold-out concerts in Beijing’s Bird’s Nest to an audience of 300000. They’ve conquered Asia, constantly evolving their shows, and wherever they go the crowds follow Asia n media calls them the “Kings of the Rock Concert” and the American press has dubbed them “the Chinese Beatles”， and for good reason. Taiwan is just a small island, one albeit bustling corner of our vast planet. Invisible most of the time to the rest of th e world. Taiwan’s music industry does however punch above its weight in Asia. And one rock band has made its mark more than any other a family of friends who together have worked tirelessly for 15 years, have sung their way out and onto the world stage. The undisputed giants of Mando-Rock. It hasn’t always been easy, the bumps in the road often not obvious to their fans. It needed bravery. But it’s just as theysing “ My persistence two hands that won’t let go ”。

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BBC News with Fiona McDonald.President Trump has replaced his Chief of StaffReince Priebus a day after he was accused byanother senior White House official of leaking information to the media. Mr. Trump tweeted thathe picked the current Director of Homeland Security, John Kelly, to succeed him. Mr. Priebustold the news network CNN that he had resigned on Thursday.特朗普总统更换了幕僚长赖因斯·普里巴斯。

此前一天，普里巴斯被另一位白宫高级官员指控向媒体泄露信息。

特朗普在推特上说，他选择现任国土安全部长约翰•凯利来接替他的职位。

普里巴斯在接受CNN采访时表示，他已于周四辞职。

The White House says President Trump will sign into law a bill imposing new sanctions onRussia. It wasn't clear whether he'd veto the bill which was passed by both houses of the USCongress with an overwhelming majority.白宫表示，特朗普总统将签署一项法案，对俄罗斯实施新的制裁。

目前尚不清楚他是否会否决国会两院以压倒性优势通过的这项法案。

North Korea has confirmed that it successfully launched a second intercontinental ballisticmissile in less than a month. The test has been met with international condemnation. Hoursafter the test, the United States and South Korea held joint missile exercises.朝鲜已经证实，在不到一个月的时间里成功发射了第二枚洲际弹道导弹。

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bbc英语听力练习文本材料From the heart of Africa to the Mediterranean Sea runs the world's longest river. Since the Egyptians first settled along its banks men have dreamt of discovering the place where the Nile is born. But for centuries the river kept its secrets close. The obsession grew and by the mid-19th century some were prepared to risk their lives to be the first to discover the source of the Nile. Over a period of 30 years the Nile finally yielded. It demanded a terrible price. Many died or suffered horribly. One man had the resolve to finally piece together the puzzle of the Nile. He was Henry Morton Stanley. Doctor Livingstone, I presume. Yes. Meeting Livingstone changed my life. He was a remarkable man. He inspired in me the determination to finish the work that he had begun.世界第一长河自非洲的心脏地带流入地中海。

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Doctors in Egypt say four people have been shot dead in the city of Suez during clashes between anti-government protesters and security forces. The unrest broke out as mass rallies were held across the country to mark the second anniversary of the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak. The demonstrators accused both the Muslim Brotherhood and the Islamist President Mohamed Morsi of betraying the promises of the revolution. Shahira Amin, an Egyptian journal ist, told the BBC about the demonstrations she’d seen in Tahrir Square.Streets around Tahrir Square, in the vicinity, these have been turned into battlefield between the opposition activists and the security forces. It all started when the opposition activists tried to break down the barrier—a cement barrier that the security forces had put up-- and then that was rebuilt again and they started throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails and police fired tear canisters.The Egyptian health ministry has reported that more than 186 people were injured in skirmishes in cities across Egypt.In Mali governm ent and French troops have retaken the town of Hombori from Islamist rebels. The town is about 160km from the Islamist stronghold of Gao. Earlier French warplanes bombed rebel positions and ammunition dumps in the region. Richard Hamilton has been following developm ents.The retaking of Hombori is a significant incursion into previously rebel-held territory as French and Malian troops advanced towards the north and in particular the city of Gao. Rebels have blown up a bridge which lies along the road from Niger to Gao. This was intended to make it difficult for around 2,000 Chadian and 500 Nigerien troops to enter Mali from Niger.The Russian parliam ent has almost unanimously given an initial approval to a controversialdraft law which critics say would significantly restrict gay rights. The bill would make it illegal to provide information on homosexuality to minors and to hold events to promote gay rights. Steve Rosenberg has more from the Russian capital Moscow.Ahead of the debates inside the Russian parliament, there was drama outside on the street. Anti-gay pro testers chanted “Moscow is not Sodom”. In response gay-rights activists shouted “F ascism won’t succeed” and were duly pelted with eggs. Later the controversial bill passed its first hearing. If it eventually becomes law, it will prohibit the spread of what’s term ed “homosexual propaganda” in the presence of children. The wording is vague, but it would probably mean that across Russia public events promoting gay rights would be broken up and the organisers fined.1.topple vt. 推翻；颠覆；使倒塌But the Nato military appreciation is that months of bombing will be required to topple his regime, unless it collapses from within.但北约的军事判断是，除非卡扎菲政权从内部崩溃，否则将需要数月的轰炸才能推翻该政权。

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BBC新闻听力100篇News Item 1The Japanese government has played down concern about a possible nuclear meltdown, following a big explosion at a nuclear power station in the north of the country. The blast occurred a day after the area was hit by a powerful earthquake and tsunami. A top government ofﬁ cial, Yukio Edano, said a steel container encasing the nuclear reactor had not been ruptured by the blast.News Item 2Fifty thousand Japanese military personnel had been ordered to join the huge rescue and relief operation following the earthquake and tsunami. More than 1,000 people are feared dead. About 400 bodies were found in the town of Rikuzentakata, and Japanese media reports say 10,000 people are unaccounted for in Minamisanriku. Damian Grammaticas in the port of Sendai says the scenes of devastation there are astonishing.News Item 3International disaster relief teams have been sent to Japan. The United Nations said a nine strong UN team of experts would include several Japanese speakers. Britain said it was sending expert assistance after receiving a request from Japan. Singapore is also deploying an urban search and rescue team. American forces stationed in Japan have already been involved in rescue operations, and more than 50 territories and countries have offered assistance.News Item 4As ofﬁ cials in Japan struggle to assess the extent of the damage following the tsunami caused by a massive earthquake, it’s been announced that some 300 people are known to have been killed and more than 500 are unaccounted for in the area around the northern coastal city of Sendai. The 8.9-magnitude quake, the biggest ever recorded in Japan, sent a wave of water several meters high sweeping far inland. Its epicenter was about 130km off Japan’s east coast. In the capital Tokyo, several hundred kilometers away, buildings swayed violently during the quake, which was followed by a series of powerful aftershocks.News Item 5Slowly but relentlessly, Colonel Gaddafi’s forces seem to be winning the battle for Ras Lanuf. Opposition ﬁ ghters are still in the town, but they are under intense pressure. The bombing from government warplanes continued today, and there’s a big plume of smoke from the oil installation which was hit a couple of days ago. There’s no sign of either the rebel ﬁ ghters or the local population beginning to ﬂ ee the area. If Ras Lanuf falls, it brings the frontline closer to the main opposition-held city of Benghazi.四级最新资料2012.12大学英语四六级写作技巧PPT（共98页）2012.12大学英语四六级实用总结之阅读技巧【备战2012.12】四六级优秀作文选，最新预测作文哦！【备战2012.12】英语周计划系列丛书：大学英语新四级写作周计划（第4版）2012.12英语周计划系列丛书大学英语新四级阅读周计划（第四版）【备战2012.12】XDF赵丽四级词汇5500串讲（共八十讲更新完毕！）2012.12新东方四级完整版复习资料，辅导班内部用的，和大家分享下2012.12考拉进阶四级30篇预测作文2012.12大学英语四级听力技巧精讲完整版（1-12）英语周计划系列丛书-大学英语新四级综合测试周计划（第4版）【备战2012.12】英语周计划系列丛书：大学英语新四级听力周计划（第4版）2012.12大学英语四级听力技巧精讲（1-12），更新在继续！2012.12环球卓越四级应试宝典，让你备战四级的路上不再有弯路！2012.12环球卓越四级热点作文20篇(写作小册子)，不拿白不拿！！！多样式攻克大学英语四级词汇便携版（2012.12完整版）接着送大礼！！！2012.12王长喜四级3000高频词汇周计划送礼啦~~~2012.12王长喜四级30篇预测作文2012.12王长喜四级10套标准听力及原文+答案【好东东】害怕四级短文听力的进，短文听力训练好资料等你下载【好东东】2012.12文都大学英语四级考试一本通关（最新版）【大家网原创】2012年6月16日英语四级考试答案及解析！【好消息】最新2012《大学英语四级模拟试卷》（给力第二版）XDF《2012四级写作范文100篇》，让你最后20天作文得满分~~~【好消息】最新《大学英语四六级20天写作冲关快训》（给力第二版）大家网首发四级考试20天一本通2012年四级听力备考资料~不断更新中~~~大家网首发2012年6月10套大学英语4级考试命题改革与预测试卷（华研外语）大家网首发华研2012年6月四级8套强化听力+文本大家网首发2012年6月四级备考2000词汇卡片（附有听力）大家网首发华研四级2012年6月预测作文16篇+听力大家网首发2012举一反三710分四级写作典型题解历年大学英语四级真题试卷word+答案解析+听力原文+MP3（1989-2011.12）大家网首发2012年考拉进阶上海交通大学四级预测试卷及MP3.rar大家网首发2012举一反三710分四级阅读典型题解大家网首发2012举一反三710分四级综合典型题解大家网首发2012考拉进阶大学英语四级考试25篇押题作文+5套强化听力.rar大家网首发2012考拉进阶大学英语四级机考文件最新消息~大家网原创四级写作话题帖-吐血整理~~2012大学英语四、六级词汇词根词缀记忆法测试版PDF备战2012年6月四级-1000个高频词汇-（听力加强版）大家网原创四六级每日一练（各种题型专项训练）2012最新4级词汇大全（附有音标）四级100条阅读难句~每周更新~~~大家网版2011年12月大学英语四级真题图片版与pdf 版下载【大家网首发】2011.12.17四级听力MP3下载超清晰新东方英语四级精品全程班课件(音频+视频+word)汇总【备战2012】XDF四六级内部资料，过期不候【备战2012】英语四级考试高级语法讲义汇总【四六级机考】机考时代，你有木有加入？（内含机考参考资料）【备战2012年6月】英语四级写作备考推荐必看范文（汇总贴，给你导航）某辅导班四级精讲内部材料，全方位提高四级成绩！！！英语四级考试技巧汇总大全，共175页PDF，要的拿去！更多精华资料请点击【四级备考】历年精华资料大全四六级资料大全/forum-58-1.html2012四级备考资料大全/thread-2764304-1-1.html2012年六级精华资料大全/thread-2764307-1-1.html英语角/forum-439-1.html欢迎加入大家论坛四六级QQ群170208402 221970617 232765165 113796235。

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BBC News with Kathy Clugston.At least 300 people are known to have died in mudslides and flooding in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone. The number of casualties is expected to rise with hundreds of bodies thought to still be trapped under the debris. The Red Cross says 3000 people are estimated to have lost their homes.塞拉利昂首都弗里敦发生洪水和泥石流，造成至少300人死亡。

预计伤亡人数还会上升，或有数百具尸体仍被困在废墟下。

红十字会表示，估计约有3000人失去了家园。

Two days after a deadly car-ramming attack by a suspected white supremacist during a rally in Charlottesville, President Trump has given his first explicit condemnation of the far-right extremist groups involved in the violence. Mr. Trump said racism was evil and the Ku Klux Klan, white supremacists and other hate groups were repugnant to everything Americans held dear.一名白人至上主义者在夏洛茨维尔的集会上发动了一场致命的汽车袭击，两天之后特朗普总统首次明确谴责了参与暴力活动的极右极端主义组织。

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70年代中期，提线木偶秀节目的热闹欢快的场景和疯狂的熊，怪人, 鸡以及布偶青蛙卡米特共同出现在美国电视屏幕上。

这个节目的片头曲独具特色，有不是想象中的歌舞杂耍秀以及高调的特别嘉宾。

现在30年过去了，在一对十九世纪五十年代的夫妇的帮助下，一帮布偶们重聚在电影上，电影中的夫妇由杰森·斯格勒和艾米·亚当斯饰演。

电影有很多关于时间可以任意穿越的笑话。

例如猪小姐皮会穿越到电影《穿普拉达的女王》代替了吉梅丽尔·斯特里普的角色。

一些新的特别的嘉宾像杰克·布莱克和大好莱坞风格的音乐。

导演詹姆斯·波宾肯定深知名声的重要性。

他制作了Ali G个人秀和弦乐航班真人秀。

但是那些布偶们已经是他性格形成期的一部份了吗？But first, the story of a man who fought to bring freedom and democracy to his country, the Maldives. Mohamed Nasheed remained resolute throughout repeated arrests and more than six years in prison. Then in 2008, in the Indian Ocean's first ever free fair elections of these islands, he became president. The real work, he tells us, was just beginning then, including freeing the justice system from debilitating vested interests. But when President Nasheed ordered the arrest of a top judge for corruption, he found himself forced to step down instead. He says it was a coup. His critics say that President Nasheed had become like the dictators he despised and had to go. Mohamed Nasheed told us why his story still isn't over yet."I wake up very early in the morning and go to bed very late at night now. I try to meet as many people as possible because there's a number of people who seems to want to meet and there's a fair amount of meetings and fair amount of discussion groups. So basically I'm spending quite time having conversations, I suppose.""Who are you now, Mr Nasheed? You were a president just a short while ago. Who are you now?""All sorts of things now, I think. But basically, I suppose, there's a very big youth population in this country, more than 70% of the population in this country is below 35 years of age. And for them, I think I am an inspiration, a hope that we may be able to bring democracy back on track. It's a huge obligation, I understand. And so for many people I am many things."译文：首先我们来关注这样一个男人的故事：为了给祖国马尔代夫带去自由民主，他曾奋力抗争。

反复多次被捕，六年多铁窗生涯，默罕默德·纳希德的坚定意志从未动摇。

而后2008年，印度洋上这些小岛进行了有史以来首次自由公平的选举，他当选为总统。

但他告诉我们，真正的工作直到那时才刚刚开始，包括从既得利益集团手中把司法系统独立出来，使其力量免遭削弱。

但当纳希德总统下令以贪污罪名逮捕一位高级法官时，他发现自己陷入了被迫辞职的境地。

他称其为政变，而他的批评者们则说纳希德总统早已变成了他自己曾嗤之以鼻的那种独裁者，因此必须下台。

在采访中，默罕默德·纳希德告诉我们他的故事何以尚未结束。

“现在我早上很早就起床，晚上很晚才睡觉。

我尽可能和更多的人会面，因为有那么多的人似乎都想见我，有那么多的会议和讨论会要参加。

所以我觉得，基本上我现在要花大量时间在谈话上。

”“你现在是谁呢，纳希德先生？不久前你还是位总统，你现在是什么人呢？”“集各种身份于一身吧，我想。

不过最基本的一点，因为我们国家有大量人口，大约超过总人口70%的人年龄都在35岁以下，对他们而言，我想我是一股鼓舞人心的力量，是一个希望，民主仍有可能重回轨道的希望。

我知道这项责任重大。

所以对不同的人来说，我是不同的象征，我集多重身份于一身。

”Gold has always held an extraordinary allure. Its beauty is a key reason for that, but it's by no means the only reason. Gold is also the most malleable metal. It is of course incredibly dense, it's a wonderful conductor of electricity and heat and is also very stable. And these properties make it useful too. And that's made the yellow metal even more sought-after and never more so than now.The gold price has fallen back this week but at just over $1,700 an ounce, it is still near its all time high. With central banks pumping money into the financial system to prevent it from seizing up, the argument for a return to the gold standard has become popular again. Those who support itare referred to as goldbugs after Edgar Allan Poe's story about the search for buried treasure. Our economics commentator Nigel Darts, a sociologist from the London School of Economics has been considering whether goldbugs are right to be so preoccupied by gold.Gold still incites impassioned debate. In November last year, famed economic doom-monger Nouriel Roubini and an investment banker Jim Ricards got into a day-long row on Twitter all about gold. Roubini's view held in common with most major economists is that countries trying to stick to the gold standard had been a major cause of the Great Depression, forcing them into austerity policies that made economic recovery well-nigh impossible. It's a view often repeated today, as a warning to governments in the eurozone.译文：金这种物质总散发出超乎寻常的诱惑力。