英语新闻听力教程 Unit 15 答案及文本

Unit 15 Legal Events

Section A

1. appeal; overturn

2. arrest warrant

3. Jury; sentenced

4. ruled

5. lawsuit

6. trying; in custody

7. filed; request

8. standing trial; for; testimony

9. pleaded not guilty 10. handed down

Section B

1. The Supreme Court inn Libya is due to hear an appeal today against the death sentence i mposed on five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor who were found guilty of deliberately infecting children with HIV at a hospital in Benghazi.

2. A German court has convicted a Moroccan man accused of aiding the hijackers who carried out the September 11th , 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States , but acquitted him from direct involvement in the attacks.

3. The Chilean Supreme Court has once again stripped the country’s former military ruler General Augusta Pinochet of his immunity from prosecution. General Pinochet can now be charged in a human rights case involving torture and kidnapping.

4. A court in San Francisco in the United States has jailed the former Ukrainian Prime Miniser Pavlo Lazarenko for money laundering, fraud and corruption while in office. Mr. Lazarenko was sentenced to nine years and a fine of 10. million dollars.

5. U.S. and international authorities have charged more than two dozen people in an online child pornography ring.

Key: C B A B D

Section C

Item 1

Most of the 17 people arrested in Canada on Saturday under antiterrorism legislation have appeared in court near Toronto to hear details of the charges against them. Lawyers say some of the group are accused of involvement in an alleged plot to blow up the Canadian Parliament with home-made explosives, taking ministers hostage and even behead them if Muslim prisoners were not released. Others are accused of plotting to take over the headquarters of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. All those named appeared to be of South Asian or Middle Eastern origin, five were aged under 18. Tight security was imposed in the area around the courthouse in the Toronto suburb of Bramboton with police snipers posted on nearby roofs.

Key:

Task 1: T T F F F T

Task 2:

1.17; on Saturday; anti-terrorism legislation; in court

2.South Asian; origin; aged under 18

3. Tight security; courthouse; police snipers

Item 2

A federal judge in the United States has ruled that a confession by a man accused of plotting to kill President Bush is admissible in court, even though his lawyers argue that it was obtained through torture by the Saudi security forces. The defendant Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, who is a U.S. citizen, is also accused of having links to al-Qaeda. He’s pleaded not guilty to all charges. Mr.Abu Ali was arrested in 2003 while taking a final exam at a Saudi university. He says he was chained to the floor, blindfolded and whipped until he agreed to talk. The Saudi authorities have denied torturing him.

Key: T F F T F T T T T F

Item 3

The American state of California is suing six of the world’s biggest carmakers over greenhouse gas emissions. The State Attorney General Bill Lockyer said he’d seek millions of dollars in compensation for the impact cars have on California’s resources, infrastructure and environment. The case is the first of its kind in the United States, and the companies which include Ford, General Motors and Toyota, accused of Mr.Lockyer of frivolous politics. But speaking on the BBC,Mr.lockyer said they have been forced to act by the federal government’s lack of action to tackle emissions.

Key:

1.The state of California

2. The state attorney general of California

3. The impact cars have on California’s resources, infrastructure and environment.

4. Ford, General Motors, Toyota

5. Frivolous politics.

6. Lack of action to tackle emissions

Section D

Item 1

The former South African Vice President Jacob Zuma ,once widely seen as a future president of the country, has been acquitted of the rape of a woman with HIV. The judge ruled that sex between Mr. Zuma and his accuser was consensual. The legal action against Mr.Zuma created deep rifts within the governing African National Congress. He faces another trial later this year on corruption charges. Our correspondent in Johannesburg , Peter Biles reports.

Jacob Zuma’s supporters reacted with jubilation when the not-guilty verdict was announced. His most loyal followers still believed that he could become the next