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bbc城市旅游新闻稿中英文对照全文共6篇示例,供读者参考篇1BBC City Travel News Report (English Version)Hey there, kids! Are you ready for an exciting adventure? Today, we're going to explore the wonders of a bustling city through this news report. Get ready to join me on this thrilling journey!Imagine stepping into a world where towering skyscrapers reach for the sky, and the streets are abuzz with people from all walks of life. The city is a vibrant tapestry woven with diverse cultures, mouthwatering cuisines, and endless opportunities for exploration.As we wander through the busy streets, our senses are immediately awakened by the tantalizing aroma of street food wafting through the air. From savory kebabs to sweet churros, the city's culinary delights are sure to tantalize your taste buds.But the city is more than just food; it's a living canvas of art and creativity. We'll visit awe-inspiring museums that transportus through time and expose us to the masterpieces of renowned artists. Who knows, maybe you'll discover a newfound passion for art!Speaking of discoveries, have you ever wondered what it's like to stand atop a skyscraper and gaze down at the city below? Well, get ready for an experience like no other as we ascend to the top of one of the city's iconic towers. The breathtaking panoramic views will leave you mesmerized, and you'll feel like you're on top of the world!As the sun sets, the city transforms into a dazzling spectacle of lights and energy. We'll explore vibrant night markets, where you can haggle for unique souvenirs and indulge in delicious street snacks. The lively atmosphere and friendly vendors will make you feel right at home.But our adventure doesn't stop there! We'll also dive into the city's rich history by visiting ancient landmarks and learning about the fascinating stories that shaped this incredible metropolis. You'll be amazed at how much there is to discover!Throughout our journey, we'll encounter friendly locals who will share their stories and give us a glimpse into their daily lives. You'll quickly realize that the heart of a city lies within its people, each with their own unique experiences and perspectives.So, pack your sense of wonder and get ready for an unforgettable adventure through the bustling streets, iconic landmarks, and vibrant cultures of this incredible city. Who knows what amazing discoveries await us around the next corner?篇2The Best City for Kids – A Kidventure in London!孩子们最爱的城市- 伦敦的冒险之旅!Have you ever dreamed of visiting a city filled with castles, red buses, and fun around every corner? Well, pack your bags because we're going on a kidventure to the one and only London!你有没有梦想过去一个到处都是城堡、红色双层巴士,每个角落都充满乐趣的城市呢?那就快点收拾行囊,我们要去伦敦这个独一无二的城市展开一场孩子们的冒险之旅了!First stop – Buckingham Palace! This is where the Queen lives in a massive castle with 775 rooms. Can you imagine having that many bedrooms? During the summer, you can watch the Changing of the Guard ceremony where the Queen's soldiersmarch in their big fuzzy hats. Just don't make fun of their goofy outfits – they're not dressed like that for fun!第一站- 白金汉宫!这里就是女王居住的大城堡,里面有775间房间。
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VOA新闻50篇VOA News Item1经济:印度及东南亚国家签署了自由贸易协定Indian Commerce Minister Anand Sharma and his counterparts from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations sealed the agreement in Bangkok Thursday.They met on the sidelines of the annual ASEAN Economic Ministers Meeting.The agreement creates one of Asia’s biggest trading areas and integrates India’s fast growing economy with10of its neighbors.Trade between India and ASEAN amounts to$40billion each year.Under the pact,India and ASEAN will eliminate tariffs on various goods by2016.VOA News Item2政治:英国政党领袖进行电视辩论第二轮角逐Britain’s political life has been dominated for the past three decades by two parties—the Conservatives,now led by David Cameron,and Labor headed by current Prime Minister Gordon Brown.But a third party,the Liberal Democrats,are turning this election into a three-horse race.Their campaign was given a major boost by Britain’s first ever televised debate last week; Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg emerged as the clear winner.Viewer polls taken after this second debate,which focused on foreign policy,showed there was no runaway victor.The last time Britain had a hung parliament was in1974.A final televised debate is to take place next Thursday,followed by the election on May6.VOA News Item3政治:参议院就索托马约尔就任最高法院大法官进行了讨论On the second day of debate all signs continued to point toward an easy confirmation win for Sotomayor,the55-year-old federal court judge nominated by President Barack Obama earlier this year.Although most of the40Senate Republicans are likely to vote against her,the decision Wednesday of Missouri Senator Kit Bond added to the number of Republicans who have committed to voting for her.Senator Bond,who is one of several Republicans retiring from the Senate next year,said while he respects and agrees with the legal reasoning others in his party used to oppose Sotomayor, lawmakers have an obligation to show deference to a president’s choice of a nominee.VOA News Item4政治:南部非洲的部长们准备报告区域危机Foreign ministers of the Southern African Development Community met in Maputo to prepare a report on the region’s political crises.It is to be presented to African leaders at their upcoming summit in Ethiopia.SADC’s Political and Diplomatic Committee has been mediating three major crises in the region.SADC officials said the ministers are pleased the various parties to the unity government inZimbabwe resumed negotiations on implementing their power-sharing agreement.They said they believed Zimbabwe was on the right path.The officials said the ministers also believe that progress is being made toward easing the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and that reconciliation efforts between the government and various rebel groups were on the right track.But the officials said they were less optimistic about the political crisis in Madagascar.It erupted in March after Andry Rajoelina,backed by the military,seized power following the ouster of then-President Marc Ravalomanana.SADC and the African Union do not recognize the Rajoelina government and have suspended Madagascar from their organizations.VOA News Item5政治:以色列国防部长遭到恐吓Security has been tightened around Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak after he received dozens of death threats.Security sources say the threats were made by Jewish militants who oppose the government’s partial freeze on settlement construction in the West Bank.The freeze was imposed in November under pressure from the United States,which sees the settlements as an obstacle to peace.The death threats are being taken seriously.In1995,Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by an Orthodox Jew opposed to his policy of trading land for peace with the Palestinians.VOA News Item6政治:泰国军警围捕红衫军领袖行动失败Government officials say they will investigate just how three leaders of the anti-government protests managed to escape when police tried to surround their hotel Friday.One of the leaders climbed down three floors using a rope,and was rushed away by supporters thronging the building.Officials earlier Friday said the government is preparing to arrest people linked to clashes with security forces last Saturday that left24soldiers and protesters dead.The government says armed men infiltrated protester ranks and fired on troops trying to disperse a rally.The anti-government movement,led by the United Democratic Front against Dictatorship or UDD,demands that the Government call fresh elections.UDD supporters have held protests in Bangkok for more than a month.Thailand is facing its most severe political crisis in almost20years.Some parties in the governing coalition want to set a clear time frame for elections to ease tensions.But the government says it will only call elections once the political situation has cooled.VOA News Item7政治:吉尔吉斯斯坦政变威胁美军基地未来Kyrgyzstan’s five-day-old provisional government is vowing to use the country’s military to launch a special operation to neutralize President Kurmanbek Bakiyev if he does not resign.Interim Kyrgyz leader Roza Otunbayeva says her government is willing to negotiate his departure from the country and wants to resolve the standoff without any more harm to innocentcivilians.The president was effectively ousted after last Wednesday’s clashes between government forces and protesters.Authorities say about80people have died and more than1,600were wounded.VOA News Item8政治:内塔尼亚胡称以色列只能依靠自己On the eve of Israel’s62nd Independence Day,Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the nation must not rely on the help of foreigners.Commentators say it is a clear reference to Israeli ties with the United States,which have plummeted over Jewish construction in disputed in East Jerusalem.The U.S.backs Palestinian demands that East Jerusalem should be the capital of a future Palestinian state.But Israel sees all of Jerusalem as its eternal capital,and anyahu,who heads a right-wing government,has rejected U.S.demands to stop building there.As a result,the Palestinians have refused to return to U.S.-sponsored peace talks,and the diplomatic process has been deadlocked for15months.Defense Minister Ehud Barak took a softer approach.Barak said Israel would not make any compromises when it comes to the security of the state.But he said it would show courage in the struggle for peace with the Palestinians based on the two-state solution.VOA News Item9经济:非洲农民种植有机作物供应欧洲市场Nearly5,000farmers in Burkina Faso,Cameroon,Ghana,Senegal,and Sierra Leone are exporting organically-grown produce to Europe,after gaining organic and fair-trade certification with help from the U.N.Food and Agriculture Organization(FAO).The program focuses on all stages of production from planting and harvesting to packaging and promotion,increasing the profitability of farmers who previously struggled to afford costly chemical fertilizers.30small-scale pineapple farmers in Ghana saw sales grow from26tons to more than115 tons after gaining their organic certification.Pascal Liu is an economist with the FAO’s trade and markets division.Liu says the United Nations expects demand for organic foods will grow by between five and15percent during the next five years.And African farmers are well positioned to benefit from more people eating healthier food.VOA News Item10经济:债务危机扩展到希腊以外The heads of the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank were in Berlin Wednesday for talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel and other senior officials.The aim:to get agreement on a bailout package for Greece.Greece has been in negotiations with EU member countries and the IMF to secure a bailout —money that would allow it to pay debts coming due in time to avoid having to default.In return Greece is under pressure to restructure its economy and implement austerity measures.Disgruntled public-sector workers went on strike in Greece Wednesday to protest against thecutbacks.A daylong general strike has been called for next week.Opinion polls show the majority of Greeks are against an IMF-EU bailout,seeing it as foreign interference.Worries about the Greek economy’s potential meltdown have sent jitters through world markets.And help is imperative because the Greek crisis could spread.A joint EU-IMF package for Greece is put at$60billion,but some European officials said Wednesday the full cost could be much higher,reaching about$160billion over three years.VOA News Item11经济:奥巴马致华尔街:别抵制金融改革Aiming his appeal directly at the financial industry and skeptics within it,and at Republican critics in Congress,the president warned of the danger of a repeat of economic collapse.Calling the financial crisis the outcome of a failure of responsibility from Wall Street to Washington,he said the time has come to seize the moment to make fundamental changes in the rules of the financial road.With many,but not all,of the most prominent executives of Wall Street firms present,the president outlined key aspects of legislation the U.S.Senate will debate in coming days.These include steps to impose new oversight and controls on hedge funds and complex financial instruments known as derivatives,and protections for consumers of financial products.Of particular importance would be a system to ensure that troubled financial companies could be dismantled in an orderly way without posing the kind of systemic risk they did in2008.Calling the Senate bill and one the House of Representatives approved last year a significant improvement over flawed rules now in place,he said changes would be advantageous for the industry and the country.VOA News Item12经济:亚洲航空遭受冰岛火山喷发影响The International Air Transport Association says global carriers are losing an estimated$200 million a day in revenue as a result of airline groundings related to the Iceland volcano.Albert Tjoeng,a Singapore-based spokesman for the association,says that is just part of the problem.Travelers waiting around here are missing out on income because they cannot return to work.The flight cancellations are expected to have additional repercussions for smaller Southeast Asia countries,where travel and tourism is a major share of the economy.VOA News Item13经济:WFP对尼日尔粮食援助加倍The World Food Program is now expecting to feed more than1.5million people in next month’s general food distribution,along with specialized therapeutic feeding for500,000children under the age of six.That is because poor rains last year have brought forward the time when people no longer have enough to eat.WFP is trying to raise$182million to scale up its operations in Niger.The U.N.Food and Agriculture Organization is also stepping in to aid cattle herders in Niger and Chad.Livestock pastures are dry,so herders are selling their animals at lower prices to buy food for their families.Eight FAO projects in Niger worth more than$12million are aimed at helping two million people.VOA News Item14经济:立法者、反对者和媒体齐聚2010底特律车展Cobo Center is home to the2010North American Auto Show in downtown Detroit.For the event,the Center has been transformed into an expanse of flashy displays and trendy marketing displays,featuring the latest in automotive engineering.Known as the Detroit Auto Show,the annual event is one of the industry’s biggest.It helps generate publicity for some models,like the newly-redesigned Ford Focus,and it helps promote new technology,like the electric battery in the Chevrolet Volt.But in the wake of one of the worst years for U.S.automobile sales,this year’s show has a different feel.General Motors and Chrysler—two of the Detroit“Big Three”automakers,which also include Ford—went bankrupt last year and received billions of dollars in federal aid.Although some of that money has been paid back,the ernment is still a major shareholder in both companies.VOA News Item15经济:世博会在上海开幕China celebrated the opening of the2010World Expo in Shanghai with an evening of fireworks and fanfare.Dubbed the“Economic Olympics,”by Chinese officials,some190nations and50international organizations are participating in the multi-billion dollar event.Similar to how2008Beijing Olympic Games put the Chinese capital in the international spotlight,Shanghai’s hosting of the World Expo has given the city of20some million people and China a chance to showcase its emergence as a global economic power.The theme for the Shanghai World Expo is“Better City,Better Life”and features major exhibitions that look at modern and future urban life,and consider issues such as sustainable development and the interaction between cities and the environment.The Shanghai2010World Expo runs until the end of October.VOA News Item16经济:经济衰退已过,债务危机依旧First the good news:after contracting slightly in2009,global economic output is expected to grow more than4percent this year,according to the International Monetary Fund.With a fledgling recovery gaining strength,it is easy to forget how close major industrialized nations came to economic collapse less than two years ago,an outcome that almost surely would have triggered a worldwide depression rivaling the Great Depression of the1930s.In short,the pain,havoc,and economic devastation could have been far worse,according to the head of the U.S.Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas,Texas,Richard Fisher.Addressing central bankers from Europe and elsewhere,Fisher said central banks and national governments averted catastrophe through aggressive intervention.VOA News Item17军事:以色列成功试射导弹防御系统Rocket alarms have terrified Israeli border communities near the Gaza Strip for years.Butnow Israel has a high-tech answer to the thousands of low-tech rockets that Palestinian militants have fired across the border since Israel pulled out of Gaza in2005.Israel has successfully tested its Iron Dome defense system,which uses cameras and radar to track incoming rockets and can shoot them down within seconds of their launch.The system was developed by Rafael,the Israel Military Industries,at a cost of$200million.VOA News Item18军事:美国正在尝试培训黑客来对抗罪犯和间谍Computer security engineer Alan Paller recalls how the Soviet Union’s1957launch of Sputnik,the world’s first artificial satellite,spurred the ernment to accelerate its lagging space technology program.Now Paller,research director at an educational company called the SANS Institute,is leading the campaign to bring that kind of energy to defending cyberspace from assault by pranksters,thieves and spies.VOA News Item19社会:挫败底特律机场袭击事件凸显以色列的安保成功It’s another day of stringent security checks at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport.About a million passengers pass through the airport each month,on average.But here,the lines move quickly thanks to what Israeli security experts say is an approach that—unlike other countries—relies more on eye contact with passengers and less on technology.VOA News Item20社会:意大利三名医生在阿富汗被捕The Italian aid group Emergency has had a tense relationship with local authorities in violence-wracked Helmand province,due in part to its policy of treating all patients.Afghan officials said they detained three Italian Emergency workers Saturday,a doctor,a nurse and a logistics worker.Afghan officials said they were held as part of an investigation into an alleged plot to kill the governor of Helmand province.Helmand Province Governor Gulab Mangal said an Emergency staff member received $500,000as an advance payment for killing him.In total nine people,including six Afghans,were held after explosive suicide vests,hand grenades and other weapons were discovered in the storeroom of the Emergency-run hospital in Helmand’s capital,Lashkar Gah.Emergency founder Gino Strada denounced the detentions of the aid group’s three workers, calling it a mafia-style attempt to silence a witness.VOA News Item21军事:利比里亚人反对临时解除武器禁运政策The U.N.Security Council has lifted its arms embargo on Liberia for one year,primarily to allow its peacekeeping mission there to receive military equipment.But it also allows the government of President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf to acquire arms and training to fight crime.Government misuse of force under former President Charles Taylor brought about the arms embargo10years ago.Its lifting,even temporarily,has been met with both pride and worry among Liberians still recovering from a long civil war.VOA News Item22社会:非洲国家加强机场安全防范Reaction to the attempted bombing of a U.S.airliner on Christmas Day has been mixedamong the six African nations with direct air links to the United States.Ghana has announced it will install full-body scanners at Accra’s international airport by next month.Nigeria has also announced it will install the scanners at Lagos international airport.Nigerian student Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab departed from Accra and transited through Lagos and Amsterdam.He subsequently attempted to set off a bomb on a Northwest Airlines flight traveling to Detroit.Abdulmutallab successfully passed through metal detectors and hand luggage searches at both airports,allegedly by concealing powdered explosives under his clothes.The full-body scanners are more powerful than metal detectors that are standard at most airports.They can detect non-metallic materials hidden on the human body.But some rights groups consider the scanners an invasion of privacy,because they show private physical characteristics in detail.South Africa,whose airports handle the largest number of travelers flying directly between Africa and the United States,says it does not intend to install the scanners at this time.VOA News Item23科技:美国将于周二发射发现号飞船The Discovery crew is set to launch early Tuesday to deliver nearly8,000kilograms of equipment to the International Space Station.NASA engineers cleared the shuttle to fly on Sunday, after deciding there were no technical concerns to delay launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.Shuttle weather officer Kathy Winters said the skies should be clear for the evening launch, but storms could delay the delicate process of filling the shuttle’s external fuel tanks.VOA News Item24科技:珊瑚礁在物种进化中的重要性A new study out this week highlights the role that coral reefs play in evolution,adding another reason to preserve these delicate,diverse,and often beautiful ecosystems.Many of the world’s coral reefs are threatened by ocean acidification and pollution,among other things.Wolfgang Kiessling of Berlin’s Natural History Museum says that concerns ecologists because of the vital role reefs play in ocean ecosystems.VOA News Item25科技:澳大利亚、新西兰科学家挑战日本捕鲸业The researchers will set sail for Antarctica early next month,in an expedition funded by the Australian and New Zealand governments.The scientists hope their journey to the Southern Ocean will help to disprove Japan’s claims that whales have to be killed to properly study them.During their six-week voyage,researchers will employ a range of techniques to unlock some of the secrets of the giant marine mammals.They will fire darts from small air rifles to collect blubber and skin for genetic testing,and to attach satellite-tracking tags to monitor the whales.Samples of dung will also be gathered, photographs taken,and acoustic instruments will record the animals’distinctive calls.VOA News Item26医学:母亲越高,孩子越健康Taller mothers are more likely to have children who are healthier—indeed,their children are more likely not just to thrive,but to survive—compared to children of shorter mothers. That’s the conclusion of a massive new study of millions of children in low-and middle-income countries.“The key finding of this paper was to show a consistent association between maternal height and offspring health,which was mainly defined in terms of offspring mortality by age five and the risk of experiencing a failure in growth.”The Harvard researcher says that while the association is clear,the“why”still needs more work.VOA News Item27医疗:联合国帮助不发达国家对抗H1N1The World Health Organization is warning countries to prepare for further spread of the H1N1influenza pandemic in coming months.However,aid agencies say it will be more difficult to fight the disease in poorer countries, which have weak health systems,poor health status and limited resources.They say countries overburdened by diseases,such as HIV/AIDS,tuberculosis and malaria, will have great difficulty dealing with the surge of pandemic flu cases.World Health Organization spokesman,Paul Garwood,says this Call to Action aims to reduce the impact of H1N1by offering a range of measures applicable to all countries.VOA News Item28医疗:美国民众对医保体系缺乏信心Americans are just as divided on health care as they were before President Obama’s health care reform legislation became law.Protesters in Washington carried signs on Thursday calling for the repeal of the legislation. They say it represents runaway spending.A new Associated Press-GfK poll shows that50percent of Americans oppose the new health care law and opposition is strongest among those64and older.Many older Americans worry that their care will be affected by cuts in federal payments to hospitals and other providers.In another survey,this one by Ipsos/Reuters,only51percent of Americans thought they could get adequate,affordable health care.The survey included people in22nations.Women, adults under the age of55and less educated people in all the countries included in the study reported low satisfaction with health care access.Yet another study showed that Americans without medical insurance,often delay going to a hospital after a heart attack.VOA News Item29教育:印度学生重新考虑去澳大利亚接受高等教育For nearly a decade,the popularity of Australian universities rose rapidly among Indian students,and the number of those heading to the country for higher education rose from about 10,000in2001to more than70,000last year.But that could change this year due to a string of negative publicity generated by attacks on Indian students in Australia.A travel advisory by the Indian government earlier this week warned that Indian students in Australia face an increased risk of assault.It was issued after an Indian graduate was stabbed to death in Melbourne.His stabbing came on the heels of a spate of attacks on Indian students in Australia in recent months,which the Indian media have dubbed as racist.It is a charge that Australian officials have strongly denied.They say the attacks are purely criminal,and the country is safe for foreign students.Nevertheless,as concerns rose in India,foreign minister S.M.Krishna called on Indians to assess their options while exploring the possibility of studying in Australia.VOA News Item30社会:法国调查电信员工自杀事件For some,the wave of suicides at France Telecom reveals the downsides of the scramble to stay competitive amid the pressures of globalization and the recent economic downturn.More than 40France Telecom employees have taken their lives since2008.Unions say that includes a dozen suicides this year alone.The probe by the Paris prosecutor’s office follows a court complaint filed by the union Solidaires Unitaires Democratic(SUD).Union lawyer Jean-Paul Tessionniere blamed working conditions at the company for the suicides.A February report by the French labor inspector’s office linked14France Telecom suicides directly to the company’s management practices.France Telecom denies its management practices have led to the suicides.France Telecom lawyer Claudia Chemarin told French television that each suicide will be examined individually. She said that under no condition can it be claimed that there was an organized policy that led to them.In March,France Telecom’s new boss Stephane Richard outlined ways the company planned to improve employee working conditions.France Telecom is not the only French company grappling with employee suicides.But because of the numbers of employee deaths and the media attention they have attracted,critics say France Telecom’s problems have emerged as a warning story about the downsides of valuing productivity and growth over employee well being.VOA News Item31社会:移民者抗议冻结约旦河西岸建设Jewish settlement councils have declared a general strike to protest the Israeli government’s freeze on construction in West Bank communities.Settlement leaders demonstrated outside the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem as the Cabinet held its weekly meeting.They carried signs saying,you can freeze in the North Pole,but not in Israel.The settlers helped elect right-wing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,but now they accuse him of abandoning his nationalist ideals.VOA News Item32社会:密西西比的小城吸引大量游客The King of Rock‘n’Roll,Elvis Presley,was born75years ago last week in a two-room house in the town of Tupelo in the piney woods of the deep southern state of Mississippi.So this time of year,and again in August on the anniversary of the King’s death,pilgrimages of Elvis fansdescend upon that furniture manufacturing center of34,000people.Surprisingly,you don’t see a lot of Elvis markers there.There is one sign that says The King is Up Ahead,but that’s for an automobile dealership.Visitors can take a self-guided Elvis Presley driving tour.One stop is the Tupelo Hardware where Elvis got his first guitar.The folks there say Elvis had wanted a rifle.But his mother,Gladys would have none of it.She stood him on a keg and let him play around with a guitar.He loved it,and Mrs.Presley bought it for him for$7.95.VOA News Item33文化:很多人认为依地语正在消失A funny thing is happening in the world of language instruction.Only it’s not funny at all for one language in particular.Because of the growing importance of global commerce and contact,foreign language instruction is booming at U.S.colleges.But because of the tight economy,many colleges are eliminating fulltime language-teaching positions or filling them with cheaper lecturers who are not faculty members at all.This is the case at the University of Maryland’s flagship College Park campus,a prestigious state-run school in the eastern U.S..To save costs,the university plans to cut its one Yiddish-teaching position.It’s the latest blow in what has been a steady decline in the study and use of Yiddish,which began among European Jews in the Middle Ages as a conversational Germanic language that uses Hebrew characters.Today,Yiddish is struggling to survive.It’s thought that fewer than500,000people,mostly the elderly,speak it worldwide.Most young,acculturated Jews speak only their countries’principal language,plus Hebrew during worship.VOA News Item34自然:湄公河水坝威胁水生生命The Mekong River is the lifeblood of Southeast Asia,with the largest inland fisheries in the world.About40million people depend to some degree on the fisheries,worth about$2.5billion a year.But fisheries experts say plans by Cambodia,Laos and Thailand to build hydropower dams on the Mekong would block fish migration,threatening already endangered species. Environmental activists say plans by Laos to build a dam in the Don Sahong area near the Cambodian border could doom the nearly extinct Irrawaddy dolphin.VOA News Item35灾难:联合国加紧救援海地灾区Haiti is prone to disasters,but this huge quake is the worst to hit the Caribbean island state in two centuries.The7.0magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti on Tuesday destroyed much of the country’s capital,Port-au-Prince.The International Red Cross fears up to three million people may have been affected by the earthquake,which not only devastated the capital city,but many smaller nearby communities.The United Nations reports electricity has been cut off and communications are difficult.It says bridges have been knocked out,hospitals and care facilities have been damaged or destroyed. Haiti’s envoy to the United States estimates losses could run into the billions.。
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1.Blonde 金黄色头发的人[♌●⏹♎]2.motto 座右铭,箴言[ ❍♦☜◆]3.ground down 使某人受打击,折磨[♈❒♋☺⏹♎]4.recession [❒♓♦♏☞☜⏹] 经济衰退5.parade (庆祝)游行[☐☜❒♏♓♎]6.beauty contest 选美比赛[ ♌◆♦♓]7.sporting events 体育赛事[ ♦☐♦♓☠] 8.charity 慈善机构[ ♦☞✌❒♓♦♓]9.playgrounds 操场幼儿游戏组10.blamed 批评,责备[♌●♏♓❍♎]11.bad publicity 负面的宣传[♌✌♎]12.nickname 绰号[ ⏹✋⏹♏✋❍]13.dumb 笨的[♎✈❍]14.classic 经典的[ ●✌♦♓]Blonde weekendsHundreds of women are taking part in Latvia's Blonde Weekend which carries the motto "make the world a brighter place". The idea is to put a smile back on the faces of the people of Latvia who've been ground down by the recession. The head of Latvia's Blondes' Association, Marika Gederte, who is organising the event, said she got the idea from Bulgaria. The weekend's events include a parade, a beauty contest and a number of sporting events open only to blondes. It's all in the interests of fun, but Mrs Gederte says there is a serious side to the festival. "And of course we have a very serious idea in the background, and it is charity. We are going to open children's playgrounds in the parks." Mrs Gederte said blondes were anything but stupid and blamed the bad publicity they frequently got and the nickname, dumb blonde, on the character Marilyn Monroe played in the classic movie Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.1.instincts 直觉/天性/本能[♓⏹♦♦♓☠♦☞◆☜●]2.intellect 才智[ ♓⏹♦♓●♏♦]3.jungle hero 丛林英雄[ ♎✞✈☠♈●]4.swung 摇荡/大摇大摆[♦♦✈☠]5.loinclothed 系着腰布的[ ●♓☜]6.ape man 猿人[♏♓☐]7.stereotypical views 成见[ ♦♦♓☜❒♓☜♦♋♓☐♓] 8.unwittingly 无意的a♎❖.9.traces 追寻[♦❒☜♓☜]10.impact 影响/冲击[ ♓❍☐✌♦]11.Darwinism 达尔文主义[ ♎♦♓⏹♓☜❍]12.evolutionary theory 进化论[ ♓❖☜♊●✞☞☜⏹☜❒✋]13.lighter relief 轻松的娱乐[ ●♋♓♦☜]14.jungle yell 丛林呐喊[ ♎✞✈☠♈●]Tarzan arrived in ParisHe had the instincts of an animal and the intellect of a man and now Tarzan, the world's first adult jungle hero, has swung into his own exhibition at a Paris museum. The loinclothed, muscled ape man is celebrated amid all the Western stereotypical views of Africa of the early twentieth century. His creator, the American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, had never visited Africa, and unwittingly placed Tarzan in a jungle which was populated by tigers and which stretched from the Belgian Congo to Rhodesia. The exhibition also traces the impact of Darwinism and evolutionary theory in the Tarzan story. But for anyone looking for lighter relief, there's also an opportunity to practise your Tarzan jungle yell.1.leap 飞跃[●♓☐]2.mankind 人类[❍✌⏹♋♓⏹♎]3.vital 关键的[ ❖♋♓♦●]4.crackle (无线电干扰)噼啪声[ ❒✌●]5.static 静电的[ ♦♦✌♦♓]6.analysing 分析[☜⏹✌●♓♦♓♦]7.digitally-enhanced 经过数码化处理的8.Apollo 11 mission 阿波罗11号登月使命[☜☐●☜◆] 9.linguistic 语言的[●♓☠♈♦♓♦♦♓]10.spontaneous 即兴的[♦☐⏹♦♏♓⏹☜♦ ⏹♓☜♦]11.memorised 记在脑子里了12.rhythm 韵律[ ❒♓❆☜❍ ❒♓☜❍]13.symmetry 对称的[ ♦♓❍♓♦❒♓]14.capture 抓住[ ✌☐♦☞☜]15.humanity's 人类的n.Neil Armstrong's Words"It's one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind." Or should that have been, "One small step for a man"? Neil Armstrong has always said that he thought that that's what he said and maybe the vital 'a' got lost in a crackle of static. Now researchers analysing recently released digitally-enhanced recordings of the entire Apollo 11 mission have confirmed that he did not say the word 'a'. But a linguistic analysis of the way in which he spoke suggested that he intended to say 'a' and that the first words spoken on the moon were spontaneous and not memorised from a writtenscript. The researchers also argue that although the expression was not strictly correct its rhythm and symmetry poetically capture the sense and mood of one of humanity's most epic moments.1.diver 潜水员[ ♎♋♓❖☜]2.lead them to believe 使他们相信[●♓♎]3.supply 物资[♦☜☐●♋♓]4.relieve 救济[❒♓●♓❖]5.in hiding 隐藏[✋⏹]6.Jacobite Rebellion 为复辟斯图亚特王朝而发起的叛乱[ ♎✞✌☜♌♋♓♦]7.ring seal 指环印章[❒♓☠]8.board on在船上[♌♎] 9.vessel 船[ ❖♏♦●]10.proof 证明[☐❒◆♐]11.young pretender (查尔斯.爱德华,司徒亚特别称) 小僭王[ ✈☠]12.intention 意图,目的[♓⏹♦♏⏹☞☜⏹]13.crew 船员[ ❒◆]14.genuine 真实的,真正的[ ♎✞♏⏹◆♓⏹]15.recover 找回[❒♓✈❖☜]16.backer 支持者[ ♌✌☜☎❒✆]Shipwreck DiscoveredDivers have already found some items from the site which lead them to believe it was carrying supplies from the King of France to relieve Charles Edward Stuart, or Bonnie Prince Charlie, when he was in hiding after the Jacobite Rebellion. The team says that in particular, a rare ring seal of Mary Queen of Scots, may have been carried on board the vessel as proof to the young pretender that the intentions of the ship and its crew were genuine. But the name of the ship is not known, and thus far, comparatively few items have been recovered. If this really is as historically significant a find as its backers suggest, there are still many questions to be answered.1.the long and short of 简而言之,归纳起来2.vertically challenged[♊♦☞✌●✋⏹♎✞☜☎❒✆] 身体的高度3.counterparts[ ♋☺⏹♦☜♊♐☜☺♌✋] 相对的/对等的(人)4.six[♦♓♦]-foot[♐◆♦] (身高)六英尺5.windfall[ ♦✋⏹♎♐●] 横财/以外的收入6.gap[♈✌☐] 缝隙/距离7.more capable[ ♏♓☐☜♌●] 更有能力的8.discrepancy[♎♓♦❒♏☐☜⏹♦♓] 差异/矛盾9.discrimination[♎♓♦❒♓❍♓⏹♏♓☞☜⏹] 歧视10.slimmer[♊♦●✋❍☜☎❒✆] 较瘦的人11.pay[☐♏♓] n. 工资待遇12.slender[ ♦●♏⏹♎☜] 苗条的Tall People Earn MoreThe long and short of this Australian report is that tall workers earn significantly more than their vertically challenged counterparts.A six-foot man can expect a windfall of almost $750 (around 7500 yuan) a year. The researchers found there were practical reasons why the size gap translated into a pay gap. Tall people were sometimes more capable of performing certain physical tasks, like reaching high shelves. But the discrepancy is explained mainly by discrimination, the simple fact that society tends to look on tall people as more powerful and smarter, even when they're not. The study from the Australian National University also found that slimmer workers tend to get slimmer pay packets. Fat men earn five per cent more than their slender colleagues.1.courier[ ◆❒♓☜] package[ ☐✌♓♎✞] 特快专递邮包2.souvenir[ ♦◆❖☜⏹♓☜] hunters[ ♒✈⏹♦♓☠]纪念品寻觅者3.chipped off 从墙上铲下一小块(石头)4.souvenir[ ♦◆❖☜⏹♓☜]collection[ ☜●♏☞☜⏹] 纪念品收藏5.guilty[ ♈♓●♦♓] 愧疚的6.monument[ ❍⏹◆❍☜⏹♦] 纪念碑7.selfish[ ♦♏●♐♓☞] 自私的8.superficial[♦◆☐☜♐♓☞☜●] act[✌♦] 肤浅的行为9.archaeological[ ♓☜●♎✞♓☜●] 考古的10.ancient[ ♏♓⏹☞☜⏹♦] heritage[ ♒♏❒♓♦♓♎✞]古代遗产11.tempting[ ♦♏❍☐♦♓☠] 诱人的12.sneak[♦⏹♓] out 偷偷摸摸地拿走Roman TheftThe bit of stone, small enough to fit into a pocket, arrived in a courier package from the United States. The anonymous souvenir hunters sent a letter with it explaining they'd chipped off the piece on a visit to Rome 25 years ago. The notesaid, "Every time I looked at my souvenir collection and came across that piece it made me feel guilty". It went on: "Over the years I started thinking that if all the visitors to that beautiful monument took a piece away with them, nothing would be left standing". The note added "It was a selfish and superficial act". Rome's archaeological officials have accepted the apology saying the episode proved that "Rome and its monuments are the dream of all the world's tourists". The city has extended an invitation to the couple to come back to Rome. It's not the first time bits of the city’s ancient heritage have proved tempting for tourists to relocate. Last August a German visitor was caught trying to sneak out a nine kilogram rock from the Roman Forum in her backpack, whilst in 2006 another German tourist was caught at one of the city's airports with a piece of Roman column in his bag.1.cheque 支票[♦☞♏]2.account 账户[☜♋◆⏹♦]3.credited(给账户)存(钱)[☜♋◆⏹♦]4.queuing 排队5.branch 分支[♌❒⏹♦☞]6.legislatin 立法[ ●♏♎✞♓♦●♏♓☞☜⏹]7.become a reality成为现实[♌♓✈❍] 8.security 安全性[♦♓◆☜❒♓♦♓]9.image 图像[ ♓❍♓♎✞]10.substitute 替代品[ ♦✈♌♦♦♓♦◆♦]11.clearing process 清理票款过程[ ●♓☜❒♓☠]12.sort 分类[♦♦]13.widely 广泛地[ ♦♋✋♎●✋]Cheques to be paid in via phoneIt could become as simple as this: picking up your mobile phone, taking a picture of the cheque you’ve just received and your bank account is credited. In other words, no more queuing at a bank branch. The government is considering legislation which will make this become a reality. But what about security? Can an image of a cheque really be a safe substitute for the real thing? The banking industry says it does now have the right technology. It hopes the cheque imaging will speed up the clearing process. Time could be saved by not having to sort and move paperwork between banks. The technology is widely used in the United States.1.pumping大量注入、大量投入(资金)2.bonds 债券n.3.signalled已示意,发出信号n.4.unwinding推出,撤消n.5.sustained 持续的[♦☜♦♦♏♓⏹♎]6.recovery 恢复[❒♓✈❖☜❒♓]7.kicked away踢开、踢走[ ♓☜]8.monetary 金钱的[ ❍✈⏹♓♦☜❒♓]9.props支柱n. 10.unemployment 失业[ ✈⏹♓❍☐●♓❍☜⏹♦]11.investor 投资者[♓⏹❖♏♦♦☜]12.respond 回应[❒♓♦☐⏹♎]13.share 股份[☞☪☜]14.relief 放松[❒♓●♓♐]15.uncertainty 不确定性[✈⏹♦☜♦⏹♦♓]16.tapering off逐渐减少[ ♦♏♓☐☜❒♓☠]17.inevitable 不可避免的[♓⏹♏❖♓♦☜♌●]Fed scales back stimulus effortThe Federal Reserve has been pumping money into the US economy by buying $85bn of bonds each month. From January, it will cut the figure to $75bn. And it has signalled that it will further reduce the scale of its bond buying if the economy continues to improve. It's a small but highly significant step towards unwinding the extraordinary measures put in place to support the economy through six years of deep crisis. The decision follows a run of data pointing to sustained if weak recovery and - the key factor - an improving jobs market. But the Fed hasn't entirely kicked away the monetary props. It plans to keep short term lending rates at near 0% until it sees at least another 0.5% drop in the unemployment rate. Investors responded by sending share prices higher. There was relief at the end to uncertainty over when the Fed, as has seemed inevitable for months, would start tapering off its monetary life support.1.minimum 最小化的[ ❍♓⏹♓❍☜❍]2.wage 工资[♦♏♓♎✞]3.accede答应,同意[♦♏♓♎✞]4.calls for呼吁,要求n.5.taxes税收n.6.minster 部长[ ❍♓⏹♦♦☜]7.signal暗示,信号[ ❍♓⏹♦♦☜]8.overall 全部的[ ☜◆❖☜❒●]9.cooperative有协作精神的,合作的[ ☜◆❖☜❒●]10.transform 使变形[♦❒✌⏹♦♐❍]11.resistance反对,抵抗[♦❒✌⏹♦♐❍]12.exports 出口Germany to have minimum wageChancellor Merkel said she would accept the minimum wage but, in return, would not accede to Social Democrat calls for higher taxes. The French finance minister welcomed the floor on German pay as a signal of what he saw as a more cooperative German attitude within overall European economic policy. It is not clear, though, that a German minimum wage would transform the European economic situation. It all depends on what level it is set at, and there is great resistance in Germany to doing anything which would make German exports less attractive.1.short term 短期[☞♦]2.sentiment 感情[ ♦♏⏹♦♓❍☜⏹♦]3.race 种族[❒♏♓♦]4.well-wishers表示良好祝愿的人[❒♏♓♦]5.critical 至关重要的严重的[ ❒♓♦♓☜●]6.choirs 合唱[♦☞☜◆]7.reminder让人们想起的人物、事物或事情[♦☞☜◆]8.unifying 统一的[ ◆⏹♓♎✞♏●]9.emotional 感情[♓❍☜◆☞☜⏹●]10.charge 充电[♦☞♎✞]11.unity 统一[ ◆⏹♓♦♓]12.coalesce 聚集[ ☜◆☜●♏♦]13.determination 决心[♎♓ ♦☜❍♓⏹♏♓☞☜⏹]14.non-racialism 无种族歧视a♎.15.eradication铲除,根除a♎.16.poverty 贫穷[ ☐❖☜♦♓]17.cherished珍爱的[ ☐❖☜♦♓]18.ambition 报复[✌❍♌♓☞☜⏹]19.election 选举[✋●♏☞☎☜✆⏹]20.unprecedented前所未有的[✋●♏☞☎☜✆⏹]21.surfacing出现[ ♦☜♐♓♦♓☠]22.apartheid 种族隔离[☜☐♦☎♒✆♏♓♦]23.legacy遗产[ ●♏♈☜♦♓]24.fend off应对[♐♏⏹♎]25.passing去世[ ☐♦♓☠]Nelson Mandela diesNelson Mandela's death may, in the short term, unite South Africa in ways that have never been seen before. The sentiments expressed by well-wishers of all races and backgrounds outside the hospital in Pretoria as he lay critically ill for nearly three months - the wall of deeply personal messages, the paintings, the choirs who came from across the country to sing for Mr Mandela - were a reminder of his unifying influence. We can clearly expect so much more in the coming days in this country where the emotional charge is so powerful. This unity may coalesce around a determination to push South Africa further down the road of non-racialism, of equality of opportunity and the eradication of poverty, all of them among Nelson Mandela's most cherished ambitions for the country. But South Africa is only months away from a general election, 20 years after the historic one of 1994. And Nelson Mandela's ANC has been facing unprecedented levels of criticism, with new parties surfacing to challenge its hold on power since the days of apartheid. Will the Mandela legacy help the ANC fend off the challenges, or will his passing - in the longer if not the shorter term - lead to significant change within the ANC itself. 2014 could point the way towards his political legacy.1.flattened 被完全摧毁夷为平地2.typoon 台风[ ♦♋♓☐☜♐♋♓●]3.struck袭击[♦♦❒✈]4.rotting 腐烂的[ ❒♦♓☠]5.corpse 尸体[ ☐♦]6.stench臭气、恶臭[ ☐♦]7.scores 大量,以二十计量的[♊♦☞♓♦]8.desperate 绝望的[ ♎♏♦☐☜❒♓♦] 9.shelter避难所[ ♎♏♦☐☜❒♓♦]10.battered被严重损坏的[ ♌✌♦☜♎]11.makeshift临时代替品[ ❍♏✋☞✋♐♦]12.debris碎片,瓦砾[ ♎♏♌❒♓ ♎♏♓♌]13.extent 程度[♓♦♦♏⏹♦]14.devastation 破坏[ ♎♏❖☜♦♦♏♓☞☜⏹]Typhoon Haiyan: Destruction in the PhilippinesTacloban has been flattened. Driving down the main high street, hardly a single building is left standing. People say this town was hit by a wall of water when the typhoon struck on Friday. There's the stench of rotting corpses. Driving in from the airport we saw scores of bodies lying by the roadside. For three days they have been there – nobody to bury them. People are desperate for food, clean water and shelter. At the badly battered airport, a makeshift hospital has been set up. We saw two young women giving birth, laid out among the debris. Aid is getting in, but slowly and this is just one town inone province. Nobody knows the full extent of the devastation elsewhere.1.works 作品2.consigned 托付给了某人3.dealer商人[ ♎♓●☜]4.vanished消失了[ ♎♓●☜]5.presumed(不肯定的)推测、认为[ ♎♓●☜]6.consist of 包括[ ☜⏹♦♓♦♦]7.deemed认为,相信[ ☜⏹♦♓♦♦]8.degenerate堕落的[♎♓♎✞♏⏹☜❒♏♓♦]9.transpires(秘密)泄露、为人所知[♎♓♎✞♏⏹☜❒♏♓♦]10.authority 权威[ ❒♓♦♓]11.priceless 无价的,极宝贵的[ ☐❒♋♓♦●♓♦] 12.darkened 昏暗的黑变罐头食品13.reclusive隐居的、独居的黑变罐头食品14.relative 亲戚[ ❒♏●☜♦♓❖]15.occasional 偶尔的[☜♏♓✞⏹☜●]16.pre-war战前的(此处指二战前的)[☜♏♓✞⏹☜●]17.expressionist 表现主义艺术家[✋♊♦☐❒♏☞☜⏹✋♦♦]18.dispute 争议[♎♓♦☐◆♦]19.mountain of litigation 大量的官司和诉讼[ ❍♋◆⏹♦♓⏹]Nazi stolen art found in GermanyThe collection of works the Nazis stole from Jews was consigned to a dealer to be sold before the war. But the paintings then vanished; presumed destroyed. The works consist of what the Nazis deemed 'degenerate art', that is, modern art. It now transpires that two years ago the authorities discovered this amazing and priceless collection in darkened rooms at the home of a reclusive relative of the pre-war dealer. It seems the relative had been selling paintings occasionally, when he needed money. One work by the German expressionist Max Beckmann was sold two years ago for more than three-quarters of a million Euros. The authorities have kept quiet, partly because ownership would be disputed. A mountain of litigation is no doubt on the way.1.smokey 烟的[♊♦❍☜☺✋]2.haze烟雾[♒♏♓]3.hits the senses(迎面而来的)感官冲击4.firefighter 消防员火灾寻视器5.helicopter 直升飞机[ ♒♏●♓☐♦☜]6.overhead 在头顶[ ☜◆❖☜♒♏♎]7.dump 倾倒[♎✈❍☐]8.merging合并起来[♎✈❍☐]9.blaze 火焰[♌●♏♓]10.spanning扩散[ ♦☐✌⏹♓☠] 11.stay put停留不动[♦♦♏♓]12.defend保护,保卫[♦♦♏♓]13.welfare福利[ ♦♏●♐☪☜]14.volunteers志愿者[ ♦♏●♐☪☜]15.exhausted 精疲力尽的[♓♈♦♦♓♎]16.unseasonably反季节的[♓♈♦♦♓♎]17.worsen 变坏[ ♦☜♦⏹]18.forecast 预告[ ♐♦♦]19.little let-up(气温)没有降低[ ●♓♦●]Australian bush firesHere amid the smokey haze of the bush, the heat hits the senses. Temperatures are back in the mid-30s making the work of firefighters increasingly difficult. Helicopters whirr overhead dumping water on the nearby fire fronts. They’re trying to stop several fires from merging into one huge blaze spanning hundreds of kilometres. In several communities, people are being warned not to try and stay put to defend their homes. With hundreds of houses already destroyed, disaster welfare centres have been set up where families can start the planning needed to rebuild their lives. Most of the firefighters are volunteers. Many look exhausted; some have even lost their own homes. The fires follow unseasonably hot weather; conditions are expected to worsen throughout the week with dangerously strong winds forecast on Wednesday and little let-up in the temperature.1.chancellor财政大臣[ ♦☞⏹♦☜●☜]2.no limits没有限制[⏹☜◆]3.stressed强调了4.investment投资[♓⏹❖♏♦♦❍☜⏹♦]5.high-profile备受关注的[♓⏹❖♏♦♦❍☜⏹♦]6. a diplomatic thaw外交关系缓和7.announcement 通知[☜⏹♋◆⏹♦❍☜⏹♦]8.to relax 放宽,放松(政策)[♦◆ ♦☜ ♦◆]9.restriction 限制[❒♓♦♦❒♓☞☜⏹]10.high-spending高消费的[❒♓♦♦❒♓☞☜⏹]Easier UK visas for Chinese proposedIn his speech at China's top university the chancellor said there should be no limits on the number of Chinese students and tourists able to visit Britain if they want to. He also stressed that there was no country in the West more open to Chinese investment than the UK. The chancellor shared the stage at Peking University with London's mayor- Boris Johnson. Their high-profile visits are a sign of a diplomatic thaw between the two countries. The chancellor's announcement to relax visa rules for Chinese nationals will be welcomed by British businesses. They've been calling on the government to ease restrictions as a way of encouraging more high-spending Chinese tourists to visit the UK.1.researcher[❒✋♦♦☞☜☎❒✆]研究者2.pests害虫3.fungi[ ♐✈⏹♎✞♋♓ ♐✈☠♈♋♓]真菌,霉菌4.devastate[ ♎♏❖☜♦♦♏♓♦]摧毁5.harvests[♊♒❖✋♦♦♦♋✋❍]收成6.surveillance[♦☜❖♏♓●☜⏹♦]监视,监控7.insect[ ♓⏹♦♏♦]昆虫8.virus[ ❖♋♓☜❒☜♦]病毒9.destructive[♎♓♦♦❒✈♦♓❖]毁灭性的10.average[ ✌❖☜❒♓♎✞]平均11.shift[☞♓♐♦]转移12.correlates[ ❒♓●♏♓☞☜⏹] with[♦♓❆]与…有关系13.temperature[ ♦♏❍☐❒✋♦☞☜☎❒✆]温度14.surveillance[♦☜❖♏♓●☜⏹♦]监视,监控Spread of crop pestsThe researchers looked at more than 600 crop pests from around the world. These included fungi, such as wheat rust, which is devastating harvests in Africa and the Middle East; insects like the mountain pine beetle that's destroying trees in the US; as well as bacteria, viruses and microscopic nematode worms. They found that over the past 50 years, these destructive species have been on the move. On average, they're spreading 3km every year, shifting north and south towards the poles. The scientists say this correlates with warming temperatures, allowing the pests to take hold in areas that were once too cold for them to live in. Currently, between 10% and 20% of the world's crops are lost to pests - and the team warns that rising global temperatures could make the problem worse. The researchers say that improved surveillance of the problem is needed.b 实验室2.livestock farming 畜牧业3.to satisfy 满足4.demand 需求5.aim 目的6.the real thing 真东西(这里指真汉堡)7. a work in progress 一项正在进展中的研发工作8.stem cells 干细胞9.tasteless 无味的10.technologists 技术专家11.flavour 味道12.juice 果汁13.mixture混合物14.initial 最初的15.development process 研发过程World's first lab-grown burgerProfessor Post is developing a way to grow meat in a lab because he believes that livestock farming is not good for the environment, not good for animals nor, he says, is it going to satisfy the growing demand for meat. His aim is to produce a burger that looks and tastes just like the real thing but from what I saw at his lab, that is still a work in progress. The flesh, grown from stem cells, is pale white and tasteless, so food technologists have had to mix in breadcrumbs, caramel and saffron to add flavour and beetroot juice to add colour. The mixture is then put together to make the burger that will be cooked then eaten by two food writers. Initial testing during the development process suggests that it won’t taste great, but according to Professor Post, it will taste good enough.1.intense浓厚的[♓⏹♦♏⏹♦]2.iconic标志性的[♋♓⏹♓]3.under the hammer被拍卖[ ✈⏹♎☜]4.potential 潜在的[☐☜♦♏⏹☞☎☜✆●]5.gather 聚集[ ♈✌❆☜]6.auction 拍卖[ ☞☜⏹]7.bidders竞拍者[ ♌♓♎☜]8.outfit 服装[ ♋◆♦♐♓♦]9.homespun家纺的[ ♒☜☺❍♦☐✈⏹]10.floral 花纹的[ ♐●❒☜●]11.lederhosen皮短裤[ ♐●❒☜●]12.identity 身份[♋♓♎♏⏹♦♓♦♓]13.revealed透露v.14.memorabilia纪念品[ ❍♏❍☜❒☜♌♓●♓☜]15.item 物品[ ♋♓♦♏❍ ♋♓♦☜❍]16.original 原来的[☜❒♓♎✞☜⏹☜●] 17.cane 藤条[ ♏♓⏹]18.scene 一场戏[♦♓⏹]19.episode 集[ ♏☐♓♦☜◆♎]Sound of Music auctionThere was intense interest in the iconic costumes as they went under the hammer. Potential buyers, gathered in a Los Angeles auction house, faced competition from bidders on the phone and the internet. The central piece was Maria's outfit, described by the auctioneers as "a heavy brown homespun Austrian-style dress with a wheat-coloured homespun blouse." The floral lederhosen worn by the Von Trapp children were also part of the collection. The identity of the successful bidder has not been revealed. The Sound of Music costumes were sold as part of a two-day auction of Hollywood memorabilia. Other items included an original cane used by Charlie Chaplin in the comedy Modern Times and, a month after his death, the clothes worn by James Gandolfini in the final scene of the final episode of The Sopranos, sold for $22,000.1.pregnancy 怀孕[ ☐❒♏♈⏹☜⏹♦♓]2.in the public eye受公众关注的[✋⏹]3.camera 相机[ ✌❍☜❒☜]4.royal 皇家的[ ❒♓☜●]5.gave little away什么都没泄露[♈♏♓❖]6.throne 宝座[ ❒☜◆⏹]7.succession继承权[♦☜♦♏☞☜⏹]8.upbringing养育,抚养[ ✈☐♌❒♓☠♓☠]9.character 性格[ ✌❒♓♦☜]10.instill 注入[♓⏹♦♦♓●]11.stage 阶段[♦♦♏♓♎✞] 12.monarch君主[ ❍⏹☜]13.formality 仪式[♐❍✌●♓♦♓]14.fierce 激烈的[♐♓☜♦]15.media 媒体[ ❍♓♎☜]16.problematic成问题的[ ❍♓♎☜]17.rural 农村的[ ❒☺☜❒☎☜✆●]18.diminished(使)减弱[ ❒☺☜❒☎☜✆●]19.bond 联系纽带[♌⏹♎]20.speculation猜测[ ♦☐♏◆●♏♓☞☜⏹]21.broke with tradition打破了传统[♌❒☜◆]22.restraint限制[❒♓♦♦❒♏♓⏹♦]Royal babyIt was a pregnancy in the public eye. There was no hiding away from the cameras. And royal duties continued for the Duchess of Cambridge until the final weeks. Wherever she went, the gifts, the questions, the chat, had been of the baby. She gave little away. With his great-grandmother in her 61st year on the throne, and his grandfather and father ahead of him in the line of succession, it will be some time before the Duke and Duchess's son is King. Suzannah Lipscomb, Historian: It is in the nature of these next few years, in his upbringing, in his childhood, in the character and values that are instilled in him at this stage, that will determine how the British public will view their monarch. In the past, there was a formality to the royal birth announcements. Much has changed. After Prince William was born at St. Mary's hospital, his father spoke to the media.Reporter: How is Lady Di?Prince Charles: She's very well, marvellous.Reporter: Was it a very painful experience?Prince Charles: Have you ever had a baby?Reporter: No I haven't.Prince Charles: I should wait and see!And from the moment the new Prince appeared on the hospital steps, it was clear his upbringing would be different, less formal. William will now be fiercely protective of his wife and child but controlling the level of interest from the public and the media is increasingly problematic. The Duchess of Cambridge's childhood memories are of a strong family unit in rural Berkshire. Royal life appears not to have diminished that bond. And there is speculation that after the birth the Duchess will return home to mum for a few weeks. William's childhood broke with tradition. By royal standards there was greater freedom. It was more normal, there was less restraint. He is likely to want the same for his son, a little boy who one day will be King.1. a literary mystery文学之谜2.assured有把握的,十拿九稳地3.debut处女作[ ♎♏♌◆♎♏✋♌◆]4.it turns out原来是[♓♦]5.nom de plume笔名,化名[⏹❍]6.agent 经纪人[ ♏♓♎✞☜⏹♦]7.editor 编辑[ ♏♎♓♦☜]8.phrase 词组[♐❒♏♓] 9.gender性别[ ♎✞♏⏹♎☜]10.confessed承认,供认[ ♎✞♏⏹♎☜]11.mitigation辩解[ ❍✋♦✋♊♈♏✋☞☜⏹]12.liberating令人舒畅的[ ❍✋♦✋♊♈♏✋☞☜⏹]13.solve 解决[♦●❖]Book author mysteryIt was something of a literary mystery. How was Robert Galbraith, a former military policeman, able to produce such an assured debut novel? Extract from the book:The face was crushed and swollen, one eye reduced to a pucker, the other showing as a sliver of dull white between distended lids. When the sequinned top she wore glittered in slight changes of light, it gave a disquieting impression of movement, as though she breathed again. And now it turns out that Robert Galbraith is actually the nom de plume of none other than JK Rowling. The secret was only discovered when Britain's Sunday Times newspaper realised that Galbraith and Rowling shared the same agent and editor. Computer analysis showed they used similar phrases and styles. It was also not the first time Rowling had hidden her gender, having chosen to be called JK rather than Joanne when she was first published. Rowling confessed. In mitigation, she said she wanted to know how her book would be received without her name and that she had found it a liberating experience. The book had sold fifteen hundred copies before Sunday, and now the mystery has been solved it is number one in the Amazon best seller list.1.paw熊掌2.prickly 多刺的[ ☐❒♓●♓]3.cuddle拥抱[ ✈♎●]4.trustworthy值得信赖的5.bare necessity基本必需品[♌☪☜]6.ranked highly排位很高的7.pint 品脱(单位)[☐♋♓⏹♦] 8.up there被列在前的[✈☐]9.polled投票统计的,抽样调查的[✈☐]10.overlooked忽视了[ ☜◆❖☜●◆]11.materialistic 物质性的[❍☜♦♓☜❒♓☜●♓♦♦♓]12.in favour of 赞同支持13.rest at ease心满意足[❒♏♦♦]Life's essentialsFor Baloo the bear in The Jungle Book, it was honey, ants, paw paws and prickly pears. But when it comes to the Great British public, the top four things people couldn't live without were an internet connection, a television, a cuddle and a trustworthy best friend.And while women placed cuddles as their number one 'bare necessity', men were more into television. For women, chocolate, central heating and a cup of tea all ranked highly. But for men, a cooked breakfast and a pint of beer were up there. I asked people on the streets of London what their bare necessities were:Vox pops of people in London:My girlfriend. X-box. Cigarettes. Money's the main thing – makes the world go round!Phone. My family and kids. Freedom, democracy, independence, votes, women's rights.My kids. Water. My wife I think, that's about the best. Very diplomatic!Eighty-six per cent of those polled admitted that they overlooked love and friendship in favour of materialistic things - which could explain why the iPhone helps so many British people rest at ease when it comes to the bare necessities of life.1.velvety 天鹅绒般的2.smooth 光滑的3.replace 代替4.globules 小球体5.disperses 分散6.maintain 保持7.texture 质地8.trick 窍门9.agar 琼脂10.available 可获得的11.gelling agent 胶凝剂12.blend 混合13.sponges 海绵14.soak 浸透15.alcohol 酒精16.additives 添加剂17.credentials 资格18.lower 降低。
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警方击毙法国杀人男子BBC News with Jonathan IzardThe man who said he killed seven people in al-Qaeda-inspired attacks in France has been shot dead by a police marksman. Mohammed Merah was hiding in the bathroom of his apartment in Toulouse when commandos broke in after a 30-hour siege. A French prosecutor said he fired more than 30 bullets at them before being killed. Our correspondent Christian Fraser reports from Toulouse.The final acts of the most dramatic siege that had lasted over 30 hours. It was thought Mohammed Merah had taken his own life in the early hours of this morning. But as elite commandos moved in to clear the apartment, picking their way through each room with fibre-optic cameras, the gunman suddenly appeared at the bathroom door. There was an intense shoot-out. Merah advanced wearing a bullet-proof vest, firing wildly before he jumped out of the window. But outside was a police marksman who shot him dead.国际社会纷纷谴责马里军队President Sarkozy said French Muslims must not be stigmatised because of the gunman's actions.There's been international condemnation of Malian troops who've overthrown the government of President Amadou Toumani Toure. A rebel spokesman said the soldiers would return the country to democracy as soon as national unity and integrity were assured. The United States joined France and the African Union in denouncing the coup. The American position was expressed by the State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland."The United States condemns the military seizure of power in Mali. We echo the statements of the African Union, of Ecowas and of other international partners in denouncing these actions. We've called for calm; we've called for restoration of the civilian government under constitutional rule without delay so that the elections can proceed as scheduled."油轮残骸中发现遇难者遗体Five more bodies have been found inside the wreck of the cruise ship Costa Concordia, which capsized in January off the coast of Italy. A spokeswoman for the Italian Civil Protection Agency said this raised the confirmed number of dead to 30. From Rome, here's Alan Johnston.It's more than two months now since the Costa Concordia sank off the island of Giglio. But still the hunt for the missing goes on. And in the course of the afternoon, those overseeing the search announced that they discovered three bodies. But first, they were said to be in a very inaccessible part of the hull. But later, it emerged that in fact the remains have been found just outside the wreck, trapped between it and the rocks of the seabed. Then, late in the evening, it was announced that a further two bodies had been discovered in the same area.叙利亚政府军被指杀害逃亡难民The United Nations Human Rights Council has passed a resolution calling on Sri Lanka to investigate war crimes allegedly committed during its long conflict with Tamil Tiger rebels. Sri Lanka campaigned hard against the vote, saying it would usurp its sovereignty. But the United States said Sri Lanka was not doing enough to hold those responsible for violations to account.World News from the BBCActivists say government forces in Syria have killed 10 people who were trying to escape to a refugee camp in Turkey. They say the victims, including three children, were travelling on a bus when it came under fire in Idlib province. Violence continued in many parts of Syria despite Wednesday's UN Security Council statement urging the withdrawal of troops from population centres.足球暴力引发巨大冲突Clashes resumed in the Egyptian city of Port Said after the funeral of a teenager who died in football-related violence. The first trouble began on Friday after the Port Said football club al-Masry was suspended for two years over a post-match riot last month in which more than 70 people were killed.The leader of the military coup in Mali has told the BBC he's in complete control of the country. Captain Amadou Sanogo said he had no fear of a counter coup. But a BBC correspondent in the region says it's not clear how much support the captain has among high-ranking commanders. Tuareg rebels have taken advantage of the uncertainty to seize positions in the north. Captain Sanogo said he wanted peace talks with them.土耳其15名女武装分子丧生The Turkish government says 15 Kurdish militants, all of them women, have been killed in fighting with the security forces. The clashes took place in the southeastern province of Bitlis, which is a centre of the banned PKK militants. Jonathan Head is in Istanbul.As many as one third of the PKK's fighting force are women - a legacy of the group's one-time Marxist ideology, which prioritised the raising of women's status in Kurdish society. So women casualties are not unusual, but for 15 women to be killed in a single clash certainly is. The Turkish interior ministry is giving few details of the incident. It occurred in Bitlis, a province known for strong PKK support, during a large-scale military operation against the organisation in the mountains bordering Iraq.北京空气污染清理周期长The authorities in Beijing say it'll be at least two decades before they get the Chinese capital's air pollution under control. Beijing came close to the bottom of a recent listof the world's most polluted cities. Charles Scanlon reports.The city authorities in Beijing have been stunned by a wave of criticism of the accuracy of their pollution figures. They are now trying to convince the sceptical public that they have a credible plan to tackle the problem. The vice-mayor Hong Feng said the best the city could hope for was to have air pollution under control within the next 20 years. He said that would include one of the biggest threats to health - the tiny particles in the air that until a recent controversy were not even measured by the Beijing authorities.失踪渔船神奇再现Charles Scanlon reportingA Japanese fishing boat swept away by last year's earthquake and tsunami has been spotted adrift off the west coast of Canada. No one is believed to be on board the ship, which is still intact but badly rusted. However, the Canadian transport ministry is monitoring it for pollution. The vessel was registered in Hokkaido in Japan.Those are the latest stories from BBC News.美加强对伊朗石油制裁力度The United States is preparing to increase oil sanctions against Iran over its nuclear programme. President Obama has issued a statement saying there was enough oil on the world market to allow a significant reduction in purchases from Iran. Paul Adams reports from Washington.After June, financial institutions that continue to buy oil through Iran's central bank, where almost all such transactions are processed, will face sanctions. White House officials say the president decided to issue his statement after careful consideration of a number of factors, including global economic trends, supply and demand for non-Iranian oil, as well as spare capacity. There are exceptions: the US has already granted waivers to 10 EU countries and Japan because they've taken steps of theirown.安南希叙利亚政府立即停火The international envoy Kofi Annan says he expects the Syrian government to implement an agreed ceasefire immediately. A spokesman for Mr Annan said he wanted the authorities to halt the use of heavy weaponry in towns and withdraw soldiers to barracks because then the opposition would respond. Correspondents say there's no sign yet that the government is in the mood to make gestures to the opposition. There was more heavy bombardment in Homs and other places during the day.The Spanish government has announced spending cuts of more than $36bn to try to reduce its deficit and strengthen the economy. The deputy prime minister called the budget proposal severely austere, but essential. Here's Tom Burridge.海地首都爆发泥石流后果严重Six people have died in Haiti after heavy rains caused a mudslide which destroyed homes in the capital Port-au-Prince. An official with Haiti's civil protection agency said the mudslide occurred in Morne Calvaire - a slum area on a hillside. There have been two weeks of heavy rain in Haiti, triggering repeated flooding and landslides after the rainy season started early.Football's world governing body Fifa has agreed new anti-corruption reforms after independent experts issued a scathing assessment of its investigations into earlier scandals. They called Fifa's handling of bribery claims "unsatisfactory" and "unconvincing". Fifa's reputation was hit by claims of bribery and vote rigging during Mr Blatter's re-election last year and during the contests to host the 2018 and 2022 World Cup finals.The Brazilian police have detained 77 people and confiscated an arsenal of weaponsin a major operation against drugs traffickers. More than 600 police were involved in the operation. Here's Warren Bull.Police in Brazil say this is the largest operation they've ever launched in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul. In a series of raids in the city of Sao Borja, they seized weapons, money, vehicles and quantities of cocaine and marijuana. The police chief heading the operation said up to 13 different drug gangs had been identified in the city, including one with 40 members. Sao Borja is on the main transit route for drugs and contraband between Brazil and the neighbouring countries - Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay.塔利班向阿富汗发动袭击BBC News with Marion MarshallTaliban militants have carried out a series of attacks in the centre of the Afghan capital Kabul. Nato bases, the parliament and Western embassies all came under fire. Afghan security forces are still trying to clear heavily armed insurgents from several areas. The first explosions were in the morning, and exchanges of gunfire continued after nightfall. The Afghan government said a number of gunmen had been killed, but no civilians or members of the security forces. A Taliban spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, explained the motivation behind the attacks.潘基文对叙利亚表示担忧"These attacks were revenge for the brutal actions of foreigners, such as urinating on Taliban dead bodies, Koran burnings at Bagram airbase and killing of innocent civilians in Kandahar. This was one of the biggest attacks in terms of size so far this year, and it is still underway."The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says he's concerned about the shelling of the Syrian city of Homs as more fighting was reported involving government forces and rebels. Earlier, a spokesman for the UN envoy Kofi Annan asked all sides to observe a ceasefire which came into force last Thursday. Ahmad Fawzi told the BBC that the truce was precarious and fragile, but it could save Syria from plunging back into the abyss as he put it.联合国对停火协议提出要求"Both parties must be willing to end the violence and come to the negotiating table. We hope both sides will realise that this is a golden opportunity for them to put down their arms and to start talking. Negotiations are the only way out of this bloody crisis that has lasted for one year."Their appeals come as UN ceasefire observers began to arrive in the country.The United Nations has confirmed that at least one person has been killed by a Sudanese bombing raid on South Sudan. The local authorities say nine were killed and 24 wounded in different air attacks, and ground clashes are also reported. James Copnall reports from Khartoum.North Korea Missile Launch Failure: New Threats?The latest on that failed missile test by North Korea and a surprise the government was supposed to make the set back on state TV. ABC's * is tracking from WashingtonMartha, and Pentagon and all of Asia on high alert for this test but it turned out to be another dud.A totally dud. It was all over so quickly, George, that rocket was air-born for 81 seconds. The missile lifted up with no sign of trouble but right after the first stage boosted rocket, which pushes the rocket higher and faster. The missile just broke apart in flight. The debris fell into waters about 100 miles west of Soul, South Korea. It was over.It sure was Martha. And there's a lot of concern now though that to make up for the embarrassment, North Korea is gonna plough and actually try to test a nuclear bomb. That is a concern. It's the first time ever that the North Korea said it acknowledged the failure of the rocket. So that was a big surprise to the administration, but there wre already fears that North Koreans would try to test another nuclear device, this time a uranium device, so everyone is bracing themselves for that development, George. They do not think this is over yet.And the administration was hoping to have a new * in North Korea now that they have a new leader, they were offering food aid if North Korea didn't test this missile now. That's completely odd.Yes. They basically completely reneged on this deal, so this is an embarrassment for the administration as well, but everyone is moving on-ward and looking to that nuclear device test which they think will come in the next few weeks.Ok. Martha . Thanks very much.This post was generated by put listening repetition system, Check the original dictation thread!U.S. Bridges, Roads Being Built by Chinese FirmsAnd as you know, ABC News is always looking for ways to bring American jobs back to America. So, this week, it was shocking to learn so many great infrastructure projects are under way in America, rebuilding bridges and roads in American cities, but they've hired Chinese firms and Chinese workers. Why?20/20" anchor Chris Cuomo is the captain of our bringing America back team and he decided to track down those people who made these decisions.Rebuilding America's crumbling infrastructure is now a priority.Help us rebuild this bridge, help us rebuild America, help us put construction workers back to work.In New York, a $400 million renovation of Alexander Hamilton Bridge;In California, a whopper, a $7.2 billion new bridge to connect San Francisco and Oakland; In Alaska, a proposed $190 million bridge project.Sounds like a great opportunity for government spending to actually lead to real jobs. The problem: Much of the work is going to Chinese government-owned contracting firms.When we're subsidizing jobs in China, we're not creating any wealth in the United States.In Alaska, outraged union workers took to the airwaves with an obvious point : This is not the time to send more jobs to China, our tax dollars provide hundreds of jobs there, not at home.US law actually requires major infrastructure projects to buy America when the cost difference is reasonable. In California, US firms say they would have met those guidelines but state officials decided to turn down federal money for a major part of the bridge, allowing a Chinese company at cost of almost 3,000 American jobs, and potential $1 billion boost to the struggling California economy.It would've had a multiplying effect, because it would have not only given thousands of Californians jobs ,but also the subsequent spending would have been reinvested back in our economy.Is this the best way to bring America back?We went to Californian officials who claimed the Chinese could do the work faster and cheaper.Why can't the Americans do it as quickly as Chinese, what makes them so special? One issue that you will consistently hear, every time you go to a fabrication site this country is that they struggle at this point in time to obtain welders. That is an issue in this country.So can you say that you guys have done everything you can to keep jobs here and building this bridge?Absolutely.But would American companies have done it, Chris, for a little less money and triedto race it along.The US firms say absolutely. They say they could have done this job. And there's a bigger point here. It's not a level playing field, the Chinese firms are state-owned. They don't pay their workers as much. That's why the Buy America laws were passed, if states can get around them, Diane, we never bring America back, you have to enforce the laws to let American companies play.美国参议院共和党参议员几乎集体“否决”了总统奥巴马的“准竞选纲领”的法案——巴菲特规则议案。
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BBC新闻100篇BBC News Item 1[ti:][ar:][al:][by:人人听力网][00:00.00]The BBC has learned that the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown [00:03.44]has decided that the British general election will take place on May 6th. [00:07.56]Mr. Brown will go to Buckingham Palace tomorrow Tuesday[00:11.41]to ask Queen Elizabeth to dissolve parliament,[00:13.53]and then make a formal announcement of the election date.[00:16.34]That will start the official election campaign,[00:18.96]which, a BBC correspondent says,[00:21.32]will be dominated by issues of taxation and spending[00:24.31]in the wake of the global recession.BBC新闻100篇BBC News Item 2[ti:][ar:][al:][by:人人听力网][00:00.00]Less than six months before a general election in Britain,[00:04.71]the governing Labour Party is embroiled again in internal strife.[00:08.20]Two former cabinet ministers have called for secret ballot of members [00:12.11]to decide whether the Prime Minister Gordon Brown[00:14.66]should continue as party leader.[00:16.53]Mr. Brown has called a general election by June this year.[00:19.27]Our political correspondent Rob Watson reports.[00:22.44]The two former cabinet ministers Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt [00:26.98]had stunned everyone at Westminster[00:29.22]with their last-minute efforts to challenge Gordon Brown's leadership. [00:32.64]But Downing Street and Labour Party officials[00:35.81]have moved quickly to quash any revolts.[00:38.18]Most importantly, current cabinet ministers[00:42.03]have come out and backed the prime minister,[00:44.40]orbiting some cases with little apparent enthusiasm.[00:48.19]So the latest challenge looks likely to be short lift.[00:51.86]Although many within the Labour Party doubt[00:54.60]Mr. Brown's leadership qualities,[00:56.28]they also seem to think it would only make things worse[00:59.58]to get rid of him before the general election.[ti:] BBC新闻100篇 BBC News Item 3[ar:][al:][by:人人听力网][00:00.00]The British Prime Minister Gordon Brown[00:03.89]is offering to scale back Britain's nuclear deterrence[00:06.81]if an international agreement is reached[00:09.30]to cut the world's nuclear arsenals.[00:11.35]Mr. Brown is expected to tell a special[00:13.72]session of the United Nations Security Council on Thursday [00:17.14]that he'll be willing to give up one of four royal navy submarines [00:21.24]that carry Trident nuclear missiles.[00:23.23]Officials are insisting that cost isn't a factor here.[00:26.47]Here's our defence correspondent Nick Childs.[00:28.58]Gordon Brown is saying he'll be ready to[00:31.51]throw part of the trident force into the port[00:33.37]in the context of a much bigger global disarmament deal.[00:35.92]He said so in general terms before.[00:38.60]This offer though is more concrete.[00:40.59]There is a growing sense that to avoid what some fear[00:44.07]could be a sudden cascade of new nuclear states,[00:46.50]the established nuclear powers need to do more[00:48.99]in terms of disarmament[00:50.35]to keep the proliferation regime intact.[00:52.34]The Prime Minister will hope his move[00:54.40]will be seen as an important gesture.[00:56.08]But the key to the process will be the actions of the big players, [00:59.44]the United States and Russia.BBC新闻100篇BBC News Item 4[ti:][ar:][al:][by:人人听力网][00:00.00]The British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is expected to confirm [00:04.60]that he is sending hundreds more troops to Afghanistan,[00:07.09]bringing the total number of British troops there to about 9,500.[00:10.76]Britain has the second largest NATO contingent in Afghanistan[00:15.12]after the United States.[00:16.92]Our defense correspondent Caroline Wyatt reports.[00:19.41]In his statement on Afghanistan,[00:21.90]it's believed Mr. Brown will say he's agreed in principle[00:24.26]to send around 500 extra British troops to Helmand.[00:27.74]The military advice says that extra forces are needed[00:30.67]to help maintain progress[00:31.97]and dominate the ground more effectively[00:34.03]to keep the Taliban out of key areas.[00:36.08]However, there will be caveats.[00:38.50]The Prime Minister will want assurances from military chiefs[00:41.37]that the extra troops will be properly equipped.[00:44.10]But he'll also expect Britain's NATO partners to follow suit[00:47.27]by offering more forces themselves.[00:49.33]NATO defense ministers are likely to discuss troop levels[00:52.69]on a meeting formally in Bratislava next week.BBC新闻100篇 BBC News Item 5[ti:][ar:][al:][by:人人听力网][00:00.00]Stock markets in Europe and the United States have fallen sharply [00:04.11]in response to further signs that the debt crisis in Greece is intensifying [00:08.46]and could spread to other countries.[00:10.51]Share prices in New York, London, Frankfurt and Paris[00:13.81]fell by more than 2% after a major international credit rating agency [00:18.41]Standard & Poor's downgraded Greek debt[00:21.40]to a level known informally as junk.[00:23.33]Nils Blythe has more.[00:24.82]Standard & Poor's downgraded its assessment[00:27.56]of Greek bonds to the so-called junk status[00:30.04]because of the growing danger[00:31.97]that the bond holders will not be paid back in full.[00:34.59]Many big investment funds have rules[00:37.45]that forbid them from holding junk bonds,[00:39.13]says the move is likely to trigger a further round of selling.[00:42.17]Share markets have taken fright,[00:44.16]fearing that if Greece does default on its debts,[00:46.78]it would hit many European banks which hold Greek bonds[00:50.01]and could trigger a wider financial crisis.[00:52.75]Already pressure is mounting on Portugal[00:55.86]which has also seen its credit rating downgraded today,[00:58.84]although it remains above junk status.BBC新闻100篇BBC News Item 6[ti:][ar:][al:][by:人人听力网][00:00.00]The International Monetary Fund[00:02.91]has told governments across the world[00:04.46]that further action is needed[00:06.08]to help return the global financial system to stability.[00:08.75]In a fresh estimate of the scale of the problem,[00:11.37]the IMF says global losses on toxic assets[00:14.35]could total four trillion dollars. Andrew Walker reports.[00:18.02]This report does identify[00:20.26]what it calls some early signs of stabilization in financial systems,[00:23.56]but there are not many of them.[00:25.55]And the IMF says further action will be needed[00:27.79]if they're to be sustained.[00:29.41]In two key areas, it says that progress by governments[00:32.45]has been piecemeal and reactive,[00:34.44]dealing with the problem assets held by financial institutions[00:37.43]and how to handle banks that need extra capital.[00:40.67]For that problem the report says[00:42.97]temporary government ownership may sometime be necessary.英语名篇名段背诵精华 07 ShakespeareShakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life. His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world; by the peculiarities of studies or professions, which can operate but upon small numbers; or by the accidents of transient fashions or temporary opinions: they are the genuine progeny of common humanity, such as the world will always supply, and observation will always find. His persons act and speak by the influnce of those general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated, and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species.Except from The Major Works by Sammuel Johnson参考译文莎士比亚的才华高于一切作家,至少高于当今的所有作家。
播音主持新闻播报练习稿件之国际新闻
播音主持新闻播报练习稿件之国际新闻:播音员练习稿件1、英国考古学家近日在距离英国著名史前遗迹巨石阵900米处,发现了另外一个环形阵。
这个直径大约25米左右的环状沟渠里面有一些直径一米左右的圆形深坑。
环行阵有两个入口,内部还有一块墓地,建造时间大约在4000多年前,与巨石阵同期。
考古学家希望,新发现能帮助它们了解巨石阵的真实用途。
2、7203名巴勒斯坦儿童22号在加沙废弃的机场,刷新了最多人在同一地点同时拍篮球的吉尼斯世界纪录。
这项活动由联合国近东巴勒斯坦难民救济和工程处主办,目的是减少加沙儿童的精神压力,增强他们的自信心。
3、23号,众多日本民众赶往东京小石川植物园,一睹巨型“泰坦魔芋花”的风采。
这株高1.5米的“泰坦魔芋花”上一次开放还是在1991年。
“泰坦魔芋花”原产自印度尼西亚苏门达腊的热带雨林地区,是世界上最大的花,也是气味最臭的花,一般十六年左右才开一次花,而且花期很短,每次只开放几天。
36.墨西哥湾漏油事件发生近3个月后,英国石油公司昨天宣布,新的控油装置已成功罩住水下漏油点,“再无原油流入墨西哥湾”。
英国石油公司于10号卸除了旧的控制漏油装置,换上了目前的控油罩。
英国石油公司管理人员此前曾表示,即使新控油罩起作用,仸然继续打减压井,因为这是永久性封住漏油井的最可靠方法。
4、委内瑞拉总统查韦斯22号在首都加拉加斯宣布:委内瑞拉从即日起断绝与哥伦比亚的外交关系。
而足坛巨将马拉多纳无意间成为了这一历史时刻的见证人。
当天,查韦斯在总统府前与到访的阿根廷足球名宿马拉多纳会面时,公布了与哥伦比亚断交的决定。
查韦斯还宣布他已经对委内瑞拉和哥伦比亚长达2212公里的边境地区实施最高警戒状态。
至于会否暴发战争,查韦斯表示,虽然不愿意发生这样的事,但并不是没有可能。
2009年7月28号,委内瑞拉宣布冻结与哥伦比亚关系,原因是哥伦比亚与美国签署价值50亿美元的军事合作协议。
另据报道,22 日,正在厄瓜多尔访问的哥伦比亚当选副总统安赫里诺•加尔松说,哥新政府愿意尽最大努力尽快修复与委内瑞拉的外交关系。
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bbc英语新闻报道短篇篇一:英语新闻报道短篇英语新闻报道短篇60词BBC News with Julie Candler.Hillary Clinton is to launch her bid to e the first female President of the United States on Sunday. The former Secretary of State is expected to use a video posted on the Internet to announce that she"s seeking the Democratic Party"s nomination for next year"s election. Nick Bryant reports from Washington.“Ordinarily, presidential candidates launch their campaigns in front of adoring crowds in a blaze of red, white and blue. But Hillary Clinton will offer a less rather montage, a video posted online and promoted on social media. Then it"s believed she"ll head to Iowa and New Hampshire to meet individual voters in fairly intimate settings, rather than the usual rallies. It"s a deliberately low-key, even humble start, choreographed to avoid the sense of e ntitlements that bedaubed her campaign in 2008.”篇二:英语新闻报道短篇求一篇英文报道或短文求一篇英语短文,300词左右,最好粘贴过来因为着急用,英语课要背着给大家讲,新闻报道.等.或者短文比如介绍中国食物啊茶文化啊Chinese TeaOf the three major beverages of the world__ tea,coffee and cocoa__ tea is consumed by the largest number of people.China is the homeland of tea.It is believed that China has tea-shrubs as early as five to six thousand years ago,and human cultivation of teaplants dates back two thousand years.Tea from China,along with her silk and porcelain,began to be known the world over more than a thousand years ago and has since always been an important Chinese export.At present more than forty countries in the world grow tea with Asian countries producing 90% of the world"s total output.All tea trees in other countries have their origin directly or indirectly in China.The word for tea leaves or tea as a drink in many countries are derivatives from the Chinese character "cha." The Russians call it "cha"i",which sounds like "chaye" (tea leaves) as it is pronounced in northern China,and the English word "tea" sounds similar to the pronunciation of its counterpart in Xiamen (Amoy).The Japanese character for tea is written exactly the same as it is in Chinese,though pronounced with a slight difference.The habit of tea drinking spread to Japanin the 6th century,but it was not introduced to Europe and America till the 17th and 18th centuries.Now the number of tea drinkers in the world is legion and is still on the increase.篇三:英语新闻报道短篇30个词的英语新闻短篇【英语新闻报道短篇】Cool down in housing market continues 2014-12-14A fresh batch of mixed economic data ing from the National Bureau of Statistics on Friday.Chinas industrial output rose by a less-than-expected 7.2 percent in November from a year earlier,which means that housing market will continue downward 篇四:英语新闻报道短篇我想要一篇英文的新闻报道帮个忙啊CNS June 25 __ Roundup, Korean Foreign Ministry confirmed on the 25th Macao has received the banks thawing of the Korean capital, and said that these funds will be used for humanitarian purposes. Macao was frozen in the banking industry (BDA) transfer of funds to the North Korea problem has been resolved. Earlier earlier, the Russian Far East mercial banks in its website issued a statement saying, The Bank of Korea the same day in Macao banks of the thawing of the Korean capital into a bank. According to reports, a North Korean foreign ministry spokesmantold reporters accept KCNA said, frozen Department of the Macao banking industry funds have been remitted to North Korea demands North Korea account, the issue was finally resolved. He also disclosed that the funds will be unfrozen plans for the enhancement of the people"s living standards and humanitarian purposes. In addition, North Korea and the United States will in the near future to discuss the highly enriched uranium (HEU) program, initiated bilateral consultations. Both sides have the possibility of resolving the banks use the process of bilateral negotiations in the framework of issues touched upon. In other words, North Korea and the United States may have on the North Korea nuclear issue mainly through direct negotiations. And this will serve the si__party talks, the focus of public attention. It is familiar with the si__party talks one on the 25th source said : "North Korea and the United States may be as BDA negotiations, North Korea and the United States using bilateral channels to discuss issues touched upon. Both sides may normalization of relations between North Korea and the United States in the working group meetings or non-nuclear work Group meeting on "nuclear program list consultations" discussion. "September 2005. U.S. Treasury Department accused the North Korean governmentuse of the banks in Macao accounts to engage in money laundering and counterfeiting U.S. dollars, demanded that the United States stop financial institutions and the firm business dealings. Macao banks to the subsequent freezing of the North Korean government in U.S. dollars, the bank deposits. North Korea denied U.S. allegations. May of this year, the Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that once the funds have been frozen issue is resolved, North Korea under the si__party talks on the agreement to suspend operation of nuclear facilities, invite the International Atomic Energy Agency delegation visits North Korea, and in-depth discussions with the United States to suspend operation of its nuclear facilities after the next phase measures. The Russian Foreign Ministry on June 23 confirmed Macao Department of the Korean banking industry funds have been diverted to North Korea in a Russian banks to open accounts.朝鲜问题资金已冻结【英语新闻报道短篇】篇五:英语新闻报道短篇英语新闻或短文求最近的英语新闻或者精美短小的英语短文大概初中水平就好我刚进高一上课要用求亲们给点·······1.英语新闻:CPC Central Committee to hold 6th plenum in OctoberThe Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee decided Friday that the Sixth Plenary Session of the 17th CPC Central Committee will convene in Beijing in October this year.The decision was made at a Political Bureau meeting,presided by President Hu Jintao,also general secretary of the CPC Central Committee.2.英语新闻:China announces enforcement regulations for amended personal e tax lawThe State Council,or China"s cabinet,on Wednesday announced new regulations designed to facilitate the enforcement of the country"s new individual e tax law,which features an increased monthly tax exemption threshold.Premier Wen Jiabao signed a State Council order to approve the creation of the regulations,which are set to take effect on Sept.1,2011.The National People"s Congress (NPC) Standing Committee,or China"s legislative body,adopted an amendment to the individual e tax law during a bimonthly session lastmonth.The amendment raised the monthly tax exemption threshold from 2,000 yuan (307.7 U.S.dollars) to 3,500 yuan.The new law reduces the previous nine-bracket system to a smaller seven-bracket system,eliminating brackets corresponding to tax rates of 15 and 40 percent.It also reduces the minimum tax rate from 5 percent to 3 percent for people whose monthly es are between 3,500 and 4,500 yuan.选一个吧,长的短的都有,不够再和我说篇六:英语新闻报道短篇求一篇英文的新闻报告最好是最近的新闻字数200左右吧山西襄汾9月12日从山西省襄汾县新塔矿业公司“9·8”特大尾矿库溃坝事故抢险指挥部获悉,截至12日17时,搜救人员累计发现遇难者178名,搜救工作仍在紧张进行.搜救人员对所有重点区域、重点部位全部进行了搜寻,90%的过泥面积已经进行了彻底搜寻,目前2200多名搜救人员和110多台大型机械仍在现场实施搜救.翻译Shanxi Xiangfen September 12 from the Xiangfen County, Shanxi Province tower mining panies, "9 8" large tailings dambreak the accident rescue headquarters was informed that as at 17:00 on the 12th, search and rescue personnel found the victims total 178, search and rescue Is still a tension. Search and rescue staff on all key areas, focusing on all parts of the search conducted, 90 percent of the dump area has conducted a thorough search, more than 2,200 search and rescue personnel and more than 110 Taiwan implementation of large-scale search and rescue machinery is still at the scene.篇七:英语新闻报道短篇求纯正英国新闻报道视频或者报道词本人希望能模仿写一篇英文报道,求纯正英语新闻报道视频或者报道词VOABBC篇八:英语新闻报道短篇求英语的新闻报道,最好大概2分钟的,附上有文字稿的有的发我,给很多赏金At least 119 people were killed on Monday morning in a poultry processing plant fire in Northeast China"s Jilin province,rescue headquarters confirmed.本周一早晨,中国东北吉林省一禽业公司发生火灾,据救援指挥部确认,火灾造成至少119人死亡.The fire broke out at around 6:06 am at a slaughterhouse owned by the Jilin Baoyuanfeng Poultry Company in Mishazi township of Dehui city,according to firefighters.据消防员称,火灾发生于早上6点06分左右,事故地点为一屠宰场,所属于吉林德惠米沙子镇宝源丰禽业公司.Over 300 workers were in the plant when the accident happened,survivors told Xinhua,adding they heard a sudden bang and then witnessed dark smoke at around 6 am.About one hundred workers have managed to escape from the plant whose gate was locked when the fire occurred,said survivors.事发时工厂共有300多名工人,幸存者告诉新华社记者,他们突然听到一声巨响,早上6左右就看到滚滚浓烟.据幸存者透露,火灾发生时大门是锁着的,大约有一百名工人成功逃出工厂.The plicated interior structure of the prefabricated house in which the fire broke out and the narrow exits have added difficulties to the rescue work,sources with rescue forces said.救援队称复杂的室内结构,狭窄的安全出口都给救援增加了困难.As of 12 am on Monday,the fire has not been put out and rescue work is ongoing.The exact number of those trapped in theplant has not yet been confirmed and further investigation into the cause in under way.直到周一中午12点,大火还未被扑灭,救援工作仍在继续.被困于工厂的确切人数仍未能确定,火灾原因也还在进一步调查中.篇九:英语新闻报道短篇求一篇有关环境的英语新闻报道,其中有对话采访!Britain Enters Final Day of Campaigning Before ElectionsBritain"s top party leaders are taking full advantage of their last day of campaigning before Britons go to the polls.Late Wednesday night,Labor leader Gordon Brown visited steel workers on an overnight shift."I don"t need to tell you that this election is about the future," said Brown."It"s about the future of our industry,the future of our jobs,the future of our young people."Mr.Brown is facing a tight election.The Conservative Party,led by David Cameron,has topped the latest opinion polls.And,the Liberal Democrats __ traditionally a marginalized party in what has largely been a two-party system __ are scoring high in opinion polls.Rodney Barker is a political academic and professor at the London School of Economics."The three candidates have been up to making themselves as busy as possible," explained Barker."David Cameron,the Conservative leader,so visible that he"s even worked through the night __ he hasn"t slept."Barker says this last day of campaigning is crucial,because so many Britons still have not made up their mind.A survey published by the research group ComRes Tuesday said 2.5 million people who say they are certain to vote say they are still undecided who to vote for and more than a third of voters said it was "quite possible" they would change their mind on who to vote for by the time the polls open Thursday morning.Rodney Barker says it is all up in the air."The one thing which one can say about this election __ and we haven"t been able to say this for any election within living memory __ is that the only certain thing is that we cannot predict the e,even on the day before the poll," added Barker.The ComRes poll shows the Conservatives winning 37 percent of votes,Labor on 29 percent and the Liberal Democrats on 26 percent.With the votes split this way,no single party would win a majority of seats in parliament.In that case,the shape of Britain"sfuture government will depend on coalitions.The balance is likely to be tipped by the Liberal Democrats,but so far their leader,Nick Clegg,has refused to say whether his party would side with the Conservatives or Labor.Barker says what this means is that it could be weeks before the position of Britain"s future government es clear."Even when we know the result of the election,we may not know what the result is in terms of government __ who will successfully make a deal with who to make what sort of government," noted Barker.If no single party is able to win a majority of parliament seats,current Prime Minister Gordon Brown would have the right to stay in office until a new government can be formed.篇十:英语新闻报道短篇求一则英语短篇新闻(100词内。
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简短的英语新闻报道.doc简短的英语新闻报道【篇一:简短的英语新闻】(reuters ) - queen elizabeths 90-year-old husband spentchristmas day in a hospital bed after successful surgery to clear a blocked heart artery, missing the royal familyscelebrations at its rural sandringham estate in eastern england.buckingham palace said prince philip, britains longest servingconsort, was in good spirits when the queen and other royals visited him on saturday, but he was also said to be eager to leave.members of the royal family were expected to make another trip to the papworth heart and chest centre near cambridge tosee philip after their traditional christmas lunch on sunday, british media reported.the prince will probably have to spend most, if not all, of the christmas holiday period in hospital to give doctors time to monitor his recovery from the minor operation on friday night,after he suffered chest pains in the run-up to christmas.despite his age, he has been in generally good health this year,seeing through a hectic schedule which included the weddingof prince william and catherine middleton, a jaunt to and a visit from u.s. president barack obama. on turning 90 in june,he said he was looking forward to slowing down a little, but thequeen, 85, celebrates her 60th year on the throne in 2012, which will involve a busy tour across britain and several other high-profile engagements. the royals, including newly-weds prince william and catherine, attended a christmas churchservice at sandringham on sunday. the family appearedrelaxed, some smiling and chatting as they entered the church.well-wishers waited outside in mild winter air to catch aglimpse of the royals as they arrived. (reporting by matt falloon;editing by alistair lyon) sun dec 25, 2011 questions:1,when did william and catherine married? they married in 2011.2,does prince philip can really slow down in 2012?no,because the queen will celebrate her 60th year on thethrone in 2012 ,andhe will be some busy!queen: 女王rural: 农村estate: 房产consort: 配偶chest: 胸部prince: 王子monitor: 监测, minor operation: 小手术hecticschedule: 繁忙的日程jaunt: 短程游览throne : 宝座tour : 旅游high-profile engagements: 高调订婚royal: 王室的catch aglimpse of : 看上一瞥电脑翻译:(路透社)-伊丽莎白女王的90 岁的丈夫度过圣诞节在医院的病床上清除阻塞心脏动脉手术成功后,缺少在农村的桑德灵厄姆在英格兰东部的房地产王室的庆祝活动.白金汉宫说,英国菲利普亲王在位时间最长的勾勾搭搭,在“精神状态良好”时,女王和其他王室成员参观了他上周六,但他还表示要急于离开。
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bbc典型新闻报道案例
以下是一些BBC典型新闻报道案例:
1. 2020年5月25日,美国明尼苏达州明尼阿波利斯市,46岁的黑人乔治·弗洛伊德被一名白人警官跪压在他颈部近九分钟后死亡。
这一事件引发
了全球范围内的抗议浪潮和“黑人的命也是命”(Black Lives Matter)运动。
BBC对此事件进行了广泛的报道。
2. 2020年8月4日,黎巴嫩首都贝鲁特港口区发生剧烈爆炸,导致200人死亡,近30万人无家可归。
BBC对这一事件进行了深入的报道,包括事故原因、救援行动、受影响人群的情况等。
3. 2020年,中东地区国家之间的外交关系一再成为国际间瞩目的大事。
其中,以色列与阿拉伯国家之间的外交突破是该地区外交关系的重要事件之一。
BBC对此进行了持续的关注和报道。
以上案例仅供参考,如需更多BBC新闻报道案例,建议前往BBC官网查阅相关报道。
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BBC News Item 5 经济:欧美股市大跌
Stock markets in Europe and the United States have fallen sharply in response to further signs that the debt crisis in Greece is intensifying and could spread to other countries. Share prices in New York, London, Frankfurt and Paris fell by more than 2% after a major international credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s downgraded Greek debt to a level known informally as junk. Nils Blythe has more. Standard & Poor’s downgraded its assessment of Greek bonds to the so-called junk status because of the growing danger that the bond holders will not be paid back in full. Many big investment funds have rules that forbid them from holding junk bonds, says the move is likely to trigger a further round of selling. Share markets have taken fright, fearing that if Greece does default on its debts, it would hit many European banks which hold Greek bonds and could trigger a wider financial crisis. Already pressure is mounting on Portugal which has also seen its credit rating downgraded today, although it remains above junk status.
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bbc新闻文本(BBC News Text)BBC UN special envoy for Syria says he can not set date for peace talksOne of the major sticking points in any peace talks is President Assad. Some opposition leaders say he must step down at some point in the political transition. Others insist he must go before talks can even start. But the president's advisor Doctor Bouthaina Shaaban was clear this issue was not on the table. In a rare interview, she emphasized the president's role would be decided by the Syrian people at the ballot box, in elections or in a referendum. Doctor Shaaban was also scathing about the opposition describing rebel groups as creations of powerful backers like Saudi Arabia.Ballot: vote!Scathe: severe criticismThe main crux of all peace talks from President Assad, the opposition said that he must step down at a time of political transition, and other opposition even insists that he should leave in peace talks before the start. But the president's adviser, Dr. Busina Shaaban, made it clear that the departure of the president was not in negotiations. In a rare interview, Dr. Shaaban stressed that the president's fate should be decided by the people of Syria in either an election vote or a referendum. Dr. Shaaban also severely criticized the opposition,Describe rebel groups as a product of powerful supporters suchas Saudi ArabiaBBC UN special envoy for Syria says he can not set date for peace talksBBC, News, with, Julie, CandlerA day of an intense diplomacy has failed to set a date for a long-awaited Peace Conference on Syria after the talks in Geneva involving officials from the US, Russia and other members of the UN Security Council. The international envoy on Syria Lakhdar Brahimi said he'd been hoping to be in a position to announce a date today, but unfortunately was unable to do so. Lyse Doucet reports from Damascus.Julie Candler reports the BBC news for youA day of strained diplomacy failed to set the date for Syria's long-awaited peace talks, after talks between officials from the United States, Russia and other members of the UN Security Council in Geneva. Ambassador Lakhdar Brahimi of Syria said he had hoped to announce the date today, but unfortunately he failed to do so. Les Duce reports from Damascus.BBC Zidane, the statue of Materazzi on top of the head was removedWine, lovers, are, facing, the, of, a, global, shortage, threat, of, the, drink,, according, to, new, research.去年产量下降到40年来的最低水平,根据分析师留下的需求缺口约3亿例。
100篇简短的voa新闻文本
1VOA新闻听力100篇News Item 1This week, the chairman of America’s nuclear agency said there is little chance that harmful radiation from Japan could reach the United States. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko also said America has a strong program in place to deal with earthquake threats. No new nuclear power centers have been built in the United States since nineteen seventy-nine. That was when America’s worst nuclear accident happened at the Three Mile Island center in Pennsylvania. The accident began to turn public opinion against nuclear energy.News Item 2Most restaurants in the United States offer their customers a glass of tap water at no charge with their meal, but this week many restaurants are asking diners to pay a dollar, or more, for a glass of water. Placards on their tables explain that this small amount helps bring clean water to children around the world. It’s called the UNICEF Tap Project.News Item 3Japan has confirmed radiation contamination of some agricultural products near a nuclear power plant crippled by last week’s earthquake and tsunami that is still spewing radiation. Yukio Edano, the chief Cabinet secretary, says high levels of radiation have been detected in milk in Fukushima prefecture and spinach from Ibaraki prefecture have been found to be contaminated. He tells reporters there is no immediate health risk and the government is considering regulating shipments of farm products from the affected area. At the Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant efforts continue to try to cool overheating reactor cores and water in tanks containing spent fuel rods.News Item 4Some of America’s brightest students came to Washington for the 2011 Intel Science Talent Search, the nation’s oldest and most prestigious science competition. The awards ceremony was the culmination of an intense week during which the 40 finalists were queried by judges and the public. They met with scientists, politicians and even President Barack Obama, who welcomed them to the White House. These high achieve rs were whittled down from nearly 2,000 contestants’ nationwide, representing excellence across many disciplines.News Item 5The billionaires’ club is growing. Forbes magazine’s annual list shows there are now 1,210 billionaires around the world—that is 199 more than last year. Although the world’s top three earners are unchanged from last year, the newcomers in the list ofthe world’s richest did not come from the U.S. or Western Europe, but from Russia and the Asia Pacific region. Magazine chairman Steve Forbes says of the 200 new billionaires this year, the majority are from the BRIC countries—Brazil, Russia, India and China.News Item 6Defense attorneys for former Liberian president Charles Taylor say testimony from prosecution witnesses is tainted by cash payments from a special fund provided by the United States. Mr. Taylor’s war crimes trial is drawing to a close after more than three years. Defense attorney Terry Munyard says money “lavished” on prosecution witnesses has polluted “the pure waters of justice.” He told the court that those payments went far beyond the simple reimbursement of expenses and were used in such a way “as to taint the testimony of some of the prosecution witnesses.”News Item 7Many world leaders are expressing shock and sympathy following the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan, and are offering to assist the country as it struggles to recover from the disaster. . President Barack Obama pledged assistance for what he called a potentially catastrophic disaster in Japan. Mr. Obama called Japan one of America’s strongest allies and said the U.S. is offering whatever assistance is needed. . Defense Secretary Robert Gates said a preliminary assessment indicates that American troops, ships and military facilities were not seriously damaged by the quake or tsunami.News Item 8Women are joining together all over the world to mark the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day on March 8. Women poured through London’s streets on Tuesday singing loudly for women’s rights. The banners they carried trained a spotlight on the range of issues still at hand: health, education, and politics to name a few.News Item 9Food prices continue to rise, threatening to push more and more people into poverty and hunger. A new report from the UN food agency says one of the best ways to boost agricultural productivity worldwide would be to remove the barriers women farmers face that their male counterparts do not. Studies show when women have financial resources, they are more likely than men to spend them on food, health and educating their children. Women farmers tend to be less productive than men, but there are good reasons for that, says Agnes Quisumbing, an economist with the International Food Policy Research Institute.News Item 10Rona ld Reagan’s Hometown Celebrates His 100th Birthday. Though he gained prominence as an actor in Hollywood and later as President of the United States, thepeople of Dixon, Illinois, remember Ronald Reagan as a hometown hero who saved the lives of 77 people while working as a lifeguard. The town is honoring Reagan’s 100th birthday this year, with a year-long celebration. The 40th President’s hometown was never very far from his heart.News Item 11The National Football League wrapped up the 2010 season with the biggest football game of the year: Super Bowl XLV—played in a huge stadium in Arlington, Texas. But without the small, Midwestern town of Ada, Ohio—population 5,400—the game would not have been the same. Ada is where the Wilson Sporting Goods company makes footballs. Wilson has been the official football maker of the National Football League since 1941, and many of the 130 employees at its factory in Ada have spent most of their lives there—many working for 25 to 45 years.News Item 12Scientists say a common headache medicine dramatically reduces the risk of developing Parkinson’s disease, a physically-disabling brain disorder that mostly strikes elderly adults. In a six-year study of just over 136,000 nurses and health professionals, researchers at Harvard University School of Public Health in Massachusetts found that people who take ibuprofen(布洛芬镇痛药)regularly for headache or other pain reduced their risk of developing Parkinson’s disease by nearly 40 percent. Taking one or two pills of ibuprofen two or more times per week was considered regular use. Other non-prescription pain relievers, including aspirin and acetaminophen, did not show a similar protective benefit.News Item 13Insurgents opposed to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi continue to hold two strategic towns along the road to eastern Libya, after unsuccessful attempts bypro-Gadhafi forces to retake them. Libyan warplanes launched new air strikes Thursday against the key eastern oil port of Brega, but the son of embattled leader Moammar Gadhafi sa ys the bombs were only intended to “frighten” rebels warplanes struck at the rebel-held oil port of Brega on Thursday, a day afteranti-government fighters turned back an assault by forces loyal to the country’s longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi.News Item 14A new study of more than million people in six Asian countries finds that, like Westerners, Asians are more likely to die if they are overweight or obese. However, some of the highest death rates were seen in people who were severely underweight. Many previous studies have found that the risk of death increases as body-mass index increases. Body-mass index, or BMI, is a measure of body fat based on height and weight. The trouble is, those studies mostly analyzed Europeans and other Westerners. So scientists couldn’t be sure if the results applied to other groups.Agriculture is one of the most important economic activities in Africa. In addition to providing employment, agriculture has the potential to transform African societies through the increased export of produce to Western markets. Many agree that transformation will not take place without increased investment in agriculture, including public or private loans to small farmers. Statistics show that Africa has about 12% of the world’s ar able land but 80% of it is not in use.News Item 16In July 2012, the world’s largest AIDS conference comes to Washington, D.C. It’s the first time the gathering will be held in the United States since 1990 and preparations are already underway. Despite the massive U.S. financial, medical and scientific contributions to the fight against HIV/AIDS, a major issue blocked the conference from being held here. That was a law that prohibited HIV infected people from traveling to the United States. It was passed in 1987 in the early days of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Efforts to lift the ban began during President George W. Bush’s second administration. It was finally repealed in January 2010 under President Obama. News Item 17As Discovery begins its 39th and final mis sion into Earth’s orbit Thursday, America’s 30-year space shuttle program comes one step closer to its scheduled end this April. Discovery has been a regular visitor to Earth’s orbit since its maiden flight in 1984. It is the oldest and longest-serving vehicle in the U.S. space agency’s shuttle fleet. Discovery’s final flight follows several delays due to technical problems and repairsto its external fuel tank, but NASA’s mission launch director Mike Leinbach says the shuttle is still spaceready.News Item 18Not long ago, most professional musicians lived in a world far removed from the nitty-gritty of business management, distribution and promotion. But today, social media, laptop production techniques and fragmented musical tastes have largely replaced the old relationship between musicians, their audiences and the marketplace, making entrepreneurial savvy more important than ever. A leading U.S. conservatory now teaches students how to create successful careers in this brave new world.News Item 19Egypt’s most famous tourism sites, including the great pyramids and the antiquities museum in Cairo, have reopened after being closed during the popular uprising and political tumult. Egypt’s key industry— tourism—returns after weeks of protests and celebrations, while other countries in the region deal with unrest. The sound of hooves as horses pull jostling carts of people within the Giza pyramids’ complex is the sound of money to the men who make their livings from tourism—a dominant industry in Egypt.Demonstrations against long-serving governments continue to roil the Middle East and North Africa Friday from Libya eastward to Bahrain. In Libya, more protests as well as funerals for those killed in recent unrest were held after midday prayers, and witnesses said demonstrators gathered in the port city Benghazi, a bastion of resentment against the government. Human Rights Watch said Friday that 24 people have been killed in recent violence in Libya, many of them in Benghazi. Graphic videos posted on the Internet have shown shootings described as being inflicted by armed forces against protesters.News Item 21The National Park Service says the largest slave village in the Washington region is buried on the grounds. Archeologist Joy Beasley walks across the land now known as Best Farm. But approximately 200 years ago, it was a 300-hectare plantation called L’Hermitage, owned by the Vincendieres, French farmers from Haiti. Their stone home and outbuildings still stand. The National Park Service archeologist says her team discovered evidence of six other homes on the property where slaves were kept. The Vincendieres owned 90 slaves.News Item 22Cameroon’s new mineral research center will begin operations this year. South Korean mining researchers are making trips to Cameroon to determine the overall cost of the facility, to be located in the capital, Yaounde. They say the center will cost several millions of dollars and will ultimately be offered to the Cameroon government as a gift. The Korean investors say the facility will also have geological engineers to help in the design and construction of mines—and economic geologists to determine the commercial feasibility of projects. They will decide whether there are enough minerals to justify the cost of a mining venture.News Item 23A major study by the World Health Organization shows that most people with high cholesterol levels around the world are not getting the treatment they need, to avoid such serious diseases as heart attacks and strokes. And the authors of the study—the largest ever undertaken—say the problem is especially serious in the developing world. The study was done on 147 million people, and found an increasing incidence of high levels of cholesterol the world over. Even more worrying, the researchers say, is that many of those patients are going untreated.News Item 24A huge crowd has gathered in central Cairo calling for President Hosni Mubarak to step down. The opposition has called for one million people to protest. Crowds headed on foo t for Cairo’s Tahrir Square throughout the day Tuesday. They included women with babies in strollers. Their confidence is boosted after the army, in an official statement, described the demonstrations as legitimate and promised itwould not fire on demonstrators. Army helicopters dropped leaflets calling on demonstrators to keep the protests peaceful.News Item 25The popular revolts roiling Egypt and other Arab countries are being driven by young people clamoring to oust autocratic governments they have known all their lives. The hardscrabble Tunis neighborhood of Ettadhamen provides a representative look at the hardships, and aspirations, of some of the young people behind Tunisia’sso-called Jasmine Revolution.6News Item 26A new study has tracked how low self-control can predict poor health, money troubles and even a criminal record in their adult years. The study began with 1,000 children in New Zealand. Researchers followed them for decades. They observed the level of self-control the youngsters displayed. Parents, teachers, even the kids themselves, scored the youngsters on measures like “acting before thinking” and “persistence in reaching goals.” The children of the study are now adults in their thirties. Terrie Moffitt of Duke University found that kids with self-control issues tended to grow up to become adults with a far more troubling set of issues to deal with.News Item 27President Barack Obama delivers his second State of the Union Address to the nation on Tuesday, before a joint session of the . Congress. President Barack Obama will face a dramatically altered balance of power in the House of Representatives when he addresses Congress and the nation Tuesday in his State of the Union address. Republicans are now in the majority in the House, and they have already approved a repeal of Mr. Obama’s landmark reform of the U.S. health care system. The move was symbolic, since the bill will die in the . Senate, where Democrats and Independents still hold a majority.News Item 28New research suggests a relatively simple blood test might make it possible to predict who is at a higher risk for developing dementia. The most common form of dementia is Alzheimer’s Disease, and currently, it can only be definitively diagnosed in an autopsy, by examining the brain. Beta-amyloid is a protein that shows up the brains of Alzheimer’s victims. It’s also present in spinal fluid and, in very small quantities, in the blood.News Item 29Health Services in eastern and central Kenya are getting a big boost through a new $100 million dollar program. The U.S. development agency, USAID, has awarded the funds to an international non-profit organization affiliated with Johns HopkinsUniversity. For the past four years, Jhpiego has led a nearly $34 million program in eastern Kenya called APHIA II. APHIA stands for AIDS, Population and Health Integrated Assistance. The goal is to “empower front-line health workers” with effective, low cost solutions to delivering quality health care.News Item 30Over the past 20 years, the United Nations says the Asia-Pacific population has been growing, but at a slower rate compared to the rest of the world. Asian fertility fell by 39 percent in a 20-year period from the late 1960s while remaining above the population-replacement level of children per woman. By 1990,nearly two-thirds of Asian countries had experienced declines of at least 25 percent.News Item 31President Barack Obama will go to Tucson, Arizona, Wednesday to speak at a memorial service for those killed in Saturday’s shootings. The president will try to help the nation deal with the rampage, which left six people dead and a U.S. congresswoman critically wounded. President Obama and his wife Michelle will cross the country to attend Wednesday night’s memorial service at the Univ ersity of Arizona.The president will speak there, in an effort to help Americans cope with the tragedy.News Item 32New medical research into a possible cure for Parkinson’s disease is focusing on finding biomarkers in patients so that doctors can start treatment early before tremors and other symptoms start. Actor Michael J. Fox’s recent commitment of $40 million toward finding a cure for Parkinson’s is helping to fund the new research. The current clinical diagnosis of Parkinson’s is based on visible tre mors and stiffness of limbs. But researchers say a more comprehensive diagnosis is needed.News Item 33. President Barack Obama used his weekly radio and Internet address Saturday to outline the benefits of a tax cut package he signed into law in December. He says the tax cut compromise reached with Republicans will help grow the U.S. economy. Mr. Obama encouraged business owners to take advantage of a new incentive included in the legislation that allows any business to write off the full cost of most of their capital investments for one year.News Item 34A U.S. congress woman is in critical condition and six people are dead after a gunman opened fire in an Arizona parking lot where Representative Gabrielle Giffords was meeting with constituents. The dead include a federal judge. More than a dozen people were wounded, including Giffords. A federal probe has been launched amid a national outpouring of sorrow and outrage.News Item 35Three-dimensional cell phones and batteries that last much longer are just two of the technologies that could become commonplace in the next few years. For the fifth year, IBM has looked at the horizons of research, picked five technologies and announced them as tomorrow’s innovations. “Individual technologies take different ti mes to matriculate,” says John Cohn, IBM’s Chief Scientist. “But the thing that’s common about them is that we think in 2015, all these predictions will actually be something that we take for granted.”News Item 36The killing of the governor of Pakistan’s most populous province has highlighted the ongoing clash in Pakistani society between secularism and religious radicalism. Some of that radicalism is fueled by resentment against privileged and oftensecular-minded elite who govern the country.8News Item 37In India’s main tea-growing region, scientists say tea production is being impacted by climate change. India produces nearly one third of the world’s tea. The rolling Himalayan hills in India’s northeastern state, Assam, are carpeted with lush teabus hes whose leaves produce some of the world’s finest teas. But there are concerns that rising temperatures may be affecting the tea plantations, resulting in declining productivity of the brew to which millions of people across the world wake up.News Item 38African leaders are in Abidjan for more talks with Ivory Coast’s rival presidents. The country’s political crisis has sent thousands of refugees into Liberia. Leaders met with defiant Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo Monday, offering him an amnesty deal on condition he cedes power to rival Alassane Ouattara.News Item 39More signs that the U.S. economy is moving in the right direction: The . Labor Department says new claims for unemployment benefits declined last week, dropping below 400,000 for the first time since July 2008. Other data also shows that businesses expanded in the month of December while home sales grew modestly in November. Despite the encouraging numbers, investors remain cautious as 2010 comes to a close. New estimates show the snowstorm that lashed parts of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic last week cost retailers about a billion dollars in lost sales.News Item 40The Holy Land enjoyed a flood of visitors last year, which benefited Israelis and Palestinians alike. It was a record year for tourism in Israel thanks to a lull in violence. There were million visitors in 2010, percent more than the previous record two years ago. Mark Feldman, who heads the Israeli travel agency Zion Tours, saystourism is booming. Most of the visitors were Jews and Evangelical Christians. Some 625,000 Americans came, more than any other country.News Item 41Voters in Ivory Coast have official results from only a small number of polling stations outside the country. About 10,000 ballots in an election of more than four million registered voters shows former Prime Minister Alassane Ouattara leading President Laurent Gbagbo by about 60 percent to 40 percent. As the wait for domestic results continues, President Gbagbo’s party is already calling on the electoral commission to annul returns from three northern districts. Both the Gbagbo and Ouattara campaigns say some of their supporters were prevented from entering polling stations Sunday.News Item 42Diplomatic cables released by the website Wikileaks indicate the U.S. is concerned about the security of Pakistani nuclear material. They also indicate questions about Pakistan’s commitment to fighting9insurgents along the country’s border with Afghanistan. The New York Times and the Guardian newspapers reported details of the cables today. A French news agency quoted a Pakistani Foreign Office spokesman as saying the fears are misplaced. Meanwhile, Interpol has placed Wikileaks’ founder Julian Assange on its most wanted list after Sweden issued an arrest warrant for him as part of a rape investigation.News Item 43. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe needs to boost its role in Afghanistan and foster greater economic development throughout the region. Clinton spoke today at the OSCE Summit in Kazakhstan. “Our goal here in Astana should be to move forward on democracy, human rights, economic growth and strengthening our security community. In other words, let’s embrace the vision of Helsinki and apply it faithfully in this new century.” The OSCE is celebrating the 35th anniversary of the Helsinki Accords, which gave birth to the OSCE structure. Clinton said insecurity anywhere in Central Asia is a challenge for all members and that protracted conflicts remain dangerously unresolved.News Item 44Russia’s prime minister says his country will have to build up its own nuclear weapons capability if the United States fails to ratify the new strategic arms reduction treaty signed earlier this year. Vladimir Putin told CNN’s Larry King program in an interview to be aired later today that the new treaty is in the United States’ best interest and it would be, in his words, dumb for U.S. legislators to ignorethat. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed the new START in April. The agreement would cut nuclear stockpiles in the U.S. and Russia by about 30 percent.News Item 45Thai police say they arrested two Pakistani men and one Thai woman this week on forgery charges, as they attempted to flee to neighboring Laos. The three were arrested in cooperation with Spanish authorities, who on Thursday arrested six Pakistanis and one Nigerian in raids in Barcelona. Spanish authorities believe the group supplied fake passports used by Muslim militants who bombed Madrid commuter trains in 2004. They also suspect the group supplied fake passports toal-Qaeda-linked Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Pakistan-based group accused of the 2008 Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people.News Item 46The U.S. unemployment rate rose in November while the economy added far fewer jobs than expected. Today’s closely-watched report from the Labor Department says the unemployment rate rose % to %. The economy had a net gain of 39,000 jobs far fewer than the 150,000 most experts had predicted.News Item 47Iranian media reports say officials are calling for the removal of a Star of David painted on the roof of the headquarters of the country’s national airline after the Jewish symbol was revealed in a satellite image. Reports say Internet media company Google took the image of the building which was reportedly built by Israeli engineers who worked in Iran before the 1979 Islamic Revolution.News Item 48President Obama is calling a new free-trade deal between the U.S. and South Korea a landmark agreement. Mr. Obama accepted the deal Friday after a three-year stalemate and said it will deepen the two nations’ alliance, and he urged the . Congress to ratify it. President said the agreement will increase U.S. exports by up to $11 billion a year and support at least 70,000 jobs. As part of the deal, South Korea has agreed to let the U.S. keep a % tariff on Korean-built cars for five more years rather than end it immediately.News Item 49The World Food Program is teaming up with the World Meteorological Organization and other agencies to help subsistence farmers increase their crop yields. The WFP says 2010 has been a year with many climate related emergencies which have created a havoc with the agricultural produce of many developing countries.News Item 50Some of the most dramatic, climate-related emergencies include flooding in Pakistan,Haiti, Burma and Burkina Faso. World Food Program spokeswoman Emilia Casella says the number of people affected is expected to reach about 375 million a year by 2015. “We are estimating that by 2020, some countries having their agricultural yields halved by weather&climate emergencies-drought or flood.” Casella says a detailed food insecurity analysis could pinpoint areas that are most at risk. She says WFP is working with the Food and Agriculture Organization to help small subsistence farmers increase their food yields.News Item 51International firefighting teams are battling day three of what officials are calling the worst fire in Israel’s history. Police said Saturday the huge wildfires continued to burn out of control near the northern port of Haifa. The firefighting aircraft are coming in from Russia and have been dropping water on the blaze with additional help from the U.S., France and Britain. Middle East neighbors Jordan and Egypt sent equipment. So far, 41 people, at least, have been killed and thousands have been forced to evacuate from the area.News Item 52A Russian rocket carrying three navigation satellites has crashed into the Pacific Ocean after failing to reach orbit. Russian news agencies said the rocket and the satellites went down about 1,500 kilometers northwest of Honolulu, Hawaii after veering off course.News Item 53British lawmakers plan to vote on a bill today that would increase university tuition charges. If approved, the college tuition in Britain would jump from just under 5,000 dollars to about 14,000 dollars per year. That proposal has sparked student protests. British authorities say the increase in tuition is necessary to bring a large deficit under control.News Item 54Delegates at the end of a two-week UN climate conference held in Cancun, Mexico have approved a modest plan to combat global warming. More than 190 nations approved the agreement Saturday, which includes a multi-billion-dollar fund to administer assistance to poor nations. Bolivia was the only country to object the deal, saying the agreement does not go far enough to curb climate change.News Item 55Police in Sweden say a car explosion in what appeared to be a suicide attack killed one person and wounded two others in central Stockholm on Saturday. Police say the first blast occurred in a car near a busy shopping street and left two people dead. Moments later, there was a second explosion 200 meters away. Police found an injured man at that scene. The man later died. Swedish authorities say it’s possible the dead man had blown himself up. The Swedish news agency TT said ten minutes。
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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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新闻稿范文300字 BBC新闻稿导读:就爱阅读网友为您分享以下“BBC新闻稿”资讯,希望对您有所帮助,感谢您对的支持!World Bank says Population Growth,Climate Change Demand Better Water Management“As every high school child knows, water runs through absolutely every we do,” says World Bank Water Sector Manager Julia Bucknall. “We can’t grow any food without water. We can’t live without water. We can’t run our cities without managing our water properly.”The floods in Pakistan, she says, show the importance of having a good water management policy in place.“Both from the resource point of view, in the sense of the floods, but also from the basic management of water supply and sanitation. That’s what is going to be killing a lot of people now after the immediate impact of the floods,” she says. Strategy planIn 2003, the World Bank issued a strategic plan for water projects. In a new report, called Sustaining Water for All in a Changing Climate, the bank reviewed that strategy. “The strategy itself,” says Bucknall,” was quite a path-breaking strategy, which really put infrastructure to the front and center of the development agenda and anticipated many of the issues...population growth, climate change and the need to manage water for food.”She says the strategy has resulted in “enormous success.”World Bank“We have been able to triple our lending in the water sector. And we’ve been able to be much more integrated so that we look at building irrigation systems, for example, at the same time as looking at the water resources that those systems depend on,” she says, adding, “We are very pleased with the results.”Making water a priorityAt recent climate change conferences, advocates for water management tried to put the issue high on the agenda but were not always successful.Bucknall says, “Everybody knows it’s a priority in some very generic sense. I think what people don’t always do istake the very hard choices that have to be made in order to manage water properly.”In making those tough choices, the World Bank official says some people will face “disruptions.”“Many governments are just not willing to take that decision now and sort of put it off until it becomes a crisis later. They don’t actively put it off until it becomes a crisis later, but that’s what ends up happening.”What next?The review makes a number of recommendations. “One is to continue efforts to integrate water resources with water services. So, this is something we’ve done quite well over the past five or six years, but we want to do it more and more consiste ntly,” she says. Other recommendations include putting water management higher on the climate change agenda and increase efforts to improve sanitation.“One third of the world’s population does not have access to a toilet, which has huge social and health implications,” she says, “You know more people die of diarrhea than of AIDS, malaria and TB combined.”The review also calls for support for hydro power, calling it “the largest source of renewable and low carbon energy,including high-risk, high-reward infrastructure projects.” But Bucknall admits it’s a complicated issue.Dams, for instance, have been criticized by some as harmful to the environment and the livelihoods of those living near lakes and resources.Bucknall says hydropower could mean building damns but also could mean making better use of existing dams or rehabilitating them.“Sometimes making better use out of them so that you can use them for adaptation to climate change,’ she says, “And also to give more space for the environment. One of the things we’re looking at actively is reengineering existing dams to make them have more multiple uses for people, for energy and for the environment.”Inger Andersen, vice-president for sustainable development at the World Bank, says, “Only 23 percen t of hydropower potential located in developing countries has been exploited. The gains for the poor can be enormous.”BBC News with Jonathan WheatleyThe man who led Britain into war in Afghanistan and Iraq, T ony Blair, has described radical Islam as the greatest threat facing the world. In a BBC World Service interview, theformer British prime minister said radical Islamists - whether in Chechnya, Kashmir, the Palestinian territories, Iraq or Afghanistan - believed that anything done in the name of their cause was justified.“After September 11th, rightly or wrongly, I felt the calculus of risk had changed, and I feel it’s still changed. I still think there is the most enormous threat from the combination of this radical extreme movement and the fact that if they could, they would use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons. I think they would if they could, and I think you can’t take a risk with that happening.”Mr Blair said Iran needs to understand it couldn’t have nuclear weapons; otherwise it would be stopped. Mr Blair denied that his own policies when in power had fuelled support for radical Islamists.Police in Pakistan say a suicide bomb at a Shia Muslim procession in the city of Quetta has killed at least 50 people. The procession is an annual event in support of the Palestinian people, and the bomber struck as he passed through a crowded market area. The Pakistani T aliban said they carried out the bombing.The Brazilian oil company Petrobras has unveiled plans tosell more than $64 billion of new stock in what some analysts are describing as the world’s biggest ever share offering. The money will fund new developments aimed at turning Brazil into a major oil exporter. Here is our economics correspondent Andrew Walker.Petrobras has a very ambitious plan to spend over $200 billion on expanding production from Brazil’s vast deep-sea oil and gas fields over the next four years. The plan to go to the capital market will raise an important part of the funds for that programme. Over $40 billion worth of the new shares will go to the government to pay for the right to exploit Brazil’s offshore reserves. The company is retaining the right to expand further the offer of new shares if there is sufficient demand. The total could end up as high as $75 billion.A court in Portugal has found six people guilty of sexually abusing children in a state-run orphanage in Casa Pia. They have been given prison sentences of between 5 and 18 years. Among these convicted were a prominent television presenter, a former ambassador, a lawyer and a doctor. From Lisbon, here is Alison Roberts.Six of the 32 former Casa Pia pupils whose testimonytriggered the investigation eight years ago were in court to hear the judges hand down custodial sentences to the six men accused of abusing them. Before that, the court heard a lengthy catalogue of hundreds of crimes ranging from attempted abuse to violent rape. Most were found to have been committed by Carlos Silvino, a driver at the institution, not only abusing children but passing them onto other abusers over three years.World News from the BBCThe security forces in Colombia say they have killed at least 11 left-wing rebels in a clash in the northeast of the country, close to the Venezuelan border. The army said troops captured a camp belonging to the ELN - the smaller of Colombia’s two guerrilla groups. The fighting came a day after the authorities confirmed that 14 policemen had been killed by suspected fighters of the larger rebel group, the Farc.Figures for employment in the United States reveal a better-than-expected rise in private sector jobs, but the jobs market overall remains weak. A report for the US Labor Department shows that 67,000 new private sector jobs were created last month. President Obama said the figures werepositive but not good enough. Mark Mardell reports from Washington.With important elections for Congress, the Senate and state governors two months away, the state of America’s economy is deeply political. And President Obama challenged his Republican opponents to support plans for tax cuts and loans for small businesses which they have so far blocked. Speaking outside the White House, he announced there would be more action soon.“The key point I’m making right now is that the economy is moving in a positive direction. Jobs are being created; they are just not being created as fast as they need to, given the big hole that we experienced.”The European Union’s trade commissioner, the Belgian Karel De Gucht, has apologized for remarks in which he spoke of a Jewish lobby in the United States, preventing peace between Israelis and Palestinians. Mr De Gucht said he hadn’t meant to cause offence, and anti-Semitism had no place in today’s world.An earthquake of 7.2 magnitude has struck the South Island of New Zealand. The United States Geological Survey said the quake struck some 30 kilometres from the country’sthird largest city of Christchurch. Initial reports say some roads and buildings there have been damaged.BBC News百度搜索“就爱阅读”,专业资料,生活学习,尽在就爱阅读网,您的在线图书馆。
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Rescue workers and troops are continuing to search for survivors of Ecuador's most powerful earthquake for decades.厄瓜多尔遭遇数十年来最强地震,救援官兵继续寻找幸存者。
The Vice President Jorge Glas says 246 people are now known to have died in Saturday's tremor and more than 2500 were injured. Katy Watson reports. 副总统豪尔赫·格拉斯表示称,周六强震已造成246人遇难,超2500人受伤。
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The death toll is at least expected to rise as rescue efforts get under way. 随着救援工作继续展开,遇难人数或将再次上升。
10,000 troops and 5,000 police officers have been deployed to affected areas. 政府已调配一万名官兵,五千名警官参与施救。
The quake happened early on Saturday evening. 周六晚间,厄瓜多尔发生强震。
It wasn't until daybreak on Sunday though that the devastation became clear. 直到周日早间,我们才得以了解地震毁坏程度。
Collapsed bridges, flattened apartment blocks and people trapped inside. 桥梁倒塌,多处房屋被夷为平地,大量民众被困。
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The two former cabinet minister Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt had stunned everyone at westminster with their last-minute efforts to challenge Gordon Brown's leadership. But downing street and labour party officials have moved quickly to quash any revolts . Most importantly,current cabinet minister have come out and backed the prime minister,orbiting some cases with little apparent enthusiasm . So the latest challenge looks likely to be short lift . Although many within the labour party doubt Mr. Brown's leadership qualities ,they also seen to think it would only make things worse to get rid of him before the general election.
In his statement on Afghanistan , it's believe Mr Brown will say he's aggreed in principle to send around 500 extra British troops to Helmand . The military advice says that extra forces are needed to help maintain progress and dominate the ground more effectively to keep the Taliban out of key areas. However ,there will be caveats. The prime minister will want assurances from military chiefs to follow suit by offering more fores themselves . NATO defense ministers are likely to discuss troop levels on a meeting formally in Bratislava next week.
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The BBC has learned that the british prime mimiste gordon brown has decide that the british general election will take place on mau 6th . Mr brown will go to buckingham palace tommorrow Tuesday to ask queen elizabeth to dissolve parlianment,and then make a formal announcement of the election date . That will start the official election campaign ,which ,a bbc correspondent says ,will be dominated by issues of taxation and spending in the wake of he global recession.
Gordon brown is saying he'll be ready to throw part of the trident force into the port in the context of a much bigger global disarmament deal . He said so in general items before. This offer though is more concrete .there is a growing sense that to avoid what some fear could be a sudden cascade of new nuclear states,the established nuclear powers need to do more in terms of disarmament to keep the proliferation regime intact . The prime minister will be the action of the big players.the united states and Russia .
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Stock markets in Europe and United Stated have fallen sharply in response to further signs that the debt crisis in Greece is intensifying and Paris fell by more than 2% after a major international credit rating agency Standard &Poor's downgraded Geerk debt to a level known informally as junk Nils Blythe has more .
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The International Monetary Fund has told governments across the world that further action is needed to help return the global financial system to stability . In a fresh estimate of the scale of the problem,the IMF says global losses on toxic assets could total four trillion dollars . Andrew walker reports .
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The british prime minister gordon brown is offering to scale back britain's nuclear deterrence if an international agreement is reached to cut the world's nuclear arsenals. Mr brown is expected to tell a special session of the united nations security council on Thursday that he'll be willing to give up one of four royal navy submarines that carry trident nuclear missiles . Officials are insisting that cost isn't a factor here. Here's our defence correspondent nick childs.
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Less than six months before a general election in Britain ,the governing labour party is embroiled again in internal strife. Two former cabinet ministers have called for secret ballot of members to decide whether the prime minister Gordon Brown should continue as party leader . Mr.brown has called a general election by june this year . Our political correspondent Rob Watson reports.