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This week, we look back on a few of the big economic stories of twenty eleven.
The debt crisis in Europe spread from it’s started in Greece and Ireland last year.
Portugal needed a financial rescue of over 100 dollars in this spring. And Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi lost support because of his country’s debt troubles.
Greek debt continued to hurt European banks. As a result, European finance officials have called for tighter financial cooperation and new rules.
Steve Jobs brought the world the iPhone, iPod and iPad. He stepped down in August because of health problems. He helped make Apple into one of the world's most valuable companies. Steve Jobs died in October at the age of fifty-six.
Protests for political freedom swept North Africa and the Middle East
in the Arab Spring. But protests over budget cuts and jobs were heard around the world .
In the United States, activists in hundreds of cities protested economic inequality and joblessness. Protestors were angry that banks got rescued with taxpayers ’ money during the fnancial crisis nearly four years ago. But many Americans continue to face hardship.
本周我们来回顾一下2011年发生的一些经济大事。
始于去年的欧洲债务危机从希腊和爱尔兰开始蔓延。
今年春天，葡萄牙急需1 0 0 0 亿美元的金融救助。意大利总理西尔维尔·贝卢斯科尼也因为国家债务问题失去了民众支持。
欧洲银行深受希腊债务危机影响。因此，欧盟官员呼吁建立更加牢固的金融合作体系，并提出了新规则。
史蒂夫·乔布斯给世界带来了i P h o n e 、i P o d 和i P a d 。今年8 月，
由于健康问题，乔布斯辞去了苹果总裁的职务。他让苹果成为了全球最有价值的公司之一。今年10月，乔布斯去世，享年56岁。
在“阿拉伯之春”运动中，旨在寻求政治自由的抗议活动席卷了北非和中东。而旨在削减预算和增加就业机会的抗议却席卷了全球。
在美国，数百个城市的激进分子抗议经济不平等和失业。在近四年前的金融危机期间，国家用纳税人的钱救助银行，示威者非常愤怒。但是，许多美国人仍然面临着困境。
Electronics were among the most requested gifts this holiday season. The Consumer Electronics Association has studied holiday gift buying in the United States for the past eighteen years. Jim Barry is a spokesman for the CEA. We spoke with him last week, just before many Americans exchanged Christmas gifts. He said buyers this year planned to spend a little more than they did last year.
And, what they said they were going to buy, the top fi ve were— tablet
computers, laptops, TVs, e-readers and video games. And that, as it turns out, here as we get close to Christmas, is what people are actually buying.
Tablet computers were the most popular electronic gift this year. Laptop computers fi nished second. Apple released its iPad 2 tablet computer in March. The company is expected to release the iPad 3 next year. Jim Barry says the iPad continues to lead the way in the tablet market
电子产品是这个假期最热门的礼物之一。美国消费电子行业协会在过去的1 8 年里对美国人购买的节日礼物进行了研究。吉姆·巴里是美国消费者电子协会的发言人。上周，在大多数美国人相互交换圣诞礼物之前，他与我们进行了交流。他说，消费者今年的计划预算要高于去年。
消费者购买榜单的前五名分别是平板电脑、笔记本电脑、电视、电子阅读器和视频游戏。在圣诞临近之际，人们购买的就是这些产品。
平板电脑是今年最受欢迎的礼物，笔记本电脑名列第二。苹果今年3 月份发布了i P a d 2 平板电脑。预计该公司明年将发布i P a d 3 。巴里表示，i P a d 将继续引领平板电脑市场。
Moammar Gadhafi ruled Libya for forty-two years. He was killed Thursday after fi ghters loyal to the National Transitional Council, the NTC, captured him in his hometown of Sirte.
Questions about how the Libyan leader died have raised the possibility of an international investigation.
In two thousand three, Colonel Gadhafi took steps to improve relations with the West. He admitted responsibility for the nineteen eighty-eight bombing of Pan Am fl ight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. That attack killed two hundred seventy people. He also rejected weapons of mass destruction and terrorism . As a result, the United States re-opened diplomatic ties
with Libya.
NTC offi cials have said control of Sirte would begin a series of moves for elections , a new government and a new constitution .
President Obama said the United States looks forward to the quick formation of a government and to free and fair elections.
穆阿迈尔·卡扎菲统治利比亚42年。就在他的家乡苏尔特，忠于利比亚过渡委员会的士兵于周四将其抓获后击毙。
关于卡扎菲之死的疑问，引发了一场国际性调查。
2 0 0
3 年，卡扎菲上校采取措施改善与西方国家的关系。1 9 8 8 年美国泛美航空公司第1 0 3 号班机在苏格兰洛克比发生爆炸，造成2 7 0 人遇难，卡扎菲承认对这次空难负责。他还放弃了发展大规模杀伤性武器的计划，放弃了恐怖主义。因此，美国宣布恢复与利比亚的外交关系。
利比亚全国过渡委员会官员称，控制苏尔特后，利比亚将开始着手选举，
成立新政府和制定新宪法。
奥巴马总统表示，美国期待利比亚快速组建新政府，并期待利比亚自由公
平地选举。
Protests that began last month near Wall Street in New York have now spread to other American cities. The Occupy movement differs from the Tea Party movement. Tea Partiers blame big government for the country’s economic problems. Occupiers blame big business.
Many protesters said they were inspired by the Arab Spring movement and protests in Europe.
The protesters marched to the United States Chamber of Commerce and denounced the business interests that the group represents.
The marchers also stopped outside the White House. Inside, at a news conference, a reporter asked President Obama about the movement.
Barack Obama: “Obviously I’ve heard of it. I’ve seen it on
television. I think it expresses the frustrations that the American people feel, that we had the biggest fi nancial crisis since the Great Depression, huge collateral damage all throughout the country, all across Main Street, and yet you’re still seeing some of the same folks who acted irresponsibly
trying to fi ght efforts to crack down on abusive practices that got us into this problem in the fi rst place. So, yes, I think people are frustrated, and the protestors are giving voice to a more broad-based frustration about how our fi nancial system works.”
始于上月的纽约华尔街抗议活动已经蔓延到了美国其他城市。这一“占领运动”与茶党运动不同，茶党将美国经济问题归咎于“大政府”，占领运动则将其归咎于“大企业”。
许多示威者表示，他们受到了“阿拉伯之春”和欧洲示威活动的启迪。
示威者前往美国商会，声讨该组织代表的大企业的商业利益。
示威者聚集在白宫外，进行抗议。在白宫里的一场新闻发布会上，有记者问及奥巴马总统对这次运动的看法。
巴拉克·奥巴马说：“显然，我听说了，也通过电视看到了这次示威活动。我认为它表达了民众的挫败感。美国经历了‘大萧条’以来最严重的金融危机，全国各地、各行业都遭受了间接损害。一些玩忽职守的人却拼命镇压这次运动。民众感到万分沮丧，示威者对美国金融系统的运作非常不满。”The
United Nations estimates that the world reached 7 billion people on Monday.
Populations are growing faster than economies in many poor countries in Africa and some in Asia. At the same time, low fertility rates in Japan and many European nations have raised concerns about labor shortages.
China’s population of one and a third billion is currently the world’s
largest. India is second at 1.2 billion. But India is expected to pass China and reach one and a half billion people around 2025. India will also have one of the world’s youngest populations.
Economists say this is a chance for a so-called demographic dividend. India could gain from the skills of young people in a growing economy at a time when other countries have aging populations. But economists say current rates of growth , although high, may not create enough jobs.
联合国预测，周一世界人口将达到70亿。
多数非洲及部分亚洲贫穷国家人口增长速度大于经济增长速度。与此同时，日本与最新统计显示，世界人口已经达到70许多欧洲国家的低生育率已经引起了人们对劳动力短缺的担忧。
中国以1 3 亿人口位居全球首位，印度以1 2 亿人口位居第二。但印度人口有望在2 0 2 5 年左右超过中国，达到1 5 亿，还将成为拥有全球最年轻化人口的国家之一。
经济学家称，这是一个人口红利的机遇。当其他国家面临人口老龄化时，在经济持续增长的条件下，印度却可以从有技术的年轻人身上获利。经济学家还表示，当前印度经济增长速度虽然已经很高，但可能无法创造足够的就业机会。
Conservative extremists in Europe are facing new attention after the attacks last week that killed almost eighty people in Norway.
The violence was Norway’s deadliest since World War Two.
Thirty-two-year-old Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik has admitted responsibility. But he has pleaded not guilty to terrorism charges. He says he was part of a wider “crusade” against Muslim immigration and multiculturalism in Europe. Investigators say they believe he acted alone. They questioned him Friday for a second time.
European Union offi cials say they will form a team of experts to investigate non-Islamist threats in Scandinavian countries. The criminal intelligence agency Europol says the team may look at other European nations in the future.
A report this year from Europol said extreme left-wing groups carried out forty-fi ve attacks in Europe last year. It said there were no terrorist attacks by right-wing groups, but extremists were increasingly active on the Internet.
上周挪威发生袭击事件，8 0 多人丧生。欧洲保守极端主义分子面临新关注。
这是自二战以来挪威遭受的最严重的暴力袭击。
3 2 岁的挪威人安德斯·贝林·布雷维克承认对此事件负责。但他不承认恐怖主义罪名。他称他是“圣战”的一分子，反对欧洲穆斯林移民和文化多元主义。调查人员表示，布雷维克是单独行动。周五，调查人员对其进行第二次审讯。
欧盟官员表示，他们将成立一个专家小组，对斯堪的纳维亚国家的非伊斯兰威胁进行调查。欧洲刑警组织表示，这个专家小组未来还将对欧洲其他国家进行调查。
今年，来自欧洲刑警组织的一份报告显示，去年极左翼团体在欧洲制造了4 5 次袭击事件。该报告称，右翼团体没有制造恐怖袭击事件，但他们在互联网上日益活跃
This week, Britain faced its worst riots since the nineteen eighties. The unrest began in London and spread to other cities, including Manchester, Birmingham and Liverpool.
Police have been launching raids, making arrests and studying images from security cameras. Offi cials charged hundreds of people with disorder, violence and stealing from looted stores.
The rioting began last Saturday after a peaceful demonstration over the deadly police shooting of a twenty-nine-year-old man. The shooting happened last week in a poor neighborhood in north London.
Rioters burned buildings and cars, broke into hundreds of stores and fought with police.
Britain had its fi rst calm night on Wednesday. 16,000 police offi cers will remain on duty in London through the coming days. This is the most ever during peacetime .
Mr. Cameron returned early from a vacation to deal with the unrest. He said he was considering interfering with electronic devices and websites
that rioters have used to organize their activities.
本周，英国遭遇了2 0 世纪8 0 年代以来最严重的骚乱。这次骚乱始于伦敦，并蔓延至包括曼彻斯特、伯明翰和利物浦在内的其他城市。
警方发动了突击行动，逮捕暴乱分子，并研究监控摄像图像。有关官员对数百名参与骚乱、暴力和洗劫商店的人提出了指控。
警方枪杀一名2 9 岁男子，群众发动和平示威之后，上周六骚乱爆发。枪击事件上周发生在伦敦北部的一个贫民区。
暴徒们烧毁了房屋和汽车，闯入数百家店铺与警察对峙。
周三，英国度过了骚乱以来第一个平静的夜晚。接下来的日子里，1 . 6 万名警务人员将在伦敦值守，这是和平时期以来人数最多的一次。
卡梅伦先生提前结束休假返回伦敦处理骚乱事件。他表示，他正在考虑干扰暴徒们用于组织活动的电子设备和网站。
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the release of thousands of State Department documents will not in any way interfere with American diplomacy.
Secretary Clinton condemned t h e r e l e a s e o f diplomatic cables as an attack on American foreign policy interests and the international community. She said the United States is taking aggressive steps to hold responsible those who stole the information. And she said it is taking action to make sure it does not happen again. But the Secretary of State said the real damage to America’s international relationships will be
small. She made the comments during a visit to Kazakhstan Wednesday. Secretary Clinton spoke by telephone with a number of world leaders to express regret for the release of the documents. She made this statement on Mondy.
The website WikiLeaks planned to publish more than 250,000 diplomatic cables this week. Several newspapers have been reporting details of the documents.
They include statements by American diplomats about the private and public lives of world leaders. They also include criticisms of governments around the world.
美国国务卿希拉里·克林顿称，数千份国务院文件的泄密不会影响到美国的外交政策。
克林顿谴责外交电文泄密是一次对美国外交政策利益和国际社会的攻击。她表示，美国正采取措施追究窃取信息者的责任，并采取行动确保此类事件不再发生。但她还表示，此次事件对美国国际关系的影响有限。周三，对哈萨克斯坦访问期间，她发表了以上言论。克林顿通过电话就泄密事件向世界各国多位领导人致歉。周一，她发表了此次声明。
维基解密网站本周计划发布超过2 5 万份外交电文。数家报纸已开始报道这些文件的详情。
这些文件包括美国外交官对世界各国领导个人及社交生活的陈述，还包括对世界各国政府的批评。
On Friday, British police arrested Andy Coulson, former editor of Britain’s best-selling newspaper, News of the World. The investigation
led him to resign in January as communications director to Prime Minister David Cameron.
The arrest came in a widening investigation of telephone hacking. Other accusations include paying police for information on stories. The Reuters news agency reported that Mr. Coulson was released on bail until a date in October.
Prime Minister Cameron promised Friday that a judge will lead a full
public inquiry into the case after police complete their investigation.
On Thursday, the company News International said it will stop publishing the weekly News of the World. News International belongs to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, also known as News Corp. The one
hundred sixty-eight-year-old newspaper will publish for the last time on Sunday.
Prime Minister Cameron called the hacking reports, “disgusting ”, “ disgraceful” and “despicable”. But he himself is facing attention for having asked Andy Coulson to serve as his media adviser .
上周五，英国警方逮捕了英国最畅销报纸《世界新闻报》前主编安迪·库尔森。此次调查迫使他1月份辞去戴维·卡梅伦首相新闻主管一职。
这次逮捕发生在电话窃听风暴调查之后。其他对其指控还包括向警察购买新闻。路透社称，库尔森先生被保释至今年10月。卡梅伦首相周五承诺警方完成调查之后，法官将对此案件进行全面公开调查。
上周四，国际新闻公司表示将停止出版每周的《世界新闻报》。国际新闻公司隶属于鲁珀特·默多克的新闻集团。本周日，这份有着1 6 8 年历史的报纸将最后一次出版。
卡梅伦首相称这些手机窃听报告是“令人厌恶的、可耻的和卑劣的。”但他也因聘请安迪·库尔森作为其媒体顾问而备受关注。
The crisis at Japan’s Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear energy center has
raised questions about the future of the nuclear energy industry. Arjun Makhijani is president of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research in the United States. He says the disaster in Japan is historic.
This 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 1979. 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.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Germany would temporarily close seven nuclear power centers while energy policy is reconsidered. The European Union is planning to test all centers in its twenty-seven member nations.
日本福岛第一核电站危机引发了人们对核能源产业未来的质疑。美国能源与环境研究所负责人阿尔琼·梅基耶尼表示，此次日本的灾难是历史性的。
本周，美国原子能机构主席表示，日本放射性有害物质抵达美国的几率很小。美国核能管制委员会主席格雷戈里·贾兹科也表示，美国有完善预案应付地震威胁。
自1 9 7 9 年以来，美国没有再新建核电站。1 9 7 9 年宾夕法尼亚州的三哩岛发生了美国历史上最严重的核事故。这起事故导致公众舆论转向反对核能。
德国总理安格拉·默克尔表示，德国将在能源政策调整期间，暂时关闭七座核电站。欧盟也计划检测分布在27个会员国的所有核电站。
The crisis at Japan’s Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear energy center has
raised questions about the future of the nuclear energy industry. Arjun Makhijani is president of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research in the United States. He says the disaster in Japan is historic.
This 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 1979. 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.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Germany would temporarily close seven nuclear power centers while energy policy is reconsidered. The European Union is planning to test all centers in its twenty-seven member nations.
日本福岛第一核电站危机引发了人们对核能源产业未来的质疑。美国能源与环境研究所负责人阿尔琼·梅基耶尼表示，此次日本的灾难是历史性的。
本周，美国原子能机构主席表示，日本放射性有害物质抵达美国的几率很小。美国核能管制委员会主席格雷戈里·贾兹科也表示，美国有完善预案应付地震威胁。
自1 9 7 9 年以来，美国没有再新建核电站。1 9 7 9 年宾夕法尼亚州的三哩岛发生了美国历史上最严重的核事故。这起事故导致公众舆论转向反对核能。
德国总理安格拉·默克尔表示，德国将在能源政策调整期间，暂时关闭七座核电站。欧盟也计划检测分布在27个会员国的所有核电站。
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一.Scientists: Rising Sea Levels to Continue Scientists say sea levels are rising and will continue to do so into the future. Coastal communities around the world are already experiencing the impact of rising seas. Many cities and towns are taking steps to deal with this new reality. Photographers have taken pictures to document those efforts. Their photos are part of an exhibit called "Sink or Swim: Designing for a Sea Change." It can be seen at the Aquarium of the Pacific, in Long Beach, California. There, experts explain the causes of the rising seas and how people are trying to adapt to the changes. Disastrous storms and floods could be a new reality around the world. That is the opinion of oceanographer Jerry Schubel. He is president of the Aquarium of the Pacific. 二.Robots Ready to Work in Restaurants For many years, machines have been doing work that people once did, including some difficult jobs. Search and rescue operations in dangerous environments are often seen as the first areas that will employ high technology robots. But there is another area that may soon take jobs traditionally held by human beings: the restaurant industry. Teams from around the world competed in early June at the DARPA Robotic Challenge Finals in California. A team from South Korea and its robot, called DRC-Hubo, won first place in the competition. The second and third place finishers were from the United States. The robots were required to drive a vehicle, climb up steps and do mechanical work. Such activities are easy for humans to perform, but more difficult for machines. Not all of the competitors were successful. The failures showed how difficult it is to design effective walking machines.
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From VOA Learning English, this is the Agriculture(农业的）Report. Climate change has caused a rise in sea levels. This has increased the amount of salt in fresh water used on coastal farms. As a result farmers are increasingly unable to use fields close to the sea. Scientists call this process "salinization（盐渍化）." The term（术语）comes from the word "saline" （生理盐水）-- which means a mixture of salt and water. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization says salinization is reducing the world's irrigated lands by 1 to 2 percent every year. Irrigation is the process of supplying land with fresh water from other areas. As saline water cannot be used for irrigation, a farm in Netherlands has managed to grow healthy and tasty vegetables in soil irrigated with salt water. But a farmer in the Netherlands is now using a mixture of sea and fresh water to grow healthy and tasty vegetables.
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1．Three university students in Santiago,Chile have developed a phant-powerd device to charge their mobile phones.The three engineering students got the idea for the device while sitting in their school’s courtyard.Their invention is a small biological circuit they call E-Kaia.It captures the energy plants produce during photosynthesis.Aphant uses only a small part of the energy produced by that process,The rest goes into the soil.E-Kaia collects that energy.The device plugs into the ground and then into a mobile phone.The E-Kaia solved two problems for the engineering studnts,They needed an idea for a class project.They also needed an outlet to plug in their phones.One of the student inventors,CamilaRupcich,says the device charges the energy released from the plant into low-level power to charge phones.The E-Kaia is able to fully recharge a mobile phone in less than two hours.I’m Jonathan Evans. 2．University of Washington researchers say they used a laser to turn hot water into cool water. Five engineers from the university are the first in the 50-year history of the laser to refrigerate liquids under normal conditions with light beams. The group used a simple approach to the experiment. Lasers are known for producing hot temperatures. The University of Washington says they “essentially ran the laser phenomenon in reverse.” The discovery has a future in the computer and medical fields. Computer interiors could be cooled by lasers. In a medical laboratory, individual cells could be cooled to see how they react. “Few people have thought about how they could use this technology to solve problems because using lasers to refrigerate liquids hasn’t been possible before,” said researcher Peter Pauzauskie.The cool laser concept can also be used in manufacturing, telecommunications or national defense.The group has an interest in hearing from businesses or scientists who may have every day applications for the cool laser. The findings were published this month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. I’m Marsha James. 3．The United States is marking the 14th anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks. U.S. officials and many other Americans attended observances Friday to remember those killed and their loved ones. Nearly 3,000 people died on September 11, 2001 when hijackers used four passenger airplanes to carry out suicide attacks in the United States. In addition to the victims, the 19 hijackers also were killed. Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and his group claimed responsibility for the attacks. U.S. forces killed him in a surprise raid on his hiding place in Pakistan four years ago. Friday morning, President Barack Obama, his wife and White House workers observed a public moment of silence in Washington. They gathered on the White House grounds at 8:46. That was the exact time when a hijacked airplane struck the World Trade Center. In New York, families of the victims gathered for a ringing of bells and reading of the names of those killed in the terrorist attacks. Moments of silence were held at 8:46 and 9:03 in the morning, when a second hijacked plane also hit the World Trade Center. Near Washington, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter and other officials attended an observance at the Pentagon, the home of the Defense Department. They joined in remembering those killed when a hijacked airplane hit the Pentagon, killing 184 people. Earlier Friday, a large American flag was hung down the side of the Pentagon, where the passenger jet hit. There also was a moment of silence at 10:03 a.m. That was the time when a fourth hijacked plane crashed in western Pennsylvania. All 44 people on the plane were killed. Many Americans believe the hijackers had planned to attack a target in the nation’s
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This week, we look back on a few of the big economic stories of twenty eleven. The debt crisis in Europe spread from it’s started in Greece and Ireland last year. Portugal needed a financial rescue of over 100 dollars in this spring. And Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi lost support because of his country’s debt troubles. Greek debt continued to hurt European banks. As a result, European finance officials have called for tighter financial cooperation and new rules. Steve Jobs brought the world the iPhone, iPod and iPad. He stepped down in August because of health problems. He helped make Apple into one of the world's most valuable companies. Steve Jobs died in October at the age of fifty-six. Protests for political freedom swept North Africa and the Middle East in the Arab Spring. But protests over budget cuts and jobs were heard around the world . In the United States, activists in hundreds of cities protested economic inequality and joblessness. Protestors were angry that banks got rescued with taxpayers ’ money during the fnancial crisis nearly four years ago. But many Americans continue to face hardship. 本周我们来回顾一下2011年发生的一些经济大事。 始于去年的欧洲债务危机从希腊和爱尔兰开始蔓延。 今年春天，葡萄牙急需1 0 0 0 亿美元的金融救助。意大利总理西尔维尔·贝卢斯科尼也因为国家债务问题失去了民众支持。 欧洲银行深受希腊债务危机影响。因此，欧盟官员呼吁建立更加牢固的金融合作体系，并提出了新规则。 史蒂夫·乔布斯给世界带来了i P h o n e 、i P o d 和i P a d 。今年8 月，
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VOA等英语广播的听力技巧有哪些 VOA等英语广播的听力技巧有哪些 例如： OilministersoftheOrganizationofPetroleumExportingCountri eswillboldanemergencymeetingFridaytodiscuss What：Anemergencymeetingvailbeheld When：Friday Who：OilMinistersOftheOrganizationofPetroleumEx—poringCountries (2)扩大词汇量，熟记新闻报道中的常用词汇 ①普通词汇。尽管新闻报道所使用的词汇量很大，但是语言的基本词汇是稳定的。如VOA广播中的specialEnglish(特别节目)的新 闻报告中常用词汇约1500个，这的重复率在报道中是很高的，如cease-fire，presidentialeleation等政治性词汇，financebankinggroup等经济词汇以aceshuttle，robot等科技词汇。而新闻英语中的特有用语就更具稳定性。若能掌握这些词汇， 再加上一些听力技巧，基本听懂新闻报道就不是件难事了。 ②专有词汇。新闻报道是有关世界范围的最新消息，因在报道中常涉及许多人名、地名、国名。除此之外，新闻报道中还常常出现 一些河流、山脉及名胜古迹等专有名词熟悉这些专有名词可使听者 更快更准确地了解所听的新 (3)掌握一定数量的缩略语(acronym) 由于新闻报道时间的限制，不少机构的名称常采用其缩略形式，即由该名称中数个词的首字母的大写形式组成，如：PLO是thePalestineLiberationOrganization的缩写形式。需要注意的是，
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No.1 This is the VOA Special English Education Report. A program in the eastern United States invites young people into a prison to try to scare them away from prison. The goal is to teach them to avoid bad choices and bad influences that could put them behind bars for life. Students can take a tour of the prison, in school groups or by themselves. At the end, the young people sit down for a discussion with some of the inmates. The program is called Prisoners Against Teen Tragedy, or PATT. It takes place at the Maryland Correctional Institution-Hagerstown, a medium-security prison for men. Sal Mauriello is a case specialist there. SAL MAURIELLO: "We have a group of eleven inmates who are in the PATT program. They tell the youth what they went through as a child, what their crimes consist of. They try to teach them about peer pressure. They try to teach them about bad choices." The Prisoners Against Teen Tragedy program also includes an essay-writing contest. Tomi Dare is a seventeen-year-old student at Hagerstown Community College. She saw an announcement for the contest on her college website. To enter, students had to write about peer pressure and why they do not do drugs. The prize: five hundred dollars for school. In her essay, Ms. Dare wrote about her own experience growing up as an African-American girl interested in sports. T OMI DARE: "Drugs and alcohol not only slow a person down, it doesn't make you feel like you are a winner. It doesn't make you feel like you are the best. As an athlete, I'm 6-2 [188 centimeters], so I feel that I should be above peer pressure because I'm bigger than everybody that I’m around. "So I was talking about that and I was talking about how I consider myself a queen. And if I’m royalty, I need to not put substances in my body. Drugs and alcohol are not what a queen should be taking." The scholarship is presented by the Prisoners Against Teen Tragedy program. Prison spokesman Mark Vernarelli says most teens who visit come to understand what even one bad decision can mean. MARK VERNARELLI: "A lot of men and women serving life in prison in the state of Maryland didn't pull a trigger or plunge a knife into anybody. They were accessories to a crime. They
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The Lady, or the Tiger? 2011-1-14 BOB DOUGHTY: Now, the VOA Special English program, AMERICAN STORIES. We present the short story "The Lady, or the Tiger?" by Frank R. Stockton. Here is Barbara Klein with the story. BARBARA KLEIN: Long ago, in the very olden time, there lived a powerful king. Some of his ideas were progressive. But others caused people to suffer. One of the king's ideas was a public arena as an agent of poetic justice. Crime was punished, or innocence was decided, by the result of chance. When a person was accused of a crime, his future would be judged in the public arena. All the people would gather in this building. The king sat high up on his ceremonial chair. He gave a sign. A door under him opened. The accused person stepped out into the arena. Directly opposite the king were two doors. They were side by side, exactly alike. The person on trial had to walk directly to these doors and open one of them. He could open whichever door he pleased. If the accused man opened one door, out came a hungry tiger, the fiercest in the land. The tiger immediately jumped on him and tore him to pieces as punishment for his guilt. The case of the suspect was thus decided. Iron bells rang sadly. Great cries went up from the paid mourners. And the people, with heads hanging low and sad hearts, slowly made their way home. They mourned greatly that one so young and fair, or so old and respected, should have died this way. But, if the accused opened the other door, there came forth from it a woman, chosen especially for the person. To this lady he was immediately married, in honor of his innocence. It was not a problem that he might already have a wife and family, or that he might have chosen to marry another woman. The king permitted nothing to interfere with his great method of punishment and reward. Another door opened under the king, and a clergyman, singers, dancers and musicians joined the man and the lady. The marriage ceremony was quickly completed. Then the bells made cheerful noises. The people shouted happily. And the innocent man led the new wife to his home, following children who threw flowers on their path. This was the king's method of carrying out justice. Its fairness appeared perfect. The accused person could not know which door was hiding the lady. He opened either as he pleased, without having knowing whether, in the next minute, he was to be killed or married. Sometimes the fierce animal came out of one door. Sometimes it came out of the other. This method was a popular one. When the people gathered together on one of the great trial days, they never knew whether they would see a bloody killing or a happy ending. So everyone was always interested. And the thinking part of the community would bring no charge of unfairness against this plan. Did not the accused person have the whole matter in his own hands? The king had a beautiful daughter who was like him in many ways. He loved her above all humanity. The princess secretly loved a young man who was the best-looking and bravest in the land. But he was a commoner, not part of an important family. One day, the king discovered the relationship between his daughter and the young man. The man was immediately put in prison. A day was set for his trial in the king's public arena. This, of course, was an especially important event. Never before had a common subject been brave enough to love the daughter of the king. The king knew that the young man would be punished, even if he opened the right door. And the king would take pleasure
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