自听新闻听力课本Unit2听力原文及解题

Tape script for Unit2–visits and talks

Section A

1.Japan’s Foreign Minister has arrived in Baghdad for an unannounced visit–the first to the

Iraqi capital by a Japanese minister since U.S.-led invasion in 2003.

2.President Bush is en route back to Washington after a final stop in Eastern Europe.

3.Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez got astanding ovationwith a speech against President

Bush at Cooper Union in Now York City last night.

4.Diplomats say a measure of progress has been made at talks in London to end the border

dispute between Ethiopia and Eritrea.

5.Diplomats say negotiators will return to their capital for three weeks to confer with their

governments after they failed to reach an agreement on a joint statement.

6.European leaders have concluded that their first session of negotiations to try to break

political deadlock over the Union’s long-term badget.

7.The Ugandan rebel Lord’s Resistance Army, the LRA, says it’swalked out of peace talks

with the government aimed at ending two decades of conflict in the north of the country.

8.Russian and American officials say they’ve reached agreement on Russia’s entry into the

World Trade Organization. They plan to sign the agreement in Hanoi next week.

9.U.S. and Russian negotiators remained at odds Wednesday in a growing

diplomaticstandoff over Iran’s suspected nuclear program.

10.NATO foreign minister have wrapped up two days of talks focusing on the future of

missions in Afghanistan, Iraq and Kosovo as well as prospect for peace in the Middle East and the situation in Sudan’s Darfur region.

Section C

Item 1

President Bush has met with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf at the white house to discuss a wide range of international and regional issues.The two leaders told the joint news conference that the talks were candid and reinforced trust and confidence in each other. Ahead of the meeting a controversy developed when President Musharraf told the television litter viewer that American official had threatened to bomb Pakistan if he did not cooperate in the U.S.-led war on terrorism. That issue was raised in the next change with reporters.

Item 2

And a meeting in New York between the Foreign Minister of Guatemala and Venezuela has failed to resolve the deadlock of which country would represent last in America and Caribbean as the non-permanent member on the United Nation Security Council.In the BBC interview after the meeting, the Venezuela Foreign Minister Nicolas Madurolaid Guatemala for the ongoing impasse. He says it has shown no interest in agreeing to compromise candidate.

Item 3

Africa’s first female elected leader met with President Bush at the White House today, Liberian president Elle Johnson-sirleafmet with Mr. Bush at office, and then the two had lunch together at the white house’s east room. Among the issues the two discussed, there’s a request for Nigeria, they hand over former Liberian President Charles Taylor, who was wondered the war crime charges. She told reporters today that she ask Mr. Bush for how. Taylor has been living in exile in Nigeria. Many Liberians blame him for fueling the civil war that ravage the country.