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orts from the United
Nations.
It was the eighth straight year that the General Assembly's passed a resolution calling on the
United
States
to
lift
its
trade
sanctions
against
Cuba,
and
as
in
past
years,
it
was
approved
overwhelmingly. This year's vote was
155 to 2, with always the United States and Israel
voting
formerly
this
nation's
ambassador
to
the
United
Nations,
repeatedly
referred
to
in
arguing in favor of
the resolution. Mr. Alacon also said Cuba will
file a 100-billion-dollar lawsuit
against the United States because of
the embargo, but he did not say where such a
lawsuit would
be
filed.
The
United
States
representative
Peter
Burly
said
the
US
embargo
against
Cuba
is
a
matter of bilateral trade policy, and
has no place in the UN General Assembly.
Task
3
【答案】
A.
1)
T
2) F
3) T
4) F
B.
1) Shelter for the
Homeless
2) a set of stamps/six stamps
3) building homes
4)
information; the UN; government; institutions;
worldwide
【原文】
Narrator:
Since
1946,
when
the
United
Nations
General
Assembly
recommended
that
inter-
national
arrangements
be
set
up
to
promote
and
coordinate
research
and
the
ex-change
of
information
on
housing,
the
United
Nations
has
given
increasing
attention to the subject of human
settlements. This year, the United Nations
observes
the International Year of
Shelter for the Homeless. In commemoration of the
year, the
UN Postal
Administration
has
released
a
special
stamp
issue.
I
recently
spoke
with
Gisela
Grunewald,
Chief
of
the
Postal
Administration,
who
described
the
set
and
explained its significance.
Grunewald: We issued six stamps in
honor of the Intemational Year for Shelter for the
Homeless,
and
these
six
stamps
should
really
show
the
positive
efforts
that
are
being
done
around the world to help the homeless
and to find shelter for them. So what we are
showing
on
these
six
stamps
are
six
different
scenes
that
are
aspects
of
building
homes.
You
have
surveying
the
terrain;
you
have
putting
windows
in
a
house;
you
have the
actual building of the walls and a number of steps
in between, and the last
stamp in this
set actually shows one family that happily and
proudly stands in front of
its
new
home.
So,
as
I
said
initially,
we
like
to
portray
the
positive
side
and
the
solutions that are proposed by the
Organization when it is tackling a problem.
Narrator: So, in a sense, it's a progression as seen from beginning to end.
Grunewald:
That
is
right.
We
know
that
the
subject
is
shelter
for
the
homeless,
so
the
homelessness
as
such
is
not
shown
but
the
solutions
to
the
problem
of
the
homelessness.
Narrator: And what is the impact of such a stamp issue? How can it really influence people's
lives?
Grunewald: Well,
one of
the
functions
that United Nations
stamps
have
is
to
inform
the
public
about what the
Organization is doing. So, the impact of these
stamps will certainly be
one
of
spreading
information
about
the
International
Year.
We
have
more
than
100,000 collectors throughout the world
who will receive these stamps and they will
get the information about this
International Year with our stamps. Also, all the
stamps
which are going to be used to
mail out mail from the three UN offices in New
York,
Geneva and Vienna will again send
out the message that this is the International
Year
for Shelter for the Homeless, and
will show that the UN is working on this problem.
As
far
as
the
homeless
people
themselves
are
concerned,
I
think
the
impact
of
the
stamps will be, again, by way of
sensitizing and informing people about the problem
that this is something that has to be
tackled by governments and by other institutions
and that it is a worldwide problem.
Task
4
【答案】
A.
News Items
1
Participants
Number of
Demonstrators
Place(s)
Demands
demonstrators
mainly
tens of thousands
Paris and several
Protest
the
level
of
longterm
unemployed
other cities
un- employment and
call
for
higher
welfare payments
Some
rural
interest
A
quarter
of
a
Central
groups
e.g.
farmers,
million
London
agriculture
workers,
hunters
and
village
dwellers
Demand
more
government
action
to
deal
with
the
problems
of
the
countryside
2
B.
News Item 1
1) T
2) F
News Item 2
3) F
4) F
【原文】
News Item 1
Tens of thousands of demonstrators in France have been taking part in marches in Paris and
several other cities, protesting
the level of unemployment and calling for higher
welfare payments.
The march is a part
of the campaign that began last year with the
occupation of Welfare Offices by
the
long-term
unemployed.
But
as
Steven
Jasol,
our
Paris
correspondent,
explains,
the
marches
may indicate that the protest movement
is losing momentum.
News Item 2
Here
in
Britain
about
a
quarter
of
a
million
people
have
taken
part
in
a
march
through
central
London to demand more government action to deal
with the problems of the countryside. A
number of rural interest groups have
been taking part--farmers, agriculture workers,
hunters and
village
dwellers:
The
movement
grew
out
of
opposition
to
a
proposal
to
ban
fox
hunting,
a
traditional
rural sport. But it expanded to take in a number
of issues.
Task
5
【答案】
A.
Countries
the US
Russia
China
Number of Medals
Gold
39
32
28
Silver
25
28
16
Bronze
33
28
15
Total
97
88
59
B.
1) F
2) T
3) F
4) T
5) F
6) F
【原文】
The United
States won only one of the 24 gold medals awarded
here on the final day, but still
led
all nations after 16 days of sporting events with
39 gold, 25 silver and 33 bronze medals for a
total of 97. It's the first time
outside of home soil since 1968 that the USA has
topped the Olympic
medals table. Russia
was second with 32 gold, 28 silver and 28 bronze
for a total of 88. China was
third with
59, including 28 gold, 16 silver and 15 bronze. In
all, 80 nations won at least one medal.
The United States won medals in 22
sports led by the swimmers with 33, and the track-
and-field
team
with
20.
The
US
men's
basketball
team
of
NBA
stars
beat
the
French
in
the
gold
medal
match on the final day 85 to 75, but
the Americans know, after barely getting into the
final with a
2-point win over
Lithuania, the Olympic gold medal is no longer a
guarantee. The final day of the
Olympics
was not without controversy: three athletes
were disqualified by the
IOC for positive
drug tests; only one was a medalist,
Armenian Arshed Danianian, who was stripped of his
bronze
in weight lifting.
Task
6
【答案】
A.
1)
A strategic partnership agreement.
2)
It strengthens ties between the two countries in a
variety of areas including security cooperation,
diplomatic activity at the UN and trade
and finance.
3) A package of arms
deals.
4) First, they have agreed to an
accord that will allow India to buy more diamonds
from Russia.
Second,
India
will
get
some
advanced
nuclear
technology
from
Russia
for
its
nuclear
power