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Unit 1
Section A:
1. Dispute with
2. Normal
relations
3. Deported
4.
Unity
5. Expressed gratitude
embassy
6. Cut
ties
expel
7. Opened
reestablished
went to war
8.
Cooled
expulsion
expulsion
9.
Challenged
demarcate their border
rship
Section B
原文
1.
North Korea
say it wants a relationship of trust and mutual
respect with the United States.
2.
And
Brazil
has
granted
asylum
to
deposed
Ecuadorian
President
Lucio
Gutierrez
who
has
taken refuge in the Brazil embassy
since his ouster Wednesday.
3.
The United
States government has frozen the assets of over
150 individuals and institutions
from
Zimbabwe.
4.
U.S.
Secretary
of
State
Condoleezza
Rice
has
again
expressed
regret
to
Italy
over
tha
accidental killing of an
Italian intelligence agent in Iraq.
5.
Diplomatic
relations
between
Venezuela
and
Mexico
have
worsened
sharply
in
a
row
over
comments by the
Venezuelan president Hugo Charvez about the
Mexican leader Vicente Fox.
Section C
原文
Item 1
Egypt has announced it will reduce its
diplomatic staff in Iraq following the killing of
its top envoy in
Baghdad
Ehad al-Sherif. The
Egyptian Foreign
Ministry called it a
security measure.
But Iraq
‘
s Foreign Minstry
appealed to Arab and Islamic countries
not to be swayed by the kidnapping and
killing o Mr. Sherif, which it said was meant
to deter them from upgrading their
diplomatic missions in Iraq.
Item 2
Pakistani
President
Pervez
Muhsharaf
says
Pakistan
and
India
are
both
optimistic
about
resolving
their
dispute
over
the
Himalayan
region
of
Kashmir,
which
both
countries
claim.
In
an
exclusive
interview
with
the
associated
Press,
General
Musharraf
says
he
hopes
to
settle
the
issue
with
Indian
Prime
Minister
Manmohan
Singh while
they
‘
re both in power. Mr.
Singh and General Musharraf are expected to
try to move their peace dialogue
forward when they meet next week in New York at
the United Nations General Assembly
meeting.
Item 3
North
Korea
is
demanding
that
Tokyo
immediately
lift
sanctions
imposed
on
Pyongyang in response to its test-
launch of missiles. A North Korean envoy to Japan
says his
country will retaliate with stronger
measures if the sanctions are not lifted.
After North Korea test-fired seven
missiles, Tokyo barred a North Korean ferry from
Japanese ports for six months and
banned North Korean officials from entering
the
country.
South
Korea
today
rejected
Pyongyang
‘
s
request
for
military
talks,
saying
they
were
inappropriate
at
this
time.
But
it
said
ministerial
talks
will
go
ahead
as
scheduled next
week.
Section D
News item 1
1. Fifth
2. Tokyo
3.
Sharp protests
4. Prompted
5. Condoning atrocities
6.
Grave provocation
7. Issued
8. Glorifies
9.
Despite the wishes
News item 2
Task 1
1.
B
2. D
Task 2
FFFTTF
News item 3
1.
It has expressed regret for the killing
of a Japanese fisherman today
2.
a Russian
patrol vessel fired a warning shot at the fishing
boat near the disputed Kuril Islands
3.
Japan does not
curb Japanese fishing in Russian waters
4.
The islands
were seized from Japan by the Soviet Union
in the closing days of
World War 2
5.
He
summoned Russia
‘
s deputy
ambassador and told reporters in Tokyo that the
killing was an
outrageous act.
Unit 2
Section A
1. Unannounced visit
2. En route
stop
3. Standing ovation
4. A measure of
progress
5. Confer with
6.
Concluded
deadlock
7. Walked out of
8. Reached agreement
sign
9. At odds
standoff
10. Wrapped up
Section B
1.
President Bush is due in Mongolia in
the next few hours, the first American leader to
visit the
country.
2.
the
American
Defense
Secretary
Donald
Rumsfeld
has
left
China
after
his
first
visit
there
since taking office in 2001.
3.
The Russia
President Secretary Vladimir Putin is due to
arrive in Japan shortly for talks about
expanding economic ties ,and
particularly increasing cooperation in the energy
sector.
4.
South
Africa
leaders
are
holding
final
talks
on
the
closing
day
of
their
summit
in
the
Bangladeshi capital
Dhaka.
5.
President Bush has ended a visit to
Brazil with a speech outlining his ideas for
democracy and
economic development in
Latin America.
Section C
Item 1: typescript
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
a
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
a
television
interviewer
that
an
American
official
had
threatened
to
bomb
Pakistan if it
did not
cooperate in
the U.S.,
-led war on
terrorism.
That
issue
was raised in an exchange with
reporters.
Item 2
:
typescript
And a meting in
New York between the foreign ministers of
Guatemala and Venezuela
has
failed to
resolve the
deadlock over which country will represent
Latin America
and
the
Caribbean
as
a
non-permanent
member
on
the
United
Nations
Security
Council.
In
a
BBC
interview
after
the
meeting,
the
Venezuelan
Foreign
Minster
Nicolas Maduro
blamed Guatemala for the ongoing impasse. He said
it had shown no
interest in agreeing to
a compromised candidate.
Item 3:
typescript
Africa
‘
s first
female elected leader met with President Bush at
the White House today.
Liberian
president Ellen Johnson-Sir leaf met with Mr. Bush
in the Oval Office and
then the two had
lunch together in the White
House
‘
s East Room. Among the
issues
the
two
discussed,
there
is
a
request
for
Nigeria
to
hand
over
former
Liberian
President
Charles
Taylor,
who
is
wanted
on
war
crimes
charges.
She
told
reporter
today that she has
asked Mr. Bush for help. Taylor has been living in
exile in Nigeria.
Many Liberians blamed
him for fueling a civil war that ravaged the
country.
Section D
Item 1
The president of
Kazakhstan has started a U.S. visit. Nursultan
Nzarbayev spent part of Tuesday
and
yesterday in Maine. A guest of former President
George H.W. Bush, he
‘
s to
meet with Mr.
Bush
‘
s son
president Bush at the White House tomorrow. Today,
he
‘
s to unveil a monument to
his
country
‘
s
independence from the Soviet Union in Washington
DC. Kazakhstan is important to the
U.S.
for
its
oil
supplies.
It
‘
s
also
a
focus
of
human
rights
advocates
who
say
that
it
has
a
poor
record of
protecting the rights of individuals. And that
topic is likely to be on the White House
agenda tomorrow. Nazarbayev has been
Kazakhstan
‘
s only leader
since it gained independence in
1991.
Item 1
1. President of
Kazakhstan
2. Only leader
3.
In 1991
4. Maine
5. Guest
6. Unveil a monument
7.
Washington D.C.
8. Meet with
9. Poor record
10. Rights
Item 2
Environment ministers and officials
from more than 20 countries have ended four days
of informal
talks in Greenland in
efforts to deal with global warming. Danish
Environment Minister Connie
Hedegaard,
the
meeting
‘
s
host,
called
on
participants
to
stop
blaming
one
another
for
global
warming
and
take
concerted
action.
Participants
of
the
meeting
in
Greenland
‘
s
Arctic
town
of
Elucigot
included
the
United
States,
China
and
several
European
countries.
They
focused
on
possible action after the first phase
of the Kyoto Protocol, an accord on reducing
global warming.
It expires until 2012.
U.N. studies show that global warming could melt
polar icecaps and push
thousands of
species close to extinction.
Item 2
Task 1
A. C
Task
2
FFTTF
Item 3
G-8 leaders are gathering near
Edinburgh, Scotland at this hour for a summit that
will focus on aid
to Africa and
protecting the environment. They are expected to
endorse a write-off of more than
40
billion dollars in debt owed by 18 African
countries mainly in the sub-Saharan region. On a
stop
in
Denmark
en
route
to
Scotland,
President
Bush
said
he
would
emphasize
the
need
for
African nations to commit to good
government to get the increased aid. In villages
near the G-8
conference
sit
demonstrators
smashed
car
windows
and
fought
with
riot
police.
Some
tried
to
storm
barricades surrounding the conference site and
dozens were arrested.
Item 3
1.
Aid to Africa
and environment protection
2.
They
are
expected
endorse
a
write-
off
of
more
than
40
billion
dollars
in
debt
owed
by
18
African countries mainly in the sub-
Saharan region
3.
President
Bush
said
he
would
emphasize
the
need
for
African
nations
to
commit
to
good
government to get the increased aid.
4.
In Denmark en
route to Scotland
5.
Demonstrators
smashed
car
windows
and
fought
with
riot
police.
Some
tried
to
storm
barricades surrounding the conferences
sit and dozens were arrested.
Unit 3
Section
A:
1.
Security
Council
2.
special fund
man-made
3.
permanent
members
4.
closed-door
5.
Goodwill Ambassador
6.
urgent
meeting
crisis
7.
General Assembly
opened
8.
antipoverty
9.
Human Rights Committee
10.
Red Cross
11.
resolutions
Section B
1.
The United Nations has released new
data showing that rich countries have made little
overall
progress in reducing the output
of the gases blamed for climate change.
2.
Qatar has
become the fist Arab country to pledge troops for
a UN peacekeeping mission in
Lebanon,
offering
to
send
up
to
300
troops
to
monitor
the
cease
fire
between
Israel
and
Hezbollah.
3.
In a speech to
the 191-member General Assembly, Mr.
Annan urged an enlargement of the
Security Council by adding 6 new
members.
4.
World
leaders speaking on the second day of the United
Nations World Summit have called
for
reform of the international body and have urged it
to play a key role in the fight against
terrorism.
5.
The United Nations has launched its
biggest annual appeal for humanitarian assistance,
asking
for
4.7
billion
dollars
to
help
the
victims
of
War,
famine
and
natural
disasters
around
the
world.
Section C
Item 1
The United Nations
children
‘
s agency UNICEF is
beginning a huge campaign in Pakistan today to
immunize
800,000
children
affected
by
the
earthquake
last
month.
The
agency
is
sending
600
health
teams
into
towns
and
mountain
villages
to
vaccinate
children
against
measles,
polio,
diphtheria
and
tetanus.
UNICEF
staff
say
it
would
be
a
race
against
time
to
reach
children
scattered
in
remote
mountain
communities
before
winter
snows
arrive.
The
agency
has
already
vaccinated 300,000
children.
Item 2
The United
Nations relief agency says an attack on a
displaced persons
‘
camp in
Sudan
‘
s western
Darfur region has reportedly left 29
people dead and 10 seriously injured. A
spokeswoman for the
UN High
Commissioner for Refugees told VOA
it
‘
s the first time that a
displaced persons
‘
camp
has been attacked in more than two
years of civil war. The spokesman says up to 300
armed Arab
men on horses and camels
attacked the camp on Wednesday.
Item 3
The United Nations World food Program
has appealed urgently for donations of more than
150
million dollars to prevent a food
crisis in southern Africa. It warned that almost
10 million people
across 6
countries
—
Zambia, Zimbabwe,
Malawi, Mozambique, Lesotho and
Swaziland
—
urgently
needed food aid. The shortages are
blamed on drought and the effects of HIV/AIDS and
chronic
poverty. A BBC correspondent in
southern Africa says that in Zimbabwe, children in
rural areas
have already started to
show signs of malnutrition. She says some eat only
once a day.
Section D
Item 1
The
South
Koran
Foreign
Minister
Ban
Ki-
Moon
has
won
the
support
of
all
five
permanent
members of the UN Security Council in
his bid to become the next Secretary General of
the UN.
Mr.
Ban
had
been
the
favorite
to
succeed
Kofi
Annan
in
the
post,
and
had
come
first
in
three
previous informal
ballots held by members of the Security Council.
However, until this latest vote
it
had
not
been
known
whether
his
candidacy
might
be
vetoes
by
one
of
the
five
permanent
members, the United States, China,
Russia, France or Britain.
It
‘
s expected that a formal
vote will
be held next week. The U.S.
ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton said ned
candidates could come
forward, but that
was unlikely.
Item 1
1.
secretary
General
2.
Foreign Minister
3.
won the
support
4.
succeed
5.
informal ballots
6.
veto
candidacy
7.
unlikely
Item 2
Despite
U.S.
objections,
the
United
Nations
General
Assembly
today
overwhelmingly
voted
to
create a
new human rights council to improve the
UN
‘
s ability to deal with
human rights offenders.
The
council
replaces
the
discredited
UN
Human
Rights
Commission
based
in
Geneva
U.S.
ambassador to the UN John Bolton told
the Assembly today that UN made some improvements
but they are not enough. Bolton told
the Assembly that rules for the new council are
too weak to
prevent human rights
violators from obtaining seats. Under the
resolution adopted today, the old
commission will be abolished June
16
th
, and the new council
will convene three days later.
Item 2
CC
FTFTTT
Item 3
The
United Nations has welcomed new pledges by donor
countries of nearly 600 million dollars to
fund
relief
efforts
after
the
South
Asian
earthquake.
But
the
UN
‘
s
chief
relief
coordinator
Jan
Egeland said it was not clear how much
was for immediate emergency relief and how much
for
longer-term work. Pakistan says
79,000 people have died and Mr. Egeland had early
warned that
hundreds of thousands more
could die without an immediate big boost in funds.
Winter snow is
expected
in
the
earthquake
zone
within
weeks.
A
top
Pakistani
relief
official,
General
Farooq
Ahmed, told the BBC
that an extra 30,000 troops were in the area to
help.
Item 3
1.
Donor nations have made pledges of
nearly 600 million dollars to und relief efforts
after the
South Asian earthquake.
2.
Mr. Egeland is
the UN chief relief coordinator. He said it was
not clear how much money was
for
immediate emergency relief and how much for
longer-term work.
3.
Pakistan
says
79,000
people
have
died
and
Mr.
Egeland
had
warned
that
hundreds
of
thousands more could die without an
immediate big boost in funds.
4.
Winter snow is
expected in the earthquake zone within weeks.
5.
An extra
30,000 troops were in the earthquake-hit area to
help.
Unit 4
Section A
1.
expressed
concern
2.
apologized
remarks
3.
denied charges
warned
4.
condemned
5.
called for
6.
threatened
accused
of
7.
deeply troubled
8.
allegations
baseless
9.
reiterated
10.
stressed the
importance
Section B
1.
The Canadian
Prime Minister Steven Harper has announced the
construction of two military
facilities
in the Arctic and a move to assert his
country
‘
s sovereignty over
the contested region,
which is
estimated to contain billions of dollars of oil
and gas deposits.
2.
A
speaker
purporting
to
be
al-qaeda
leader
Osama
bin
Laden
is
accusing
the
U.S.
and
the
European Union of backing a war against
Islam.
3.
The
former
president
of
Iran
Mohammad
Khatami
says
American
attempts
to
impose
western-style democracy on the Middle
East are flawed because democracy is not something
that can be exported.
4.
The
Pentagon
has
issued
a
memo
to
rebut
the
criticism
from
several
retired
generals
who
called for Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld to resign.
5.
British
Prime
Minister
Tony
Blair
says
his
country
is
taking
tough
new
measures
to
fight
extremism following last
month
‘
s deadly terrorist
attacks in London.
Section C
Item 1
Russian
President
Vladimir
Putin
says
his
country
is
prepared
to
help
…
new
leaders
establish
stability
in the wake of a political upheaval.
Mr. Putin made these comments today following a
telephone
discussion
with
…
opposition
leader
…
who
was
appointed
by
parliament
to
lead
an
interim
government. Kyrgyzstan
‘
s new
leaders are trying to restore order after two days
massive
looting and street violence
that left at least 3 people dead and injured many
more.
Item 2
British
officials
in
Iran
have
denied
allegations
of
any
British
involvement
in
violence
in
the
southwestern
province
of
…
where
at
least
four
people
were
killed
in
two
bomb
attacks
on
Saturday.
The
British
embassy
in
Tehran
condemned
the
attacks
and
said
Britain
rejected
allegations link it to terrorist
outrages. Several Iranian officials have made
statements implication
British
troops
stationed
across
the
border
inside
southern
Iraq
in
the
bombings
and
in
previous
attacks earlier
this year which killed 10 people.
Item
3
For the first time, President Bush
has said it could be accurate to compare the
recent escalation of
violence in Iraq
to the 1968 Tet Offfensive during the Vietnam War.
The Tet Offensive marked a
strong
downturn in public support for both the Vietnam
War and then-President Lyndon Johnson.
Mr. Bush spoke in an ABC TV interview
in which he addressed increased violence in Iraq.
The
comparison
of the insurgency in Iraq to the Tet Offensive in
Vietnam was made in a column by
Tom
Friedman in the New York Times.
Section
D
News item 1
Iran
‘
s
president
is
denying
reports
he
gave
an
interview
to
an
Arab
newspaper
in
which
he
threatened to halt oil sales if Tehran
was referred to the United Nations Security
Council. Iran
‘
s
Presidetial
Media
Department
made
that
denial
in
a
statement
issued
today
in
a
reaction
to
an
article published in the
Khaleej Times. Earlier today the United Arab
Emirates-based newspaper
reported that
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad threatened in an
interview to stop oil sales if Iran
is
sent
to
the
council
for
its
nuclear
activities.
The
reports
from
a
French
news
agency
say
the
reporter is astonished by the denial,
but the news agency also says, the publisher of
the newspaper
says the confusion may be
due to the reporter not adequately identifying
herself as a journalist.
News item 1
1.
denying
2.
halt oil sales
3.
referred to
4.
nuclear
activities
5.
media
6.
made that denial
7.
reaction
8.
French news
agency
9.
astonished
News item 2
South
Korea
and
Japan
say
they
have
not
detected
any
radioactivity
to
confirm
North
Korea
‘
s
claim
that
it
conducted
an
underground
nuclear
test
on
Monday.
Late
Friday
unnamed
U.S.
officials said U.S. aircraft have
detected traces of radiation in the air samples
collected near the
suspected North
Korea test site, but they stressed no final
determination had been made. Word of
the latest findings comes as the UN
Security Council members continue to hammer out
details of a
draft resolution that
would imposed sanctions on North Korea for
conducting the reported test. A
vote
on
the
resolution
was
expected
Saturday.
The
UN
draft
resolution
includes
economic
and
weapons sanctions
against North Korea, including a travel ban and
financial restrictions.
News item 2
D B
TFFFTFT
New
Item 3
Russian President Vladimir Putin
says he will not allow foreign powers to dictate
Russia
‘
s energy
policy or interfere in any of its
internal affairs.
In an interview
broadcast from Saint Petersburg
today,
Mr. Putin told NBC News that recent Western
criticism of Russia is a mix of cold war and
colonialist thinking. Mr. Putin singled
out U.S. Vice President Dick
Cheney
‘
s recent criticism of
Russian energy policy in which Cheney
accused Russia of using its vast oil and gas
resources as
tools
of
intimidation.
Putin
compared
those
comments
to
an
errant
gunshot
by
Cheney
that
wounded a companion on a hunting trip
earlier this year. The Russian leader host
President BUhs
and other world leaders
later this week in a summit of the G-8
industrialized nations. Mr. Putin
said
Russia
is
ready
to
hear
well-
intentioned
criticism
from
foreign
leaders,
but
said
he
will
categorically reject what he called
interference in Russia
‘
s
internal affairs.
News item 3
1.
He would not
allow foreign powers to dictate
Russia
‘
s energy policy or
interfere in any of its
internal
affairs
2.
in an
NBC interview broadcast from Saint Petersburg
today
3.
He
called it a mix of cold war and colonialist
thinking
4.
Cheney accused Russia of using its vast
oil and gas resources as tools of intimidation
5.
He compared
them to an errant gunshot by Cheney that wounded a
companion on a hunting
trip earlier
this year
6.
Russia welcomes well-intentioned
criticism from foreign leaders.
Unit 5
Section A
1. snowfalls
Blizzards
disrupted
2.
worsening drought
3. struck
aftershocks
4. collapsed
5. debris
crushed
6.
relief supplies
7.
tornado
forecasters
8.
locusts
9. tropical storm
hurricane
10.
battling
toxic
spill
Section B
C C D B A
1. An Air
France
passenger
plane
has
skidded
off
the
runway
and
burst
into
flames
on
landing
Pearson Airport in Toronto, Canada.
2.
In
Nigeria
at
least
12
people
were
reported
drowned
after
an
overcrowded
dugout
canoe
capsized in a remoter
creek in the oil-producing Niger Delta.
3. A full-scale relief operation is
underway on Indonesia
‘
s Java
Island where a tsunami hit Monday,
killing at least 340 people.
4.
The
bodies
of
10
New
Jersey
senior
citizens
killed
in
this
week‘s
tour
bus
crash
in
the
mountains of northern
Chile are being flown home.
5.
Hurricane
John
has
been
downgraded
to
a
tropical
storm
after
hitting
the
Baja
California
Peninsula on the west coast of Mexico.
The storm struck the tourist port city of Lepas,
bringing
down trees and power lines and
flooding streets. It had earlier inundated the
seaside resort of los
Cabos.
Section C
News item 1
Iraqi police say more than 640 people
have been killed in a stampede that broke out
today near a
Shiite shrine in Baghdad.
Authorities say some 300 were hurt in the stampede
that erupted on a
Tigris
River
bridge
when
thousands
of
people
crushed
a
railing
and
plunged
into
the
river.
Officials say bodies
are still being recovered from the river and that
the final death toll could rise.
The
incident occurred when a rumor spread that a
suicide bomber was in the crowd.
News
item 2
A
Peruvian
airliner
carrying
100
passengers
and
crew
members
has
crashed
in
a
northeastern
jungle town, killing at least 40
people. Officials say the TAN Air Flight 204 went
down Tuesday
while
attempting
an
emergency
landing
during
a
severe
storm.
Police
at
the
scene
say
foreign
nationals are among
the dead, including at least one Italian and an
American. Officials say at least
52
people survived the accident with most being
treated at area hospitals.
News item 3
Officials in Japan say the train crash
near Osaka in western Japan has killed as many as
57 people,
injured
more
than
400.
a
commuter
train
carrying
around
580
passengers
during
morning
rush
hour Monday smashed
into an apartment building near Amagasaki, about
400 kilometers west of
Tokyo.
Workers
are
still
trying
to
reach
some
of
the
passengers
trapped
in
the
wreckage.
The
accident
was
Japan
‘
s
worst
in
more
than
four
decades.
Investigators
say
speed
and
diver
inexperience may be
factors in the crash.
Section D
New item 1
A fire at a Paris apartment building
housing African immigrants has killed at least 17
people, a
half of them children. French
officials say some 30 others were injured in the
blaze that broke out
shortly after
midnight in a stairwell of the dilapidated
building. Authorities say it took more than
two hours for some 200 firefighters to
extinguish the blaze. The cause
isn
‘
t known. French media
are reporting the victims are from
African countries such as Senegal and Mali.
Officials say about
100 children and 30
adults lived in the building, which was run by a
humanitarian association. In
April a
fire at a Paris hotel catering mostly to African
and European immigrants killed 23 people.
One of the
hotel
‘
s residents admitted
to accidentally starting that blaze.
News item 2
A small aircraft
has crashed into the 20
th
floor of a high-rise apartment building in New
York city,
killing
at
least
two
people.
The
plane
burst
into
flames
on
the
impact
and
fire
spread
through
several floors of
the building. The White House said all the
indications were that the crash was an
accident.
Investigators
are
at
the
scene
gathering
evidence,
but
the
authorities
don
‘
t
believe
the
incident was linked to terrorism. The
BBC
‘
s Gitto Harry was at the
scene shortly after the incident
and
sent this report.
The authorities in
New York now say that four people were killed in
the plane cash in Manhattan.
Reports
from the United States say the plane was being
piloted by the New York
Yankee
‘
s baseball
pitcher Cory Lidle, who dies in the
accident.
New item 3
Thousands of victims of Hurricane
Katrina are still being evacuated from New
Orleans. More than
10,000 people
already have been taken by bus to an emergency
shelter at a sports stadium in Texas
more than 550 kilometers from New
Orleans. Rescuers in New Orleans are working to
evacuate
thousands
of
additional
flood
refugees
in
and
near
the
city
‘
s
former
convention
center,
a
large
building
without
power,
water
or
toilet
facilities,
overflowing
with
crowds
calling
today.
He
is
scheduled to visit parts of Alabama,
Mississippi and Louisiana that were wretched by
the powerful
hurricane.
Unit 6
Section A
1.
life expectancy
2.
regulators
abortion
3.
rabies
4.
infected with
cases
5.
bird flu
immune
6.
outbreaks
borne
7.
prescription
medicines
8.
AIDS
9.
antiviral
10.
medicare
Section B
B D A C B
1.
The
problem
of
obesity
is
spreading
into
many
different
aspects
of
Americans
‘
lives.
Now
researchers
have
confirmed
that
some
children
are
so
fat
they
can
‘
t
fit
into
car
safety
seats
designed for kids.
2.
Two more Indian states have
banned the sale of soft drinks produced by Coca-
cola
and Pepsi-cola after a test by an
environmental group showed high pesticide levels.
This brings the
total number of states
to six where there is a partial r full ban of the
soft drinks.
3.
An
Asian
expert
says
disease
and
natural
disease
and
natural
disasters
may
pose
a
greater
security threat to the region than
conventional political conflicts.
4.
The United Nations says
opium cultivation in Afghanistan has declined for
the first time since
2001 as tens of
thousands of farmers have given up opium poppies
for legal crops.
5.
The authorities in Iran have warned
that if the dangerously high level of air
pollution in the
capital Teheran
continues, there could be thousands of casualties.
Section C
Item 1
The number of people infected with HIV,
the virus that can lead to AIDS, is still rising
and has
passed 14 million worldwide for
the first time. The United Nations said there had
been 5 million
new
infections
this
year
and
warned
that
AIDS
was
outstripping
global
and
national
efforts
to
contain it. Sub-Saharan Africa remains
the worst affected region. In Asia, where more
than eight
million people are infected,
the UN says infection rates are rising sharply. It
warned that Pakistan,
in particular,
was on the verge of a serious epidemic.
Item 2
The
biggest
ever
international
conference
on
malaria
has
begun
in
the
West
African
state
of
Cameroon
to discuss the latest scientific findings on the
disease which kills more than 1.5 million
people worldwide each year. 75% of
those
victims are African children. Of
the 2,000 delegates
meeting in the
capital Yaounde, 80% are from Africa. The disease
costs the continent more than 12
billion
dollars
in
lost
GDP
each
year.
The
latest
research
suggests
that
41%
of
the
world
‘
s
population live in areas where malaria
is transmitted.
Item 3
The
Food
and
Drug
Administration
is
investigating
whether
more
than
one
food
company
is
responsible
for
an
outbreak
of
E.
coli
bacteria.
Officials
have
linked
bad
spinach
from
Natural
Selection Foods as one source of the E.
coli. The company says the products are sold under
the
brand name Earth Bound Farm. Doctor
David Atchison with the FDA says natural selection
Foods
has voluntarily recalled the
spinach. The FDA advises shoppers to get rid of
any fresh spinach in
bags or other
containers. At least one person has died. Dozens
of others have gotten sick in at least
19states.
Section D
Item 1
European
health
experts
have
gathered
in
Brussels
to
formulate
a
response
to
recent
bird
flu
outbreaks
among
migratory
birds.
The
panel
today
endorsed
measures
that
would
increase
surveillance and
toughen import bans, such as the European
Union
‘
s plan, suspending the
imports
of
untreated
feathers
from
non-EU
countries.
The
European
Commission
has
dedicated
an
additional 2.2 million dollars for bird
surveillance and testing programs. German
authorities today
confirmed the
presence of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus in wild
swans on an island in the Baltic
Sea.
Outbreaks have been confirmed in the Balkans,
Turkey, the Caspian Sea areas and elsewhere.
Several EU countries have ordered
farmers to keep poultries indoors to prevent
transmission of the
disease. But the
World Organization for Animal Health in Paris says
this is not necessary at the
present
time.
Item 2
A week after a
toxic waste scandal brought down the government of
Ivory Coast, teams of Ivorian
and
French experts are still trying to establish
exactly what the material was composed of. Tons of
waste from a ship were dumped in
leaking drums in at least 11 open air locations in
Ivory Coast
‘
s
biggest city Abidjian. Our
correspondent James Copnall is there.
The
latest
health
ministry
figures
show
that
the
health
situation
is
deteriorating
just
as
rapidly,
however, a state of panic seems to have
set in. meanwhile, teams of French and Ivorian
experts
were attempting to find out
what exactly the toxic waste was composed of.
Item 3
The
White
House
has
issued
an
updated
version
of
its
strategy
for
dealing
with
a
possible
influenza pandemic.
The plan warns cities, states and businesses that
they should prepare now to
keep
operating on
their own
and
not
count
on
federal help,
and
says
that
a
flu
pandemic
could
make up to 40% of the
workforce too sick to work for two weeks at a time
and that the infection
could remain
active in a community for up to two months. In the
worst case, the report says, a
pandemic
could cause as many as two million deaths in the
United States. Influenza pandemics
tend
to break out when a never-before-seen strain of
the virus starts passing from person to person.
Scientists are currently worried that
the Asian bird flu might mutate into that kind of
virus.
Unit 7
Section A
1.
interim
2.
quit
post
3.
sworn in
4.
step down
5.
named
chief
6.
monarch
reign
7.
resigned
in bribes
8.
tapped
top
9.
allegations
in office
10.
replacing
in the job
nominated
take over
Section B
1.
Democrats in the House of
Representatives have unanimously confirmed Nancy
Pelosi as the
United
States
‘
first woman speaker.
Mrs. Pelosi will be the second in line to the
presidency
after Vice President Dick
Cheney when she takes office in January.
2.
President Bush
has nominated the head of his Council of Economic
Advisors Ben Bernanke
as
chairman
of
the
Federal
Reserve,
the
U.S.
central
bank.
He
succeeds
the
outgoing
chairman Alan Greenspan.
3.
Salva
Kiir
Mayardit
was
sworn
in
as
Sudan
‘
s
senior
vice
president
today
to
replace
John
Garang who died in a helicopter crash.
4.
President
Bush
‘
s
nominee
for
U.S.
United
Nations
ambassador
told
the
Senate
hearing
Monday he will work
to make the world body more effective.
5.
An
outspoken
aide
to
the
Russian
president
Vladimir
Putin
has
resigned
in
protest
against
changes in government policy.
Section C
Item 1
White House Press Secretary Scott
McClellan announced today that
he
‘
ll leave his post as part
of
a shakeup of White House personnel.
McClellan has come under fire from Republicans who
have
complained
that
he
has
not
done
enough
to
keep
the
president
‘
s
popularity
from
sliding.
The
White
House
also
announced
that
top
presidential
adviser
Karl
Rove
will
give
up
his
policy-making role in
order to focus on maintaining Republican control
of Congress during the
next election.
Item 2
World Bank executive
directors meet Thursday in Washington to vote on
the nomination of U.S.
Deputy Defense
Secretary Paul Wolfowitz as the
bank‘
s mew president. Mr.
Wolfowitz passed a
major
hurdle
Wednesday
when
European
Union
officials
said
they
have
no
objection
to
his
nomination. The
nomination had been controversial in Europe
because of Mr. Wolfowitz
‘
s
strong
support for the war in Iraq. Mr.
Wolfowitz acknowledges he is a polarizing person.
Washington
traditionally nominates
World Bank presidents while Europe chooses the
head of the International
Monetary
Fund.
Item 3
Argentina‘s
Finance Minister
Roberto Lacagna who helped to oversee the
country
‘
s recovery from
virtual economic collapse in 2001 has
resigned. Mr. Lavagna quit amid reports of
personal clashes
with
President
Nestor
Kirchner
as
well
as
disagreements
about
future
economic
policy.
Mr.
Lavagna reportedly wanted tough
measures to stop inflation returning, while the
president favored
more investment to
stimulate growth.
Section D
Item 1
President
Bush
‘
s nominee for a vacancy
on the U.S. Supreme court Harriet Myers has
announced
she
is
withdrawing
her
candidacy.
She
said
she
was
concerned
that
the
confirmations
process
presented a burden
for the White House. The BBC Washington
correspondent says her withdrawal
is a
huge blow for President Bush. Ms. Myers is an
experienced lawyer but has never been a judge,
leading to criticism from both
Democrats and Republicans. One of the Democratic
members of the
Judiciary Committee,
Senator Edward Kennedy, hoped the future nominee
would be acceptable to
both the main
parties.
Item 2
Embattled
Federal Emergency Management chief Michael Brown
has been relieved of his duties
as
managing the massive hurricane relief effort.
Homeland Secretary Michael Chertoff Friday in
Baton Rouge said Coast Guard Vice
Admiral Thad Allen will take charge of federal
operations in
the area. The Admiral has
been overseeing the rescue and recovery efforts in
New Orleans. Mr.
Chertoff said Mr.
Brown is to return to Washington to oversee the
federal Emergency Management
Agency
‘
s
operations nationwide. A number of congressional
leaders and Louisiana officials have
fiercely criticized the federal
government
‘
s initial
response to the disaster and called on President
Bush to fire Mr. Brown. Several
Democratic Senators said reclaiming Mr. Brown to
oversee the
Emergency
management
Agency
in
Washington
is
a
bad
decision.
They
said
his
continued
presence in the
critical position endangers the success of the
recovery efforts.
Item 3
Japan
‘
s
parliament has officially chosen Shinzo Abe as the
country
‘
s new prime
minister. VOA
?
s
Steve Herman has more from Tokyo.
With
the
Liberal
Democratic
Party
firmly
in
control
of
Japan
‘
s
parliament,
there
was
no
doubt
Tuesday who would be selected as prime
minister. Lawmakers cheered the announcement of
the
Lower House vote, showing the LDP
President Shinzo Abe defeating his rivals by a
large margin.
Within hours of his
election, Mr. Abe spoke to the nation, assuring it
that he would not back away
from the
reform the reform program implemented by his
predecessor Junichiro Koizumi. Mr. Abe
instead vowed to accelerate the
administrative reform. The new prime Minister also
reiterated his
campaign
pledge
to
make
Tokyo
a
more
equal
partner
in
its
security
alliance
with
Washington.
Steve Herman,
VOA News, Tokyo.
Unit 8
Section A
1.
signing up for
booms
2.
layoffs
competitive
3.
consumer spending
upsurge
4.
take over
5.
opening up
6.
inflation
interest rates
7.
subsidies
8.
retailer
drop in profits
9.
stake
10
in stock
stockholders
Section B
1.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed
up 104 points to 11,076 in active trading today.
The
NASDQ closed up 12 at 2,262. and
the S&P closed up 9 points today to 1,281. the S&P
was
down 5 points for the week.
2.
American beef
is back in the Japanese market and slated to
return to South Korea soon. But
for
America
‘
s
beef
exporters
who
lost
two
of
the
three
largest
markets
in
2003
after
a
few
cases of
mad cow disease were discovered in the U.S., it is
going to be an uphill struggle.
3.
The executive
board of the International Monetary Fund meeting
in Washington has agreed to
write
off
more
than
three
billion
dollars
in
debt
owed
to
it
by
some
of
the
world
‘
s
poorest
countries.
4.
Ford Motor
Company plans to close truck manufacturing plants
in Virginia and Minnesota in
2008. The
closure is a part of Ford
‘
s
effort to make its North American operations
profitable
again.
5.
The New York
Stock Exchange enters a new era tomorrow morning.
For the first time in its
history the
exchange will become a for-profit entity that
sells its own shares to the public.
Section C
Item 1
The
European
Trade
Commissioner
Peter
Mandelson
is
facing
criticism
from
France
and
some
other
countries
over
negotiations
on
a
new
global
trade
agreement.
At
today
‘
s
EU
foreign
ministers meeting Mr. Mandelson is
being called on to clarify concessions he is said
to have made
to
reduce
EU
farm
subsidies
as
part
of
a
deal
to
help
less-developed
countries.
There
were
suggestions
the
cuts
are
more
generous
than
those
agree
by
EU
member
states
and
that
Mr.
Mandelson is exceeding
his mandate. He
‘
s denied the
accusation.
Item 2
Oil
prices hit a record high of more than 71 dollars a
barrel today in part because traders were
worried about possible disruptions in
supply. Analysts said there is concern(s) about
the nuclear
dispute with Iran and civil
violence in Nigeria, both important oil suppliers.
The rise in oil prices
comes
despite
a
new
report
from
OPEC
that
predicts
a
weakening
in
world
demand
for
oil.
Analysts said if it
weren‘t
for concern about
supplies, growing inventories of crude oil would
be
forcing prices down.
Item
3
Boeing
has
agreed
to
pay
15
million
dollars
to
settle
a
dispute
with
the
State
Department
over
foreign sales of commercial
aircraft equipped with a small gyro chip that has
military applications.
The chip is used
in some missile guidance systems. The fine is
among the largest ever paid by a
company for violation of the Arms
Export Control Act. Boeing failed to get the
license required
fro foreign sales of
the gyro chip and then continued the sales even
after the State Department told
the
firm to stop. Boeing spokesman says in hindsight
the company should have handled the matter
differently.
Section D
Item 1
The
International
Monetary
Fund
says
the
world
economy
will
enjoy
strong
growth
is
2006
marking
the
4
th
consecutive
year
of
expansion.
The
IMF
released
its
twice-yearly
report
on
the
global
economy today at a joint meeting with the World
Bank in Singapore. The lending agency
predicts
the
world
economy
will
grow
5.1%,
this
year
and
4.9%
in
2007.
Both
forecasts
are
slightly higher than
previous estimates in April. The IMF also warns of
some economic threats,
including
rising
inflation,
increasing
oil
prices
and
the
slowing
of
the
U.S.
housing
market.
Meanwhile
the
World
Bank
is
criticizing
Singapore
for
barring
some
invited
activists
from
entering the country to
attend the meeting.
Item 2
The European aircraft manufacturer
Airbus has confirmed that deliveries of its giant
new A380
airliner will be delayed by a
further year. The Dubai-based airline Emirates,
the largest customer
for
the
new
plane,
said
it
would
review
its
options
following
the
announcement.
Here
is
our
business
reporter Theo Legit.
It
‘
s the latest
in a series of delays which have called the
credibility of the 14-billion dollar project
into question. Airbus says
it
‘
s in discussions with its
customers over how much compensation they
will be paid. The company has announced
plan for an aggressive cost-cutting program
intended to
save two and a half billion
dollars a year. However, it is yet to confirm
whether this will involve
job
losses
at
its
plants
in Germany,
France
and
Britain.
The
parent
company
of
Airbus,
EADS,
says that the delays to the A380 will
cut 6 billion dollars from its profits over the
next four years.
Item 3
China has passed another milestone in
the growth of its global economic influence. Its
reserves of
foreign currency have hit
one trillion dollars. This massive sum has been
built up by the success of
China
‘
s exports
which has created a huge trade surplus with the
rest of the world. Our economic
correspondent Andrew Walker reports.
This is yet another indication of
China
‘
s fast-growing
economic influence. Japan with around 860
billion dollars has the next largest
reserves. The figure for the United States is less
than a tenth of
China
‘
s.
this
huge
portfolio
has
been
built
up
essentially
as
an
indirect
result
of
the
surplus
in
China
‘
s trade
with the rest of the world.
Unit 9
Section A
1 Ammunitions depot rocked
2 offensive operations
3 exchanged gunfire
4 handing
to
5 NATO
expansion
6 guerillas
commando
7 pulled out
move
8 battled with
9
court marshal
10 military
presence
Section B
1
Lebanon
is
asking
the
United
States
to
extend
the
term
of
an
interim
peacekeeping
force
following
clashes
between Hezbollah
militia
and
Israeli
forces
over
the
past
three days
along
a
disputed
border area separating the two countries
2 Saudi Arabia signed a
multibillion-dollar arms deal to buy a new fleet
of fighter aircraft from
Britain .The
terms of the deal are confidential, but reports
from Saudi Arabia say that more than
70
jets have been purchased for nearly 20 million
dollars
3 The United States
armed forces have set up a new public relations
unit to put across their version
of
events in Iraq and elsewhere eight months after
the Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said
they lagged behind
America‘s
enemies in the
propaganda war
4 Top US defense
officials say the United States hopes to sharply
reduce its forces in Iraq by the
middle
of next year
5 The America
secretary of state Condoleezza Rice has signed an
agreement which will enable the
United
States to set up four permanent military bases in
Romania
Section c
Item 1
The Americans say
they
‘
ve carried out a
successful test of their anti-missile defense
system. The
missile
defense
agency
said
an
improved
interceptor
missile,
launched
from
an
airbase
in
California, homed in on a dummy armed
missile fired from Alaska abd destroyed it. Only
five of
the
ten
tests
carried
out
before
this
exercise
had
been
successful.
At
a
news
conference
in
the
Pentagon,
the head of the US missile defense agency
Lieutenant General Henry Obeying said the
test represented significant progress
in protecting the US and its allies
Item 2
A United
Nations disarmament conference is underway in
Japan. Involving government officials
and
experts
from
15
countries,
officials
say
at
the
three-day
conference
in
Yokohama,
the
participants
plan
to
discuss
nuclear
programs
in
North
Korea
and
Iran
and
regional
security.
Among the participants of the
conference are Japan, the United States and Iran.
Japanese public
broadcaster NHK reports
that a global framework which has been failing
apart. The envoy says
that the United
States, a major nuclear weapons-possessing nation,
is not cooperating in nuclear
arms
reduction
Item 3
Thousands
of Marine Corps reservists in the United Nations
face the prospect of being recalled to
military duty and send to Iraq or
Afghanistan because of a shortage of volunteers to
fill specialist
roles. The call has
been given permission by president bush to order
up to 2,500reservists to report
for
duty in the first instance. This is the first the
US marine have used such a procedure, known as
―
involuntary
recalls‖, since
the invasion
of Iraq in 2003. The call said it was facing a
shortfall of
about 1,200 marines in
units due to be deployed in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Section D
North
Korea
fired
a
7
th
missile
today
hours
after
earlier
missile
tests
sparked
international
condemnation.
Six of the missiles fired were short-range and
fell into the Sea of Japan, one was
the
long-range
Taepodong-II
rocket,
which
is
capable
of
reaching
the
united
states .
the
white
house
says
officials
believed
the
missile
failed
less
than
one
minute
after
launch
and
was
not
aborted. It fell into
the Sea of Japan. North
Korea‘s
foreign ministry
described the missile tests as
a
matter
of
national
sovereignty.
Ministry
officials
say
no
country
has
the
right
to
judge
North
Korea for carrying out
the
tests. The United Nations Security Council is
holding an emergency
session today to
discuss the tests. White house spokesman Tony Snow
says the key is to get North
Korea
back
to
the
six-party
disarmament
talks.
He
says
the
United
States
and
its
foreign
negotiating partners in the talks will
determine together how to move forward.
Item 2
7 people aboard a Russian
submarine that had been stranded on the ocean
floors since Thursday
were rescued
today. Officials with the Russian pacific fleet
say all the crewmen aboard a buried
submarine survived their three-day
ordeal in good condition. They left the vessel
unassisted when
it
was
raised
to
the
surface
and
were
immediately
taken
for
medical
exams.
A
British
remote-controlled diving vehicle cut
military antenna cables that have been holding the
sub nearly
200
meters
down
in
the
North
Pacific
Ocean.
Russian
officials
say
that
the
sub
was
raised
at
emergency speeds due to fears that the
crew was about to deplete the air supply. The
United States
and
Britain
both
rushed
rescue
equipment
to
aid
the
Russian
naval
crews.
The
pacific
fleet
spokesman says that the successful
rescue was made possible thanks to the joint
efforts.
Item 3
Israeli ground troops clashed with
Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon today as more
Israeli air strikes
killed 49 people in
Lebanon .Lebanese officials say at least 12 of the
deaths were in a village near
the
southern
port
city
of
Tyre,
where
Israeli
attacked
flattened
houses.
Israel
says
it
is
hitting
suspected
Hezbollah
strongholds.
Israeli
warplanes
also
blew
up
a
truck
in
a
Christian
neighborhood
of
Beirut
today.
Near
the
border,
an
Israeli
general
says
ground
troops
are
conducting
incursions
to
attack
Hezbollah
outposts.
Unconfirmed
reports
in
Arab
media
say
at
least two
Israeli soldiers were killed in the fighting
Hezbollah guerrillas fired several more rockets
into Israel today, killing 2 Israelis
in the city of Nazareth.
Section E
Military conflicts and
clashes are mostly likely to occur in a number of
hotpots, that is, the Middle
East,
Africa, Sri Lanka, the Kashmir region, Afghan, and
the Korean peninsula. Reports covering
military affairs do not involve a lot
of highly technical words, to facilitate
comprehension, though,
it
is
still
necessary
for
us
to
have
a
good
command
of
key
words
such
as
operation,
stage,
deployment, missile, commando,
guerrilla, logistical, confidential, marine,
grenade, and reinforce,
to name just a
few .the pattern of such news reports and the
usual news elements are listed in table
I and table II. For more related words
and expressions, please refer to table III, which
presents the
less frequent and yet
equally important words in alphabetic order.
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