listentothis 高级英语听力 lesson 4

 

 Lesson Four
   Section One: News in Brief
   Tapescript
   1. Another American has been kidnapped in West Beirut. Fifty-three-year-old Frank Reed was abducted¹ by four gunmen this morning.  Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility, accusing Reed of being a spy.  The pro-Iranian group already holds at least three other Americans and three Frenchmen.  Reed is the Director of the Lebanese International School.  He is a native of Malden, Massachusetts and has lived in Lebanon for eight years.
   2. A federal jury in Brooklyn, New York today indicted³ a Soviet⁴ UN employee on charges of spying.  Gennadi, Zakharov is being held without bond, pending⁵ trial on the charges.  John Kailish has more from New York.  "The thirty-nine-year-old Soviet physicist⁶ worked at the UN Center for Science and Technology until August 23rd when he was arrested on a Queens Subway platform for allegedly buying military secrets from a college student.  It turned out that the student worked for the FBI and was known by the code name 'Berg.' According to today's indictment⁷, Zakharov agreed to pay Berg for  information involving the national defense⁸ of the United States. Berg, in turn, agreed to work for the Soviet Union for a period of ten years.  The two met a total of four times, from April 1983 to August of 1986.  At their final meeting, Zakharov allegedly gave Berg a thousand dollars.  Zakharov is currently being held in a federal jail in  Manhattan.  He faces life in prison if convicted on the espionage  charges.'
   3. The foreign editor of a news magazine recently banned in Chile has been found shot dead near a cemetery⁹ in Santiago.  The family of Jose Carrasco says he was taken from his home by armed men who claimed to be police.  Carrasco's magazine, Analisis, has been banned under the new state of siege imposed in Chile after an attempt this weekend to assassinate¹⁰ President Augusto Pinochet.  Since the attempt, police have been rounding up opposition¹¹ leaders although the den² the arrested Carrasco.
   Section Two: News in Detail
   Tapescript
       In Chile, the military government held a rally today- in support of President Augusto Pinochet, who escaped an assassination¹² attempt two days ago.  A crackdown on opponents of his government continued in response to that attack.  A journalist for an opposition magazine was found dead.  His family and colleagues charge he had been kidnapped yesterday by police.  Tim Fosca reports now from Santiago.
        Several thousand people gathered in front of La Moneda, the presidential palace, for a rally in support of General Augusto Pinochet this afternoon.  Heavily armed soldiers were stationed along major downtown streets for the demonstration¹³, which is celebrating the thirteenth anniversary this week of the military takeover.  Hundreds of members of women's charity groups passed in review before General Pinochet and his wife Lucia.  The head of state appeared physically¹⁴ unaffected by his close call Sunday when he narrowly escaped assassination.  Hours before the rally, Jose Carrasco, a thirty-eight-year-old editor at the opposition magazine Analisis was found dead in a Santiago cemetery.  He had been shot ten times. Carrasco's wife said he was roused from bed early Monday morning by men claiming to be police.  But authorities officially denied his arrest.  Carrasco, a member of MIR, the revolutionary left movement, had been back in Chile only two years after eight years in exile.  The bodies of at least two more murdered victims were also found today, but their identities have not yet been established.  Arrests continued in the second day of the state of siege.  More leftist political figures were rounded op, bringing the total number of detentions¹⁵ to twenty. The government has issued arrest orders for a number of others, some of whom are in hiding.  On the list is at least one member of the Chilean Human Rights Commission.  A spokesman said the homes of Commission members iwthe provincial¹⁶ city of San Fernando were also raided, but no members were at home.  All opposition magazines were ordered closed yesterday, including the Christian¹⁷ democratic weekly, Hoy.  Under the last state of siege in 1984 and 85, Hoy was allowed to continue publishing.  The situation of five foreign priests and one local lay worker detained yesterday remains¹⁸ unresolved.  The clergymen were accused of attacking police officers and carrying instructions on how to make home-made bombs.  eneral Pinochet warned yesterday that human rights advocates would have to be expelled.  For National Public Radio, this is Tim Fosca in Santiago.
Section Three: Special Report
Tapescript
    Fifty years ago, Henry Ford¹⁹ and his son Edsel, placed a modest amount of their vast wealth into a charitable foundation.  That was the common practice then and is now for wealthy Americans.  The  once modest foundation has grown into the largest general purpose charitable organization in the world.  The Ford Foundation has given away more than six billion dollars.  Its money has touched every aspect of American life, touched the arts, science and even public radio.  Warren Kozak has this report.
        A symphony orchestra in the Midwest, an inner-city building project, Africa's chronic²⁰ food shortages.  These varied²¹ activities have one thing in common: all have received money from the Ford Foundation.  Just off New York's Forty-second Street, in the shadow of the United Nations, a modern building with a huge glass wall serves     as the world headquarters of the Ford Foundation.  Besides giving away money, the Foundation has always attracted some of the country's best minds.
         'Well, I should tell you that I do not join any organization, including Ford Foundation, unless it can satisfy two criteria²².'
        Former Secretary of Defense, World Bank President, and Ford Board member, Robert McNamara.
         "'One, I insist that it be an organization I feel some capability²³ of contributing to.  And, secondly²⁴, I insist it be an organization that can contribute to me, that can stimulate²⁵ my interest, enlarge my understanding of the world.  I should say that it has been, I think the most interesting association of my life."
         At the Foundation's headquarters, a staff of more than three hundred people studies data from all over the world, spots trends and writes recommendations.  In the large board room, the directors argue the merits of individual requests and eventually decide who will get what part of the one hundred and twenty-five million dollars that goes out every year.  If you think giving away that kind of money,is easy, you're wrong. There is no uestion that today's Ford Foundation with a four
and a half billion-dollar endowment is a force of its own.  But it wasn't always that way.  You see, back in 1936, there were just a few large foundations when Henry and Edsel started their small project. Their original contribution was only twenty-five thousand dollars and its main function was to help local charities in Michigan.  Then
in 1943, son Edsel died unexpectedly, followed four years later by his father.  And the family lawyers had a huge problem on their hands. At the time of their deaths, the Ford Motor Company was not a public corporation.  These two men owned most of the stock and, for tax reasons, a great deal of it had to be disposed of and quickly.
There was only one logical recipient²⁶ of the windfall.  So, in the late forties, the sleepy Michigan charity became, almost overnight, the largest foundation in the world.      The Third World development programs also continue to take a lot of heat from time to time.  Millions of dollars have been poured into what seems to be a bottomless pit.  Some problems have been solved only to find new ones taking their place.  Robert McNarnara defends Ford's involvement there.  He Lbinks Foundations offer something that no one else is able to do, because without their research the government's foreign aid would be wasted.
     'It's insane to put as much money, invest as much money, per year with as inadequate²⁷ an intellectual foundation of how to maximize the efficiency of those investments.  And Africa is a perfect illustration of the problem.  Tens of billions of dollars are being invested in Africa today.  They need more.  But, despite that
hi'vestment, the GNP growth per capita in the countries of Saharian Africa has been negative, on average, for a decade. food production per, capita has been negative, per capita, for over a decade.  Why?  Who knows?  Nobody knows.  And governments are too large; they're too rigid²⁸; they're too inflexible²⁹; they're too sensitive, really, unable to move as rapidly, and in some ways, as radically³⁰ as is necessary to find the answer to that question."
       This year the Ford Foundation will receive about nine thousand formal requests for money.  All of the letters and forms will b@ looked at; some will be studied more closely; and about twelve hundred lucky projects will receive anywhere from a thousand dollars to several million to help them along the way.  I'm Warren Kozak in    Washington.
 

1 abducted   

劫持，诱拐( abduct的过去式和过去分词 )； 使（肢体等）外展

参考例句：

• Detectives have not ruled out the possibility that she was abducted. 侦探尚未排除她被绑架的可能性。
• The kid was abducted at the gate of kindergarten. 那小孩在幼儿园大门口被绑架走了。

2 den   

n.兽穴；秘密地方；安静的小房间，私室

参考例句：

• There is a big fox den on the back hill.后山有一个很大的狐狸窝。
• The only way to catch tiger cubs is to go into tiger's den.不入虎穴焉得虎子。

3 indicted   

控告，起诉( indict的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• The senator was indicted for murder. 那位参议员被控犯谋杀罪。
• He was indicted by a grand jury on two counts of murder. 他被大陪审团以两项谋杀罪名起诉。

4 Soviet   

adj.苏联的，苏维埃的；n.苏维埃

参考例句：

• Zhukov was a marshal of the former Soviet Union.朱可夫是前苏联的一位元帅。
• Germany began to attack the Soviet Union in 1941.德国在1941年开始进攻苏联。

5 pending   

prep.直到，等待…期间；adj.待定的；迫近的

参考例句：

• The lawsuit is still pending in the state court.这案子仍在州法庭等待定夺。
• He knew my examination was pending.他知道我就要考试了。

6 physicist   

n.物理学家，研究物理学的人

参考例句：

• He is a physicist of the first rank.他是一流的物理学家。
• The successful physicist never puts on airs.这位卓有成就的物理学家从不摆架子。

7 indictment   

n.起诉；诉状

参考例句：

• He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。
• They issued an indictment against them.他们起诉了他们。

8 defense   

n.防御，保卫；[pl.]防务工事；辩护，答辩

参考例句：

• The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
• The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。

9 cemetery   

n.坟墓，墓地，坟场

参考例句：

• He was buried in the cemetery.他被葬在公墓。
• His remains were interred in the cemetery.他的遗体葬在墓地。

10 assassinate   

vt.暗杀，行刺，中伤

参考例句：

• The police exposed a criminal plot to assassinate the president.警方侦破了一个行刺总统的阴谋。
• A plot to assassinate the banker has been uncovered by the police.暗杀银行家的密谋被警方侦破了。

11 opposition   

n.反对，敌对

参考例句：

• The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
• The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。

12 assassination   

n.暗杀；暗杀事件

参考例句：

• The assassination of the president brought matters to a head.总统遭暗杀使事态到了严重关头。
• Lincoln's assassination in 1865 shocked the whole nation.1865年，林肯遇刺事件震惊全美国。

13 demonstration   

n.表明，示范，论证，示威

参考例句：

• His new book is a demonstration of his patriotism.他写的新书是他的爱国精神的证明。
• He gave a demonstration of the new technique then and there.他当场表演了这种新的操作方法。

14 physically   

adj.物质上，体格上，身体上，按自然规律

参考例句：

• He was out of sorts physically,as well as disordered mentally.他浑身不舒服，心绪也很乱。
• Every time I think about it I feel physically sick.一想起那件事我就感到极恶心。

15 detentions   

拘留( detention的名词复数 )； 扣押； 监禁； 放学后留校

参考例句：

• Teachers may assign detention tasks as they wish and some detentions have been actually dangerous. 老师可能随心所欲指派关禁闭的形式，有些禁闭事实上很危险。
• Intimidation, beatings and administrative detentions are often enough to prevent them from trying again. 恐吓，拷打和行政拘留足以阻止请愿者二次进京的脚步。

16 provincial   

adj.省的，地方的；n．外省人，乡下人

参考例句：

• City dwellers think country folk have provincial attitudes.城里人以为乡下人思想迂腐。
• Two leading cadres came down from the provincial capital yesterday.昨天从省里下来了两位领导干部。

17 Christian   

adj.基督教徒的；n.基督教徒

参考例句：

• They always addressed each other by their Christian name.他们总是以教名互相称呼。
• His mother is a sincere Christian.他母亲是个虔诚的基督教徒。

18 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

19 Ford   

n.浅滩，水浅可涉处；v.涉水，涉过

参考例句：

• They were guarding the bridge,so we forded the river.他们驻守在那座桥上，所以我们只能涉水过河。
• If you decide to ford a stream,be extremely careful.如果已决定要涉过小溪，必须极度小心。

20 chronic   

adj.(疾病)长期未愈的，慢性的；极坏的

参考例句：

• Famine differs from chronic malnutrition.饥荒不同于慢性营养不良。
• Chronic poisoning may lead to death from inanition.慢性中毒也可能由虚弱导致死亡。

21 varied   

adj.多样的，多变化的

参考例句：

• The forms of art are many and varied.艺术的形式是多种多样的。
• The hotel has a varied programme of nightly entertainment.宾馆有各种晚间娱乐活动。

22 criteria   

n.标准

参考例句：

• The main criterion is value for money.主要的标准是钱要用得划算。
• There are strict criteria for inclusion in the competition.参赛的标准很严格。

23 capability   

n.能力；才能；(pl)可发展的能力或特性等

参考例句：

• She has the capability to become a very fine actress.她有潜力成为杰出演员。
• Organizing a whole department is beyond his capability.组织整个部门是他能力以外的事。

24 secondly   

adv.第二，其次

参考例句：

• Secondly,use your own head and present your point of view.第二，动脑筋提出自己的见解。
• Secondly it is necessary to define the applied load.其次，需要确定所作用的载荷。

25 stimulate   

vt.刺激，使兴奋；激励，使…振奋

参考例句：

• Your encouragement will stimulate me to further efforts.你的鼓励会激发我进一步努力。
• Success will stimulate the people for fresh efforts.成功能鼓舞人们去作新的努力。

26 recipient   

a.接受的,感受性强的 n.接受者,感受者,容器

参考例句：

• Please check that you have a valid email certificate for each recipient. 请检查是否对每个接收者都有有效的电子邮件证书。
• Colombia is the biggest U . S aid recipient in Latin America. 哥伦比亚是美国在拉丁美洲最大的援助对象。

27 inadequate   

adj.(for,to)不充足的，不适当的

参考例句：

• The supply is inadequate to meet the demand.供不应求。
• She was inadequate to the demands that were made on her.她还无力满足对她提出的各项要求。

28 rigid   

adj.严格的，死板的；刚硬的，僵硬的

参考例句：

• She became as rigid as adamant.她变得如顽石般的固执。
• The examination was so rigid that nearly all aspirants were ruled out.考试很严，几乎所有的考生都被淘汰了。

29 inflexible   

adj.不可改变的，不受影响的，不屈服的

参考例句：

• Charles was a man of settled habits and inflexible routine.查尔斯是一个恪守习惯、生活规律不容打乱的人。
• The new plastic is completely inflexible.这种新塑料是完全不可弯曲的。

30 radically   

ad.根本地，本质地

参考例句：

• I think we may have to rethink our policies fairly radically. 我认为我们可能要对我们的政策进行根本的反思。
• The health service must be radically reformed. 公共医疗卫生服务必须进行彻底改革。