高级英语听力 lesson 5

 

  Section One: News in Brief

      Tapescript

      1. The House began debate today on a three-year bill to combat trafficking and use of illegal drugs.  The measure has the support of most representatives and House Speaker Thomas O'Neill says he expects it to pass by tomorrow. Among other things, the bill would increase penalties for violators, provide money to increase drug enforcement and coast guard personnel, and require drug producing countries to establish eradication¹ programs as a condition of US support for development loans.

 

      2. A cultural exchange between the US and the Soviet² Union may face an American boycott³ unless US News and World Report correspondent, Nicholas Daniloff, is freed from a Moscow jail.  An American style town meeting is scheduled to take place in Latvia  next week, but the two hundred seventy Americans due to take part

      say they won't go if Daniloff remains⁴ in jail.  They add the decision is

      a personal one and is not being made by the Reagan Administration

      in retaliation⁵ for the Daniloff detention⁶.

 

      3. Egyptian and Israeli negotiators have reached agreement on re-

      solving the Taba border dispute, clearing the way for a summit be-

      tween the two countries to begin tomorrow.  Egyptian President

      Hosni Mubarak and Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres will meet

      in Alexandria.  Details of the Taba agreement have not been made

      available.

 

_ Section Two: News in Detail

 

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     The United Statqs House of Representatives is debating an om-

 nibus drug bill and expects to pass the measure tomorrow.  Though

 the bill'has attracted strong, bipartisan support, NPR's Cokey

 Roberts reports the debate on the issue points up the differences be-

 tween political parties.                                   

     When Congress returned from the Fourth of July recess⁷, House

 Speaker Tip O'Neill said there was only one thing members were

 talking about in the cloak-room: drugs.  The Democrats⁸ quickly pul-

 led together chairmen from twelve different committees to draft a

 drug package.  Then, stung by criticism that they were acting⁹ in a

 partisan fashion, the Democratic leaders invited the Republicans to

 join them in the newly declared war on drugs.  So, when the bill came

 to the House floor today, the party leaders led off debate.  Texas

 Democrat Jim Wright.

     'It's time to declare an all-out war, to mobilize our forces, pub-

 fic and private, national and local, in a total coordinated¹⁰ assault up-

 on this menace, which is draining our economy of some two hundred

 and thirty billion dollars this year, slowly rotting away the fabric¹¹ of

_    our society, seducing¹² and killing¹³ our young.  That it will take money

    is hardly debatable.  We can't right artillery¹⁴ with spitballs."

       The question of j List how much money this measure will cost has

    not been answered to the satisfaction of all members.  Democrats say

    it's one and half billion dollars over three years, with almost seven

    hundred thousand for next year.  Republicans claim the price tag will

    run higher and are trying to emphasize other aspects of the drug bat-

    tle, aspects which they think play better in Republican campaigns.

    Minority leader Robert Michel.

       'The ultimate cure for the drug epidemic¹⁵ must come from with-

    in the heart of each individual faced with the temptation of taking

    drugs.  It is ultimately a problem of character, of will power, of fami-

    ly and community, and concern, and personal pride."

       Among other items, the bill before the House increases penalties

    for most drug related crimes, sets the minimum jail term of twenty

    years for drug trafficking and manufacturing, authorizes¹⁶ money for

    the drug enforcement administration and prison construction, beefs

    up the ability of the coast guard and customs service to stop drugs

    coming into this country, and creates programs for drugleducation.

    The various sections of the measure give House members ample op-

    portunity to speak on an issue where they want their voices heard.

    Maryland Democratic Barbara McCulsky was nominated for the

    Senate yesterday.  Today, she spoke¹⁸ to the part of the bill which

    funds drug eradication programs in foreign countries.

        "When we fought yellow fever, we didn't go at it one mosquito

    at a time.  We went right to the swamp.  That's what the Foreign Af-

    fairs section of this legislation will do.  It will go to the swamps, or

    where cocaine¹⁹ is either grown, refined, or manufactured."

        Republican Henson Moore is running for the Senate in

    Louisiana.  He spoke to the part of the drug bill which changes the

    trade laws for countries which deal in drugs.

         ' We're moving to stop something; it's absolutely idiotic²⁰.  It

_  needs to be stopped: this situation of where a country can sell legally

  to us on the one hand and illegally to us under the table, selling

  drugs in this country poisoning our young people and our popula-

  tion."

 

_  Section Three: Special Report

 

  Tapescript

       Today in China, in Nanjing, balloons, firecrackers and lion

  dancers mark the dedication²¹ of the Johns Hopkins University-Nanj-

  ing University Center for Chinese and American Studies.  For the

  first time since World War II, Chinese and American students will

  attend a graduate institution in China that is administered jointly²⁴ by

  academic organizations that are worlds apart figuratively and literal-

  ly. NPR's Susan Stanberg reports.

       Cross-cultural encounters can be extremely enriching; cross-

  cultural encounters can be utterly²⁵ absurd.

       ' Let's see. That would be eighty-seven. So,  ba-shi-

  qi-nian-qian, ... let's see, ... equal ... proposition equal'

       Here's what that American was trying to say in Chinese.

       "Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth²⁶ on

  this continent a new nation ... a new nation conceived in liberty, and

  dedicated²⁷ to the proposition that all men are created equal.'

       Now you don't have to be dealing²⁸ with classic American oratory²⁹

  to run into problems.  In,planning for the Center for Chinese and

  American Studies, there was much debate as to whether the new au-

  ditorium on the Nanjing campus should have a flat or sloped floor.

  If the floor were flat, the auditorium³⁰ could be used for dances, for

  parties, but a sloped floor would be better for listening, for viewing

  films and slides.

       "The argument finally won out that for practical reasons a flat

  floor- would be best because it ... it really would make it a multi-pur-

  pose room.  You wouldn't have to fix the furniture.'

       Stephen Muller is President of Johns Hopkins University, the

_  US end of this Sino-American joint²³ venture in learning.

     'So, a flat floor was built.  Only the Chinese in building it finally

  ended up with a flat floor but at two different levels, one higher than

  the other.  So, if you want to use it for - dances, you either have to

  have very short women with very tall men or vice¹⁷ versa.'

     Twenty-four Americans, and thirty-six Chinese of  mixed

  heights are the first students at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center.  Nanj-

  i!19 used to be Nanking, by the way, back in the days when Beijing

  was Pekini.  The Americans will take classes in Chinese history, eco-

  nomics, trade, politics, all from Chinese faculty³¹.  The Chinese will

  study the US with American university professors.  Johns Hopkins

  President Stephen Muller says this is advanced study work.  All the

  Chinese students are proficient³² in English; all the Americans- have

  master's degrees plus fluency³³ in Chinese.

  @ I @ " The twenty-four Americans come from about eighteen col-

  leges and universities.  No one institution in this country produces

  that many people of this character; so that's a beginning.  Nanjing is

  not the place, the Center is not the place to go, if you want a doctor-

  o.te in Chinese history or Chinese language or Chinese literature or

  Whatever.  This is a pre-professional program."

      Which means the men and women who spend the year at the

  Nanjing Center will end up as diplomats³⁴ or business people in one

  another's country.

       'Our hope is that the Americans, to speak about those, who are

  going to be incidentally rooming with Chinese roommates, which is a

  very interesting thing the Chinese agree to, that the Americans will

  "got only bring a year of living in'China, a year of having studied

  with Chinese faculty and hearing the Chinese view of Chinese foreign

  @icy in economics and, so on, that they will also have the kind of

  friends among Chinese roughly their age who are going to be dealing

  with the United States.  That will slowly, over the years, create a real

       ork, if you will, of people who, because they've had this corn-

_    mon experience, can deal with each other very easily and, you know,

    be kind of a rallying point - an old boy, old girl network, as it

    were.'

        Hopkins President Muller admits that a simple exchange

    program - Chinese students coming to the US, and American stu-

    dents²² going to China - would involve far fewer headaches than

    running jointly an academic institution on foreign soil.  Plus the suc-

    cess of the Hopkins-Nanjing Center depends on undependables, like

    continuing sweet Sino-American relations and being able to attract

    funding.  And there's this wrinkle.'

        "Some of the people who will study there, without any question,

    will probably come from or afterwards enter the intelligence com-

    munity.  That it's really desirable that people who do that have that

    kind of background.  We're very honest about that, but it's so easy to

    denounce the whole thing as an espionage³⁵ center, or something.  You

    know, there's a lot of fragility in this thing.'

        Stephen Muller is President of Johns Hopkins University in

    Baltimore.  The Hopkins-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and

    American Studies was dedicated today in China.  I'm Susan

    Stanberg.

        'How do you say good luck in Chinese?'

        'Don't know.  I don't know Chinese.'

        "You'd better learn.'

        'That's a phrase I should know.  Yes.'

1 eradication   

n.根除

参考例句：

• The eradication of an established infestation is not easy. 根除昆虫蔓延是不容易的。
• This is often required for intelligent control and eradication. 这经常需要灵巧的控制与消除。

2 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。

3 boycott   

n./v.(联合)抵制，拒绝参与

参考例句：

• We put the production under a boycott.我们联合抵制该商品。
• The boycott lasts a year until the Victoria board permitsreturn.这个抗争持续了一年直到维多利亚教育局妥协为止。

4 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。

5 retaliation   

n.报复，反击

参考例句：

• retaliation against UN workers 对联合国工作人员的报复
• He never said a single word in retaliation. 他从未说过一句反击的话。 来自《简明英汉词典》

6 detention   

n.滞留，停留；拘留，扣留；(教育)留下

参考例句：

• He was kept in detention by the police.他被警察扣留了。
• He was in detention in connection with the bribery affair.他因与贿赂事件有牵连而被拘留了。

7 recess   

n.短期休息，壁凹（墙上装架子，柜子等凹处）

参考例句：

• The chairman of the meeting announced a ten-minute recess.会议主席宣布休会10分钟。
• Parliament was hastily recalled from recess.休会的议员被匆匆召回开会。

8 democrats   

n.民主主义者，民主人士( democrat的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
• The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》

9 acting   

n.演戏，行为，假装；adj.代理的，临时的，演出用的

参考例句：

• Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
• During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。

10 coordinated   

adj.协调的

参考例句：

• The sound has to be coordinated with the picture. 声音必须和画面协调一致。
• The numerous existing statutes are complicated and poorly coordinated. 目前繁多的法令既十分复杂又缺乏快调。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法

11 fabric   

n.织物，织品，布；构造，结构，组织

参考例句：

• The fabric will spot easily.这种织品很容易玷污。
• I don't like the pattern on the fabric.我不喜欢那块布料上的图案。

12 seducing   

诱奸( seduce的现在分词 )； 勾引； 诱使堕落； 使入迷

参考例句：

• He got into trouble for seducing the daughter of a respectable tradesman. 他因为引诱一个有名望的商人的女儿而惹上了麻烦。
• Chao Hsin-mei, you scoundrel, you shameless wretch, seducing a married woman. 赵辛楣，你这混帐东西！无耻家伙！引诱有夫之妇。

13 killing   

n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财

参考例句：

• Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
• Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。

14 artillery   

n.(军)火炮，大炮；炮兵(部队)

参考例句：

• This is a heavy artillery piece.这是一门重炮。
• The artillery has more firepower than the infantry.炮兵火力比步兵大。

15 epidemic   

n.流行病；盛行；adj.流行性的，流传极广的

参考例句：

• That kind of epidemic disease has long been stamped out.那种传染病早已绝迹。
• The authorities tried to localise the epidemic.当局试图把流行病限制在局部范围。

16 authorizes   

授权，批准，委托( authorize的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The dictionary authorizes the two spellings 'traveler' and 'traveller'. 字典裁定traveler和traveller两种拼法都对。
• The dictionary authorizes the two spellings "honor" and "honour.". 字典裁定 honor 及 honour 两种拼法均可。

17 vice   

n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的

参考例句：

• He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
• They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。

18 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

19 cocaine   

n.可卡因，古柯碱（用作局部麻醉剂）

参考例句：

• That young man is a cocaine addict.那个年轻人吸食可卡因成瘾。
• Don't have cocaine abusively.不可滥服古柯碱。

20 idiotic   

adj.白痴的

参考例句：

• It is idiotic to go shopping with no money.去买东西而不带钱是很蠢的。
• The child's idiotic deeds caused his family much trouble.那小孩愚蠢的行为给家庭带来许多麻烦。

21 dedication   

n.奉献，献身，致力，题献，献辞

参考例句：

• We admire her courage,compassion and dedication.我们钦佩她的勇气、爱心和奉献精神。
• Her dedication to her work was admirable.她对工作的奉献精神可钦可佩。

22 dents   

n.花边边饰；凹痕( dent的名词复数 )；凹部；减少；削弱v.使产生凹痕( dent的第三人称单数 )；损害；伤害；挫伤（信心、名誉等）

参考例句：

• He hammered out the dents in the metal sheet. 他把金属板上的一些凹痕敲掉了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Tin dents more easily than steel. 锡比钢容易变瘪。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

23 joint   

adj.联合的，共同的；n.关节，接合处；v.连接，贴合

参考例句：

• I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤，肩膀脫臼了。
• We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。

24 jointly   

ad.联合地，共同地

参考例句：

• Tenants are jointly and severally liable for payment of the rent. 租金由承租人共同且分别承担。
• She owns the house jointly with her husband. 她和丈夫共同拥有这所房子。

25 utterly   

adv.完全地，绝对地

参考例句：

• Utterly devoted to the people,he gave his life in saving his patients.他忠于人民，把毕生精力用于挽救患者的生命。
• I was utterly ravished by the way she smiled.她的微笑使我完全陶醉了。

26 forth   

adv.向前；向外，往外

参考例句：

• The wind moved the trees gently back and forth.风吹得树轻轻地来回摇晃。
• He gave forth a series of works in rapid succession.他很快连续发表了一系列的作品。

27 dedicated   

adj.一心一意的；献身的；热诚的

参考例句：

• He dedicated his life to the cause of education.他献身于教育事业。
• His whole energies are dedicated to improve the design.他的全部精力都放在改进这项设计上了。

28 dealing   

n.经商方法，待人态度

参考例句：

• This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
• His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。

29 oratory   

n.演讲术；词藻华丽的言辞

参考例句：

• I admire the oratory of some politicians.我佩服某些政治家的辩才。
• He dazzled the crowd with his oratory.他的雄辩口才使听众赞叹不已。

30 auditorium   

n.观众席，听众席；会堂，礼堂

参考例句：

• The teacher gathered all the pupils in the auditorium.老师把全体同学集合在礼堂内。
• The stage is thrust forward into the auditorium.舞台向前突出，伸入观众席。

31 faculty   

n.才能；学院，系；(学院或系的)全体教学人员

参考例句：

• He has a great faculty for learning foreign languages.他有学习外语的天赋。
• He has the faculty of saying the right thing at the right time.他有在恰当的时候说恰当的话的才智。

32 proficient   

adj.熟练的，精通的；n.能手，专家

参考例句：

• She is proficient at swimming.她精通游泳。
• I think I'm quite proficient in both written and spoken English.我认为我在英语读写方面相当熟练。

33 fluency   

n.流畅，雄辩，善辩

参考例句：

• More practice will make you speak with greater fluency.多练习就可以使你的口语更流利。
• Some young children achieve great fluency in their reading.一些孩子小小年纪阅读已经非常流畅。

34 diplomats   

n.外交官( diplomat的名词复数 )；有手腕的人，善于交际的人

参考例句：

• These events led to the expulsion of senior diplomats from the country. 这些事件导致一些高级外交官被驱逐出境。
• The court has no jurisdiction over foreign diplomats living in this country. 法院对驻本国的外交官无裁判权。 来自《简明英汉词典》

35 espionage   

n.间谍行为，谍报活动

参考例句：

• The authorities have arrested several people suspected of espionage.官方已经逮捕了几个涉嫌从事间谍活动的人。
• Neither was there any hint of espionage in Hanley's early life.汉利的早期生活也毫无进行间谍活动的迹象。