高级英语听力 lesson 21

 

  Lesson Twenty One

  Section One: News in Brief

  Tapescript

  1. A committee of scientists is calling on President Reagan to launch

  a billion-dollar information campaign to keep the AIDS epidemic¹

  from spreading to catastrophic proportions.  The National Academy

  of Sciences convened² the panel which says education efforts must be

  used because effective treatment and a vaccine³ appear to be years

  away.  The report urges the establishment of a new federal office to

  head a nationwide education effort as well as an advisory⁴ commis-

  sion for research and education.  The scientists say the White House

  should lead an action campaign the way it has led a new crackdown

  on illegal d

      2. Gunmen kidnapped a French television photographer today as he

  drove from the Christian⁵ east to the Muslim western sector⁶ of Beirut.

  Jean Marc Srucie is the 9th French National missing and presumed

  abducted⁷ in Beirut.  Two women were in the car with him but were

  released.  No one has claimed responsibility.

  3. An Israeli court has indicted⁸ a retired⁹ auto¹⁰ worker, alleging¹¹ he was

  a Nazi¹² death camp worker known as ' Ivan the Terrible' . Jam

  Demjanjuk is in jail in Israel after being extradited and maintains his

  is a case of mistaken identity.  The BBC's Paul Reynolds has this re-

  port from Jerusalem.  " The indictment¹³ charges Demjanjuk with

  crimes against the Jewish people, against humanity, and with war

  crimes.  He's said to have been responsible for herding¹⁴ Jews into the

  gas chambers¹⁵ and often stabbed them or whipped flesh from them as

  they went in.  It's said that he personally turned on the motors to

discharge the poison gas.  The state of Israel-will be calling eight for-

 mer Treblinka inmates¹⁷ and an SS guard who will identify Demjanjuk

 as "Ivan the Terrible'.  Demjanjuk's defense¹⁸, though, will be quite

 simple.  He'll say he's somebody else.  His American lawyer has been

 seeking out other camp survivors¹⁹ who can't support the identifica-

 tion, and the whole trial will resolve around this question.

 Demjanjuk's trial is expected to begin at the end of the year and

 could take as long as six months.'

  Section Two: News in Detail

  Tapescript

      Today, a panel of the @ation's leading scientists and physicians

  issued a major review of the government's response to the AIDS epi-

  demic.  The panel was convened by the National Academy of Sci-

  ences.  The scientists called for massive increases in funding for AIDS

  research and education.  They also urged President Reagan to lead

  the fight against disease.  NPR's Richard Harris has the story:

      Six months ago, the Academy decided²⁰ that AIDS was so serious

  a problem that they needed to review that nation's fight against the

  disease.  They chose Nobel laureate, David Baltimore to head their

  panel and enlisted²¹ the cooperative of leading health researchers.  The

  Academy has no control over the federal budget, but they have con-

  siderable prestige.  And they banked on that prestige today when they

  called for a billion dollars a year for AIDS research by 1990.  That

  trax slates²² into a four-fold increase in funding over the next thr

  years.  Today, Chairman David Baltimore said the country should

  spend another billion dollars a year for AIDS education.

       "We are saying that a program that is at all responsive to the

  needs of the situation will cost a billion dollars.  And we are not spec-

  ifying where that billion dollars should come from because it's made

  up of whole lot of little pieces,' pieces that should be shared by local

  government and private industry.  The panel said education efforts so

  far have been, as they put it, "woefully inadequate²³", inadequate be-

  cause officials have spent I / 8 as much money as they should have,

      in adequate, they said, because health officials have been too

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  ,q amish,to talk about sex or to promote the use of condoms.

  Baltimore said these attitudes must change now, because the AIDS

  epidemic is at a critical point.

      "The virus has now spread widely as far as we know outside of

  the high-risk groups. We are afraid, in fact   ,there is perfectly²⁴ good

  evidence'that such spread is possible, and are calling for people to

  take precautions in situations where they may not have tho ght they

  were at risk.'

      Baltimore said that anyone who has sexual

  than one partner should take precautions against exposure to the

  AIDS virus.  The panel said condoms are one way to avoid infection.

  The report does not predict that AIDS will spread rapidly by

  heterosexual contact in the next five years, but recurring²⁵ theme in the

  report is that now is the time to prevent the epidemic from becoming

  even worse.  Already more than 25,000 Americans have been diag-

  nosed with AIDS.  Baltimore called on President Reagan to declare

  war on AIDS the way he declared war on illegal drugs.

      "We are talking about President taking that form of leaders hip¹⁶,

  and it's clear that when the President speaks out on an issue in such

  forceful terms, that the whole nation sees it in the different way."

     The National Academy report, like the Surgeon General's rec-

  ommendations last week, gives the president a convdnient,way to

  take on AIDS as an issue.  Both reports stress that AIDS is not just a

  disease that can infect gay men and drug abusers.  They say now

  AIDS is a sexually transmitted disease that can affect anyone.  In

  Washington this is Richard Harris:

 Section Three: Special Report

 Tapescript

      Hard Choices is a low-budget film that has been well received

 by many critics this past summer, but that does not make it a runa-

 way hit.  In fact, its thirty-four-year-old producer, Robert Michael-

 son, has been found at the film's openings passing out fliers in front

 of the theaters.  Critic Bob Mondello says he shouldn't have to do that.

        In a perfect world, little movies abo          nessee

   caught on the wrong side of the law would get the publicity²⁶ they-

   need, and film companies would stop hyping pre-sold blockbusters,,

   about psychotic cops.  This is not, however, a perfect old.

   don't want to imply that Hard Choices is a perfect movie, either.

   But it's so much more involving and suspenseful²⁷ -and just plain inter-

   esting than most of tfie

                            junk Hollywood putsout that it makes you

   want to do hand flipg it's"'ih'e story of a rural sixteen-year-old,

   named Bobby, planed-winningly by new comer Gary McCleary, who

   goes along for the ride one evening with his hell-raising older broth-

   ers.  When they decide to rob a local pharmacy²⁸,, Bobby stays out in

   the truck, and that's where he is when one of his brothers panics and

   kills a policeman.  Bobby's soon on the run with his brothers, and

   soon in jail.  Now, up to this point, this could be any of a dozen

   rebel-routing teen movies, but Bobby's not your average teenyro-

   tagonist.  He's a sweet kid, so innocent in fact, that he can't even lie

   io h-is -mother who's a bit innocent herself.

             'Bobby, how come everybody says you boys took drugs?  I

       know you wasn't sick.'

             'Cause it's true.  We did.

        Now, talking about the innocence²⁹ of a kid who takes drugs may

   seem a little odd, but what made Hard Choices such a compelling

   movie is that it doesn't settle for easy answers.  Having iobbi s-it -i-n-

   jail is clearly not in anyone's best interests.  So when his case is taken

   by Laura, a young social worker played by Margaret Clenk, you're

   mightily³⁰ relieved.  Unfortunately this kid isn't very lucky in the folks

   who take a shine to him.  Clenk, who's probably best known as

   Edwena Louis in the soap opera "One Life to Live', makes Laura a

   tired activist³¹ who's so won over by Bobby's lopsided grin and opti-

   mism, she's soon doing something supremely³² dumb: pointing a pistol

   at the Sheriff.

              Woman: Do you have a gun, Bobby?

              Bobby: It's on the wall.

              Woman: Go get it.

              Bobby: Wait a minute.

              Woman: Go get the gun!

              Man: Bobby, don't do it.  You're making a big mistake.  I'm

        going to have to come and get you.

              Woman: Don't you want to be free?

        Since he's being tried as an adult, that is a hard choice.  Now,

   this may remind you of a real life story recently in which a lawyer in

   Tennessee fell in love with her client and helped him escape, or it

   may just generally remind you of real life.  One of the best things

   about Hard Choices is that everything in it seems so utterly³³ natural.

   The supporting cast, for instance, which includes Secaucus Seven

   director, John Sales.  It's generally terrific, which you could also say

   about Rick King's casually³⁴ suspenseful direction.  He keeps you just

   a little off balance, which is wonderful.  Unfortunately, his movie

   seems to have its Hollywood's sponsors a little off balance, too.  Des-

   pite reviews that called the sleeper³⁵ of the summer, Lorimar Pictures

   can"t seem to get handle on how to sell it.  And frankly³⁶, with major

   media advertising³⁷ costing what it does, if a film can't be described in

   a phrase of six words or less'like "crime is the disease, cobra's the

   cure'.  Tuisel Town often has to throw up its hands.  The thing is that

   Hard Choices is just what Hollywood needs right now.  With idiotic³⁸

   fantasies about talking ducks costing as much as $ 40,000,000, this is

   practically the defitive small movie, made for what most

   Hollywood epics,gpendatering.  I don't want to oversell it.  It's

   certainly not perfect.  But it sure makes the adrenaline flow.  And

   when you take its budget into account, it's nothing less than

   amazing.  If the studios can't figure out how to make a picture like

   this work, they deserve disasters like Howard the Duck.  The problem

   is, if you want to see it, you may have to search for Hard Choices

  because it's not being released all at once.  There are only a few

  prints.  But it's worth asking your local theater owner to book.  With

  summer-hold-overs as the alternative, it makes your September

  movie going an easy choice.                                  -

      Hard Choices opens tomorrow in Chicago and Minneapolis.

  Next weekend in San Francisco and at the Boston Film Festival.

  Bob Mondello was the film critic for "All Things Considered".

 

1 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。

2 convened   

召开( convene的过去式 )； 召集； （为正式会议而）聚集； 集合

参考例句：

• The chairman convened the committee to put the issue to a vote. 主席召集委员们开会对这个问题进行表决。
• The governor convened his troops to put down the revolt. 总督召集他的部队去镇压叛乱。

3 vaccine   

n.牛痘苗，疫苗；adj.牛痘的，疫苗的

参考例句：

• The polio vaccine has saved millions of lives.脊髓灰质炎疫苗挽救了数以百万计的生命。
• She takes a vaccine against influenza every fall.她每年秋季接种流感疫苗。

4 advisory   

adj.劝告的，忠告的，顾问的，提供咨询

参考例句：

• I have worked in an advisory capacity with many hospitals.我曾在多家医院做过顾问工作。
• He was appointed to the advisory committee last month.他上个月获任命为顾问委员会委员。

5 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。

6 sector   

n.部门，部分；防御地段，防区；扇形

参考例句：

• The export sector will aid the economic recovery. 出口产业将促进经济复苏。
• The enemy have attacked the British sector.敌人已进攻英国防区。

7 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。

8 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。

9 retired   

adj.隐退的，退休的，退役的

参考例句：

• The old man retired to the country for rest.这位老人下乡休息去了。
• Many retired people take up gardening as a hobby.许多退休的人都以从事园艺为嗜好。

10 auto   

n.(=automobile)(口语)汽车

参考例句：

• Don't park your auto here.别把你的汽车停在这儿。
• The auto industry has brought many people to Detroit.汽车工业把许多人吸引到了底特律。

11 alleging   

断言，宣称，辩解( allege的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• His reputation was blemished by a newspaper article alleging he'd evaded his taxes. 由于报上一篇文章声称他曾逃税，他的名誉受到损害。
• This our Peeress declined as unnecessary, alleging that her cousin Thornhill's recommendation would be sufficient. 那位贵人不肯，还说不必，只要有她老表唐希尔保荐就够了。

12 Nazi   

n.纳粹分子，adj.纳粹党的，纳粹的

参考例句：

• They declare the Nazi regime overthrown and sue for peace.他们宣布纳粹政权已被推翻，并出面求和。
• Nazi closes those war criminals inside their concentration camp.纳粹把那些战犯关在他们的集中营里。

13 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。

14 herding   

中畜群

参考例句：

• The little boy is herding the cattle. 这个小男孩在放牛。
• They have been herding cattle on the tableland for generations. 他们世世代代在这高原上放牧。

15 chambers   

n.房间( chamber的名词复数 )；（议会的）议院；卧室；会议厅

参考例句：

• The body will be removed into one of the cold storage chambers. 尸体将被移到一个冷冻间里。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Mr Chambers's readable book concentrates on the middle passage: the time Ransome spent in Russia. Chambers先生的这本值得一看的书重点在中间：Ransome在俄国的那几年。 来自互联网

16 hip   

n.臀部，髋；屋脊

参考例句：

• The thigh bone is connected to the hip bone.股骨连着髋骨。
• The new coats blouse gracefully above the hip line.新外套在臀围线上优美地打着褶皱。

17 inmates   

n.囚犯( inmate的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• One of the inmates has escaped. 被收容的人中有一个逃跑了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The inmates were moved to an undisclosed location. 监狱里的囚犯被转移到一个秘密处所。 来自《简明英汉词典》

18 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。

19 survivors   

幸存者，残存者，生还者( survivor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
• survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者

20 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

21 enlisted   

adj.应募入伍的v.（使）入伍， （使）参军( enlist的过去式和过去分词 )；获得（帮助或支持）

参考例句：

• enlisted men and women 男兵和女兵
• He enlisted with the air force to fight against the enemy. 他应募加入空军对敌作战。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

22 slates   

（旧时学生用以写字的）石板( slate的名词复数 )； 板岩； 石板瓦； 石板色

参考例句：

• The contract specifies red tiles, not slates, for the roof. 合同规定屋顶用红瓦，并非石板瓦。
• They roofed the house with slates. 他们用石板瓦做屋顶。

23 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。

24 perfectly   

adv.完美地，无可非议地，彻底地

参考例句：

• The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said.证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。
• Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。

25 recurring   

adj.往复的，再次发生的

参考例句：

• This kind of problem is recurring often. 这类问题经常发生。
• For our own country, it has been a time for recurring trial. 就我们国家而言，它经过了一个反复考验的时期。

26 publicity   

n.众所周知，闻名；宣传，广告

参考例句：

• The singer star's marriage got a lot of publicity.这位歌星的婚事引起了公众的关注。
• He dismissed the event as just a publicity gimmick.他不理会这件事，只当它是一种宣传手法。

27 suspenseful   

adj.悬疑的，令人紧张的

参考例句：

• If his experiences then had been carefully recorded, it would undoubtedly have made a suspenseful and moving book. 若是把他所经历的事实记录下来，那就是一部充满着大智大勇，惊心动魄的小说。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• Lily is an atmospheric and suspenseful tale of love, loss and obsession. 这是一个关于爱情、失落与迷恋的故事，充满情调与悬疑色彩。 来自互联网

28 pharmacy   

n.药房，药剂学，制药业，配药业，一批备用药品

参考例句：

• She works at the pharmacy.她在药房工作。
• Modern pharmacy has solved the problem of sleeplessness.现代制药学已经解决了失眠问题。

29 innocence   

n.无罪；天真；无害

参考例句：

• There was a touching air of innocence about the boy.这个男孩有一种令人感动的天真神情。
• The accused man proved his innocence of the crime.被告人经证实无罪。

30 mightily   

ad.强烈地；非常地

参考例句：

• He hit the peg mightily on the top with a mallet. 他用木槌猛敲木栓顶。
• This seemed mightily to relieve him. 干完这件事后，他似乎轻松了许多。

31 activist   

n.活动分子，积极分子

参考例句：

• He's been a trade union activist for many years.多年来他一直是工会的积极分子。
• He is a social activist in our factory.他是我厂的社会活动积极分子。

32 supremely   

adv.无上地，崇高地

参考例句：

• They managed it all supremely well. 这件事他们干得极其出色。
• I consider a supremely beautiful gesture. 我觉得这是非常优雅的姿态。

33 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。

34 casually   

adv.漠不关心地，无动于衷地，不负责任地

参考例句：

• She remarked casually that she was changing her job.她当时漫不经心地说要换工作。
• I casually mentioned that I might be interested in working abroad.我不经意地提到我可能会对出国工作感兴趣。

35 sleeper   

n.睡眠者，卧车，卧铺

参考例句：

• I usually go up to London on the sleeper. 我一般都乘卧车去伦敦。
• But first he explained that he was a very heavy sleeper. 但首先他解释说自己睡觉很沉。

36 frankly   

adv.坦白地，直率地；坦率地说

参考例句：

• To speak frankly, I don't like the idea at all.老实说，我一点也不赞成这个主意。
• Frankly speaking, I'm not opposed to reform.坦率地说，我不反对改革。

37 advertising   

n.广告业；广告活动 a.广告的；广告业务的

参考例句：

• Can you give me any advice on getting into advertising? 你能指点我如何涉足广告业吗?
• The advertising campaign is aimed primarily at young people. 这个广告宣传运动主要是针对年轻人的。

38 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。