英国新闻听力 博科圣地公布遭绑女学生视频 墨西哥惊现被肢解尸体

The Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram has released a video purporting¹ to show some of the school girls it abducted² from the northern town of Chibok in 2014.The video features a masked armed man taunting³ the government speaking with about 50 women behind him. The Nigerian government said it was doing everything possible to secure the release of the girls.

The authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo say at least 36 civilians⁴ have been massacred by rebels near the border with Uganda. The governor of north Kivu province said the victims were tied up and hacked⁵ to death in their homes and fields outside the town of Beni.

A criminal gang in Mexico has dropped three ice boxes with a decapitated head in each near a government building in the capital of Guerrero state, three bodies were found in streets nearby, Guerrero has been plagued by years of drug related violence.

Kurdish forces in northern Iraq say they have captured nine villages from Islamic State militants⁶ southeast of the city of Mosul. This offensive comes ahead of what expected to be a major battle for Mosul, the last big Iraqi city still held by IS.

On their independence day, Pakistani border troops gave sweets to their Indian counterparts at one border crossing point while soldiers from the two sides exchange fire elsewhere on the frontier. The two governments also traded angry accusations⁷, each country accusing the other of what they called unprovoked firing along the line dividing disputed Kashmir.

On day nine of the Rio Olympics, Great Britain won three golds in the space of an hour to move above China into second place in the medal table behind the United States. The gymnast Max Whitlock adds two historic golds in both the floor and the pommel horse, the first time ever that Britain has won a medal in men's gymnastics. 

尼日利亚伊斯兰组织“博科圣地”公布2014年在北部城镇奇博克被绑架的女学生的视频。视频中，一个手持武器的蒙面男子讽刺尼日利亚政府，他讲话时身后约有50名女孩。尼日利亚政府表示，他们会尽一切可能确保这些女孩获释。

刚果民主共和国表示，反对派在刚果与乌干达边境附近至少杀害了36名平民。北基伍省省长表示，受害者被绑起来，然后在家中和贝尼镇外的田地里被砍杀。

墨西哥一个犯罪团伙向格雷罗州首府一处政府大楼附近投掷了三个装有头颅的冰盒，另外附近的街道上还发现了三具尸体，格雷罗州多年来一直饱受毒品相关暴力事件的困扰。

伊拉克北部的库尔德力量表示，他们从占据东南部城市摩苏尔的ISIS武装分子手中夺回了9座村庄。他们的进攻在争夺摩苏尔大战之前展开，摩苏尔是IS控制的最后一座伊拉克大城市。

巴基斯坦独立日当天，巴边防军在一处过境站给印度边防军送去了糖果，而当天两国士兵在边界上的其他地方发生了交火。两国政府都对对方进行了愤怒的指责，双方均指责对方在争议领土克什米尔分界线地区无端开火。

今天是里约奥运会第九比赛日，英国在一小时内夺得三枚金牌，在奖牌榜上超越中国排在第二位，美国排在榜首。英国体操运动员马克斯·惠特洛克在自由操和鞍马两个项目上历史性地获得金牌，这是英国首次在男子体操项目上获得奖牌。

1 purporting   

v.声称是…，（装得）像是…的样子( purport的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• Cindy Adams (Columnist) : He's purporting to be Mother Teresa. 辛迪？亚当斯（专栏作家）：他无意成为德兰修女。 来自互联网
• To prohibit certain practices purporting to be sales by auction. 本条例旨在对看来是以拍卖方式作出的售卖中某些行为予以禁止。 来自互联网

2 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。

3 taunting   

嘲讽( taunt的现在分词 )； 嘲弄； 辱骂； 奚落

参考例句：

• She wagged a finger under his nose in a taunting gesture. 她当着他的面嘲弄地摇晃着手指。
• His taunting inclination subdued for a moment by the old man's grief and wildness. 老人的悲伤和狂乱使他那嘲弄的意图暂时收敛起来。

4 civilians   

平民，百姓( civilian的名词复数 )； 老百姓

参考例句：

• the bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀
• At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后，至少有300名平民下落不明。

5 hacked   

生气

参考例句：

• I hacked the dead branches off. 我把枯树枝砍掉了。
• I'm really hacked off. 我真是很恼火。

6 militants   

激进分子，好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来，反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
• Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此，巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。

7 accusations   

n.指责( accusation的名词复数 )；指控；控告；（被告发、控告的）罪名

参考例句：

• There were accusations of plagiarism. 曾有过关于剽窃的指控。
• He remained unruffled by their accusations. 对于他们的指控他处之泰然。