英语听力精选进阶版 8074

Pro-Russia forces are continuing to consolidatetheir hold on Ukraine's Crimea Peninsula, meetingvery little resistance. Up to 30 men in militaryuniform have taken over a military hospital in theadministrative capital Simferopol. Our correspondent John Simpson was there.

Around mid-day, a group of Russian soldiers wearing military camouflage¹ without any badgesof rank of unit arrived at the military hospital, they allowed 300 seriously ill patients to stay,but sent the outpatients home. When I was waiting outside in the street, the hospital directorcame out, still wearing his Ukrainian army uniform and looking very stressed and anxious. Hesaid he'd been asked at gunpoint to surrender and when he'd refused, he'd then been takento a vehicle and help prisoner in it.

The Malaysian authorities have decided² to search over much wider area to try to locate anairliner that disappeared less than an hour into its flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Threedays after the aircraft went missing, an international effort involving ships and planes hasn'tfound any wreckage³, causing growing frustration⁴ for the families of the 239 people on board.Most of them came from China. John Sudworth reports from Beijing.

The search area has been widened and now includes the waters on both sides of the MalaysianPeninsula. It's a huge expansive sea and it shows that the authorities still have no idea ofwhat's happened to the missing plane. They've released some very limited information aboutthe two men who boarded the flight using stolen passports. They are not of an Asianappearance, the travel agent who booked their tickets to Amsterdam via Beijing says they didnot specifically request flight MH370, but took it because it was the cheapest route to Europe.

Libyan officials say they've seized a North Korean-flagged tanker⁵ carrying an illegal shipmentof oil loaded at a port occupied by rebel forces. A spokesman for the state-owned national oilcorporation said the ship was stopped as it tried to leave. Rana Jawas reports from Tripoli.

The military and the Libyan congress are claiming they have intercepted⁶ the oil tanker carryingan illegal shipment of crude oil from Libya. They say their escorting get to a state-controledport. Meanwhile, the eastern oil port blockaded since July by former rebels, described the latestclaims to the BBC as government's lies. They say the ship is still docked in As-Sidra, in the eastof the country. Neither of the two claims can be dependently verified.

Jordan has called for an investigation⁷ after Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian-Jordanianjudge at the King Hussein Border Crossing which is also known as the Allenby Bridge. TheIsraeli ambassador to Amman was summoned to the foreign ministry⁸ over the killing⁹ of 30-year-old Raed Zeiter who was crossing from Jordan into the West Bank when an altercation¹⁰ tookplace.

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Spain's Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz has acknowledged that police should not havefired rubble¹¹ bullets to try to deter¹² migrants attempting to enter Spain's north African enclave ofCeuta in February when at least 15 people drowned. The migrants were trying to enter theenclave by swimming around a pier¹³ from neighboring Morocco.

Iran has made a formal protest to Austria about a meeting its Tehran embassy hosted betweenthe European Union's Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton and a group of human rightsactivists. Baroness¹⁵ Ashton met the rights activists¹⁴ on Saturday during her first visit to thecountry. An Iranian foreign ministry spokeswoman said such meetings would only deepenIran's mistrust of the West.

A new study has found that wild elephants can distinguish between different humanlanguages. Scientists from the University of Sussex in England played recordings¹⁶ of humanspeech to elephants in Amboseli National Park in Kenya where hundreds of wild elephants liveamong humans. Richard Hamilton has more.

In Amboseli National Park, men and elephants sometimes come into conflict over scarce waterresources. The result is that the animals have learned to distinguish the voices and languagesof those they consider a threat. In their experiment, the scientists played recordings of Maasaimen, who've been known to kill off creatures and Kamba men who are less of a threat. Whenthey heard the Maasai voices, the elephants retreated and regrouped, but stayed at theirground when they heard Kamba. These remarkable¹⁷ findings suggest the elephants have builtup a memory capacity to make quite subtle distinctions between human voices.

The president of Bayern Munich football club Uli Hoeness has admitted in court that he evadedpaying 15m Euro in tax. A figure far higher than the prosecution¹⁸ had initially¹⁹ alleged²⁰. He saidhe'd kept the money in a secret Swiss bank account, during a period of obsessive²¹ gambling²² onstocks.

1 camouflage   

n./v.掩饰，伪装

参考例句：

• The white fur of the polar bear is a natural camouflage.北极熊身上的白色的浓密软毛是一种天然的伪装。
• The animal's markings provide effective camouflage.这种动物身上的斑纹是很有效的伪装。

2 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。

3 wreckage   

n.（失事飞机等的）残骸，破坏，毁坏

参考例句：

• They hauled him clear of the wreckage.他们把他从形骸中拖出来。
• New states were born out of the wreckage of old colonial empires.新生国家从老殖民帝国的废墟中诞生。

4 frustration   

n.挫折，失败，失效，落空

参考例句：

• He had to fight back tears of frustration.他不得不强忍住失意的泪水。
• He beat his hands on the steering wheel in frustration.他沮丧地用手打了几下方向盘。

5 tanker   

n.油轮

参考例句：

• The tanker took on 200,000 barrels of crude oil.油轮装载了二十万桶原油。
• Heavy seas had pounded the tanker into three parts.汹涌的巨浪把油轮撞成三载。

6 intercepted   

拦截( intercept的过去式和过去分词 )； 截住； 截击； 拦阻

参考例句：

• Reporters intercepted him as he tried to leave the hotel. 他正要离开旅馆，记者们把他拦截住了。
• Reporters intercepted him as he tried to leave by the rear entrance. 他想从后门溜走，记者把他截住了。

7 investigation   

n.调查，调查研究

参考例句：

• In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
• He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。

8 ministry   

n.(政府的)部；牧师

参考例句：

• They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
• We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。

9 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。

10 altercation   

n.争吵，争论

参考例句：

• Throughout the entire altercation,not one sensible word was uttered.争了半天，没有一句话是切合实际的。
• The boys had an altercation over the umpire's decision.男孩子们对裁判的判决颇有争议。

11 rubble   

n.（一堆）碎石，瓦砾

参考例句：

• After the earthquake,it took months to clean up the rubble.地震后，花了数月才清理完瓦砾。
• After the war many cities were full of rubble.战后许多城市到处可见颓垣残壁。

12 deter   

vt.阻止，使不敢，吓住

参考例句：

• Failure did not deter us from trying it again.失败并没有能阻挡我们再次进行试验。
• Dogs can deter unwelcome intruders.狗能够阻拦不受欢迎的闯入者。

13 pier   

n.码头；桥墩，桥柱；[建]窗间壁，支柱

参考例句：

• The pier of the bridge has been so badly damaged that experts worry it is unable to bear weight.这座桥的桥桩破损厉害，专家担心它已不能负重。
• The ship was making towards the pier.船正驶向码头。

14 activists   

n.（政治活动的）积极分子，活动家( activist的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• His research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。
• Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。 来自《简明英汉词典》

15 baroness   

n.男爵夫人，女男爵

参考例句：

• I'm sure the Baroness will be able to make things fine for you.我相信男爵夫人能够把家里的事替你安排妥当的。
• The baroness,who had signed,returned the pen to the notary.男爵夫人这时已签过字，把笔交回给律师。

16 recordings   

n.记录( recording的名词复数 )；录音；录像；唱片

参考例句：

• a boxed set of original recordings 一套盒装原声录音带
• old jazz recordings reissued on CD 以激光唱片重新发行的老爵士乐

17 remarkable   

adj.显著的，异常的，非凡的，值得注意的

参考例句：

• She has made remarkable headway in her writing skills.她在写作技巧方面有了长足进步。
• These cars are remarkable for the quietness of their engines.这些汽车因发动机没有噪音而不同凡响。

18 prosecution   

n.起诉，告发，检举，执行，经营

参考例句：

• The Smiths brought a prosecution against the organizers.史密斯家对组织者们提出起诉。
• He attempts to rebut the assertion made by the prosecution witness.他试图反驳原告方证人所作的断言。

19 initially   

adv.最初，开始

参考例句：

• The ban was initially opposed by the US.这一禁令首先遭到美国的反对。
• Feathers initially developed from insect scales.羽毛最初由昆虫的翅瓣演化而来。

20 alleged   

a.被指控的，嫌疑的

参考例句：

• It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
• alleged irregularities in the election campaign 被指称竞选运动中的不正当行为

21 obsessive   

adj. 着迷的, 强迫性的, 分神的

参考例句：

• Some people are obsessive about cleanliness.有些人有洁癖。
• He's becoming more and more obsessive about punctuality.他对守时要求越来越过分了。

22 gambling   

n.赌博；投机

参考例句：

• They have won a lot of money through gambling.他们赌博赢了很多钱。
• The men have been gambling away all night.那些人赌了整整一夜。