英语听力精选进阶版 8225

Stuck in Issad in eastern Lebanon, Syrian refugees have become a majority here and many of them have little hope of returning home soon. These mountains stretching into Syria have retreat for opposition¹ fighters who fled the latest advance by the Syrian army and its ally - the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah. Meanwhile the Lebanese army has deployed² in and around Issad as part of a security plan to contain the spillover.

Just a few curls on that throat is a Lebanese army checkpoint, familiar to everyone here. There is no way out of Issad, except bomb that throat and pass the checkpoint.

We met one refugee who was stopped at that checkpoint. Like many others he had crossed over into Lebanon illegally. But he says he wasn't expecting what happened next.

Next to the checkpoint, there is a two-storey building. They took me to a room on the second floor which has some gym equipment by the building staff. One of the soldiers asked me, if there is anything you had to say. I said no. Then he laid me down on one of the benches, and then it all started.

He says he was heavily beaten with sticks, cables and tasers as the soldiers tried to extract a confession³ linking him to Syrian rebels' fighters inside Lebanon.

One of them said, I have a new method. He put socks over my nose and mouth, two others put me down, while the men started poring water on my face. I thought I was drowning. I had only seen this in films. I couldn't believe this was happening to me.

He was later released.

We asked the army for a comment and they said all military personnel are subject to military rules, and that of the person in question believed he was harmed by a soldier, he made us a few legal avenues to claim he's right. But there appears to be more than one case.

We have documented one case in early May where a Syrian man was stopped at the checkpoint, taken from the van to a room next to the checkpoint. He was beaten, kicked, punched; electric prods⁴ were used on him; he himself saw three other Syrians get beaten up later on that day because they did not have proper residency papers inside Lebanon. So we know a number of people have been beaten up in this one room next to this check point.

We called the army and asked again about the room behind the checkpoint, but they had no further comment. The soldiers at that checkpoint stand guard at the center of this spot, where a frontline of the Syrian war has edged its way into Lebanon. Some Syrians here have found new dangers where they sought refuge.

1 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。

2 deployed   

（尤指军事行动）使展开( deploy的过去式和过去分词 )； 施展； 部署； 有效地利用

参考例句：

• Tanks have been deployed all along the front line. 沿整个前线已部署了坦克。
• The artillery was deployed to bear on the fort. 火炮是对着那个碉堡部署的。

3 confession   

n.自白，供认，承认

参考例句：

• Her confession was simply tantamount to a casual explanation.她的自白简直等于一篇即席说明。
• The police used torture to extort a confession from him.警察对他用刑逼供。

4 prods   

n.刺，戳( prod的名词复数 )；刺激；促使；（用手指或尖物）戳v.刺，戳( prod的第三人称单数 )；刺激；促使；（用手指或尖物）戳

参考例句：

• Electric bulb and socket, with a pair of prods for testing for element shorts and defects. 电灯，插座和一对探针，以供试验电池的短路和检查故障用。 来自辞典例句
• Make off the cuff remarks that are often seen as personal prods. 做出非正规的评价，让人不能接受。 来自互联网