英语听力精选进阶版 8618

France says it turned away nearly 3.5 thousand people from its borders since a state of the emergency with introduced after last month attacks in Paris. The French interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve said they were refused entry because they posed a risk to security and public order.

法国表示已经拒绝将近3500人入境自从国家开启紧急预警由于上个月的恐怖袭击事件。法国内政部长博德纳表示拒绝它们入境是由于其有潜在的危险，威胁公共秩序。

The president of Columbia Juan Manuel Santos has signed a decree legalizing marihuana for medical use. He described the move as an important step placing Columbia at the forefront to fight against disease. He insisted he didn't contradict the country's international commitment on drug control. Columbia has long been associated with the US led war on drugs, it's the latest Latin American country to move towards legalizing marihuana.

哥伦比亚总统胡安.桑托斯签署了一项法令宣布医用大麻合法化。他认为这项运动对于对于哥伦比亚的一线抗病是极其重要的。他还坚持表示他这样做并不是在否认该国对于毒品管制的国际性承诺。这是拉丁美洲国家对于大麻合法化最新的运动。

The American space agency NASA has suspended the launch with next mission to Mars because of a fault in a key search instrument. The Insights space craft was scheduled take off in March and land on Mars 6 months later. Mike Sanders reports. It's a problem that will cause a major delay. The window of sending a probe to Mars last a matter of weeks and comes around only once every 26 months. The next time earth and Mars are in favorable alignment¹ will happen again until 2018. It needs a vacuum seal around the 3 main sensors² and twice now that seal has leaked in the kind of extreme cold found on Mars. But NASA points to previous successes of postponement³, saying they are far outweighed⁴ any disappointment of that delay.

美国宇航局(NASA)已结暂停了下一次火星发射任务由于在核心搜素工具中出现了错误。宇宙飞船将在四月份的时候发射，六个月之后着陆在火星。以下是迈克桑德斯发回的报道。问题导致了推迟。火星探测器的窗口持续数周都有问题，每26个月只回来一次。下一次地球和火星处于绝佳的位置得等到2018年。它需要三个真空密封的传感器，但是这种密封已经在极端寒冷的火星上泄露了两次。但美国宇航局指出，过去的成功推迟，说他们的重要性远远超过了其他的推迟。

French's most famous famous brothel-keeper Madame Claude has died on aFrench , age of 92. Her clienteles 1960s and 70s including ministers, business leaders, police chiefs, gangsters⁵ and even she claimed x of Iran and John Kennedy. Persued by the French tax authority, she fled to the US returning in 1996 to spend time in jail. In late year, she lives as recluse⁶ in a small apartment in Nice.

法国最有名的妓院的老板克劳德夫人在法国去世，92岁。上世纪六、七十年代她的顾客包括部长、商界领袖、警察局长，歹徒甚至她声称还包括伊朗和甘乃迪。由于法国税务机关的，1996年她逃回到美国在监狱中度过。在去年年底，她像隐士一样生活在的在尼斯的一个小公寓里。

1 alignment   

n.队列；结盟，联合

参考例句：

• The church should have no political alignment.教会不应与政治结盟。
• Britain formed a close alignment with Egypt in the last century.英国在上个世纪与埃及结成了紧密的联盟。

2 sensors   

n.传感器，灵敏元件( sensor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• There were more than 2000 sensors here. 这里装有两千多个灵敏元件。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Significant changes have been noted where sensors were exposed to trichloride. 当传感器暴露在三氯化物中时，有很大变化。 来自辞典例句

3 postponement   

n.推迟

参考例句：

• He compounded with his creditors for a postponement of payment. 他与债权人达成协议延期付款。
• Rain caused the postponement of several race-meetings. 几次赛马大会因雨延期。

4 outweighed   

v.在重量上超过( outweigh的过去式和过去分词 )；在重要性或价值方面超过

参考例句：

• This boxer outweighed by his opponent 20 pounds. 这个拳击选手体重比他的对手重20磅。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• She outweighed me by ten pounds, and sometimes she knocked me down. 她的体重超过我十磅，有时竟把我撞倒。 来自百科语句

5 gangsters   

匪徒，歹徒( gangster的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The gangsters offered him a sum equivalent to a whole year's earnings. 歹徒提出要给他一笔相当于他一年收入的钱。
• One of the gangsters was caught by the police. 歹徒之一被警察逮捕。

6 recluse   

n.隐居者

参考例句：

• The old recluse secluded himself from the outside world.这位老隐士与外面的世界隔绝了。
• His widow became a virtual recluse for the remainder of her life.他的寡妻孤寂地度过了余生。