英语听力精选进阶版 9206

A five-year inquiry¹ into child sexual abuse in Australia has handed over its final report which stretches to 17 volumes. The law commission has heard heroine testimony² from thousands of survivors³ across the country. It identified abuse in more than four thousand Australian institutions including religious organization, sports club, foster homes and the military.

澳大利亚关于儿童性虐待的长达5年的调查已提交了最终报告，这份报告长达17卷。法律委员会听取了数千名女幸存者的证词。报告证实包括宗教机构、体育俱乐部、寄养家庭以及军队等4000多所澳大利亚机构中均存在虐待事件。

A judge in New York has sentenced two nephews of Venezuela's first lady to 18 years in jail for conspiring⁴ to smuggle⁵ vast amount of cocaine⁶ into the United States.

纽约一名法官判处委内瑞拉第一夫人的两个侄子入狱18年，罪名为走私大量可卡因至美国。

Supporters of Net Neutrality in the United States, the rule which requests equal treatment of all internet traffic says that they will meant mount legal challenge against the decision to scrap⁷ the measure, as being heated debated about the issue for month.

网络中立即要求平等对待所有的网络流量，美国网络中立的支持者表示，取消网络中立意味着向发起法律挑战。而关于此问题的争论已经持续了一个月。

Donald Trump⁸ and Russian president Vladimir Putin have held talks by phone on the crisis of North Korea's nuclear weapons program. Earlier this week, the US secretary of state Rex Tillerson said he was prepared to talk to Pyongyang without preconditions.

美国总统唐纳德·特朗普和俄罗斯总统普金就朝鲜核武器危机问题进行了电话会谈。本周早些时候，美国国务卿雷克斯·蒂勒森表示，可以无条件和平壤进行会谈。

And an American firefighter has died while tackling a massive wild fire which is continuing to rage in southern California. The blaze in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties is one of several that have ravaged⁹ the large part of California over the past week.

在扑灭南加州肆虐的森林野火中，一名美国消防队员遇难。在过去一周，温图拉和圣巴巴拉县的大火肆虐加州大部分地区。

Dutch police say two people have been killed in stabbing incidents in the residential¹⁰ area of the city of Maastricht. They say the stabbing occurred in two locations within a few hundred of meters of each other.

荷兰警方表示，马斯特里赫特市居民区发生持刀伤人事件，造成两人死亡。警方表示，两处刺杀事件发生的地点相隔数百米。

Thousands of people in Romania have been queuing to pay their last respects to the former king Michael I in Bucharest. Three days of mourning are being held for the ex-monarch.

数千名罗马尼亚民众在布加勒斯特排队向钱国王迈克尔一世致敬。默哀仪式共举行了三天。

A NASA space telescope has discovered the 8th planet circling around a distant star. It's the first host as many planets as our solar system. NASA says the star is just a bit hotter and larger than the sun.

美国国家宇航局的一架太空望远镜发现了围绕遥远恒星的第8颗行星。这是首颗拥有和我们太阳系一样多的行星的恒星。美国宇航局表示，这颗恒星比太阳更热、更大。

1 inquiry   

n.打听，询问，调查，查问

参考例句：

• Many parents have been pressing for an inquiry into the problem.许多家长迫切要求调查这个问题。
• The field of inquiry has narrowed down to five persons.调查的范围已经缩小到只剩5个人了。

2 testimony   

n.证词；见证，证明

参考例句：

• The testimony given by him is dubious.他所作的证据是可疑的。
• He was called in to bear testimony to what the police officer said.他被传入为警官所说的话作证。

3 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

4 conspiring   

密谋( conspire的现在分词 )； 搞阴谋； （事件等）巧合； 共同导致

参考例句：

• They were accused of conspiring against the king. 他们被指控阴谋反对国王。
• John Brown and his associates were tried for conspiring to overthrow the slave states. 约翰·布朗和他的合伙者们由于密谋推翻实行奴隶制度的美国各州而被审讯。

5 smuggle   

vt.私运；vi.走私

参考例句：

• Friends managed to smuggle him secretly out of the country.朋友们想方设法将他秘密送出国了。
• She has managed to smuggle out the antiques without getting caught.她成功将古董走私出境，没有被逮捕。

6 cocaine   

n.可卡因，古柯碱（用作局部麻醉剂）

参考例句：

• That young man is a cocaine addict.那个年轻人吸食可卡因成瘾。
• Don't have cocaine abusively.不可滥服古柯碱。

7 scrap   

n.碎片；废料；v.废弃，报废

参考例句：

• A man comes round regularly collecting scrap.有个男人定时来收废品。
• Sell that car for scrap.把那辆汽车当残品卖了吧。

8 trump   

n.王牌，法宝；v.打出王牌，吹喇叭

参考例句：

• He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
• The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手，作为他的王牌。

9 ravaged   

毁坏( ravage的过去式和过去分词 )； 蹂躏； 劫掠； 抢劫

参考例句：

• a country ravaged by civil war 遭受内战重创的国家
• The whole area was ravaged by forest fires. 森林火灾使整个地区荒废了。

10 residential   

adj.提供住宿的；居住的；住宅的

参考例句：

• The mayor inspected the residential section of the city.市长视察了该市的住宅区。
• The residential blocks were integrated with the rest of the college.住宿区与学院其他部分结合在了一起。