英语听力精选进阶版 9621

Hi there, I'm Leah from the BBC World News for Schools. It's Monday the 16th of May. 

Coming up 

?Japan struggles with tons of tsunami¹ rubbish 

?and Lady Gaga breaks another record! 

First up ..one of the world's most important financial bosses has been arrested. And it's happened just when meetings are going on to discuss giving big sums of money to help struggling European countries. He's Dominique Strauss Khan, the head of the International Monetary² Fund - and he's being questioned about assault. People are worried that if he's not at the meetings there could be a knock-on effect on huge decisions about the European economy. 

In Japan they're expanding the exclusion³ zone around the nuclear power plant crippled by the tsunami and earthquake two months ago. The no-go area now includes two more towns around thirty kilometres from the plant - and five thousand more people leaving their homes. It's another setback⁴ for the clear-up teams who are trying to get the devastated⁵ region ready for rebuilding. One of their biggest problems is - what they do with all the debris⁶ - our reporter Roland Buerk says there's simply too much of it: 

CLIP: The wreckage⁷ has been gathered up into huge piles. It's been estimated to be the equivalent of an entire century's worth of household rubbish. The question now is what to do with it. 

This resident says the government has to do more: 

CLIP: (starts in Japanese then translator) They've sent the army and heavy machinery⁸ but we need to recycle and get rid of this stuff now and the government has not come up with a detailed⁹ plan yet. We just don't know what to do. Where do we go from here? 

Now, in north America, 25-thousand people are being evacuated¹⁰ because their homes are being deliberately¹¹ flooded by the government. Engineers have had to open the floodgates of the famous Mississippi river onto three-thousand square miles of Louisiana. It's part of a big plan to protect cities from what could be the worst floods for forty years. But in the meantime charities have begun sheltering people who are losing their homes: 

CLIP: "We don't even know if we're going to come back here. We may just move somewheres else." "Knowing that all of this that you worked for is going to be gone - you just - that's all you can think about." "The hardest part is moving out and then trying to settle in a new place while this one is flooded." "We're the outcasts, we're the black sheep, I mean - what are we?" 

The Chinese artist Aiwewe - who was arrested by the Chinese authorities six weeks ago - is definitely still alive - he's had his first family visit. Police took his wife Lu Ching to go and see him in custody¹². Afterwards she said he seems well looked after . 

Some sad news in athletics¹³ - the Olympic marathon gold medal holder¹⁴ Samuel Wanjiru has died. He was only twenty four and he fell from a balcony at his house in Kenya. 

In a big weekend of football -- just in case you hadn't heard, Manchester City are the new FA Cup holders¹⁵, beating Stoke one-nil at Wembley. And Manchester United won a record-breaking nineteenth league title after drawing with Blackburn one-ALL. And Glasgow Rangers¹⁶ fans are celebrating after picking up their third Scottish Premier¹⁷ League title in a row. 

Well it seems like Lady Gaga's taking over the world -- she's just broken another record -- and become the first ever celebrity¹⁸ to have more than ten million followers¹⁹ on social network site TWITTER. She took over as Twitter's biggest sleb from Britney Spears last year. Now for today's question -- what's Lady Gaga's real name? 

OK, that's all from the World News for Schools team. We're back tomorrow. 

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1 tsunami   

n.海啸

参考例句：

• Powerful quake sparks tsunami warning in Japan.大地震触发了日本的海啸预警。
• Coastlines all around the Indian Ocean inundated by a huge tsunami.大海啸把印度洋沿岸地区都淹没了。

2 monetary   

adj.货币的，钱的；通货的；金融的；财政的

参考例句：

• The monetary system of some countries used to be based on gold.过去有些国家的货币制度是金本位制的。
• Education in the wilderness is not a matter of monetary means.荒凉地区的教育不是钱财问题。

3 exclusion   

n.拒绝，排除，排斥，远足，远途旅行

参考例句：

• Don't revise a few topics to the exclusion of all others.不要修改少数论题以致排除所有其他的。
• He plays golf to the exclusion of all other sports.他专打高尔夫球，其他运动一概不参加。

4 setback   

n.退步，挫折，挫败

参考例句：

• Since that time there has never been any setback in his career.从那时起他在事业上一直没有遇到周折。
• She views every minor setback as a disaster.她把每个较小的挫折都看成重大灾难。

5 devastated   

v.彻底破坏( devastate的过去式和过去分词)；摧毁；毁灭；在感情上（精神上、财务上等）压垮adj.毁坏的；极为震惊的

参考例句：

• The bomb devastated much of the old part of the city. 这颗炸弹炸毁了旧城的一大片地方。
• His family is absolutely devastated. 他的一家感到极为震惊。

6 debris   

n.瓦砾堆，废墟，碎片

参考例句：

• After the bombing there was a lot of debris everywhere.轰炸之后到处瓦砾成堆。
• Bacteria sticks to food debris in the teeth,causing decay.细菌附着在牙缝中的食物残渣上，导致蛀牙。

7 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。

8 machinery   

n.(总称)机械，机器；机构

参考例句：

• Has the machinery been put up ready for the broadcast?广播器材安装完毕了吗？
• Machinery ought to be well maintained all the time.机器应该随时注意维护。

9 detailed   

adj.详细的，详尽的，极注意细节的，完全的

参考例句：

• He had made a detailed study of the terrain.他对地形作了缜密的研究。
• A detailed list of our publications is available on request.我们的出版物有一份详细的目录备索。

10 evacuated   

撤退者的

参考例句：

• Police evacuated nearby buildings. 警方已将附近大楼的居民疏散。
• The fireman evacuated the guests from the burning hotel. 消防队员把客人们从燃烧着的旅馆中撤出来。

11 deliberately   

adv.审慎地；蓄意地；故意地

参考例句：

• The girl gave the show away deliberately.女孩故意泄露秘密。
• They deliberately shifted off the argument.他们故意回避这个论点。

12 custody   

n.监护，照看，羁押，拘留

参考例句：

• He spent a week in custody on remand awaiting sentence.等候判决期间他被还押候审一个星期。
• He was taken into custody immediately after the robbery.抢劫案发生后，他立即被押了起来。

13 athletics   

n.运动，体育，田径运动

参考例句：

• When I was at school I was always hopeless at athletics.我上学的时候体育十分糟糕。
• Our team tied with theirs in athletics.在田径比赛中，我们队与他们队旗鼓相当。

14 holder   

n.持有者，占有者；(台，架等)支持物

参考例句：

• The holder of the office of chairman is reponsible for arranging meetings.担任主席职位的人负责安排会议。
• That runner is the holder of the world record for the hundred-yard dash.那位运动员是一百码赛跑世界纪录的保持者。

15 holders   

支持物( holder的名词复数 )； 持有者； （支票等）持有人； 支托（或握持）…之物

参考例句：

• Slaves were mercilessly ground down by slave holders. 奴隶受奴隶主的残酷压迫。
• It is recognition of compassion's part that leads the up-holders of capital punishment to accuse the abolitionists of sentimentality in being more sorry for the murderer than for his victim. 正是对怜悯的作用有了认识，才使得死刑的提倡者指控主张废除死刑的人感情用事，同情谋杀犯胜过同情受害者。

16 rangers   

护林者( ranger的名词复数 )； 突击队员

参考例句：

• Do you know where the Rangers Stadium is? 你知道Rangers体育场在哪吗？ 来自超越目标英语 第3册
• Now I'm a Rangers' fan, so I like to be near the stadium. 现在我是Rangers的爱好者，所以我想离体育场近一点。 来自超越目标英语 第3册

17 premier   

adj.首要的；n.总理，首相

参考例句：

• The Irish Premier is paying an official visit to Britain.爱尔兰总理正在对英国进行正式访问。
• He requested that the premier grant him an internview.他要求那位总理接见他一次。

18 celebrity   

n.名人，名流；著名，名声，名望

参考例句：

• Tom found himself something of a celebrity. 汤姆意识到自己已小有名气了。
• He haunted famous men, hoping to get celebrity for himself. 他常和名人在一起, 希望借此使自己获得名气。

19 followers   

追随者( follower的名词复数 )； 用户； 契据的附面； 从动件

参考例句：

• the followers of Mahatma Gandhi 圣雄甘地的拥护者
• The reformer soon gathered a band of followers round him. 改革者很快就获得一群追随者支持他。