高级英语听力 lesson 7

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Lesson Seven

       Section One: News in Brief

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       1. Both -House and Senate negotiators today approved sweeping¹ im-
       migration² legislation that could grant amnesty to millions of illegal
       aliens who entered the country before 1982.  The bill, as worked, out
       in five hours of closed-door negotiations³, would establish a system
       of fines against employers who hire illegal immigrants.  It would also
       make those who came to the US illegally but have established roots
       in this country eligible⁴ for amnesty.

       2. The Supreme⁵ Court today agreed to decide if Illinois can require
       minors⁶ wanting abortions⁸ to notify their parents or obtain judicial⁹
       consent.  The justices will review the decision striking down a 1983
       law, which required some girls to wait twenty-four hours after tel-
       ling their parents they wanted an abortion⁷.

       3. It was announced today that the winner of this year's Nobel Peace
       Prize is Elie Wiesel.  He has written twenty' five books on his experi-
       ences in a Nazi¹⁰ prison of war camp and on the Holocaust¹¹.  And he's
       been a human rights activist¹² for thirty years.  NPR's Mike Shuster
       reports.  "Wiesel was sleeping in his Manhattan apartment when he
       received the word at five o'clock this morning from the Nobel Com-
       mittee in Oslo, Norway.  Wiesel said he was flabbergasted at the
       news, and later at a press conference, he said he would dedicate his
       Prize to the survivors¹³ of the Holocaust and their children.  "The hon-
       or is not mine alone.  It belongs to all the survivors who have tried to
       do something with their pain, with their memory, with their silence,
       with their life.' Wiesel, fifty-eight, is a native of Rumania.  As a

  teenager, he and his family were sent to a Nazi death camp.  He and
  two sisters survived; his mother, father, and younger sister did not.
  After the War, Wiesel went first to France, then to the United States.
  He is credited with the first use of the word 'Holocaust' to describe
  the Nazi extermination¹⁴ of the Jews.'

    Section Two: News in Detail

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       A House-Senate Conference Committee has agreed to an im-
    migration reform bill.  The measure, which had died in the final days
    of the fast two Congresses, now looks as though it will become law.
    NPR's Cokie Roberts reports.
       One of the chief advocates of the immigration bill, New York
    Democrat¹⁵ Charles Schumer, says that this year immigration became
    a white hat issue, that the forces fighting against the measures finally
    had a force on the opposite side of equal rate public opinion.  The
    opponents of immigration reform have always been many: Hispanics
    in Congress and in the country have opposed the part of the bill most
    lawmakers consider key - punishment for employers who knowing-
    ly hire illegals.  The measure, passed at a conference today, would
    provide civil penalties and criminal penalties for those who repeated-
    ly hire illegal aliens.  Hispanics worry the employer sanctions would
    cause discrimination against anyone with an accent or Spanish
    name, whether legal or not.  The new bill includes strong anti-dis-
    crimination language for employers who do refuse to hire any
    Hispanics while still allowing someone to hire a citizen before an
    alien.  To appease¹⁶ Hispanics and others, the immigration bill includes
    amnesty for aliens who have been in this country for five years,
    Many border state representatives fought against the legalization
    provisions, saying that millions of people could eventually become
    citizens and bring their relatives to this country.  All those people
    could bankrupt the state's social services, said the representatives,
    but the idea of deporting¹⁷ all of those people seemed impractical¹⁸ as
    well as inhumane to most members of Congress.  And aliens who
    came to this country before 1982 will        ' be able to apply for
    legalization.  The other major controversial area of the immigration
    bill is the farm worker program.  Agricultural interests wanted to be

able to bring workers into this country to harvest crops without be-
 ing subjected to employer sanctions, but the trade unions opposed
 this section of the bill.  Finally, a compromise was reached where up
 to three hundred and fifty thousand farm workers could come into
 this country, but their rights would be protected and they would also
 be able to apply for legalization if they met certain conditions.  The
 elements of the final immigration package have been there all along,
 but this year, say the key lawmakers around this legislation, the
 Congress was ready to act on them.  The combination of horror sto-
 ries about people coming over the borders and editorials about con-
 gressional inability to act made members of Congress decide the time
 had come to enact¹⁹ immigration reform.  But supporters of reform
 warn the end is not here yet.  The conference report must still pass
 both houses of Congress, and a Senate filibuster²⁰ is always a possibili
 ty. I'm Cokie Roberts at the Capitol.

  Section Three: Special Report

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      Many photography shops are quite busy this time of the year.
  People back from vacation are dropping off rolls of film and hoping
  for the best.  But commentator²¹ Tom Baudet learned a long time ago
  he was better off not hoping.
    I I've been told that I take lousy pictures. It's not that my sbots
  aren't technically²² OK; it's just that my pictures seem to bring out the
  worst in people.  I hope that's not a sign of something.  I usually end
  up throwing half the pictures I take.  It's not that they're deceiving.
  Not at all; they're just too honest.  It's true what they say that a cam-
  era never lies, but you certainly can lie to a camera.. We do it all the
  time; at least we exaggerate a little to a lens.  The first
  thing you'll usually hear when you point a camera at someone is,

  ' Wait, I'm not ready.' Well, so you wait while they brush th
  crumbs²³ off their chin, put out a cigarette, or throw an arm aroun
  the person next to them like they've been standing²⁴ that way all day
  Well, you get your picture, but it's blown all out of proportion.  Ev
  erybody's having a little more fun than they really were and likin
  each other more than they actually do.  We're all guilty of this on
  time or another.  You're with your sweetheart travelling somewhere
  You've been walking and complaining about the price of the room
  the blister²⁵ on your heel and the rude waitress at the cafe.  But then
  you stop somebody on the street, hand them your camera, and pu
  on your very best having-a-wonderful-time smile.  Well, ten year
  later you'll look at that picture in a scrapbook and remember what
  great trip it was, whether it was or not.  For it's a natural thing to do:
  plant little seeds of contentment in our lives in case we doubt we ever
  had any. Well, it 's good practice to take an opportunity to mug up to
  a camera.  There never seems to be a camera around for the real spe-
  cial times: that make-up embrace after a long and dangerous discus-
  sion, the look on your face as you hold the phone and hear you got
  that promotion²⁶, the quiet ride home from the hospital after learning
  those suspicious lumps were benign²⁷ and something to watch but not
  worry about.  Those are the memories that should be preserved, to be
  remembered and relied upon when harder times take hold.  Those
  times when a photographer like me will catch you at a party with a
  loneliness on your face that you didn't think would show or bitter-
  ness tugging²⁸ at your lips during a conversation you didn"t intend to
  be overheard.  Well, we all slip up like this sometimes, and sooner or
  later we get caught with our guards down.  I think that's why I end
  up with pictures like that.  I like it when people leave their guards
  down.  We all know our best sides, and it's nice to keep that face for-
  ward²⁹ whenever we can.  But I don't mind having pictures of the other
  sides.  Either way they all look just like people to me.
      Writer Tom Baudet.  He lives in Homer, Alaska.