·[ 新窗口浏览 MediaPlayer 文件 或是右键“目标另存为”下载]A New York City jury is now considering what sentence to impose on a man convicted of bombing the U.S. embassy in Tanzania three years ago. There are only two options: he will either spend the rest of his life in prison or be sentenced to death. Closing arguments in the penalty phase of this trial have been heard and the jury has retired to consider the fate of Khalfan Khamis Mohamed. Last month he and three others were convicted of involvement in the bombi……
·[ 新窗口浏览 MediaPlayer 文件 或是右键“目标另存为”下载]今天，让我们继续来听《陪审团考虑如何判决爆炸美国驻赞比亚大使馆的罪犯》这条新闻的第二部分。 在上一次的听力练习中，我们听到了纽约市的陪审团正在考虑如何判决爆炸美国驻赞比亚大使馆的罪犯，文中提到了只有两种选择：要么一直蹲监狱，要么被处以死刑。 下面我们接着听听法庭是怎么对待这件事的： Because of the gravity of the crimes, the jury can only consider two options: the death penalty or life in prison. A unanimous decision by the 12-member jury is required for an execution. Failing that, the prison option will automatically be invoked. In attempting to persuade the jury to advocate the death penalty, p……
·[ 新窗口浏览 MediaPlayer 文件 或是右键“目标另存为”下载]原文： He continues to pose a threat, argue the government lawyers, even from behind prison bars. But lawyers acting on Mohamed’s behalf want him sent to jail. They claim that an execution will turn Mohamed into a martyr for his cause, a cause closely associated with the suspected terrorist leader Osama bin Laden. Send him to jail and he will be forgotten by every one,” said one defense lawyer, “Kill him and you guarantee him immortality. 注解： 这一段听力承接上一段的内容，主……
·[ 新窗口浏览 MediaPlayer 文件 或是右键“目标另存为”下载]今天我们来听《陪审团考虑如何判决爆炸美国驻赞比亚大使馆的罪犯》这条新闻的最后一个部分。 在前面的听力练习里，我们已经听到了Mohamed可能面临的两种刑罚，也明白了公诉人和辩护律师所持的不同观点，相信大家已经可以猜的到，最后一部分应该是讲结果的，也就是，法庭最后得出了什么样的结论。好，下面就让我们一起来听一下： Although there’s no way of accurately guessing what the jury will decide, there is one existing precedent. That is the sentencing of one of the man convicted alongside Mohamed. The same jury has already sentenced Mohamed Rashed Daoud al’Owhali to life in prison for his role in the embassy bombing in Ken……
·[ 新窗口浏览 MediaPlayer 文件 或是右键“目标另存为”下载]原文：“In this particular case, we feel that the confluence of the intelligence information is specific enough and credible enough so that we had to take this prudent, cautious cause of action because you are talking about peoples lives. ”Admiral Quigley rejects suggestions that the response has given terrorists victory, forcing US military units to effectively flee in the face of a threat.注解：confluence：汇集，汇合prudent：谨慎的flee：逃跑这一段是海军少将Quigley说的话，他说，所收集的情报是具体的，可信的……
·[ 新窗口浏览 MediaPlayer 文件 或是右键“目标另存为”下载]今天我们来听《波斯湾美军仍保持高度戒备》这篇新闻的第三部分，上一次的听力中，我们听到了海军少将Quigley对事态所持的态度，这一次我们继续来听他还有什么看法：原文：He says it was the right thing to do. If we can put ships to sea, if we can remove Marines from an exercise, if we can increase force protection measures throughout that region to make it harder—it’s never impossible-but make it harder to attack US forces then given the circumstances that we see in this case we felt that was the right thing to do.注解：remove：移交、移动、开除Marine:舰队，水兵，……
·[ 新窗口浏览 MediaPlayer 文件 或是右键“目标另存为”下载]今天我们来听《波斯湾美军仍保持高度戒备》这篇新闻的最后一个部分，上一次的听力中，我们听到了海军少将Quigley对事态的看法，这一次我们来听最后的结果原文：News reports have linked the latest threat to associates of fugitive Saudi terrorist leader Osama bin Laden. He has also been linked to last Octobers bombing of a US destroyer while on a port call in Yemen. 17 US sailors were killed in that attack, which prompted a review of security measures for all American forces worldwide. Alex Belida, VOA news, the Pentagon.这是《波斯湾美军仍保持高度戒备》这篇新闻……
·[ 新窗口浏览 MediaPlayer 文件 或是右键“目标另存为”下载]今天我们要听到的新闻叫做《美国确定弹道导弹试验日期》。请大家先来听一遍第一部分：注解：controverisal：争论的，有争议的ballistic missile：弹道导弹defer：推迟，延期原文：The United States is going ahead with another test of its controversial missile defense system. The Pentagon said its next attempt to shoot down a ballistic missile with what it calls a Kill Vehicle will take place outside the earth atmosphere over the Pacific next Saturday, July 14th.Thats just over a year after the last intercept test, a failure last July th……
·[ 新窗口浏览 MediaPlayer 文件 或是右键“目标另存为”下载]Two of the three tests staged since 1999 have failed. China, Russia and many US allies have criticized the effort. But President Bush says he is committed to pursuing a missile defense program. The latest Pentagon budget increases spending on missile defense research by some 5.3 billion dollars, raising it to a total of some 8.3 billion dollars.注解：allies：同盟国，联盟国budget：预算，做预算raise it to…：增加到…这里有一个词：staged，我们都知道stage在做名词的时候是“舞台”、“阶段”的意思，但在这篇文章里，显然是个动词，从上下文来看，好像……
·[ 新窗口浏览 MediaPlayer 文件 或是右键“目标另存为”下载]今天我们要听到的是一篇新的新闻，名字叫做《有关报告显示挪威的人类发展指数最高》。相对于前两篇新闻而言，这一篇的内容和我们的生活比较接近，所以听起来不是特别费劲。好了，就让我们先来试着听听看吧：原文：A report released today says Norway has the best quality of life of any country in the world. The report called the Human Development Index was commissioned by the UN Development Program. Each year the UN agency ranks 162 countries according to a number of factors, including life expectancy, educational involvement, adult literacy and income per person. The repo……
·[ 新窗口浏览 MediaPlayer 文件 或是右键“目标另存为”下载]今天我们来听《有关报告显示挪威的人类发展指数最高》这篇新闻的第二个部分。在上一次的听力中，我们听到了一份报告称挪威的人类发展指数最高。这个被称为人类发展指数的报告是在联合国发展计划的委托下进行的。每年都根据一定的因素对162个国家进行排名，挪威名列第一。下面我们来听听这篇报告的主要作者是怎么说的：首先是一些专有名词：Sakiko Fukada-Parr：（人名）原文：The lead author of the report, Sakiko Fukada-Parr, says wealth alone does not necessarily guarantee a good quality of life. Although the United States has a higher level of per capita income than other countries, she says it has slipped in the rankings because of such factors a……
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