一、泛聽建議:
1、完整聽一遍,掌握大意。
2、繼續(xù)聽,特別注意關鍵信息。遇到相似的詞,寫下來。
The White House says the US _1_ a new report by human rights groups that says the US may have violated international law by killing civilians in drone attacks. Amnesty international's Mustafa Qadri says the Obama administration's veil of secrecy prevents analysts from detailing the truth.
白宮表示,美國正在審查人權組織的新報告,報告中表示,美國在無人機襲擊中致平民死亡涉嫌違反國際法。國際特赦組織的穆斯塔法?卡德里表示,奧巴馬政府對信息保密阻礙了分析人員調查事實真相。
"We can not be a hundred percent certain, but we are extremely _2_ that these and other killings documented in our report may constitute extra judicial executions, or war crimes."
“我們不能百分百確定,但我們非常擔心的是,報告中記錄的殺害行為可能構成法外處決或是戰(zhàn)爭罪行。”
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch say they've _3_ witnesses accounts and satellite images of drone strikes, and conclude far more civilians have been killed than the US acknowledges. The administration _4_ drones had been far more precise than conventional weapons.
國際特赦組織和人權觀察組織表示,他們收集了目擊者的證詞及無人機襲擊的衛(wèi)星圖片,得出的結論是,被殺害的平民人數(shù)遠比美國承認的要多得多。美國政府辯稱,無人機比常規(guī)武器要精確得多。
Mexico's foreign minister says his country _5_ a thorough investigation into allegations that the US spied on Mexican official email. NPR's Carrie Kahn reports the foreign minister says president Obama personally promised an enquiry.
墨西哥外交部表示,墨西哥將就美國監(jiān)聽墨西哥官員電郵的指控展開詳細調查。據(jù)NPR新聞,嘉莉·卡恩報道,外交部長表示,奧巴馬總統(tǒng)本人承諾進行詢問。
詞匯解析:
1、conclude
vt. 推斷;決定,作結論;結束
vi. 推斷;斷定;決定
eg:Larry had concluded that he had no choice but to accept Paul's words as the truth.
拉里斷定他別無選擇,只能相信保羅所說為實。
2、allegation
n. 主張,斷言;辯解
eg:The company has denied the allegations.
該公司否認了這些指控。
參考答案:
1、is reviewing 2、concerned 3、gathered
4、is defending 5、is expecting