醫(yī)學(xué)考博英語(yǔ)聽(tīng)力練習(xí)素材（五）

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

2.A judge in New York has sentenced two nephews of Venezuela's first lady to 18 years in jail for conspiring to smuggle vast amount of cocaine into the United States.

3.Supporters of Net Neutrality in the United States, the rule which requires equal treatment of all internet traffic says they will mount a legal challenge against the decision to scrap the measure. There has been heated debate about the issue for months.

4.Donald Trump the 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.

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

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

7.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.

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

詞匯

1.Thousands of people in Romania have been queuing to pay their last respects to the former King Michael I in Bucharest.

pay respects to 向……致敬

standing before the white headstones in Arlington, in peaceful cemeteries small-town squares in every corner of the country, they will pay respects to those lost in Iraq Afghanistan.

站在阿林頓市白色墓石前，或是全國(guó)各地的墓園和小城鎮(zhèn)的廣場(chǎng)上，我們會(huì)對(duì)那些在阿富汗戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)和伊拉克戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)中英勇捐軀的戰(zhàn)士表示敬意。

2. ... for conspiring to smuggle vast amount of cocaine into the United States.

conspire to do sth 密謀做某事

His enemies maliciously conspired to ruin him.

他的敵人惡毒地密謀搞垮他。

翻譯

Jim Lee為您播報(bào)BBC新聞。

1.對(duì)澳大利亞兒童性虐待案件進(jìn)行的為期5年的調(diào)查已經(jīng)提交了最終報(bào)告，多達(dá)17份卷宗。法律委員會(huì)對(duì)聽(tīng)取了澳大利亞上千名受害者的證詞。經(jīng)確認(rèn)，4000多個(gè)澳大利亞機(jī)構(gòu)存在性虐兒童的行為，其中包括宗教組織、體育俱樂(lè)部、寄養(yǎng)家庭、軍隊(duì)。

2.紐約某法官判處委內(nèi)瑞拉的兩個(gè)侄子入獄18年，因?yàn)榇硕讼蛎绹?guó)境內(nèi)密謀走私大量可卡因。

3.美國(guó)網(wǎng)絡(luò)中立的規(guī)則要求平等對(duì)待一切互聯(lián)網(wǎng)流量，該規(guī)則的支持者表示，他們會(huì)采取法律手段來(lái)回?fù)舫蜂N該規(guī)則的決定。數(shù)月以來(lái)，人們對(duì)這個(gè)問(wèn)題熱議不斷。

4.特朗普和俄羅斯總統(tǒng)普京就朝鮮核武器問(wèn)題進(jìn)行了電話會(huì)談。本周初，美國(guó)國(guó)務(wù)卿蒂勒森表示他將無(wú)條件地與朝鮮方面談話。

5.美國(guó)某消防員在撲滅一場(chǎng)大型野火的過(guò)程中殉職，這場(chǎng)野火目前依然在加州南部肆虐。凡吐拉市和圣巴巴拉市的大火是過(guò)去的一周中席卷加州大部分地區(qū)的幾場(chǎng)大火之一。

6.荷蘭警方表示，兩人在馬斯特里赫特市居民區(qū)的刺傷事件中身亡。據(jù)稱，刺傷事件發(fā)生在兩處，兩處距離不到100米。

7.羅馬尼亞上千人排隊(duì)向已逝國(guó)王米哈伊一世致敬，為已逝國(guó)王進(jìn)行為期3天的哀悼。

8.美國(guó)宇航局望遠(yuǎn)鏡觀測(cè)到圍繞某顆遙遠(yuǎn)行星的第八顆行星。這是除了太陽(yáng)系外最大的星系。美國(guó)宇航局表示，這顆行星比太陽(yáng)熱度稍高一些，體型稍大一些。