VOA常速讲解2010-6-25第387期

VOA常速讲解附字幕:外交官批评日本核事故后反应查看原文第一部分：原文中英对照After a magnitude9.0earthquake and historic tsunami battered northeastern Japan on March 11a veteran U.S.diplomat,who had just been removed from the top post on the island of Okinawa,was among those put in charge of a crisis task force in Washington.Kevin Maher says American decision-makers quickly realized there was little reliable data coming from their Japanese counterparts about the Fukushima-1nuclear power plant."There was a point where we told the Japanese government,'Look you guys got to take this seriously.This is a real serious situation.The government needs to respond to this.'And,I think the[Japanese]government eventually came to that conclusion,itself,"he said.Maher says that was based on flights over the crippled nuclear plant by a U.S.Air Force (RQ-4)Global Hawk remotely piloted plane. The unmanned aircraft took photographs and could roughly gauge temperatures inside the damaged reactor and spent fuel buildings."And when you looked at the information we did have,it was very clear to me early on that there had probably been at least one,probably two meltdowns,"Maher stated.Maher recalls that prompted the U.S. government to explore scenarios for evacuations,including transporting100,000 American citizens from the Tokyo metropolitan area.3月11日，9.0级大地震和历史性的海啸袭击日本东北部之后，刚刚退下冲绳岛最高职位的美国退休外交官负责华盛顿的一个危机调查任务小组。

VOA常速讲解附字幕:美国邮政濒临破产边缘查看原文第一部分：原文中英对照The mail service Americans have known for generations is losing billions of dollars a year, as handwritten communication has all but disappeared-replaced by emails,text messages,and social-media-and billing and other commercial transactions are increasingly conducted over the Internet.The changing technological landscape has left the regular mail service,what many Americans now refer to as"snail mail,"in dire financial straits.U.S.Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe testified before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee."The Postal Service is at the brink of default,"said Donahoe."Without the enactment of comprehensive legislation by September30,the Postal Service will default on a mandate d$5.5billion payment to the Treasury to pre-fund retirement retiree health benefits.Our situation is urgent."The Postal Service is seeking congressional authorization to cut costs and curtail services, including eliminat ing hundreds of thousands of postal jobs,changing health care and retirement programs for postal workers, consolidating post offices,and ending Saturday mail delivery across the country."The Postal Service requires radical changes to its business model if it to remain viable into the future,"added Donahoe.由于书信这种通信方式几乎已经消失，被电子邮件，短信和社交媒体等取代，收费和其他商业交易越来越多的通过互联网进行，美国几代人都非常熟悉的邮政服务每年损失数十亿美元。

This used to be a nearly open border, especially for Pashtuns, many of whom had relatives on both sides. Afghans seeking medical treatment in Pakistan, laborers who went daily to the other side to work, businessmen, and people going for family functions made up the thousands who crossed this border daily. Traveling back and forth was a breeze. That will now end. Pakistan has announced that, for security reasons, only Afghans with proper documents will be allowed in. Up to 25,000 people used to cross this border every day. Local officials say with the new restrictions the number is expected to drop significantly. On day one of the new policy, thousands crossed over from Pakistan to Afghanistan, while the traffic from the other side was down to a trickle. Those coming over from Afghanistan described long lines in the blistering heat. Pashtuns with families across the border were worried about the implications. "It'll make it really difficult for the old people, the sick, the relatives who live on both sides of the border who travel frequently back and forth. We're all Pashtuns living on both sides of the border. The situation is so bad on the other side that I cannot even describe it," Others favored the move. "All kinds of people cross over. No one knows who they are, where they are coming from, where they are going. Now, at least we'll have that information," Pakistan says strict border management is the only way to stop militants who cross over from Afghanistan to carry out attacks inside Pakistan. But some analysts think the move could backfire. While terrorists could use unofficial routes in the mountains to cross over, the suffering of ordinary Afghans might add to the already high anti-Pakistan sentiment in Afghanistan.这里过去是个近乎开放边界，尤其是对于在边界两边都有亲属的普什图族来说。

VOA常速讲解附字幕:金价上涨引发淘金热查看原文第一部分：原文中英对照Todd Bonshire is the manager of Monroe Park, a restored18th century gold mining camp in Goldvein,Virginia.A historian by training,he teaches visitors about the rich history of gold mining in the area and how to pan for gold."It is amazing how many have started coming here to buy prospecting equipment and to find places in the area to go prospecting,"said Bonshire."Especially now that gold is near $1,800an ounce,the interest has just skyrocketed."In1782,Thomas Jefferson wrote in his notes on Virginia that a man found a piece of quartz with gold in it near Fredericksburg,and gold fever spread across the state.In the early19th century,there were19gold mines in the immediate area.But during World War II, gold mines were deemed not essential and were shut down."Well this is some quartz from the area,and this is where you find the gold,"added Bonshire.Gold is found inside quartz rock that runs in a belt along the eastern United States.Miners would have to dig out thousands of kilograms of rock to find a few ounces of gold trapped in the crevices."Right here there is a little crevice and you can you see that there is some pyritein there,somebody popped this open,and there is a nice little pocket,"added Bonshire. "The gold would also be found similar to this inside a big piece of quartz."Todd Bonshire是门罗公园的经理，这里是位于佛吉尼亚州Goldvein经过恢复的18世纪的黄金开采地点。

VOA慢速讲解附字幕:保护新生儿免于HIV感染的新药物查看原文第一部分：原文中英对照This is the VOA Special English Development Report.Researchers say they have found a way to extend the storage life of a drug used to treat H.I.V.Their work could give infected mothers in the developing world a new way to prevent the spread of the AIDS virus to their newborn babies.The drug is nevirapine.If it is given within seventy-two hours after birth,it can often protect babies from H.I.V.Researchers at Duke University in North Carolina have developed a small pouch made of foil and plastic.They say current tests show that the pouch can safely store the drug for as long as four months.But they expect that final results in October will show it can keep the liquid stable for up to twelve months.That way,H.I.V.-infected women could have plenty of time to get the pouch from a health care provider early in their pregnancy.Caroline Gamache is a biomedical engineer at Duke who worked on the project.CAROLINE GAMACHE:"Many mothers deliver at home in sub-Saharan Africa and it's very difficult for them to get to a hospital or clinic which may be miles away in that time period.And so we are proposing to give this pouch to mothers in their first or second trimester,这里是VOA特别英语发展报道。

2010年6月大学英语六级考试阅读真题答案与详解PartⅡReading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)1.【答案】C)。

【定位】由题干中的Erin White和Barack Obama’s victory in the election定位到原文第一段第一句：As Erin White watched the election results head towards victory for Barack Obama, she felt a burden lifting from her shoulders.【精析】C）Relieved“如释重负”与句中提及的怀特的感受felt a burden lifting from her shoulders是同义转述，故C)为正确答案。

2.【答案】D)。

【定位】由题干中的Erin White和haunted by the question of whether定位到原文第二段第二句：But there had always been these things in the back of my mind questioning whether I really can be who I want.【精析】该句中been these things in the back of my mind questioning whether 与题干中been haunted by the question of whether对应，由此可推知一直困扰她的问题是whether I really can be who I want。

D)she could go as far as she wanted in life含义与之相符，故为正确答案。

3.【答案】B)。

【定位】由题干中的the focus of Ashby Plant’s study定位到原文第一个小标题下第一句：Ashby Plant is one of a number of psychologists who seized on Obama’s candidacy to test hypotheses about the power of role models.【精析】题干中的the focus是定位句中seized on...to的同义转述。

VOA慢速讲解附字幕:加强沟通,减少医疗事故查看原文第一部分：原文中英对照This is the VOA Special English Health Report.No one wants a pilot to make a mistake.This is why flight crews are trained in teamwork and communication.Now a study finds hospitals that trained their operating room teams had a lower rate of surgical deaths than other hospitals.SURGEON:"We'll need a patch in the room, is there a patch available?"This team has been trained to communicate about the operation and the patient before, during and after the surgery.SURGEON:"Are there any concerns or questions from the team?Anybody?No?"The study involved more than one hundred American veterans hospitals.Some had taken part in a program of medical team training.Researcher Julia Neily,a Veterans Administration nurse,says the training seeks to empower each team member,including technicians.JULIA NEILY:"One of the key elements here was flattening the hierarchy in the operating room so that everybody,这里是VOA特别英语健康报道。

VOA常速讲解:非洲寻求数百亿气候变化赔偿听力练习Africa to Seek Billions in Climate Change Compensationenvironmental damages from developed countries at the Copenhagen Climate summit in Africa is seeking a common position to increase its bargain ing power in Copenhagen.Representatives of several African heads of state met at AU headquarters Monday to determine how much the continent should ask in compensation at the UN climate summit in December.A concept paper obtained by VOA says the flow of money to support'adaptation to changes in climate'must be at least$67billion a year by the year2020.In all,the paper recommend s that developed countries commit to paying one-half percent of Gross Domestic Product,or GDP for'climate action'in poorer countries.Diplomats attending a closed-door session say several countries argued that the demand should be much higher in view of the severe environmental damage facing the continent.At the opening ceremony,AU Rural Economy and Agriculture Commissioner Rhoda Peace Tumusiime said Africa is one of the main victims of global warming."The global carbon trading mechanism that are expected to emerge from internationalcompensation for the damage to its economy caused by global warming,bearing in mind the fact that,despite contributing virtually nothing to global warming,Africa has been one of theprimary victims of its consequence s,"she said.The proposal being considered by African representatives says polluting countries must reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by at least40percent below1990levels within10years,and by up to95percent below1990levels by2050.The lead expert representing Ethiopia at the meetings,Desalegn Mesfin,spoke of catastrophic consequences,unless the world takes urgent action."Addressing the climate agenda very soon is a matter of ensuring the continuation of life on earth. Otherwise,the unexpected end of the world will take place,"said Mesfin.Desalegn warned that,unless the African group agrees on a common position within the next few weeks,it may be too late to make an effective negotiating stance at the Copenhagen climate summit.The Addis Ababa meeting is in preparation for high level negotiations to be held next week on the sidelines of a special African summit in Tripoli.The summit on peace and security issues was called by the current AU Chairman,Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi.参考翻译非洲联盟正考虑12月份在哥本哈根举行的气候峰会上提议，要求发达国家每年向其支付670亿美元，以赔偿对环境造成的危害。

菅直人“大破”小泽一郎(1/2)An official of the Democratic Party of Japan announces that Prime Minister Naoto Kan has won the party leadership post.Mr. Kan won 721 votes in Tuesday's election, compared with Ichiro Ozawa's 491 ballots.Since the DPJ controls the lower house of Japan's parliament, as leader of the party, Mr. Kan will stay on as prime minister.Speaking immediately following his re-election, Mr. Kan appealed for unity and pledged to revitalize Japan.The prime minister says he will keep his promise to help the people. He expresses heartfelt appreciation for the support that was shown to him, especially by the DPJ's rank and file.Ordinary party members overwhelmingly backed him. His opponent Ozawa, a veteran power broker, captured the votes of nearly half of the DPJ's members of parliament.Ozawa resigned from the DPJ's second-highest post 3 months ago in a political funding scandal. He faces possible indictment on criminal charges.日本民主党的一位官员宣布，首相菅直人在党首选举中获胜。

VOA常速讲解附字幕:美国就业市场对年轻人不利查看原文第一部分：原文中英对照The labor market in the United States is starting to show signs of recovery,but for many young workers the recovery is not happening fast enough.Although the national unemployment rate is now the lowest it has been in two years,one study suggests the job prospect s for16to24-year-olds remains grim.America's youth faces an increasingly uncertain future.Despite a slowly improving job market,economist Heidi Shierholz at the Economic Policy Institute says young workers have yet to see similar gains."Young people across the board have never seen anything like this in70years,"said Heidi Shierholz."Since the Great Depression we have not seen unemployment rates this high."With unemployment rates more than twice the national average,Shierholz says the graduating Class of2011faces fierce competition for fewer jobs."New college grads are in direct competition with the cohort from last year and the cohort from the year before that,when the unemployment rate was also incredibly high, so there's just extremely stiff competition for new jobs for young people,"she said.George Washington University law student Elliot Reaven feels good about his career choices but he admits it is an intimidating economy for many students.美国就业市场已经开始出现复苏迹象，但是对许多年轻的劳动者来说，复苏的速度还不够快。

VOA慢速讲解附字幕:医疗债务每年使1亿人陷入贫困查看原文第一部分：原文中英对照This is the VOA Special English Health Report.The World Health Organization says the rising cost of health care is a struggle for people and governments around the world.The problem is greatest in countries where people must often pay directly for services.A new report says these costs push one hundred million people into poverty each year.Aging populations are one reason why health costs are rising.Also,more people are getting chronic diseases like diabetes and heart disease that require long-term treatment.And new treatments for health conditions are more costly than old ones.This year's"World Health Report"offers guideline s to strengthen health financing systems and make services available to more people.The report says about one billion people do not get the care they need because it costs too much or it is unavailable.WHO Director-General Margaret Chan says no one should have to risk financial ruin to take care of their health.David Evans agrees. He is the director of health systems financing for the WHO,which is part of the United Nations.这里是VOA特别英语健康报道。

VOA常速讲解附字幕:康德赢得几内亚总统选举查看原文第一部分：原文中英对照Electoral commission president SiakaToumany Sangare said Mr.Conde won more than52percent of the vote,while his challenger-former Prime Minister Cellou Diallo-won47percent.Sangare declared Mr.Conde the provisional winner of last Sunday's run-off election, pend ing certification of the results by Guinea's supreme court.Conde supporters celebrated the win after their candidate had trail ed Mr.Diallo during a week of provisional results,slowly tightening the race from100,000votes to50,000votes to fewer than24,000votes before finally finishing ahead.Many Diallo supporters were angry about the outcome.Earlier Monday,when the results were widely known,but had not been officially announced, Diallo supporters burned tires in one of the capital's main streets and threw stones at riot police near Conakry's Hamdallaye Mosque. Security forces responded with tear gas, chasing demonstrators from a gasoline station into neighborhood s where they fired more tear gas.Guinea's military rulers have banned all public demonstrations.Before the announcement of final results late Monday,both candidates declared themselves the winner.几内亚选举委员会主席Siaka Toumany Sangare表示，康德赢得了超过52%的选票，他的竞争对手，前总理迪亚洛赢得了47%的选票。

VOA慢速讲解附字幕:商业方法发明有望获专利保护查看原文第一部分：原文中英对照This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.Recently,the United States Supreme Court decided a case on the property rights of inventors.The question was whether a business method is enough of an invention to receive a patent.Patents are a form of intellectual property.They give legal protections to individuals and companies against the copying of their inventions.Bernard Bilski and Rand Warsaw wanted to patent a method to let traders protect against the risk of price changes in energy markets. The United States Patent and Trademark Office said no.So the inventors went to court.Again they were told no.Finally,the case went all the way to the Supreme st month,all nine justices said no.But they only said no to a patent in this case. Patent lawyer Meredith Martin Addy in Chicago explains that the court ruled narrowly.MEREDITH MARTIN ADDY:"The Supreme Court held that there is no categorical rule denying patent protection for business method patents."When patent laws were first developed,most patents were for machines.这里是VOA特别英语经济报道。

VOA慢速讲解附字幕:学习企业的组织方式查看原文第一部分：原文中英对照This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.Businesses are structure d in different ways to meet different needs.The simplest form of business is called an individual or sole proprietor ship.The proprietor owns all of the property of the business and is responsible for everything.For legal purposes,with this kind of business, the owner and the company are the same.This means the proprietor gets to keep all of the profits of the business,but must also pay any debts.Another kind of business is the partnership. Two or more people go into business together. An agreement is usually needed to decide how much of the partnership each person controls.One kind of partnership is called a limited liability partnership.These have full partners and limited partners.Limited partners may not share as much in the profits,but they also have less responsibility for the business.Doctors,lawyers and accountants often form partnerships to share their risks and profits.A husband and wife can form a business partnership together.Partnerships exist only for as long as the owners remain alive.The same is true of individual proprietorships.这里是VOA特别英语经济报道。

VOA 新闻100 篇VOA News Item 1 经济：印度及东南亚国家签署了自由贸易协定Indian Commerce Minister Anand Sharma and his counterparts from the Association ofSoutheast Asian Nations sealed the agreement in Bangkok Thursday. They met on the sidelines ofthe annual ASEAN Economic Ministers Meeting.The agreement creates one of Asia‟s biggest trading areas and integrates India‟s fast growingeconomy with 10 of its neighbors.Trade between India and ASEAN amounts to $40 billion each year. Under the pact, India andASEAN will eliminate tariffs on various goods by 2016.VOA News Item 2 政治：英国政党领袖进行电视辩论第二轮角逐Britain‟s political life has been dominated for the past three decades by two parties —theConservatives, now led by David Cameron, and Labor headed by current Prime Minister GordonBrown.But a third party, the Liberal Democrats, are turning this election into a three-horse race.Their campaign was given a major boost by Britain‟s first ever televised debate last week;Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg emerged as the clear winner.V iewer polls taken after this second debate, which focused on foreign policy, showed therewas no runaway victor.The last time Britain had a hung parliament was in 1974. A final televised debate is to takeplace next Thursday, followed by the election on May 6.VOA News Item 3 政治：参议院就索托马约尔就任最高法院大法官进行了讨论On the second day of debate all signs continued to point toward an easy confirmation win forSotomayor, the 55-year-old federal court judge nominated by President Barack Obama earlier thisyear.Although most of the 40 Senate Republicans are likely to vote against her, the decisionW ednesday of Missouri Senator Kit Bond added to the number of Republicans who havecommitted to voting for her.Senator Bond, who is one of several Republicans retiring from the Senate next year, saidwhile he respects and agrees with the legal reasoning others in his party used to oppose Sotomayor,lawmakers have an obligation to show deference to a president‟s choice of a nominee.VOA News Item 4 政治：南部非洲的部长们准备报告区域危机Foreign ministers of the Southern African Development Community met in Maputo toprepare a report on the region‟s political crises. It is to be presented to African leaders at theirupcoming summit in Ethiopia.SADC‟s Political and Diplomatic Committee has been mediating three major crises in theregion.SADC officials said the ministers are pleased the various parties to the unity government in1 Zimbabwe resumed negotiations on implementing their power-sharing agreement. They said theybelieved Zimbabwe was on the right path.The officials said the ministers also believe that progress is being made toward easing theconflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and that reconciliation efforts between thegovernment and various rebel groups were on the right track.But the officials said they were less optimistic about the political crisis in Madagascar. Iterupted in March after Andry Rajoelina, backed by the military, seized power following the ousterof then-President Marc Ravalomanana.SADC and the African Union do not recognize the Rajoelina government and havesuspended Madagascar from their organizations. VOA News Item 5 政治：以色列国防部长遭到恐吓Security has been tightened around Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak after he receiveddozens of death threats. Security sources say the threats were made by Jewish militants whooppose the government‟s partial freeze on settlement construction in the W est Bank. The freezewas imposed in November under pressure from the United States, which sees the settlements as anobstacle to peace.The death threats are being takenseriously. In 1995, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabinwas assassinated by an Orthodox Jew opposed to his policy of trading land for peace with thePalestinians. VOA News Item 6 政治：泰国军警围捕红衫军领袖行动失败Government officials say they will investigate just how three leaders of the anti-governmentprotests managed to escape when police tried to surround their hotel Friday.One of the leaders climbed down three floors using a rope, and was rushed away bysupporters thronging the building.Officials earlier Friday said the government is preparing to arrest people linked to clasheswith security forces last Saturday that left 24 soldiers and protesters dead.The government says armed men infiltrated protester ranks and fired on troops trying todisperse a rally.The anti-government movement, led by the United Democratic Front against Dictatorship orUDD, demands that the Government call fresh elections. UDD supporters have held protests inBangkok for more than a month.Thailand is facing its most severe political crisis in almost 20 years. Some parties in thegoverning coalition want to set a clear time frame for elections to ease tensions. But thegovernment says it will only call elections once the political situation has cooled.VOA News Item 7 政治：吉尔吉斯斯坦政变威胁美军基地未来Kyrgyzstan‟s five-day-old pr ovisional government is vowing to use the country‟s military tolaunch a special operation to neutralize President Kurmanbek Bakiyev if he does not resign.Interim Kyrgyz leader Roza Otunbayeva says her government is willing to negotiate hisdeparture from the country and wants to resolve the standoff without any more harm to innocent2 civilians. The president was effectively ousted after last W ednesday‟s clashes between governmentforces and protesters. Authorities say about 80 people have died and more than 1,600 werewounded. VOA News Item 8 政治：内塔尼亚胡称以色列只能依靠自己On the eve of Israel‟s 62nd Independence Day, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said thenation must not rely on the help of mentators say it is a clear reference to Israeli ties with the United States, which haveplummeted over Jewish construction in disputed in East Jerusalem. The U.S. backs Palestiniandemands that East Jerusalem should be the capital of a future Palestinian state.But Israel sees all of Jerusalem as its eternal capital, and Mr. Netanyahu, who heads aright-wing government, has rejected U.S. demands to stop building there. As a result, thePalestinians have refused to return to U.S.-sponsored peace talks, and the diplomatic process hasbeen deadlocked for 15 months.Defense Minister Ehud Barak took a softer approach. Barak said Israel would not make anycompromises when it comes to the security of the state. But he said it would show courage in thestruggle for peace with the Palestinians based on the two-state solution.VOA News Item 9 经济：非洲农民种植有机作物供应欧洲市场Nearly 5,000 farmers in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Senegal, and Sierra Leone areexporting organically-grown produce to Europe, after gaining organic and fair-trade certificationwith help from the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).The program focuses on all stages of production from planting and harvesting to packagingand promotion, increasing the profitability of farmers who previously struggled to afford costlychemical fertilizers.30 small-scale pineapple farmers in Ghana saw sales grow from 26 tons to more than 115tons after gaining their organic certification.Pascal Liu is an economist with the FAO‟s trade and markets division. Liu says the UnitedNations expects demand for organic foods will grow by between five and 15 percent during thenext five years. And African farmers are well positioned to benefit from more people eatinghealthier food.VOA News Item 10 经济：债务危机扩展到希腊以外The heads of theInternational Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank were in BerlinW ednesday for talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel and other senior officials. The aim: to getagreement on a bailout package for Greece.Greece has been in negotiations with EU member countries and the IMF to secure a bailout—money that would allow it to pay debts coming due in time to avoid having to default.In return Greece is under pressure to restructure its economy and implement austeritymeasures.Disgruntled public-sector workers went on strike in Greece W ednesday to protest against the3 cutbacks. A daylong general strike has been called for next week.Opinion polls show the majority of Greeks are against an IMF-EU bailout, seeing it asforeign interference.W orries about the Greek economy‟s potential meltdown have sent jitters through worldmarkets. And help is imperative because the Greek crisis could spread.A joint EU-IMF package for Greece is put at $60 billion, but some European officials saidW ednesday the full cost could be much higher, reaching about $160 billion over three years.VOA News Item 11 经济：奥巴马致华尔街：别抵制金融改革Aiming his appeal directly at the financial industry and skeptics within it, and at Republicancritics in Congress, the president warned of the danger of a repeat of economic collapse.Calling the financial crisis the outcome of a failure of responsibility from W all Street toW ashington, he said the time has come to seize the moment to make fundamental changes in therules of the financial road.With many, but not all, of the most prominent executives of W all Street firms present, thepresident outlined key aspects of legislation the U.S. Senate will debate in coming days.These include steps to impose new oversight and controls on hedge funds and complexfinancial instruments known as derivatives, and protections for consumers of financial products.Of particular importance would be a system to ensure that troubled financial companies couldbe dismantled in an orderly way without posing the kind of systemic risk they did in 2008.Calling the Senate bill and one the House of Representatives approved last year a significantimprovement over flawed rules now in place, he said changes would be advantageous for theindustry and the country.VOA News Item 12 经济：亚洲航空遭受冰岛火山喷发影响The International Air Transport Association says global carriers are losing an estimated $200million a day in revenue as a result of airline groundings related to the Iceland volcano. AlbertTjoeng, a Singapore-based spokesman for the association, says that is just part of the problem.Travelers waiting around here are missing out on income because they cannot return to work.The flight cancellations are expected to have additional repercussions for smaller SoutheastAsia countries, where travel and tourism is a major share of the economy.VOA News Item 13 经济：WFP 对尼日尔粮食援助加倍The W orld Food Program is now expe cting to feed more than 1.5 million people in nextmonth‟s general food distribution, along with specialized therapeutic feeding for 500,000 childrenunder the age of six.That is because poor rains last year have brought forward the time when people no longerhave enough to eat.WFP is trying to raise $182 million to scale up its operations in Niger.The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization is also stepping in to aid cattle herders in Nigerand Chad. Livestock pastures are dry, so herders are selling their animals at lower prices to buyfood for their families.4 Eight FAO projects in Niger worth more than $12 million are aimed at helping two millionpeople.VOA News Item 14 经济：立法者、反对者和媒体齐聚2010 底特律车展Cobo Center is home to the 2010 North American Auto Show in downtown Detroit.For theevent, the Center has been transformed into an expanse of flashy displays and trendy marketingdisplays, featuring the latest in automotive engineering.Known as the Detroit Auto Show, the annual event is one of the industry‟s biggest. It helpsgenerate publicity for some models, like the newly-redesigned Ford Focus, and it helps promotenew technology, like the electric battery in the Chevrolet V olt.But in the wake of one of the worst years for U.S. automobile sales, this year‟s show has adifferent feel.General Motors and Chrysler —two of the Detroit “Big Three” automakers, which alsoinclude Ford —went bankrupt last year and received billions of dollars in federal aid. Althoughsome of that money has been paid back, the U.S. government is still a major shareholder in bothcompanies.VOA News Item 15 经济：世博会在上海开幕China celebrated the opening of the 2010 W orld Expo in Shanghai with an evening offireworks and fanfare. Dubbed the “Economic Olympics,” by Chinese officials, some 190 nationsand 50 international organizations are participating in the multi-billion dollar event.Similar to how 2008 Beijing Olympic Games put the Chinese capital in the internationalspotlight, Shanghai‟s hosting of the W orld Expo has given the city of 20 some million people andChina a chance to showcase its emergence as a global economic power.The theme for the Shanghai W orld Expo is “Better City, Better Life” and features majorexhibitions that look at modern and future urban life, and consider issues such as sustainabledevelopment and the interaction between cities and the environment.The Shanghai 2010 W orld Expo runs until the end of October. VOA News Item 16 经济：经济衰退已过，债务危机依旧First the good news: after contracting收缩slightly in 2009, global economic output is expected togrow more than 4 percent this year, according to the International Monetary Fund. With afledgling无经验的人，刚会飞的幼鸟recovery gaining strength, it is easy to forget how close major industrialized nations 工业化国家came to economic collapse经济崩溃less than two years ago, an outcome that almost surely would havetriggered a worldwide depression rivaling the Great Depression of the 1930s.In short, the pain, havoc大破坏，浩劫，蹂躏, and economic devastation经济灾难could have been far worse, according tothe head of the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Texas, Richard Fisher. Addressing centralbankers from Europe and elsewhere, Fisher said central banks and national governments avertedcatastrophe through aggressive intervention积极的干预.VOA News Item 17 军事：以色列成功试射导弹防御系统Rocket alarms火箭警报have terrified Israeli border communities边境的社区near the Gaza Strip加沙地带for years. But5 now Israel has a high-tech answer to the thousands of low-tech rockets that Palestinian militantshave fired across the border since Israel pulled out of Gaza in 2005.Israel has successfully tested its Iron Dome defense system铁穹防御系统, which uses cameras and radar雷达totrack incoming rockets and can shoot them down within seconds of their launch. The system wasdeveloped by Rafael, the Israel Military Industries, at a cost of $200 million.VOA News Item 18 军事：美国正在尝试培训黑客来对抗罪犯和间谍Computer security engineer Alan Paller recalls how the Soviet Union‟s 1957 launch ofSputnik, the world‟s first artificial satellite, spurred the U.S. government to accelerate its lagging space technology program落后的太空技术计划. Now Paller, research director at an educational company called theSANS Institute, is leading the campaign to bring that kind of energy to defending cyberspace fromassault by pranksters爱开玩笑的人，爱恶作剧的人, thieves and spies.VOA News Item 19 社会：挫败底特律机场袭击事件凸显以色列的安保成功It‟s another day of stringent security checks严格的安检at Tel Aviv‟s Ben Gurionairport. About a millionpassengers pass through the airport each month, on average. But here, the lines move quicklythanks to what Israeli security experts say is an approach that —unlike other countries —reliesmore on eye contact with passengers and less on technology.VOA News Item 20 社会：意大利三名医生在阿富汗被捕The Italian aid group Emergency has had a tense relationship with local authorities inviolence-wracked Helmand province, due in part to its policy of treating all patients.Afghan officials said they detained three Italian Emergency workers Saturday, a doctor, anurse and a logistics worker. Afghan officials said they were held as part of an investigation intoan alleged plot to kill the governor of Helmand province.Helmand Province Governor Gulab Mangal said an Emergency staff member received$500,000 as an advance payment for killing him. In total nine people, including six Afghans, wereheld after explosive suicide vests, hand grenades and other weapons were discovered in thestoreroom of the Emergency-run hospital in Helmand‟s capital, Lashkar Gah.Emergency founder Gino Strada denounced the detentions of the aid group‟s three workers,calling it a mafia-style attempt黑帮的尝试to silence a witness.VOA News Item 21 军事：利比里亚人反对临时解除武器禁运政策The U.N. Security Council has lifted its arms embargo禁止，禁令on Liberia利比里亚for one year, primarily to allow its peacekeeping mission there to receive military equipment. But it also allows the government of President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf to acquire arms and training to fight ernment misuse滥用，误用of force under former President Charles Taylor brought about the arms embargo武器禁运，军火禁运10 years ago. Its lifting, even temporarily, has been met with both pride and worry among Liberians still recovering from a long civil war.VOA News Item 22 社会：非洲国家加强机场安全防范Reaction to the attempted bombing of a U.S. Airliner班机，大型客机on Christmas Day has been mixed among the six African nations with direct air links空中直航to the United States.Ghana加纳，非洲西部国家has announced it will install full-body scanners 扫描仪at Accra阿克拉，加纳首都‟s international airport by next month. Nigeria 尼日利亚has also announced it will install the scanners at Lagos拉各斯，尼日利亚首都international airport.Nigerian student Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab departed from Accra and transited through Lagos and Amsterdam阿姆斯特丹. He subsequently attempted to set off a bomb on a Northwest Airlines flight traveling to Detroit.Abdulmutallab successfully passed through metal detectors金属探测器and hand luggage searches at both airports, allegedly by concealing powdered explosives under his clothes.The full-body scanners are more powerful than metal detectors that are standard at most airports. They can detect non-metallic materials 非金属材料hidden on the human body.But some rights groups consider the scanners an invasion of privacy, because they show private physical characteristics in detail.South Africa, whose airports handle the largest number of travelers flying directly between Africa and the United States, says it does not intend to install the scanners at this time.VOA News Item 23 科技：美国将于周二发射发现号飞船The Discovery crew is set to launch early Tuesday to deliver nearly 8,000 kilograms of equipment to the International Space Station. NASA engineers cleared the shuttle to fly on Sunday,after deciding there were no technical concerns to delay launch from Kennedy Space Center inFlorida.Shuttle weather officer Kathy Winters said the skies should be clear for the evening launch,but storms could delay the delicate process of filling the shuttle‟s external fuel tanks.VOA News Item 24 科技：珊瑚礁在物种进化中的重要性A new study out this week highlights the role that coral reefs play in evolution, addinganother reason to preserve these delicate, diverse, and often beautiful ecosystems.Many of the world‟s coral reefs are threatened by ocean acidification酸化and pollution, amongother things.W olfgang Kiessling of Berlin‟s Natural History Museum柏林自然历史博物馆says that concerns ecologistsbecause of the vital role reefs play in ocean ecosystems.VOA News Item 25 科技：澳大利亚、新西兰科学家挑战日本捕鲸业The researchers will set sail for Antarctica南极洲early next month, in an expedition funded by theAustralian and New Zealand go vernments.The scientists hope their journey to the Southern Ocean will help to disprove Japan‟s claimsthat whales have to be killed to properly study them.During their six-week voyage, researchers will employ使用a range of techniques一系列技术to unlock解开，开启，开锁someof the secrets of the giant marine mammals巨大的海洋哺乳动物.They will fire darts鱼鳔from small air rifles气枪to collect blubber and skin for genetic testing, and to attach satellite-tracking tags卫星追踪标记to monitor the whales. Samples of dung will also be gathered,photographs taken, and acoustic instruments 声学仪器will record the animals‟ dist inctive calls.7VOA News Item 26 医学：母亲越高，孩子越健康Taller mothers are more likely to have children who are healthier —indeed, their childrenare more likely not just to thrive, but to survive —compared to children of shorter mothers.That‟s the conclusion of a massive new study of millions of children in low- and middle-incomecountries.“The key finding of this paper was to show a consistent association between maternal height and offspring health, which was mainly defined in terms of offspring mortality by age five and therisk of experiencing a failure in growth.”The Harvard researcher says that while the association is clear, the “why” still needs morework.VOA News Item 27 医疗：联合国帮助不发达国家对抗H1N1The W orld Health Organization is warning countries to prepare for further spread of theH1N1 influenza pandemic in coming months.However, aid agencies say it will be more difficult to fight the disease in poorer countries,which have weak health systems, poor health status and limited resources.They say countries overburdened by diseases, such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria,will have great difficulty dealing with the surge of pandemic flu cases.W orld Health Organization spokesman, Paul Garwood, says this Call to Action aims toreduce the impact of H1N1 by offering a range of measures applicable to all countries.VOA News Item 28 医疗：美国民众对医保体系缺乏信心Americans are just as divided on health care as they were before President Obama‟s healthcare reform legislation became law.Protesters in W ashington carried signs on Thursday calling for the repeal of the legislation.They say it represents runaway spending.A new Associated Press-GfK poll shows that 50 percent of Americans oppose the new healthcare law and opposition is strongest among those 64 and older. Many older Americans worry thattheir care will be affected by cuts in federal payments to hospitals and other providers.In another survey, this one by Ipsos/Reuters, only 51 percent of Americans thought theycould get adequate, affordable health care. The survey included people in 22 nations. W omen,adults under the age of 55 and less educated people in all the countries included in the studyreported low satisfaction with health care access.Y et another study showed that Americans without medical insurance, often delay going to ahospital after a heart attack.VOA News Item 29 教育：印度学生重新考虑去澳大利亚接受高等教育Fornearly a decade, the popularity of Australian universities rose rapidly among Indianstudents, and the number of those heading to the country for higher education rose from about10,000 in 2001 to more than 70,000 last year.But that could change this year due to a string of negative publicity generated by attacks onIndian students in Australia.8 A travel advisory by the Indian government earlier this week warned that Indian students inAustralia face an increased risk of assault. It was issued after an Indian graduate was stabbed todeath in Melbourne. His stabbing came on the heels of a spate of attacks on Indian students inAustralia in recent months, which the Indian media have dubbed as racist.It is a charge that Australian officials have strongly denied. They say the attacks are purelycriminal, and the country is safe for foreign students.Nevertheless, as concerns rose in India, foreign minister S.M. Krishna called on Indians to assess their options while exploring the possibility of studying in Australia.VOA News Item 30 社会：法国调查电信员工自杀事件For some, the wave of suicides at France Telecom reveals the downsides of the scramble tostay competitive amid the pressures of globalization and the recent economic downturn. More than40 France Telecom employees have taken their lives since 2008. Unions say that includes a dozensuicides this year alone.The probe by the Paris prosecutor‟s office follows a court complaint filed by the unionSolidaires Unitaires Democratic (SUD). Union lawyer Jean-Paul Tessionniere blamed workingconditions at the company for the suicides.A February report by the French labor inspector‟s office linked 14 France Telecom suicidesdirectly to the company‟s management practices.France Telecom denies its management practices have led to the suicides. France Telecomlawyer Claudia Chemarin told French television that each suicide will be examined individually.She said that under no condition can it be claimed that there was an organized polic y that led tothem.In March, France Telecom‟s new boss Stephane Richard outlined ways the company plannedto improve employee working conditions.France Telecom is not the only French company grappling with employee suicides. But because ofthe numbers of employee deaths and the media attention they have attracted, critics say FranceTelecom‟s problems have emerged as a warning story about the downsides of valuing productivityand growth over employee well being.VOA News Item 31 社会：移民者抗议冻结约旦河西岸建设Jewish settlement councils have declared a general strike to protest the Israeli government‟sfreeze on construction in W est Bank communities. Settlement leaders demonstrated outside thePrime Minister‟s Office in Jerusalem as the Cabinet held its weekly meeting. They carried signssaying, you can freeze in the North Pole, but not in Israel.The settlers helped elect right-wing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but now theyaccuse him of abandoning his nationalist ideals.VOA News Item 32 社会：密西西比的小城吸引大量游客The King of Rock …n‟ R oll, Elvis Presley, was born 75 years ago last week in a two-roomhouse in the town of Tupelo in the piney woods of the deep southern state of Mississippi. So thistime of year, and again in August on the anniversary of the King‟s death, pilgrimages of Elvis fans9 descend upon that furniture manufacturing center of 34,000 people.Surprisingly, you don‟t see a lot of Elvis markers there. There is one sign that says The Kingis Up Ahead, but that‟s for an automobile dealership. V isitors can take a self-guided Elvis Presleydriving tour. One stop is the Tupelo Hardware where Elvis got his first guitar. The folks there sayElvis had wanted a rifle. But his mother, Gladys would have none of it. She stood him on a keg and let him play around with a guitar. He loved it, and Mrs. Presley bought it for him for $7.95.VOA News Item 33 文化：很多人认为依地语正在消失 A funny thing is happening in the world of language instruction. Only it‟s not funny at all forone language in particular.Because of the growing importance of global commerce and contact, foreign language instruction is booming at U.S. colleges. But because of the tight economy, many colleges are eliminating fulltime language-teaching positions or filling them with cheaper lecturers who are not faculty members at all.This is the c ase at the University of Maryland‟s flagship College Park campus, a prestigious state-run school in the eastern U.S.. To save costs, the university plans to cut its oneYiddish-teaching position. It‟s the latest blow in what has been a steady decline in the study and use of Yiddish, which began among European Jews in the Middle Ages as a conversational Germanic language that uses Hebrew characters.Today, Yiddish is struggling to survive. It‟s thought that fewer than 500,000 people, mostlythe elderly, speak it worldwide. Most young, acculturated Jews speak only their countries‟principal language, plus Hebrew during worship.VOA News Item 34 自然：湄公河水坝威胁水生生命The Mekong River is the lifeblood of Southeast Asia, with the largest inland fisheries in theworld. About 40 million people depend to some degree on the fisheries, worth about $2.5 billion ayear.But fisheries experts say plans by Cambodia, Laos and Thailand to build hydropower damson the Mekong would block fish migration, threatening already endangered species.Environmental activists say plans by Laos to build a dam in the Don Sahong area near theCambodian border could doom the nearly extinct Irrawaddy dolphin.VOA News Item 35 灾难：联合国加紧救援海地灾区Haiti is prone to disasters, but this huge quake is the worst to hit the Caribbean island state intwo centuries. The 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti on Tuesday destroyed much of thecountry‟s capital, Port-au-Prince.The International Red Cross fears up to three million people may have been affected by theearthquake, which not only devastated the capital city, but many smaller nearby communities.The United Nations reports electricity has been cut off and communications are difficult. Itsays bridges have been knocked out, hospitals and care facilities have been damaged or destroyed.Haiti‟s envoy to the United States estimates losses could run into the billions.10VOA News Item 36 人物：迈克•济托在《珠江》融入了摇滚、蓝调和灵魂For Mike Zito, singing “Dirty Blonde” from Pearl River, the phrase “up-and-comer” is at hing of the past. As one reviewer评论者，评论家writes, “With his husky vocals and hard rocking guitar硬摇滚吉他, Mike is well on his way to the big time.”Born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, Zito gravitated to the guitar after hearing an album by ‟80s rockers V an Halen. Guitar greats Jimi Hen drix, Eric Clapton and B.B. King also made an impression, as well as Prince and Buddy Guy.Mike crafted his skills while working in a local guitar shop frequented by legendary rockerChuck Berry. Looking back, Mike says, “I soaked up the sounds of that store, and began buildingmy own style.”After a succession of independent releases in the 1990s, Mike picked up a steady stream of followers on extensive tours across the country. When he wasn‟t touring, he spent his time offplaying nightly gigs in his hometown.W eary from touring, and close to giving up altogether on a career in music, Mike remainedconfident that he was close to gaining a major label contract. He says, “Music can changeeverything; how you feel; how you see and what you believe.” Sure enough, he w as offered anational distribution deal with Delta Groove Music.VOA News Item 37 政治：以色列预期下周与巴勒斯坦和谈Prime Minister。

Syrian forces withdrew from Lebanon in 2005 after a 29-year occupation.历经29年的占领后叙利亚军队于2005年从黎巴嫩撤军。

A series of popular uprisings preceded the withdrawal, culminating in one demonstration which brought an estimated one million Lebanese into the streets.在撤军之前曾有一系列的民众起义,而最终的一次游行估计让一百万黎巴嫩人民走上街头。

The event, dubbed the “Cedar Revolution,” was seen as a main factor in the Syrian departure.这次被称为“雪松革命”的事件被视为叙利亚离开的一个主要因素。

But Lebanese schoolchildren may never read about it because a ministerial committee recently decided to eliminate the phrase“Cedar Revolution” from a national middle school history curriculum being developed.但是黎巴嫩的学生们可能永远不会知晓雪松革命,因为一个部长级委员会最近决定从正在研讨中的国家中学历史课程中消除“雪松革命”这一短语。

Since 1989, the committee dedicated to agreeing on a national history textbook has repeatedly failed to do so.自1989年以来,该委员会一直致力于同意一本国家历史教科书不出现这种历史事件的做法。

VOA常速讲解附字幕:西方联合部队继续空袭利比亚查看原文第一部分：原文中英对照Anti-aircraft batteries fired into the air over Tripoli overnight as coalition warplanes bombed military target s inside the capital and elsewhere.ABC News reported that coalition forces shot down a Libyan warplane that was defy ing the U.N.-imposed no-fly zone.Meanwhile,Libyan state TV showed imagesof several charred bodies it said were casualties of the coalition bombing.French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe insisted that coalition airstrikes are targeting only military sites.Haitham al Traboulsi,a Libyan doctor who said he is in Tripoli,told al-Arabiya TV that "no civilians were hit"in recent coalition airstrikes and that the strikes were"extremely precise."He claimed that the bodies shown on Libyan TV were of people killed in previous fighting in Zawiya and Tripoli"Libya's Deputy Foreign Minister Khalid Kaim, however,complain ed to reporters that the western coalition is hitting civilian targets and he called for an end to airstrikes:"The airstrikes as what happened today didnot differentiate between civilians and armored personnel,"Kaim said."To start up the national dialogue and get life back to normal,the airstrikes should stop immediately."由于国际联合部队战斗机轰炸了首都和其他地方的军事目标，防空炮整晚都向的黎波里上空发射。