英语新闻听力教程UNIT 4 原文及答案

UNIT 4 Statements and Comments

Section A 1.expressed concern 2.apologized remarks 3.denied charges warned

4.condemned 5.called for 6.threatened accused 7.deeply troubled 8.allegations

baseless 10.stressed the importance

Section B 1. The Canadian Prime Minister Steven Harper has announced the

construction of two military facilities in the Arctic and a move to assert his country’s

sovereignty over the contested region, which is estimated to contain billions of dollars

of oil and gas deposits.

2. A speaker purporting to be al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is accusing

the US and the European Union of backing a war against Islam.

3. The former president of Iran Mohammad Khatami says American

attempts to impose western-style democracy on the Middle East are flawed because

democracy is not something that can be exported.

4. The Pentagon has issued a memo to rebut the criticism from several retired

generals who called for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to resign.

5. British Prime Minister Tony Blair says his country is taking tough new

measures to fight extremism following last month’s deadly terrorist attacks in London.

Answer： 1.B 2.D 3A 4D 5C

Section C

Item 1 Russian President Vladimir Putin says his country is prepared to help

Kyrgyzstan’s new leaders establish stability in the wake of a political upheaval. Mr.

Putin made these comments today following a telephone discussion with Kyrgyzstan’s

opposition leader Kurmanbek Bakiyev who was appointed by parliament to lead an

interim government. Kyrgyzstan’s new leaders are trying to restore order after two

days of massive looting and street violence that left at least three people dead and

injured many more.

Answer：1-(B,D) 2-(A,D) 3-(G) 4-(E)

Item 2 British officials in Iran have denied allegations of any British involvement in

violence in the southwestern province of Khuzestan where at least four people were

killed in two bomb attacks on Saturday. The British embassy in Tehran condemned

the attacks and said Britain rejected allegations linking it to terrorist outrages. Several

Iranian officials have made statements implicating British troops stationed across the

border inside southern Iraq in the bombings and in previous attacks earlier this year

which killed 10 people.

Answer：Task1：1F 2F 3F 4T 5F

Task2:1.embassy rejected linking to

2.Iranian officials implicating bombings previous attacks

Item 3 For the first time, President Bush has said it could be accurate to compare the

recent escalation of violence in Iraq to the 1968 Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War.

The Tet Offensive marked a strong downturn in public support for both the Vietnam

War and then-President Lyndon Johnson. Mr. Bush spoke in an ABC TV interview in

which he addressed increased violence in Iraq. The comparison of the insurgency in

Iraq to the Tet Offensive in Vietnam was made in a column by Tom Friedman in the

New York Times. Answer：1. The 1968 Tet Offensive (during the Vietnam War.)

2 .Downturn in public support for both the Vietnam War and

then-President

3. Increased violence in Iraq.

4. The New York Times.

5. A column writer /a columnist

Section D

Item 1 Iran’s president is denying reports he gave an interview to an Arab newspaper

in which he threatened to halt oil sales if Tehran was referred to the United Nations

Security Council. I ran’s Presidential Media Department made that denial in a

statement issued today in a reaction to an article published in the Khaleej Times .

Earlier today the United Arab Emirates-based newspaper reported that President

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad threatened in an interview to stop oil sales if Iran is sent to

the council for its nuclear activities. The reports from a French news agency say the

reporter is astonished by the denial ,but the news agency say also says, the publisher

of the newspaper says the c0nfusion may be due to the reporter not adequately

identifying herself as a journalist.

Answer：1.denying 2.halt oil sales 3.refered to 4.nuclear activities 5.Media

6.made that denial 7.reaction 8. French news agency 9. astonished

Item 2 South Korea and Japan say they have not detected any radioactivity to

confirm North Korea’s claim that it conducted an underground nuclear test on

Monday .Late Friday unnamed U.S. official said U.S. aircraft have detected traces of

radiation in the airsamples collected near the suspected North Korea test site ,but they

stressed no final determination had been made .World of the latest findings comes as