英语新闻听力教程 Unit 13 答案及文本
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Unit 13 Terrorism and Counterterrorism
Section A
de bombs de bomb rrorism e
bomb
e ives; car bomb high alert;
aftermath
ed ive devices
Section B
has gone on high alert
following intelligence reports that militants are
planning to carry out terrorist attacks
leading up to the country’s Independence Day
celebrations on Monday.
2. An American air
marshal has shot and killed a passenger at Miami
airport in Florida.
Officials said the
shooting happened in the area between departure
gate and a recently
arrived American Airline’s
plane.
3. A passenger jet on its way from
Paris to Dublin, Ireland was diverted to an
airport
in Scotland today after its crew found
a note claiming there was a bomb on board.
British Royal Air force jets escorted the
plane to an airport where it landed safely.
4.
Pakistan’s ambassador to Sri Lanka has narrowly
escaped a powerful explosion that
hit his
convoy in Colombo. Seven people were killed and
about eight wounded when
a claymore mine went
off today as the convoy passed in the Sri Lankan
capital.
5. U.S. intelligence agencies have
reportedly concluded that the Iraq war has helped
inspire a new generation of Islamic radicals
and increased the threat of global
terrorism.
Key: A D B B C
Section C
Item
1
A series of early morning bomb blasts has
killed at least 83 people at the popular
Egyptian Red Sea resort town of Sharm el
–Sheikh. Three explosions tore through the
lobby of a luxury hotel, a parking lot and a
market minutes apart. At least two of the
explosions are believed to be car bombs.
Officials say most of the dead are Egyptians
but at least eight foreigners have been
confirmed killed. More than 100 people were
injured, many of them seriously. Egypt’s
interior minister said there’s some
information linking the blasts with the
October bombings in the Sinai resort town of
Taba. A claim of responsibility from a group
calling itself the Abdullah Azzam
Brigades of
al-Qaeda in the Levant and Egypt has not been
verified.
Key: 1. C 2. A 3. B; I 4. E
5. G, K 6. J
Item
2
British government officials say a
huge intelligence operation is underway to find
those responsible for the bomb attacks on
London’s transport system during Thursday
morning’s rush hour. The attacks, three on
underground trains and one on a bus ,
claimed
the lives of at least 38 people and injured around
700 more. Police said the
number of dead could
rise further. The first attack came just before
nine in the
morning on a train lose to the
main station in the city’s financial district.
Minutes
later the worst incident occurred, a
bomb exploded in a deep underground line,
killing more than 20 people. Another train
bomb tore a hole through a tunnel wall,
hurling debris onto adjacent track involving a
further two trains. The fourth blast
ripped
the roof of a bus. A BBC journalist who just left
it, told that he saw it explode,
sending seats
flying, and leaving many people badly injured.
Task 1: T F F T T
Task 2:
1.
intelligence operation; underway; responsible;
transport; rush hour
2. deep underground
line; tore a hole; hurling debris; further
3. ripped the roof; flying; baldy injured
Item 3
The Indian capital Delhi
has been placed on high security alert after three
explosions rocked the city, killing more than
50 people and injuring many others . The
government has called on people to stay
indoors. Across the city armed police have
taken up positions outside key buildings and
the main public areas . The blasts came
within
minutes on the day when many people were out
shopping ahead of the Hindu
festival of Diwali
and the Muslim Eid celebration.
Key:
1.
Three explosions rocked the city
2. Fifty
were killed and many others injured
3. To
stay indoors
4. They’ve taken up positions
outside key buildings and the main public areas
5. They were planned ahead of the Hindu
festival of Diwali and the Muslim Eid
celebration.
Section D
A woman has
appeared on Jordanian television and confessed to
taking part in
suicide attacks last Wednesday
in the capital Amman. She said she’d gone into the
Radisson SAS Hotel where there was a wedding
party wither husband, but although
he had
managed to blow himself up, she had failed.
Reporting from Amman, here is
John Leyne.
Jordan television showed pictures of the
woman with the explosive belt still
strapped
to her waist, she was wearing a traditional black
Islamic gown and white
headscarf, Then the
woman gave her confession. She had come to Jordan
from Iraq
with her husband four days before
the attack , she said. On the day of the bombing ,
her husband gave her the suicide belt and
showed her how to use it. They went in
together to attack the wedding in the Radisson
Hotel. Then she said to her husband
succeeded
in setting off his bomb but she did not. So she
ran out with the guests.
Key:
1. Suicide
2. appeared on 3. confessed 4. wedding party 5.
black Islamic gown 6.
white headscarf 7.
strapped to 8. husband 9. blow himself up 10.
from Iraq
Item 2
British
authorities say they have foiled a plan to blow up
aircraft flying from
Britain to the United
States. Air traffic has been disrupted as new
security measures
were put in place and
flights in and out of Britain were canceled. VOA
correspondent
Gary Thomas has a report from
London.
Police and security service agents
raided homes in Greater London and
Birmingham
overnight to break up a terrorist ring planning to
blow up U.S. –bound
aircraft with explosives.
21 people were arrested . Deputy Police
Commissioner Paul
Stephenson said the plot was
a significant one.
“We cannot stress too
highly the severity that this plot represented.
Put simply., this
was intended to be mass
murder on an unimaginable scale.”
Authorities would not say how close the plotters
were to acting. But ty
of Homeland Security
Michael Chertoff said the scheme was well-advanced
and in its
final stages. U.S. officials
described it as suggestive of an al-Qaeda plot.
British and
U.S. authorities have raised the
threat level on some airline flights to its
highest
level and banned virtually all hand
baggage from airplane cabins. Passengers at
British airports found themselves in long
lines at security checkpoints and many
have
been stranded as incoming and outgoing flights
were canceled . Gary Thomas ,
VOA News,
London.
Key:
Task 1: B C Task 2: T
F F T F T T T
Item 3
Reports are coming in of a series of
explosions on the Indonesian island of
are
some reports of casualties but it’s not clear how
many. Bomb attacks in
Bali in 2002 attributed
to Islamist radicals killed more than 200 people.
Tim Johnston
reports from Jakarta .
According to local media the explosions went off
just before eight o’clock in the
evening, two
in the village of Jimbaran, a beachside area
packed with hotels and
tourist restaurants,
and another 10 minutes later in a restaurant in
Kuta square,
one of Bali’s most popular
shopping area. Reports from Bali say the emergency
services are attending to the injured, phone
lines between the island and other part of
the
country were overloaded as people struggled to
contact friends and relatives in the
area.
It’s still too early to say with any certainty if
these explosions were bombs, but
the blasts
come almost three years after a devastating car
bomb planted by Islamic
extremists killed over
200 people at a night club in Bali.
Key:
1. The explosions went off just before eight
o’clock in the evening.
2. There are some
reports of casualties but it’s not clear how many.
3. Three. Two were in a beachside village
packed with hotels and tourists restaurants
and one in a restaurant in Kuta square, one of
Bali’s most popular shopping areas.
4. The
emergency services are attending to the injured,
phone lines between the island
and other part
of the country were overloaded as people struggled
to contact friends
and relatives in the area.
5. A devastating car bomb planted by Islamic
extremists killed over 200 people at a
night
club in Bali.
Unit 13 Terrorism
and Counterterrorism
Section A
de bombs
de bomb rrorism e bomb
e ives; car bomb
high alert; aftermath
ed ive
devices
Section B
has gone on high
alert following intelligence reports that
militants are
planning to carry out terrorist
attacks leading up to the country’s Independence
Day
celebrations on Monday.
2. An American
air marshal has shot and killed a passenger at
Miami airport in Florida.
Officials said the
shooting happened in the area between departure
gate and a recently
arrived American Airline’s
plane.
3. A passenger jet on its way from
Paris to Dublin, Ireland was diverted to an
airport
in Scotland today after its crew found
a note claiming there was a bomb on board.
British Royal Air force jets escorted the
plane to an airport where it landed safely.
4.
Pakistan’s ambassador to Sri Lanka has narrowly
escaped a powerful explosion that
hit his
convoy in Colombo. Seven people were killed and
about eight wounded when
a claymore mine went
off today as the convoy passed in the Sri Lankan
capital.
5. U.S. intelligence agencies have
reportedly concluded that the Iraq war has helped
inspire a new generation of Islamic radicals
and increased the threat of global
terrorism.
Key: A D B B C
Section C
Item
1
A series of early morning bomb blasts has
killed at least 83 people at the popular
Egyptian Red Sea resort town of Sharm el
–Sheikh. Three explosions tore through the
lobby of a luxury hotel, a parking lot and a
market minutes apart. At least two of the
explosions are believed to be car bombs.
Officials say most of the dead are Egyptians
but at least eight foreigners have been
confirmed killed. More than 100 people were
injured, many of them seriously. Egypt’s
interior minister said there’s some
information linking the blasts with the
October bombings in the Sinai resort town of
Taba. A claim of responsibility from a group
calling itself the Abdullah Azzam
Brigades of
al-Qaeda in the Levant and Egypt has not been
verified.
Key: 1. C 2. A 3. B; I 4. E
5. G, K 6. J
Item
2
British government officials say a
huge intelligence operation is underway to find
those responsible for the bomb attacks on
London’s transport system during Thursday
morning’s rush hour. The attacks, three on
underground trains and one on a bus ,
claimed
the lives of at least 38 people and injured around
700 more. Police said the
number of dead could
rise further. The first attack came just before
nine in the
morning on a train lose to the
main station in the city’s financial district.
Minutes
later the worst incident occurred, a
bomb exploded in a deep underground line,
killing more than 20 people. Another train
bomb tore a hole through a tunnel wall,
hurling debris onto adjacent track involving a
further two trains. The fourth blast
ripped
the roof of a bus. A BBC journalist who just left
it, told that he saw it explode,
sending seats
flying, and leaving many people badly injured.
Task 1: T F F T T
Task 2:
1.
intelligence operation; underway; responsible;
transport; rush hour
2. deep underground
line; tore a hole; hurling debris; further
3. ripped the roof; flying; baldy injured
Item 3
The Indian capital Delhi
has been placed on high security alert after three
explosions rocked the city, killing more than
50 people and injuring many others . The
government has called on people to stay
indoors. Across the city armed police have
taken up positions outside key buildings and
the main public areas . The blasts came
within
minutes on the day when many people were out
shopping ahead of the Hindu
festival of Diwali
and the Muslim Eid celebration.
Key:
1.
Three explosions rocked the city
2. Fifty
were killed and many others injured
3. To
stay indoors
4. They’ve taken up positions
outside key buildings and the main public areas
5. They were planned ahead of the Hindu
festival of Diwali and the Muslim Eid
celebration.
Section D
A woman has
appeared on Jordanian television and confessed to
taking part in
suicide attacks last Wednesday
in the capital Amman. She said she’d gone into the
Radisson SAS Hotel where there was a wedding
party wither husband, but although
he had
managed to blow himself up, she had failed.
Reporting from Amman, here is
John Leyne.
Jordan television showed pictures of the
woman with the explosive belt still
strapped
to her waist, she was wearing a traditional black
Islamic gown and white
headscarf, Then the
woman gave her confession. She had come to Jordan
from Iraq
with her husband four days before
the attack , she said. On the day of the bombing ,
her husband gave her the suicide belt and
showed her how to use it. They went in
together to attack the wedding in the Radisson
Hotel. Then she said to her husband
succeeded
in setting off his bomb but she did not. So she
ran out with the guests.
Key:
1. Suicide
2. appeared on 3. confessed 4. wedding party 5.
black Islamic gown 6.
white headscarf 7.
strapped to 8. husband 9. blow himself up 10.
from Iraq
Item 2
British
authorities say they have foiled a plan to blow up
aircraft flying from
Britain to the United
States. Air traffic has been disrupted as new
security measures
were put in place and
flights in and out of Britain were canceled. VOA
correspondent
Gary Thomas has a report from
London.
Police and security service agents
raided homes in Greater London and
Birmingham
overnight to break up a terrorist ring planning to
blow up U.S. –bound
aircraft with explosives.
21 people were arrested . Deputy Police
Commissioner Paul
Stephenson said the plot was
a significant one.
“We cannot stress too
highly the severity that this plot represented.
Put simply., this
was intended to be mass
murder on an unimaginable scale.”
Authorities would not say how close the plotters
were to acting. But ty
of Homeland Security
Michael Chertoff said the scheme was well-advanced
and in its
final stages. U.S. officials
described it as suggestive of an al-Qaeda plot.
British and
U.S. authorities have raised the
threat level on some airline flights to its
highest
level and banned virtually all hand
baggage from airplane cabins. Passengers at
British airports found themselves in long
lines at security checkpoints and many
have
been stranded as incoming and outgoing flights
were canceled . Gary Thomas ,
VOA News,
London.
Key:
Task 1: B C Task 2: T
F F T F T T T
Item 3
Reports are coming in of a series of
explosions on the Indonesian island of
are
some reports of casualties but it’s not clear how
many. Bomb attacks in
Bali in 2002 attributed
to Islamist radicals killed more than 200 people.
Tim Johnston
reports from Jakarta .
According to local media the explosions went off
just before eight o’clock in the
evening, two
in the village of Jimbaran, a beachside area
packed with hotels and
tourist restaurants,
and another 10 minutes later in a restaurant in
Kuta square,
one of Bali’s most popular
shopping area. Reports from Bali say the emergency
services are attending to the injured, phone
lines between the island and other part of
the
country were overloaded as people struggled to
contact friends and relatives in the
area.
It’s still too early to say with any certainty if
these explosions were bombs, but
the blasts
come almost three years after a devastating car
bomb planted by Islamic
extremists killed over
200 people at a night club in Bali.
Key:
1. The explosions went off just before eight
o’clock in the evening.
2. There are some
reports of casualties but it’s not clear how many.
3. Three. Two were in a beachside village
packed with hotels and tourists restaurants
and one in a restaurant in Kuta square, one of
Bali’s most popular shopping areas.
4. The
emergency services are attending to the injured,
phone lines between the island
and other part
of the country were overloaded as people struggled
to contact friends
and relatives in the area.
5. A devastating car bomb planted by Islamic
extremists killed over 200 people at a
night
club in Bali.