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各位题目被我隐藏了哦  做完了再涂黑看看吧 不过因为有的文章是节选的 所以题目不一定就完全正确 要相信自己的能力 加油↖(^ω^)↗！继续做题啦！！！还有这个字体俺不知道咋就调不出一样滴捏~~~
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[Time1] Like Lenin, President To Be Embalmed
The remains of Venezuela President Hugo Chavez will be embalmed and placed in a glass casket on permanent display so 'our people can have him forever,' Vice President Nicolas Maduro said Thursday
Mr. Chavez will lie in state for at least another week after Friday's funeral, Mr. Maduro said. The final resting place for the former army tank commander, who died Tuesday after battling cancer for nearly two years, will be the 'Museum of the Revolution' in Caracas, Mr. Maduro said.
Mr. Chavez will join a select club of other leaders -- almost all autocrats -- who were embalmed and put on permanent display, including Russia's Vladimir Lenin, North Korea's Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh and China's Mao Zedong.
'We are now going to have a tropical Lenin,' said Elias Pino, history professor at Andres Bello Catholic University
Several Eastern European Communist dictators, like Czechoslovakia's Klement Gottwald and Bulgaria's Georgi Dimitrov, were also embalmed and displayed for years. In a 2005 Czech television poll, Mr. Gottwald he was voted the 'worst Czech' in history.
Former Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos was embalmed and put on show by his family, although some have questioned whether it is real or a wax figure.
Argentina's Evita Peron was embalmed and put on display for two years. After her husband, Juan Peron, was overthrown in 1955, the body disappeared until 1971, when it was found in a crypt in Milan, Italy.
President Abraham Lincoln was embalmed during a weeks-long funeral train tour shortly after his assassination in 1865
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[Time2]China reiterates opposition to new sanctions on Iran over nuclear program
A Chinese envoy said on Wednesday that China is not in favor of putting excessive pressure or imposing new sanctions on Iran over Tehran's controversial nuclear program.
Wang Min, China's deputy permanent representative to the UN, made the statement at a Security Council meeting on the latest work of 1737 Committee, which is tasked with monitoring a set of sanctions against Iran established by Resolution 1737 and subsequent Council resolutions.
The Iran nuclear issue bears on the authority of the international nuclear non-proliferation regime and peace and stability in the Middle East, Wang noted.
"The relevant resolutions on nuclear issues of the Security Council should be comprehensively implemented, but sanctions are not the ultimate purpose of the resolutions," he said. "China is always firmly against use or threat of use of force. We are not in favor of putting excessive pressure or new sanctions against Iran. "
According to Wang, China consistently stands for a peaceful settlement of the Iran nuclear issue through dialogue and negotiations.
"All parties concerned should strengthen contacts with stronger confidence, show their flexibility and sincerity to promote the dialogue process, in order to create the conditions for reaching a comprehensive, long-term and proper solution to the Iranian nuclear issue," Wang said. "China is firmly opposed to the unilateral sanctions took by some countries, which expanded the range of sanctions and damaged the interests and legitimate rights of other countries."
Iran and the P5+1 powers--Britain, China, France, Russia, the United States plus Germany, held a two-day talks on Feb. 26 in Almaty, Kazakhstan, aiming to address the decade-long deadlock over Iran's disputed nuclear program. All the parties agreed to meet in expert-level in Istanbul, Turkey on March 17 to 18, followed by another high- ranking meeting in Almaty again on April 5.
"The talks in Almaty, which have achieved positive results, marked the first step to begin the substantive negotiations process and are conductive to resolve the Iranian nuclear issue through dialogue and negotiations," Wang said. "We also encourage Iran to strengthen cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)."
"For a long time China has made tremendous efforts to keep the issue on the right track. China is willing to continue to work with all parties to reach a constructive and peaceful solution to the Iran nuclear issue through diplomatic means." he added.
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[Time3]Immigrants, visitors and students from China to Canada record high in 2012
Immigrants, visitors and students from China to Canada hit a record high in 2012, Canada's Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney announced here on Monday.
In a news release, Kenney said that China was the number one source country for immigration to Canada in 2012, with 32,990 permanent residents admitted.
He said that Canada also issued a record 235,000 visitor visas to Chinese applicants in 2012, an increase of 158 percent compared with 2004, and approved the record 25,245 study permits, an increase of 235 percent since 2004. China was also the top source country for successful Canadian Experience Class applicants.
Kenney noted that this significant increase in each of these categories reaffirms Canada as a top destination of choice for visitors and students from China.
"For over a century, Canada has benefited from the talent and hard work of newcomers from China," he said. "Almost 1.5 million Canadians can trace their ancestry to China, and now a growing number of Chinese citizens are able to visit family and friends in Canada, study at Canadian colleges and universities, or immigrate to Canada as permanent residents."
Kenney said that Canada plans to grow the economy and create more jobs by attracting an increasing number of visitors and the world's best and brightest talent to Canada.
"For this reason, we strive to issue visas and permits as quickly as possible to facilitate travel for immigrants, visitors and students," he added.
Canada continues to move toward a fast and flexible immigration system that avoids backlogs and processes applications faster.
For example, in 2008, the government introduced the Canadian Experience Class, a path to permanent residency for international student graduate whose Canadian education and work experience helps ensure they are set for success in Canada's economy.
In addition, in July 2011, the duration of multiple-entry visas was extended from 5 years to 10 years. This allows visitors to enter and exit Canada for up to six months at a time over 10 years.
Furthermore, parents and grandparents of Canadian citizens and permanent residents are eligible to apply for the new Parent and Grandparent Super Visa, which is also valid for up to 10 years and allows parents and grandparents to come to Canada for up to 24 months at a time
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[Time4]There's More to Life Than Being Happy
In September 1942, Viktor Frankl, a prominent Jewish psychiatrist and neurologist in Vienna, was arrested and transported to a Nazi concentration camp with his wife and parents. Three years later, when his camp was liberated, most of his family, including his pregnant wife, had perished -- but he, prisoner number 119104, had lived. In his bestselling 1946 book, Man's Search for Meaning, which he wrote in nine days about his experiences in the camps, Frankl concluded that the difference between those who had lived and those who had died came down to one thing: Meaning, an insight he came to early in life. When he was a high school student, one of his science teachers declared to the class, "Life is nothing more than a combustion process, a process of oxidation." Frankl jumped out of his chair and responded, "Sir, if this is so, then what can be the meaning of life?"
As he saw in the camps, those who found meaning even in the most horrendous circumstances were far more resilient to suffering than those who did not. "Everything can be taken from a man but one thing," Frankl wrote in Man's Search for Meaning, "the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."
Frankl worked as a therapist in the camps, and in his book, he gives the example of two suicidal inmates he encountered there. Like many others in the camps, these two men were hopeless and thought that there was nothing more to expect from life, nothing to live for. "In both cases," Frankl writes, "it was a question of getting them to realize that life was still expecting something from them; something in the future was expected of them." For one man, it was his young child, who was then living in a foreign country. For the other, a scientist, it was a series of books that he needed to finish. Frankl writes:
This uniqueness and singleness which distinguishes each individual and gives a meaning to his existence has a bearing on creative work as much as it does on human love. When the impossibility of replacing a person is realized, it allows the responsibility which a man has for his existence and its continuance to appear in all its magnitude. A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the "why" for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any "how."
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[Time5]When America Was Female -
The photos of the historic suffragette March on Washington on March 3, 1913, that were all over the place over the weekend were a reminder of how far America has come in the last century, and of how much American women have been at the forefront of pushing the international rights of women forward. But as I admired their bonnets and their courage, their side-buttoned boots and hooded woolen cloaks and looks of fierce determination, the women in the 100-year-old images also raised for me some slightly more prosaic questions.
Why were some staging tableaux wearing breastplates and laurels? Who were they dressed as? And -- perhaps more importantly -- why can't contemporary feminists have costumes that are as regal and classical as those of 1913 -- instead of Code Pink's vulgar giant magenta lady bits?
The answer, it turns out, is that Uncle Sam had a much older and classier sister named Columbia, the feminine historic personification of the United States of America, who has since the 1920s largely fallen out of view. But she was as recognizable to Americans of yesteryear as the man in the top-hat and tails remains today, and when the suffragettes donned robes and armor, they garbed themselves in her rebel warrior's spirit. From the 18th century until the early decades of the 20th, Columbia was the gem of the ocean, a mythical and majestic personage whose corsets or breast-plates curved out of her striped or starred or swirling skirts with all the majesty of a shield. She was honored from the birth of the nation -- "Hail, Columbia!", whose score was first composed for the inauguration of President Washington, was an unofficial anthem until the "Star-Spangled Banner" displaced it as the official national one in 1931 -- to the birth of the recording and film industries, which is why we have had Columbia Records and Columbia Pictures. Yes, that lady with the torch at the start of the movies isn't just some period-costume-wearing chick -- she is a relic of this earlier personification of America, immortalized forever by the most American of industries.
America was Columbia in the same way that England was Britannia and France was Marianne. America's capital is the District of Columbia; New York City's great early private university was Columbia College (now University).
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But as skirt lengths rose and corsets were tossed to the wind, Columbia fell out of favor. Perhaps it had something to do with the rise of Lady Liberty as an icon, though in the 19th century the two were sometimes visually interchangeable, if not identical. Perhaps it had something to do with Columbia's role beseeching citizens to endure hardship during the Great War. Or perhaps it was something bigger: Female national personifications in general fell out of vogue as women took on a growing role as emancipated citizens. But for one glorious moment in the early 20th century, the allegorical and the concrete met on the steps of the Treasury building in Washington.
Thanks to these and other women who marched, women's rights in America were secured (even if they remain always and ever contested). A century later, Columbia looks like a lady who knows how to lean in. Enough time has passed, it seems, that we might consider reviving her spirit, and returning her to the pantheon of America characters for the years to come.

OBSTACLE
The Muslim Brotherhood It’s hard being in charge

WHEN a swarm of locusts recently engulfed Muqattam, a posh suburb of Egypt’s capital that houses the Muslim Brotherhood’s headquarters, humorists lay in wait. “Official spokesman: locusts retreat following President Morsi’s promise to fulfil all their demands,” quipped a popular Facebook commentator, hinting that after eight months in power, Egypt’s Brotherhood-run government is itself something of a plague. Soon after, a different kind of swarm menaced the Islamist group’s offices in Cairo. Scores of youths chose the spot to perform a taunting rendition of the Harlem Shake, a pelvis-thrusting dance that has gone globally viral.
It is not just in Egypt that the Brothers are taking a battering nowadays, and not just in the form of ridicule. From the Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf, the many mainstream Islamist groups allied to, inspired by or sympathetic to the Brotherhood, whose main branch was founded in Egypt in 1928, face a range of tricky challenges. In countries that have so far been spared the upheavals of the Arab spring these can take familiar shape: the United Arab Emirates, still an absolute monarchy, this week began trying 94 alleged Brothers on charges of conspiracy against the state. Yet across most of the region the trials are of a new kind, brought on not by persecution as in decades past, but by the responsibilities and burdens of being in charge.
At the height of the Arab spring two years ago the Brothers, known in Arabic as Ikhwan, looked unstoppable. Elections ushered in by the first Arab revolutions brought big wins for Nahda, Tunisia’s relatively liberal version of the Brotherhood, and for Egypt’s Freedom and Justice Party, a new political vehicle for the old-school version. More violent revolts in Libya and Syria were meanwhile taking on an increasingly Islamist cast, with Brotherhood-linked networks, backed by rich friends in the Gulf, initially prominent in fighting, funding and political mobilisation. Libya’s Brotherhood-linked party did poorly in a general election a year ago but may have got stronger since then.
Sniffing the wind, King Mohammed VI of Morocco pre-empted unrest by handing government to the mildly Islamist Justice and Development Party, which he had previously held at arm’s length. In Jordan King Abdullah has been at pains to deny the Brothers a chance to dominate his parliament, but they are widely regarded as the best-organised group in the country.
Al Jazeera, the Qatar-based satellite television channel, was meanwhile becoming an increasingly bold proponent of Ikhwan causes. Its widely watched programmes cheered on the uprisings, granting privileged airtime to Islamist leaders. Two powerful non-Arab countries, Iran and Turkey, offered starkly contrasting models of Islamist rule, with Turkey, an Al Jazeera favourite, backing a model closer to the Brothers. Western diplomats urged that it was time to embrace the Ikhwan.
Compared with the Arab world’s fractious secularists, the Brothers often appeared coherent and disciplined. And they shone brightly against the darker end of the Islamist spectrum. At the far extreme this included al-Qaeda and other jihadists, but also fundamentalist Salafists among the Muslims’ Sunni majority, plus groups such as Lebanon’s Hizbullah or Iraqi followers of Muqtada al-Sadr among Shias. Unlike most such outfits, the Brothers had generally tempered ritual calls for sharia law, or for crushing Israel, with patience and pragmatism. “Basically, the Brothers are the only game in town,” shrugged a Western envoy in Egypt early last year.
This apparently winning wave seemed naturally to follow earlier successes by the Ikhwan and their cousins wherever they had found space to manoeuvre. Hamas, the Brothers’ Palestinian branch, handsomely won elections in the Palestinian territories in 2006 and the next year took control of Gaza by force. Brotherhood franchises had performed strongly since the 1990s in elections in Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq and Bahrain. They had captured power in Sudan as early as 1989 by way of a coup (but later lost it) and would have taken it by majority vote in Algeria in 1991, had the army not upended the table and engaged in a bloody civil war to stop them.
Yet the Ikhwan’s more recent moves out of exile, out of prison and out of cramped flats bugged by the old regimes’ secret police have not proved easy. Internal divisions have re-emerged. Already, amid the slight opening of Egyptian politics that predated the revolution of January 2011, a purge by conservative Brothers had ousted more modern-minded elements from the leadership. The slowness of Ikhwan elders to embrace the revolution and their ensuing preference for back-room dealings with the still-powerful institutions of Egypt’s “deep state”, in particular the army and the courts, have alienated many of the Brotherhood’s younger members. Former Brothers now rank among the Ikhwan’s most bitter and effective critics. Some, staking out a middle ground and readier to ally with secularists, pose an increasingly potent threat to the Brothers’ electoral base.
Some of the growing dislike for the Brothers now attaches, oddly enough, to Western countries that long shunned them. John Kerry, America’s new secretary of state, was recently greeted in Egypt by angry charges of favouring the Ikhwan, with cartoons depicting him sporting a beard and zibeeba, the forehead mark that tells of regular prayer. Across much of the region the Ikhwan’s rivals remain fractious. Few secular leaders have a coherent vision with popular appeal. Yet perhaps in time they will find one, and perhaps those diplomats who count on the Brothers to bring justice and prosperity should start hedging their bets again.
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cheungby

板凳，占楼

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Time1——1'33''——The remains of President Ch in V will be embalmed and placed in a glass casket.
Time2——2'22''——Official views of China on settle the Iran nuclear crisis in a peaceful way.
Time3——1'48''——The article introduces the new policies in Canada to welcome the Chinese immigrants and visitors, and as a consequence immagrants, visitors and students from China to Canada hit a record high in 2012.
Time4——2'20''——A Venan survivor from the nazi concentration camp's experence shows us that only the meaning of life can always support us from suffering.
Time5——2'26''——The author explains why Lady Columbia becomes one of American symbol.
Obstacle:6'23''——main idea:A brief introdution to the Brothers in Egypt and the Islamtic world.

cleotina

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the body of the President will be embalmed and displayed forever.
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About the nuclear issue, China, as one of the P5+1, will always pursue the peaceful to figure this question
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China is the top one contry whoes citizens go to Canada to study, to travel or to immigrate as a perminent citizen.
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human should always has dream and know the meaning of life to survive.
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there are so many new vocabularlies in this article, and I can barely knew the main idea at the first time.
This is a political issue about Egypt.

448406078

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Several people were embalmed and displayed after death.

2-389-2'52''
China's attitude and action towards I's nuclear power. China will always disagree with threaten and advocate peach.

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immigation and visitors from China to Canada were break a new record. Canada is well benefit by Chinese talent and hard-working, and will make facilities and policy more convincent for immigarting and visiting.

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EXISTENCE FOR MEANING!!!

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The author talk about history behind a photo. Some people in the photo and something between A and C.

wangziann

为人民服务的楼主，你辛苦了！！

1:40(259) 155wpm
Some leaders such like Hugo Chavez are embalmed in a selet club for permanent display.

2:14(389) 174wpm
China consistently stands for dialogue and negotiation to settle Iran nuclear issue and try tremendous effort to track the issue on right way.

2:04(378) 182wpm
Visitors and students from china to Canada keep increasing in recent years and hit a new record in 2012.Canada made some improvement to let the visit and immigration process easier.

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V,a neurologist and psychiatrist, who was arrested before wrote a book to share us with the  interpretation that what's the meaning of life and existense.

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Explain te question raised from the historic suffragette photos to the author. Discuss the old historical American women's wearing.

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Political relationship among brotherhood menbers of both Arab and non-Arab countries.(感觉生词多，磕磕碰碰，没咋读懂）

studio22

time1   259   1:41
time2   398   2:49
time3  378    2:35
time4   438   2:49

viphuangshu

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The Venezuela President Hugo Chaves will be embalmed and placed in a glass casket. Many dictators were also embalmed such as China's Mao Zedong, and Russia's Lenin.


Passage 2.
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Iran want to develop nuclear weapon, and America and its ally want to sanction Iran, but China against sanction and propose diplomatic means.


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In 2012, immigrants, visitors and students to Canada hit a record high. More than 23,000 permanent residents from China are admitted by Canada. The talents from China contribute a lot to the economy of Canada. The Canada's government strives to issue visa and permits as quickly as possible to facilitate travel for immigrants, visitors, and students.


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Frankl survived in the Nazi concentration camp. But his families died in the Nazi concentration camp. He compared the people who survived and who died in the camp, and found that the difference is meaning of life. The people who died is hopeless for life, and the people who survived still have hope for future life.


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An old picture (100 years ago) raised some questions, then the author tracked the history and did interesting research about women right revolution in U.S..


obstacle
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The Arab spring looked unstoppable, but the new leaders lose their power rapidly, because secular leaders do not have coherent vision with popular appeal. The author took several countries for examples.

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谢谢elen的分享~~


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