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【速度1-14】 7.6练习
<span style="background-color:#4f81bd;"><span style="background-color:#4f81bd;"><font face="宋体">计时</font>1</span><br /></span><br /><span style="color:#666666;"><font size="2"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">01July 2011</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="6"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Greek Spending Cuts Clear Way forLoans</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Greecehas approved a plan to raise taxes, cut spending and sell government-ownedassets. This clears the way for seventeen billion dollars in loans from theInternational Monetary Fund and the European Union. The loans are a share ofthe one-hundred-fifty-six-billion-dollar rescue deal that Greece secured lastyear.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Themoney will help the government to operate and pay its debts until the middle ofSeptember. But the austerity plan led to a national strike on Tuesday andWednesday, along with violent demonstrations in Athens.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">(SOUND)</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Severalhundred protesters and police were injured.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">TheGreek parliament approved the forty-billion-dollar plan on Wednesday and thedetails on Thursday. Prime Minister George Papandreou won more support thanexpected for his proposals. He appealed to parliament to do everything possibleto avoid defaulting on the debts of the birthplace of democracy.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">(SOUND)</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">"Thereis a choice," he said. "We can remain a Greece which has a hugepublic sector, or change to a Greece which has an effective democratic andproductive public sector."</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Greeceis expected to seek more international help, even though years of governmentborrowing led to the crisis.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Manyprotesters said their government is making decisions that serve the interestsof wealthy nations.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">WOMAN:"I want to feel Greek again. But I’m not Greek. I’m German, I’m American.I don’t know what I am.”</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:red;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">(223 words)</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"> </font></font></span><br /><span style="background-color:#4f81bd;"><span style="background-color:#4f81bd;"><font face="宋体">计时</font>2</span><br /></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Butother Greeks, including this man, see the need for austerity.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">MAN: “Ithink the policies are a good step towards finding common ground with theEuropean Union, which is I think a vision that all Greeks should aspire to. Idon’t think any country can operate in isolation these days, especially acountry the size of Greece.”</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Alsothis week, the International Monetary Fund chose French Finance MinisterChristine Lagarde as managing director.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">DominiqueStrauss-Kahn had to resign in May. He was charged with sexual assaulting ahotel cleaning woman in New York. But prosecutors have now raised questionsabout the believability of the accuser. On Friday a judge released Mr.Strauss-Kahn from house arrest, although he cannot return home to France.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Ms.Lagarde received support from the United States and European nations as well asRussia, Brazil and China. Her five-year term starts Tuesday. The internationallender has always been led by a European, but Ms. Lagarde will be the firstwoman.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Ms.Lagarde has promised to be a strong voice for developing countries, especiallyin Asia and Africa. But international monetary expert Domenico Lombardi saysbeing a European will also help.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">DOMENICOLOMBARDI: "And one key factor in guiding this decision is certainly theability for Christine Lagarde as a European coming from a key euro area countryto exert pressure, leverage on her European fellow finance ministers in termsof taking a more aggressive stance on the European crisis."</font></font></span><font size="2"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"></font></font><br /><span style="color:red;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif">(243 words)</font></span><br /><font size="2"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </font></font><br /><span style="background-color:#4f81bd;"><span style="background-color:#4f81bd;"><font face="宋体">计时</font>3</span><br /></span><br /><font size="2"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </font></font><br /><span style="color:#666666;"><font size="2"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">30 June 2011</font></font></span><br /><font size="5"><strong><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="6"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Young Navajos LeaveReservation Life Behindto Seek Jobs</font></font></span></strong></font><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"></font></font></span>DOUGJOHNSON: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English.<br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">(MUSIC)</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">I'mDoug Johnson. This week on our show we play new music by Sarah Jarosz …</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">And weanswer a question about coal mining in America …</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">But,first we travel to the Navajo Nation in the American Southwest to learn moreabout its shrinking population.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">(MUSIC)</font></font></span><br /><strong><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Young Navajos Leaving Navajo Nation</font></font></span></strong><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"></font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">DOUGJOHNSON: The two thousand ten nationwide population study in the United Statesshows continuous growth in America’s minority population. Native Americanpopulations in the Southwest are among the expanding groups. However, thelargest American Indian reservation in the country shrank in population bythree percent. We visited a town in the huge Navajo Nation to find out wherepeople were going. Jim Tedder has the story.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">JIMTEDDER: Ganado, Arizona, is in the central part of the sixty-seven thousandsquare kilometer Navajo Nation reservation.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">(SOUND)</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Theinside of Ganado High School is busy with children hurrying to classes. But therooms are not nearly as crowded as they once were. Principal Tom Rowland sayshe is losing about one hundred students a year.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">TOMROWLAND: "I’m looking at a school that in the mid-two thousands ran about eight hundred fifty students. And now were down to about five hundredseventy-five to five hundred eighty.”</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">EvelynBegay has worked in the school district for twenty-eight years. Shethinks she knows why the population is falling in Ganado schools.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">EVELYNBEGAY: “Families can’t find jobs here. They go to the urban areas to look foremployment, and that’s where they move their families.”</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Ms.Begay has five adult children herself. All went to Ganado High School. Theyeach attended Arizona State University, in Phoenix. And all five stayedin the Phoenix area after they graduated.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:red;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">(297 words)</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"> </font></font></span><br /><span style="background-color:#4f81bd;"><span style="background-color:#4f81bd;"><font face="宋体">计时</font>4</span><br /></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">EVELYNBEGAY: “Even though you hear politicians say we’re going to build jobs, we’veheard that fifty years, and we haven’t seen any significant impact onemployment for our young people. And as long as that’s continuing, we’re goingto continue to lose our families, our children, to move away.”</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Strongwinds blow across the one highway that passes through Ganado. There are fewlocal industries in town. The largest employers are the hospital and the schoolsystem. That is why the teachers and administrators at the high school advisestudents to leave the reservation after graduation. Nathan Brady is on thestaff at Ganado High School.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">NATHANBRADY: “Every one of them is going to encourage them, ‘Go, go, get aneducation, get a job.’”</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Thenwhen they have their university degree, he says there is no reason to return.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">NATHANBRADY: “They look back, and there’s nothing here. There’s nothing for them tobuild on. There’s no employment so they stay out there.”</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">That iswhat Nathan Brady did himself. He graduated from Ganado twenty years ago andjoined the Navy. But just recently he returned to the reservation although hehad been offered a duty station on the island state of Hawaii.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">NATHANBRADY: “I’d rather be out here to see the stars at night, I’d rather be outhere to hear the birds chirping. I knew I wanted to come back.”</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">A lotof young Navajo feel the same. The reservation is far from city life and theeconomy is lacking, but it is still home. Marden Kinlichee is one of them.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">MARDENKINLICHEE: “I think a lot of kids do want to come back. It’s just that if theycome back, then they’re going to be stuck at home not working.”</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:red;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">(296 words)</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"> </font></font></span><br /><span style="background-color:#4f81bd;"><span style="background-color:#4f81bd;"><font face="宋体">计时</font>5</span><br /></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">ButMarden Kinlichee has a plan for her return. She just graduated from Ganado HighSchool and leaves for New Mexico in August. She plans to study nursing at theUniversity of New Mexico, in Gallup. She knows she can find a nursing job nearhome when she graduates. She says she can help her people that way.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">MARDENKINLICHEE: “That’s how I was raised, to come back and help my grandparents. Weneed a lot of help out here.”</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">TheNavajo Nation population is getting older. More than sixty-five percent of thepopulation is over eighteen years old. That is up seven percent from ten yearsago.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Butpeople in Ganado are not that worried about what many people call the braindrain. They believe the land, culture and language will bring their young backwhen they are ready.</font></font></span><br /><strong><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Coal Mining in the US</font></font></span></strong><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"></font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">DOUGJOHNSON: Our listener question this week comes from Mongolia. Tsogt Sharav hasbeen listening to VOA Special English since two thousand four and wants to knowmore about coal mining in the United States.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">TheUnited States produces about half of its electric power from coal. America isthe second-largest producer of coal after China. Coal is mined in half thestates, but Wyoming mines the most, followed by West Virginia, Kentucky andPennsylvania.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">TheUnited States gets about two-thirds of its coal from surface mining rather thanunderground mining. Surface mining is the name for different methods that areused to remove coal that is less than sixty meters underground.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">TheUnited States has about eighty-seven thousand coal miners. The jobs pay well,especially for the poor communities where mines are often located. But the jobcan also be dangerous.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:red;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">(287 words)</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"> </font></font></span><br /><span style="background-color:#4f81bd;"><span style="background-color:#4f81bd;"><font face="宋体">计时结束</font></span><br /></span><br /><span style="color:red;"><font size="3">以下自由阅读</font></span><span style="color:red;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"></font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Thegovernment says more than one hundred thousand miners were killed betweennineteen hundred and last year. Coal mining deaths have decreased sharply. Butlast year forty-eight miners were killed. Twenty-nine of them died in anexplosion at an underground mine in West Virginia on April fifth, twenty-ten.It was the deadliest coal mining disaster in the United States in forty years.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"> </font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Thisweek, a federal agency, the Mine Safety and Health Administration, releasedfindings from its investigation. It says the explosion at the Upper Big Branchmine could have been prevented.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Theagency says there was a huge coal dust explosion that started with a limitedamount of natural gas. It says the methane was likely ignited by miningequipment.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">MasseyEnergy owned the mine. It blamed the explosion on a sudden release of a largeamount of natural gas that could not have been prevented.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Minesafety agency official Kevin Stricklin says Massey kept two sets of records totry to hide safety problems from inspectors.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">A finalreport from the agency is expected later this year. A criminal investigation bythe Justice Department continues. Massey is now owned by another company, AlphaNatural Resources.</font></font></span><br /><strong><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Sarah Jarosz</font></font></span></strong><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"></font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">DOUGJOHNSON: Twenty-year old Sarah Jarosz is a singer, songwriter andmusician. She plays the guitar and other instruments, including the mandolinand banjo. Her music has a strong American bluegrass influence.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">SarahJarosz just released her second album. With this album, she moves beyondbluegrass to explore other musical sounds. Critics say she is one of the mostpromising young singer-songwriters at work today. Barbara Klein has more.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">(MUSIC)</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:red;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">(269 words)</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"> </font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">BARBARAKLEIN: That was the song “Run Away” from Sarah Jarosz’ new album “Follow MeDown.”</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">SarahJarosz grew up in the town of Wimberly, Texas, near Austin. At the age of tenSarah began playing the mandolin. Soon, she began to perform at bluegrassfestivals.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"> </font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">SarahJarosz’ first album, “Song Up in Her Head,” came out in two thousand nine. Itwas heavily influenced by traditional bluegrass music. She is now studyingmusic at the New England Conservatory in Boston. She has said her studies havehelped her to push her musical boundaries.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">SarahJarosz wrote nearly all of the songs on the new album. She performs two worksby other artists, including Bob Dylan. Here is her version of “The Tourist” bythe British rock band Radiohead.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">(MUSIC)</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">SarahJarosz asked many top musicians to perform with her on this album. Here, shesings and plays mandolin with star banjo player Bela Fleck. We leave you with“Come Around.”</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">(MUSIC)</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">DOUGJOHNSON: I’m Doug Johnson. Our program was written by Chris Cruise, DanaDemange and Caty Weaver, who was also the producer. Join us again nextweek for AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:red;"><font size="2"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"></font></font></span>(196 words) |
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