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<span style="background-color:#4f81bd;"><span style="background-color:#4f81bd;"><font face="宋体">计时</font>1</span><br /></span><br /><font size="5"><strong><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="6"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Gates Says NATO CouldFace 'Irrelevance' in the Future</font></font></span></strong></font><div style="text-align:right;"><div style="text-align:right;"><span style="color:#666666;"><font size="2"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"> 10 June 2011</font></font></span></div><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"></font></font></span>This is IN THENEWS in VOA Special English.<br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">American DefenseSecretary Robert Gates has told NATO members that they need to do more -- andspend more -- to support the alliance.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">ROBERT GATES: "Theblunt reality is that there will be dwindling appetite and patience in the USCongress -- and in the American body politic writ large -- to expendincreasingly precious funds on behalf of nations that are apparently unwillingto devote the necessary resources or make the necessary changes to be seriousand capable partners in their own defense.”</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">On Friday, Mr. Gatesgave his last policy speech before he retires as defense secretary on Junethirtieth. He spoke in Brussels, Belgium, at the headquarters of the NorthAtlantic Treaty Organization. NATO was created in nineteen forty-nine to defendwestern Europe against the Soviet Union.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Mr. Gates spoke aboutone current NATO operation -- the bombing campaign in Libya. He noted that alltwenty-eight members voted for the mission. But less than half have taken partat all, he said, and fewer than a third have been willing to participate in thecampaign. He said many allies want to take part but lack the resources.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Last week NATO decidedto extend its activities in Libya until the end of September.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Mr. Gates said that byone estimate, European defense spending has fallen by nearly fifteen percent inthe past ten years. He said this has affected what he called the first "hot"ground war in NATO history -- the war in Afghanistan.</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">ROBERT GATES:"Despite more than two million troops in uniform - not counting the USmilitary - NATO has struggled, at times desperately, to sustain a deployment oftwenty-five thousand to forty-five thousand troops, not just in boots on theground, but in crucial support assets."</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Mr. Gates said theAmerican share of NATO defense spending has now risen to more than seventy-fivepercent. This is happening at a time when budget cuts are being considered inthe United States. President Obama has called for an additional four hundredbillion dollars in defense reductions.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="2"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><img src="file:///C:\Users\Sandra\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image001.jpg" width="230" height="230" alt="" /></font></font></span><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="2"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"></font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Mr. Gates said nationsmust be responsible for their fair share of the common defense. He warned aboutthe future of NATO unless Europe stops cutting back on defense spending. Hesaid there is "the very real possibility of collective militaryirrelevance" for the alliance. He said future American leaders may notconsider the return on America’s investment in NATO worth the cost.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"> resident Obama's choiceto become the next defense secretary is Leon Panetta. Mr. Panetta is currentlythe director of the Central Intelligence Agency. The CIA job would go to DavidPetraeus, currently the top American general in Afghanistan, if the Senateapproves the nominations.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"> resident Obama wants tobegin withdrawing American troops from Afghanistan next month. The goal is toend United States military operations in that country by the end oftwenty-fourteen.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">On Thursday, the SenateArmed Services Committee held a confirmation hearing for Mr. Panetta. Severalsenators gave him credit for being the person President Obama named to head theeffort that led to the killing of Osama bin Laden. Mr. Panetta said he believedthe killing gave the United States the best chance to defeat al-Qaida since theattacks of September eleventh, two thousand one.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">And that's IN THE NEWSin VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember.</font></font></span><br /> <br /><span style="background-color:#4f81bd;"><span style="background-color:#4f81bd;"><font face="宋体">计时</font>3</span><br /></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">FAITH LAPIDUS: Welcometo AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English.</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">I'm Faith Lapidus. Onour program this week, we play songs from some of Broadway’s top musicals …</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">We tell about a trainingprogram that is helping immigrants find employment …</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">But first we talk toChinese-American writer Lisa See about her new book.</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">LisaSee “Dreams of Joy”</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">FAITH LAPIDUS: Thewriter Lisa See takes readers on a trip across the Pacific Ocean in her latestbook, “Dreams of Joy.” It continues the story of two Chinese sisters whoreaders met in See’s novel, “Shanghai Girls.” In that book, Pearl and Mayescaped the Japanese occupation of Shanghai in the nineteen thirties. Thesisters fled to California.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">In “Dreams of Joy,”Pearl is forced to return to Shanghai on a search for her daughter. Bob Doughtyhas more about the new novel and the writer.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">BOB DOUGHTY: “Dreams ofJoy” takes place in the nineteen fifties. Pearl’s nineteen year old daughter,Joy, is angry at her mother and her Aunt May. So she runs away to China to findthe father she has never met. She not only finds him but becomes involved withthe changes taking place in the country. Lisa See says this situation was notuncommon at the time. She says many young Chinese were sympathetic to thecountry’s new government.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">LISA SEE: “Actually,there were a lot of Chinese going back to the People’s Republic of China atthat time, ninety thousand in one year from Fukien province alone. But also alot of other people who weren’t Chinese, who were going to China kind ofinspired by what was going on there, or even hoping to start a business.”</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">Once in mainland China,however, it was not easy to leave. Some who returned, Chinese and foreigners,became victims of political unrest. In the late nineteen fifties, China’s governmentordered major changes that caused economic problems.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Here, from “Dreams ofJoy,” the character Pearl describes the moment she finds her daughter.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="2"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><img src="file:///C:\Users\Sandra\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image002.jpg" width="230" height="300" alt="" /></font></font></span><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="2"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"></font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">READER: “Her delicateeyebrows, pretty nose and full lips register absolute astonishment at seeingme. Her eyes widen and become even brighter. Then I see not happiness, sadnessor even anger that I’m here. It’s worse than any of those. The cool shadows ofindifference fall over her features. She stares at me but doesn’t say a word.”</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Lisa See has writtenseveral best-selling novels about Chinese-related subjects. She says thosethemes have special appeal for her.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">LISA SEE: “I’m partChinese. But I have red hair and freckles so I don’t look very Chinese, but Idid grow up in a very traditional Chinese American family. I live in LosAngeles and today, in Los Angeles, I have about four hundred relatives, ofwhich the majority of them are still full Chinese and there there’s thisspectrum with me on one end – there are about a dozen that look like me – butthen, sort of, this spectrum all the way up to the majority being fullChinese.”</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">She says she is alsopart Irish. Like most Americans, she celebrates her ethnicities.</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">LISA SEE: “I think allof us here in the United States, we all had someone in our families who wasbrave enough, scared enough, dumb enough, crazy enough to leave their homecountry to come here. But there is still a part of us that is tied to ouroriginal homeland and we all share in that feeling no matter where you camefrom.”</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Lisa See is already atwork on her next book. It deals with Chinese American culture from the firsthalf of the twentieth century. And one of her books has already made it toHollywood. “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan” will be released in movie theatersacross America on July fifteenth.</font></font></span><br /><strong><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Goodwill’sJob Training Program</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">FAITH LAPIDUS: ManyAmericans donate clothes, furniture and small goods to Goodwill Industries. Thenonprofit group then sells them at low prices at its stores across the UnitedStates and in other countries. Money from those sales is used to provide job trainingfor poor people and the disabled. In America, Goodwill also offers specialtraining for immigrants. Barbara Klein has more.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">BARBARA KLEIN: YafetDeferesu from Ethiopia and Perline Rasoanoromalala from Madagascar are workingon their resumes. Employers seeking workers usually ask for a copy of a resume.It gives details of the person’s educational and employment history, plus otherinformation.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Ms. Rasoanoromalala cameto the United States six months ago on a work visa. Mr. Deferesu has been inthe country for thirty years. But he has trouble getting a job because he isblind in one eye and has other disabilities.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="2"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><img src="file:///C:\Users\Sandra\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image003.jpg" width="230" height="230" alt="" /></font></font></span><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="2"><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>LZ计时:差2行<br />差5行<br />54s<br />59s<br />60s<br /><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="2"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"> </font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="2"><font face="宋体">下面感兴趣的可以看完</font></font></span><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="2"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">~</font></font></span><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="2"><font face="宋体">今天这篇还和咱中国有关</font></font></span><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="2"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">,</font></font></span><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="2"><font face="宋体">貌似挺有意思</font></font></span><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="2"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">~</font></font></span><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="2"><font face="宋体">整理完了</font></font></span><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="2"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">,LZ</font></font></span><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="2"><font face="宋体">去看了</font></font></span><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="2"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">~</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="2"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"> </font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Both immigrants recentlycompleted a three-week long, career enhancement program at Goodwill. Each hopesthe experience will help them find work in a very competitive job market.Perline Rasoanoromalala praises the organization.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"> ERLINE RASOANOROMALALA:“Goodwill is a good support for us job seekers and also for immigrants to helpus to understand how does it work here in the U.S.”</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Yafet Deferesu feels thesame.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">YAFET DEFERESU: “Everyday I come here, and every energy I see here is so positive that it promoteswhat I want to accomplish and finding a job.”</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Ms. Rasoanoromalala hasa college degree. She formerly worked for an American development organizationin Madagascar. She would like to work for another here.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Mister Deferesu has notheld a job in several years. He wants to keep financial records for a company.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">They both receivedtraining at a Goodwill center in Arlington, Virginia. They learned how todiscuss a job opening with a possible employer. They also learned ways tomarket their skills. The head of the training program, Lisa Bauer, says herstudents learn how to write a resume.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">LISA BAUER: “Resumes aredifferent throughout the world and here the employers really expect to see whatthat person has achieved, really almost asking somebody to boast aboutthemselves, and in other countries, that’s not favored as a practice.”</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Immigrants also learnthat cultural differences may be misunderstood during job interviews. Behaviorand body language can affect whether or not a job is offered.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"> ERLINE RASOANOROMALALA:“I did not know that crossing your arms is perceived a different way in theU.S. For us, it’s a sign of I’m listening carefully to you. Here maybe it’s a lackof openness.”</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Goodwill has twenty-fivehundred stores around the world. Most are in the United States and Canada. JimGibbons is the head of Goodwill Industries International. He says theorganization helps trainees correctly measure their skills and abilities.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">JIM GIBBONS: “What Ithink Goodwill does for the disabled and immigrants is to have highexpectations, give the facts and then surround the individual with the toolsand support for them to be successful.”</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"> erline Rasoanoromalalasays that support is making her hopeful she will find a job soon.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"> ERLINE RASOANOROMALALA:“America is a land of opportunities, so I keep faith, and ‘cross my fingers’ asyou say.”</font></font></span><br /><strong><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Tony-NominatedMusicals</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">FAITH LAPIDUS: Actors,directors, playwrights and others will gather this Sunday at the Beacon Theaterin New York City. Many in the crowd will be hoping to hear their names calledfor a Tony Award, the top honor for Broadway theater productions.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Four plays werenominated for best musical. One is “Catch Me If You Can,” a funny play about alikeable criminal.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">(MUSIC: “Live, In LivingColor”)</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">He tricks people intothinking he is a pilot during his run, or flight, from the law. The musical isbased on a movie from two thousand two.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="3"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">The musical “Sister Act”is also based on a movie. Whoopi Goldberg was the star of the nineteen ninetytwo movie. She is a producer of the Broadway musical.</font></font></span><br /><span style="color:#333333;"><font size="2"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"></font></font></span> |
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