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12月16号是什么星座Unit 11 Rallies and Demonstrations
专家讲座Section A
1. staged demonstrations 2. strike; disruption 3. defying; curfew 4. turned out; in support of 5. defied; gatherings 6. race riots; looters 7. rallied 8. head off; march 9. gathered 随笔800字高中 10. Riot police; tear gas; disper
Section B
1. Doctors and former patients of New Orleans’ Charity Hospital have staged a rally to build support for retaining the city’s only Level-1 trauma center . It’s been clod since Hurricane Katrina flooded the bament and ruined this building’s eletrial system.
2. At least 10,000 people have taken part in a march in Port-of-Spain , the capital of Trinida
d and Tobago , to protest about the soaring crime rate in the Caribbean nation and the government’s failure to tackle the problem.
3. Demonstrations have been taking place to coincide with the first United Nations summit on climate change since the Tyoto Agreement . One of the biggest protests was in the Canadian city of Montreal where the summit opened early this week .
4. Ugandan police have fired tear gas , rubber bullets and live ammunition to disper thousands of supporters of the leading opposition figure Kiiza Besigye following his arrest oncharges of treason and rape .
5.杏眼 People around the world have rallied in May Day demonstrations highlighting everything from worker’s rights to protesting globalizations and the war in Iraq. Russian officials said more than a million people marched in Moscow and other Russian cities to celebrate the traditional workers’ holiday.
Key: 1. B 2. D 3. C 4. A 5. C
Section C
Item 1
Protests spread across the Muslim world Friday over a news magazine report that U.S. interrogators at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba had decrated the Koran . In Afghanistan at least nine people were killed in fresh protests Friday.. . The unrests spread to Pakistan which called for a U.S. investigation, an investigation that State Department spokesman Richard Bucher says is well underway. Hundreds of Muslims held a peaceful protest in Indonesia , the world’s populous Muslim nation. And in the Gaza Strip veral thousand Palestinians marched through a refugee camp in a protest organized by Islamic militant group Hamas.
Key: 1. D 2. F 3. J 4. E 5. B; I 6. A
Item 2
Tens of thousands of Pakistanis have rallied for the fourth concutive day to protest cart
oons depicting the Prophet Muhammad . A crowd of at least 40,000 people marched through the commercial district of suthern port city of Karachi Thursday. But unlike the previous three days, there were no reports of violence . The protestors burned Danish flags and effigies of the Danish prime minister. Thousands of police and paramilitary troops looked on but did not interfere . The leader of the Sunni Muslim group that organized the rally demanded that the government expel ambassadors of countries where newspapers published the controversial cartoons . President Pervez Musharraf has condemned the violence and noted that some people are exploiting the situation to create violence .
Task 1: 1. T 2. T 3. F 4. F 5. T
Task 2:
1. the fourth concutive; cartoons 2. Danish flags; effigies; protestors
3. expel ambassadors; controversial 4. exploiting; 无关爱情create violence
Item 3
The police in Azerbaijan have ud truncheons and water anon to break up a rally of thousands of opposition supporters protesting against the conduct of the parliamentary elections earlier this month. The police intervened when some protestors called for a sitting until the Azerbaijani authorities agree to annul the election results. A BBC correspondent in the capital Baku says the police charged the crowds, knocking people down, and forcing them to disper. Thew rally was the latest in a ries of demonstrations against the elections which was strongly criticized as flawed by international obrvers as well as by local opposition groups .
1. Opposition supporters
2. The conduct of the parliamentary elections earlier this month
3. 定性调查Annulment of election results
4. They charged the crowds , knocked people down and disperd them.
5. International obrvers and loval opposition groups
小目标6. Truncheons and water cannons
Section D
Item 1
Thousands of people marched here in Washington Saturday to protest the war in Iraq. They rallied near the White Hou and ud speeches and chants to urge President Bush to bring U.S. troops home now. VOA’s jim Randle reports .
The protestors came from many American states and included gray-haired grandmothers, civil rights leaders , middle-age , middle-class people , labor organizers, radical political figures and students. They carried a forest of signs, many demanding the quick return-home of ps from Iraq. And others accud President Bush of being a liar, a criminal, of a fool. They cheered as Cindy Sheehan , the mother of a U.S. solider killed in Iraq, stood up to speak. she said the media and Congress have failed to do their duty as t征文作文
he normal checks and balance that are suppod to keep the government on track .
