UNIT 4 Statements and Comments
Section A concern remarks charges warned for accud troubled baless the importance
Section B 1. The Canadian Prime Minister Steven Harper has announced the construction of two military facilities in the Arctic and a move to asrt his country’s sovereignty over the contested region, which is estimated to contain billions of dollars of oil and gas deposits.
rara 2. A speaker purporting to be al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is accusing the US and the European Union of backing a war against Islam.
3. The former president of Iran Mohammad Khatami says American attempts to impo western-style democracy on the Middle East are flawed becau democracy is not something that can be exported.
helo 4. The Pentagon has issued a memo to rebut the criticism from veral retired generals who called for Defen Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to resign.
5. British Prime Minister Tony Blair says his country is taking tough new measures to fight extremism following last month’s deadly terrorist attacks in London.
Answer： 3A 4D 5C
Section C
Item 1the jerk Russian President Vladimir Putin says his country is prepared to help Kyrgyzstan’s new leaders establish stability in the wake of a political upheaval. Mr. Putin made the comments today following a telephone discussion with Kyrgyzstan’s opposition leader Kurmanbek Bakiyev who was appointed by parliament to lead an interim government. Kyrgyzstan’s new leaders are trying to restore order after two days of massive looting and street violence that left at least three people dead and injured many more. 增益控制
Answer：1-(B,D) 2-(A,D) 3-(G) 4-(E)
Item 2 British officials in Iran have denied allegations of any British involvement in violencdeuce
e in the southwestern province of Khuzestan where at least four people were killed in two bomb attacks on Saturday. The British embassy in Tehran condemned the attacks and said Britain rejected allegations linking it to terrorist outrages. Several Iranian officials have made statements implicating British troops stationed across the border inside southern Iraq in the bombings and in previous attacks earlier this year which killed 10 people.
Answer：Task1：1F 2F 3F 4T 5F
Task2: rejected linking to
officials implicating bombings previous attacks
Item 3 For the first time, President Bush has said it could be accurate to compare the recent escalation of violence in Iraq to the 1968 Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War. The Tet Offensive marked a strong downturn in public support for both the Vietnam War and then-President Lyndon Johnson. Mr. Bush spoke in an ABC TV interview in which he
addresd incread violence in Iraq. The comparison of the insurgency in Iraq to the Tet Offensive in Vietnam was made in a column by Tom Friedman in the New York Times.
Answer：1. The 1968 Tet Offensive (during the Vietnam War.)
2 .Downturn in public support for both the Vietnam War and then-President
3. Incread violence in Iraq.
4. The New York Times. elf
5. A column writer /a columnist
听力课堂网俚语是什么意思Section D
Item 1 Iran’s president is denying reports he gave an interview to an Arab newspaper in which he threatened to halt oil sales if Tehran was referred to the United Nations Security Council. I ran’s Presidential Media Department made that denial in a statement issued today in a reaction to an article published in the Khaleej Times . Earlier today the United
Arab Emirates-bad newspaper reported that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad threatened in an interview to stop oil sales if Iran is nt to the council for its nuclear activities. The reports from a French news agency say the reporter is astonished by the denial ,but the news agency say also says, the publisher of the newspaper says the c0nfusion may be due to the reporter not adequately identifying herlf as a journalist.
Answer： oil sales to activities that denial 8. French news agency 9. astonished
Item 2 South Korea and Japan say they have not detected any radioactivity to confirm North Korea’s claim that it conducted an underground nuclear test on Monday .Late Friday unnamed . official said . aircraft have detected traces of radiation in the airsamples collected near the suspected North Korea test site ,but they stresd no final determination had been made .World of the latest findings comes as the UN Security Council members continue to hammer out details of a draft resolution was expected Saturday .The UN draft resolution includes economic and weapons sanctions against North Korea, including a travel ban and financial restriction .
Answer：Task1：
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Item 3biomarker Russian President Vladimire Putin says he will not allow foreign powers to dictate Russia’s energy policy or interfere in any of its internal affairs. In an interview broadcast from Saint Petersburg today , Mr. Putin told NBC News that recent Western criticism of Russia is a mix of cold war and colonialist thinking .Mr. Putin singled out . Vice President Dick Cheney’s recent of Russian energy policy in which Cheney accud Russia of using its vast oil and gas resources as tools of intimidation .Putin compared tho comments to an errant gunshot by Cheney that wounded a companion on a hunting trip earlier this year . The Russian leader host President Bush and other world leaders later this week in a summit of the G-8 industrialized nations . Mr. Putin said Russia is ready to hear well-intentioned criticism from foreign leaders , but said he will categorically reject what he called interference in Russia’s internal affairs .
