2014届高考英语考前突破阅读理解能力：《曼德拉的葬礼给南非政府带来巨大压力》.docVIP

曼德拉的葬礼给南非政府带来巨大压力 南非已故前总统纳尔逊·曼德拉的“世纪葬礼”在即，这次规模空前的葬礼也给南非当局带来了巨大的后勤和安保压力。为此，南非政府呼吁民众尽量参加当地的纪念活动，避免蜂拥参加国葬。 ? The South African government has urged people to attend local rather than national services of commemoration for Nelson Mandela as the sheer scale of the logistics involved in planning the extraordinary week ahead began to bring signs of stress. ? An unprecedented number of foreign journalists and foreign dignitaries have arrived in the country along with tourists to witness what will be a historic event. ? There were disgruntled scenes on Sunday at Johannesburgs Nasrec Expo centre, where several hundred of the estimated 2,500 to 3,000 national and international journalists covering the death of the former president arrived to collect passes that would grant them access to key events of the week. ? A broken printer meant waiting for two to four hours for the all-important yellow photographic credentials（证书，文凭）. The vast car park was a bedlam（混乱） of swearing in many languages, with one or two journalists from local media skipping the queue by appealing to officials in Xhosa and Afrikaans. ? This is African time, little angry one, said a Johannesburg radio reporter from Jacaranda FM, pushing past a Japanese television producer. ? Tempers were fraying. We have 10 people waiting here who should be out there working, said Trust Dube, of the Dimension television company. Jan Muller, with a German film crew, said: This is terrible because we need to be other places. Very stressful. ? A harried official at the centre, who was not happy to be named, said: We had four years to prepare for the World Cup but only months to prepare to lose Madiba. No, I cannot tell you how many we have processed and I cannot tell you how many are still to be processed. Perhaps you would like to do this? ? An enterprising ice cream seller was soon on the scene. ? There were tensions between media outlets at some church events as cameras could barely film without getting another camera in the