托福阅读机经背景— 俄公民自组选举观察团.docxVIP

智课网TOEFL备考资料 托福阅读机经背景— 俄公民自组选举观察团   Three months after widespread charges of fraud in Russias parliamentary elections, Russians are to vote Sunday for president. Anger over the December elections is being channeled into a massive grassroots movement of citizen election monitors.  在各界普遍指责俄罗斯议会选举存在舞弊情况3个月后，俄罗斯人这星期天将举行总统选举。对去年12月选举的愤怒情绪正形成一场公民选举观察员的大规模草根运动。  Row upon row of Russians take lecture notes in a university classroom on a Saturday afternoon. They are not poor students.  星期六下午一间大学教室里成排的俄罗斯人在抄笔记。  They are just 50 faces from an army of 200,000 Russians volunteering to work as poll watchers, trying to fight fraud when Russians vote Sunday for president.  他们不是学生，而是自愿担任选举监督员的20万俄罗斯人中的50人。他们希望打击星期天总统选举的选举舞弊。  One volunteer, Anna Bugrova, says reports from friends and family about fraud in the December parliamentary elections made her angry.  其中一名自愿者安娜.巴格洛瓦说，她朋友和家人说去年12月议会选举有舞弊情况让她很生气。  Burgova says she read about fraud on the Internet and realized it was widespread. As a result, she volunteered as a poll watcher.  她说，她在网上了解舞弊的消息，发现舞弊情况普遍。所以她自愿担任选举监督员。  Her instructor is Matvey Petukhov, of the Citizen Observer monitoring group. He teaches volunteers how to spot ballot stuffing and multiple voting, but he also trains them in dealing with the police and filing legal complaints with prosecutors.