Listening to News (unit 2).pptVIP

GL BY LIUQI EXPERT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES LITERATURE, MINISTRY OF EDUCATION Listening to News 英语新闻听力教程 FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING AND RESEARCH PRESS * * LIUQI （刘琦 ）ASSOCIATE PROF SUPERVISOR OF MA STUDENTS; EXPERT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES LITERATURE, MINISTRY OF EDUCATION Unit Two Visits Talks Guided?Listening Section A: Warming Up. (a) Language study listening Foreign Minister(外交部长); U.S.-led invasion(美国领导的侵略) Eastern Europe (东欧) Ugandan rebel (乌干达造反者), aim at ending two decades of conflicts(目标是结束二十年的冲突) suspected nuclear program(潜在核计划) (a) Language study listening NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization北大西洋公约组织) missions in Afghanistan （在阿富汗的任务） Sudan’s Darfur region（苏丹的达尔富尔地区） Directions: Listen to the following news lead once and supply the missing information. Answer to Section A: 1 unannounced visit(未（事先）宣布的访问) ；2 en rout （在路上） ; stop 3 standing ovation (热烈欢迎) ；4 a measure of progress （一定的进展） 5 confer with（和…商谈）；6 concluded; deadlock（僵局,停顿） 7 walked out of ；8 reached agreement; sign；9 at odds（不一致，争吵）; standoff（僵局，僵持不下）；10 wrapped up（完成，结束） Section B: Micro Listening (a) Language study listening （b）Listening to Background Notes and Expressions Vladimic Putin （普京）_________born on October 7, 1925, Leningrad（列宁格勒）, Russian president (from 1999). Putin served 15 years with KGB（苏联国家安全委员会（克格勃）. In 1999 Yeltsin（叶利钦）appointed Putin Prime Minister, and on December 31 of that year Yeltsin stepped down as president in Putin’s favor. Three months later Putin won a resounding彻底的 electoral victory, partly the result of his success in the battle to keep Chechnya （车臣【俄罗斯联邦】）from seceding【退出,分离】. In his first term he asserted the central control over Russia’s 89 regions and republics （共和政体）and moved to reduce the power of Russia’s unpopular financiers and media tycoons. （金融和媒体巨头）The period was also marked （以 为标志）by frequent terrorist attacks by Chechen separatists. Putin easily won reelection in 2004. Donald Rumsfeld（拉姆斯菲尔德）________ Rumsfeld became U.S