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英语文章阅读训练 One.BBC News with Marion Marshall President Obama is preparing to give a highly charged televised address which will propose an American Jobs Act designed to stem unemployment. Some reports say the package will include tax cuts, infrastructure projects and re-hiring of laid-off teachers and police. Our North America editor Mark Mardell reports. Some suggest all this could cost as much as $400bn, and its very unlikely the president will get the agreement of the Republicans, who control the House of Representatives, to any increase in spending. He is of course setting a political trap for them, daring them to defy measures that he will portray as helping ordinary Americans. But there are grave dangers for the president as well; proposing what he cannot deliver may not look like an active leadership. Commentators, the markets, his opponents dont have high expectations of the speech, but his potential supporters are less cynical and are desperately hoping this will be a pivotal moment. Nato forces in Afghanistan say a BBC reporter killed in July was shot dead by a US soldier. Ahmed Omed Khpulwak, who reported for the BBCs Pashto service, died during a suicide attack in Uruzgan province. Initial reports suggested he was killed by the Taliban, but a Nato investigation now confirms that he was shot dead by an American who mistook him for a suicide bomber. The BBCs director of Global News, Peter Horrocks, paid tribute to Mr Khpulwak. He said it was essential that journalists had the best possible protection so that the world could hear their stories. The Isaf spokesman Brigadier General Carsten Jacobson said the American soldier thought Omed Khpulwak was a danger. He was holding a technical gadget in his hand which happened to be his telephone probably, so the soldier believed that he was a suicide bomber, a third suicide bomber who was about to detonate himself, and therefore took action. Aid workers say hundreds of African migrants are fleeing from Libya each da