英语新闻听力教程-杨世登主编-Unit3-Listen-to-News.ppt

Unit 3 UN Activities Listen to News Lecturer: Section A 1. A summit-level meeting of the UN Security Council has formally urged all member nations to outlaw incitement to terrorism. 2. The United Nations is setting up a special fund to help it deal with some of the biggest natural or man-made disasters as soon as possible after they happen. 3. Senior diplomats from the permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany gathered in New York today to map out a strategy to deal with Iran’s suspected nuclear weapons program. 4. The UN Security Council is expected to hold closed-door consultations today on a British-US peacekeeping plan for Sudan’s Darfur region. 5. Hollywood movie star and UN Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie is appealing for international help in repatriating millions of Afghan refugees now living in Pakistan. 6. Meanwhile the UN Security Council is to hold an urgent meeting at the request of Lebanon today on the crisis. 7. The UN General Assembly has opened in New York with forceful call for action in the Sudanese region of Darfur. 8. The UN is reporting signs of some progress in meeting global antipoverty goals set in 2000. 9. The UN Human Rights Committee has called on the American government to immediately close all secret detention facilities and grant access to the Red Cross to anybody detained in connection with an armed conflict. 10. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the UN’s resolutions against North Korea leave Pyongyang no choice but to return to the negotiating table. Section B 1. C The United Nations has released new data showing that rich countries have made little overall progress in reducing the output ot the gases blamed for climate change. 2.B Qatar has become the first Arab country to pledge troops for a UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon, offering to send up to 300 troops to monitor the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. 3. A In a speech to the 191-member General Assembly, Mr. Annan urg