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1、listentothis3lesson3答案与原文本页仅作为文档封面，使用时可以删除 This document is for reference only-rar21year.March Listen to this 3 Lesson 3答案与原文News Item 1:1. General Comprehension. Fill in the blanks to complete the following statements according to what you have heard.(1) IBM announced today it is.(2) IBM is selling

2、.(3) Thein South Africa has caused this decision.(4) Anti-apartheid groups havethis decision.(5) IBM employs somepeople in South Africa.2. Spot Dictation. Listen to the tape again and fill in the following blanks. Charles Redmond saidthe Reagan Administration believes USin South Africa has been aaga

3、inst. We regret any decision toinvolvement in South Africa.3. Focusing on Details. Complete the following statement with details.The US State Department regrets the reductions of US private sector involvement in South Africa because they could a. have, b. injure, and c. limit.News Item 2:1. General

4、Comprehension. Complete the chart to provide a brief summary of the news item. Event: Demonstration Place:& City: Country: Race:2. Focusing on Details. Fill the detailed information according to what you have heard.(1) Number of demonstrators: more than(2) Number of people arrested: more than(3) Cau

5、ses of the demonstration: a. suspecting b. blaming(4) Government appealed for.(5) An official statement is expected from.(6) Mugabe is just back from.News Item 3:1. General Comprehension. Fill in the blanks to complete the following statements according to what you have heard.(1) President Reagan me

6、t withHelmut Kohl.(2) The meeting lasted about.(3) The meeting took place attoday.(4) Kohl expressed.2. Summary. Use all the information you have gathered in Exercise 1 and try to write a summary for News Item 3.Suggested version: President Reagan met for about an hour today with West German Chancel

7、lor Helmut Kohl at the White House who expressed support for the Presidents SDI program.News in DetailGeneral Comprehension. Choose the best answer (a, b, c, or d) to complete each of the following statements.1. West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl _.a. has been in Washington . for four daysb. is in W

8、ashington . for four days of meetingsc. has been in Washington . four hours before he talks with President Reagand. is in Washington D. C. for a four-hour meeting of the following is on Kohls agenda. It is _.a. arms control talksb. economic relations with South Africac. Germanys policy towards South

9、 Africad. US-Soviet summit meeting in Iceland3. The major topic of discussion with Chancellor Kohl today is _.a. the agreement signed by the United States and the Soviet Union in Reykjavikb. US-Soviet arms control talksc. Americas European alliesd. Arms control between US and the Soviet Union4. Acco

10、rding to President Reagan, achieving an agreement with the Soviet Union would depend upon _.a. pushing ahead with his SDI programb. the strength, realism and unity of European alliesc. weakness or timidity on the part of Western nationsd. eliminating long-range missiles in Europe5. Proposal was made

11、 in Reykjavik on eliminating _.a. shorter-range missilesb. medium-range missilesc. long-range missilesd. intercontinental missiles6. According to members of NATO, the carrying out of the proposal would leave Europe vulnerable to the Soviet _.a. long-range missilesb. air-to-air missilesc. shorter-ran

12、ge missiles and greater superiority in conventional forcesd. air and naval superiority7. The allies want reductions in medium-range missiles _ reductions in shorter-range missiles and conventional forces.a. made afterb. tied toc. made befored. made at the same time8. Chancellor Kohl was expected to

13、urge President Reagan _.a. to keep talks between the US and the Soviet Union movingb. to stop SDI programc. to compromise on talks between the US and the Soviet Uniond. to step up SDI program9. A senior administration official quoted Kohl as saying that _.a. he has no objections to the Strategic Def

14、ense systemb. he has always been in favor of the Strategic Defense systemc. he has always been opposing the Strategic Defense systemd. he did not want to mention SDI in his arrival remarksSpecial Report1. General Comprehension. Fill in the blanks with basic facts concerning the program.(1) Program o

15、rganizer: a group of(2) Place:(3) duration of involvement: almost(4) Plans: a. to expand b. to supply(5) Promise: to hire2. Answer the following questions briefly.(1)It dates back almost twenty years.(2) The Boston business community offeredand laterto Boston teachers.(3) Boston business community h

16、as pumped more than into the public schools.(4) The business leaders say they are ready to make their biggest commitment:. (5) It is to.(6) The title of the program is,.(7)all the poor kids could get the scholarship for their further education; (8) Only thosecould get it.(9) The average gram is arou

17、nd $.(10)Boston students have received money from this program.3. Focusing on Details. Fill in the blanks with information about Robert Weaver.(1) Robert Weavers major is.(2) Now he studies in thein Boston.(3) He will get his degree. (When)(4) He afforded college with a. the grant from theprogram; b

18、. the; c. what he earned from his, and d. his.(5) The total amount of Wentworths bill was $.4. Spot Dictation. Listen to the tape again and fill in the following blanks.(1) Unemployment here is amongin the nation andsay theyre having a hard time.(2) The ACESS program is not. There is a bit of(3) If

19、where you are has a supply of qualified people to, that cant be anything.(4) Philips says any scholarship student whowill be givenover other job applicants by.5. Answer the following question.(1) The business group now is collecting the.(2)dollars has already been collected.(3)of Bostons most influe

20、ntial corporations have joined in the program.(4) US Education Secretary predicted the program will.Section OneIBM, following the lead of General Motors, announced today its pulling out of South Africa. Like General Motors, IBM says its selling its South African holdings because of the political and

21、 economic situation there. Anti-apartheid groups have praised the decision, but the State Department says business pullouts are regrettable. Spokesman Charles Redmond said today the Reagan Administration believes US corporate involvement in South Africa has been a progressive force against apartheid

22、. We regret any decision to reduce US private sector involvement in South Africa. Such reductions could have harmful effects on black workers, injure the South African economy which has, on the whole, weakened the premises of apartheid and provided a means of improving the living standards and skill

23、s of many people otherwise disadvantaged by apartheid, and it might limit the extent of US influence in South Africa. State Department spokesman Charles Redmond. IBM employs some 1,500 people in South Africa.More than fifty black youths were arrested today in Harare, Zimbabwe, when police broke up d

24、emonstrations at South African offices and the US embassy. Julie Fredricks reports. A group of more than a thousand students and youths caused thousands of dollars of damage by burning and stoning the offices of the South African trade mission, South African Airways, Air Malawi, and the Malawian Hig

25、h Commission. The demonstrators suspected South African complicity in the plane crash that killed Mozambiquan President Machel in South Africa and blamed Malawi for supporting the Pretoria-backed insurgents that are attacking Mozambique. Zimbabwean government officials appealed for calm, and a state

26、ment from Prime Minister Mugabe just back from a trip to London is expected tomorrow. For National Public Radio, this is Julie Fredricks in Harare.President Reagan met for about an hour today with West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl at the White House. Kohl is the first European Leader to visit the P

27、resident since the Reykjavik summit. US officials say Kohl expressed support for the Presidents SDI program.Section TwoWest German Chancellor Helmut Kohl is in Washington . for four days of meetings. Among the issues on his agenda are economic relations with the US and Germanys policy towards southe

28、rn Africa. But today, Kohls talk with President Reagan was dominated by the recent US-Soviet summit meeting in Iceland. NPRs Brenda Wilson reports.While no major agreement was signed by the United States and the Soviet Union in Reykjavik, the two countries made progress in arms control talks in area

29、s that are a central concern to Americas European allies. Those particular areas involve disarmament proposals made in Iceland, affecting medium-range missiles and long-range missiles over which allies have voiced some reservations. This was a major topic of discussion with Chancellor Kohl today, ev

30、en though his Foreign Minister was briefed by the US Secretary of State only last week. In remarks welcoming Chancellor Kohl, President Reagan sounded a positive note, saying that there was ample reason for optimism. When the next agreement is finally reached with the Soviet Union, and I say when, n

31、ot if, it will not be the result of weakness of timidity on the part of Western nations. Instead, it will flow from our strength, realism and unity. The President also explained that achieving such an agreement would depend upon pushing ahead with his Strategic Defense Initiative, SDI, because it offered protection against cheating. But members of NATO,