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1、英语听力原稿BBCNPRVOA英语听力原稿(BBC-NPR-VOA)2011年10月3日普特天空听力2011-10-03 超级城市巡礼 伦敦 Megacities London 52011-10-03 穿越银河系的旅行 Through Milky Way20They were one store to mark the outer limits, but today astronomers believe the Milky Way galaxy is much bigger than what we can see. To understand why, well travel to the

2、 stars of the galactic disc. Far from our usual place in space, we approach the edges of the galaxy, where we may be able to discover what holds all the stars together to make our Milky Way. Here, our night sky looks a little different, the Milky Way smaller and skies darker. But even though wait te

3、ns of thousands of light years further away for the center of our galaxy, we still bond to it by the force of gravity.Gravity is the force that makes any two objects when it moves toward each other.On earth, cities have been from iron girders and concrete beams. This largely invisible scaffold holds

4、 these buildings up against the pull of the gravity. Without this scaffold in, the skyscrapers would crumble and the bridges would collapse. The gravity not only governs us on earth, it governs throughout the universe. Its laws are straight forward. Anything that has mass has a gravitational pull. T

5、he greater the mass, the stronger the pull. With 200 billion stars, the Milky Way has a huge mass and the tremendous gravitational attraction. So like buildings, our galaxy also needs popping up against the force of the gravity.BBC 2011-10-03BBC news with Marion Marshal.Thousands of Libyans have bee

6、n fleeing from the city of Sirte, one of the last strongholds of colonel Gaddafis forces under a temporary ceasefire. The city has been under siege for weeks but Gaddafi loyalists continued to offer fierce resistence. Jonathan Head is outside Sirte.A mass of cars crowded around two petrol tankers pa

7、rked beside the road leading west from Sirte.Hoses were hurriedly pushed into petrol tanks, each car getting a few litres, enough to get them away from the besieged town. They were packed with possessions and with people. These are mostly Gaddafi supporters and they seemed very stressed.I dont under

8、stand whats happening, said Ismail. There were shells and bombs exploding all around my house. We had to leave. With the exodus picking up transitional government forces hope they can finally take the town.The Afghan government says the killer of the former president Burhanuddin Rabbani was a Pakist

9、ani citizen and the plot itself was organized from inside Pakistan. Mr Rabbani whos attempting to mediate between the Afghan government and the Taliban rebels was assassinated by a suicide bomber almost two weeks ago.The head of the interim military government in Egypt has said they asked president

10、Hosni Mubarak never ask the army to fire on protesters. Field Marshal Mohamed Tantawi who is Mr Mubaraks defence minister said he had tesified before God and told the truth. Sebastian Usher has more.CNN 2011-10-03A big thank you going all the way for South Korea for getting todays show going today f

11、rom the CNN center in Atlanta, Georgia. Im C.A. Lets get to the headlines.First up, were looking at the possibility of a US government shutdown again. October 1st, which is just a few days away, is the start of the government fiscal or financial year. But unless Congress takes action this week, ther

12、e wont be any money for government programs. If that happens, and its just an if shutdown. Candy C. looks at which government agency is at the center of this new round of debates.For the third time this year, a congressional stare down threatens a government shutdown. Let me start with you, senator

13、W. and ask you if there is a point at which you think this is embarrassing?Yes, it is embarrassing.Are we there?Can we once again inflict on on the country and the American people the spectacle of a near-government shutdown? I sure as heck hope not.The US government runs out of money at the end of t

14、his week, unless a temporary spending bill is passed on Capital Hill. Inside the house version is money to replenish the Federal emergency management agency, FEMA, which assists disaster victims, tornadoes in Joplin, hurricane in the Northeast. The remarkable thing is that basically congress cant ag

15、ree on something everyone is for funding FEMA. The crux of the matter is how and when to decide how to pay for it. Senate Democrats have rejected the House version saying Republicans are proposing to pay for increased FEMA funds with cutbacks in programs that create jobs. Nobody is budging, ergo sta

16、lemate, a looming shutdown and the politics that ensure.Ill give the Senate Democrat leader most of the credit. He manufactured the crisis all week about disaster when this is no crisis, everybody knows who are going to pay for every single penny of disaster aid that the president declares and that

17、FEMA certifies. One point about who to blame or not to blame on this current, hopefully non-shutdown is that there is a group. And I do believe that it is mostly centered in the House in terms of some of these tea party Republicans who say on every issue. Were going to make this a maker break.Pointi

18、ng figures about an impending shutdown can be good politics, but an actual shutdown is likely to hurt any politician in a 50-mile radius of Washington. Odds are good theyll figure this out, they have till Friday. Candy C. CNN. Washington.So what you know this government shutdown, maybe, maybe not. A

19、s many as 800,000 thousand government workers could be sent home, so if you mom or dead is one, they might be home without pay. Applications for things issued by the government like IRS tax refunds, passports, visas, those could be delayed. And national parks could be closed as well as the national

20、zoo, although zoo animals would still get fed. The list of things that would stay open is longer, we still get our mail, criminals would still be chased and prosecuted, anything to do with public safety keeps on running.NPR 2011-10-03FromNPR News in Washington, Im Louise Schiavone.Inthe grips of a d

21、eep recession and an unrelenting debt crisis, the Greek cabinethas approved a budget for parliamentary consideration. The spending planincludes a decision to cut service staff by 30,000 by the end of the year. Thenext installmentof a critical bail-out loan depends upon this new budget.Abig headache

22、in New York City this weekend for the financial district and foranyone trying to cross the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday. Police say roughly 700protesters were arrested as they shut down a lane of Brooklyn Bridge trafficfor several hours. They face charges of disorderly conduct and resistingarrest. Oc

23、cupy Wall Street demonstrators are railing against corporate graveglobal warming and social inequality among other grievances.BritishPrime Minister David Cameron is warning the eruozone crisis risks harmingBritains economy and staunching global growth. Speaking on the opening day ofhis Conservative

24、Partys annual conference, Cameron said that he would stick tohis coalitions deficit cutting plans despite signs the British economy isstalling.Aday after President Obama chastised the Republican presidential hopefuls forallowing an audience-centereddebate to boo a gay soldier, NPRs Allison Keyestell

25、s us GOP candidate Herman Cain says he should have defended that soldier.Cainsays it wasnt the intent of anyone on stage of the GOP debate to disrespectthe soldier who asked the candidates a question. Cainhe tells ABCs This Weekthe heat of a debate with 60 seconds to answer the moderator was not the

26、 timeto try to figure out why the crowd was booing.“Ihappen to think that maybe they were booing the whole dont ask, dont tellrepeal more so than booing that soldier, but we didnt know that.”Ina separate interview, former Republican presidential candidate John McCain alsosaid the GOP candidate shoul

27、d have defended the soldier because men and womenin the military should be treated with the highest regard. Allison Keyes, NPRNews, Washington.Ina bid for Conservative support, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney ispromising to appoint Conservatives Supreme Court justices if he becomespresident.

28、The former Massachusetts governor spoke on Mike Huckabees Fox Newsshow this weekend.USChief Justice John Robert and five other justices attended the traditional RedMass in Washington held annually the day before the first Monday in October.Washington Cardinal Donald Wuerl officiated at St. Matthews

29、Cathedral.“Wecome together to solute and to pray for all of those who have such asignificant role in the administration of justice in our nation.”Notattending the mass today at St Mathew Youththe three women on the Supreme Court.Thisis NPR News.ASyrian state-run newspaper Al Baath is warning America

30、n ambassador Robert Fordagainst meddling in Syrian affairs if he wants to avoid more “rotten eggs”attacks. The publication is charging that Ford has been supporting armedanti-government groups in Syria. Supporters of President Bashar al-Assad peltedFord with eggs on Thursday as he visited a prominen

31、t Syrian opposition figure.Theman behind the lens who helped to create the Beatles public image has died.Larry Miller looks back on photographer Robert Whitakers work.RobertWhitaker shot many of the Beatles most well-known photographs and albumcovers.“Ivejust seen a face. I cant forget the time or p

32、lace”.Perhapshis best-known cover was the one few saw withdrawn after an uproar. In acontroversial “butcher cover” of the 1966 American version of “Yesterday andToday”, Whitaker posed the Beatles in white coats surrounded by decapitateddolls and slabs of raw meat. He would later explain the picture was ameditation on fame and an attempt to shake up the bandstiny bubble image. Whitaker gotthe job with the Beatles after photographing manager Brian Epstein for theJewish News. Epstein