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1、BBC新闻听力100篇BBC新闻听力100篇 英国广播公司新闻听力100篇Mp3 格式文件在酷狗音乐人人听力网:News Item 1The Japanese government has played down concern about a possible nuclear meltdown, following a big explosion at a nuclear power station in the north of the country. The blast occurred a day after the area was hit by a powerful earthq

2、uake and tsunami. A top government official, Yukio Edano, said a steel container encasing the nuclear reactor had not been ruptured by the blast.News Item 2Fifty thousand Japanese military personnel had been ordered to join the huge rescue and relief operation following the earthquake and tsunami. M

3、ore than 1,000 people are feared dead. About 400 bodies were found in the town of Rikuzentakata, and Japanese media reports say 10,000 people are unaccounted for in Minamisanriku. Damian Grammaticas in the port of Sendai says the scenes of devastation there are astonishing.News Item 3International d

4、isaster relief teams have been sent to Japan. The United Nations said a nine strong UN team of experts would include several Japanese speakers. Britain said it was sending expert assistance after receiving a request from Japan. Singapore is also deploying an urban search and rescue team. American fo

5、rces stationed in Japan have already been involved in rescue operations, and more than 50 territories and countries have offered assistance.News Item 4As officials in Japan struggle to assess the extent of the damage following the tsunami caused by a massive earthquake, its been announced that some

6、300 people are known to have been killed and more than 500 are unaccounted for in the area around the northern coastal city of Sendai. The 8.9-magnitude quake, the biggest ever recorded in Japan, sent a wave of water several meters high sweeping far inland. Its epicenter was about 130km off Japans e

7、ast coast. In the capital Tokyo, several hundred kilometers away, buildings swayed violently during the quake, which was followed by a series of powerful aftershocks.News Item 5 Slowly but relentlessly, Colonel Gaddafis forces seem to be winning the battle for Ras Lanuf. Opposition fighters are stil

8、l in the town, but they are under intense pressure. The bombing from government warplanes continued today, and theres a big plume of smoke from the oil installation which was hit a couple of days ago. Theres no sign of either the rebel fighters or the local population beginning to flee the area. If

9、Ras Lanuf falls, it brings the frontline closer to the main opposition-held city of Benghazi.News Item 6Tens of thousands of anti-government demonstrators have marched in cities across Yemen after Friday prayers, demanding the removal of President Ali Abdullah Saleh. At least six people were wounded

10、 when security forces fired at protesters in the southern port city of Aden. In the capital Sanaa, where supporters of the government also held a rally, police set up roadblocks to keep the two sides apart.News Item 7The American State Department spokesman PJ Crowley has described the treatment of t

11、he U.S. soldier suspected of passing material to the Wikileaks website, Private Bradley Manning, as “ridiculous”, “counterproductive” and “stupid”. Private Manning has been charged with offences including aiding the enemy, and hes being held in solitary confinement in prison. Mr. Crowley said howeve

12、r that it was right that Private Manning was being held in jail.News Item 8The abolition of the death penalty was approved by the Illinois state assembly in January and has now been signed into law by Governor Pat Quinn. Supporters of capital punishment had urged him to veto the change, but in a sta

13、tement, the governor said hed concluded that executions had no deterrent effect on crime, and that the death penalty system was inherently flawed. Illinois has a dark history of miscarriages of justice. Since 1977 when capital punishment was reinstated in America, 20 death row inmates in the state h

14、ave been exonerated. The last execution in Illinois was in 1999.News Item 9 In London, the parliamentary Foreign Affairs Select Committee has heard evidence about the recently announced cuts to the budget and output of the BBC World Service. Its director Peter Herrick told the committee that the val

15、ue of the organization was highlighted by its comprehensive coverage of the current turmoil in Arab countries. He said that if the cuts had come into effect earlier, that coverage of the events would have been seriously diminished. Mr. Herrick also acknowledged thered been damage to the World Servic

16、e, although he was optimistic about its future.News Item 10French police have found 25 million dollars worth of stolen jewelry hidden in a drain outside Paris. Detectives found 19 rings and three sets of earrings concealed in a plastic container set into a cement mould at a house outside the French

17、capital. Investigators believe many of the items were stolen from the luxury Harry Winston boutique in Paris in a raid in 2008.News Item 11The ruler of Oman, Sultan Qaboos, has announced he is to hand over some of his powers to officials from outside the royal family. A royal decree said the Legisla

18、tive Council of Oman would be given lawmaking powers. Until now, the role of the council has been to advise the Sultan, who has ruled Oman for four decades.News Item 12An agreement by Iceland to pay compensation to Britain and the Netherlands over the collapse of its banking system has run into prob

19、lems. President Olafur Grimsson is to put the $5 billion deal to a referendum, even though its been approved by parliament. A previous deal with different repayment terms was overwhelmingly rejected by voters in Iceland last year.News Item 13 President Obama says the U.S. and its Nato allies are sti

20、ll considering a military response to the situation in Libya where he said the people were facing unacceptable violence. But Russia says its opposed to any military intervention. Nato is engaged in what its Secretary General called “prudent planning”. While Britain confirmed it was working to secure

21、 a Security Council no-fly zone resolution.News Item 14A young Mexican woman who gained worldwide attention last year when she took over as police chief in a town plagued by drug-related violence has been sacked for abandoning her post. Marisol Valles was hailed as Mexicos bravest woman in October w

22、hen she became head of public security in the border town of Praxedis G. Guerrero.News Item 15Marisol Valles, a 20-year-old criminology student, became police chief in a town when nobody else was willing to take the job. Her appointment six months ago made her a sensation worldwide. But the mayor of

23、 Praxedis Guerrero said she hasnt come back to work since last Wednesday, when she took personal leave to take care of her baby. Local activists told the BBC that Mrs. Valles and her family had fled to the United States after receiving threats of kidnapping.News Item 16The toy manufacturer Mattel ha

24、s closed its flagship Barbie store in Shanghai just two years after it opened to much fanfare. The pink-theme, six-floor emporium was launched in a drive to attract Chinese consumers at a time when the famous doll faced declining sales in the West. But analysts said sales to Chinese consumers were p

25、oor.News Item 17Reports from Egypt say democracy activists have been attacked by men in plain clothes armed with knives outside the offices of the interior ministry in Cairo. Its the first time since the toppling of President Mubarak last month that the protesters appeared to have come under such an

26、 attack. Over the weekend, activists stormed several offices of the secret police.News Item 18The newly-appointed U.S. special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Marc Grossman, has stressed the importance of pursuing a diplomatic settlement in Afghanistan alongside military operations. During his f

27、irst visit to Kabul, he said the United States supported the Afghan governments move towards talks with the Taliban, but he said it was important that the Taliban end its alliance with al-Qaeda.News Item 19Thirteen soldiers in Mexico have been charged with drug trafficking after they were allegedly

28、found in possession of almost a tone of the synthetic drug methamphetamine and 30kg of cocaine. A local military commander said the men had been transporting the drugs from the capital Mexico City to Tijuana, on the U.S. border. President Felipe Calderon has deployed about 50,000 soldiers to help fi

29、ght the war on drugs. Since he came to power, more than 34,000 people have died in drug-related violence.News Item 20The suspect in the shootings in Tucson, Arizona in January when U.S. congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was seriously wounded has been indicted on a number of new charges. Jared Loughne

30、r now faces 49 counts, including the murder of six people and the attempted assassination of Ms Giffords.News Item 21Sixty-one-year-old Alan Gross was driven into the Havana courthouse inside an unmarked van with blacked-out windows. Hes charged with acts against the integrity and independence of Cu

31、ba, and prosecutors have said they are seeking a 20-year sentence. Mr. Gross has already spent 15 months in a Cuban jail, accused of providing satellite communications equipment, which is illegal in Cuba, to groups on the island.News Item 22The United Nations food agency says global food prices reac

32、hed a record high last month. The Food and Agriculture Organization is warning that costs could spiral even further if unrest in Libya and the Middle East keeps driving up the price of oil. Rising food costs helped spark the recent protests in Egypt and Tunisia.News Item 23The commander of Nato forc

33、es in Afghanistan, General David Petraeus, has issued a personal apology for the killing of nine young boys in Kunar province on Tuesday. Local Afghan officials say the boys, aged 12 or younger, had been gathering firewood when helicopter gunship attacked them with rockets. Nato says there was a mis

34、take in relaying information about the position of presumed militants who were firing at a Nato base.News Item 24Britain is to end its international aids to 16 countries. The International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell, told parliament that he wanted to concentrate the money where it would d

35、o most good. Nations like Lesotho and Kosovo will lose direct funding, but others like Ethiopia and Bangladesh will receive more aid from the Department for International Development, or DEFID.News Item 25Western leaders have been discussing ways to increase pressure on the Libyan leader Colonel Gad

36、dafi to stop him killing the people rebelling against him and persuade him to step down. The Pentagon in Washington says its repositioning naval and air forces around Libya so that theres flexibility for action should government planners require it.News Item 26Two of Argentinas former military ruler

37、s have gone on trial, accused of overseeing the systematic theft of babies from political prisoners. Jorge Videla and Reynaldo Bignone are accused of kidnapping about 30 babies whose parents were killed or disappeared during military rule. The babies were then given for adoption to members of the Ar

38、gentine military or their allies. Both former leaders are already serving long sentences for murder and torture.News Item 27A landslide caused by intense rains has destroyed more than 150 homes in the Bolivian city of La Paz. The authorities managed to evacuate the poor neighborhood of Kupini Dos be

39、fore it was crushed by a collapsing hillside. Right across Bolivia thousands of people have been left homeless by weeks of heavy rain.News Item 28The stage is set in Hollywood for the Academy Awards, the film industrys biggest night of the year. Hot favorite to win Oscars glory is the British drama

40、The Kings Speech, based on the true story of the attempts by King George VI to overcome a bad speech impediment and lead his nation in the Second World War. But the film faces strong competition from The Social Network about the Internet site Facebook, as well as the western remake of True Grit and

41、the ballet thriller Black Swan.News Item 29An emergency session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva has recommended suspending Libya from the body. The council also authorized an international investigation into the violence in the country with a view to prosecuting those responsible. The UN Hi

42、gh Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay told the council the priority should be the safety of the civilian population.News Item 30The French fashion house Dior has suspended its star designer John Galliano after he was arrested at a Paris bar and accused of making anti-Semitic and racist remark

43、s to a nearby couple. Mr. Galliano has strongly denied any wrongdoing. His suspension comes just days before the launch of Paris Fashion Week.News Item 31Republican lawmakers in the American state of Wisconsin have sent out police to search for a group of Democratic Party politicians. The Democratic

44、 state senators left Wisconsin in order to block a crucial budget bill, which includes controversial plans by the Republican Governor Scott Walker to limit the power of trades unions. Without the Democratic lawmakers, the Senate cannot reach a quorum and the bill, which would have been passed easily

45、 by the Republican majority, cannot be voted on.News Item 32 A former Serbian police chief has been jailed for 27 years for his role in the murder of more than 700 ethnic Albanians in Serbias province of Kosovo in 1999. Vlastimir Djordjevic was convicted by the international tribunal in The Hague on

46、 four counts of crimes against humanity.News Item 33The New Zealand Prime Minister John Key has said its unlikely that many more survivors will be found in the city of Christchurch, hit by an earthquake on Tuesday. Mr. Key said he hadnt given up hope of finding people but that the authorities had to

47、 be realistic. At least 70 people have been killed, but up to 300 others are missing.News Item 34A mass polio vaccination campaign is being planned in Burma after a 7-month-old baby was found to have the virus. Its the first case there for three years. Burma had been on the point of being declared f

48、ree of polio, a highly contagious virus that can lead to paralysis and which is spread mainly through contaminated food and water. Four years ago, the Burmese government immunized nearly 7 million children. Since a drive to eliminate polio began more than 20 years ago, the number of cases has droppe

49、d by 99% worldwide. A team from the World Health Organization is already in Burma to work out how to stop its spreading again there.News Item 35More than a quarter of a million people have taken part in a march and rally in central London to protest against the deep public spending cuts introduced by Britains coalition government. The march which was organised by trade unions was the biggest pro