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听力原文: Bobby Moore was a famous English soccer player who led the England team to victory against West Germany in the 1966 World Cup Final. As a superb defender, Moore played a hundred and eight games for England's national team from 1962 to 1970 and was captain 90 times. His professional soccer career spans 19 years and 668 matches, a record with no match so far in England. Moore was born in Barking, East London, in 1941. His full name was Robert Frederick Moore. He began playing club soccer in the early 1960s. He was named England's footballer of the year from 1963 to 1964. Moore was known for his sportsmanship on the field. He was not inclined towards wild celebration of girls. In 1967, he was made a member of the order of the British Empire. More retired from playing in 1977, and after spending brief periods managing professional soccer teams, he concentrated on developing a sports marketing company and doing media work. He was sports editor of Sunday sport from 1986 to 1990 and a regular commentator for London's Capital Radio Station from 1990 to 1993. After Moore was diagnosed with cancer, he went public with his battle in 1991 and continued to work until his death in 1993.
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A、Hemingway's Interest in Writing
B、The Subjects for Hemingway's Writing
C、The Life of Young Hemingway
D、Hemingway's Understanding of War
Freed by Sudan, "Geographic" Reporter Arrives Home in U. S.
After 34 days in a Sudanese jail, National Geographic journalist Paul Salopek, who had been charged with spying, landed in his home state of New Mexico on Sunday morning.
At the time of his arrest, Salopek, 44, had been freelance reporting for National Geographic magazine on the Sahel region, which stretches east -west across Africa along the southern edge of the Sahara.
Don Belt, Salopek's editor for the Sahel assignment, embraced the reporter upon his arrival and later said he might have lost a little weight, but he looks like he's none the worse for wear.
"We're over the moon about Salopek's return", Belt added.
Salopek, who is on a scheduled leave of absence from the Chicago Tribune, arrived in Albuquerque with his wife, his Tribune editor, and New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson.
Salopek said it feels "fantastic" to be home.
"It' s great to see my wife, who's been through a lot - in some ways more than myself - in the last 35 days," he said.
After he's spent some time with his family, Salopek says, he plans to "make rounds in Chicago and Was hington" to thank his friends at the Tribune and the National Geographic Society.
"I can never really repay them," he said. But, he joked at a press conference Sunday at the Albuquerque international airport, what he can do is "rack up an enormous beer bill."
On behalf of National Geographic, Belt thanked Richardson, the Tribune, Sudan's ambassador to the United States, and Jimmy Carter. The former U.S. President had written to Sudanese President Omar A1 - Bashir on Salopek's behalf- a gesture that had been kept secret until Sunday.
(Both National Geographic News and National Geographic magazine are parts of the National Geographic Society.)
Once Salopek is back on the job, he intends to return to Africa, first to Chad to check up on his two assistants, who were arrested and freed alongside him. Then he will complete his National Geographic assignment in Chad, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and Senegal.
Detained in North Darfur
The Pulitzer Prize winner and his Chadian assistants -driver Idriss Abdulraham Anu and interpreter Suleiman Abakar Moussa- were arrested on August 6 after traveling from Chad to Sudan's troubled Darfur Province without a visa.
The border crossing had been a last minute decision, Salopek said at the Sunday press conference.
Normally, the three would have been deported. Instead, on August 26 they were charged with espionage, passing information illegally, and disseminating "false news", in addition to the charge of entering the country unlawfully.
The three men were confined to a single cell in El Fasher, capital of North Darfur Province.
From the cell, Salopek says, they could see protestors daily inveighing(痛骂) against the United States and the United Nations, which are leading an effort to deploy a UN peacekeeping force to neighboring Darfur Province.
Salopek and his cellmates, though, weren't without welcome company.
U.S. soldiers - in the region advising an African Union peacekeeping force - discovered that an American was being held in El Fasher and took up his cause.
"They visited us virtually every day," Salopek said. "They were like our guardian angels."
The effort to free the reporter and his colleagues, though, wasn't exactly heavenly.
It was like a "carnival ride," Salopek said, "up and down, day to day."
The Release
Governor Richardson flew to Sudan on Thursday to negotiate the three men's release on humanitarian grounds, Thanks in part to prior dealings with the Sudanese ambassador to the U.S. and with Sudanese President Omar A1 - Bashir, Richardson succee
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Freed by Sudan, "Geographic" Reporter Arrives Home in U.S.
After 34 days in a Sudanese jail, National Geographic journalist Paul Salopek, who had been charged with spying, landed in his home state of New Mexico on Sunday morning.
At the time of his arrest, Salopek, 44, had been freelance reporting for National Geographic magazine on the Sahel region, which stretches east-west across Africa along the southern edge of the Sahara.
Don Belt, Salopek’s editor for the Sahel assignment, embraced the reporter upon his arrival and later said he might have lost a little weight, but he looks like he's none the worse for wear.
"We're over the moon about Salopek's return", Belt added.
Salopek, who is on a scheduled leave of absence from the Chicago Tribune, arrived in Albuquerque with his wife, his Tribune editor, and New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson.
Salopek said it feels "fantastic" to be home.
"It's great to see my wife, who's been through a lot—in some ways more than myself-in the last 35 days," he said.
After he's spent some time with his family, Salopek says, he plans to "make rounds in Chicago and Washington" to thank his friends at the Tribune and the National Geographic Society.
"I can never really repay them," he said. But, he joked at a press conference Sunday at the Albuquerque international airport, what he can do is "rack up an enormous beer bill."
On behalf of National Geographic, Belt thanked Richardson, the Tribune, Sudan's ambassador to the United States, and Jimmy Carter. The former U.S. President had written to Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir on Salopek's behalf-a gesture that had been kept secret until Sunday.
(Both National Geographic News and National Geographic magazine are parts of the National Geographic Society.)
Once Salopek is back on the job, he intends to return to Africa, first to Chad to check up on his two assistants, who were arrested and freed alongside him. Then he will complete his National Geographic assignment in Chad, Mall, Niger, Nigeria, and Senegal.
Detained in Noah Darfur
The Pulitzer Prize winner and his Chadian assistants-driver Idriss Abdulraham Anu and interpreter Suleiman Abakar Moussa were arrested on August 6 after traveling from Chad to Sudan's troubled Dar fur Province without a visa.
The border crossing had been a last minute decision, Salopek said at the Sunday press conference.
Normally, the three would have been deported. Instead, on August 26 they were charged with espionage, passing in- formation illegally, and disseminating "false news", in addition to the charge of entering the country unlawfully.
The three men were confined to a single cell in E1 Fasher, capital of Noah Dar fur Province.
From the cell, Salopek says, they could see protestors daily inveighing(痛骂) against the United States and the Unit- ed Nations, which are leading an effort to deploy a UN peacekeeping force to neighboring Dar fur Province.
Salopek and his cellmates, though, weren't without welcome company.
U.S. soldiers-in the region advising an African Union peacekeeping force-discovered that an American was being held in El Fasher and took up his cause.
"They visited us virtually every day," Salopek said. "They were like our guardian angels.
The effort to free the reporter and his colleagues, though wasn't exactly heavenly. It was like a "carnival ride," Salopek said, "up and down, day to day."
The Release
Governor Richardson flew to Sudan on Thursday to negotiate the three men's release on humanitarian grounds. Thanks in part to prior dealings with the Sudanese ambassador to the U.S. and with Sudanese President Omar A1-Bashir, Richardson succeeded a
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"But the greatest【C3】______for public participation is still in the future," Steven Case, Chairman of America On-line, told a recent meeting on Journalism and the Internet【C4】______mainly by the Freedom Forum.【C5】______, stone other experts often say the new technology of computers is【C6】______the face of journalism, giving reporters【C7】______to more information and their readers a chance to ask questions and turn to【C8】______sources.
"You don't have to buy a newspaper and be【C9】______to the four comers of that paper any more", Sam Meddis, on-line technology editor at USA Today,【C10】______about the variety of information【C11】______to computer users.
But the experts【C12】______the easy access to the Internet also【C13】______anyone can post information for others to sec. "Anyone can say anything they want,【C14】______it's right or wrong," said Case. Readers have to【C15】______for themselves whom to trust. "In a world of almost【C16】______voices respected journalists and respected brand names will【C17】______become more important, not less," Case said.
The Internet today is about【C18】______radio was 80 years ago, or television 50 years ago or cable 25 years ago, he said. But it is growing rapidly【C19】______it provides people fast access to news and a chance to【C20】______on it.
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听力原文: I am writing to thank you for the interesting reports which appeared in the July '94 edition of Saturday Evening Post. I am interested in your reports since B12 deficiency is an inherited disorder in my family. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, a research project was carried out on it by London medical school.
My grandmother was 49 when she started vitamin t312 injections in 1949, She was admitted to the hospital with a blood disease. My mother was 63 when she began vitamin B12 injections. After reading your article, I believe her treatment was started too late. At the time, she almost lost her eyesight and was told that she had another diseases.
Earlier this year, I visited my doctor and explained that 1 felt very tired and asked for a blood test to establish whether I was suffering from B12 deficiency. I was told I was much too young and that only people in their 80s suffered B12 deficiency. I told him he was wrong and that research was carried out on my family 30 years ago.
I have always believed that prevention is better than cure. I now know why I love Kellogg's Honey Nut Cornflakes. They contain vitamins, including B12! If foods contain added vitamins, as
you suggest in your article, then B12 deficiency and diseases associated with it should be left to the past.
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A.It is a thank-you letter to a medical doctor.
B.It is an advertisement for vitamin B12.
C.It is a letter to the editor of a magazine.
D.It is a preface to a book on vitamins.
Where Is the News Leading Us?
Not long ago I was asked to join in a public symposium on the role of the American press. Two other speakers were included on the program. The first was a distinguished TV anchorman. The other was the editor of one of the nation's leading papers, a newsman to the core -- tough, aggressive, and savvy in the ways and means of solid reporting.
The purpose of the symposium, as I understood it, was to scrutinize the obligations of the media and to suggest the best ways to meet those obligations.
During the open-discussion period, a gentleman in the audience addressed a question to my two colleagues. Why, he asked, are the newspapers and the television news programs so disaster-prone? Why are newsmen and women so attracted to tragedy, violence, failure?
The anchorman and editor reacted as though they had been blamed for the existence of bad news. Newsmen and newswomen, they said, are only responsible for reporting the news, not for creating it or modifying it.
It didn't seem to me that the newsmen had answered the question. The gentleman who had asked it was not blaming them for the distortions in the world. He was just wondering why distortions are most reported. The news media seem to operate on the philosophy that all news is bad news. Why? Could it be that the emphasis on downside news is largely the result of tradition -- the way newsmen had newswomen are accustomed to respond to daily events?
Perhaps it would be useful here to examine the way we define the word news, for this is where the problem begins. News is Supposed to deal with happenings of the past 12 hours -- 24 hours almost. Anything that happens so suddenly, however, is apt to be eruptive. A sniper kills some pedestrians; a terrorist holds 250 people hostage in a plane; OPEC announces a 25 percent increase in petroleum prices; Great Britain devalues by another 10 percent; a truck conveying radioactive wastes collides with a mobile cement mixer.
Focusing solely on these details, however, produces a misshapen picture, Civilization is a lot more than the sum total of its catastrophes. The most important ingredient in any civilization is progress. But progress doesn't happen all at once. It is not eruptive. Generally, it comes in bits and pieces, very little of it clearly visible at any given moment, but all of it involved in the making of historical change for the better.
It is this aspect of living history that most news reporting reflects inadequately. The result is that we are underinformed about positive developments and overinformed about disasters. This, in turn, leads to a public mood of defeatism and despair, which in themselves tend to be inhibitors of progress. An unrelieved diet of eruptive news depletes the essential human energies a free society needs. A mood of hopelessness and cynicism is hardly likely to furnish the energy needed m meet serious challenges.
I am not suggesting that "positive" news be contrived as an antidote to the disasters on page one. Nor do I define positive news as in-depth reportage of functions of the local YMCA(基督教男青年会). What I am trying to get across is the notion that the responsibility of the news media is to search out and report on important events -- whether or not they come under the heading of conflict, confrontation, or catastrophe. The world is a splendid combination of heaven and hell, and both sectors' call for attention and scrutiny.
My hope is that the profession of journalism will soon see its responsibility in a wider perspective. The time has come to consider the existence of a large area of human happenings that legitimately qualify as news. For example, how many news articles have been written about nitrogen-fixation(固氮作用) -- the process by which plants can be made to "Fix" their own nitrogen, thus reducing the n
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