2013届高考英语听力特训3（文本）06

1、2013届高考英语听力特训3（word文本）：06The Senate has voted to override President Reagans veto of sanctions against South Africa by a decisive seventy-eight to twenty-one. As the House has already voted to override, the sanctions now become law. NPRs Linda Wertheimer reports. American civil rights leaders, includ

2、ing Mrs. Caretta Scott King, watched the Senate debate from the Senate family gallery as members argued not so much about sanctions and the efficacy of sanctions, more about the choice between affirming the bill already passed by congress or supporting the President. American food aid to southern Af

3、rican countries could be cut off if South Africa carries out its threat to ban imports of US grain. Foreign Minister Pic Botha said if US sanctions were imposed, his government would stop imports and would not allow its transport service to carry US grain to neighboring countries. The White House to

4、day denied that it planted misleading stories in the American news media as part of a plan to topple Libyan leader Muammar Quddafi. The Washington Post reported this morning that stories were leaked this summer alleging Quddafi was resuming his support for terrorist activities, even though National

5、Security Adviser John Poindexter knew otherwise. Today, White House spokesman Larry Speakes said Poindexter denied the administration had involved the media in an anti-Quddafi campaign but Speakes left open the possibility a disinformation campaign was conducted in other countries. The question in W

6、ashington today is this: Did the federal government try to scare Libyas Colonel Muammar Quddafi in August by way of a disinformation campaign in the American media? The Washington Post Bob Woodward reports today that there was an elaborate disinformation program set up by the White House to convince

7、 Quddafi that the United States was about to attack again, or that he might be ousted in a coup. The White House today denies that officials tried to mislead Quddafi by using the American media. NPRs Bill Busenburg has our first report on the controversy. The story starts on August 25th when the Wal

8、l Street Journal ran a front page story saying that Libya and the United States were once again on a collision course. Quoting multiple official sources, the paper said Quddafi was plotting new terrorist attacks and the Reagan Administration was preparing to teach him another lesson. The Journal rep

9、orted that the Pentagon was completing plans for a new and wider bombing of Libya in case the President ordered it. That story caused a flurry of press attention. Officials in Washington and at the western White House in California were asked if it was true. The story was authoritative, said the Whi

10、te House spokesman Larry Speakes. Based on that official confirmation, other news organizations, including the New York Times , the Washington Post , NPR and the major TV networks, all ran stories suggesting Libya should watch out. US naval maneuvers then taking place in the Mediterranean might be u

11、sed as a cover for more attacks on Libya as in the past. Todays Washington Post , however, quotes from an August 14th secret White House plan, adopted eleven days before the Wall Street Journal story. It was outlined in a memo written by the Presidents National Security Advisor John Poindexter. That

12、 plan called for a strategy of real and illusory events, using a disinformation program to make Quddafi think the United States was about to move against him militarily. Here are some examples the Post cites, suggesting disinformation was used domestically: Number one, while some US officials told t

13、he press Quddafi was stepping up his terrorist plans, President Reagan was being told in a memo that Quddafi was temporarily quiescent, in other words, that he wasnt active. Number two, while some officials were telling the press of internal infighting in Libya to oust Quddafi, US officials really b

14、elieved he was firmly in power and that CIAs efforts to oust him were not working. Number three, while officials were telling the press the Pentagon was planning new attacks, in fact nothing new was being done. Existing contingency plans were several months old, and the naval maneuvers were just man

15、euvers. The Post says this policy of deception was approved at a National Security Planning Group meeting chaired by President Reagan and his top aides. Two new studies were published today on the links between television coverage of suicide and subsequent teenage suicide rates. The New England Jour

16、nal of Medicine reports that both studies suggest that some teenagers might be more likely to take their own lives after seeing TV programs dealing with suicide. NPRs Lorie Garrett reports. The first suicide study, done by a team from the University of California in San Diego, examines television ne

17、ws coverage of suicides. David Philips and Lundy Carseson looked at forty-five suicide stories carried on network news-casts between 1973 and 79. The researchers then compared the incidence of teen suicides in those years to the dates of broadcast of these stories. David Philips says news coverage o

18、f suicides definitely prompted an increase in the number of teens in America who took their lives. The more TV programs that carry a story, the greater they increase in teen suicides just afterwards. The suicide increase among teens was compared by Philips to adult suicide trends. The teen suicides

19、go up by about 2.91 teen suicides per story. And adult suicides go up by, I think, around two adult suicides per story. The increase for teens, the percentage increase for teens is very, very much larger than the percentage increase for adults. Its about, I think, fourteen or fifteen times as big a

20、response for teens percentagewise as it is for adults. The TV news coverage appears to have prompted a greater increase than is seen around other well-known periods of adolescent depression, such as holidays, personal birthdays, the start of school and winter. Philips could not find any specific typ

21、es of stories that seem to trigger a greater response among depressed teens. Philips says it seems to simply be the word suicide and the knowledge that somebody actively executed the act that pushes buttons in depressed teenagers. Psychiatrists call this imitative behavior. What my study showed was

22、that there seems to be imitation not only of relatively bland behavior like dress, dressing or hairstyles, but there seems to be imitation of really quite deviant behavior as well. The teenagers imitate apparently across the board, not just suicides, but everything else as well. In a separate study,

23、 Madeline Gould and David Shaeffer of Columbia University found that made-for-television movies about suicide also stimulated imitative behavior. Even though the movies were intended to portray the problem of teen suicide and offered, in some cases, suicide hot line numbers and advice on counselling

24、, the team believes the four network movies prompted eighty teen suicides. One of the made-for-TV movies examined by the Columbia University team was a CBS production. George Schweitzer, a CBSs Vice President, is well aware of this research. He says, It is terribly unfortunate that any teens took th

25、eir lives after the broadcast, but if they had it to do over, says Schweitzer, CBS would still run the movie. Studies like these do not measure the most, what we think is the most important thing, which I dont think can be measured, and that is the hundreds and hundreds and probably thousands of tee

26、nagers who were positively moved by these kinds of broadcasts. Moved to call suicide hot lines, moved to seek counseling, and moved to discuss their depressions with family members. Schweitzer does not dispute todays studies: some teens may moved to suicide. But ignoring the issue for fear of that,

27、I think, would be far more disastrous than addressing important social issues to help create awareness and again to have a positive effect. But researcher David Philips suggests the media could decrease the teen suicide problem by avoiding some suicide stories all together and changing the way the o

28、thers are covered. For example, says Philips, Dont make suicide seem heroic. He cites the story of a young Czechoslovakian dissident who set himself on fire. But the dissident action was taken to draw attention to government repression in Czechoslovakia. Should the news media really have ignored such a story? I think its a really difficult question. There are all these goods on all