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1、英語高級聽力教程Listen01Freed American hostage, David Jacobsen, appealed today for the release of the remaining captives in Lebanon, saying, Those guys are in hell and weve got to get them home. Jacobsen made his remarks as he arrived at Wiesbaden, West Germany, accompanied by Anglican Church envoy, Terry W

2、aite, who worked to gain his release. And Waite says his efforts will continue. Jacobsen had a checkup at the air force hospital in Wiesbaden. And hospital director, Colonel Charles Moffitt says he is doing well. Although Mr. Jacobsen is tired, our initial impression is that he is physically in very

3、 good condition. It also seems that he has dealt with the stresses of his captivity extremely well. Although Jacobsen criticized the US governments handling of the hostage situation in a videotape made during his captivity, today he thanked the Reagan Administration and said he was darn proud to be

4、an American. The Reagan Administration had little to say today about the release of Jacobsen or the likelihood that other hostages may be freed. Boarding Air Force One in Las Vegas, the President said, Theres no way to tell right now. Weve been working on that. Weve had heart-breaking disappointment

5、s. Mr. Reagan was in Las Vegas campaigning for Republican candidate, Jim Santini, who is running behind Democrat, Harry Reed. In Mozambique today a new president was chosen to replace Samora Machel who died in a plane crash two weeks ago. NPRs John Madison reports: The choice of the 130-member Centr

6、al Committee of the ruling FRELIMO Party was announced on Mozambique radio this evening. He is Joaquim Chissano, Mozambiques Foreign Minister, No. 3 in the Party. Chissano, who is forty-seven, was Prime Minister of the nine-month transitional government that preceded independence from Portugal in 19

7、75. He negotiated the transfer of power with Portugal. This much is clear tonight: an American held in Lebanon for almost a year and a half is free. David Jacobsen is recuperating in a hospital in Wiesbaden, West Germany. Twenty-four hours earlier, Jacobsen was released in Beirut by Islamic Jihad. B

8、ut this remains a mystery: what precisely led to his freedom? Jacobsen will spend the next several days in the US air force facility in Wiesbaden for a medical examination. Diedre Barber reports. After preliminary medical checkups today, David Jacobsens doctor said he was tired but physically in ver

9、y good condition. US air force hospital commander, Charles Moffitt, said in a medical briefing this afternoon that Jacobsen had lost little weight and seemed extremely fit. He joked that he would not like to take up Jacobsens challenge to reporters earlier in the day to a six-mile jog around the air

10、port. Despite his obvious fatigue, Jacobsen spent the afternoon being examined by hospital doctors. He was also seen by a member of the special stress-management team sent from Washington. Colonel Moffitt said that after an initial evaluation it seems as if Jacobsen coped extremely well with the str

11、esses of his captivity. He said there was also no evidence at this point that the fifty-five-year-old hospital director had been tortured or physically abused. Jacobsen seemed very alert, asking detailed questions about the facilities of the Wiesbaden medical complex, according to Moffitt. So far, J

12、acobsen has refused to answer questions about his five hundred and twenty-four days as a hostage. Speaking briefly to reports after his arrival in Wiesbaden this morning, he said his joy at being free was somewhat diminished by his concern for the other hostages left behind. He thanked the US govern

13、ment and President Ronald Reagan for helping to secure his release. Jacobsen also gave special thanks to Terry Waite, an envoy of the Archbishop of Canterbury, for his help in the negotiation. Waite who accompanied Jacobsen from Beirut to Wiesbaden today, said he might be going to Beirut in several

14、days. There are still seven American hostages being held in Lebanon by different political groups. Jacobsen will be joined in Wiesbaden tomorrow by his family. Hospital officials said they still do not know how many days Jacobsen will remain for tests and debriefing sessions before returning to the

15、United States with his family. For National Public Radio, this is Diedre Barber, Wiesbaden. The leader of Chinese revolution, Mao Tsetong, died ten years ago today. During his lifetime, Mao became a cult figure, but the current government has tried to change that. Now his tomb and embalmed body in B

16、eijing are just another tourist attraction. And no longer do millions of Chinese study or wave aloft the famous Little Red Book of Quotations from Chairman Mao. Along with the political writing, Mao wrote poetry as wellpoems about the revolution, the Red Army, poems about nature. Willis Barnstone ha

17、s translated some of Maos work and considers him an original master, one of Chinas most important poets. Had he not been a revolutionary, perhaps his poetry would not have been as interesting because his personal poetry was the history of China. At the same time because he was a famous revolutionary

18、 and leader, it has prejudiced most people, almost correctly, to dismiss his poetry as simply the work of a man who achieved fame elsewhere. But his work was not dismissed within China though? Well, now its almost consciously forgotten. But when I was there in 72, you could see his poems on every di

19、ning room wall, engraved on peach-pits . During lunch hours, workers would study his poems. They were every place. Is there, though, a revisionist thinking within literary circles? Are people saying Mao wasnt any good as a poet either? No. Well, at least in my conversations in the year I recently sp

20、ent in Peking teaching at the university there, I found very few people who didnt think he was a very good poet. But they did feel that his suggestions which were that people not write in the classical style, that they write in what he called the modern style, was very repressive. And as a result, o

21、f course, the restriction of publication during the ten years of the Cultural Revolution, poetry was abysmal. When you say the modern style, would that be, for example, free verse? It would be free verse as opposed to classical rhymes or classical forms. You write in the introduction to one of your

22、translations of poems of Mao Tsetong that people . you explain that leaders in China, and indeed in the a East, are expected to be accomplished poets. Yes, I think thats true. The night that Tojo . before Tojo died, he, . in Japan, he wrote some poems. Ho Chi Minh was a poet. It was common. In fact,

23、 I think until early in the twentieth century, even to pass a bureaucratic exam, one had to know a huge number of classical forms. And especially, a leader should at least be a poet. There is one poem which is political in nature which has to do with a parasitic disease in China. Yes. Mao wrote some

24、 poems, two poems actually, about getting rid of a disease that was a plague for the country. And its called Saying goodbye to the God of Disease. And the poem needs annotation. In that sense, its typical of classical Chinese poetry; he makes references to earlier emperors and places. Saying Goodbye

25、 to the God of Disease Mauve waters and green mountains are nothing When the great ancient doctor Hua Tuo Could not defeat a tiny worm. A thousand villages collapsed, were choked with weeds, Men were lost arrows, ghosts sang In the doorway of a few desolate houses. Yet now in a day, we leap around t

26、he earth, Or explore a thousand milky ways. And if the cowherd who loves on a star Asks about the God of plagues, Tell him, happy or sad, The God is gone, Washed away in the waters. A poem by Mao Tsetong read by Willis Barnstone, Professor of Comparative Literature at Indiana University in Bloomingt

27、on. He talked with us from WFIU.英語高級聽力教程Listen02Irans official news agency said today former US National Security Advisor Robert McFarlane and four other Americans were jailed in Tehran for five days recently after they arrived on a secret diplomatic mission. The report quoted the speaker of Irans p

28、arliament as saying President Reagan sent the group to Tehran posing as aircraft crewmen. He said they carried with them a Bible signed by the President and a cake. He said the presents were designed to improve relations between the two countries. Neither the Reagan Administration nor McFarlane had

29、any comment on the report. There were published reports in the Middle East that hostage David Jacobsen was freed as a result of negotiations between the United States and Iran. Asked about that today, Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite said that he didnt want to comment on the political dynamics. But

30、 Waite said he may know within the next twenty-four hours from his contacts if he will be returning to Beirut to negotiate the release of more hostages. Jacobsen was reunited with his family today, but again said his joy could not be complete until the other hostages are freed. He appeared on the ho

31、spital balcony with his family and talked with reporters. Hospital director Colonel Charles Moffitt says Jacobsen needs to communicate with people now. He likes to talk, whether that be to a group of press or to individual physicians. Once you get him started on a subject, he wants to talk because h

32、e hasnt been able to do that. Moffitt says Jacobsen is in good health and will not need followup medical care. A low to moderate turnout is reported across the nation so far on this election day. Voters are choosing members of the one hundredth Congress, thirty-four senators and all four hundred thi

33、rty-five members of the US House of Representatives. One of the big questions is which Party will control the Senate after todays voting. President Reagans former National Security Advisor, Robert McFarlane, and four other Americans may have visited Tehran recently on a secret diplomatic mission. To

34、day, on the seventh anniversary of the seizure of the US embassy in Tehran, Iran Speaker of the Parliament said the visiting Americans were held for five days before being expelled from the country. NPR was unable to reach Mr. McFarlane today for comment and the White House says that it can neither

35、confirm nor deny the story. NPRs Elizabeth Colton reports. Today in Tehran, Speaker of the Parliament, Hashami Rafsanjani took the occasion to tell a rally that President Reagan had recently sent personal envoys to Iran, calling for improvement of relations. In response to the American overtures, Ra

36、fsanjani announced that Iran will advise its friends in Lebanon, in other words the hostage takers, to free US and French hostages if Israel frees Lebanese prisoners, and if the American and French governments end their hostility to the revolutionary government of Iran. Rafsanjani then reportedly de

37、scribed for the tens of thousands outside his parliament, the visit of the five American emissaries. The Iranian said they flew in, posing as the flight crew of a plane bringing American military spare parts to Iran from Europe. The US envoys reportedly carried Irish passports, now said to be held b

38、y Iranian officials. And one of the men called himself McFarlane. And according to Rafsanjani, he looked exactly like President Reagans former National Security Advisor. Rafsanjani claimed that Iranian security officials also have a tape of telephone conversations between the American President and

39、his envoys, The Iranian cleric, Rafsanjani, said the five men were confined to a hotel for five days and later deported after Ayatollah Khomeini advised Iranian officials not to meet them or receive their message. Rafsanjani said the Americans had brought a Bible signed by President Reagan and a key

40、-shaped cake which they said was the symbol of the hope of reopening US-Iran relations. In Tehran today, at the ceremony marking the anniversary of the seizure of the American embassy, Parliamentary Speaker Rafsanjani described the visit by the American emissaries as a sign of Washingtons helplessne

41、ss. The White House said it would neither confirm nor deny the reports, because according to the press office, there are certain matters pertaining to efforts to try to release the hostages, and comments might jeopardize them. Robert McFarlane, who was also a frequent political commentator for NPRs

42、morning edition, has been unavailable for comment. I am Elizabeth Colton in Washington. Over the last few years and around the country, the number of fundamentalist religious groups is said to be growing. Some are called ultra-fundamentalist groups. The estimates varied greatly. The number could be

43、as high as two thousand. These organizations have different purposes and beliefs, but usually have one thing in commonstrong leadership, quite often one person. Four years ago in October at a fundamentalist Christian commune in West Virginia, a young boy died after a paddling session that lasted for

44、 two hours. The child was spanked by his parents. He had hit another child and refused to say he was sorry. We reported the story of that paddlingthe story of the Stonegate Community in November of 1982. Since that time, Stonegate leader has been tried and convicted, one of the first times a leader

45、of a religious group has been held responsible for the actions of a member. Also in that time the parents of the child have served jail terms, and now they have agreed to tell their story. The Stonegate Commune was near Charleston, West Virginia, in the northeast corner of the state. Its mostly farm

46、ing country. The Stonegate members lived outside of town in an old white Victorian house, overlooking the Shenandoah River, eight young families living and working together. They did some farming, some construction work and for a time ran a restaurant in Charleston. It was their intention to become

47、less of a commune and more of a community, with the families living in separate houses on the property. We went to Stonegate on a Sunday evening in November of 1982. We were reluctantly welcomed. Less than a month before, two Stonegate members had been indicted for involuntary manslaughter. They wer

48、e the parents of Joseph Green, who was two years old when he died. On this night many of the Stonegate people were defensive, almost angry. That was four years ago. The parents, Stewart and Leslie Green, were convicted of involuntary manslaughter and both spent a year in jail. First Stewart, then Le

49、slie. Then in a separate legal action, the leader of the Stonegate commune, Dorothy McLellan was also indicted. McLellan did not take part in the paddling but she was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter and conspiracy in the death of Joey Green. Stewart Green, the father, testified against Doro

50、thy McLellan. Green now believes that his son died because of McLellans teachings and influence. He explained in court that the Stonegate members were taught that a paddling session should continue until the child apologizes. Green also testified that a four-hour spanking of Dorothy McLellans grands

51、on, Danny, had occurred two weeks before Joey Greens death. He also said the Stonegate members, when Joey died, joined in a pledge of secrecy: the circumstances would be covered up; the death would be called an accident. They were afraid all the Stonegate children would be taken away. Joeys parents

52、at first agreed to this. It was later that they spoke out against what they called then a conspiracy of silence. Both Stewart and Leslie Green grew up and married within the Stonegate community. Leslie was only fifteen when she came to the Stonegate. They lived with several other teenagers in the ho

53、me of Dorothy and John McLellan. The McLellans had been taking in young people who were having trouble, usually with drugs. They wanted to use their marriage as an example of Christian family life. John McLellan worked for an accounting firm, traveling during the week, Dot McLellan staying at home,

54、taking care of more and more teenagers. The Greens are now living in their first real home together, an apartment in Baltimore. Stewart left the Stonegate, and Leslie joined him as soon as she got out of jail. The Greens have now agreed to talk about their lives at Stonegate and about the paddling o

55、f their son.Lesson 3 IBM, 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 economic situation there. Anti-apartheid groups have praised the decision, but the State

56、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. We regret any decision to reduce US private sector involvement in South Africa. Such red

57、uctions 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 skills of many people otherwise disadvantaged by apartheid, and it might limit the extent of US

58、 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 demonstrations at South African offices and the US embassy. Julie Fredricks reports. A gro

59、up 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 High Commission. The demonstrators suspected South African complicity in the plane crash tha

60、t 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 statement from Prime Minister Mugabe just back from a trip to London is expected tomorrow. For