2016年6月英语四级听力改革短篇新闻练习(11)

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　　BBC News with Marion Marshall.

　　The Syrian government has agreed to a temporaryceasefire in its conflict with rebels to go inside withthe Muslim Festival of Eid al-Adha. As the truceapproaches, rebel fighters are reported to havemade gains in the central city of Aleppo, which is being a battleground for weeks. From theTurkey-Syria border, James Reynolds reports.

　　In Syria's northern city of Aleppo, shelling and gunfire suggested that a truce was not the mainconcern among those fighting the war. Opposition rebels say that they've now taken control oftwo neighbourhoods to the north of the city center. It's not yet clear if the Syrian army will tryto take back the districts. The military promises that they'll observe a four-day truce to markthe Muslim holiday of Eid. By its pledge comes with important conditions, the army warns thatit will respond if rebels attack or even resupply. These conditions may mean that the promise(-d) truce does not fully take hold.

　　The Burmese government says more than 50 people have been killed in a new upsurge ofviolence between Muslims and Buddhists in the western state of Rakhine. Abby Mosley reports.

　　The clashes between Buddhists Rakhine and Muslim Rohingya communities begun on Sundayand have spread despite a curfew being inplace in many areas. A spokesman for the stategovernment said more than a half the fatalities were women, and nearly 2,000 homes have beenburnt down. The United Nations says large numbers of people are fleeing the conflict headingfor overcrowded camps where tens of thousands are still stranded after a wave of communalviolence in June.

　　United States military has said the two of its soldiers have been shot dead in Afghanistan by aman wearing Afghan police uniform. It's the latest in a series of insider attacks againstinternational troops. It happened in the southern Uruzgan province. A spokeswoman said itwasn't clear whether the attacker was a member of the Afghan police or had worn the uniformto get close to the Americans.

　　A policeman in New York has been charged with plotting to kidnap, rape and kill women andthen eat them. Detectives have said they've found details of more than 100 women on thecomputer of Gilberto Valle. In the event, no one was harmed. Barbra Plett reports.

　　The ghoulish story of Gilberto Valle has shocked hardened lawenforcement officials here. Actingon a tip off, the FBI searched his computer and found E-mails and other electronic messagesabout schemes to abduct and cannibalize women. He'd allegedly create records of at least 100potential victims getting some of the information illegally from a Federal crime database. In onereported online exchange with a co-conspirator, Mr Valle discusses how best to cook anidentified woman and whether she'd fit into his oven. He didn't get a chance to act on the plan,but he did get as far as meeting her for lunch. Barbara Plett.

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　　The latest study of fish in the sea around a wrecked nuclear power station of Fukushima inJapan suggested the radio activity is continuing to escape into the environment. Fish caughtoff the coast still have raised levels contamination more than a year after the plant wasdisastrously damaged by an earthquake. About 40% of the fish caught nearby is unfit forhuman consumption. A BBC science correspondent says it has been expected that thecontamination would start to decline by now.

　　The Spanish authorities have rescued 17 people who were aborad a small boat that capsized offthe Moroccan coast. The bodies of at least 40 others were recovered. One of the survivors saidthe boat was carrying more 70 migrants, who were trying to reach Spain.

　　Microsoft has unveiled a new version of its Windows operating system to address the wayconsumers are moving from personal computers to smart phones and other mobile devices.Windows 8 is seen as crucial to Microsoft's efforts to regain ground lost to its rivals Appleand Goolge. From News York here's Mitchell Flary.

　　Microsoft's newest operating system Window 8 has been described as make-or-break for thecompany. The world's largest software firm hopes its latest offering will help it regain groundlost to Apple and Google as mobile computing has taken off. The launch took place in the pieralong New York's Hudson River which was transformed with Windows 8 devices scatteredamong a model of the city Skyline. Microsoft is also making one of its rare ventures intohardware making with its own tablet computer.

　　People in the Bahamas have been preparing for the arrival of Hurricane Sandy, the violentstorm that earlier battered Jamaica, Hanti and Cuba killing at least two people. Public schools,government offices, airports and bridges were closed across the Bahamas. In southeasternCuba the hurricane created a storm surge and led severe flooding along the coastline atSantiago de Cuba.