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1、2013届高考英语听力特训3（word文本）：28 President Reagan addresses the nation in about three hours to explain what happened during his meetings this weekend with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. The meetings did not produce any arms control agreements, nor did they produce a date for another summit between the tw
2、o leaders. Americas NATO allies were disappointed at the lack of an agreement, especially the failure to rid Europe of medium-range US and Soviet missiles. But they urged the two Superpowers to keep talking. And British Foreign Office Minister Timothy Renton said he was surprised that the two leader
3、s had made as much progress as they did, and said he didnt agree that the meetings had ended in failure. I would regard what has happened in Iceland as by no manner of means the end of the play, but rather as one act in this extremely important, in this extremely important series of discussions. The
4、re is now an interval between the acts. We hope that it will be a short interval and that the parties involved will resume and take up the next act very quickly. The next act will likely be in Geneva where Renton said he presumes that the material introduced in Iceland will be worked on and develope
5、d. Some seventy thousand government workers in San Salvador returned to their jobs today just three days after an earthquake hit the city. El Salvadors President Jose Napoleon Duarte said nearly nine hundred people were killed in the quake and more than two hundred thousand left homeless. Duarte ord
6、ered civil servants back to work, although he said almost all public buildings suffered some kind of damage. Duarte estimates the earthquake caused two billion dollars worth of damage. Damage is expected to total into the tens of millions of dollars after several days of flooding in south central Al
7、aska. But its believed no one has been hurt. Tim Wolston, of member station KSKA in Anchorage reports. As many as fifteen homes have been destroyed and hundreds more damaged in the town of Seward, southeast of Anchorage. The main road leading into Seward has been washed away, cutting off the town fr
8、om outside. Mayor Harry Giesler says hundreds have been evacuated; others prefer to wait it out. You know, Alaskans are a very hearty bunch, and especially people that have things like dog teams and animals. They are very, very reluctant to leave their home as long as its even there. Rain is forecas
9、t to continue for at least another day in Seward. Meanwhile, north of Anchorage, two bridges have been washed away, and the Alaska Railroad, a major form of transportation between Anchorage and Fairbanks has been cut off, making it very difficult for residents in interior Alaska to get to Five. The
10、governor has issued disaster declarations to free up state fund for emergency relief. The state is hoping for federal assistance as well. For National Public Radio, this is Tim Wolston in Anchorage, Alaska. Today was a day for sorting out the summit in Iceland. How did it happen that the two most po
11、werful men of earth stepped to the threshold of a dramatic arms control accord and then stepped back? The talks foundered on the Presidents Strategic Defense Initiative, or SDI. While both sides seek reduction in the number of nuclear missiles and war heads threatening the world, the Soviet Union in
12、sisted that we sign an agreement that would deny to me and to future presidents for ten years the right to develop, test, and deploy a defense against nuclear missiles for the people of the free world. This we could not and will not do. The President insisted, until the end, on retaining for the Uni
13、ted States the right to test, to have experiments and to test things relating to SDI not only in the laboratories but also out of laboratories, including in space. So who was going to accept that? It would have taken a madman to accept that. The translated remarks yesterday by Soviet leader Mikhail
14、Gorbachev and remarks by President Reagan. Well hear defenders and critics of SDI later in tonights program, but first NPRs Jim Angle, just back from Iceland, joins us to discuss what the two leaders almost achieved. It is really amazing when you look at what the two Superpowers were able to do real
15、ly in a period of twenty-four hours beginning with the experts meetings on Saturday night. In that twenty-four-hour-period, the two sides agreed to the most sweeping arms control proposals in the history of negotiations between the US and the Soviet Union. They agreed to fifty percent cuts in all of
16、fensive weapons, all offensive strategic weapons over five years, then went beyond that later on, in a proposal from President Reagan, to eliminate all offensive ballistic missiles at the end of a ten-year period. They also agreed on INF, or intermediate-range nuclear weapons, which are now both in Europe and in Asia. In the Soviet case, they agreed to eliminate all intermediate-range nuclear weapons in Europe and to reduce those in Asia by eighty-fi
