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1、2013届高考英语听力特训3（word文本）：01Freed 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
2、, Terry Waite, 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 physicall
3、y in very 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 pro
4、ud to be 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 disap
5、pointments. 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-mem
6、ber Central 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 Portu
7、gal in 1975. 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
8、 Jihad. But 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 physical
9、ly in very 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 aroun
10、d the airport. 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 wit
11、h the stresses 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.
12、So far, Jacobsen 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
13、US government 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
14、 several 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 returnin
15、g to the 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
16、body in Beijing 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 has 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 no
