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1、2013届高考英语听力特训3（word文本）：13 A special committee of twelve senators today began the impeachment trial of Federal Judge Harry Claiborne. Its the first such proceeding in fifteen years. Claiborne is serving a jail sentence for tax evasion. President Reagan today continued his campaign for a drug-free Ame
2、rica. He ordered mandatory testing for federal workers in sensitive positions. And he also sent Congress a legislative package that would increase federal anti-drug spending by nine hundred million dollars, much of that on increased border patrols. The President said the legislation is the federal g
3、overnments way of just saying no to drugs. Were getting tough on drugs; we mean business. To those who are thinking of using drugs, we say Stop. And to those who are pushing drugs, we say Beware. Mandatory drug testing for some federal workers is the most controversial part of the Presidents plan. I
4、ts been condemned by some employee groups. One person was killed and more than fifty injured today in Paris when a bomb exploded at the drivers permit office at police headquarters. It was the fourth blast in seven days in the French capital. In Paris today, one person was killed and more than fifty
5、 were injured when a bomb exploded at police headquarters. This is the fourth attack on a crowded public target in a week. A police officer was killed yesterday while removing a bomb from a restaurant on the Avenue Champs Elysee. Minutes after that incident, Prime Minister Jacques Chirac announced n
6、ew security measures aimed at curbing terrorist activities in France. Melodie Walker reports from Paris. A group calling itself the Committee for Solidarity with Arab and Middle-Eastern Prisoners has claimed responsibility for the current series of bombings in Paris, in addition to ten other attacks
7、 in the French capital over the past year. The Committee has delivered messages to news agencies in Beirut threatening to continue its bombing campaign in Paris until the French government agrees to release three men jailed in France on charges of terrorism. One of the convicted prisoners, George Ib
8、raham Abdullah, is believed to be the leader of the Lebanese Army Faction suspected of killing a US Military Attache in Paris in 1982. The French government has officially declared it will not release the prisoners. In response to the repeated attacks in Paris, Prime Minister Chirac last night annou
9、nced new anti-terrorist measures: military patrols along the French borders will be increased and, beginning today, all foreigners will require a visa to enter France. Citizens of European Common Market countries and Switzerland will be exempt from the visa requirement. But Americans planning to vis
10、it France will need to apply for visas at the nearest French consulate. For an initial period of fifteen days, however, emergency visas will be granted at French airports and other border checkpoints. France has been plagued with terrorism at home and abroad in recent years. In the past two weeks, t
11、hree French members of the United Nations peace keeping force in Lebanon have been killed by remote-controlled bombs. Today, France called for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council to discuss the role and safety of the force. Seven French hostages in Beirut are also a major concern for the
12、 Chirac government. Dominique Moazi, Associate Director of the French Institute for International Relations, says the bombings in Paris, the attacks on the UN troops, and the hostage situation are all indirectly related. I think there is a global goal, which is looked after, and that is to punish Fr
13、ance for its involvement in Middle-Eastern affairs, either Lebanon or the war between Iran and Iraq. And France is, at the same time, more visible than any other European actors, in Lebanon and in the Gulf. According to Moazi, the long French tradition of granting political asylum has made France mo
14、re open and accessible to terrorist activities. In the past we have given, unfortunately, the impression, which was maybe a reality, of being less resolute in our treatment of terrorist action than, for example, the Israelis. So that combination of visibility, vulnerability, and lack of resolution h
15、as made us the ideal target for terrorists now. In a statement released today, President Francois Mitterand said, The fight against terrorism is the business of the entire nation. But despite the governments determination to combat terrorism, the question of how to do it remains unanswered. For Nati
16、onal Public Radio, this is Melodie Walker in Paris. The United States Senate Intelligence Committee today released a report calling for sweeping changes in US security policies and counter-intelligence, its first unclassified assessment of recent spy cases the Committee says the damage done has cost billions of dollars, threatening Americas security as never before. NPRs David Malthus has the story. The report states that damage done from
