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1、Unit 2 Music,News,Despite risks, Iraqis turn out to vote March 7, 2010 1:02 p.m. EST,Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) - Violent attacks on election day didnt stop large numbers of Iraqis from successfully casting their votes in key parliamentary elections Sunday. “Yes, we were scared after we heard these bombing
2、s, but we just had to come,“ said a woman who identified herself only as Ghisoun. Her two children were at her side. “Its an opportunity we cant miss - not for us, but for our children,“ she said.,Polls in Iraq to elect a 325-member parliament closed Sunday evening, capping（covering) an electoral pr
3、ocess in which militants(激进分子） intent on disrupting（破坏） the vote carried out dozens of attacks that killed 38 people. Despite the risks, voter turnout（出席） could reach 55 percent, a senior U.S. official told CNN. Another voter, Ali Abdul Hassan, also risked the uncertainty of voting Sunday with his 2
4、-month-old infant. “I want my baby to start voting early,“ he said.,The general feeling expressed by voters on election day was a longing for change and for a government that will be able to provide basic services like water and electricity, jobs, and security. A woman in line to vote in Baghdad sai
5、d that her vote was a way of fighting back against acts of terrorism in Iraq. There were about 60 security incidents reported throughout the country Sunday, the official said. These included fatal mortar and rocket attacks in various Baghdad neighborhoods.,A number of special measures were put in pl
6、ace for security reasons. Since Monday, there has been a ban on motorcycles and bicycles in Baghdad until further notice, and on Sunday a two-day ban on any vehicles in cities went into effect. Provincial borders were ordered sealed, preventing movements between provinces, from Saturday to Monday.,P
7、oliticians, Lobbyists and Complainers Descend on(蜂拥而至） Beijing ( the New York Times),Ethnic Tibetan delegates in front of the Great Hall of the People after the opening ceremony of the Chinese Peoples Political Consultative Conference in Beijing on Wednesday.,BEIJING With great fanfare（大张旗鼓） and rig
8、id security, China on Wednesday launched its annual exercise in participatory democracy参与民主, socialist-style: the opening of the Chinese Peoples Political Consultative Congress, a 2,252-member body that advises Communist Party leaders on how to run the nation.,How much attention the leaders pay the
9、congress is the topic of much outside speculation, and not a few jokes. But as its members streamed into Beijing for two weeks of meetings, the government ratcheted up 逐渐提高security in the capital and turned the nations media onto their deliberations审议 in a manner befitting适合的 a national spectacle.场面
10、,The meeting is one of two major political gatherings this month. The second and more important is the two-week session of the unelected 3,000-member legislature立法机关, the National Peoples Congress全国人民代表大会, which begins Friday. Together, the two meetings are the years major political event. If past m
11、eetings are any indication, the fortnight两星期 will be a hodgepodge大杂烩，混乱 of sober严肃的 debate, extended evening parties and frenetic狂热的 lobbying by groups attracted by the presence of 5,000 politicians in a single place.,The meetings boost Beijings economy, said Hu Xingdou, a professor of economics and
12、 China issues at the Beijing Institute of Technology北京理工大学. “Tens of thousands of representatives descend on the city,” he said. :They do a lot of shopping, spend a lot of money here. “It really enforces the idea for Beijingers that Beijing is the political center of China. People are more political
13、 here. There is also pressure on Beijing, because all these delegates bring their expectations here, and they compare Beijing to all of their home cities and towns.”,The consultative congress delegates, many of them locally or nationally famous, range from actors to athletes to ex-government officia
14、ls to Mao Xinyu, the grandson of Chinas first leader, Mao Zedong. Their official role is to advise party leaders on national policy, and major topics this time are expected to include official corruption, the economy and soaring real estate prices. Many foreign scholars dismiss the congress as认为而不予考
15、虑 political window dressing装饰、. But the Communist Party sharply differs, saying its Politburo政治局 members and even President Hu Jintao meet regularly with delegates to the congress.,The nations security establishment has thrown a cordon警戒 around the capital, and the official Xinhua news agency said p
16、olice officers have been ordered to crack down on 打击 the transport of hazardous materials like fireworks, monitor crowds at major events like trade shows and “get fully prepared to prevent stampedes蜂拥 and other accidents of high casualties.” Officers in the seven provinces surrounding Beijing are checking vehicles, trains and airplanes coming into the city, Xinhua said.,Much of the security effort is focused not on potential saboteurs破坏者 or terrorists, but on the
