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1、Lesson 10Heres the news at 11:30. Thousands of people have marched through the centre of Corby in Northamptonshire to protest against plans to close the steel works, the towns major employer. The marchers demonstrated outside the local British Steel Corporations headquarters where union leaders are
2、talking about closure plans with the management. Hospital waiting lists in the south west of England have gone up by a quarter in the last five years. While the number of doctors, nurses and other staff have increased, the demand on the service has grown even faster. The EEC is to give another 31 mi
3、llion to Britains poorer areas. The aid from the regional development fund includes 13.5 million for Northern Ireland and 10 million for industrial improvement and road works in the north of England. In a report on rabies controls, Kent County Council has said that 17 dogs, 5 cats, 2 rabbits and 2 h
4、amsters have been landed illegally at Channel ports in the first nine months of this year. This was seven more than in the same period last year. A derailed coal train at Thirsk in North Yorkshire has disrupted rail services between Newcastle and the south of England.Its time for the news at 3:30 he
5、re on Radio I. A girl aged 16 armed with a shotgun held up a class of children at a secondary school in Surrey this morning. Police said that soon after school began at Blair Hill Secondary School, Newton, the girl, armed with a double-barrelled shotgun belonging to her brother, went into one of the
6、 classrooms and threatened a teacher and about thirty pupils. A shot was fired into the ceiling as she was being overpowered by police officers. Surgeons at Cambridge have successfully transplanted a pancreasthe organ that produces insulinin two patients suffering from diabetes. One patient, a 23-ye
7、ar-old electronics worker also had a liver transplant. The other patient, a 55-year-old housewife, had a kidney transplanted at the same time. Both patients are doing well. A stately home owner who allowed a pop concert to be staged in his grounds was fined yesterday for letting a rock band play ove
8、rtime. The Honourable Frederick Sidgwick Johnson admitted allowing the rock group Led Zepplin to play on after midnight during a concert at his home near Stevenage two months ago. Stevenage magistrates fined him 125 with 25 costs. Three people have so far been killed in the storms sweeping across th
9、e north of England and southern Scotland. A woman was killed in Carlisle when a chimney on a house collapsed and two men were killed when their car crashed into a fallen tree on a country road near Melrose. More high winds and rain are forecast for tonight.Professor Richard Hill is talking about Bri
10、tish newspapers. It seems to me that many British newspapers arent really newspapers at all. They contain news, it is true, but much of this news only appears in print because it is guaranteed to shock, surprise or cause a chuckle. What should we expect to find in a real newspaper? Interesting polit
11、ical articles? Accurate reports of what has been happening in distant corners of the world? The latest news from the stock exchange? Full coverage of great sporting events? In-depth interviews with leading personalities? It is a sad fact that in Britain the real newspapers, the ones that report the
12、facts, sell in thousands, while the popular papers that set out to shock or amuse have a circulation of several million. Ones inescapable conclusion is that the vast majority of British readers do not really want a proper newspaper at all. They just want a few pages of entertainment. I buy the same
13、newspaper every day. In this paper political matters, both British and foreign, are covered in full. The editorial column may support government policy on one issue and oppose it on another. There is a full page of book reviews and another devoted to the latest happenings in the theatre, the cinema
14、and the world of art. Stock exchange prices are quoted daily. So are the exchange rates of the worlds major currencies. The sports correspondents are among the best in the country, while the standard of the readers letters is absolutely first-class. If an intelligent person were to find a copy of th
15、is paper 50 years from now, he or she would still find it entertaining, interesting and instructive. So my favourite newspaper is obviously very different from those popular papers that have a circulation of several million. But that does not mean that it is better or that they are worse. We are not
16、 comparing like with like. A publisher printing a newspaper with a circulation of several million is running a highly successful commercial operation. The people who buy his product are obviously satisfied customers and in a free society everybody should have the right to buy whatever kind of newspaper he pleases.Dave: Dr. Jones, how exactly would you
