听力教材:

《英语高级听力 Listen to This 3》

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Lesson One- Section One


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1.Lebanon 黎巴嫩,西南亚国家
Republic of Lebanon, with a population of 2.601 million, 93% of which are Arabs, occupies an arean of 3,950 square miles on Eastern end of the Mediterranean with Syria(叙利亚共和国) on the east and Israel (以色列) on the south. It's capital is Beiru(贝鲁特,海港城市) and its official language is Arabic. It won its independence in 1920, but administered under French mandate from 1920 to 1941. Under the 1943 National Covenant, all public positions were divided among the various religious communities, with Christians in the majority. By the 1970s, Moslems became the majority, and demanded a larger political and economic role.

2. Wiesbaden 威斯巴登[德意志联邦共和国西部城市](黑森州首府)
Wiesbaden is the capital of the Land of Hessen, West Germany, with a population of 271,435 in 1979. The Land of Hessen is a state in West Germany, established in 1946.

3. Anglican Church 英国国教会
Anglican Church is rhe Church of England and a member of the informal religious orgnization, Anglican Communion, including the Church of Ireland, the Scottish Episcopal Church, the Protestant Episcopal Church(圣公会) in the U.S., and other kindred churches with closely related reliefs and practices.

4.Las Vegas 拉斯维加斯
A city with a population of 64 thousand in the desert of Navada, USA. It is the center of a vast recreation area, but better known for its night-clubs(夜总会) and for its gambling casions in Fremont Street and the "Strip" outside the city.

5. Republican Party 共和党
One of American's leading political parties, founded in 1854 by a coalition of opponents to slavery, who elected their first President, Abraham Lincoln in 1860.

6. Democratic Party 民主党
One of American's leading political parties, founded by Jefferson in 1792 to defend the rights of the individual states against the centralizing policy of the Federalists. The Democratic Party tends to be the party of the "small man," as opposed to the Republican Party, the party of "big business," but divisions between the two are not clear-cut now.

7. Mozambique 莫桑比克(非洲东南部国家)
People's Republic of Mozambique locates on the southeast coast of Africa, with Tanzania on the north, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe on the west, South Africa and Swaziland on the south. It has a population of a little more than 14 million and occupies an area of 303 thousand square miles, with Maputo as its capital. After having been under Portuguese colonial role for 470 years, Mozambique became independent on June 25, 1975.

8. Samora Machel
S. Machel (1933-1986) was the first president of People's Republic of Mozambique, who headed the National Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (FRELIMO) in its 10-year guerrilla war for independence against Portuguese colonial domination. He died in a plane crash in October 1986.

9. FRELIMO
National Front for the Liberation of Mozambique, first organized in 1963 and under the leadership of Samora Machel in its guerrila war for its independence. By 1973 guerrilla activity had become so extensive that Portugal was forced to dospatch 40 thousand troops to fight the rebels. A cease-fire was signed in September 1974, when Portugal agreed to grant Mozambique independence.

10. NPR
National Public Radio, one noncommercial radio in Washington D.C..



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MAP of Lebanon
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