BBC英语听力 2013年01月合辑（WORD文本）：20130105.doc

1、高考资源网（） 您身边的高考专家BBC News with Neil NunesLeaders of the bitterly divided American Congress are making last-minute attempts to stop significant new spending cuts and tax rises automatically taking effect on January first. Both houses are ready for rare Sunday sessions. They are trying to prevent the U

2、nited States economy from falling off what been dubbed the fiscal cliff, the automatic imposition of some $600bn worth of taxing increase and spending cuts dating back to the Bush era. From Washington Jonny Dymond.One nation with a very divided government. President Obama and congress are grappling

3、for a deal with just 36 hours before time runs out. If there is no deal, the press of failure could be high. The average American family will see that tax rise by more than $2,000 a year. As money sucked out the economy, a second American recession is thought likely to begin. And confidence in the A

4、merican government around the world would plummet. Financial markets would probably take fright.Meanwhile President Obama says he will put his full weight to behind getting new gun control measures approved the United States within 12 months. Mr Obama expressed doubt about the idea put forward by th

5、e pro-gun lobby to position armed guards in every school.Im skeptical that the only answer is putting more guns in schools. And I think the vast majority of the American people are skeptical that that somehow is going to solve our problem. And here is the bottom line, were not going to get this done

6、 unless the American people decide its important.After the mass shooting in Connecticut earlier this month, in which 26 children and teachers were killed, President Obama said will task force to come up with urgent suggestions and how such massacres could be avoided in future.The President of the Ce

7、ntral African Republican Francois Bozize says hes ready to form a government of national unity with a rebel coalition that has seized several key towns in the country. Here is Mary Harper.Mr Bozize who was speaking after a meeting with the head of the African Union Yayi Boni said he would not stand

8、for re-election in 2016. He said he was ready for immediate talks with the rebel coalition. The rebel says they will consider the presidents offer. After seizing a town on Saturday, just 150km from the capital, they are in a very strong position. The government army supported by troops from Chad, fa

9、iled to contain the rebel advance, in some cases, abandoning towns without a fight.A security forces in Lybia say an investigation is underway after a bomb blast at a Coptic Christian church, in which two people were killed. The explosion happened at Dafniya, near the city of Misrata, those dead wer

10、e Egyptian. Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians living and work in Libya.World News from the BBCOne of Italys foremost scientists, Rita Levi Montalcini who was a joint winner of the Nobel Prize for medicine has died in Rome aged 103. She overcame Fascist and anti-Semitic discrimination before and dur

11、ing the second World War and went on to carry out a hugely important research into the development of the cells and the human body. Alan Johnston reports from Rome.Rita Levi Montalcini was born into an intellectual and artistic Jewish family in 1909. She graduated from a medical school in Turin and

12、went on to working academia. But her career soon ran fell of anti-Semitic laws introduced under Italys Fascist leader, Benito Mussolini. With the coming of peace, she took her research forward at a university in the United States, there she made discoveries that shed light on the mystery surrounding

13、 abnormal cell development in humans.A court in Bahrain has jailed two policemen for seven years for beating a man to death where he was held in police custody during the political unrest last year. They are among a number of officers on trial or under an investigation for allegedly torturing Shia d

14、etainees. Last month the international panel of legal experts accused the Bahraini security force of routinely using torture to punish or extracted confession from hundreds of Shia protesters. Bahrains Interior minister rejected the allegations.The Egyptian football association says their premier Le

15、ague matches will resume in February after a year suspension. It was agreed that game restart in February 1st, exactly a year after a riot that killed more than 70 people. The violence happened during a match in Port Said between the countrys top teams, Al-Ahly and Al-Masry. None spectators are to be allowed into stadiums during the first season.高考资源网版权所有，侵权必究！