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Lesson 1
Section One: News in Brief
1. Freed American hostage, David Jacobsen,
appealed today for the release of the remaining captives in Lebanon,
saying "Those guys are in the hell and we've got to get them home."
Jacobsen made his remarks as he arrived at Wiesbaden,
West Germany, accompanied by Anglican Church envoy,
Terry Waite, who worked to gain his release.
And Waite says his efforts will continue.
Jacobsen had a checkup at the air force hospital in Wiesbaden.
And hospital director, Colonel Charles Moffitt says he is doing well.
"Although Mr. Jacobsen is tired,
our initial impression is that he is physically in very good condition.
It also seems that he has dealt with the stresses of his captivity extremely well."
Although Jacobsen criticized the US government's handling of the hostage situation in a videotape make during his captivity,
today he thanked the Reagan Administration and said he was darn proud to be an American.
The Reagan Administration had little to say today about the release of Jacobsen or the likelihood that other hostages may be freed.
Boarding Air Force One in Las Vegas,
the President said, "There's no way to tell right now.
We've been working on that. We've had heart--breaking disappointments."
2. Mr. Reagan was in Las Vegas campaigning for Republican candidate,
Jim Santini, who is running behind Democrat, Harry Reed.
3. In Mozambique today a new president was chosen
to replace Samora Machel who died in a plane crash two weeks ago.
NPR's John Madison reports:" The choice of the 130-member Central Committee
of the ruling FRELIMO Party was announced on Mozambique radio this evening.
He is Joaquim Chineseano, Mozambique's Foreign Minister,
No.3 in the Party.
Chissano, who is forty--seven,
was Prime Minister of the nine-month transitional government that preceded independence from Portugal in 1975.
He negotiated the transfer of power with Portugal.
Section Two: News in Detail
This much is clear tonight: an American held in Lebanon for almost a year and a half is free. David Jacobsen is recuperating in a hospital in Wiesbaden, West Germany.
Twenty--four hours earlier, Jacobsen was released in Beirut by Is lamic Jihad.
But this remains a mystery: what precisely led to his freedom?
Jacobsen will spend the next several days in the US air force facility in Wiesbaden for a medical examination.
Diedre Barber reports.
After preliminary medical checkups today,
David Jacobsen's doctor said he was tired but physically in very good condition.
US air force hospital commander, Charles Moffitt,
said in a medical briefing this afternoon that Jacobsen had lost little weight and seemed extremely fit.
He joked that he would not like to take up Jacobsen's challenge to reporters
earlier in the day to a six-mile jog around the airport.
Despite his obvious fatigue, Jacobsen spend the afternoon being examined by hospital doctors. He was also seen by a member of the special stress-management team sent from Washington. Colonel Moffitt said that after an initial evaluation it seems as if Jacobsen
coped extremely well with the stresses of his captivity.
He said there was also no evidence at this point
that the fifty-five-year-old hospital director had been tortured or physically abused.
Jacobsen seemed very alert,
asking detailed questions about the facilities of the Wiesbaden medical complex,
according to Moffitt.
So far, Jacobsen has refused to answer questions about his five hundred and twenty-four days as a hostage.
Speaking briefly to reporters after his arrival in Wiesbaden this morning,
he said his joy at being free was somewhat diminished by his concern for the other hostages left behind.
He thanked the US government and President Ronald Reagan for helping to secure his release. Jacobsen also gave special thanks to Terry Waite,
an envy of the Archbishop of Canterbury, for his help in the negotiation.
Waite, who acompanied Jacobsen from Beirut to Wiesbaden today,
said he might be going to Beirut in several days.
There are still seven American hostages being held in Lebanon by different political groups. Jacobsen will be joined in Wiesbaden tomorrow by his family.
Hospital officials said they still do not know how many days Jacobsen will remain for tests and debriefing sessions before returning to the United States with his family.
For National Public, this is Diedre Barber, Wiesbaden.
Section Three: Special Report
The leader of Chinese revolution, Mao Tsetong, died ten years ago today.
During his lifetime, Mao became a cult figure,
but the current government has tried to change that.
Now his tomb and enbalmed body in Beijing are just another tourist attraction.
And no longer do millions of Chinese study or wave aloft the famous "Little Red Book" of Quotations from Chairman Mao.
Along with the political writing, Mao wrote poetry as well---poems about the revolution, the Red Army, poems about nature.
Willis Barnstone has translated some of Mao's work and considers him an original master , one of China's most important poets.
"Had he not been a revolutionary,
perhaps his poetry would not have been as interesting because his personal poetry was the history of China.
At the same time because he was a famous revolutionary and leader,
it has prejudiced most people, almost correctly,
to dismiss his poetry as simply the work of a man who achieved fame elsewhere."
"But his work was not dismissed within China though?"
"Well, now it's almost consciously forgotten.
But when I was there in'72, you could see his poems on every dining room wall,
engraved on peach--pits...
During lunch hours, workers would study his poems.
They were every place."
"Is there, though, a revisionist thinking within literary circles?
Are people saying Mao wasn't any good as a poet either?"
"No. Well, at least in my conversations in the year I recently spent in Peking teaching at the university there,
I found very few people who didn't think he was a very good poet.
But they did feel that his suggestions which were that people not write in the classical style, that they write in what he called the modern style, was very repressive.
And as a result, of course,
the restriction of publication during the ten years of the Cultural Revolution,
poetry was abysmal."
"When, you say the modern style, would that be, for example, free verse?"
"It would be free verse as opposed to classical rhymes or classical forms."
"You write in the introduction to one of your translations of poems of Mao Tsetong
that explain that leaders in China,
and indeed in the East, are expected to be accomplished poets."
"Yes. I think that's true. The night that re Tojo died,
he, Japan, he wrote some poems.
Ho Chi Minh was a poet.
It was common. In fact, I think until early in the twentieth century,
even to pass a bureauctatic exam, one had to know a huge number of classical forms.
And especially, a leader should at least be a poet."
"There is one poem which is political in nature which has to do with a parasitic disease in China." "Yes. Mao wrote some poems, two poems actually, about getting rid of a disease that was a plague for the country.
And it's called 'Saying goodbye to the God of Disease.'
And the poem needs annotations.
In that sense, it's typical of classical Chinese poetry;
he makes references to earlier emperors and places.
Saying Goodbye to the God of Disease
Mauve waters and green mountains are nothing
When the great ancient doctor Hua Tuo
Could not defeat a tiny worm.
A thousand villages collapsed,were choked with weeds,
Men were lost arrows,ghosts sang
In the doorway of a few desolate houses.
Yet now in a day,we leap around the earth,
Or explore a thousand milky ways.
And if the cowherd who lives on a star
Asks about the God of plagues,
Tell him,happy or sad,"The God is gone,
Washed away in the waters."
A poem by Mao Tsetong read by Willis Barnstone,
Professor of Comparative Literature at Indiana University in Bloomington.
He talked with us from WFIU.
極難英語聽力2Thanks for A2A, my Chinese input suddenly didn't work, thanks for humoring me on this.
I guess you want to find a listening material you can count on periodically for a long time, SSS is actually a good option, but sometimes it contains too many specific terminologies and nouns that don't belong to your area, this might end up disrupting the flow of your understanding.
Let's assume your obejective is to: (1) get a good score on TOEFL, then keep working on SSS as you go, in the meantime, you might want to use TPO as well. In order to understand a chunk of conversation or speech, you ought to be capable of pronouncing the words correctly yourself, this is a crucial point as to capturing the words you are receiving. Infamous for example, if you perceive it as in'famous, then you definitely will miss it when someone says 'infamous to you. Thus my stance here is: adjust all your pronouciation first.
(2) you have passed TOEFL, and are about to study and live abroad. I, myself only listened to two pieces of SSS, then I abandoned it as I found something more interesting: TV shows and moives. If you like fictional and magical stuff, shield, superman etc. will suit you; if you are fond of science and nerd, then the Bigbang will be a good place to go. There are tons of fabulous TV shows out there, you will have no problem finding one that intrigues you. Watching TV shows not only helps improve your listening, but also provides you with a good sense of the culture, which might lay a good foundation for you life abroad. But, please don't stare at the Chinese caption as you go, if possible, download 'raw meat' and then insert English subtitle. A good rule of thumb is one-two episodes per day as you also need to invest time on vocabulary.
(3) You just want to improve your skill. In this scenerio, I won't stop you from using SSS, but put much less effort on it. TV shows, as I mentioned above, will also be a good bet, in addition, TED speech is also a wonderful resource I perodically refer to, it offers great insight into numerous fields and a lot of anecdotes, which helps you build a better consturction of the world.
(4) If you are already in a foreign country (presumably English-speaking country), attend as many seminars and meetings as possible, open your mouth and particpate in the discussion and presentation. I, once in a while, watch videos on youtube about the topic I like. The current one I'm pursuing is the COSMOS：A SPACETIME ODYSSEY
In a word, what I have recommeded in the text: TPO, TV shows, TED, youtube (if you can go over the wall).
極難英語聽力3Section One: News in Brief
1. Iran's official news agency said today former US National Security Advisor Robert
McFarlane and four other Americans were jailed in Tehran for five days recently
after they arrived on a secret diplomatic mission.
The report quoted the speaker of Iran's parliament as saying President Reagan sent the group to Tehran posing as aircraft crewmen.
He said they carried with them a Bible signed by the President and a cake.
He said the presents were designed to improve relations between the two countries.
Neither the Reagan Administration nor McFarlane had any comment on the report.
2. There were published reports in the Middle East that hostage David Jacobsen was freed as a result of negotiations between the United States and Iran.
Asked about that today, Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite said that he didn't want to comment on the political dynamics.
But Waite said he may know within the next twenty-four hours from his contacts
if he will be returning to Beirut to negotiate the release of more hostages.
3. Jacobsen was reunited with his family today,
but again said his joy could not be complete until the other hostages are freed.
He appeared on the hospital balcony with his family and talked with reporters.
Hospital director Colonel Charles Moffitt says Jacobsen needs to communitcate with people now. "He likes to talk, whether that be to a group of press or to individual physicians.
Once you get him started on a subject,
he wants to talk because he hasn't been able to do that."
Moffitt says Jacobsen is in good health and will not need follow up medical care.
4. A low to moderate turnout is reported across the nation so far on this election day.
Voters are choosing members of the one hundredth Congress,
thirty-four senators and all four hundred thirty-five members of the US House of Representatives. One of the big questions is wich Party will Control the Senate after today's voting.
Section Two: News in Detail
President Reagan's former National Security Advisor, Robert McFarlane,
and four other Americans may have visited Tehran recently on a secret diplomatic mission. Today, on the seventh anniversary of the seizure of the US embassy in Thran,
Iran Speaker of the Parliament said the visiting Americans
were held for five days before being expelled from the country.
NPR was unable to reach Mr. McFarlane today for comment
and the White House says that it can neither confirm nor deny the story.
NPR's Elizabeth Colton reports.
Today in Tehran, Speaker of the Parliament,
Hashami rafsanjani took the occasion to tell a rally that
President Reagan had recently sent personal envoys to Iran,
calling for improvement of relations.
In response to the American overtures,
Rafsanjani announced that Iran will advise its friends in Lebanon,
in other words the hostage takers,
to free US and French hostages if Israel frees Lebanese prisoners,
and if the American and French governments end their hostility to the revolutionary government of Iran.
Rafsanjani then reportedly described for the tens of thousands outside his parliament,
the visit of the five American emissaries.
The Iranian said they flew in, posing as the flight crew of a plane bringing American military spare parts to Iran from Europe.
The US envoys reportedly carried Irish passports,
now said to be held by Iranian officials.
And one of the men called himself McFarlane.
And according to Rafsanjani,
he looked exactly like President Reagan's former National Security Advisor.
Rafsanjani claimed that Iranian security officials also have a tape of
telephone conversations between the American President and his envoys.
The Iranian cleric, rafsanjani,
said the five men were confined to a hotel for five days and later deported after Ayatollah Khomeini advised Iranian officials not to meet them or receive their message.
Rafsanjani said the Americans had brought a Bible signed by President Reagan and a key-shaped cake which they said was the symbol of the hope of reopening US-Iran relations.
In Tehran today, at the ceremony marking the anniversary of the seizure of the American embassy, Parliamentary Speaker Rafsanjani described the visit by the American emissaries ad a sign of Washington's helplessness.
The White House said it would neither confirm nor deny the reports,
because according to the press office,
there are certain matters pertaining to efforts to try to release to hostages,
and comments might jeopardize them.
Robert McFarlane, who was also a frequent political commentator for NPR's morning edition, has been unavailable for comment.
I am Elizabeth Colton in Washington.
Section Three: Special Report
Over the last few years and around the country,
the number of fundamentalist religious groups is said to be growing.
Some are called "ultra-fundamentalist" groups.
The estimates varied greatly.
The number could be as high as two thousand.
These organizations have different purposes and beliefs,
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but usually have one thing in common ---strong leadership, quite often one person.
Four years ago in October at a fundamentalist Christain commune in West Virginia,
a young boy died after a paddling session that lasted for two hours.
The child was spanked by his parents.
He had hit another child and refused to say he was sorry.
We reported the story of that paddling --- the story of the Stonegate Community in November of e that time,Stonegate leader has been tried and convicted,
one of the first times an leader of a religious group has been held responsible for the actions of a member.
Also in that time the parents of the child have served jail terms,
and now they have agreed to tell their story.
The Stonegate Commune was near Charleston,
West Virginia, in the northeast corner of the state.
It's mostly farming country.
The Stonegate members lived outside of town in an old white Victorian house,
overlooking the Shenandoah River, eight young families living and working together.
They did some farming, some construction work and for a time ran an restaurant in Charleston. It was their intention to become less of a commune and more of a community,
with the families living in separate houses on the property.
We went to Stonegate on a Sunday evening in November of 1982.
We were reluctantly welcomed.
Less than a month before,
two Stonegate members had been indicted for involuntary manslaughter.
They were the parents of Joseph Green,
who was two years old when he died.
On this night many of the Stonegate people were defensive, almost angry.
That was four years ago.
The parents, stewart and Leslie Green,
were convicted of involuntary manslaughter and both spent a year in jail.
First Stewart, then Leslie.
Then in a separate legal action, the leader of the Stonegate commune,
Dorothy McLellan was also indicted.
McLellan did not take part in the paddling
but she was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter and conspiracy in the death of Joey Green. Stewart Green, the father, testified against Dorothy McLellan.
Green now believes that his son died because of McLellan's teachings and influence.
He explained in court that the Stonegate members were taught
that a paddling session should continue until the child apologizes.
Green also testified that a four-hour spanking of Dorothy McLellar's grandson, Danny,
had occurred two weeks before Joey Green's death.
He also said the Stonegate members, when Joey died,
Joined in a pledge of secrecy: the circum-stances would be covered up;
the death would be called an accident.
They were afraid all the Stonegate children would be taken away.
Joey's parents at first agreed to this.
It was later that they spoke out against what they called then a conspiracy of silence..
Bothey Stewart and Leslie Green grew up and married within the Stonegate community. Leslie was only fifteen when she came to the Stonegate.
They lived with several other teenagers in the home of Dorothy and John McLellan.
The McLessans had been taking in young people who were having trouble, usually with drugs. They wanted to use their marriage as an example of Christian family life.
John McLellan worked for an accounting firm,
travelling during the week, Dot McLellan staying at home,
taking care of more and more teenagers.
The Greens are now living in their first real home together, an apartment in Baltimore.
Stewart left the Stonegate, and Leslie joined him as soon as she got out of jail.
The Greens have now agreed to talk about their lives at Stonegate
and about the paddling of their son.
