NPR边听边练42:挑战司法部,Google拒绝提供客户信息
时间：2019-01-22 作者：英语课 分类：NPR边听边练
英语课
【NPR边听边练】致力于提供新鲜有趣、饶有意味的时讯资料，致力于通过精听的方式促进听力提高，致力于不断开阔眼界和深入了解美国观点。
精听建议：
先完整地把一条新闻听一到三遍，争取掌握大意。然后，一句一句精听，力争每句话都听明白。遇到实在不懂的地方，再听写。
下面的文本材料中空缺部分里面要填的词都很简单，不过是一些值得注意的连读或者典型的美式发音哦，有些语速比较快。试试看，你能不能全部写对？
（参考文本，欢迎指出错误^^）
Government lawyers are defending the Child Online Protection Act, or COPA, against the challenge from the American Civil Liberties Union. COPA requires the owners of sexually-oriented commercial websites to keep minors 1 out. The ACLU says the law ___1___ free speech protections. In order to defend COPA, federal prosecutors 2 need ___2___ help them look at current filtering systems, says Tom Lee, a former Justice Department lawyer who worked on the case. "And it valuate how effective various filtering softwares' filtering mechanisms 3 would be at preventing access to offensive material on the Internet." AOL, MSN and Yahoo have all given the Justice Department the information ___3___. But Google has refused to comply with the request. The government wants a list of all search terms entered into the company's search engine during an unspecified single week. In addition, prosecutors want one million randomly 4 selected web addresses from Google's databases. In a letter to the Justice Department, Google lawyers objected to the request saying such information would reveal ___4___ and it was ___5___ than intended to hurrahs.
1. violates
2. data that can
3. it's sought
4. trade secrets
5. overbroad
n.未成年人( minor的名词复数 )；副修科目；小公司；[逻辑学]小前提v.[主美国英语]副修，选修，兼修( minor的第三人称单数 )
- The law forbids shops to sell alcohol to minors. 法律禁止商店向未成年者出售含酒精的饮料。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- He had three minors this semester. 这学期他有三门副修科目。 来自《简明英汉词典》
检举人( prosecutor的名词复数 )； 告发人； 起诉人； 公诉人
- In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方，检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。 来自口语例句
- You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。
n.机械( mechanism的名词复数 )；机械装置；[生物学] 机制；机械作用
- The research will provide direct insight into molecular mechanisms. 这项研究将使人能够直接地了解分子的机理。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- He explained how the two mechanisms worked. 他解释这两台机械装置是如何工作的。 来自《简明英汉词典》