高级英语听力 lesson 7

Lesson Seven

       Section One: News in Brief

       Tapescript

       1. Both -House and Senate negotiators today approved sweeping 1 im-

       migration 2 legislation that could grant amnesty to millions of illegal

       aliens who entered the country before 1982.  The bill, as worked, out

       in five hours of closed-door negotiations 3, would establish a system

       of fines against employers who hire illegal immigrants.  It would also

       make those who came to the US illegally but have established roots

       in this country eligible 4 for amnesty.

       2. The Supreme 5 Court today agreed to decide if Illinois can require

       minors 6 wanting abortions 8 to notify their parents or obtain judicial 9

       consent.  The justices will review the decision striking down a 1983

       law, which required some girls to wait twenty-four hours after tel-

       ling their parents they wanted an abortion 7.

       3. It was announced today that the winner of this year's Nobel Peace

       Prize is Elie Wiesel.  He has written twenty' five books on his experi-

       ences in a Nazi 10 prison of war camp and on the Holocaust 11.  And he's

       been a human rights activist 12 for thirty years.  NPR's Mike Shuster

       reports.  "Wiesel was sleeping in his Manhattan apartment when he

       received the word at five o'clock this morning from the Nobel Com-

       mittee in Oslo, Norway.  Wiesel said he was flabbergasted at the

       news, and later at a press conference, he said he would dedicate his

       Prize to the survivors 13 of the Holocaust and their children.  "The hon-

       or is not mine alone.  It belongs to all the survivors who have tried to

       do something with their pain, with their memory, with their silence,

       with their life.' Wiesel, fifty-eight, is a native of Rumania.  As a

  teenager, he and his family were sent to a Nazi death camp.  He and

  two sisters survived; his mother, father, and younger sister did not.

  After the War, Wiesel went first to France, then to the United States.

  He is credited with the first use of the word 'Holocaust' to describe

  the Nazi extermination 14 of the Jews.'

    Section Two: News in Detail

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       A House-Senate Conference Committee has agreed to an im-

    migration reform bill.  The measure, which had died in the final days

    of the fast two Congresses, now looks as though it will become law.

    NPR's Cokie Roberts reports.

       One of the chief advocates of the immigration bill, New York

    Democrat 15 Charles Schumer, says that this year immigration became

    a white hat issue, that the forces fighting against the measures finally

    had a force on the opposite side of equal rate public opinion.  The

    opponents of immigration reform have always been many: Hispanics

    in Congress and in the country have opposed the part of the bill most

    lawmakers consider key - punishment for employers who knowing-

    ly hire illegals.  The measure, passed at a conference today, would

    provide civil penalties and criminal penalties for those who repeated-

    ly hire illegal aliens.  Hispanics worry the employer sanctions would

    cause discrimination against anyone with an accent or Spanish

    name, whether legal or not.  The new bill includes strong anti-dis-

    crimination language for employers who do refuse to hire any

    Hispanics while still allowing someone to hire a citizen before an

    alien.  To appease 16 Hispanics and others, the immigration bill includes

    amnesty for aliens who have been in this country for five years,

    Many border state representatives fought against the legalization

    provisions, saying that millions of people could eventually become

    citizens and bring their relatives to this country.  All those people

    could bankrupt the state's social services, said the representatives,

    but the idea of deporting 17 all of those people seemed impractical 18 as

    well as inhumane to most members of Congress.  And aliens who

    came to this country before 1982 will        ' be able to apply for

    legalization.  The other major controversial area of the immigration

    bill is the farm worker program.  Agricultural interests wanted to be

able to bring workers into this country to harvest crops without be-

 ing subjected to employer sanctions, but the trade unions opposed

 this section of the bill.  Finally, a compromise was reached where up

 to three hundred and fifty thousand farm workers could come into

 this country, but their rights would be protected and they would also

 be able to apply for legalization if they met certain conditions.  The

 elements of the final immigration package have been there all along,

 but this year, say the key lawmakers around this legislation, the

 Congress was ready to act on them.  The combination of horror sto-

 ries about people coming over the borders and editorials about con-

 gressional inability to act made members of Congress decide the time

 had come to enact 19 immigration reform.  But supporters of reform

 warn the end is not here yet.  The conference report must still pass

 both houses of Congress, and a Senate filibuster 20 is always a possibili

 ty. I'm Cokie Roberts at the Capitol.

  Section Three: Special Report

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      Many photography shops are quite busy this time of the year.

  People back from vacation are dropping off rolls of film and hoping

  for the best.  But commentator 21 Tom Baudet learned a long time ago

  he was better off not hoping.

    I I've been told that I take lousy pictures. It's not that my sbots

  aren't technically 22 OK; it's just that my pictures seem to bring out the

  worst in people.  I hope that's not a sign of something.  I usually end

  up throwing half the pictures I take.  It's not that they're deceiving.

  Not at all; they're just too honest.  It's true what they say that a cam-

  era never lies, but you certainly can lie to a camera.. We do it all the

  time; at least we exaggerate a little to a lens.  The first

  thing you'll usually hear when you point a camera at someone is,

  ' Wait, I'm not ready.' Well, so you wait while they brush th

  crumbs 23 off their chin, put out a cigarette, or throw an arm aroun

  the person next to them like they've been standing 24 that way all day

  Well, you get your picture, but it's blown all out of proportion.  Ev

  erybody's having a little more fun than they really were and likin

  each other more than they actually do.  We're all guilty of this on

  time or another.  You're with your sweetheart travelling somewhere

  You've been walking and complaining about the price of the room

  the blister 25 on your heel and the rude waitress at the cafe.  But then

  you stop somebody on the street, hand them your camera, and pu

  on your very best having-a-wonderful-time smile.  Well, ten year

  later you'll look at that picture in a scrapbook and remember what

  great trip it was, whether it was or not.  For it's a natural thing to do:

  plant little seeds of contentment in our lives in case we doubt we ever

  had any. Well, it 's good practice to take an opportunity to mug up to

  a camera.  There never seems to be a camera around for the real spe-

  cial times: that make-up embrace after a long and dangerous discus-

  sion, the look on your face as you hold the phone and hear you got

  that promotion 26, the quiet ride home from the hospital after learning

  those suspicious lumps were benign 27 and something to watch but not

  worry about.  Those are the memories that should be preserved, to be

  remembered and relied upon when harder times take hold.  Those

  times when a photographer like me will catch you at a party with a

  loneliness on your face that you didn't think would show or bitter-

  ness tugging 28 at your lips during a conversation you didn"t intend to

  be overheard.  Well, we all slip up like this sometimes, and sooner or

  later we get caught with our guards down.  I think that's why I end

  up with pictures like that.  I like it when people leave their guards

  down.  We all know our best sides, and it's nice to keep that face for-

  ward 29 whenever we can.  But I don't mind having pictures of the other

  sides.  Either way they all look just like people to me.

      Writer Tom Baudet.  He lives in Homer, Alaska.