听力Unit 8答案.doc

Unit 8 Task 1 【原文】 1) Now that were making every effort to keep criminals from getting guns through the front door of a gun shop, were turning our attention to locking the back door, too. We have started to crack the code of the black market in illegal weapons. We are tracing the guns, targeting the traffickers, taking more of our children out of harms way. (Bill Clinton) 2) We will be marching today for common sense gun laws, but we will not stop with just marching. We will keep walking; we will keep running; we will keep marching; we will keep fighting and we will keep organizing until we are successful in our fight to keep our children safe. (Hillary Clinton) 3) Police officers of course, are not the only people who die. Ten thousand other Americans are dead because of the misuse of our right to bear arms. People who argue for guns are fond of saying that guns dont kill; people do. But guns do kill. (Robert di Grazia) 4) Registration of cars has nothing to do with the incidence of car accidents which, of course, is the greatest killer of people in the United States, including children. And you dont see anyone turning around and say, Lets outlaw automobile. (Victoria Bingham) ? Task 2 【答案】 News Item 1????? A.1) F?? 2) F?? 3) T?? 4) T?? 5) F?? 6) F News Item 2 B. WHO:?? more than one hundred thousand mothers across the United States WHAT:? gathered to push for tougher gun control laws WHERE: Washington WHEN:? Sunday C. 1) b)??? 2) a)??? 3) c)?? 4) b) D. 1) Gun control, Now 2) shed, river of votes, raging, out of, stricter gun control 【原文】 News Item 1 ?????? British police say thousands of gun owners have surrendered their small calibre weapons as part of legislation banning some types of handgun. The deadline to hand in the weapons which has just passed is the final stage in the clampdown on gun ownership following the massacre of 16 school children and a teacher at Dunblane in Scotland in 1996. The police estimate that 40,000 weapons have been surrendered, meaning