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点击上方“武太白金星人”即可选择关注本订阅号。 -----------------------  Student News是根据美国Common Core State Standards（通用核心各州标准）为初高中学生专门录制的简明版国际国内新闻节目，适用于国内初三、高中和大学一二年级学生。当然如果英语水平较高，那也可以提前使用。为方便检查理解，我设置了一道选择题，供朋友们一试身手。答案在结尾处，请耐心翻到底。 Which of the following is NOT covered in today's news? A. the history and tradition of the State of the Union address B. the parts of the brain involved in driving C. navigating the open sea in a rowboat D. Democrats and Republicans quarrel over the presidential election 另外： 本期Roll Call点到的是哪些国家的同学？哪些学校？ 看大家能不能听出来。如没把握，请到文末查看答案。 ------------------------ 为了方便同学们理解、掌握本期新闻中的语言要点，我按照国内初三、高一学生的普遍英语水平把文中的一些重点词句加粗，并添加了部分（注释）。如仍有疑问，请点击右下角“写留言”沟通。 另外，文中留有六处听写，各一个单词，同学们可以试试看能否听出来。答案也在最后。 因这样的注释与讲解颇费时间，不能保证每期都有，请见谅！ ------------------------ 视频文件因为系统原因无法放上来，请到http://www./cnn/cnnstudentnews/这个网站去下载，他们有2012年至今的绝大部分Student News内容，音频MP3与视频MP4俱全。 ------------------------ CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: Hi. I'm Carl Azuz. Good to see you today and thank you for taking 10 minutes for CNN STUDENT NEWS. Jumping right in, quote（引述）, "He shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the State of the Union （国情咨文）", Article II Section III of the U.S. Constitution. What's interesting about this is what it does not say（请注意这里有连续两个名词性从句）. The president doesn't have to give one every year at the same time. It doesn't have to be televised （电视直播）. It doesn't have to be delivered in person （亲自）. The president could just send a written note to Congress, a tradition started by President Jefferson. So, what's happening tonight in President Obama's last State of the Union Address （又一个名词性从句）is one part Constitution, many more parts tradition （一部分是宪法规定，更多是传统使然）. So, what exactly is the point （意义） of the modern day State of the Union and the opposing party's response （反对党的意见）? (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) TOM FOREMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT （记者）: It's a report card and it's a prognostication （预测）. It is the president saying this is what I would like to do in the coming year. SUBTITLE （字幕）: CNN Explains: The State of the Union. FOREMAN: The State of the Union is essentially （本质上） a homework assignment from the framers （框架制定者） of the Constitution to every president who's lived ever since. The Constitution tells them that they periodically （定期地） must tell Congress how the country is doing if a president wants to lean （倾斜） hard to one side, or hard to the other side. Then, you might see more political purpose in the State of the Union, although often it's just a general sense （一般性的感觉） of let's move this direction. The whole thing is a huge pageant （盛会）. The president comes walking in escorted （护送） by members of the House and Senate （众议院和参议院成员）, the sergeant of arms （警卫官） announces him and everybody stands and cheers. And there's quite a crowd there. Everyone has assigned seating （要坐指定的座位）. Right behind the president you will find the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives （众议院发言人）, and the president of the Senate （参议院议长）, which will be the vice president of the United States. And then the two parties generally, generally （一般来说） stay on their side of the aisle （横排座位中间的纵向走道） although recently they've started seating with each other to suggest that they can get along a little bit better than most of us think. You typically have the Supreme Court （最高法院） there, the Joint Chiefs of Staff （参谋长联席会议） where they are representing the military, and the first lady will also be there, usually with some sort of special guest in recent years that will illustrate some point the president is making （近些年还会邀请嘉宾，是要凸显总统准备强调的某一要点）. SUBTITLE: The "Designated Survivor" （指定的幸存者：预留在会场外不参会以防会场内发生重大意外无人接替总统职务的内阁成员）. FOREMAN: One of the coolest parts of the presidential address is always the missing cabinet member and 1 out who it's going to be. One member of the cabinet always has to be somewhere else in case something terrible happened, so presumably （假定） you could have the secretary of agriculture seating somewhere thinking about hog futures （生猪期货）, and suddenly he is the president of the United States, which would be a huge shock to him. SUBTITLE: The opposition's response. FOREMAN: Since the 1960s, the opposition has also issued a response （反应，此处为“评论”）. That is someone selected by the opposing party to stand up and refute （批驳） what the president said or say （又一个名词性从句）, perhaps, we have different ideas about how the government should be conducting itself and where we should be going in the coming year. (END VIDEOTAPE) AZUZ: Love seeing you guys tour （注意这个词的词性） the CNN Center in Atlanta, Georgia. If you're thinking of taking a field trip this spring, there's a new option （选项）, the CNN STUDENT NEWS with Carl Azuz tour. It's a VIP offering. It gives an in-depth （=detailed, careful） journalistic （新闻报道相关的） journey specifically focused on CNN STUDENT NEWS. And it features, mwah. Space is limited and you do need a reservation. So, for more info, please send an email to atltour@cnn.com. I hope to see you soon in person. Up next today, according to the Centers for Disease Control, it's something that kills more than nine people in the U.S. every day and injures more than 1,100 nationwide. Car crashes （注意这个词的词性） when a distracted （被分散了注意力的） driver is reportedly involved （据报道与之有关）. Now, many people will hear that and think texting （听到这个就想到发短信）. But distractions far simpler than messages can keep the brain from focusing on the road. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: We often take driving for granted （认为驾驶是最自然不过的事情）, until something goes wrong, and then we think, what were we thinking? Because driving involves your hands, your feet, your eyes, your ears, but it's the brain 2 controls the action （强调句）. In fact, driving uses about 20 different parts of your brain and distracting even one of those and the job at hand can be dangerous. Let me show you what I mean: everything you'll see while driving is handled here by the occipital lobe, while the temporal lobe interprets （解释） the sounds that you hear. So, taking your eyes off the road or turning off the music can really affect that input. You see that was close. Measuring distance between cars changing lanes, deciding on how to stop, that's a job of a parietal lobe. It integrates （整合） data from all of your senses. It's activated when you switch your attention from one thing to another. But it too can be easily distracted. For example, just listening to someone talk reduces the activity of the parietal lobe by nearly 40 percent. That affects how you drive. While （这个词是什么意思？）talking on the cell phone and driving, even with an earpiece, that was said by researchers to be a recipe （原意“菜单”，此处指很大的可能性） for disaster, especially if you're turning in to oncoming traffic. I bet you're thinking. So, if the brain needs to focus so much, why does driving seem so automatic? Well, it's 3 you've imprinted （烙印） those motor skills （运动技能） in your brain is part of procedural （程序性的） memory. It's your brain on autopilot （自动导航）. It allows you to focus on the more important things, like getting home safely. (END VIDEOTAPE) AZUZ: It's time to test your geographic genius. What country's capital is Accra? If you said Ghana, a nation in West Africa, you got it. And we're glad to have the students of Ghana International School watching CNN STUDENT NEWS. Next to Kickapoo, Illinois. It's where the Mustangs are roaming （四处漫游）at St. Mary's Catholic School. And in Tennessee, in the city of Rockwood, you'll find the Tigers. Hello, Rockwood High School. We often cross oceans in our "Roll Call". You're about to meet someone who does that in a rowboat, all alone in the open water. Her 2011 Atlantic voyage span （扩展） from the Canary Islands off the coast of West Africa, to the Caribbean island of Barbados （巴巴多斯）. It doesn't always go well. On a recent attempt to solo （单人漂流） from Japan to California, the Japanese 4 guard rescued her 150 miles off the Japanese coast. But though storms and a steering failure ended that voyage, her passion for adventure （冒险） still going strong. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) SONYA BAUMSTEIN, FOUDNER, SPINDRIFT ROWING: Ocean rowing is the crossing of any ocean under self power. At this point in time, many more people have climbed Everest than actually rowed an ocean （登上过珠穆朗玛峰的人要比划船成功渡过大洋的人多得多）. I think 500 people have rowed an ocean successfully. It's a hard thing to say that somebody can just throw themselves into it and accomplish a full ocean row safely, but anything is possible. My name is Sonya Baumstein. I am a professional adventurer （注意这个词和上面一个黑体词很像）and I'm also the owner of a company called SpinDrift （团团转漂流） Rowing. And we produce expedition （长途探险） ocean craft. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Were you on this type of boat for your solo crossing? BAUMSTEIN: This is my boat. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This is your boat? BAUMSTEIN: Yes. I've spent three years in my life 6,000 miles of open water. It's three seasons on the water in this boat. This carried 180 days worth of food for me and I still had room in the aft cabin （后舱）. I started preparing for Expedition Pacific, which was to be my solo crossing of the North Pacific from Japan to San Francisco. It's a really difficult thing to prepare for. Do I know where I am? Do I have enough food? Do I have enough water? How far away could a rescue be? I love it because of the emotional roller coaster （在情绪上就像坐过山车）. Getting through the initial 5 （最初的沮丧） of being alone is a really hard part. The schedule is the hardest part of anything is committing to what that's going to be and not thinking too far ahead. So, to be very present is a very difficult thing, I think, for anyone. Typically, I use music as a reward, but there's so much to do on a boat constantly （一直） without even thinking about, I want to listen to music. It's only about surviving. This is my onboard water maker. It takes salt water and turns into fresh water. This is a handheld （手提式） GPS. If for any reason all of my systems are gone, I can use this. The increase in speed that's come from bullets （子弹形船体） is very much dependent on having a carbon （碳质） vessel. They're just going to be the lightest. I think that the scope of adventuring is constantly changing and it's shifting with our available resources and to say that there's one way to do an adventure is never going to be correct. (END VIDEOTAPE) AZUZ: Well, speaking of the ocean, octopi （章鱼octopus的复数） usually 6 to hang out in shallow （浅水） waters around the world. This one prefers Minnesota （明尼苏达州，美国极寒冷的地方之一）. It's an ocsnowpus （看出来没，这是哪两个词的拼贴？） and it's the latest creation by three Minnesota brothers who made a name for themselves sculpting （雕塑） sea creatures out of snow. They're using it to raise money to provide clean drinking water in Haiti （海地，一个拉美国家）. They say it took them 500 hours to shape （造型| 这个词是什么词性？） the squid. Their previous sculptures included a shark and a turtle. It's good they didn't squid about when they were hit （不错的是他们被雪球打中的时候也不会像乌贼一样逃跑）. We're not sure what gave them an inkling （暗示，模糊概念） to make an act-copus （要来一次章鱼雪人的大动作。这个词是仿照octopus造出来的，意在强调make an act around the octopus）. Guess they just thought it was something they oc （像是ought，此处为戏谑语） to do. But when the snow begins, it's an ice way （听起来像是a nice way） to get the cephalo（头足类动物，乌贼、章鱼均属此类）-party started. I'm Carl Azuz for CNN STUDENT NEWS. ------------------------ Roll Call的三个学校及其学生的绰号： Ghana International School, Ghana St. Mary's Catholic School, Illinois, the Mustangs 野马 Rockwood High School, Tennessee, the Tigers 猛虎 填空题答案： 1 figuring 2 that 3 because 4 coast 5 depression 6 prefer 选择题答案： D ------------------------ 长按此处二维码即可识别并轻松关注“武太白金星人”微信订阅号，接收每日精彩基础英语教与学、儿童教育文章推送。 |
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