高中英语 CNN听力05月合辑（文本+翻译）0514素材.doc

cnn英语听力2012年05月合辑（文本+翻译）：20120514good stuff. on our blog, some of you have been discussing what makes your favorite teacher so good. were celebrating teacher appreciation week with some of those comments in about seven minutes. im carl azuz. youre watching cnn student news.yesterday we reported on an alleged terror plot that officials said had been foiled. we said there were still a lot of questions. now we have some of the answers. the plot was designed to blow up a plane headed to the united states.what we now know is that the person picked to carry out that attack is actually the person who prevented it.authorities said the plot started in yemen with the terrorist group known as al qaeda in the arabian peninsula.initial reports said the plan was thwarted based on a tip from saudi arabia, one of yemens neighbors.turns out saudi arabia had a mole, a sort of spy inside the al qaeda group. hes a saudi intelligence agent. he volunteered for a suicide mission. then he took the explosive device that would have been on the plane and turned it over to u.s. intelligence officers and told them about the plot.now theres some concern about the fact that all this information was leaked. one source said saudi officials are upset about the possible risks that this could mean for other undercover agents working inside the al qaeda group.some u.s. officials are worried that the leak could interfere with other operations. the u.s. director of national intelligence is launching a review to see if the leak came from an american intelligence agency.all right. turning to u.s. politics now, we know who the presumptive presidential nominees are for both the republican and democratic parties, but primary season continues.former massachusetts governor mitt romney won the republican primaries in north carolina, indiana and westvirginia on tuesday. not a major surprise. he is the presumptive nominee. but its not all about the white house in these primaries. voters also cast ballots for state and local elections this work. in north carolina, that included a vote on a constitutional amendment.we talked about this earlier in the week. the amendment would change the north carolina constitution to say,quote, marriage between one man and one woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized in north carolina.the unofficial results from tuesdays primary showed that around 61 percent voted for the amendments. around 39 percent voted against. one critic called the amendment discrimination. she said, quote, it gives the majority the chance to vote against the minority.but a supporter of the amendment responded, quote, we are not anti- gay. we are pro-marriage.a recent gallup survey shows the country overall is more closely divided on the issue. according to that poll,about 50 percent of americans believe same-sex couples should be allowed to marry. around 48 percent say same-sex marriages should not be legal.的确非常不错。在我们的博客上,你们有一些人一直在讨论什么使你最喜欢的老师这么好。我们会专门用7分钟内用这些评论庆祝老师感恩周。我是卡尔阿祖兹。你正在收看的是cnn学生新闻。昨天我们报道了一起官员称已经被阻止的所谓恐怖阴谋。而我们表示仍然有很多问题。现在我们有一些问题的答案。该阴谋被设计用来炸毁前往美国的飞机。我们现在所知道的是,选择来完成这次攻击的人实际上就是阻止它的人。当局称情节是在也门开始，那里有在阿拉伯半岛被称为基地组织的恐怖组织。最初的报道称这个计划受到来自也门的邻国之一沙特阿拉伯的一点挫败。结果沙特阿拉伯有了长期潜伏的间谍,这是对于内部基地组织的监视者。他是一名沙特情报特工。他自愿参加一项自杀任务。然后他把将会是在飞机上的爆炸装置转交给美国情报官员并且告诉他们关于这阴谋的始末。现在所有这些信息被泄露是有一些令人担心的事实。一位消息人士称沙特官员们对可能的风险感到不安,这可能意味着在基地组织内部工作的其他秘密特工被发现。一些美国官员担心泄漏可能干扰其他行动。美国国家情报总局准备进行一次回顾,来看看泄密是否来自美国情报机构。好吧。现在转向美国政治,我们知道预计能得到总统候选人提名的肯定是共和党或者民主党,但是初选仍在继续。前马萨诸塞州州长米特罗姆尼周二在北卡罗莱纳、印第安纳州和西弗吉尼亚州赢得共和党初选。这不是什么令人非常震惊的事情。因为他是提名候选人。但在这些初选他不都是针对白宫。选民也投票给州和地方选举的工作。在北卡罗莱纳就进行了宪法修正案的表决。我们在本周早些时候曾谈到过这个问题。该修正案将改变北卡罗莱纳的宪法,我们在这里引用道,“一个男人和一个女人之间的婚姻是唯一的国内法律, 在北卡罗莱纳仍然有效期或被认可。”非官方结果显示,在星期二的初选中61%