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1、高三英语听力文章：高级英语听力 lesson 11. Freed American hostage, David Jacobsen, appealed todayfor the release of the remaining captives in Lebanon, saying,Those guys are in hell and weve got to get them home.Jacobsen made his remarks as he arrived at Wiesbaden, WestGermany, accompanied by Anglican Church envoy,

2、Terry Waite,who worked to gain his release. And Waite says his effortswill continue. Jacobsen had a checkup at the air forcehospital in Wiesbaden. And hospital director, Colonel CharlesMoffitt says he is doing well. Although Mr. Jacobsen istired, our initial impression is that he is physically inver

3、y good condition. It also seems that he has dealt with thestressesof his captivity extremely well. Although Jacobsencriticized the US governments handling of the hostagesituation in a videotape made during his captivity, today hethanked the Reagan Administration and said he was darn proudto be an Am

4、erican. The Reagan Administration had little tosay today about the release of Jacobsen or the likelihoodthat other hostages may be freed. Boarding Air Force One inLas Vegas, the President said, Theres no way to tell rightnow. Weve been working on that. Weve had heart-breakingdisap pointments.2. Mr.

5、Reagan was in Las Vegas campaigning for Republicancandidate, Jim Santini, who is running behind Democrat, HarryRee .3. In Mozambique today a new president was chosen to replaceSamora Machel who died in a plane crash two weeks ago. NPRsJohn Madison reports ： The choice of the 130-member CentralCommit

6、tee of the ruling FRELIMO Party was announced onMozamlique radio this evening. He is Joaquim, Chissano,Mozambiques Foreign Minister, No. 3 in the Party. Chissano,who is forty-seven, was Prime Minister of the nine-monthtransitional government that preceded independence fromPortugal in 1975. He negoti

7、ated the transfer of power withPortugal.Section Two ： News in DetailTapescriptThis much is clear tonight ： an America, held in Lebanalmost a Year dnd a half is free. David Jacobse isrecuperating in a hospital in Wiesbaden, West Germany.Twenty-four hours earlier, Jacobsen was released in Beirut byIsl

8、amic Jihad. But this remains a mystery ： what preciselyled to his freedom? Jacobsen will spend the next several daysin the US air force facility in Wiesbaden for a medicalexamination. Diedre Barber reports.After Preliminary medical checkups today, David Jacobsdoctor said he was ired but physically i

9、n very good condition.US air force hospital commander, Charles A4offltt, said in amedical briefing this afternoon that Jacobsen had lost littleweight seemed extremely fit. He joked that he would not liketo take Jacobsen,s challenge to reporters earlier in the dayto a six-mile jog around the airport.

10、 Despite his obviousfatigue, Jacobsen spent the afternoon being examined byhospital doctors. He was also seen by a member of the specialstress-management team sent from Washington. Colonel Mofrittsaid that after an initial evaluation it seems as if Jacobsencoped extremely well with the stresses of h

11、is captivity. Hesaid there was also no evidence at this point that the fifty-five-year-old hospital director had been tortured orphysically abused. Jacobsen seemed very alert, askingdetailed questions about the facilities of the Wiesbadenmedical complex, according to Moffitt.So far, Jacobsen has ref

12、used to answer questions about hisfive hundred and twenty-four days as a hostage. Speakingbriefly to reporters after his arrival in Wiesbaden thismorning, he said his joy at being free was somewhatdiminished by his concern for the other hostages left behind.He thanked the US government and President

13、 Ronald Reagan forhelping to secure his release. Jacobsen also gave specialthanks to Terry Waite, an envoy of the Archbishop ofCanterbury, for his help in the negotiation. Waite, whoaccompanied Jacobsen from Beirut to Wiesbaden today, said hemight be going to Beirut in several days. There are stills

14、even American hostages being held in Lebanon by differentpolitical groups. Jacobsen will be joined in Wiesbadentomorrow by his family. Hospital, officials said they stilldo not know how many days Jacobsen will remain for tests anddebriefing sessions before returning to the United Stateswith his fami

15、ly. For National Public Radio, this is DiedreBarber, Wiesbaden.Section Three ： Special ReportTapescriptThe leader of Chinese revolution, Mao Tsetong, died tenyears ago today. During his lifetiime, Mao became a cultfigure, but the current government has tried to change that.Now his tomb and enbalmed

16、body in Beijing are just anothertourist attraction. And no longer do millions of Chinesestudy or wave aloft the famous Little Red Book ofQuotations from Chairman Mao. Along with the politicalwriting, Mao wrote poetry as wellpoems about the revolution,the Red Army, poems about nature. Willis Barnston

17、e hastranslated some of Maos work and considers him an originalmaster, one of Chinas most important poets.Had,he not been a revolutionary, perhaps his poetry wouldnot have been as interesting because his personal poetry wasthe history of China. At the same time because he was afamous revolutionary a

18、nd leader, it has prejudiced mostpeople, almost correctly, to dismiss his poetry as simply thework of a man who achieved fameelsewhere.But his work was not dismissed within China though?Well, now its almost consciously forgotten. But when I wasthere in 72, you could see his poems on every dining roo

19、mwall, engraved on peach-pits . During lunch hours, workerswould study his poems. They were every place.Is there, though, a revisionist thinking within literarycircles? Are people saying Mao wasnt any good as a poeteither?No. Well, at least in my conversations in the year Irecently spent in Peking t

20、eaching at the university there, Ifound very few people who didnt think he was a very goodpoet. But they did feel that his suggestions which were thatpeople not write in the classical style, that they write inwhat he called the modern style, was very repressive. And asa result, of course, the restri

21、ction of publication duringthe ten years of the Cultural Revolution, poetry wasabysmal.When you say the modern style, would that be, for example,free verse?It would be free verse as opposed to classical rhymes orclassical forms.You write in the introduction to one of your translationsof poems of Mao

22、 Tsetong that people . you explain thatleaders in China, and indeed in the East, are expected to beaccomplished poets.Yes. I think thats true. The night that Tojo . beforeTojo died, he, . in Japan, he wrote some poems. Ho Chi Minhwas a poet. It was common. In fact, I think until early inthe twentiet

23、h century, even to pass a bureaucratic exam, onehad to know a huge number of classical forms. And especially,a leader should at least be a poet.There is one poem which is political in nature which has todo with a parasitic disease in China.Yes. Mao wrote some poems, two poems actually, aboutgetting rid of a disease that was a plague for the country.And its called Saying goodbye to the God o