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听力文本
Several German news sources are questioning how much President Obama knows about the US spying on German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The 'Spiegel' magazine reported that the USA's National Security Agency (NSA) started tapping Ms Merkel's mobile telephone in 2002, under the George W. Bush administration. It says President Obama knew that the tap was still in place as early as 2010, before he visited Berlin in June of that year to tell Germans of the warm friendship that existed between their two countries. A newspaper reported that the contents of Ms Merkel's SMS messages and phone calls went straight to the White House. The US Embassy in Berlin was used as a base for the surveillance.
The spying allegedly began when former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder was in office. US intelligence sources were suspicious of his refusal to support the second Iraq War. Obama told Ms Merkel last week that he had not known of the bugging. However, a media report cites an NSA official who said Mr Obama ordered the programme to be escalated. A document from the NSA warned of "grave damage for relations" if its spying programme was discovered. Ms Merkel is shocked that the USA may have engaged in the sort of spying she thought was a relic of the Cold War. She was also spied on in the former East Germany, before the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe.
中文翻译
多家德国新闻媒体质疑美国总统奥巴马到底知道多少关于监视德国总理默克尔的事情
有人声称这样的监视行动是从德国前总理施洛德当政期间就开始的
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重点讲解
1.spy on 秘密监视
例句:I found someone had being spying on me.
我发现有人一直在暗中监视着我
。2.Berlin Wall 柏林墙
例句:Soros, who at one stage after the fall of the Berlin Wall was providing more assistance to Russia than the US government, believes in practising what he preaches.
索罗斯在柏林墙倒塌后一段时间内向俄罗斯提供的援助曾一度超过美国政府的援助
。 他坚定地实施自己宣扬的观点 。3.warn of 警告
例句:The government warned of the storm.
政府预告说有暴雨
。4.suspicious of 对…起疑
例句:Physicists, on the other hand, have learned to be suspicious of axioms.
与经济学家不同的是,物理学家习惯用怀疑的目光看待公理
。听力题目
1.Who is asking questions?
a) the White House
b) German newspapers and magazines
c) Spies
d) German phone companies
2.When was Angela Merkel's phone first tapped?
a) 2005
b) 2004
c) 2003
d) 2002
3.When did Obama supposedly know that Ms Merkel's phone was tapped?
a) 2010
b) 2009
c) 2008
d) 2007
4.What did Obama talk about in Berlin?
a) spying
b) football
c) friendship
d) the Munich beer festival
5.What was used as the headquarters to spy on Angela Merkel?
a) the White House
b) the US Embassy in Berlin
c) a McDonald's restaurant opposite Ms Merkel's office
d) a Volkswagen truck
6.When did the spying first start?
a) the day George W. Bush was elected
b) when digital bugs went on sale
c) When Gerhard Schroder was leader
d) 1938
7.What did Chancellor Gerhard Schroder refuse to do?
a) upgrade to a new hone system
b) meet George W. Bush
c) spend money on security
d) support the Iraq War
8.What did Obama allegedly do to the programme?
a) ask for it to be heightened
b) extend it to other leaders
c) listen to it every day
d) originate it
9.When did Ms Merkel think spying such as this had disappeared?
a) during the Cold War
b) a few years ago
c) after talking to Barack Obama
d) she didn't
10.Where was Angela Merkel spied on before?
a) the White House
b) East Germany
c) a G20 Summit
d) on vacation in Paris
听力答案
1.b
2.d
3.a
4.c
5.b
6.c
7.d
8.a
9.a
10.b