B.Keywords
summit, vote to admit, collision, gun battles, nuclear.
Vocabulary
commitment, eradicate, shrug off, denunciation, regime, pluck, upsurge, elite, breach.
You're going to hear five brief news items.Focus your attention on who, what, when, where, why and how in each news item, and then answer the questions.
1.With the final declaration on its role in the 21 century, the summit's statement is expected to call on UN members to make commitments to eradicate poverty, promote democracy and education and reverse the spread of AIDS.
More than 150 heads-of-state in government attended this summer, a largest gathering of the world leaders in history.
2.The Association of Southeast Asian Nations has decided to invent Burma to join its rank, shrugging off western denunciations of the military regime in Rangoon.
ASEAN foreign ministers voted on Saturday to admit Burma, Cambodia and Laos.
3.The missing, four of them teenagers, were among 35 people abroad a high school fishing vessel from Japan.
On Friday, a US nuclear submarine tore through the ship, sinking it within minutes.
The USS Greenville, which was not seriously damaged, was performing an emergency surfacing drill when the collision occurred about ten miles south of Pearl Harbour.
Coast Guard rescue teams plucked all but nine of the victims from the rough seas.
4.Gun battles between Israeli troops and Palestinian gunmen have been raging overnight in the West Bank and Gaza.
The upsurge in the violence comes after Israeli attack helicopters targeted and killed a member of an elite Palestinian Security Force.
5.Some nuclear facilities in Japan have breached many health and safety laws.
Government inspectors checked 17 nuclear plants.
More than half of them failed some basic tests, such as checking radiation measurements.
Japanese nuclear regulators have been ordered to crack down following the country's worst nuclear accident in September.
69 people were exposed to dangerous levels of radiation in the accident.
