极难英语听力

极难英语听力

　　有哪些难度比较高的英语听力材料可以推荐的?下面是学习啦小编给大家整理的极难英语听力，供大家参阅!

　　极难英语听力1

　　Lesson 1

　　Section One: News in Brief

　　1. Freed American hostage, David Jacobsen,

　　appealed today for the release of the remaining captives in Lebanon,

　　saying "Those guys are in the hell and we've got to get them home."

　　Jacobsen made his remarks as he arrived at Wiesbaden,

　　West Germany, accompanied by Anglican Church envoy,

　　Terry Waite, who worked to gain his release.

　　And Waite says his efforts will continue.

　　Jacobsen had a checkup at the air force hospital in Wiesbaden.

　　And hospital director, Colonel Charles Moffitt says he is doing well.

　　"Although Mr. Jacobsen is tired,

　　our initial impression is that he is physically in very good condition.

　　It also seems that he has dealt with the stresses of his captivity extremely well."

　　Although Jacobsen criticized the US government's handling of the hostage situation in a videotape make during his captivity,

　　today he thanked the Reagan Administration and said he was darn proud to be an American.

　　The Reagan Administration had little to say today about the release of Jacobsen or the likelihood that other hostages may be freed.

　　Boarding Air Force One in Las Vegas,

　　the President said, "There's no way to tell right now.

　　We've been working on that. We've had heart--breaking disappointments."

　　2. Mr. Reagan was in Las Vegas campaigning for Republican candidate,

　　Jim Santini, who is running behind Democrat, Harry Reed.

　　3. In Mozambique today a new president was chosen

　　to replace Samora Machel who died in a plane crash two weeks ago.

　　NPR's John Madison reports:" The choice of the 130-member Central Committee

　　of the ruling FRELIMO Party was announced on Mozambique radio this evening.

　　He is Joaquim Chineseano, Mozambique's Foreign Minister,

　　No.3 in the Party.

　　Chissano, who is forty--seven,

　　was Prime Minister of the nine-month transitional government that preceded independence from Portugal in 1975.

　　He negotiated the transfer of power with Portugal.

　　Section Two: News in Detail

　　This much is clear tonight: an American held in Lebanon for almost a year and a half is free. David Jacobsen is recuperating in a hospital in Wiesbaden, West Germany.

　　Twenty--four hours earlier, Jacobsen was released in Beirut by Is lamic Jihad.

　　But this remains a mystery: what precisely led to his freedom?

　　Jacobsen will spend the next several days in the US air force facility in Wiesbaden for a medical examination.

　　Diedre Barber reports.

　　After preliminary medical checkups today,

　　David Jacobsen's doctor said he was tired but physically in very good condition.

　　US air force hospital commander, Charles Moffitt,

　　said in a medical briefing this afternoon that Jacobsen had lost little weight and seemed extremely fit.

　　He joked that he would not like to take up Jacobsen's challenge to reporters

　　earlier in the day to a six-mile jog around the airport.

　　Despite his obvious fatigue, Jacobsen spend the afternoon being examined by hospital doctors. He was also seen by a member of the special stress-management team sent from Washington. Colonel Moffitt said that after an initial evaluation it seems as if Jacobsen

　　coped extremely well with the stresses of his captivity.

　　He said there was also no evidence at this point

　　that the fifty-five-year-old hospital director had been tortured or physically abused.

　　Jacobsen seemed very alert,

　　asking detailed questions about the facilities of the Wiesbaden medical complex,

　　according to Moffitt.

　　So far, Jacobsen has refused to answer questions about his five hundred and twenty-four days as a hostage.

　　Speaking briefly to reporters after his arrival in Wiesbaden this morning,

　　he said his joy at being free was somewhat diminished by his concern for the other hostages left behind.

　　He thanked the US government and President Ronald Reagan for helping to secure his release. Jacobsen also gave special thanks to Terry Waite,

　　an envy of the Archbishop of Canterbury, for his help in the negotiation.

　　Waite, who acompanied Jacobsen from Beirut to Wiesbaden today,

　　said he might be going to Beirut in several days.

　　There are still seven American hostages being held in Lebanon by different political groups. Jacobsen will be joined in Wiesbaden tomorrow by his family.

　　Hospital officials said they still do not know how many days Jacobsen will remain for tests and debriefing sessions before returning to the United States with his family.

　　For National Public, this is Diedre Barber, Wiesbaden.

　　Section Three: Special Report

　　The leader of Chinese revolution, Mao Tsetong, died ten years ago today.

　　During his lifetime, Mao became a cult figure,

　　but the current government has tried to change that.

　　Now his tomb and enbalmed body in Beijing are just another tourist attraction.

　　And no longer do millions of Chinese study or wave aloft the famous "Little Red Book" of Quotations from Chairman Mao.

　　Along with the political writing, Mao wrote poetry as well---poems about the revolution, the Red Army, poems about nature.

　　Willis Barnstone has translated some of Mao's work and considers him an original master , one of China's most important poets.

　　"Had he not been a revolutionary,

　　perhaps his poetry would not have been as interesting because his personal poetry was the history of China.

　　At the same time because he was a famous revolutionary and leader,

　　it has prejudiced most people, almost correctly,

　　to dismiss his poetry as simply the work of a man who achieved fame elsewhere."

　　"But his work was not dismissed within China though?"

　　"Well, now it's almost consciously forgotten.

　　But when I was there in'72, you could see his poems on every dining room wall,

　　engraved on peach--pits...

　　During lunch hours, workers would study his poems.

　　They were every place."

　　"Is there, though, a revisionist thinking within literary circles?

　　Are people saying Mao wasn't any good as a poet either?"

　　"No. Well, at least in my conversations in the year I recently spent in Peking teaching at the university there,

　　I found very few people who didn't think he was a very good poet.

　　But they did feel that his suggestions which were that people not write in the classical style, that they write in what he called the modern style, was very repressive.

　　And as a result, of course,

　　the restriction of publication during the ten years of the Cultural Revolution,

　　poetry was abysmal."

　　"When, you say the modern style, would that be, for example, free verse?"

　　"It would be free verse as opposed to classical rhymes or classical forms."

　　"You write in the introduction to one of your translations of poems of Mao Tsetong

　　that people...you explain that leaders in China,

　　and indeed in the East, are expected to be accomplished poets."

　　"Yes. I think that's true. The night that Tojo...before Tojo died,

　　he,...in Japan, he wrote some poems.

　　Ho Chi Minh was a poet.

　　It was common. In fact, I think until early in the twentieth century,

　　even to pass a bureauctatic exam, one had 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 to do with a parasitic disease in China." "Yes. Mao wrote some poems, two poems actually, about getting rid of a disease that was a plague for the country.

　　And it's called 'Saying goodbye to the God of Disease.'

　　And the poem needs annotations.

　　In that sense, it's typical of classical Chinese poetry;

　　he makes references to earlier emperors and places.

　　Saying Goodbye to the God of Disease

　　Mauve waters and green mountains are nothing

　　When the great ancient doctor Hua Tuo

　　Could not defeat a tiny worm.

　　A thousand villages collapsed,were choked with weeds,

　　Men were lost arrows,ghosts sang

　　In the doorway of a few desolate houses.

　　Yet now in a day,we leap around the earth,

　　Or explore a thousand milky ways.

　　And if the cowherd who lives on a star

　　Asks about the God of plagues,

　　Tell him,happy or sad,"The God is gone,

　　Washed away in the waters."

　　A poem by Mao Tsetong read by Willis Barnstone,

　　Professor of Comparative Literature at Indiana University in Bloomington.

　　He talked with us from WFIU.

　　极难英语听力2

　　Thanks for A2A, my Chinese input suddenly didn't work, thanks for humoring me on this.

　　I guess you want to find a listening material you can count on periodically for a long time, SSS is actually a good option, but sometimes it contains too many specific terminologies and nouns that don't belong to your area, this might end up disrupting the flow of your understanding.

　　Let's assume your obejective is to: (1) get a good score on TOEFL, then keep working on SSS as you go, in the meantime, you might want to use TPO as well. In order to understand a chunk of conversation or speech, you ought to be capable of pronouncing the words correctly yourself, this is a crucial point as to capturing the words you are receiving. Infamous for example, if you perceive it as in'famous, then you definitely will miss it when someone says 'infamous to you. Thus my stance here is: adjust all your pronouciation first.

　　(2) you have passed TOEFL, and are about to study and live abroad. I, myself only listened to two pieces of SSS, then I abandoned it as I found something more interesting: TV shows and moives. If you like fictional and magical stuff, shield, superman etc. will suit you; if you are fond of science and nerd, then the Bigbang will be a good place to go. There are tons of fabulous TV shows out there, you will have no problem finding one that intrigues you. Watching TV shows not only helps improve your listening, but also provides you with a good sense of the culture, which might lay a good foundation for you life abroad. But, please don't stare at the Chinese caption as you go, if possible, download 'raw meat' and then insert English subtitle. A good rule of thumb is one-two episodes per day as you also need to invest time on vocabulary.

　　(3) You just want to improve your skill. In this scenerio, I won't stop you from using SSS, but put much less effort on it. TV shows, as I mentioned above, will also be a good bet, in addition, TED speech is also a wonderful resource I perodically refer to, it offers great insight into numerous fields and a lot of anecdotes, which helps you build a better consturction of the world.

　　(4) If you are already in a foreign country (presumably English-speaking country), attend as many seminars and meetings as possible, open your mouth and particpate in the discussion and presentation. I, once in a while, watch videos on youtube about the topic I like. The current one I'm pursuing is the COSMOS：A SPACETIME ODYSSEY

　　In a word, what I have recommeded in the text: TPO, TV shows, TED, youtube (if you can go over the wall).