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1、一This is the VOA Special English Technology Report.Sony officials held a news conference last week in Tokyo.They apologized for the theft of personal information from millions of users of the companys online services. Hackers targeted Sonys PlayStation Network, Sony Online Entertainment and music sy

2、stems. In all, Sony says information may have been stolen from more than one hundred million accounts.The data includes information like names, addresses, phone numbers and birthdates. In some cases, even credit and debit card numbers may have been stolen.The United States Federal Bureau of Investig

3、ation is looking into the cyber attacks.Sony shut down its PlayStation Network on April twentieth. The company is being criticized for not telling its users about the stolen information until a week later. Sony has also been criticized for not making its accounts more secure by encrypting the data.

4、Sony officials say they have now taken steps to improve security.Q：Whats the reason of their apology?（Suppose youre the speak person of Sony, what measures will you take to limit the damage of this incident?）二SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: Isaac Newton was born in Woolsthorpe, He was born early. He was a small b

5、aby and very weak. No one expected him to survive. But he surprised everyone. He had one of the most powerful minds in history. And he lived until he was eighty-four.Newtons father died before he was born. His mother married again a few years later. She left Isaac with his grandmother. The boy was n

6、ot a good student. Yet he liked to make things, such as kites and clocks and simple machines.STEVE EMBER: Newton also enjoyed finding new ways to answer questions or solve problems. As a boy, for example, he decided to find a way to measure the speed of the wind.On a windy day, he measured how far h

7、e could jump with the wind at his back. Then he measured how far he could jump with the wind in his face. From the difference between the two jumps, he made his own measure of the strength of the wind. Strangely, Newton became a much better student after a boy kicked him in the stomach. The boy was

8、one of the best students in the school. Newton decided to get even by getting higher marks than the boy who kicked him. In a short time, Newton became the top student at the school.Q: Can you translate the famous saying: “我比別人看的遠，只因我站在巨人的肩膀上。”(Can you introduce me one scientific phenomenon by your o

9、wn words?)三This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.Small business entrepreneurs play an important part in American job growth. Small businesses have created almost two-thirds of new jobs in the last fifteen years. They also employ about forty percent of the workers in high technology jobs.T

10、he economy has traditionally been divided into three sectors. One is the private sector, meaning businesses. The second is the public sector, or government. And the third is the nonprofit sector.But now some people talk about a fourth sector. It represents nonprofit and for-profit organizations work

11、ing toward goals of social change and environmental activism.Universities are starting to offer training and degree programs to prepare students to work in this area. One of these schools is Belmont University in Nashville, Q: How many factors consist of the economy? Can you list them? (Suppose you

12、are a graduate from SIFT and you want to be an employer instead of a employee, choose one of the situations and conceive your solution: 1.you have enough money but no lucrative ideas. 2. you have the lucrative ideas but no money support.)四This is the VOA Special English Health Report.For people infe

13、cted with HIV, the earlier they start treatment, the better - and better not just for them. A new study shows that early treatment greatly reduces the risk that the partner of an infected person will also get infected. HIV is the virus that causes AIDThe study took place in Botswana, Brazil, India,

14、Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Thailand, the United States and Zimbabwe. It involved almost two thousand couples divided into two groups.In one group, the infected man or woman began to take a combination of three antiretroviral drugs immediately after being found to have HIV. In the other group, the

15、infected partners began drug treatment only when they started to show signs of getting AIDS.The researchers say both groups received equal amounts of HIV-related care and counseling. That included information about safe sex practices, free condoms and regular HIV testing.The study began in two thous

16、and five. It was supposed to last until twenty-fifteen. But researchers stopped it early because the results were so clear. Only one case of infection was reported in couples where the infected partner began immediate treatment.Q: Whats the relationship between HIV and AIDS?(Try to justify the infec

17、ted HIV positive.)五BBC News with David AustinPolice in Russia have arrested more than 40 people after violence broke out at an unauthorised rally of gay rights activists in the capital Moscow. The fighting started when participants of the march were attacked as they were trying to lay a wreath at th

18、e Tomb of the Unknown Soldier near the Kremlin. Some of the attackers said they were members of the Russian Orthodox Church. Daniel Sandford reports from Moscow.Russian gay rights activists were joined by campaigners from America and Europe in what has become an annual event. Each year the authoriti

19、es have refused the organisers permission, and each year there have been arrests and violence. Some gay rights activists were carrying banners reading Russia is not Iran. One anti-gay campaigner said that God had burned down Sodom and Gomorrah and would burn down Moscow too if gay rights marches wer

20、e allowed.Q: Whats your opinion about gay people? (Do you agree with the legalization of homosexual marriage?)六BBC News with Zoe DiamondResearchers have discovered that Arctic reindeer can see ultraviolet light that would blind humans. The lead researcher says that the animals may have evolved ways

21、of protecting their retinas against the kind of extreme exposure to UV light common in the Arctic. Heres Neil Bowdler.Bees, bats and rodents, to name but a few ，can see what humans cant - ultraviolet light. This international team wanted to see whether Arctic reindeer could too, and so subjected the

22、 animal to various optical tests. What they found was that reindeer do indeed have UV vision. The researchers suggest they might use this power to pick out food and predators in the white-out of the Arctic winter and the twilight of the spring and autumn. Other specialists in the field even suggest

23、UV vision may turn out to be the rule rather than the exception in the animal kingdom.Q: Besides Arctic reindeer, are there any animals can see the ultraviolet light? ()七This is AP News minute.President Barack Obama spent part of his day talking with House Republicans. The meeting at the White House

24、 did not bridge parties in advised. But the officials say its still beneficial to sit down and talk in a non-confrontational environment.The violence is intensifying in Yemen. At least 41 people have been killed in street fighting took place in the capital. Meanwhile Secretary of State Hillary Clint

25、on says nothing will be accomplished until the president of Yemen step down.Tony Armstrong is demanding an air apology on 60 minutes. They say the story is accusing Armstrong of dumping with shady ridiculous and non professional.Q: How many American politicians are mentioned? List them.( According t

26、o you own knowledge, can you specify your ideas about the “answer violence with violence”)八First up, we are talking about a new low for the price of homes in the United States during the first quarter, the first three months of 2011. Home prices dropped more than 5% from where they were last year. T

27、hats according to a new report that came out yesterday. And comparison gets even worse when you go back a little farther. The housing market hit its highest point 5 years ago in 2006.Compared to that, that highest point, prices of homes have dropped almost 33%. Home prices are down, so what, might n

28、ot be something you think about every day, but some of your parents are paying close attention. Home prices affect a lot of other industries like banks, like construction. So thats one of the big indicators that experts used to figure out how the US economy is doing.And prices have gone through a ki

29、nd of double dip, they went down after that peak in 2006, then they went back up a little bit around 2009, some government programs designed to encourage people to buy houses help with that increase. But now they are dropping again, and one expert says it doesnt look like thats going to change anyti

30、me soon.Q: List as many word as you can to describe up and down in this text. (Tell me the first word appears to you when I told you the word” House”, and why?)九BBC News with Marion MarshallResearchers in the United States said theyre trying to use genes from ancient varieties of staple foods, such

31、as rice, maize and corn, to develop hardier and more disease-resistant crops in the future. The food crops we have today have been bred for generations from older varieties to maximize yield. But in the process, important and useful traits have been lost, which scientists are now rediscovering using new gene technologies. Researchers ar