【正文】 three strikes39。文章最后提問，原子彈是物理科學(xué)的產(chǎn)物，神經(jīng)毒氣是化學(xué)科學(xué)的產(chǎn)物，如今新的生物科技又帶來了新的挑戰(zhàn)。究竟是誰在理呢？經(jīng)過激烈討論，美國最終選擇允許科研結(jié)果發(fā)表，荷蘭可能也會改變立場。 you also probably drivebright young researchers away towards less fraught, blander areas.Naturalborn killersAt the moment, then, the natural threat seems greater than the artificial one. And it is brave ofAmerica39。s leading virologists,journal editors, security experts, ethicists and policymakers, the Americans reversed their stanceon April 20th. The Dutch were reconsidering theirs as The Economistwent to press.The reason is that, as bioterrorists go, humans pale in parison with nature. Even America39。t.Both the American and the Dutch governments saw not a sensible anticipation of a threat, but athreat in its own right. Their fear was that bad guys somewhere might repeat the experiment andweaponise the result. So in December they banned publication of the papers revealing thetechnical details of what the teams had done.The threat from influenza is real. Socalled Spanish flu, which infected 500m people in 191819,claimed the lives of one in five of those who caught it. Subsequent flu epidemics, though not asbad, have still cut swathes through humanity whenever they have arisen. But terrorism is real, too.Though there is no known case of biological warfare in the past 100 years, many countries haveexperimented with the idea。s genes to produce a versionwhich can travel through the air from ferret to ferret. And ferrets are, in this context, good proxiesfor people.The researchers39。但是，現(xiàn)在當(dāng)新的博物館拔地而起，奧巴馬為其做了開館演說，強(qiáng)調(diào)哪段歷史，人們不免擔(dān)心，當(dāng)一旦過分關(guān)注黑人，或者拉美裔美國人，或者是印第安人，美國這個民族就不是一個整體，而反而變得支離破碎。s not America.【簡析】黑人歷史是美國歷史十分重要的一個部分，黑人從奴隸開始，到獲得自由，出現(xiàn)了像馬丁路德金那樣出色的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人，甚至如今奧巴馬是第一位黑人總統(tǒng)。s not so much E Pluribus Unum, (out of many one – the phrase on theSeal of the United States), but Ex uno plura (out of one, many).As the Virginia Congressman JimMoran puts it: I don39。s trumpet, but also the original pine coffin that contained thebody of Emmett Till, the 14yearold boy bestially murdered in 1955 in Mississippi because hewas reported to have wolfwhistled at a white woman. The coffin was deliberately left open atTill39。 money.At this point, one may wonder how it was that the Holocaust Museum here – on the sacredNational Mall – was approved and pleted in barely a decade. And it deals with an event thatdoes not belong to the US national experience.The Holocaust Museum opened in 1993. In 2004 came the National Museum of the AmericanIndian. But only now is work starting on a national museum that tackles head on, among otherthings, the original sin of the United States. As its director Lonnie Bunch told The WashingtonPost, slavery was central in shaping US history, but to this day remains the last greatunmentionable in public discourse. We will examine the dark corners of the Americanexperience in a way we39。s first black President, led the ceremony for the future National Museumof African American History and Culture, devoted to the miseries, tribulations and triumphs ofblack America, scheduled to open its doors in late 2015.The site is one of the last available on the ever more cluttered Mall. But it is also one of the best:close to the Washington Monument and across the street from the recently reopenedMuseum ofAmerican History.The long and laboured story of the 19th member of the Smithsonian plex has itself been asmall slice of US history. The idea of a memorial to African Americans on America39。s greatest leaders and heroes, and by wonderful museumscelebrating America39?！鹃喿x上半場 MC第一篇】The museum for black America: a force for unity – or division? 出自：Barack Obama marked its launch, but not everyone weles the new addition to the Smithsonianfamily.To paraphrase Martin Luther King – here at last, here at last, here at last. Almost a century afterthe idea was first mooted by black veterans of the Civil War and almost half a century after theleader of the civil rights movement delivered his immortal I have a Dream speech, an AfricanAmerican museum is finally about to rise in the heart of Washington.The National Mall, stretching from the US Capitol to the steps of the white marble LincolnMemorial where King spoke in 1963, is perhaps the capital city39。Question 19答案位于前半部分，而Question 20則在最后一句話。2. 出現(xiàn)一些比較難的詞匯，如Academy Award winner 奧斯卡獲獎影片，blockbuster 大片，pirate盜版商，online theft網(wǎng)絡(luò)剽竊，filtering mechanism過濾機(jī)制，distribution發(fā)行，licensed許可的，digital file數(shù)碼文件，protection protocol保護(hù)協(xié)議等，也是要求考生有一定詞匯儲備的。五個題目均是常見的細(xì)節(jié)題，考生在聽力過程中只要抓住具體細(xì)節(jié)信息并做好筆記即可選出正確答案。 however, those discs will not work on a standard DVD player. Mr. Ramo says that willchange when copy protection protocols can be perfected. He also notes that the downloads will notwork on Macintosh puters and suggests Apple, which pioneered video downloads through itsiTunes site, may have its own film distribution plan in the works, perhaps with Disney.Movielink has films from Warner Brothers, SONY, Universal, Paramount, Fox and MGM in itscatalogue. However, Mr. Ramo says the downloadtoown service is only available within theUnited States. “Movielink was only licensed to do business in the United States, so we had afiltering mechanism that made sure that the only people who could get Movielink were within theUnited States. Having said that, I think we’re happy to see now that Movielink has alreadylicensed other distributers around the world. There have been announcements recently in theNetherlands, the UK and Germany, so I think there are certainly more and more countries that aregoing to be opened up for digital delivery.”Questions:16. When was the pany Movielink founded?17. What new service is offered by the pany now?18. What kind of movies are not offered with the launch of this new service?19. How much does online theft cost the entertainment industry annually?20. Where does Movielink not allow download outside the United States at pres