2015年6月英语四级听力预热练习3

英语自学网

　　英语四级听力部分算是同学们考试时的难点。听力这部分不能急于求成，需要时间来练习。对于这部分同学们平时在积累词汇的基础上多加练习就可以，听的多了就能掌握技巧。
　　

20160513035634975.gif

听力音频点击下载.mp3
　　

20160513035634690.gif

听力材料：
　　A top New York City police official says the man who killed two officers Saturday had a record ofviolence and mental problems.
　　Ismayyil Brinsley shot officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos in their police car in the Brooklynborough of New York City. He then ran into a nearby underground train station and shot andkilled himself.
　　Earlier, Mr. Brinsley had posted anti-police and anti-government messages on the social mediawebsite Instagram. He wrote that he was angry about recent decisions by two separate juriesnot to charge white police officers in the deaths of two unarmed black men.
　　Relations between the public and police have worsened since the grand juries' decisions. Therehave been numerous protests in the past several weeks against those decisions and about thekilling of blacks by police.
　　Sunday night, many of those activists gathered with police in New York City to mourn andhonor the dead officers.
　　Mr. Brinsley was black. The officers he killed were Asian and Hispanic.
　　Police say Mr. Brinsley had attempted suicide several times.
　　Robert Boyce is Chief of Detectives for the New York City Police Department. He told reportersthat Ismayyil Brinsley's family said he had a difficult childhood and was often violent. Hismother said he was from a Muslim family, but he did not have anti-Western beliefs.
　　The police official also said Mr. Brinsley had been arrested almost 20 times for crimes includingstealing and making threats. He said the man was not close to his family. He said Mr. Brinsley'smother was afraid of her son and had not seen him in a month.
　　Ismayyil Brinsley shot and wounded his former girlfriend in Baltimore Maryland, a few hoursbefore the police officers were killed. Baltimore police warned New York City officials that Mr.Brinsley had threatened New York police officers on a social media website. But New York Citypolice Commissioner William Bratton said his department received the warning too late to stopthe attack.