2014年12月英语六级听力冲刺练习4

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　　英语六级听力部分算是同学们考试时的难点吧。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，距离12月份的四六级考试还有一段时间，同学每天练习一点听力，考试时听力就能取得高分了。
　　

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听力材料：
　　The United States recently co-sponsored theInternational Day to End Impunity for Crimes AgainstJournalists. "On this day and every day," said U.S.Secretary of State John Kerry, "we affirm thatending impunity is both a moral imperative and apractical necessity in creating free, open, and stablesocieties around the world.
　　Every day, brave journalists take extraordinary risks to write stories that expose corruption,ask tough questions, or bear witness to the suffering of innocent men, women and childrensubjected to the horrors of war and human rights abuses.
　　In their service to humanity, hundreds of journalists have been targeted and killed in the pastdecade alone, while countless more have been harassed, threatened, imprisoned, and tortured.In the overwhelming majority of these cases, the perpetrators of these senseless crimesagainst journalists – sometimes regimes or governments, but also terrorist organizations suchas the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL -- go unpunished.
　　Syria has been a particularly deadly country for journalists where the Bashar al-Assad regimeand ISIL continue to censor the media through vicious and heinous attacks, includingdisappearing and kidnapping journalists to stop the free flow of information to the outsideworld.
　　The United States demands an end to impunity for those who use violence to silence theircritics and demands answers on behalf of all the journalists and their families who still have notseen justice served. Moreover, the United States calls on all parties to the Syrian conflict toprotect journalists in Syria and its neighbors. Above all, said Secretary Kerry, "We stand inawe of the courage of those who risk their lives to tell the stories the world needs to hear."
　　The United States, said President Barack Obama, "commends the priceless contributions byjournalists to the freedom and security of us all, shining light into the darkness and givingvoice to the voiceless."