自2016年6月英语四级考试起，四级听力新添加了短篇新闻。相对的，听力的难度也有所增加。但是再难的题目也禁不住多多的练习！文都教育提醒各位考生，要打起精神来迎战12月四六级考试，万不可轻敌松懈~唯有地基牢固才有摩天大楼，以下是小编为各位考生们准备的四级新闻听力练习，各位赶紧get起来吧!
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The US attorney general has signalled a major shift in prison policy by announcing a reductionin the use of mandatory sentencing for some drugs-related offences. Eric Holder said thatcertain low-level nonviolent drug offenders with no ties to organised crime will no longer becharged with offences that impose what he termed draconian and mandatory minimumsentences. Jane Little reports from Washington.
The US has 5% of the world’s population, but almost 25% of its prison population. Almosthalf of its inmates are serving time for drug-related offences, a legacy of the five decades’ longwar on drugs. The Attorney General Eric Holder said it was time to end that broken system, onehe said trapped too many communities in a vicious cycle of poverty, criminality andincarceration.
Gunmen in Nigeria have killed at least 44 people at a mosque in the north-east of the country.Will Ross in Lagos has the details.
An official from Borno state said the gunmen opened fire on a mosque in Konduga town duringdawn prayers. Sunday’s attack left at least 44 people dead and is likely to have been carried outby the Islamist militant group Boko Haram. Whilst attacks on churches have been common, themilitant group has also occasionally targeted mosques. In recent weeks, hundreds of civilianshave formed vigilante groups in the areas worst affected by the insurgency. It’s possible thatthe gunmen attacked the mosque in the belief that some of the vigilantes were praying there.
A court in the United States has convicted one of the country’s most notorious underworldbosses James "Whitey" Bulger of 11 murders and a string of other gang-led crimes. The juryin Boston dismissed eight other counts of murder. The crimes date from the 1970s and 1980swhen the now 83-year-old Bulger led the city’s Winter Hill Gang. From Washington, David Willishas more.
For almost three decades, James “Whitey” Bulger ran a sprawling criminal enterprise whichraked in millions of dollars from activities such as drug trafficking and extortion whilst paying offcorrupt FBI agents and killing those who crossed him. His trial rekindled memories of abygone era of Boston history in which mobsters shook down local business owners and killedtheir rivals in telephone booths before burying their bodies in shallow graves.
A federal judge in the United States has ruled that the controversial “stop and search” policyused by the New York police department violates the constitutional rights of minorities. JudgeShira Scheindlin said city officials knew of the infringements, but turned a blind eye. She’sordered reforms and appointed an independent monitor to oversee them. Police have madeabout five million stops over the past ten years, mostly of black and Hispanic men. MayorMichael Bloomberg has argued that the policy has seen a sharp fall in violent crime.
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A suicide bomber has killed at least 13 people in the town of Balad in central Iraq. Many otherswere injured in the attack that targeted a café where people were gathering in the early evening.Balad is a largely Shia town. Iraq has seen a sharp increase in sectarian violence this year. OnSaturday, more than 70 people were killed in a series of attacks.
The Mexican President Enrique Pe?a Nieto has proposed changing the country’s constitution toallow foreign private oil and gas companies to form partnerships with the state in the energysector for the first time in decades. From Mexico City, here’s Will Grant.
In a sign of just how far-reaching and controversial these proposed changes to Mexico’sstate-run energy sector are, President Enrique Pe?a Nieto was flanked on stage by topdignitaries from government, the oil industry unions and the military. He’s calling for thechange to articles 27 and 28 of the constitution, which state that all of the country’s naturalresources are the property of the Mexican state. The reform won’t be simple to get throughcongress, however. The left-wing parties have made it clear they oppose any change to theconstitution and the government faces a complicated task in negotiating with all sidesincluding the powerful unions.
The Bangladeshi government has approved a draft law proposing tough penalties forrecruitment agencies found guilty of duping workers with promises of lucrative jobs (only)overseas, only to leave them in low-income jobs with improper work permits. The proposedlaw would mean a maximum of ten years in prison and around $6,000 fine for anyone convictedof cheating or forging documents of migrant workers.
Human rights activists are asking the government of Ecuador to revoke a presidential decreewhich they say threatens civil liberties. The bill signed in June by President Rafael Correa createsnew procedures for granting approval to non-governmental organisations and allows thegovernment to dissolve groups under certain circumstances.
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