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第334期：主餐一道：泛听练习
以下段落是摘自新闻里的一些重要信息,并不是一个段落的听写。空内信息可在本新闻中全部找到,大家可以根据这些信息复述新闻。
一、泛听建议：
1、完整听一遍，掌握大意。
2、继续听，特别注意关键信息。遇到相似的词，写下来。
After the tortured rollout of the Obama administration's new healthcare initiative, the head of the agency that oversaw the effort is stepping down. The White House _1_ Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has submitted the resignation. NPR's Scott Horsley says while early glitches which online insurance exchange can't _2_ on the 65 years old Sebelius. She did current her watch.
奥巴马政府的新医保计划在推行过程中遭遇重创，目前承担监督工作的机构负责人辞职。白宫确认，美国卫生及公共服务部部长凯瑟琳·西贝利厄斯已经提交辞呈。据NPR新闻的斯科特·霍斯利报道，此前医保网站的故障不能责怪65岁的西贝利厄斯，她已经尽了监管的职责。
While the president himself has said it wasn't Sebelius who was responsible for writing the code of the website, but certainly she was the secretary _3_ the department, and if there was a problem with the website she at least should have known about it,corrected it, and alerted Obama so that he was not saying on the eve of the launch it's gonna be great,it's gonna function like Amazon and Kayak. NPR's Scott Horsley.
总统本人也说过西贝利厄斯不是负责为网站编程的人，但是很明显，她是执行这一任务的机构负责人，如果网站出现问题，她至少要知情，进行修复并提醒奥巴马，这样总统就不会在网站发布前称网站很棒，会像在亚马逊河上划皮艇一样运行。NPR新闻，斯科特·霍斯利报道。
The president reportedly would nominate his budget director, Sylvia Mathews Burwell to replace Sebelius.
据报道，总统将提名预算主管西尔维亚·马修斯·伯韦尔接替西贝利厄斯的位置。
As for Sebelius, she dropped no hint earlier today with business _4_. She testified before members of Senate Finance Committee where defended the president healthcare plan which she said it's on track.
而今天早些时候，西贝利厄斯并没有透露出辞职的迹象，她像往常一样工作。她在参议院财政委员会作证，支持总统的医保计划，她说医保网站在正确的轨道上运行。
"Last week, we _5_ that 7.1 million Americans have signed up for private insurance through the Marketplace. As up this week,400,000 additional Americans have signed up, and we expect that number to continue to grow."
“上周，我们宣布有710万美国民众通过医保网站注册了私人保险。本周，医保注册人数将再增加40万人，我们预计注册人数会继续增长。”
President has remained publicly supportive of Sebelius during the troubled rollout though she was conspicuously absent last week when she heralded the recent surging enroll message signature initiative during an event at the White House rose garden.
总统在网站运行遇到问题时仍公开支持西贝利厄斯，但是显然上周她缺席了工作，她参加了在白宫玫瑰园举行的活动，并在活动期间通报了近期注册人数大幅增加的消息。
词汇解析：
1. step down
辞职；下台；让位；
eg. The judge had made a terrible bluder, so he had to step down.
法官犯了大错，所以他只好下台。
eg. There has been speculation that he may step down as president next month.
已经有他在下个月可能辞去董事长的职位推测。
2. be responsible for
对（某事物）负责的；
eg. Mike is responsible for designing the entire project.
迈克负责设计全部工程。
eg. For my money, Marian was responsible for the trouble we'd had.
依我看，玛丽安对我们遭到的麻烦应负责任。
3. on track
在正确的轨道上；
eg. David put me back on track.
戴维让我重新回到了正轨。
eg. He believes the talks are still on track.
他相信会谈仍在朝正确的方向发展。
