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第350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。
House Speaker John Boehner says he will create a select committee to _1_ the attack on American diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya.NPR's Esphy Dultei reports the move keeps issue alive through the coming midterm election.
众议院议长约翰·博纳表示，他将成立一个特别委员会来调查美国驻利比亚班加西领事馆遇袭的事件。NPR新闻的埃斯非·杜尔泰报道，这项举动将使这个问题贯穿即将进行的中期选举。
Four Americans including the ambassador to Libya _2_ in the September 11th 2012 attack on the US compound in Benghazi. The incident has since become the major issue for conservative politicians in media who charge cover up by the Obama administration. In a statement, Boehner says he will bring the creation of select committee to the floor for a vote to build on the work of other houses committee over the past two years. In his own statement, democratic senate majority leader Harry Reid says multiple investigations into the attacks have not found malfeasance and that Republicans are trying to gin up for political food fight. Esphy Dultei, NPR News, Washington.
2012年9月11日，美国驻班加西领事馆遭遇袭击，造成包括美国驻利比亚大使在内的4名美国公民死亡。从那以后，这起事件成为保守政治家在媒体面前谈论的重要问题，他们指责奥巴马政府隐瞒事实。博纳在声明中表示，他将就成立特别委员会进行投票，这个委员会将依据众议院其他委员会过去两年的工作继续调查。而参议院多数党领导人、民主党人哈利·里德在声明中表示，对这起袭击事件展开的多项调查并没有发现不当行为，共和党人试图引起政治斗争。NPR新闻，埃斯非·杜尔泰华盛顿报道。
Californian congressman says a teen stowaway in airplane wheel well winding up in Hawaii should never _3_ access the plane.Congressman Eric Swalwell _4_ today plans to ask the transportation security administration to test its perimeter alert systems at several US airports on the heels of the incident. The team from Santa Clara, California said he _5_ a fence to get into the airports surviving the 5.5-hour flight, in spite of frigid temperatures where apparently embarking on the journey to see his mother who is in refugee camp in eastern Ethiopia.
加州国会议员表示，躲在客机起落架舱搭“顺风机”的美国青少年最终安全抵达夏威夷，而这名少年根本就不应该进入飞机。国会议员埃里克·斯瓦维尔今天宣布，因为发生这起事件，他将要求美国运输安全管理局检测其在数个美国机场设置的警报系统。这名来自加州圣克拉拉的男孩表示，他跳过围栏进入机场，历经5个半小时，挺过旅程中的极度低温奇迹存活，他这么做的目的是为了见他在埃塞俄比亚东部难民营的母亲。
词汇解析：
1. cover up
（对罪行或错误的）掩饰，掩盖；
eg. General Schwarzkopf denied there'd been any cover-up.
施瓦茨科普夫将军否认曾经有任何掩饰行为。
eg. Several officers were complicit in the cover-up.
几名军官串通一气隐瞒真相。
2. build on
（在…的基础上）继续发展；
eg. Build on the qualities you are satisfied with and work to change those you are unhappy with.
以自己满意的优点为发展基础，努力改变自己不满意的地方。
eg. We must build on the success of these industries.
我们必须依靠这些企业的成功。
3. wind up
完成；结束；以……告终；
eg. I think it's time to wind up this meeting.
我认为现在该结束这个会议了。
eg. He'll probably wind up being very well-heeled.
他也许最终会发财。
4. embark on
着手；开始做；
eg. He's embarking on a new career as a writer.
他即将开始新的职业生涯——当一名作家。
eg. He is about to embark on a new business venture.
他就要开始新的商业冒险活动。
