英国新闻听力 巴西警方在暴动监狱外搜捕嫌疑人

Brazilian police are searching a prison outside the Amazonian city of Manaus after at least 60 inmates¹ died in fighting between rival gangs. Families have been gathering² outside the local mortuary to identify the bodies. Brazilian media say some prisoners were decapitated. Two of the country's biggest drug gangs have been battling for control of the country's prisons.

Turkey says it's close to identifying the gunman responsible for the deadly New Year's attack on an Istanbul nightclub that killed 39 people. The country's Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said investigators³ had found fingerprints⁴ and other evidence that would identify the perpetrator.

Police in Israeli are questioning the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over bribery⁵ allegations. Mr. Netanyahu has denied any wrongdoing saying claims reported in the local media that he received gifts from businessmen would be shown to be hot air.

The French President Francois Hollande has said the battle to recapture Mosul,the Islamic State group's main stronghold in Iraq, should be over by the summer, if not earlier. As Mr. Hollande visited French troops in Iraq, IS carried out a series of car bombings in the capital Baghdad.

Syrian government forces and their allies are continuing an offensive against rebels in a region near Damascus as the nationwide ceasefire continues elsewhere. Rebels have warned that if the government does not stop its attacks,the truce⁶ will be at an end.

The police in El Salvatore say the country's murder rate has dropped by 20%following the introduction of special security measures. Officials said almost 1,400 fewer people were murdered in 2016 compared with the previous year.

The British art critic, writer, and painter John Berger has died at the age of 90. His best-known work was Ways of Seeing, a criticism of western cultural aesthetics⁷. But he also won Britain's top literary award, the Booker Prize for his novel G. He donated half the prize money to the radical⁸ African-American movement the Black Panthers.

巴西警方正在亚马逊城市马瑙斯城外一座监狱搜索，此前，监狱不同团伙之间爆发冲突，造成至少60名囚犯死亡。家属们正聚集在当地太平间鉴定尸体身份。巴西媒体表示，一些囚犯被斩首。巴西最大的两个贩毒团伙正在争夺监狱的控制权。

土耳其表示，他们即将鉴别出新年在伊斯坦布尔一个夜总会实施袭击的凶手的身份，袭击造成39人死亡。副总理努曼·库图姆西(Numan Kurtulmus)表示，调查人员发现了指纹和其他证据，可以鉴别行凶者的身份。

以色列警方正在因受贿指控盘问总理内塔尼亚胡。内塔尼亚胡否认做了任何错事，他说，当地媒体报道的他从商人那里收受贿赂的指控纯属子虚乌有。

法国总统奥朗德表示，重新占领伊斯兰国激进组织在伊拉克的主要堡垒摩苏尔的战斗夏季应该就会结束。奥朗德视察法国驻伊拉克军队期间，IS在首都巴格达实施了一系列汽车爆炸袭击。

叙利亚政府军和他们的盟军继续在大马士革附近一个地区进攻叛军，而其他地方正在执行全国停火协议。叛军警告称，如果政府不停止袭击，休战将会结束。

萨尔瓦多警方表示，引入了特别安全措施后，国家的谋杀率下降了20%。官员们表示，与前一年相比，2016年全国被谋杀的人数减少了近1400人。

英国艺术批评家，作家和画家约翰·伯格(John Berger)逝世，享年90岁。他最著名的作品是批评西方美学的《观看之道》。但是他的名篇G获得了英国文学奖布克奖。他把一半的奖金捐赠给激进非议美国运动黑豹党。

1 inmates   

n.囚犯( inmate的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• One of the inmates has escaped. 被收容的人中有一个逃跑了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The inmates were moved to an undisclosed location. 监狱里的囚犯被转移到一个秘密处所。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 gathering   

n.集会，聚会，聚集

参考例句：

• He called on Mr. White to speak at the gathering.他请怀特先生在集会上讲话。
• He is on the wing gathering material for his novels.他正忙于为他的小说收集资料。

3 investigators   

n.调查者，审查者( investigator的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
• The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 fingerprints   

n.指纹( fingerprint的名词复数 )v.指纹( fingerprint的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• Everyone's fingerprints are unique. 每个人的指纹都是独一无二的。
• They wore gloves so as not to leave any fingerprints behind (them). 他们戴着手套，以免留下指纹。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 bribery   

n.贿络行为，行贿，受贿

参考例句：

• FBI found out that the senator committed bribery.美国联邦调查局查明这个参议员有受贿行为。
• He was charged with bribery.他被指控受贿。

6 truce   

n.休战，(争执，烦恼等的)缓和；v.以停战结束

参考例句：

• The hot weather gave the old man a truce from rheumatism.热天使这位老人暂时免受风湿病之苦。
• She had thought of flying out to breathe the fresh air in an interval of truce.她想跑出去呼吸一下休战期间的新鲜空气。

7 aesthetics   

n.(尤指艺术方面之)美学，审美学

参考例句：

• Sometimes, of course, our markings may be simply a matter of aesthetics. 当然，有时我们的标点符号也许只是个审美的问题。 来自名作英译部分
• The field of aesthetics presents an especially difficult problem to the historian. 美学领域向历史学家提出了一个格外困难的问题。

8 radical   

n.激进份子，原子团，根号；adj.根本的，激进的，彻底的

参考例句：

• The patient got a radical cure in the hospital.病人在医院得到了根治。
• She is radical in her demands.她的要求十分偏激。