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。

　　3、复述新闻。

　　A Senate panel has released newly declassified information on two controversial intelligence programs run by the NSA. The information says the data collection _1_ the US break up potential terror plots in the US and overseas. And fewer than 300 phone numbers _2_ against millions of phone records gathered every day by the agency.

　　参议院一委员会就美国国家安全局两个备受争议的情报项目发表了最新解密信息。信息显示，国安局所收集的数据帮助美国挫败了多起针对美国和其他国家的潜在恐怖袭击。此外，虽然国安局每天都收集数据，并收集到了数百万美国电话用户通话记录，但只对其中不到300个号码进行了调查。

　　North Korea has suddenly asked the US for high-level talks. White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough says the US is open to the idea, but North Korea _3_ ready to back up any negotiations with action.

　　朝鲜突然提议同美国进行高层谈话。白宫幕僚长丹尼斯·麦克多诺表示，美国接受这个提议，但是朝鲜必须准备好用行动来支持谈话。

　　"The bottom line is they are not gonna be able to talk their way out of the very significant sanctions they are under now, sanctions that Russia _4_, and very importantly, that China supported."

　　“底线是他们不能用谈话摆脱现在对他们施加的非常重要的制裁，俄罗斯和中国所支持的制裁措施是非常非常重要的。”

　　McDonough spoke on CBS's "Face the Nation."

　　麦克多诺参加CBS电视台的《Face the Nation》节目时表示。

　　The latest offer of talks comes just after North Korea _5_ planned high-level talks with South Korea.

　　朝鲜拒绝与韩国进行计划好的高层谈话后，马上提出要与美国举行谈话。

　　词汇解析：

　　1、terror

　　n. 恐怖；恐怖行动；恐怖时期；可怕的人

　　eg:I shook with terror whenever I was about to fly in a plane.

　　我每次要坐飞机时都害怕得发抖。

　　eg:As a boy, he had a real terror of facing people.

　　他小时候其实非常害怕见人。

　　2、plots

　　n. 情节；阴谋；小块土地（plot的复数）；平面图

　　v. 划分；策划（plot的三单形式）；绘制…的地图

　　eg:Security forces have uncovered a plot to overthrow the government.

　　安全部队已经揭穿了一个推翻政府的阴谋。

　　eg:The military were plotting a coup.

　　该军方当时正在密谋政变。

　　eg:He began to tell me the plot of his new book.

　　他开始向我讲述他新书的情节。

　　eg:I thought that I'd buy myself a small plot of land and build a house on it.

　　我觉得我应该给自己买一小块地，在上面盖一所房子。

　　参考答案：

　　1、helped 2、were checked 3、has to be

　　4、supported 5、rejected