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听力原文： The governors of 45 states agreed Sunday to develop common measures for establishing high school graduation rates, a step they said will help achieve their larger goal of making high school rigorous enough to help prepare students for an increasingly competitive global economy.
The agreement aims to replace a hodgepodge of measuring systems with a uniform. standard that will allow parents, students, educators and politicians to compare state graduation rates. Virginia Gov. Mark R. Warner(D) , the outgoing chairman of the National Governors Association, said that with uniform. data on graduation rates and eventually dropout rates, states will have tools to help them track and target efforts to push all students to graduate from high school.
Education experts say a key predictor of whether students eventually will graduate from college is not race or economic circumstances but whether they completed a rigorous course of study in high school. Warner has used his year as NGA chairman to spearhead the initiative to raise awareness of the weaknesses of U. S. high schools and establish higher standards and more difficult curricula.
Governors reiterated Sunday their belief that global competitiveness has left U.S. students in a precarious position, with an economy that demands greater skills but a high school system still designed for the old economy.
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听力原文： Some 200 pig breeders protested in the Malaysian capital yesterday against the government's handling of an epidemic that killed 101 people and ruined the U. S. $400 million pork industry. The farmers, mostly from Negeri Sembilan state, the epicenter of the outbreak, wore black armbands and held up banners outside the headquarters of the Malaysian Chinese Association political party, calling for compensation of U.S. $53 for every pig killed.
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听力原文： Tea, that most quintessential of English drinks, is a relative latecomer to British shores. Although the custom of drinking tea dates back to the third millennium BC in China, it was not until the mid-17th century that the beverage first appeared in England. The use of tea spread slowly from its Asian homeland, reaching Europe by way of Venice around 1560, although Portuguese trading ships may have made contact with the Chinese as early as 1515. It was the Portuguese and Dutch traders who first imported tea to Europe, with regular shipments by 1610. England was a latecomer to the tea trade, as the East India Company did not capitalize on tea's popularity until the mid-18th century. Charles Ⅱ did his bit to counter the growth of tea, with several acts forbidding its sale in private houses. A 1676 act taxed tea and required coffee house operators to apply for a license. This was just the start of government attempts to control, or at least, to profit from the popularity of tea in Britain. By the mid-18th century the duty on tea had reached an absurd 119%. This heavy taxation had the effect of creating a whole new industry--tea smuggling.
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