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听力原文： Vice President Dick Cheney's top adviser, I. Lewis Libby Jr., resigned Friday after being indicted on five counts of obstruction of justice, making false statements and committing perjury. The charges relate to the leaking of the identity of a CIA operative whose husband had challenged Bush administration intelligence on Iraq.
Karl Rove, President George W. Bush's senior adviser and deputy chief of staff, escaped indictment by the federal grand jury, but Rove's lawyers said the special prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, had made it clear that he would remain under investigation, casting a continuing cloud on his influential role in the White House.
Libby resigned because he was indicted on five counts, not including ______.
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听力原文： I'm sure that most of you already know that only members of Congress may introduce a bill, or present the bill for the group's consideration. Introducing the bill is a great honor and many Congress people consider it a historical move because many of these bills eventually become law. But before the bill can be considered, it must first be drafted, or put into the proper language. Usually a Congressional staff member familiar with the particulars of the Congressional vocabulary drafts the bill. In addition, many businesses, labor, farm, and other special interest groups will also draft bills they want Congress to consider.
When the bill is ready for consideration, it follows two different procedures, depending on where the bill is introduced. In the House, representatives place their bills in the hopper.
A hopper is a special box on a clerk's desk. From this box, the bills go into the appropriate House committee for further study. In the Senate, senators go in front of the Senate floor and introduce their bills to the whole group.
Who may introduce a bill？
When you close your eyes and try to think of the shape of your body, what you imagine (or rather, what you feel) is quite different from what you see when you open your eyes and look in the mirror. The image you feel is much vaguer than the one you see. And if you lie still, it is quite hard to imagine yourself as having any particular size or shape.
When you move, when you feel the weight of your arms and legs, the natural resistance of the objects around you, the "felt" image of yourself starts to become clearer. It is almost as if it were created by your own actions and the feelings they cause.
The image you create for yourself has rather strange proportions: certain parts feel much bigger than they look. If you get a hole in one of your teeth, it feels enormous; you are often surprised by how small it looks when you inspect it in the mirror. But although the "felt" image may not have the shape you see in the mirror, it is much more important. It is the image through which you recognize your physical existence in the world. In spite of its strange proportions, it is all one piece, and since it has a consistent right and left and top and bottom, it allows you to locate new feelings when they occur. It allows you to find your nose in the dark and point to a pain.
If the felt image is damaged for any reason--if it is cut in half or lost as it often is after certain strokes, which wipe out recognition of one entire side--these tasks become almost impossible. What is more, it becomes hard to make sense of one's own visual appearance. If one half of the felt image is wiped out or injured, the patient stops recognizing the affected part of his body. It is hard for him to find the location of feelings on that side, and, although he feels the doctor's touch, he locates it as being on the undamaged side.
In which of the following situations will you find your image most vague？
Speaking to the Kansas City Fed's annual economic conference, Greenspan, Federal Re- serve Chairman, reemphasized that the Fed can't now point interest rate policy at stock, housing or other asset prices, even if it were so inclined. Greenspan also said the housing cool-off doesn't have to be painful if the nation preserves its economic flexibility. "The housing boom will inevitably cool down. As part of that process, house-sales volume will decline from currently historic levels, while home-price increases will slow and prices could even decrease," he said.
Earlier, he had warned investors not to assume higher prices for assets such as stocks or houses were permanent, saying gains could disappear if the economy or investor sentiment turned.
Home prices have risen 50% on average over the past five years. The average price of an existing home shot up 13.6% in the second quarter of 2005 compared with a year earlier. There are potential benefits from a housing slowdown. As prices correct and owners can't pull as much equity from their homes, personal savings should rise and the enormous trade deficit should decline. Further, a slowing in the housing market might mean that the Fed, which has been raising interest rates since June 2004 to control potential inflation, might not have to push them as far or fast. A decline in consumer purchases could also slow growth. Consumer spending makes up about two-thirds of the economy.
Lyle Gramley, a former Fed governor now at the Stanford Washington Research Group, does not think Greenspan was predicting a rapid adjustment in housing prices, savings and the trade deficit, but a gradual three-to five-year rear rangement.
Greenspan, who has said the Fed's role is not to stop market bubbles, said that it doesn't have. the expertise to use interest rates to influence asset prices that could change in the future. The speech was probably Greenspan's last to the Kansas City Fed conference. His term ends Jan. 31.
What did Greenspan warn the investors about assets like stocks and houses？
What is the man's main purpose in talking to the woman？
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