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Antinuclear Demonstration
Police fired tear gas and arrested more than 5,000 passively
resisting protestors Friday in an attempt to break up the largest
antinuclear demonstration ever staged in the United States.
More than 135,000 demonstrators confronted police on the construction
site of a 1,000-megawatt nuclear power plant scheduled to provide
power to most of southern New Hampshire. Organizers of the huge
demonstration said, the protest was continuing despite the police
actions. More demonstrators were arriving to keep up the pressure
on state authorities to cancel the project. The demonstrator had
charged that the project was unsafe in the densely populated area,
would create thermal pollution in the bay, and had no acceptable
means for disposing of its radioactive wasters. The demonstrations
would go on until the jails and the courts were so overloaded that
the state judicial system would collapse.
Governor Stanforth Thumper insisted that there would be no
reconsideration of the power project and no delay in its
construction set for completion in three years. “This project
will begin on time and the people of this state will begin to
receive its benefits on schedule. Those who break the law in
misguided attempts to sabotage the project will be dealt with
according to the law,” he said. And police called in reinforcements
from all over the state to handle the disturbances.
The protests began before dawn Friday when several thousand
demonstrators broke through police lines around the cordoned-off
construction site. They carried placards that read “No Nukes
is Good Nukes,” “Sunpower, Not Nuclear Power,” and “Stop Private
Profits from Public Peril.” They defied police order to move from
the area. Tear gas canisters fired by police failed to dislodge the
protestors who had come prepared with their own gas masks or facecloths.
Finally gas-masked and helmeted police charged into the crowd to drag
off the demonstrators one by one. The protestors did not resist police,
but refused to walk away under their own power. Those arrested would be
charged with unlawful assembly, trespassing, and disturbing the peace.
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Q:
1.What were the demonstrators protesting about?
[A] Private profits.
[B]Nuclear Power Station.
[C] The project of nuclear power construction.
[D] Public peril.
2.Who had gas-masks?
[A] Everybody.
[B]A part of the protestors.
[C] Policemen.
[D] Both B and C.
3.Which of the following was NOT mentioned as a reason
for the demonstration?
[A] Public transportation.
[B]Public peril.
[C] Pollution.
[D] Disposal of wastes.
4.With whom were the jails and courts overloaded?
[A] With prisoners.
[B]With arrested demonstrators.
[C] With criminals.
[D] With protestors.
5.What is the attitude of Governor Stanforth Thumper toward
the power project and the demonstration?
[A] stubborn.
[B]insistent.
[C] insolvable.
[D] remissible.
文章难译点:建议答完题后再看.
Vocabulary
1.tear gas 瓦斯
2.passively resisting protestor 不抵抗的抗议者
3.stage 发起，举行，上演
4.break up 驱散，终止
5.cordon 警戒线，警戒
6.nuke （美俚）核武器，核电站
7.defy 公然蔑视/反抗
8.canister 罐，筒，榴霰弹筒
9.islodge 赶走
10.charge 冲锋，向前冲
11.trespass 非法侵入，扰乱
难句译注
1.Police fired tear gas and arrested more than 5,000 passively
resisting protestors Friday in an attempt to break up the largest
antinuclear demonstration ever staged in the United States.
【结构简析】句中间用in an attempt介词短语和staged分词使句子变长。
Staged修饰demonstration。
【参考译文】星期五，再制止美国举行过的最大的反核示威游行中，警方发放了催泪瓦斯，
逮捕了5000多不拒捕的抗议者，企图解散游行队伍。
2. The protests began before dawn Friday when several thousand
demonstrators broke through police lines around the cordoned-off
construction site.
【结构简析】主从句。
【参考译文】星期五拂晓之前，当好几千名示威者冲破警戒再核建设基地周围的警察封锁线时，
抗议示威开始了。
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