文档介绍：大学英式英语口语听力
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：沙特缝纫机抢购热
Saudi Sewing Machine Frenzy
Saudis have been racing to buy Singer sewing machines for up to fifty-thousand dollarsbecause they believe they contain traces of red mercury. This is a substance which may ormay not actually
exist.
Some sources say it can be used to make a devastating, pure nuclear fusion bomb. Otherssay it's an urban myth.
In 2006, it featured in the British trial of three men accused of trying to make a dirty went looking for red mercury, but during the course of the trial it became clear that no-one
- not even the defendants themselves - knew what it was. But that hasn't stopped internetsites suggesting that one kilogram of the substance can fetch hundreds of thousands ofdollars on the
black market.
However the rumours in Saudi Arabia started, it's the hope of such huge profits that's causedthe sewing machine buying frenzy. Saudi papers have pictures of old men with pick-up vans,stacked
with piles of sewing machines.
People believe they can use their mobile phones to test if the machines contain red Saudi authorities say it's all a hoax and they’ve launched a police investigation.
【口语突破】
racing to buy 争先购买
traces 少量的
substance 材料
devastating 毁灭性的
fusion bomb 热核弹
urban myth 都市传奇
dirty bomb 脏弹
defendants 被告
black market 黑市
buying frenzy 抢购热
pick-up vans 皮卡货车
hoax 恶作剧
：苏格兰的酗酒问题
【文本】
Scotland's had a close relationship with alcohol for hundreds of years.
Scotch whisky generates vast export revenues and drink has long been a part of socialoccasions: dances, weddings and even funerals.
Offering a drink is a gesture of hospitality.
Gaelic speakers have a phrase for it: a wee deoch an dorus or one for the road. But otherNorthern European nations have also had a tradition of heavy