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10月1日开始启动新闻听力
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The Attorney General leads the U.S.Department of Justice. It's the highest legal job in the land. Holder became the first African-American Attorney General in 2009. Opinions of his work are strongly partisan. Democrats generally think he did a good job, saying he made achievements in civil rights. Republicans mostly wanted him out saying he disregarded the U.S. Constitution.
Holder's strongly supported the same sex marriage, and he prioritized issues related to voting rights. He also became the first U.S. cabinet member to be held in contempt of Congress after he refused to turn over documents related to a failed government program involving guns and Mexican drug cartels.
The latest targets in the U.S.-led war against the ISIS terrorist group, oil refineries in Syria. ISIS has been using these to pay for its operations getting up to 2 million a day from them. The U.S. wants that stopped, even though the U.S. military official says the group has a billion dollars in the bank.
ISIS stands for Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. The terrorist group wants its own country in the region, bases on its own interpretation of Islam. ISIS has slaughtered civilians, soldiers, journalists, and an American defense official says the fight against ISIS will likely last for years.
It won't be cheap.
Expending military strikes into Syria come with an expending bill to pay for the effort. U.S. military forces and its coalition partners launched air attacks in the country, with the blunt force of 47 tomahawk missiles across northern and eastern Syria.
Those weapons which carry thousand pound warheads and can be reprogrammed in flight, have a hefty price tag, 1.5 million a piece, and that's just the beginning. For the first assault, the Pentagon said four dozen fighter jets took off from both land and sea, loaded with 200 pieces of munition.
2分钟的音频，太多的单词不知道，朗读这些单词就很费劲，让我再次看到我们刚刚启动听读的时候。不管怎么说，终于再听了多遍之后，终于磕磕巴巴地朗读了一遍。豆依然存在吞音，没有尾音等情况。 看到这个样子，我真的有点受打击了，不知道是我把要求提高了，还是我们的进步没有想象中那么大？
