聽力原文:
在沙特發(fā)個推特都能判死刑
Apostasy and Islam
叛教和伊斯蘭
Not advised
不建議這樣做
The penalties for turning away from Islam can be quite stringent
在伊斯蘭國家，如果不信伊斯蘭教，那么懲罰非常嚴(yán)重
“IF THERE is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion,” Edmond de Goncourt, a French writer, once said. He would not find much agreement in most of the Islamic world. In late February a Saudi Arabian man in his 20s was sentenced to ten years in prison, a hefty fine and 2,000 lashes for professing his atheism on Twitter. He could well have fared even worse. In 2014 Saudi Arabia passed a law equating atheism with terrorism. When last year another young man uploaded an online video of himself tearing up a Koran, Saudi courts sentenced him to death.
重點詞匯：
1 apostate 叛教者；脫黨者；變節(jié)者 [派生詞] apostasy 背信，變節(jié)，叛教;
2 stringent 嚴(yán)格的；嚴(yán)厲的
3 atheism 無神論
4 hefty(of an amount of money 錢的數(shù)額) 很大的；超出一般的；可觀的
5 fine 罰金；罰款 n&v
6 lash （作為懲罰的）鞭打，抽打
7 profess 聲稱; 宣稱; 公開表明; 信奉;
8 equate 同等看待；使等同
9 tear up 撕毀，撕碎（文件等）
10 Koran 《古蘭經(jīng)》；《可蘭經(jīng)》
11 Saudi adj. 沙特阿拉伯國家的，沙特阿拉伯人的; n. 沙特阿拉伯，沙特阿拉伯人;
聽力原文:
According to the International Humanist and Ethical Union, a pressure group, Saudi Arabia is one of only 19 countries in the world that criminalises apostasy, the turning away from one religion to another one, or to none; it is one of 12 countries where it is punishable by death. All but two of the latter group are in the Middle East and Africa. In practice, the death sentences are rarely carried out; more commonly, apostates are merely thrown in jail and tortured.

重點詞匯：
1 humanistn. 人道主義者，人文主義者;
2 ethical 道德的；倫理的
3 criminalize（通過新的法律）使不合法，使非法
4 latter（剛提及的兩者中）后者的；（系列中）最后的，末尾的
5 torture 拷打；拷問；嚴(yán)刑逼供
聽力原文:
Even countries with civil laws that do not expressly outlaw apostasy still find creative ways to crack down on religious deviation. In Oman, Kuwait and Jordan Islamic courts can annul the marriages of apostates or prevent them from inheriting property. In Pakistan couples who convert from Islam risk having their children taken away.
重點詞匯：
1 outlaw 宣布…不合法；使…成為非法
2 crack down 竭力取締；嚴(yán)厲打擊；鎮(zhèn)壓
3 crack (使)破裂;(使)裂開;(使)斷裂 重?fù)?猛擊
4 deviation 背離；偏離；違背
5 annul 廢除；取消；宣告無效
6 inherit 繼承（金錢、財產(chǎn)等）
聽力原文:
Where laws against apostasy do not exist, blasphemy laws are often applied instead. In Egypt, a 21-year-old student, Karim Ashraf Muhammad al-Banna, was sentenced to three years in prison last year after he broadcast his atheism on Facebook. Atheism itself is not illegal in Egypt; instead Mr al-Banna was charged with insulting religion. Blasphemy laws were famously applied in Pakistan too, when, Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian, was sentenced to death in 2010 after a confrontation with a group of Muslim women in which she supposedly defamed the Prophet Muhammad. Salman Taseer, the governor of Punjab, who defended Ms Bibi and railed against the blasphemy laws, was murdered by his own bodyguard in 2011.
重點詞匯：
1 blasphemy 褻瀆上帝，褻瀆神明（的言行）
2 defame 誣蔑；誹謗；中傷
3 prophet 穆罕默德（伊斯蘭教的創(chuàng)始人）
4 rail 怒斥；責(zé)罵；抱怨
5 supposedly 據(jù)說
聽力原文:
Not everyone in the region is so ardent. Despite the great risks associated with religious doubt in the Islamic world, curiosity about atheism seems to thrive. According to Google Trends, all of the seven countries most interested in the term “atheism” are in the Middle East. Still, a survey by WIN/Gallup International in 2012 suggested that Brazilians were more religious than Afghans and Armenians more zealous than Iraqis. Perhaps not wholly surprisingly, the proportion of Saudis reporting themselves to be “convinced atheists” was about the same as for Americans.
重點詞匯：
1 ardent 熱烈的；激情的
2 zealous 熱情的；熱烈的；充滿激情的
3 proportion 部分；份額
4 atheist 無神論者
5 gallup 作民意調(diào)查; 作民意測驗或調(diào)查蓋洛普（姓氏； George Horace, 1901-美國統(tǒng)計學(xué)家，蓋洛普民意測驗的創(chuàng)始人）;
6 religious篤信宗教的；虔誠的
7armenian 亞美尼亞的，亞美尼亞人的;

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