2010年真题 News Item One-英语听力

[00:00.84]Four American teenagers, all children of US military personnel, [00:05.96]have been arrested on charges of attempted murder after a woman was knocked off her motorbike [00:12.06]with rope strung across two poles, Japanese police said. [00:16.44]The four suspects — two 15-year-old boys, a 17-year-old girl and an 18-year-old man — [00:24.46]were taken into custody on Saturday, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department said. [00:30.17]They are accused of causing a severe head injury to a 23-year-old restaurant employee [00:37.03]by stringing a rope between poles across a road. [00:41.10]US Forces in Japan was informed of the August incident in late October, [00:47.40]a public information officer said. [00:49.94]There was no clear explanation for the delay in the handover of the suspects to police, [00:56.67]other than it involved rules between Washington and Tokyo covering US forces and their dependents in Japan. [01:04.34]The US military presence and its impact on Japanese residents have been a thorny issue over the years.