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新闻历史背景,帮助您了解本期新闻内容
1、一架客机在爱荷华州失事,机上三位当红摇滚手当场殒命
2、德州州长布什拒绝给予死刑前考虑期,塔克尔成为美国近十多年来第一个被执行死刑的女杀人犯
3、美国“发现”号航天飞机升空,柯斯林成为美国航天史上第一位女机长
4、著名音乐制作人菲尔·斯别克特因谋杀一名女演员在加州被捕
人名:
1、Buddy Holly:布迪·霍里
2、Ritchie Valens:里奇·瓦伦斯
3、The Big Bopper
注:以上三位都是美国当时摇滚乐坛的重量级人物
4、Karla Faye Tucker:卡拉?法伊?塔克尔
5、Eileen Collins:艾琳?柯林斯
6、Phil Spector:菲尔?斯别克特
7、Lana Clarkson
地名:
1、Clear Lake
2、Iowa:爱荷华州
3、Cape Canaveral:卡纳维拉尔角
4、Florida:佛罗里达
答案
听写参考文本: Feb 3rd, 1959, "And do you believe in rock-and-roll, can music save your mortal soul, and can you teach me how to dance..." A plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, claims the lives of 3 early stars of rock-and-roll, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and "The Big Bopper". 1998, Karla Faye Tucker becomes the first woman executed in the US in nearly a decade and a half. Texas governor George W. Bush rejects a bid for clemency " I have concluded judgements about the heart and soul of an individual on Death Row are best left to a higher authority." 1994, space shuttle Discovery blasts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, with a woman, Eileen Collins, in the pilot's chair for the first time. And 2003, record producer Phil Spector is arrested in a shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson in his mansion in California.