1、听力课堂,开放式外语学习平台！TingC声明：本资料由听力课堂网站收集整理，仅供英语爱好者学习使用，资料版权属于原作者。 - 1 -埃及爆发冲突 造成 12 人死亡Sectarian violence in Egypt over the weekend is being blamed for causing at least 12 deaths and hundreds of injuries. The majority of Egyptians, around 90 percent, are Muslim. But around nine percent of the countrys po
2、pulation is made up of Coptic Christians. And members of that group are asking the international community to give protection for Egypts Christian population. Officials said the violence this weekend started over a rumor that a Christian woman who converted to Islam was being held inside a church ag
3、ainst her will. The tension between Egypts Muslims and Coptic Christians has been rising in recent months. There have been several reports of violence between the two groups.汽油价格不断增长You drivers know it: Right now, people are spending a lot of their dollars for gas. One survey that came out yesterday
4、 said the national average for a gallon of regular unleaded hit four dollars on Friday. Its not a record, but its close. Ali Velshi is gonna take a closer look at all that goes into that cost and how events around the world affect what we pay at the pump. Most of it is how much oil costs. And then t
5、here is an expense for marketing and distribution of that gas, for refining of the gas. A little margin that goes to the retailer, and then a chunk that goes to the states and the federal government. So, gas is made up of a lot of things. Most of those proportions have not been increasing. The only
6、part of the price of a gallon of gas thats been increasing is the cost of crude oil, which has been going up for over a year now.The price of oil is a commodity. Part of it is supply and demand, and the other part of it is speculation. Some people think theres a better investment in oil than in othe
7、r things. So, they trade, they buy oil, oil futures. Not because theyll ever need oil, but because they can make money off of it.Oil is priced the same way no matter where it is in the world. There is one price, whether you get it from Canada or you get it from Saudi Arabia or you get it from Russia
8、 or you get it from Kazakhstan. Oil is priced at a market price. The world determines how much youre gonna pay for oil. So, when there is unrest, the concept, the psychology that says we may have problems getting oil is enough to start moving the price of oil higher and higher.In most cases, the gas
9、 station or the retailer is free to set their own prices, but generally, there are lots of gas stations around. So, theyve got to set a price that people will come to them and buy gas at. If there is a gas station across the road thats $3.75, and if youre selling it for $3.89, you are not going to g
10、et customers. Now, there are always examples of gas stations that are a one-off. There was one in Orlando which, interestingly, is right on the way to the airport after you have been at Disney or one of the theme parks. And they were charging over $5 because once you get there, you realize 听力课堂,开放式外语学习平台！TingC声明：本资料由听力课堂网站收集整理，仅供英语爱好者学习使用，资料版权属于原作者。 - 2 -youve gotta fill up your tank before you give your rental car back. Thats kind of an example of gouging.
