参考答案：女士们、先生们，晚上好!很荣幸今晚能邀请诸位贵客相聚在此。我今晚演讲的主题就是大西洋两岸的未来。我认为毫无疑问英美之间存在着特殊的关系，这种关系在两国之中有着基础，即传统盟国与非常紧密的贸易伙伴，这种关系始终是人们争论和报道的内容。
我认为这些年来情况更是如此。由于两国的政治领导层的多种变化、加上偶尔的紧张关系，使得这种关系始终是在变化着的。尽管人们经常评论这一现实，即英美是被同一种语言分开的两个国家，我认为英美关系中还是有些东西是恒定的。

解析：[听力原文]
Good evening ladies and gentlemen! It’s our pleasure to have you as our guests here this evening. The title of this evening’s lecture is transatlantic futures. I think that there’s no doubt that there is a special relationship between the UK and the US, that relationship, which has its foundations in two nations that are traditional allies and very strong trading partners, is being debated and written about all the time.
I suspect more so now than has been the case for many years. That relationship seems to vary in its texture with various changes in political leadership in the two countries and occasionally there are strains in the relationship. I think there is always something constant in the relationship between the UK and the US, even if it is the often observed reality that here you have two nations that are divided by a common language.