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听力原文：Washington: The United States has blocked a UN Security Council statement that was drafted by Arab nations and aimed at putting pressure on Israel to stop military strikes on Palestinian targets. Washington does not have formal veto power when it comes to council statements. But it is able to block the draft single-handedly because council rules require that statements be unanimous and supported by all 15 of its members. Violence and bloodshed in Palestine is getting more serious during the past several months, and the Israeli military is criticized for over-reacting to protests by Palestinian people, causing serious casualties of civilians.
London: Three of the main suspects in a failed attempt to bomb the London transit system made a court appearance in London Monday. Ibrahim, 27, and Mohammed, 23, were charged Sunday. Police suspect Ibrahim of trying to blow up a bus and accuse Mohammed of attempting to bomb a train in the Oval subway station on July 21—one of three trains that were targeted two weeks after similar bombings killed 56 peoplE.They face a maximum sentence of life imprisonment on each charge, if convicteD.Ibrahim and Mohammed were arrested in a police raid on a public housing estate in west London on July 29, eight days after knapsack bombs on three trains and the bus failed to detonatE.
Beijing: An old tradition in China is changing. In some areas of China, some people often eat wild animals, and this tradition can be traced back long time ago. However, such a tradition is changing today as most city dwellers interviewed by the latest survey on wild animal consumption said that they have gone off the creatures. Co-sponsored by the China Wildlife Conservation Association and its partner WildAid, a non governmental organization from the United States, the survey found that 54 per cent of urban interviewees chose 'potential health risks' as the reason for giving up the wild dishes.
Washington: Global finance chiefs have wrapped up three days of talks in Washington DC, calling for action against runaway oil prices. They also urged the IMF to strengthen its monitoring of national currency policies. Finance ministers and central bank governors have backed plans to meet a long-standing demand by emerging market countries for a greater stake in decision-making at the International Monetary FunD.The IMF currently has 184 member countries. Each member country is assigned a quota, based broadly on its relative size in the world economy. A member's quota determines its maximum financial commitment to the IMF and its voting power. Recently, the Board of Governors of the IMF adopted a Resolution on Quota and Voice Reform. in the IMF.
Berlin: A German church association and a Chinese foundation have jointly launched a five-million-Yuan program to alleviate iodine deficiency disorders in northwest ChinA.The program is expected to benefit 144,000 newborn babies and women of child-bearing age in eight counties and cities in the Ninxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture of Gansu ProvincE.Lack of Iodine stands out to be a serious endemic disease in those areas. It may cause breast and prostate cancer, as well as goiter, or enlargement of the thyroid glanD.Scientists have identified iodine deficiency as the most common cause of preventable mental retardation and brain damage in the worlD.
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6.According to the news, what is the US response to the military strikes of Israel against Palestine?
7.On what account were Ibrahim and Mohammed charged in London?
8.What is the main finding of the latest survey on wild animal consumption in China?
9.According to the news, which of the following is NOT discussed by global finance chiefs in Washington DC?
10.According to the news, which of the following is NOT true about iodine deficiency?
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A.It blocked a UN Security Council statement against Israel.
B.It criticized Israel for over-reacting to protests by Palestinian peoplE.
C.It drafted a statement together with Arab nations.
D.It used its formal veto power to prevent possible condemnation against Israel.

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听力原文：Man: Good evening. Today, we invited Professor Lynch, an expert on Arabian culture to tell us some facts about the language that we may not really know.Woman: Hi, good evening. It's my honor to be here to share my knowledge with everybody.Man: So, professor, I wonder if all the Arabs speak the same language, Arabic, just like people living in the North America all speak English.Woman: It is generally thought that Arabic is a single language, spoken, written and understood by people in countries as widely separated as Iraq, Egypt and Morocco, but this is not so. It is only written Arabic (that is, the Classical Arabic of the Koran and the Modem Arabic of contemporary literature, journalism and broadcasting), that is more or less common to the whole of the Arab worlD.The colloquial Arabic, which is spoken in the different Arab societies today, differs as widely between Arab countries as do Italian, Spanish and PortuguesE.Man: That's surprising! So you mean all the Arabs from different countries can understand others' written language, but not the spoken language?Woman: You are partly right. In the Arab world, written Arabic acts as a kind of Esperanto, providing a means of communication between educated people of different Arab nationalities. Written Arabic is, paradoxically, spoken too: on the radio and television, in public speeches, as well as between Arabs from different countries. We could call it pan ArabiC.It is used in rather the same way as Latin was used by educated people in Europe in the Middle Ages.Man: It seems as if there are a lot of differences between written Arabic and colloquial ArabiC.Shall we say that they belong to one language?Woman: It's a little complicated to explain. As we all know, even in English, of course, there are differences of grammar and vocabulary between the written and spoken language, but this difference is far less than that between the artificial pan-Arabic and the living colloquial language of any Arab country. Moreover, both written and spoken English are recognized in English-speaking countries as belonging to one living language, and both are taught in schools. Colloquial Arabic, on the other hand, is not regarded by the people who speak it as 'proper' ArabiC.Unlike colloquial English, it is not taught in schools, and it is not written; indeed, there is a strong feeling in Arab societies that it should not be used in a written form.Man: So what language, pan-Arabic or colloquial Arabic, does an Arab, say, an Egyptian, use mainly in his everyday life?Woman: An educated Egyptian uses pan-Arabic to talk to equally educated Iraqis, Saudis and Moroccans. No reasonable man, however, wishes to talk like a book or a newspaper, and the language that the same educated Egyptian uses with his family and with other Egyptians is quite different. This language is wholly Egyptian, and it is only spoken.Questions:11.What mistaken view do most people hold about Arabic?12.According to the talk, which language is more or less common to the whole of the Arab world?13.How is pan-Arabic similar to Esperanto?14.Which of the following is NOT taught in schools?15.Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the talk?(31)A.That colloquial Arabic is the everyday spoken language, which varies from country to country.B.That Arabic is just one language that all Arabs understand, speak and writE.C.That classical Arabic and Modern Arabic are two different kinds of written ArabiC.D.That pan-Arabic provides a means of communication between educated people of different Arab nationalities.

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In a culture in which organ transplants, life-extension machinery, microsurgery, and artificial organs have entered everyday medicine, we seem to be on the verge of realization of the seventeenth century European view of the body as a machinE.But if we seem to have realized that conception, it can also be argued that we have in a sense turned it inside out. In the seventeenth century machine imagery reinforced the notion of the human body as a totally determined mechanism whose basic functionings the human being is helpless to alter. The then—dominant metaphors for this body—locks, watches, collections of springs—imagined a system that is set, wound up, whether by nature or God the watchmaker, ticking away in a predictable, orderly manner, regulated by laws over which the human being has no control. Understanding the system, we can help it perform. efficiently and intervene when it malfunctions, but we cannot radically alter the configuration of things.Western science and technology have now arrived, paradoxically but predictably (for it was a submerged, illicit element in the mechanistic conception all along), at a new, postmodern conception of human freedom from bodily determination. Gradually and surely, a technology that was first aimed at the replacement of malfunctioning parts has generated an industry and a value system fueled by fantasies of rearranging, transforming, and correcting, an ideology of limitless improvement and change, defying the historicity, the mortality, and indeed the very materiality of the body. In place of that materiality, we now have what I call 'cultural plastiC.' In place of God the watchmaker, we now have ourselves, the master sculptors of that plastiC.'Create a masterpiece: sculpt your body into a work of art,' urges Fit magazinE.'You visualize what you want to look like, and then you create that form.' The precision technology of body sculpting, once the secret of the Arnold Schwarzeneggers and Rachel McLishes of the professional bodybuilding world, has now become available to anyone who can afford the price of membership in a health cluB.On the medical front, plastic surgery, whose repeated and purely cosmetic employment has been legitimated by popular music and film personalities, has become a fabulously expanding industry, extending its domain from nose jobs, face lifts, and tummy tucks to collagen-plumped lips and liposuction-shaped ankles and calves. In 1989, 681,00O procedures were done, up by 80 percent since 1981; over half of these were performed on patients between the ages of 18 and 35. The trendy Details magazine described such procedures as just 'another fabulous (fashion) accessory' and used to invite readers to share their cosmetic surgery experiences in the monthly column 'Knifestyles of the Rich and Famous.'Popular culture does not apply any brakes to these fantasies of rearrangement and transformation. 'The proper diet, file right amount of exercise, and you can have, pretty much, any body you desire,' claims an ad for a bottled mineral water. Of course, the rhetoric of choice and self-determination and the breezy analogies comparing cosmetic surgery to fashion accessorizing are deeply misleading. They efface not only the inequalities of privilege, money, and time that prohibit most people from indulging in these practices, but also the desperation that characterizes the lives of those who do. 'I will do anything, anything to make myself look and feel better,' says a contributor to the 'Knifestyles' column. Medical science has now designated a new category of 'polysurgical addicts' (or, as more casually referred to, 'scalpel slaves') who return for operation after operation, in perpetual quest of that elusive yet ruthlessly normalizing goal, the 'perfect' body. The dark underside of the practices of body transformation and rearrangement— reveals botched and sometimes—fatal operations, exercise addictions, and eating disorders.WA.only the rich should undergo such proceduresB.doctors should worry about medicine, not ethicsC.advertising should accurately reflect popular cultureD.nature should not be tampered with unnecessarily

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