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听力原文: Three days of commemoration has begun in the Southern Russian town Beslan where, exactly a year ago, a school was taken over by Chechen militants armed with explosives. 331 people died in the siege. More than half of them were children. From Beslan, here is Sarah Rainsford,
Hundreds of people filed through the ruins of School No. 1 today, survivors of the Siege alongside friends and relatives of those who died here. Many wept as they brought flowers, lit candles and left children's toys on the charred floorboards of the school gym. One year on, the grief in Beslan is still raw. But many here are also extremely angry with the authorities. They are furious, no senior officials have been held to account for the fact that the government ever made it to the school, for the decision not to negotiate, and then for the violent way the 3-day siege eventually ended.
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C.A school in Southern Russia.
D.Chechen rebels in Russia.

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Sometimes opponents of capital punishment horrify with tales of lingering death on the gallows, of faulty electric chairs, or of agony in the gas chamber. Partly in response to such protests, several states such as North Carolina and Texas switched to execution by lethal injection. The condemned person is put to death painlessly, without ropes, voltage, bullets, or gas. Did this answer the objections of death penalty opponents? Of course not. On June 22, 1984, The New York Times published an editorial that sarcastically attacked the new 'hygienic' method of death by injection, and stated that 'execution can never be made humane through science.' So it's not the method that really troubles opponents. It's the death itself they consider barbaric. Admittedly, capital punishment is not a pleasant topic. However, one does not have to like the death penalty in order to support it any more than one must like radical surgery, radiation, or chemotherapy in order to find necessary these attempts at curing cancer. Ultimately we may learn how to cure cancer with a simple pill. Unfortunately, that day has not yet arrived. Today we are faced with the choice of letting the cancer spread or trying to cure it with the methods available, methods that one day will almost certainly be considered barbaric. But to give up and do nothing would be far more barbaric and would certainly delay the discovery of an eventual cure. We may not like the death penalty, but it must be available to punish crimes of cold-blooded murder, eases in which any other form. of punishment would be inadequate and, therefore, unjust. If we create a society in which injustice is not tolerated, incidents of murder--the most flagrant form. of injustice--will diminish.How did Texas respond to the protests mentioned in Paragraph 1?A.No one was ever executed there later on.B.The criminal there was put to death in the gas chamber instead.C.Life of the condemned person there was terminated with a shot of drug.D.The murderer there was punished with life imprisonment instead.
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