Directions: The following is a News report. After reading
it, you should give brief answers to the 5 questions(No. 56 through No. 60)that
follow. The answers(in no more than 3 words)should be written
after the corresponding numbers.
Hello, welcome to “This Week’s Sports”. It will be 9:00 a. m.
when the Los Angeles Lakers and Philadelphia 76ers tip off the NBA Finals
tonight in Los Angeles. But the early hour has not discouraged students at
Beijing University from organizing a special viewing party to watch the game
live. The young Chinese basketball fans will be joining an estimated 2.5 billion
viewers worldwide who will be turning in to the games. making up the biggest
global audience for any basketball event in the history of the game.
More than 90 broadcasters from international networks
have set up operations at Staples Center for tonight’s opening joust(比赛). Among
them are CCTV from China, Supersport cable channel from Greece, DSF from
Germany, Canal Plus from France, NHK from Japan, and Israel’S Channel 5. Coming
to the Finals for the first time are MTV from Lebanon and ITV from Korea.
Broadcasters will give their local viewers play-by-play accounts of the game in
41 languages, including Arabic, Bosnian, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, Maltese
and Mandarin. This year is by far the biggest international
audience for the Finals. The number of countries signing on for the NBA Finals
has risen from 100 seven years ago to 295 this year. How many broadcasters from international networks are there in the center
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