听力原文：Woman: In 1995, 50 men, women and children were involved in mass suicide linked to the Cult "the Solar Temple". Star Daily reporter Marie spoke with Alexander Hilton, author of Cults in Our Midst, who brought with him a first-hand analysis of the tragedy and recent findings of studies on cult.
Woman: Mr. Hilton, a cult or charismatic group is said to be an exclusive group of people devoted to a person, principle or ideal. What can you tell our readers about this cult, The Solar Temple？
Man: Hmm... Let's see. The Solar Temple or "Order of the Solar Temple", was founded in 1984 by a 46-year-old Belgian named Luc Jouret. Living on the Swiss-French border, he recruited members for his seemingly harmless self-help meditation club.
Woman: So, in other words, the Solar Temple started as an innocent group of people interested in New Age practices.
Man: Exactly! Jouret had been a student of natural healing, vegetarianism and homeopathic medicine. He lectured on the "joy of living" through these alternate methods. However, gradually this focus changed. Jouret, a highly attractive, smooth-talking and charismatic leader became hungrier and hungrier for power and influence over his followers and his lectures turned into passionate and angry brainwashing. These speeches were filled with bitterness and hostility toward the world. He spoke in vague abstractions about a doomsday, the end of the world.
Woman: And what did you see as its major appeal to its followers？ What kind of people did he attract？
Man: Well, he mostly Seemed to be interested in recruiting the.., what we would consider well-off to well-to-do people, and he wasn't out recruiting youths. He wanted people with money. And the content of what he was selling was an amalgam of homeopathic medicine, New Age alternative medicine ideas, a notion that there was going to be some big cataclysm come, and that people should follow him so that when the doomsday come, they would not die, instead merely transported to life on other planets.
Woman: How was he able to mislead and deceive so many people？
Man: Cult leaders are experts in using manipulative and venal methods to convince their followers of their unrealistic beliefs.
Woman: Mr. Hilton, according to your study, is cult activity around the world increasing, or does it just seem that way in the United States？
Man: Cult activity around the world is increasing. At the moment, we have at a minimum 3,000 and up to 5,000 cults operating in the U.S. today, and they are not all religious- based. Some of them are political cults, flying saucer cults, while others are philosophical-based, but it's true there is a growing number of cults because so many venal people see how easy it is to deceive and manipulate people.
Woman: Do all warnings about dangerous manipulative cults create unwarranted hostility for meaningful, supportive new movements that could help some people find meaning in an admittedly troubled and complicated world？
Man: I don't think so. It hasn't been my observation that media and public attention and research attention on cults is causing a bias toward new religion. Because if a new religion starts up and it's open and they're not deceptive, and they're just open and above-board and there's no lying and trickery in the recruiting, and there's some democracy within the group rather than it being a totally closed organization that's not open to inspection by anybody, I don't see any prejudice being shown toward new religion per se.
Questions:
11.What's the possible definition of Cult according to Star Daily reporter Marie？
12.Which of the following description is NOT true of Luc Jouret？
13.What was thought as the major appeal to Jouret's followers？
14.Which of the following statements is NOT true about Cult activity in the U. S？
15.What does Hilton, the interviewee think about the alleged bias toward new religions？
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A．A club of potential danger which may possible commit mass suicide.
B．An exclusive group usually fascinated with natural healing and homeopathic medicine.
C．An exclusive group of people devoted to a person, principle or ideal.
D．An innocent group of people interested in New Age practices.
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