听力原文： MOSCOW Russian lawmakers voted overwhelmingly yesterday to reject the appointmen

听力原文： MOSCOW

Russian lawmakers voted overwhelmingly yesterday to reject the appointment of Viktor Chernomyrdin as prime minister despite warnings that the country was on the verge of political and economic collapse.

The Duma, the lower chamber of parliament, voted after more than three hours of bitter debate not to confirm Chernomyrdin. Hard-line delegates called for President Boris Yeltsin's resignation.

Chernomyrdin pleaded before the vote with lawmakers to approve the formation of a government to tackle the country's crisis that has seen the collapse of the stock market and the devaluation of the currency. The acting premier, who needed 226 votes for confirmation, watched glumly as the Duma voted not to confirm him.

LAGOS

More than 160 bank chiefs jailed by Nigeria's military regime have gone on hunger strike to protest against their ongoing detention without trial, reports here said yesterday. Eighty-five jailed bank chiefs refused food. On Sunday at their detention center in Lagos, said the privately-owned Post Express and state-owned Daily Times newspapers.

QUITO

The death toll from the crash of a Cuban aircraft at Ecuador's Quito airport rose to 80 Sunday as aviation experts searched the wreckage in the hope of pinning down the cause of the accident.

The Cubana de Aviation plane, a Russian-made Tupolev, ploughed through airport fences into a nearby field after it aborted a third attempt to take off on Saturday, witnesses said. It caught fire and exploded.

The civil aviation department said 80 people had died by Sunday afternoon. The initial toll of 77 increased when one victim died in hospital of severe burns and two more bodies were found at the site.

SINGAPORE

Around 47 percent of 600 firms in six Asia-Pacific countries are uncertain about the advantages of electronic commerce (E-commerce), according to the results of a survey by Visa International released here yesterday. Fifty-three percent of merchants believed conducting transactions via the Internet was suitable for their businesses. Meanwhile, 73 percent said this would only supplement, but not replace traditional ways of doing business.

JAKARTA

Indonesian troops threatened to fire rubber bullets yesterday at hundreds of looters attacking houses owned by ethnic Chinese in the central Java town of Cilacap. "Piloting has rocked the town in recent days. Violence, not looting, has abated in the town." A military official said.

"Basically, the situation is getting better. There is no violence today, but hundreds of jobless people are still continuing to loot a number of ethnic Chinese fishermen's houses," Colonel M. Noer Muis told reporters.

"We are going to take action against the robbers, with rubber bullets if necessary. Police detained 27 people in the town in recent days. " Muis said.

Questions:

6. How many votes are needed in the lower chamber of Russian parliament to confirm the appointment of the prime minister？

7.What do the jailed bank chiefs protest against in Nigeria？

8.When did the plane crash happen？

9.What's the majority view concerning electronic commerce, according to a recent survey conducted by Visa International？

10.Which of the following statements is TRUE about the rioting in Indonesia？

(26)

A．95.

B．195.

C．226

D．251