［A］ told ［B］ held ［C］ suggested ［D］ advised

听力原文：When will the game results be updated？

(A) I haven't been told yet.

(B) Yes, that game is held every month.

(C) I think the data will be changed.

(12)

A．

B．

C．

听力原文：M: I told you several times. You should not be late for the writing class.

W: Well, I'm very sorry. The bus came late and it was held up on the way.

Q: What is the man's profession？

(2)

A．Editor.

B．Journalist.

C．Teacher.

D．Student.

hat I didn't doublecheck the venue. My assistant had told me that it was to be held in the Hilton Conference Center, so I just called a cab and got there. I was so surprised to find nobody there, and so I called up my assistant…She said she had left me a note and didn't interrupt me, seeing I was so busy.

(15)

c and freed all 18 hostages aboard. Security officials say the two gunmen who had held the bus for 8 hours were arrested. Officials say no one was seriously hurt in the take-over by a newly-created anti-terrorist squad. The gunmen seized the bus Wednesday night. They had demanded more than a million dollars' ransom and a helicopter to escape. Their motives are unclear although they reportedly told police they needed the money to help drug-addicted friends.

How many hijackers are involved in the news？

A．18.

B．2.

C．8.

D．1.

ocal radio reported on Wednesday, quoting the leader of Australia's Muslims, Sheikh Taj al-Din al-I-Hilali.

A journalist for Australia's SBS Arabic radio service, Majida Abboud-Saab, said Sheik al-Hilali, in Iraq to try to free 63-year-old Donglas Wood, had told her he had spoken to a man who said he represented the militants holding the engineer.

"They said that they were willing to release Donglas Wood," Abboud-Saab told Southern Cross Broad- casting on Wednesday.

"They are not placing any conditions on his release. Sheikh Taj al-Din al-Hilali is very convinced and he is very optimistic and he is very happy about the fact that they have agreed to release Douglas."

Australia's Foreign Minister Alexander Downer has said that Wood, who is married to an American, may have been kidnapped two days before a two-minute video was delivered to news agencies on May 1.

Sheikh Taj al-Din al-Hilali was ______

A．was a journalist working for Australia's SBS Arabic radio service

B．was a leader of militants who held an Australian hostage

C．was a Muslim leader designated to rescue the hostage

D．was the American to whom the hostage was married

听力原文： Tom Wilner is a lawyer who represents the 11 Kuwaitis being held at Guantanamo Bay. He told reporters in a telephone news conference that the Kuwaitis were beaten soon after their capture in Afghanistan and Pakistan before they were transferred to the U.S. Naval Base in Cuba. Mt. Wilner also says that several of them falsely confessed to being members of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. "Each of them has, during custody, been treated really terribly and physically abused," Mr. Wilner says. "All of them were hung from their wrists and beaten, sometimes beaten with chains. At least one was hung upside down from his ankles and beaten. They were all beaten, they said, until they would pass out." Mr. Wither spoke to reporters only after his notes from recent meetings with the detainees were declassified by the U.S. government, which also gave him permission to discuss their cases. Human-fights groups have long expressed concern about the treatment of the more than 500 detainees at Guantanamo Bay, many of whom have been held there for more than three years.

Where were the Kuwaitis captured？

A．Afghanistan and Iraq.

B．Pakistan and Kyrgyzstan.

C．India and Pakistan.

D．Pakistan and Afghanistan.

e between the Israeli government and the Palestine Authority that has held more or less for almost two weeks. After meeting Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Ararat in the West Bank town of Ramallah , Secretary Powell told a news conference he agrees there is a need for international observers. Mr. Powell did not offer any thoughts on the size or composition of such a team of observers, but the switch in the United States' position saying now that international help is necessary, was a big surprise. Israeli officials have long been opposed to the idea of any significant foreign presence examining the violence that broke out last September.

Where did Secretary Powell meet with Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Ararat？

A．In New York.

B．In Jerusalem.

C．In Cairo.

D．In Ramallah.

SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST

Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. At the end of each news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions.

听力原文： Taliban insurgents say they may release 21 South Korean hostages more than 3 weeks after they kidnapped them. The word came as the insurgents held a second day of face-to-face talks with South Korean officials in Afghanistan. Taliban negotiators told reporters Saturday that the 21 hostages could be released as early as today or tomorrow. However, the negotiators also said they thought a number of Taliban militants being held prisoner by the Afghan government would also be released. Today, the Afghan government has said it would not exchange prisoners for hostages. Face-to-face talks between the Taliban and South Korean officials are being held in the Afghan city of Ghazni, in the same province where 23 South Koreans were kidnapped on July 19th. Two men in the group have already been executed by their captors. Afghan Interior Ministry spokesman Zamarai Bashari says the government is providing security for the talks in Ghazni, but is not directly involved. "I cannot go into too many details about the issue, this much I can say: Afghan representatives were not in that meeting." Four South Korean delegates and two Taliban leaders are involved in the talks which started Friday evening in a heavily-guarded Afghan Red Cross office.

How many South Korean hostages will Taliban insurgents plan to release？

A．3

B．19

C．21

D．23

听力原文： PARIS--French voters chose Nicolas Sarkozy as their new president on Sunday, giving the conservative a mandate for change. His Socialist opponent conceded minutes after polls closed.

With nearly 70 percent of ballots counted, Sarkozy had just over 53 percent of the vote, according to the Interior Ministry.

The results dashed Socialist Segolene Royal's hopes of being elected France's first woman president. The projections were based on vote counts from representative samples of hundreds of polling stations across the country.

"Universal suffrage has spoken. I wish the next president of the Republic the best in accomplishing his mission in the service of all the French people," Royal told supporters in Paris.

Washington can "count on our friendship," Sarkozy told hundreds of cheering supporters, though he added that "friendship means accepting that friends can have different opinions."

Sarkozy's election could help restart the process of finding a way forward on reviving the European Union constitution, which has been held up as Europe awaited the results of the French election.

In remarks just after his election, Sarkozy said: "France is back in Europe."

Nicolas Sarkozy ______.

A．was defeated by his socialist opponent

B．was elected as the new President of France

C．had more than 70 96 of the vote

D．announced after the election that France and the U.S. would share opinions.

ay. He told reporters in a telephone news conference that the Kuwaitis were beaten soon after their capture in Afghanistan and Pakistan before they were transferred to the U.S. Naval Base in Cuba. Mr. Wilner also says that several of them falsely confessed to being members of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. "Each of them has, during custody, been treated really terribly and physically abused," Mr. Wilner says. "All of them were hung from their wrists and beaten, sometimes beaten with chains. At least one was hung upside down from his ankles and beaten. They were all beaten, they said, until they would pass out." Mr. Wilner spoke to reporters only after his notes from recent meetings with the detainees were declassified by the U.S. government, which also gave him permission to discuss their cases. Human-rights groups have long expressed concern about the treatment of the more than 500 detainees at Guantanamo Bay, many of whom have been held there for more than three years.

Where were the Kuwaitis captured？

A．Afghanistan and Iraq

B．Pakistan and Kyrgyzstan

C．India and Pakistan

D．Pakistan and Afghanistan