【正文】 1 新聞聽力模擬練習(xí) 100題答案 News Item 1 Two police officials in Argentina have been sentenced to seven years in prison for arranging the abduction of a baby during the last period of military rule. It39。s the first time an Argentine court has condemned senior officials under the military dictatorship for stealing babies in what could set a precedent for an attempt to bring officials to trial. 1. B 2. B News Item 2 A group of African Americans have filed a legal action in New York against Lloyds of London, the world39。s oldest insurance market. They are claiming damages from Lloyds on the grounds that it provided insurance cover for ships which brought millions of African slaves to America. The suit accuses Lloyds along with two American panies of aiding and betting the mission of genocide. Deadria Farmer is one of the claimants. They are responsible because they played a role in enslaving African Americansor at least our ancestors initially, and part of the enslavement included genocidethat is the destruction of our ethnic and national identities. Today I suffer from the injury of not knowing who I amhaving no nationality or ethic group as a result of acts mitted by these parties. A BBC correspondent in New York says the claimants must prove that they are indeed descended from slaves, something they say they can do through DNA testing. 3. D 4. A News Item 3 Representatives of the Greek and Greek Cypriot Governments have expressed concern of changes made by the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to the Cyprus reunification plan. The BBC correspondent at the talks says the Greeks are worried he’s offered too much to the Turkish side. The UN plan says the Turkish Cypriots must give up some territory whilst the number of Greeks allowed back has been reduced. 5. B 6. C News Item 4 United States Army has said that it accepts responsibility for the death earlier this month of two Iraqi journalists working for the AI Arabia. A US military spokesman said the army regretted what he described as the accidental shooting. He said US troops had aimed at a vehicle in front of the journalists39。 car, which had burst through a checkpoint. 7 . B News Item 5 In Hong Kong the American airplane carrierthe US constellation and 6 support ships arrived on Monday for a sixdayportvisit. The visit es several days after China refused to permit a United States military plane to land in Hong Kong. The plane was said to be on the normal training flight. This is the biggest port visit since an American spy plane crashed with the Chinese fighter plane on April first. The two planes crashed in international airspace over the South China Sea. 8 . B 9 . D News Item 6 Iraqi demonstrators, many of them disciples of a Shiite cleric, clashed again Monday with US troops in Baghdad and other Iraqi cities. At least eight Americans and more than thirty Iraqis have been reported killed in the rallying. But as correspondent N. reports the United States says it remains firmly mitted to handing over power to the Iraqi people on June 30th despite new questions about Iraq39。s overall stability. 10 . D 11. B News Item 7 The former chief weapons inspector of the United Nations has criticized British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Hans Blix said that Mister Blair did not think carefully when examining intelligence about weapons in Iraq before the war started. Mister Blix also said that the United States and Britain should have permitted him to plete his work in Iraq. He said weapons inspectors would have realized in time that the intelligence received from 2 Iraqi exiles was wrong. 12 . A 13 . B News Item 8 The Bush administration says Libya has sent all of the known remaining equipments of its nuclear program to the United States. An administration official said a ship is now traveling to the United States carrying 500 tons of the equipment. It includes parts of uranium development centers, guided missiles, and longdistance missiles. In other news the Libyan government appointed its First Energy Minister in five years. 14 . C 15. D News Item 9 United States military officials in Afghanistan say Americanled forces have killed 9 suspected militants in a gun battle near the border with Pakistan. A military spokesman spoke to reporters in Kabul. He said the fighting on Friday started when as many as 40 gunmen tried to move into a coalition position near the town of Orgun. A number of militants reportedly fled during the gun battle. The spokesman said no coalition troops were killed. The coalition includes American and Afghan troops. 16. A 17. B News Item 10 American Secretary of State Collin Powell will visit India, Pakistan and Afghanistan this month. It will be his first trip to South of Asia in almost two years. India and Pakistan have deployed hundreds of thousands of troops to their borders the last time Mister Powell visited the area. Mister Powell seeks to provide American support to the renewed peace process between India and Pakistan. He also is expected to urge the Pakistani government to give evidence that it has pletely stopped providing nuc1ear weapons technology to other countries. 18. D 19. A News Item 11 TurkeyTens of thousands of protesters have demonstrated in seven cities. They are demanding that the government of Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit resign. The protesters denounce the way the government has dealt with the Turkish economic crisis. In Ankara, police fired into the air to break up a crowd of 70,000 demonstrators. At least 40,000 others marched in the Aegean port city of , 000 other people demonstrated in Konya. More than 100 people were injured in protests. On Tuesday Turkey39。s main business coalition urged the government to resign. Prime Minister Ecevit said a change in government will not help Turkey reco