【正文】 art of these regular events. Mr. Williams says the group is also planning to beautify the downtown area with plants and paint. Though it might seem hard to pete with big chain stores, small retailers have an advantage. They have a personal approach in serving customers. Chamber of Commerce president David Hamilton agrees. He says retailers in his city serve customers well, and customers in return, should support them by shopping in their stores. The downtown area is the heart of a city. And members of Dickson39。s her own home. So it39。s safe to have a baby at home? There are risks involved, er, I personally would prefer not to have my baby at home. I mean it would be {well you39。s been proven that having the baby at home is as safe as having a baby in hospital. Does it get a lot of encouragement having, er, a baby at home? I don39。s like a little maisonette, a home in the hospital. 2. Because it39。s history. 2. They are active, energetic, and willing and can meet many program needs through their volunteer efforts. 3. Because they are living longer than ever before, seniors can anticipate up to 30 years of productive activity after retirement. 4. When choosing where and how to volunteer, seniors should pick the type of activity that best suits their personal goals as well as the needs of the recipients. 5. We want to help them embrace the world with their numerous gifts and talents, instead of the world embracing them with handcuffs and incarceration. Mention the word retirement, and you39。 make appropriate referrals for resources。 and provide sincere love and understanding. A：Prelistening Question Governmental provision for social security is slow to develop in the US, though there are now some elements of a prehensive system, with some serious gaps, as well as variations between the states. For both old age and illness, provision is now partly private, partly public. Most Americans when at work make some provision for their retirement, through savings, investment and insurance policies, pany or union pension funds. Federal government social security provides pensions for retired people, and also unemployment benefit for six months, based on pulsory contributions by people at work. The rate of the pension gives an ine above the official poverty line, and sufficient for minimal fort, but only about a quarter of median earnings from employment. It is not related to a person39。 share ways to manage anger, conflict, and anxiety。re seeing water a molecule with two atoms of hydrogen and one of oxygen H20 or hydroxyl, a chemical with only one hydrogen atom OH.That data es not from examining the rocks on the moon directly, but from analyzing spectrographs of the light reflected from the moon. Different chemicals have different spectrographic signatures, but those of water and hydroxyl are very similar.Finding water, if that39。s mander, veteran cosmonaut Yuri Gidzenko, Italian Air Force pilot Roberto Vittori and South African Internet entrepreneur* Mark Shuttleworth. The 28yearold multimillionaire had trained for eight months and spent a reported $20 million to fulfill his childhood dream of going into space. Family members who had flown to Kazakhstan for the occasion watched the liftoff reportedly with big smiles and tears of joy. The Soyuz will fly to the International Space Station, where it is expected to dock on Saturday. The crew39。s mander, an Italian Air Force pilot and South African Internet entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth. The 28yearold multimillionaire had trained for eight months and spent a reported $20 million to fulfill his childhood dream of going into space. Members of his family watched the launch with big smiles and tears of joy. The Soyuz will fly to the International Space Station, where it is expected to dock on Saturday. The crew39。s impact on global warming to underscore the need for a new fire discipline. The scientists report that all fires bined—from the intentional blazes farmers use to clear forest to the accidental wildfires sparked by both man and nature—release an amount of carbon dioxide equal to half the CO2 emissions from the burning of fossil fuels. They say that fires also pump other potentially climatechanging pollutants into the atmosphere, including methane gas, aerosols and soot.Pyne adds that changes in climate could exacerbate the hot, dry conditions that trigger wildfires. The prospect of larger and more deadly fires around the world makes it imperative that new ways be found to help better understand and manage those fires, according to the study39。re going to respond to them, and acmodate these changes in fire regimes. The authors hope the report will persuade the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change—an international panel of experts studying global warming—to pay more attention to fire as a significant force in global warming, and spark interest within the scientific munity for a new scientific discipline devoted to the study of fire.A: Directions: listen to the news report and plete the summary.This news report is about the call for the creation of a separate scientific discipline devoted to the study of fires.B: Directons: listen to the news report again and choose the best answer to plete each of the following sentences.1. C 2. B 3. A 4. D 5. C 6. A 7. D 8. Bpart 2 passageGirl’s LifeSince I was about 10, I’ve been overweight. At that time, I weighed 180 pounds– as much as my dad.