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【正文】 bout one billion people to have turned in to watch the beauty queen extravaganza. The event was hosted by American talk show host, Jerry Springer, at a glitzy resort in the heart of South Africa‘s bush country. [SOUND BITE] The pageant was created in 1951 by a public relations executive for a small leisure and 9 entertainment pany. It was initially intended to be only a onetime event, but was continued after the United States began the rival Miss Universe contest in 1952. In more than half a century, there have been only three Miss World winners from Africa, two of them white South Africa and the third from Egypt. Miss World has until now been dominated by winner from Europe, the Americas, and India, the majority of them being Caucasian. The contestants in this pageant are judges in three different categories: beauty, grace, and charm。 talent, poise, and personally。 and figure and deportment. After the first round of judging, the original group of 92 contestants was pared down to only ten finalists who would go on to pete for the title. The secondrunner up in this ten year‘s pageant was Miss Scotland, 18yearold JulietJane Horne. [SOUND BITE] The People‘s Republic of China was represented for the first time this year by 18yearod Bing Li. [SOUND BITE] The title of first runner up went to Miss Aruba, 19yearold Zerelda Lee. [SOUND BITE] The petition was fierce as each of the ten finalists took her turn in the spotlight in front of a live audience. But out of the 92 contestants, it was Miss Nigeria, 18yearold Agbani Darego, who took home covered title and the $100,000 prize. [SOUND BITE] Before being crowed, Darego took the victory walk wearing a limegreen, body hugging dress and waved to a cheering crowd. The news of her victory sparked rapturous celebrations all over Nigeria‘s biggest city, Lagos. Uint3 II. Basic Listening Practice 5. Script W: Did you see the paper today? There was an earthquake in Brazil. M: Yes, but it only measured on the Richter scale. I don‘t think there were any casualties. Q: What is the result of the earthquake of on the Richter scale according to the man? 2. Script W: I‘d a bit worried about Suzie traveling to southern India. It‘s the rainy season there, and there may be landsides. M: Suzie can take care of herself。 she won‘t go anywhere too risky. Besides, you can always her if it makes you feel better. Q: What is Suzie doing? 3. Script M: Hi, I thought you were on holiday in Asia! Back already? W: we never got there! Our travel agent cancelled our arrangements because the whole region is flooded. We were so disappointed。 we won‘t get another chance to go this year. Q: What is the woman doing? 4. Script M: Our flight to Tokyo was delayed by twelve hours. Can you believe it? A typhoon hit the east 10 coast and it was chaos. W: I saw it on the news. The flooding and damage were terrible. I don‘t think anyone was hurt though. Q: What is the consequence of the typhoon? 5. Script W: Did you see the program last night about volcanoes? It was fascinating! M: Yes, the weird thing is the molten lava looks so beautiful, yet it‘s so destructive. And I couldn‘t believe how far the ash can travel. I‘m glad we don‘t have any volcanoes here! Q: What does the man think the volcano is? III. Listening In Task 1: Soft answers turn away wrath. Son: Hi, mom, what are we having for dinner tonight? Mom: I haven‘t started yet. Why, have you any requires? Son: How about tsunami for a change—I don‘t know what is, but I heard some Japanese people using the word on the bus the other day. Sounds like a food. Maybe it‘s similar to sushi. Mom: Nonsense. Tsunami es from Japanese words meaning harbor and wave. If we had a tsunami, it would be the other way around, young man. Son: Why? What is it? Mom: I mean it may swallow you up. A tsunami is an enormous series of very powerful waves. Son: Could you surf on them? That could be cool. Mom: They‘re not cool. They are very destructive. When they pound the shore of populated areas, they cause tremendous damage. They destroy everything in their path. Son: What causes them? Mom: I think they are caused by some sort of shock, like an earthquake, volcano, or landside that starts a chain reaction in the ocean. Son: Do the waves get to big that they crush buildings? Mom: Easily. They can be dozens of meters high. They toss cars and houses around as though they were children‘s toys. Son: Can you see them ing? Mom: You can see them at quite a distance. But there‘s not much you can do. In the open ocean they move at up to 800km per hour, but when it reaches the shore, the system slows down and the waves get bigger. Son: How big? Mom: They can reach 30 meters. Big enough to finish you off in one gulp. Task 2: Flooding in Haiti and the Dominican Republic Script The death too continues to (S1) climb from last week‘s flooding in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The . Agency for International Development (S2) reports that at least1,068 people are dead, 1,600 are (S3) missing, and 25,000 are in need of emergency food and other forms of (S4)assistance. In Dominican Republic, 414 are dead and 274 are missing, all from the town of Jimani. A key(S5) factor in the widespread destruction is the extensive deforestation and the (S6) presence of settlements along the floodplains of rivers. The flooding was driven by intense rainfall. A lowpressure system (S7) originating in Central 11 America brought exceptionally heavy rain and thunderstorms to Haiti and the Dominican Republic from May 18 t o25. (S8) Rainfall exceeded 500 mm (or inches) along the border areas of Haiti and the Dominican Republic during that period. At the town of Jimani, Dominican Republic, 250mm (or 10 inches) of rain fell in just 24 hours, causing the Solie River to ove