【正文】 his country39。s Independence Day. In cities and towns across the United States, Americans are attending parades, piics, concerts and fireworks. Many munities will offer public readings of the Declaration of Independence signed 228 years ago on July 4th, 1776, which declared thirteen colonies free from British rule. Questions22 to 23 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given l0 seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to the news. Saudi Arabia has announced that municipal elections will be held in September for the first time in more than forty years. The Minister of Municipal and Rural Affairs said Saturday that a list of regulations, ballot centers, registration dates and deadlines would be announced soon. The kingdom39。s thirteen provinces will elect one hundred seventyeight municipal councils. The Prince did not say if women would be allowed to vote or to run in the elections.Questions 24 to 26 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to the news. Attacks and clashes in Indian Kashmir have killed nine people and wounded more than fifty others. The first two victims were killed in the main city of Srinagar when a bomb hidden in a handcar exploded. Twenty eight people were wounded. Hours later, in the town of Anantnag, separatist militants threw a grenade at troops, wounding at least twenty four people. In the south, one policeman was killed and two others were wounded when militants attacked a police post. In the north, three soldiers and three rebels were killed in a gun battle. Thousands of people have died in the last fifteen years since Muslim rebels launched an armed in surgency against Indianrule in Kashmir. Questions 27 to 28 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to the news. A former American army sergeant Charles Jenkins who allegedly defected to North Korea thirtynine years ago has been reunited with his Japaneseborn wife in Indonesia. The couple was separated two years ago when the wife Hitomi Soga was allowed to return home to Japan from where she39。d been abducted by North Korean agents in the late 1970s. Mr. Jenkins refused to go with her, fearing that the Japanese authorities would extradite him to the United States. Questions 29 to 30 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to the news.The Roman Catholic Church says Pope John Paul has decided to return to Russia a revered icon painting that hangs in his private apartment at the Vatican. The painting will be carried to Russia by a Vatican delegation next month. The BBC Rome correspondent says the Pope had hoped to return the painting in person. But the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church has made it clear that the Pope wouldn39。t be wele because of persisting tensions between the two churches. MODEL TEST EIGHTPART II LISTENING COMPREHENSION1. D 2. C 3. A 4. C 5. B 6. D 7. D 8. B 9. C 10. A 11. C 12. B13. D 14. C 15. D 16. A 17. A 18. B 19. D 20. C 21. A 22. B 23. A 24. C25. B 26. B 27. B 28. D 29. B 30. CPART III CLOZE31. B 32. D 33. A 34. B 35. C 36. D 37. C 38. A 39. D 40. B 41. B 42. C43. B 44. C 45. B 46. A 47. D 48. B 49. C 50. APART IV GRAMMAR amp。 VOCABULARY51. C 52. B 53. A 54. D 55. A 56. D 57. C 58. B 59. C 60. B 61. C 62. A63. A 64. A 65. B 66. A 67. B 68. C 69. A 70. B 71. C 72. D 73. D 74. C75. C 76. D 77. B 78. A 79. D 80. BPART V READING COMPREHENSION81. C 82. D 83. A 84. B 85. C 86. C 87. B 88. A 89. D 90. D 91. A 92. B93. C 94. D 95. A 96. D 97. A 98. C 99. B 100. D