【正文】 ormation or dress up an image。t clear.2. No, the pirates haven’t been deferred.3. Because the financial rewards for a successful hijacking remain so great and Somalia remains so lawless.4. At any one time there are only fifteen to eighteen international warships in the area to police an expanse of sea covering more than a million square kilometres.5. It may be because of the relatively small scale of the problem.Tape script of News Item One:The piracy problem looks like it39。t clear. But it does suggest at the very least that the pirates haven39。 home towns, it seems unlikely there39。s a spectacular hijacking involving the deaths of many crew members. The reluctance to mount a major international naval operation in the area may also be down to the relatively small scale of the problem. Last year, according to figures from the International Maritime Bureau, nearly twenty three thousand ships passed through the Gulf of Aden. Only ninety two were hijacked. Rob Watson, BBC News News Item 2Ex. A: Listen to the news and plete the summary This news item is about Obama’s military plan in Afghanistan. Ex. B: True or false.1. The President is considering leaving Afghanistan.F. (The President is making it clear that leaving Afghanistan is not an option.)2. Obama wouldn’t shrink the number of troops in Afghanistan, neither would he deploy more military troops. T.3. President Obama thought his assessment would be rigorous and deliberate.T.4. Opinions against Obama are not heard.F. (…some Republicans and members of the President39。Vietnam39。s not on the table. According to one White House source, he told the meeting that he wouldn39。t be drawn on the military request for more troops. There appears to be a frustration that the review of strategy has sometimes been portrayed in blackandwhite terms of a massive increase or reduction of troop numbers.President Obama told the group made up of the most senior Republican and Democrat senators and congressmen that his assessment would be rigorous and deliberate. But it39。s own party are dubious about mitting more resources and military personnel to a conflict where there is no end in sight. The word 39。 is heard more and more on Capitol Hill.The President was certainly right when he said his final decision wouldn39。 from the holes that have been punched in the walls it was clear there had also been snipers waiting for them. North of Khan Younis we saw some of the Qassam fighters returning home, their rifles slung lazily around their shoulders. For three weeks the Israelis pounded the tunnels that run beneath the perimeter wall but last night we met people who insist that some of these tunnels are still open and still some fuel is being pumped from the Egyptian sider. If the border crossings remain close, say the Palestinians, these tunnels are their only link to the outside world. Script of News Item 3There were traffic jams on the road north, families heading to Gaza City to reunite with friends and relatives. Long lines of cars backed up at the makeshift roadblocks the Israelis have left behind. But the tanks are gone, only the deep tracks remain. There were buildings pitted with Israeli tank rounds。ve seen has largely been inflicted on the Hamas infrastructure: police stations, military outposts, government buildings, so far the most extensive damage that at the border in Rafah where nothing was spared. For three weeks the Israelis pounded the tunnels that run beneath the perimeter wall but last night we met people who insist that some of these tunnels are still open and still some fuel is being pumped from the Egyptian side。s American Museum of Natural History. The sound of the prehistoric forest is one of the few things that has been imagined in this 65 squaremeter diorama. The gingko leaves, piney trees and lifesized models of 35 prehistoric animals were created through the marriage of science, art and technology, as every detail, down to the sleeping pose of a dinosaur, is based on scientific findings. The exhibit is not behind glass or otherwise enclosed, so visitors are eyetoeye with extinct beasts, feeling as if they39。s accurate because every single plant, every insect, every organic feature in