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1、Test 1Questions 1 and 2 will be based on the following news item.1 In a statement, the US president says he is taking the action, because the conflict in Darfur threatens the national security and foreign policy of the United States. The asset freeze is being imposed on four Sudanese identified by t
2、he U.N. Security Council as being involved in organizing and carrying out cruel and violent actions in Darfur. The presidents order comes days before rallies are planned in Washington and throughout the United States to protest the three-year war in Darfur. 2Celebrities such as Academy Award winning
3、 actor George Clooney are scheduled to speak at the rally. Clooney, who just returned from a trip to the Darfur region, told reporters in Washington the worlds attention need to be focused on what he called the “first massive murder of the 21st century.”1. Why is the U.S. president taking actions in
4、 Darfur?2. Who is scheduled to speak at the rally?Questions 3 and 4 will be based on the following news item.3 In October the Ugandan opposition leader, Kizza Basigye, returned to Kampala to prepare for the presidential elections next year. Three weeks later he was arrested. The Ugandan government s
5、ays he must answer the charges, but his supporters say its an attempt by Ugandan President Museveni to Prevent Dr. Basigye running against him. 4The incident is threatening to darken the countrys first multi-party elections in two decades. Western nations which provide essential economic support to
6、Uganda have held up Uganda as a role model in the region, opposition leaders are calling on them to take a stand. In this edition of Analysis, Lucy Williamson looks at whether Ugandas relationship with its donors is feeling the strain.3. Why did Kizza Basigye return to Kampala?4. What is the consequ
7、ence of Basigyes incident?Questions 5 and 7 will be based on the following news item.5Up to 32 people were killed in two bomb attacks Monday in the Syrian city of Homs, near the border with Lebanon. The second attack killed people who gathered to see the damage of an earlier car bomb. A suicide bomb
8、er entered the crowd and exploded a bomb hidden in clothing.The attacks took place in the al-Zahraa district, in the central part of the city. 6State-controlled media say 19 people were killed in the two bombings. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says 32 people were killed. Many others were h
9、urt.It was the second major attack in Homs since the government and rebel forces reached a cease-fire agreement this month. The government will take back areas of the city controlled by rebels.7On December 12, two bombings killed at least 16 people. Those attacks also took place in the al-Zahraa dis
10、trict. The Islamic State terrorist group claimed responsibility for the attacks.The Wall Street Journal newspaper reports that many people who live in the neighborhood are members of the Alawite sect. The newspaper reports the area is often “attacked by anti-government rebels armed with rockets and
11、vehicle bombs.”5. What do we learn about the bomb attacks from the news report?6. What did the state-controlled media say?7. What happened on December 12?Test 2Questions 1 and 2 will be based on the following news item.The number of Americans over the age of 65 is expected to double between now and
12、2030. This next generation of retirees will be the healthiest, best educated, and most wealthy in American history. 1But many of them wont have a retirement benefit their parents generation fought hard to get. It is something known as a defined-benefit plan, or “pension”. Retired workers who have a
13、pension continue to be paid a certain percentage of their highest annual salary-usually anywhere from one to three percent-multiplied by the number of years they worked for the company. Pensions first became popular during World War , when a federally-approved wage-freeze meant unions had to negotia
14、te for retirement benefits, instead of pay increases. 2Pensions reached the height of their popularity in the late 1970s, when more than 60 percent of Americans had one.1. What problem does the next generation of retirees have?2. When did pensions reach the height of their popularity?Questions 3 and
15、 4 will be based on the following news item.U.S. government health and safety officials are investigating the cause of the recent explosion at a West Virginia coal mine, which killed 12 miners. 3The accident was apparently an error in an industry which has prided itself on miner safety at a time of
16、extraordinary expansion. Mine companies operate in 27 states, from West Virginia in the east to Montana in the west, producing a total of about one billion tons a year, or more than a third of the worlds coal supply. The U.S. economy is dependent on coal production. Coal-fired power plants generate about 50 percent of the nations electricity. More than half the nations coal is mined underground by thousands of
