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听力原文：M: I'm really sorry I didn't make it to your dinner party last night, Julie.
W: It's all fight to say that now, but we wasted half the evening waiting for you to turn up.
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Section A
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We can infer that the author's opinion of accidents is that .
A Debate on the English Language
A measure declaring English the national language is under intense debate in the United States. The US Senate passed two declarations last week. One calls English the nation's official language and the other says it is the "common and unifying (统一的)" tongue. But Americans found themselves divided on the issue.
Since people worldwide know that most Americans speak only English, many can't understand why the issue is so controversial(有争议的).
"The discussion is related to fears of immigration issues. " says Dick Tucker, a social scientist at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University. "It's related to a worry about the changing demography (人口统计)of the US. It's a worry about who will continue to have political and economic influence.
In fact, the notion of protecting the language has been kicked around almost since the nation's founding. John Adams lobbied(游说) in 1780 for the creation of a national academy to correct and improve the English language. But his proposal died, since lawmakers saw it as a royalist(保皇主义 ) attempt to define personal behavior.
Since then, the country hasn't had a national language, but the idea of recognizing the special status of English lived on.
The emotions surrounding language resurface(再次浮现) not because people feel comfortable with English. It is more about the discomfort many Americans feel with the new languages, says Walt Wolfram, a professor at North Carolina State University.
"Language is never about language. " he says.
According to the 2000 US Census Bureau report, of 209 million Americans over 18 years old, 172 million speak only English at home. About 37 million speak languages other than English. Among them, 6.5 million speak poor English and 3.1 million don't speak English at all.
What are the two declarations concerned with？
SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST
Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. At the end of each news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions.
听力原文： At least 11 people died yesterday when a train struck a bus on a level crossing in Russia's Baltic enclave of Kalin- ingrad, the Interfax news agency reported.
Anatoly Kliimov, deputy head of the local transport police, said an initial investigation indicated the bus went past a stop sign at the level crossing and was hit by an oncoming train.
Nine bus passangers were killed in the Collision, near the village of Ovrazhroye in the Kaliningrad region. Two more later died from their injuries and 17 were being treated in hospital It was unclear whether the driver was among the victims.
"It is difficult to give the precise number of victims be- cause there are a lot of body parts at the scene, and their identification will be difficult, "Klimov said.
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