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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： Here in Washington, the Clinton Administration is reaffirming the importance of close ties between the US and a united Canada. Mr Clinton discussed the outcome of the referendum Tuesday with Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien. VOA White House correspondent Debora Tate reports. "In the days ahead of the vote, the Clinton Administration had been careful to describe the referendum as an internal matter but had emphasized the importance of US ties with a united Canada. A day after the vote, it was the same message. White House spokesman Mike McCurry says President Clinton spoken by telephone with Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien after the ballots were counted Monday night." He reaffirmed the importance of the close relationship that exists between the United States and Canada and said once again how valuable that partnership is between the United States and a strong and united Canada. At the State Department, spokesman Nicholas Bums noted that the US border with Canada is the longest undefended border in the world and therefore he said it is critical for the United States to have a stable northern neighbor. Mr. Bums said the United States is fortunate to keep in place a free trade treaty and a defense alliance with a united Canada. Both pacts would have had to be negotiated with a separate Quebec, Debora Tate. VOA News at the White House.
If Quebec was separated from Canada, the two pacts with US ______.
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There are more than forty universities in Britain--nearly twice as many as in 1960s. During the 1960s eight【C1】______new ones were founded, and ten other new ones were created by【C2】______old colleges of technologies into universities. In the same period the【C3】______of students more than doubled, from 70,000 to more than 200,000. By 1973 about 10% of men【C4】______from eighteen to twenty-one were in universities and about 5% of women. All the universities are【C5】______institutions. Each has its own governing councils.【C6】______some local businessmen and local politicians as【C7】______as a few academics. The state began to give【C8】______to them fifty years ago, and by 1970 cacti university derived nearly all its【C9】______from state grants. Students have to pay fees and living costs,【C10】______every student may receive from the local authority of the place where he lives a personal gram which is enough to pay his full【C11】______. including lodging and food unless his parents are【C12】______Most students【C13】______jobs in the summer for about six weeks, but they do not【C14】______do outside work during the【C15】______year. The Department of Education takes【C16】______for the payment which covers the whole【C17】______of the universities, but it does not exercise direct control. It can have an important influence【C18】______new developments through its power to【C19】______funds, but it takes the advice of the University Grants Committee, a body which is mainly【C20】______of academies.
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听力原文： According to a Justice Department report released in July 2003, the U. S. prison population surpassed 2 million for the first time-2,166,260 people were incarcerated in prisons or jails at the end of 2002 (the latest statistics available). Since 1990, the U. S. prison population, already the world's largest, has almost doubled.
About two -thirds of prisoners were in state and federal prisons, while the rest were in local jails. The report does not count all juvenile offenders, but noted that there were more than 10,000 inmates under age 18 held in adult prisons and jails in 2002. The number of women in federal and state prisons reached 97,491.
About 10. 4% of the entire African American male population in the United States aged 25 to 29 was incarcerated, by far the largest racial or ethnic group-by comparison, 2.4% of Hispanic men and 1.2% of white men in that same age group were incarcerated. According to a report by the Justice Policy Institute in 2002, the number of black men in prison has grown to five times the rate it was twenty years ago. Today, more African-American men are in jail than in college. In 2000 there were 791,600 black men in prison and 603,032 enrolled in college. In 1980, there were 143,000 black men in prison and 463,700 enrolled in college.
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It can be inferred from the passage that when a -month baby calls his or her mother "mama"
Section B
Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice.
Language learning begins with listening. Individual children vary greatly in the amount of listening they do before they start speaking, and late starters are often long listeners. Most children will "obey" spoken instructions some time before they can speak, though the word "obey" is hardly accurate as a description of the eager and delighted cooperation usually shown by the child. Before they can speak, many children will also ask questions by gestures and by making questioning noises.
Any attempt to trace the development from the noises babies make to their first spoken words leads to considerable difficulties. It is agreed that they enjoy making noises, and that during the first few months one or two noises sort themselves out as particularly indicative(标示的)of delight, distress, sociability, and so on. But since these cannot be said to show the baby's intention to communicate, they can hardly be regarded as early forms of language. It is agreed, too, that from about three months they play with sounds for enjoyment, and that by six months they are able to add new sounds to their store. This self-imitation (自我模仿) leads on to deliberate imitation of sounds made or words spoken to them by other people. The problem then arisen so to the point at which one can say that these imitations can be considered as speech.
It is a problem we need not get our teeth into. The meaning of a word depends on what a particular person means by it in a particular situation; and it is clear that what a child means by a word will change as he gains more experience of the world. Thus the use, at say seven months, of "mama" as a greeting for his mother cannot be dismissed as a meaningless sound simply Because he also uses it at other times for his father, his dog, or anything else he likes.
Playful(顽皮的) and apparently meaningless imitation of what other people say continues after the child has begun to speak for himself. I doubt, however, whether anything is gained when parents cash in on this ability in an attempt to teach new sounds.
Children who start speaking late _______.
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