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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： President Bush said Thursday it is unrealistic to expect NATO to send more troops to Iraq. Speaking as he prepared to leave the G8 summit, the President said, however, that NATO countries could contribute in other ways. Earlier, speaking off the coast of Georgia where the site of the summit was, Sea Island, the President has suggested a role for NATO troops in Iraq that was met with some opposition by French President Jacques Chirac. The Group of Eight summit ended with participating countries agreeing among other things to fight AIDS and to promote democratic reforms across the larger Middle East.
According to the news, French President Chirac disagreed with President Bush on ______.
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SECTION B INTERVIEW
Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Questions 1 to 5 are based on an interview. At the end of the interview you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions.
Now listen to the interview.
听力原文： An Interview with an Actress
Interviewer: Demi, you may not have impressed the critics this summer with Striptease. But you sure have gripped your fans. And it wasn't just adults that were fascinated by you this summer, you also provided the voice and look for the animated character Ezmeralda in Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame. At age 33, you are now the highest paid actress in motion picture history. Looking back, did you ever imagine as a child that you would end up having this kind of a life？ That you would end up being an actress, did that occur to you？
Actress: Urn, I think it's... I don't know if this is corny to say, but I feel that I am living that dream of the little girl.
Interviewer: Demi, I wanted to ask you, you were paid 12 and a half million dollars for this fihn Striptease, what does it mean to be the highest priced female in the business uow？
Actress: First of all, it is very meaningful in this business for women. It just so happened that it happened to me but it doesn't matter that it was me. It could have been anyone of us. I mean it's nice that it was me, and it's a nice kind of ego boost and it's flattering, but the fact is the more important element to it and the thing that makes me feel very proud is that the fact that they were willing to step up and say that what I was gonna contribute to this film was worth what they wanted to pay me, it means the perception of all women in Hollywood changed as of that moment as did their salaries. And for that I feel extremely, extremely proud.
Interviewer: Some critics say that you would not have gotten 12 and a half million dollars for doing Striptease if you hadn't stripped.
Actress: Well, I would help them to understand one thing, which is When they asked me to do this they never asked me to be naked and they never asked me to even show them that I could dance. And that I could have asked for a body double, and that per my contract, I am not requested to be naked in any way. It was of my own choice as it is with the women who do this action for a living.
Interviewer: Why was it your own choice to be naked？
Actress: One, because I felt that if I'm gonna do it, that I really need to do it. And if I want really to take advantage of the opportunity to step into this world, to understand what their lives are, to try that on .. Then I need to really do it so that I can speak to you and really know that I have the confidence to say to you, this is what my experience is, not well what I think the experience is.
Interviewer: Was that fun？
Actress: Yes, it was incredible. It was great. And you know I would have done it for less. I would.
Which of the following statements is TRUE？
Lloyd Webber has a theory that Picasso's Blue Period paintings were influenced by Burne-Jones, the British Pre-Raphaelite master whose international reputation stood high at the turn of the century. The theory is not shared by many art historians, but that doesn't matter to the composer. He had been looking for a Blue Period Picasso for some time.
It is now extremely hard to come by Blue Period Picassos—figurative works that are drenched in melancholy, expressed by a dominant use of blue. Blue Period subjects par excellence are mothers and children or harlequins; Lloyd Webber's purchase is not the most attractive of them. He paid roughly double what the picture was worth. He seems to have got carried away when the bidding started to climb.
The Picasso was one of the two highest prices of the 1994—1995 auction season, and help illustrate what has been happening in this curious market. The very rich have got their confidence back, which has meant that buyers can be found for works of really outstanding quality and, very occasionally, bidding battles have driven prices back to their 1989—1990 levels.
The 1980s boom collapsed in 1990. After several false dawns there are now signs that serious recovery has begun. More than an expansion of the market, however, it reflects the relative weakness of the American dollar, the currency in which most art deals are transacted. Collectors from countries with stronger currencies have been finding dollar prices cheap.
The middle market is still fairly weak. It is not unusual for up to half the lots on offer at a Christie's or Sotheby's sale to be left unsold. Dealers, as opposed to auctioneers, are still finding it bard to make a living and seldom buy for stock. The auctioneers have tried to replace them by encouraging private people to buy directly at auction—and more of them are doing this. But private buying is unpredictable and cannot underpin the market in the way dealer buying used to. Private individuals buy what they want; they don't bid on everything that is going cheap.
Overall, the nature of the market is changing. In' the 1980s art was bought as a speculation: buy in April, sell for double the price in September. This mentality vanished with the 1990 collapse, but the very rich and their financial advisors still take the view that it is sensible to keep a percentage of your investment portfolio in art. It is this kind of money that creates the fancy prices at the top end of the market.
Geographically, the present recovery has been led by North America. Normally a major recession, such as was experienced in the United States, results in a shift of taste. But the Americans liked Impressionist and classic modern pictures best before the market collapse and that is what they have been coming back to. It is currently the strongest sector of the picture market. Contemporary and Old Master markets are still struggling and there are few buyers for Victorian pictures, apart from Lloyd Webber.Besides Europe and America, however, there is now a growing market in the East. Indeed, the East has become the great hope of hard-pressed dealers over the last three years—they have been aiming to find new buyers in Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong and China.
There are more rich connoisseurs in Japan than anywhere else but they have not been in a buying mood. Japanese speculators lost huge amounts of money in the 1990s crash and there are few collectors who dare to buy any works of art today. The market in Chinese ceramics, works of art, jade jewelry and old and modern brush paintings is now dominated worldwide by wealthy collectors
听力原文： In Saudi Arabia, 6 influential Saudi preachers have denounced militant attacks on Westerners in the Kingdom as a grave sin against Islam. In a statement, the clerics including several once believed close to Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden said the attacks are being committed by a deviant group. The statement came as Saudi security forces searched for those behind the killing of one American and the abduction of another Saturday. Al-Qaeda terrorists have claimed responsibility.
In Saudi Arabia, 6 influential preachers ______.
Which of the following statements is TRUE？
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