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听力原文: IRAN
Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, formally gave his blessing to incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for a second term on Monday. The ceremony comes two days before his formal inauguration, but many opposition figures and two former presidents boycotted the event.
The start of inauguration festivities for Mr. Ahmadinejad comes in the midst of the trials of top reformist leaders and activists by a revolutionary court in Tehran. Charges against them include violence, fomenting strife, and attempting to overthrow the government.
ICELAND
Icelandic MPs are meant to be enjoying a lengthy Christmas break—instead they've been summoned back to Parliament to discuss the fallout of President Olafur Grimsson's refusal to sign a bill allowing more than $ 5bn to be paid to the British and Dutch governments.
A quarter of the population had signed a petition calling for him to withhold his signature. The money was meant to compensate the two governments after they bailed out savers put at risk when the online Icesave bank collapsed in 2008. Now a public referendum will be held, possibly next month.
Meanwhile, frantic diplomatic efforts have been made to try and build bridges with both the British and Dutch governments and other Nordic countries, who had made an agreement on refunding the compensation on condition of further aid payments.
AUSTRALIA
Australia is revising controversial citizenship tests, to make sure applicants are more aware of their rights and responsibilities rather than examine their general knowledge about sports and culture.
In the new version of the test, to be rolled out on October 19, there will be more questions about gender equality, compulsory voting and the Australian legal system.
The tests were introduced in 2007 and were intended to enhance social cohesion. Recent studies have found that some prospective citizens had been deterred from applying for citizenship, wrongly fearing they would be deported if they failed the test.
CHINA
About 113,000 Internet bars in China attract more than 40 million visits a day, making about 3 billion US dollars a year. Chinese official statistics shows that the country's Internet bars attract more than 40 million visits a day, with annual revenue topping 25.68 billion Yuan or about 3 billion US dollars. An official from the Ministry of Culture, Liang Gang, told the Beijing News recently that China has registered 113,000 Internet bars by April 2005. More than 8 million computers have been purchased for Internet bars, which employ more than one million people in the country. He added that the Internet bars could have contributed more than 128 billion Yuan to related peripheral industries based on a calculating method set by the National Bureau of Statistics.
SRI LANKA
Sri Lanka's government is ordering the spokesman for the U. N. Children's Fund to leave the country. Our correspondent reports the expulsion stems from comments by the official that appeared in the international media in recent months.
The visa for James Elder, an Australian, has been canceled effective Monday (Sept.7), but officials say after an appeal from the United Nations he will be allowed to stay there under September 21.
The government also harshly criticized correspondents, international organizations and aid workers who it perceived of having a bias against it and sympathy for the rebels.
Four months ago Elder spoke about what he called the "unimaginable hell" suffered by Tamil children caught in the conflict.
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6. Which of the following is NOT the charge against top reformist leaders and activists?
7.Wha
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