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In her book, Susan advises us not to be ______.
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听力原文： Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff is defending a deal giving a company in the United Arab Emirates control over terminals at a key US port. Critics in Congress say the deal is a threat to national security. They noted that the United Arab Emirates served as a base for the hijackers who took part in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States. Michael Chertoff told NBC's Meet the Press he believes it is not fair to automatically cut off business with entire countries just because there were some UAE connections to the September 11 terrorists. He added that he believes the committee's careful review of the deal, reduces any risks to the United States. "You know this is part of the balancing of security, which is our paramount concern, with the need to still maintain a real robust global trading environment." The Associated Press reports that a company at the Port of Miami has sued to block the UAE Company's takeover of shipping operations there.
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff is blamed for ______.
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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： Red Cross officials in the Philippines estimate that more than 200 people are dead and 1,500 missing after a landslide in the eastern part of the country. Officials say the landslide buried at least one village near the town of Saint Bernard in the southern part of Leyte Island. At least 36 survivors have been found and 15 bodies have been recovered. Desperate rescuers dug by hand for survivors all day in the mud-swallowed village of Guinsaugon in the eastern Philippine province of Leyte. One survivor told Manila's GMA television that he felt trammers and then saw huge boulders the size of houses falling down the mountain side. The man says the entire village has been wiped out. The Philippine Red Cross is sending relief goods to the area including generators and body bags. President Gloria Arroyo promised swift aid to the landslide victims. "The full resources of the government are being harnessed to bring the biggest, possible rescue and relief resources for you." Rescue efforts are being hampered by rain, blocked roads and washed out bridges. Philippine navy and coast guard ships are rushing to the area.
Which of the following statements about rescue efforts is TRUE？
"I wouldn't want to have someone take my daughter to a hospital for an abortion or something and not tell me. I would kill him if they do that." So much for Arnold Schwarzenegger's typically expressive sup port for Proposition 73, a constitutional amendment requiring doctors to give parents 48 hours' notice before carrying out an abortion on a girl under 18.
Will the voters agree with the governor？ His own status erstwhile hedonist turned responsible father of two teenage girls and two pre-teen boys reflects his state's mixed feelings about sexual politics. California is one of the most sexually liberated states in the nation. It also boasts the fifth worst rate for teen age abortions and the seventh for teenage pregnancies. In 2000, some 116,000 teenagers in California became pregnant, and almost 44,000 of them chose to have an abortion--including 1,620 under the age of 15. A recent Field Poll showed 45% of respondents in favour of the amendment, 45% against and 10% undecided.
The proposition's advocates are careful to argue that supporting parental notification is not the same as opposing abortion full stop. Mr. Schwarzenegger is a "pro-choice Republican" and the proposition would allow a minor to petition a court to allow her an abortion without notifying a parent. The real point, they say, is that a 17-year-old girl "can't get an aspirin from the school nurse, get a flu shot, or have a tooth pulled without a parent knowing", but a 13-year old can have a surgical or chemical abortion without her parents' knowledge. And since a majority of the prospective fathers are over 21, the current system in effect condones statutory rape.
Opponents, including the California Nurses Association and Planned Parenthood, are unconvinced. As an editorial in the Los Angeles Times argued: "It's nice to think that all girls feel comfortable talking to their parents about sex, birth control and abortion. Nice, but absurd." Equally absurd, add other opponents, is the notion that a pregnant teenager from an abusive family will have the gumption to go to court rather than to some backstreet operator--to seek her abortion. And they suspect the proposition is the start of an effort to ban all abortions: instead of speaking of a fetus, the proposition defines abortion as causing the "death of the unborn child".
Just how parental notification would affect the rate of teen pregnancies and abortions is an open question. Some 34 states require some parental involvement in a minor's decision to end a pregnancy, but there is no hard and-fast correlation with the number of abortions. For example, New Mexico and New Hampshire require no parental notification, but according to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, which studies reproductive health, they ranked 18th and 25th in the rate of teen abortions in 2000. By contrast, Wyoming and Florida, which do have notification laws, ranked 14th and 7th. And even if notification laws deter abortions, they do not seem to deter teen pregnancies: Texas, for example, is ranked 26th in abortions for girls aged 15--19 but fifth in pregnancies for that age group.
This last statistic matters for California, where the main problem is teens getting pregnant in the first place. Roughly a quarter of California's 14 year-olds and three-fifths of its 17 year-olds have had sex. True, according to the Public Policy Institute of California, birth rates fell from 73 for every 1,000 15--19 year-olds in 1991 to just 44 in 2001. But California's teenage girls become mothers at between 4 and 12 times the rate of their peers in France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands and Japan; the figures for blacks and Latinas in the state are particularly appalling. Whatever your views on abortion, these statistics add up to an awful lot of heartache.
Which of the following statements about Arnold Schwarzenegger is TRUE？
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