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听力原文： A plane with more than 150 people on board has crashed in a remote part of northwestern Venezuela. A rescue effort is underway. The Venezuelan Interior Minister Jesse Chacon said the pilot had reported engine problems and asked to make an emergency landing in Venezuela. From Caracas lain Bruce reports.
"It was at 3:07 a.m. local time that the Colombian airliner with 152 people on board reported mechanical problems with one of its engines. Venezuelan air traffic controllers say they lost contact with the plane some minutes later. Shortly afterwards, witnesses reported a large explosion in the Perija Hill near Venezuela's border with Columbia. The president of Venezuela's National Aviation Institute Francisco Paz said the crash site was located between two ranches in the area known as L. and N. Rescue teams from the city of Maracaibo have been sent to the scene by air and by land."
What has happened in Venezuela, according to the news？
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When you think of the tremendous technological progress we have made, it's amazing how little we have developed in other respects. We may speak contemptuously of the poor old Romans because they relished the orgies of slaughter that went on in their arenas. We may despise them because they
mistook these goings on for entertainment. We may forgive them condescendingly because they lived 2000 years ago and obviously knew no better. But are our feelings of superiority really justified？ Are we any less blood - thirsty？ Why do boxing matches, for instance, attract such universal interest？ Don't the spectators who attend them hope they will see some violence？ Human beings remains as bloodthirsty as ever they were. The only difference between ourselves and the Romans is that while they were honest enough to admit that they enjoyed watching hungry lions tearing people apart and eating them a live, we find all sorts of sophisticated arguments to defend sports which should have been banned long age; sports which are quite as barbarous as, say, public hangings or bearbaiting. It really is incredible that in this day and age we should still allow hunting or bull - fighting, that we should be pre pared to sit back and watch two men batter each other to pulp in a boxing ring, that we should be relatively unmoved by the sight of one or a number of racing cars crashing and bursting into flames. Let us not deceive ourselves. Any talk of the sporting spirit is sheer hypocrisy. People take part in violent sports because of the high rewards they bring. Spectators are willing to pay vast sums of money to see violence. A world heavyweight championship match, for instance, is front page news. Millions of people are disappointed if a big fight is over in two rounds instead of fifteen. They feel disappointment because they have been deprived of the exquisite pleasure of witnessing pro longed torture and violence. Why should we ban violent sports if people enjoy them so much？ You may well ask. The answer is simple: they are uncivilized. For centuries man has been trying to improve himself spiritually and emotionally admittedly with little success. But at least we no longer tolerate the sight madmen cooped up in cages, or public floggings of any of the countless other barbaric practices which were Common in the past. Prisons are no longer the grim forbidding places they used to be. Social welfare systems are in operation in many parts of the world. Big efforts are being made to distribute wealth fairly. These changes have come about not because human beings have suddenly and unaccountably improved, but because positive steps were taken to change the law. The law is the biggest instrument of social change that we have and it may exert great civilizing influence. If we banned dangerous and violent sports, we would be moving one step further to improving mankind. We would recognize that violence is degrading and unworthy of human beings.
It can be inferred from the passage that the author's opinion of nowadays' human beings is ______.
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Directions: In this section you will hear several conversations. Listen to the conversations carefully and then answer the questions that follow.
听力原文：M: Hi, Sarah. What's up？
W: Oh, hi, I just got out a history class. I had to give a presentation.
M: How did it go？
W: Terribly. I'm sure I made a fool of myself.
M: Why？ Weren't you prepared？
W: No, it was not that. I just get so embarrassed and nervous whenever I have to speak in front of a group of people. I stand up and my face gets red and then I get even more nervous because ] know everyone can see me blushing.
M: It's not so bad to blush.
W: But it happens all the time. If the professor asks a question and I know the answer, I blush like crazy if he calls on me. Doesn't that ever happen to you？
M: No, not really. Maybe you should just try to forget about the people. Look at something else in the room like the exit sign.
W: I guess I could try that but I doubt it'll help.
M: You know, we talked about it in psychology class. Blushing, even thought it's involuntary, is more or less a learned behavior.
W: What do you mean？
M: Oh, children hardly ever blush at all. And among adults, supposedly, women blush more than men.
W: I wonder why？
M: I don't know, but I have a friend at high schools, Brian Smith. It was really easy to make him blush. He turned red whenever a waitress would ask him for his order.
W: I'm not that bad. Well, I've got to get going for my next class. I'll talk to you later.
What was the woman's problem？
According to the professor, what characteristic of Earth's moon should a theory of its origin be able to explain？
听力原文： The vast arctic ice cap is shrinking so fast it could melt away completely before the end of this century. These are the dire warnings from NASA scientists who say they are stunned by the findings. They claim more ice on the North Pole is disappearing every year because of the climate changes. BBC's science correspondent Christine McGourty reports:
A vast frozen wilderness, but the climate here is changing, and for the wildlife that could be devastating. Floating ice provides polar bears with a platform. for hunting seals but new satellite data show sea ice melting at a rate of 8% every decade. This map shows how sea ice changes with the seasons, spreading in the cold arctic winter and then decreasing in the summer months to a September low. But this year, there's 500,000 square miles less than in the 1970s.
What has the NASA report revealed？
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