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听力原文： When you hear the word "biodegradable," people are talking about trash. So, what happens to waste that can't be broken down？ Well, it piles up in landfills around the country. That's part of the reason why San Francisco decided to ban plastic bags. This decision is having an immediate impact on checkout lines at the grocery store'
The California Grocers Association says regular plastic bags cost a penny or two. Paper's 5 to 8 cents. Special biodegradable bags are 10 to 16 cents. Mayor Gavin Newsom says San Francisco considered charging grocers a fee on each plastic bag. The mayor says grocers used their political muscle at the state level and got the legislature to prohibit cities from imposing such a charge. With no power to slow the spread of plastic bags, the city banned them.
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听力原文： No institutions will be allowed to sell lotteries on the Internet any more in China. Those failing to stop online sale on time will be penalized by telecommunication regulators according to related laws and rules. Those who intercepted money from lottery sale or gambled online will be prosecuted. According to Wang Xuehong, head of the research institute of lottery under the Beijing University, there are honesty and security problems in the area of online lottery sale. It is difficult for buyers to tell legal websites from illegal ones.
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Directions: In this section, you will hear several news items. Listen to them carefully and then answer the questions that follow.
听力原文： More than ten thousand film and television writers in the United States have been on strike since November fifth. Work has stopped on many TV shows and movies.
The international market for American entertainment means that Americans are not the only ones watching and waiting for a settlement.
This week, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced nominees for its Golden Globe Awards next month. This is supposed to be an exciting time in Hollywood: the awards season, leading up to the Academy Awards in February.
Why Americans are not the only ones waiting for a settlement for the writers strike since November 5th？
Drunken driving has become a national 【C1】______ . Every hour of every day about three Americans on average are killed by drunken drivers, adding 【C2】______ to an incredible 250,000 over the past decade.
A drunken driver is defined as one with 0.10 blood alcohol 【C3】______ or through three beers, glasses of wine or 【C4】______ of whisky drunk within two hours. Heavy dinking used to be a (an) 【C5】______ part of the American macho image and judges were lenient in most courts, but the drunken 【C6】______ Zhas recently caused so many well-publicized tragedies, especially involving young children, 【C7】______ public opinion is no longer tolerant.
Twenty states have raised the 【C8】______ drinking age to 21. After New Jersey lowered it to 18, the number of people killed by 18-to-20-year-old drivers more than 【C9】______ , so the state recently upped it back to 21.
Reformers fear 【C10】______ the drinking age will have little effect unless accompanied by educational 【C11】______ to help young people to resist 【C12】______ pressure to drink.
Tough new laws have led to incredible arrests and tests and, in many areas already, to a marked 【C13】______ in fatalities. Some are also penalizing bars for 【C14】______ customers too many drinks. A tavern in Massachusetts was 【C15】______ for serving six or more double brandies to a customer who was " 【C16】______ intoxicated" and later drove off the road, killing a nine-year-old boy.
【C17】______ the fatalities continue to occur in every state, some Americans are even beginning to speak well of the 13 years of national 【C18】______ of alcohol that began in 1919, what President Hoover called the "noble 【C19】______ ". They forget that legal prohibition didn't stop drinking, but encouraged political corruption and organized crime. As with the booming drug trade generally, there is no easy 【C20】______ .
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