CURRENT NEWS EXERCISE 2-3

CURRENT NEWS EXERCISE 2-3

EXERCISE

ITEM 1

Listen to the news recording and answer the following questions.

1. What happened on Thursday?

2. Why was Obama encouraged?

3. What may Obama agree to?

ITEM 2

Listen to the news recording and choose the right answer.

1. When and where was the Libyan Prime Minister kidnapped?

a. today, Cairo

b. Thursday, Tripoli

c. several days ago, Cairo

d. today, Tripoli

2. Who has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping?

a. Militant groups

b. A guard at the hotel

c. A group of former rebels

d. A leading Al-Qaeda figure

3. What did 150 civilian cars do?

a. They displayed the logo of the Committee of the Libyan Revolutionaries.

b. They kidnapped and then released the Prime Minister.

c. They helped secure the release of the Prime Minister.

d. They arrested the Prime Minister.

4. What did militant groups threaten to do?

a. They threatened to capture a leading Al-Qaida figure.

b. They threatened to kidnap the Prime Minister.

c. They threatened to display a logo.

d. They threatened to retaliat

e.

ITEMS 3-4

Listen to the news recording and decide whether the statements are true or false.

1. US Secretary of State John Kerry says the United States decides to reduce aid to Egypt and is cutting ties with the mid-eastern country.

2. The Egyptian government is supported by their military forces.

3. Gold smuggled out of the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo can be found in the world's banks and jewelries.

4. M23 controls gold mines and sneak the gold both into Uganda and Burundi and then to other countries.

5. M23 was once integrated into the state army.

ITEMS 5-6

Listen to the news recording and fill in the blanks.

Canadian short story writer Alice Munro has been awarded _____________________. In announcing his decision Thursday, Peter England of___________________ called the 82-year-old author ___________________________________, "She is often mentioned the same time as Chekhov. But I would like to say ____________________, and they will start comparing

Chekhov with her. She standing on her own two legs here.”Munro began writing _____________________and published many collections of stories. Over the decades, she has won__________________, including the Governor General's Prize, which is ______________________________________. The Nobel is likely to be the ___________ of her career. She said earlier this year. She was probably not going to write anymore.

And Scott Carpenter has died at the age of 88, due to . Carpenter was the second American after John Gland. His death leaves Gland as of the Mercury Seven Family .

KEY

ITEM 1

Listen to the news recording and answer the following questions.

1.There was some movement Thursday on a possible deal to raise the debt ceiling, so the

United States does not run out of money to pay its bills.

2.Obama was encouraged that there appears to be room for compromise.

3.He would likely agree to a short-term debt ceiling deal only if no other conditions are

attached to it.

ITEM 2

Listen to the news recording and choose the right answer.

1—4 B C A D

ITEMS 3-4

Listen to the news recording and decide whether the statements are true or false.

1—5 F T T F T

ITEMS 5-6

Listen to the news recording and fill in the blanks.

(See script below)

SCRIPT

From Washington，this is VOA news. Obama and House Republicans meet over debt ceiling and shut down. And Libya's Prime Minister is freed after a kidnapping. I'm David Byrd reporting from Washington.

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