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LOS ANGELES, the US

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff ruled Michael Jackson’s father can receive some medical records related to his superstar son’s death．The judge will review the records first before making them accessible to Joe Jackson’s lawyer，Brian Oxman．Beckloff said the man can only receive records on or after June 25一the day Michael Jackson died．

VANCOUVER，CANADA

World number one Zhou Yang overcame three South Korean players to win the women’s short track speed skating 1,500 meters final at the Vancouver Olympic Winter Games．The l8-year-old made perfect debut(首次亮相)as she set an Olympic record of a winning time of 2 minutes and l6,993 seconds among other seven skaters．

China has never won the women’s l,500 meters in the Olympics before，and this time Zhou’s performance gave China its third gold medal in Vancouver．

BElJING，CHINA

China’s first compulsory,(強制性的)safety regulation on primary school buses，which requires every seat to have a seat belt，will take effect on July l to help ensure safer transportation for the country’s 100 million students．

Each primary school bus must also be equipped with a “black box”，0r a recording monitor，to record speed，travel time and distance．Also，the bus must be staffed by teachers who will ensure student safety．In addition，the new rule states that the color of the school buses should be yellow，and each bus must have at least two emergency exits．

Texas，the US

A software engineer who crashed his plane into a Texas building housing a United States tax agency office，killing himself and at least one worker，apparently left behind an angry anti-government manifesto(宣言) detailing his financial difficulties and tax problems．The pilot took off from an airport in Georgetown．about 48 km from Austin．He flew low over the Austin skyline before plowing into the building．

1.We can learn from the first news that_________．

A．all Michael Jackson’s medical records can be accessed

B．Mitchell Beckloff will not go over the record first

C．Joe Jackson’s lawyer will not get any records

D．medical records before June 25 won’t be received

2.The new school bus safety rules include all the followings EXCEPT_____________.

A．the color of the bus	B．the equipment of the bus
C．the driver’s experience	D．emergency exits

3.It seems the software engineer crashed into the US tax office mainly because of___________.

A．unhappy marriage	B．financial and tax problems
C．heavy work pressure	D．mental disease

4.We can infer from the news that____________.

A．Joe Jackson will be the first to receive the medical records

B．the tax agency office is somewhere inside the building in Texas

C．Zhou Yang once broke the Olympic records in the same event

D．the software engineer flew high over skyline before crashing into the building

 

Answer 1

【答案】

1.D

2.C

3.B

4.B

【解析】文章描述了幾則來自世界各地的消息。

1.推理題。根據LOS ANGELES, the US部分第二段the man can only receive records on or after June 25一the day Michael Jackson died．可知6月25號之前的記錄他拿不到，D正確。

2.細節題。根據文章the color of the school buses should be yellow和each bus must have at least two emergency exits．可知AD正確。BElJING，CHINA部分的1,2段可知是關于新型校車的設備，故B也正確。

3.細節題。根據Texas，the US 部分的manifesto(宣言) detailing his financial difficulties and tax problems。

4.推斷題。根據Texas，the US可知這個事情發生在美國德州，A software engineer who crashed his plane into a Texas building a United States tax agency office可知這個辦公室是在德州的一棟大樓里面的某個地方。