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Section C
Directions:In this section,you will hear a passage three times.When the passage is read for the first time,you should listen carefully for its general idea.When the passage is read for the second time,you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard.For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information.For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words.Finally, when the passage is read for the third time,you should check what you have written.
The Taj Mahal is to open on moonlit evenings 20 years after security fears ends night visits.India's Supreme Court will allow the famous (36)______to love to open four nights a month,(37)______for three months.
The Taj , built in the 1600s by the Mughal (38)______Shah Jahan as a tomb for his wife ,is a World (39)______site.Only 400 visitors will be let in each night,and parking restrictions will be (40)______around the site.
The Supreme Court (41)______came as state officials in Uttar Pradesh were celebrating the Taj's 350th (42)______close to its site in the city of Agra.
"This reopening of the Taj for moonlight viewing is going to draw (43)______crowds from across the globe," State tourism minister Kaukab Hamid said,"(44)________________."
Tourist chiefs said more than 300,000 foreigners visited the Taj Mahal site in 2003,but numbers are down since the terror attacks in the US on 11 September 2003.(45)_________________.
The Sikh insurgency ended in the mid-1990s,but Indian authorities have remained reluctant to let visitors back to the Taj after sunset.During the height of tensions between India and Pakistan in 2001,officials drew up plans to disguise the Taj from possible Pakistani air attacks.
Shah Jahan built the Taj Mahal as an expression of love for his wife Mumtaz Mahal.(46)__________________.
