Section C NEWS BROADCAST
In this section, you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Questions 6 to 7 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the two questions.Now listen to the news.
At one time, scientists thought the space between Earth and Sun was a vacuum. But we now know that the sun fills it with gusts of hot,electrically charged atomic particles called the solar wind. Sometimes this wind blows hard. When the Sun's outer layer is very active,it hurls nearly one-third of its gaseous matter outward at supersonic speeds. The U.S. government's oceans and atmosphere agency NOAA,has a Space Environment Center to monitor these discharges. The center's director, Ernest Hildner, says intense solar emissions are not dangerous to people on the ground, but can be a hazard to airplane occupants and astronauts. They can also shut down satellites, power networks, communications, and other technical systems. Question 8 is based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the question.Now listen to the news. Today Yasmine El-Safy is getting ready to send the latest issue of MG Magazine out to its subscribers. Yasmine El-Safy is MG magazine's founder, publisher and editor-in-chief. She is thirteen and a half years old. She says she started this magazine for Muslim girls because she couldn't relate to anything in the mainstream media. Living in a neighborhood in the Los Angeles area of California, with few other Muslim families, the magazine has also been a way for Yasmine to meet Muslim girls like herself. Through websites and Internet discussion groups, Yasmine recruited other girls, one from as far away as Kuwait,to contribute to the magazine. They write about things such as peers pressure and dressing modestly, and being a Muslim in a non-Muslim world. While MG Magazine is produced by Muslim girls,there is adult supervision provided by Yasmine's mother Lyla El-Safy, who says that the articles in the magazine reflect Muslim values. Questions 9 and 10 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item,you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the two questions.Now listen to the news. Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomes Chinese President Hu Jintao to Moscow Thursday for a four-day official visit. The two leaders are expected to talk on strengthening bilateral relations,especially in the areas of energy and trade. One day before President Putin was to host his Chinese counterpart, the Kremlin announced that 2006 would officially be named the Year of Russia in China,with the Year of China to follow in Russia in 2007. The growing sense of accord between the two neighbors, is not lost on analysts. Many say that while this week's talks will not likely lead to any real breakthroughs, they will go a long way toward forging what officials on both sides are calling, a new relationship.