听力原文: A U.S.Apache attack helicopter crashed Monday north of Baghdad,killing both pilots,a day after a series of suicide attacks left nearly three dozen people dead in northern Iraq.
The AH-64 crashed in Mishahda, 20 miles north of the capital, and was in flames on the ground. Heavy gunfire was heard at the time of the crash and shots also were heard afterward, a witness said.
The attack came hours after three suicide bombers struck a police headquarters, an army base and a hospital around Mosul on Sunday, killing 33 people in a setback to rebuilding the northern city's police force. The group al-Qaida in Iraq, headed by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, claimed responsibility for the attacks in Iraq's third-largest city. The relentless carnage has killed at least 1,338 people since April 28, when Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari announced his Shiite-dominated government.
Which of the following was NOT attacked before the crash of the helicopter?
A hospital.
B. A mosque.
C. An army base.
D. A police headquarters.
听力原文: More than 50 pilot whales beached themselves on a stretch of Cape Cod sand Monday and some of them died before vacationers and other volunteers could push the animals back out to deeper water in a feverish rescue effort. Hundreds of vacationers lined a quarter-mile of Chapin Beach and watched as rescuers tended to the small, glistening black whales, first discovered stranded about 6 a.m. One of the whales was dead when rescuers arrived. Seven others died after spending hours in the hot sun. Their bodies were taken away in a dump truck while volunteers poured buckets of water over to keep them moist. The rising tide at midday helped volunteers push the remaining 46 whales into water deep enough for the animals to swim on their own.
According to the news, how many pilot whales eventually died before they were rescued?
A. 15.
B. 7.
C. 8.
D. 6.
According to the professor, what happened in the USA in the 1940s around the time of WWII
A. The populations of small towns increased rapidly.
B. Art critics in cites began to take notice of regionalism.
C. Some regionalist painters began a new art movement.
D. Society became more internationally focused.
听力原文: A leading Saudi newspaper yesterday urged Iraqi President saddam Hussein to make. a "heroic" choice and step down from power to save his country and the whole Middle East from a looming US-led war. A1- Riyadh said any discussions of the Iraq crisis would fail unless Saddam took the "necessary political decision" to ward off a U. S. attack. "Saddam will not be considered defeated if he wants to save Iraq; it would be seen as a wise and even heroic decision which may erase previous moral and legal judgments against him," the daily said in an editorial. A1-Riyadh pointed out that for a proposed Arab summit to be successful "Baghdad must realize that the issue is not normal." It said a reasonable stance from Iraq will enable Arabs to unite in dealing with the United States and have an impact on international developments.
A leading Saudi newspaper yesterday urged Iraqi President Saddam to do all EXCEPT_______.
A. saving his country from war
B. avoiding Arab summit
C. stepping down from power
D. taking a necessary political decision