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SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST
Directions: In this section, you will hear several news items. Listen to them carefully and then answer the questions that follow.
听力原文： Doctors yesterday warned amorous British couples not to try for a millennium baby as hospitals could be overloaded, and they might even end up with a handicapped child. The warning was issued as surveys showed as many as one in 10 British couples are trying for a baby to be born on the magic stroke of midnight.
What's the doctors' attitude toward British couples planning to have millennium babies？
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听力原文： Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said yesterday there was no danger of the country going to war with neighboring India, but that Pakistani forces would be ready to repel any aggression.
"There is no danger of war," Musharraf told reporters in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad. "We should have confidence in ourselves. We are not sitting idle. We are prepared for everything. There should not be any misunderstanding."
Tensions were raised this week as the two accused each other of links to killings in the two countries. India says it suspects the two gunmen who killed 28 people at an Indian temple on Tuesday had links to Pakistan-based Islamic militant groups.
Pakistan has denied any involvement in the temple massacre, and police in Karachi said there were indications of India intelligence agents behind the murder of seven Christian charity workers in the city. But India rejected the charges yesterday.
According to Pakistani President, the chances of the two countries going to war were ______
听力原文： The governors of 45 states agreed Sunday to develop common measures for establishing high school graduation rates, a step they said will help achieve their larger goal of making high school rigorous enough to help prepare students for an increasingly competitive global economy.
The agreement aims to replace a hodgepodge of measuring systems with a uniform. standard that will allow parents, students, educators and politicians to compare state graduation rates. Virginia Gov. Mark R. Warner(D) , the outgoing chairman of the National Governors Association, said that with uniform. data on graduation rates and eventually dropout rates, states will have tools to help them track and target efforts to push all students to graduate from high school.
Education experts say a key predictor of whether students eventually will graduate from college is not race or economic circumstances but whether they completed a rigorous course of study in high school. Warner has used his year as NGA chairman to spearhead the initiative to raise awareness of the weaknesses of U. S. high schools and establish higher standards and more difficult curricula.
Governors reiterated Sunday their belief that global competitiveness has left U.S. students in a precarious position, with an economy that demands greater skills but a high school system still designed for the old economy.
What is the main topic of this news？
听力原文： Some 200 pig breeders protested in the Malaysian capital yesterday against the government's handling of an epidemic that killed 101 people and ruined the U. S. $400 million pork industry. The farmers, mostly from Negeri Sembilan state, the epicenter of the outbreak, wore black armbands and held up banners outside the headquarters of the Malaysian Chinese Association political party, calling for compensation of U.S. $53 for every pig killed.
How many people lost their lives in the epidemic？
What has the institution been criticized for？
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