Listen to the BBC news recording and complete the following exercises.
Item 1. Listen to the news recording and decide whether the statements are True or False.
1.David Cameron said the United Kingdom takes this irresponsible action extremely seriously.
2.Iranian offices in Tehran were smashed and flags torn down in the attacks.
3.The Iranian foreign ministry described the incident as the unacceptable behaviour of a small
group of protesters.
Item 2.
Listen to the news recording and fill in the blanks.
The US doctor 1 ending the life of Michael Jackson has been given the 2 of four years in jail. The judge said Doctor Conrad Murray had 3 and was caught in a cycle of 4 that violated 5 as a doctor. He was found guilty earlier this month of 6 .
Listen to the news recording and choose the right answer to each question.
41. Who read a statement to the court?
a. a lawyer of the Jackson family
b. a friend of the Jackson family
c. the Jackson family
d. a lawyer and friend of the Jackson family
42. Conrad Murray is NOT convicted of _____________.
a. providing a dangerous drug to a vulnerable man
b. not caring for him once he stopped breathing
c. not caring for him after his death
d. trying to cover up what he'd done
Item 3. Listen to the news recording and choose the right answer to each question.
43. Laurent Gbagbo is on a plane heading for ____________.
a. Ivory Coast
b. Korhogo
c. the Hague
d. Abidjan
44. ____________ has been keen for Mr Gbagbo to be sent to the International Criminal Court.
a. The former president
b. The government of President Alassane Ouattara
c. Pro-Gbagbo armed groups
d. the International Criminal Court
45. presence on Ivorian soil caused tension.
a. President Alassane Ouattara’s
b. Pro-Gbagbo armed groups’
c. T he country's national prosecutor’s
d. Laurent Gbagbo’s
46. Around 3,000 people died in .
a. April
b. National Assembly elections
c. a post-election crisis
d. the International Criminal Court
Item 5. Listen to the news recording and fill in the blanks.
The measure:
Purpose of the measure:
President’s demand:
Item 6. Listen to the news recording and decide whether the statements are True or False.
47. Two psychiatrists spent 36 hours talking to Anders Breivik and checking his diaries and police
interviews.
48. It’s concluded that Norway's mass killer was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, and so
was convicted not guilty.
49. Some psychiatrists have expressed surprise at this diagnosis, given his meticulous
well-planned crime.
Item 7. Listen to the news recording and fill in the blanks.
Four of 11 candidates standing in Monday's presidential election in the 1 of Congo have called for the poll to be annulled. The four - Kengo wa Dondo, Antipas Mbusa Nyamwisi, Adam and Vital Kamerhe - accused the authorities of 2 , which meant that the poll would not be credible. The 3 called the move an act of desperation. There were reports of ballot-rigging and also violence 4 , but the commission has described the poll as satisfactory. 5 have yet to give their 6 .。