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    US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is likely to visit China at an “ appropriate” time this year, a senior Chinese military official said on Monday. Colonel Tu Qiming, director of the American and Oceanian Affairs Bureau of the Foreign Affairs Office at the National Defence Ministry, made the remark during Sino -US defence talks this week. This is the first ever “special defence policy dialogue” between the two defence ministries, according to the Chinese military.

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    FRANCES Agriculture Ministry has confirmed (证实) the first case of mad cow disease detected in a goat last Friday. The goat killed in 2002 tested positive for mad cow disease. It is the first case in the world of the fatal disease being found in an animal otwww..comher than a bovine. The human form of mad cow disease causes brain - wasting, personality change, loss of body function, and ends in death. The European Commission has not advised any change in farming and consuming goats, said the French Ministry in a statement published last Friday.

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    MOBILE phone sales hit a new record in 2004, with some 684 million units sold around the world, the US research institute Strategy Analytics said on Thursday. The number represents an increase of 32 per cent over 2003, when 571 million units were sold. Strategy Analytics predicts a more modest rise of 8 per cent for this year, to 735 million. Finnish cellphone provider Nokia stayed out in front in 2004, with sales of 207.6 million units, giving it a market share of 30.4 per cent. Motorola moved to No 2, just ahead of the South Korean company Samsung.

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    SIX male penguins (雄企鹅) at a German zoo are proving stubbornly resistant to females brought in from Sweden to make them into breeding (繁殖). Of the ten male penguins at the zoo, six have formed into " homosexual" couples and have shown no interest in the females, making breeding an impossibility. So the zoo imported the four female penguins from Sweden last month, full of hope that the new arrivals could “turn” the males. But so far, the boys are remaining strictly with the boys.

    How many countries are mentioned in the pieces of news?

       A. Six.            B. Five.                 C. Three.           D. Seven.

    From the fourth piece of news we know that           ．

       A. the scientists haven’t succeeded in doing their experiment

       B. the scientists have successfully got six female penguins into breeding

       C. the Sweden girls made the boys show interest in them

       D. German boys don’t like Sweden boys

    Which of the following are the suitable headlines for the pieces of news?

       A. a. US Defence Secretary Visit Likely         B. a. US Defence Secretary Visit Likely

         b. France Confirms 'Mad Goat" Case            b. France Confirms ' Mad Goat" Case

         c. Nokia Stays on Top                        c. Mobile Phone Sales 

         d. Male Penguins and Female Penguins          d. Birds of a Feather

       C. a. Defence Policy Dialogue                 D. a. Sino - US Talks

         b. Mad Goat Disease                         b. Mad Goat Case

         c. Mobile Phone Sales                        c. Motorola' s Sales Reduced

         d. Importing Female Penguins                  d. Boys and Girls

    【小题1】D

    【小题2】A

    【小题3】B


    解析:

    【小题1】美国、中国、法国、芬兰、南朝鲜、德国、瑞典等七个国家。

    【小题2】 由第四则新闻最后一句可知。

    【小题3】 新闻标题大多都是根据第一句导语得出。

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