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SECTION B INTERVIEW

Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Questions 1 to 5 are based on an interview. At the end of the interview you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions.

Now listen to the interview.

听力原文： (B -- Bill; L-- Laura)

B: Let's see what the White House has in store for the holiday this year. CBS News senior White House correspondent Bill Plante is inside with a very special tour guide, First Lady Laura Bush. Good morning.

L: Thank you for having me.

B: Christmas decorations at the White House?

L: That's right. It's the most favorite time of the year and we've just, last night, all the decorators who've come from around the country to decorate left and I will set up today to show it off.

B: I have to, I have to tell ya, I'm used to seeing something much more elaborate in this East Room.

L: That's right. This is a simpler...ur...year, really is, we, ur, you have the theme: all things bright and beautiful and what I really wanted to use were fresh, all fresh things, so we have real roses on the tree, aren't they beautiful?

B: Real flowers on the tree in...

L: Some pieces are, that are up high, with those so we don't have to change those as so often.

B: In water, in little vials of water.

L: In water, that's right, in little vials of water. And then we are using a lot of fruit. We have the beautiful color of pears on the center pieces for the East Room. This is the, a table that will be set up during receptions here in the East Room. There will be one here and then one in the dinning room, of course.

B: Wait a minute, where's the food?

L: The food will be here. You are gonna get it this afternoon, oh -- this morning. Urn, in fact that will be our new chef that would, this would be her debut to the press. Cris Comerford, our new White House chef, the first woman chef.

B: First woman chef, right.

L: Chef and she will, about 10:30, will be serving all of the press, ur, the big buffet that we will be having at our parties.

B: Well, now you got the White House Christmas card of course fight here.

L: The White House Christmas card is in the mail, and it's done by Jamie Wyeth this year, the, um, very renowned American artist Jamie Wyeth, the son of Andrew Wyeth, grandson of NC Wyeth. And it's the beautiful south portico of the White House. And we have Barney and Beazley and Kitty down there in the snow. Of course, we had to put them in the card. And then, if you come to visit the White House during the Christmas, you get the, urn, Christmas brochure, all the guests that come, including all the tours, so we should, we expect about 45,000 people and, on White House tours over the Christmas holidays and every year we've asked a children's book illustrator to illustrate the decorations of the White House. And this year the illustrator is Donna Green. And I think she did a really beautiful job of showing how pretty the White House is when it's decorated for Christmas.

B: It's always pretty, but it's very different this year. What're these different things to see?

L: It's very different, It's much simpler and everything is fresh and real. I think it's really, really pretty and, especially, I think this sort of decoration shows off how elegant the White House is.

B: Let me ask you this. Your husband today is giving a major speech about Iraq, to prove that he has a plan because he has been so criticized by many people, because the war keeps dragging on, because that means that there are troops away from Christmas. Does it, first of all, does it bother you when he is criticized the way he has been?

L: Well, sure, absolutely, you know, no one likes to see anyone they love criticized, but on the other hand when you look at what really has happened, it's only been three years. Iraq has come a very, very long way. It's really a quite amazing

A．It's elaborate.

B．It's simpler than past.

C．It's nothing special.

D．It's too plain.

Suppose you have invited Laura to your birthday tea party. But there is some emergency and you have to cancel the party. Write her a note to 1) cancel the invitation, and 2) explain why. You should write about 100 words. Do not use your own name. Use "Li Ming" instead.

Laura and Anthony Valois are a young New York couple who have been trying in vain to have their first child. Several years ago. Belinda Ramirez read an Internet adoption listing and quickly contacted them from her home in Texas, telling them they could adopt her unborn baby. Excited. Laura and Anthony speat weeks communicating with Ramirez and got regular updates on her pregnancy.

Before long, Ramirez began to ask them for financial support. That took the Valoises by surprise. But they were willing to do a lot to ensure a smooth birth. They sent more than $1,000 to Ramirez over several months.

Laura and Anthony finally drove to Texas so they could be on hand for the birth. But once they arrived, Ramirez avoided their daily phone calls. After three weeks, the couple drove back to New York—empty—handed and emotionally crushed.

They later learned Ramirez had been cheating about ten other people for such things as Wal—mart gigt cards in ranging from California to Ohio to Florida. From start to finish, it was a scam. In fact, Ramirez was never even pregant. She was sentenced to 24 months in prison as she deserved.

"When you find out you can't have children, it's just depressing." Laura Valois told a Texas TV station. "But when somebody intentionally does this to you, it's 15 times worse."

What has been troubling the Valoises?

A．They lost their first child in an accident.

B．No one responded to their adoption demand.

C．They have been trying to have a child but failed.

D．They are not qualified to adopt a child.

Laura and Anthony Valois are a young New York couple who have been trying in vain to have their first child. Several years ago. Belinda Ramirez read an Internet adoption listing and quickly contacted them from her home in Texas, telling them they could adopt her unborn baby. Excited. Laura and Anthony speat weeks communicating with Ramirez and got regular updates on her pregnancy.

Before long, Ramirez began to ask them for financial support. That took the Valoises by surprise. But they were willing to do a lot to ensure a smooth birth. They sent more than $1,000 to Ramirez over several months.

Laura and Anthony finally drove to Texas so they could be on hand for the birth. But once they arrived, Ramirez avoided their daily phone calls. After three weeks, the couple drove back to New York—empty—handed and emotionally crushed.

They later learned Ramirez had been cheating about ten other people for such things as Wal—mart gigt cards in ranging from California to Ohio to Florida. From start to finish, it was a scam. In fact, Ramirez was never even pregant. She was sentenced to 24 months in prison as she deserved.

"When you find out you can't have children, it's just depressing." Laura Valois told a Texas TV station. "But when somebody intentionally does this to you, it's 15 times worse."

What has been troubling the Valoises?

A．They lost their first child in an accident.

B．No one responded to their adoption demand.

C．They have been trying to have a child but failed.

D．They are not qualified to adopt a child.

When Laura Langanki found extra towels in the laundry smelling lemony fresh, she never【C1】______ that meant her 13-year-old son was【C2】______ drugs. "We were【C3】______ three to four bottles of air freshener a week," says the 42-year-old nurse from Plymouth, Minn. "【C4】______ a fool, I thought my kid was becoming more nterested in personal【C5】______ "Instead, Jake was "huffing"--spraying the【C6】______ into towels and inhaling the fumes.【C7】______ his mother found out two years later, he was smoking pot, using acid and crystal met amphetamine, drinking alcohol, and snorting cocaine.

Laura had warned Jake not to【C8】______ illegal drugs when he was younger and felt sure he got the message. But according to a new U.S. News【C9】______ , even parents who believe they talk often with their kids about drugs can be【C10】______ . Of 700 parents and 700 teens surveyed, 1【C11】______ 3 parents claimed to talk about drugs "a lot" with his or her teen, while only 14 percent of teenagers felt they had frequent conversation on the【C12】______ with Mom or Dad.

That failure to communicate can have【C13】______ con sequences. In a 1999 survey of nearly 10, 000 parents and teens【C14】______ the Partnership for a Drug-Free America, teens who【C15】______ anti-drug messages at home were 42 percent 【C16】______ to use drugs. "This may sound like【C17】______ advice," says Steve Dnistrian, executive vice president of the group. "But hard numbers quantify that parental communication is the 【C18】______ most important thing we can do to prevent children using drugs." Indeed, parents received 【C19】______ vote of confidence from 63 percent of the teens polled by U.S. News,【C20】______ siblings, teachers, and friends.

【C1】

A．believed

B．dreamed

C．assured

D．thought