Memorial Day honors those soldiers who died while in military service.

Paragraph 4 In earlier days those who had overseas business which they believed should be discussed personally, took ship and set out across the briny deep. Once aboard they transacted their affairs, engaging in commercial and social matters or conducting government business. Today ships and passengers continue to sail the seven seas, and airplanes soar overhead. But above them all, words speed through the sky – telephone conversations quickly bring together in the most personal fashion people who are separated by thousands of miles.

A、Overseas telephone service today is ruling out all need for overseas travel.

B、Nothing can take the place of person-to-person conversation in settling business, social, and government problems.

C、Many conversations which once required overseas travel can now be conducted by telephone.

D、Even with modern overseas telephone service people continue to travel abroad by ship or by plane.

A、Memorial Day is on the first Monday of May.

B、Memorial Day honors the people who are died in the military service.

C、Memorial Day became an official federal holiday in 1971.

D、Many Americans observe Memorial Day with parades, displaying American flags, and placing flowers on the graves of fallen soldiers.

听力原文： An Italian soldier was killed and two others were injured when their military jeep crashed Thursday near the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah, the Italia: Defense Ministry said.

Violent deaths among Iraqi civilians far exceeded those of soldiers or police during the first six months of this year, according to figures obtained Thursday from separate Iraqi government ministries.

A top Iraqi judge is raising the possibility that Saddam Hussein may go on trial as early as next month for his alleged role in a massacre 23 years ago. The judge says the ousted dictator could face the death penalty.

How were an Italian soldier killed and two others injured?

A．The injuries took place when their military jeep crashed Thursday near Nasiriyah.

B．The injuries took place when their military jeep exploded Thursday near Nasiriyah.

C．The injuries took place when their military jeep was attacked Thursday near Nasiriyah.

D．The injuries took place when their military jeep turned upside down Thursday near Nasiriyah.

Danish police have been left scratching their

heads as they hunt for the vandals who

decapitated the Little Mermaid.

Few clues have emerged of the second 【M1】______

beheading in 35 years of the famous statue on

Copenhagen's waterfront, which has shocked 【M2】______

Danish public and worried tourism officials.

Frogmen scouring the harbor near the statue

failed to find the Little Mermaid's bronze head

and two youth on roller skates seen near the 【M3】______

landmark early on Tuesday morning have not

responded police requests to help in the 【M4】______

investigation.

"I am afraid that the latest attack on the

Little Mermaid can backfire on our tourism,"

said Bernhard Joergensen, director of the

Wonderful Copenhagen tourism organization.

"It is important for a tourist city to have a

symbol like the Eiffel Tower in Paris and the 【M5】______

London's Big Ben."

Based on the fairytale of Hans Christian 【M6】______

Andersen about the Sea King's daughter that 【M7】______

must wait on her rock for 300 years before

entering the world of humans and marrying her

prince, the Little Mermaid attracts almost one

million tourists a year.

The statue was found sever at the neck by a 【M8】______

saw or grinding machine after an anonymous call

to a local television cameraman before dawn on

Tuesday.

Police are working on a theory that the

beheading was the work of the same person who

sawed a 19th century galleon figurehead at a 【M9】______

naval base in Copenhagen just before Christmas.

The severed figurehead was found in the

ladies' toilets of a department store on Tuesday,

give rise to police suspicions a mentally disturbed 【M10】______

woman may be behind the two decapitations.

【M1】

On cold days in Delhi, the poor light bonfires (篝火) of tyres, trees and rags whose fumes mix with the exhaust from the citys 2 million vehicles to form. a thick smog. On most days in Mexico City, a blanket of pollution cuts off views of the surrounding mountains. On one famous occasion it got so bad that birds fell dead out of the sky on to the Zocalo, the citys main square. Throughout the developing world, smogs in many big cities are getting worse as more people use cars and more manufacturing firms are belching out (喷出) pollution. Congestion is on the rise, too- according to one estimate, a car in Bangkok now spends the equivalent of 40 days a year stuck in traffic. The air in Asias cities, like the water in its rivers, is particularly unhealthy, containing levels of dust and smoke several times higher than in the rich countries cities. Environmentalists in the developed world also worry about air pollution in poorer countries, not just out of the goodness of their hearts but because they fear it may affect their own backyard. Carbon-dioxide emissions, thought to be the cause of global warming, are growing particularly fast in developing countries. So are emissions of sulphur dioxide, blamed for acid rain, which sometimes falls hundreds of miles from the source of the pollution. But the harm that air pollution causes in the developing countries themselves is much more serious and immediate. The biggest concern are indoor air pollution, lead emissions and small particles. Indoor pollution in poor countries is not much talked about, but it is often as damaging to health as smoking cigarettes. Around a third of all energy consumed in developing countries comes from wood, crop residues and dung, which are often burnt in poorly designed stoves within ill-ventilated (通风很差的) huts. Studies of women in India and Nepal exposed to smoke from such fuels show that their death rates from chronic respiratory disease are similar to those of heavy smokers. Lead has long been known to be dangerous in large doses. But only since the 1970s have scientists been aware that relatively small quantities of lead in the bloodstream can be harmful to humans. In particular, many studies show a correlation between levels of lead in childrens blood and lower IQ scores, hearing loss and hyperactivity (活动过度). But the kind of air pollution thought to cause the most damage to human health in developing countries is that from small particles. Caused by vehicle exhausts, coal-burning smoke from factories and dust stirred up by vehicles, these particles easily find their way into peoples lungs. Studies the world over have shown a strong positive correlation between small particles in the air and death rates.

The first paragraph is engaged in______.

A．describing several world famous cities in developing countries

B．illustrating the seriousness of environmental problems in developing countries

C．drawing a picture about the seriously polluted future world

D．comparing the pollution problems in developed and developing countries