【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[听力原文] The state news agency in Pakistan says nine people have been killed and hundreds injured during an annual kite festival in the city of Lahore. {{U}}Three people were electrocuted when metal kite strings touched live cables. A girl dies after a string slit her throat. Others died falling from buildings.{{/U}} Here's our correspondent in Pakistan Paul Anderson. Lahore's kite festival is a weekend celebration of spring and the first harvest of the year. {{U}}It's become a highly competitive event in which people employ extraordinary skills to bring down, better still, capture an opponent's kite.{{/U}} Sometimes they use string coated with pulverized glass to cut an opponent's kite, other times metal wire which is often coated in corrosive chemicals. Despite a ban on firing guns, several people were injured by stray bullets. The authorities have also banned metal and treated wire, but the city is in the grip of kite-flying frenzy and doesn't seem to have much effect. [解析] 有两个人被电死了，一个女孩被风筝线割裂脖子而死，其他人是从高处掉下来摔死了。

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[解析] 风筝节已经变成了一个有高度竞争性的活动，人们都想着用非凡的技能把对手的风筝打下来。

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[听力原文] {{U}}Voting has ended in Iran's parliamentary election where conservatives are all but guaranteed to regain a majority after mass disqualification of reformist candidates.{{/U}} The country's more than 40 thousand polls closed following four-hour extension to allow as many votes as possible. It was not immediately clear how any people heeded the call from reformists to boycott the election to protest the disqualification. Iranian state media reported large turnout at the polls, but foreign journalists reported on mixed results. Initial results could come by Saturday, but official results are results. Initial results could come by Saturday, but official results are expected next week. [解析] 伊朗的议会投票已经结束，保守派都保证在很多候选人被取消资格后也要赢得多数投票。