【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[听力原文]
The southern province of Guangdong is to invest about 12 million US dollars to enlarge its drug abuse treatment center.
The local Information Times reports that the reconstruction work will be finished by next year and after completion, it will have room for 3,500 patients.
Over the past five years, police in Guangdong province have seized nearly 50 tons of the drug known as "ice", making up 90 percent of the amount seized in the whole country. They also say that drug addicts are responsible for more than half of the robbery and thefts that take place in the province.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[听力原文]
Sir Edward Heath, a former British prime minister defeated in government by pay strikes and in opposition by Margaret Thatcher in the 1970s, died Sunday, a spokesman said. He was 89.
A carpenter's son who broke the tradition of blue bloods leading the British Conservative Party, he was a born politician, and an accomplished yachtsman and musician.
In 1992, he became Sir Edward, a member of the country's most prestigious order of chivalry, the knights of the Garter.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[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.

【正确答案】 C

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[听力原文] 9-10
The Iraqi Special Tribunal has brought its first charges against Saddam Hussein for alleged crimes during his reign, the tribunal announced Sunday.
The charges were announced by Judge Raed Juhi, chief investigative judge of the tribunal. They are connected with a 1982 series of detentions and executions after an assassination attempt on Saddam in Dujayl.
Charges against five other men were announced in February. The men will not be tried individually.
"With this announcement, the [tribunal] has raised this historic trial to a new level where the accused stands before justice which will rely on evidence," Juhi said.
No trial date was announced, but under Iraqi law Saddam could stand trial as early as September, because of a minimum 45-day period following referral for trial.
On July 8, 1982, a convoy carrying Saddam traveled through the town of Dujayl, a Shiite village north of Baghdad, and was attacked by a small band of residents.
A series of detentions and executions in the town followed the incident. According to the tribunal, 15 people were summarily executed and some 1,500 others spent years in prison with no charges and no trial date. Ultimately, another 143 were put on "show trials" and executed, according to the tribunal.
Speaking from Rome, Italy, an attorney for Saddam questioned whether a trial would ever be held at all.
"As of today, we still do not have a single document purporting to be anything where we can be ready for trial, and after their own rules ... we will require ... time to be able to prepare a defense," said Giovanni di Stefano. "Anything other than that would make it a farce./