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【答案解析】[听力原文] Culture can and should play a role in bringing people together, even those with very different world views. Culture can undoubtedly change individual fives. Beyond that though, it can help to solve tough social and economic problems; to raise understanding between people and nations; and to encourage solutions to some of the major international challenges we all face. With the pressing economic, social and environmental issues which face the international community, the Edinburgh International Culture Summit will create a much needed and rare opportunity to look at the role of culture in government and governments in culture. It creates a significant new platform to think about key issues such as how Ministries of Culture, and their equivalents, can encourage the right environment for helping culture in all its forms to develop and grow. The summit also provides an opportunity for Ministers, and other key figures in the international world of culture, to think about, and discuss together, how cultural policy in countries across the world can be enriched by the sharing of international best practice and co-operation. This unique gathering is similar with the Edinburgh International Festival perhaps the greatest cultural festival in the world. One of the great strengths. of the Festival is the vast number of international talent that it attracts and shows in Scotland's historic capital city. This background, artistic and physical, will stimulate discussion and serve also as a reminder that culture is richer when it goes beyond national boundaries and serves as a force to connect people around the world. What can culture do according to the passage? 短文提到，文化毫无疑问会改变个人生活，除此以外，它能帮助解决棘手的社会和经济问题，A中的Resolve与短文中的solve同义，故为答案。 ①选项均是原形的动词短语形式，可推测提问与某件事物的目的或作用有关。②B用词均为原文原词，但信息组合有误，原文并没说文化会引起一些主要的国际争端，故排除B；C中的different world views也是原词，但原文是说文化把持有不同世界观的人集合到一起，而不是说把不同的世界观点集合在一起，排除C；原文没有提及文化鼓励人们追求幸福，D也不对。
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【答案解析】[听力原文] What do we know about the Edinburgh International Culture Summit? 短文提到，爱丁堡国际文化峰会将会创造一个非常必要和少有的机会去看看文化在政府中的作用和政府在文化中的作用。A属于后者，故为答案。 ①选项均讲述It的作用，听音时要留意各选项内容的对应信息。②B的前半部分是对的，后半部分的to protect environment则完全与该峰会的主题不相关，可排除；原文说的是该峰会可以帮助文化发展(helping culture to develop and grow)，而不是帮助“社会”，且“激发有助于文化发展的合适环境”是文化部的行为，不是该峰会的行为，可排除C；紧迫的经济、社会和环境问题是爱丁堡国际文化峰会举行的背景情况，不是该峰会能处理的问题，可排除D。