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[听力原文]6-10
Washington
All eyes are focusing
on Las Vegas as the sporting goods industry closes in its first true industry
gathering in years. The much anticipated spring market will make its debut June
11th to 13th in Las Vegas, and the industry's leading sporting goods companies
will be on hand to display their latest gear. The exhibit floor will showcase
the latest in, athletic footwear, fitness-related equipment, accessories for
fitness, as well as spring teen sports products. "In today's trade show
environment, the marketplace demands that we offer more than just the
opportunity to promote new products", explained Tom Cove, president of Sporting
Goods Manufacturers Association, "we're committed to drive the exchange of
cutting-edge knowledge and best practices to complement the action on the
floor." Along with many of the industry's most influential brands, a number of
groups, associations and media organizations within the sporting goods industry
have decided to use the trade show as a business rendezvous.
San
Francisco
Apple today introduced Safari 3, the world's fastest
and easiest-to-use web browser for Windows PCs and Macs. Safari has always been
the fastest browser on the Mac, and now it's the fastest browser on the Windows,
loading and drawing web pages up to twice as fast as Microsoft Internet Explorer
7, and up to 1.6 times faster than Mozilla Firefox 2. Safari 3 features
easy-to-manage bookmarks, effortless browsing with easy-to-organize tabs, and a
built-in RSS reader to quickly scan the latest news and information. Other
Safari features now available to Windows users includes snapback, one-click
access to an initial search query, resizable text fields, and private browsing
to ensure that information about an individual's browsing history isn't
stored.
Afghanistan
Floods triggered by heavy
rain killed 23 people and destroyed scores of houses in Afghanistan's
northeastern province of Badakhshan, the provincial governor said on Friday.
Authorities were searching for missing people after the flooding, which hit on
Thursday night in an area of impoverished and mountainous province near the
border with Tajikistan, China, and Pakistan. After years of harsh drought,
Afghanistan received much more snow and rain this year.
Cuba
Two Cuban soldiers tried to hijack a passenger plane
to escape to a foreign country with hostages on Monday, but were arrested after
killing an unarmed military officer on board, the government said. The soldiers,
who had escaped from an army base where they were doing military service,
hijacked a bus with passengers, took it to the domestic terminal of Havana
Airport, and seized an empty passenger jet before dawn. They killed one of the
hostages, an army lieutenant colonel, when he tried to stop the hijacking, but
were then captured by a military unit, the government said in a
statement.
Canada
The Royal Canadian Mint
unveiled a welcome addition to any piggy bank on Wednesday—a monster gold coin
with a face value of I million Canadian dollars that it says is the world's
biggest, purest and highest denomination coin. The Canadian mint introduced the
mega-coin, which is the size of an extra-large pizza, and weighs in at 100
kilograms alongside the one-ounce gold bullion coins it is mass producing at its
Ottawa plant. Originally designed to promote the new one-ounce coins, the
colossal coins will be issued in a very limited quantity. While they have a 1
million Canadian dollar face value, the coins are worth twice that amount, given
the current gold price of $ 683.30 per ounce.
6: What is happening in Las
Vegas from June 11thto13th?