【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[听力原文] Less than a year after surviving an assassination attempt, President Jose Ramos-Horta says political stability has returned to East Timor, he says the government has resolved the dispute with dismissed rebel soldiers who unleashed violence in the country in the last two years. Mr. Ramos-Horta says he has even met and shook hands with the rebel soldier he says shot him twice in the back in February last year. The incident shocked the small, struggling Southeast Asian nation that officially won independence from Indonesia in 2002. 新闻中提到东帝汶在2002年脱离印度尼西亚获得独立，到现在为止已有七年的时间。East Timor东帝汶。

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[听力原文] Philippe Caland came from a privileged background in his native Lebanon. His father was French and his mother was a noted Lebanese artist, Huguette Caland. Her father, Bishara al-Khuri, was the first president of an independent Lebanon, from 1943 to 1952. In the mid-1980s, young Caland moved to New York and went into business. 新闻中提到Caland的母亲的父亲Bishara al-Khuri(即Caland的外祖父)是独立后的黎巴嫩的第一任总统。Lebanon黎巴嫩。

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[听力原文] Speaking in a lecture hall at Rice University, 80-year-old T. Boone Pickens called for the young people in the audience to carry forth the fight for a national energy plan. He said a severe crisis might not cripple the nation during his lifetime, but he said such a crisis could crush the hopes of younger generations unless the government acts now to develop a clear, comprehensive policy. 新闻中明确提到Boone Pickens called for the young people…to carry forth the fight for a national energy plan，故A项为最佳答案。

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[听力原文] The dangers of smoking tobacco have been well documented since the 1960s. For years, health experts have also warned about the dangers of second-hand smoke-breathing in other people's cigarette smoke. Now, some researchers are sounding the alarm over what they call "third-hand smoke". Third-hand smoke is the tobacco contamination that remains after a cigarette is extinguished. Dr. Jonathan Winickoff of Harvard University has been studying it. 本新闻由吸烟的危害和吸二手烟的危害引出third-hand smoke这个概念，然后解释了它是什么，谁在研究它，所以，整段新闻的重点在the third-hand smoke。

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[听力原文] Investigators have concluded engineer Robert Sanchez--who was in charge of a busy passenger train--failed to apply the brakes before a red light and ploughed into an oncoming freight train. 25 people, including Sanchez, died and more than 130 were hurt in the collision in Chatsworth, north of Los Angeles. Sanchez was sending text messages from his mobile phone that day and some teenagers told a local news station they received one such message from him one minute before the crash. 新闻中提到包括Robert Sanchez在内共有25人丧生，故除Robert Sanchez外还有24人死亡。in addition to除…之外。