7 inflict v. to deal or mete out ( something punishing or burdensome) ；
Step One Listen to the news and decide whether they are true or false.
1.The World Trade Center is 110 stories high. There are four hundred firms with their offices there employing tens of thousands of people.
2.Two hundred and fifty police officers and firefighters who went into the building after the planes crashed are missing and feared dead.
3.It was the second plane to take off which hit the World Trade Center first. The earlier (light from Boston then came in from the same direction and struck the other tower.
4.The flight from Washington looped back and crashed into the World Trade Center.
5.The terrorists had done their homework. At least one of the airports they chose has been recently fined for poor security.
Step Two Complete the following blanks with the exact words from the news.
1.The exact number of____ from Tuesday&aposs strikes won&apost be known for some time. It is known that ____were on board the four planes that were____at Boston, Newark and Washington. There were no____.
2.In the Pentagon, the world&aposs largest office building, ____ are still searching the rubble. It&aposs thought____there have been found but____of those who died could go up to about 800.
3.Investigators already working at the three airports used by the ____ whose extraordinarily____time table ____ they had control of four aircraft in the sky inside 15 minutes, ensuring a____of attacks so rapid, that the authorities had no time to____.
4.Finally the airliner from Newark came down in ____ Pennsylvania possibly bound for the Camp David ____retreat. The terrorists had done their____.
Notes：
1.Newark：紐瓦克。美國新澤西州東北部港口城市。
2.Camp David：戴維營。位於馬裏蘭州，離美國首都華盛頓約113公裏。從1942年起一 直是美國總統的避暑之地。
News Item 3 Art Auction Anticipates Anxious Buyers
Simon Jones, BBC News
Vocabulary：
1.gear vt. to adjust or adapt so as to make suitable 調整
2.auction n. a public sale in which property or items of merchandise are sold to the highest bidder. 拍賣
3.impressionist n. an artist, a composer, or a writer who practices or upholds the theories of impressionism 印象派藝術家
4.sculpture n. the art or practice of shaping figures or designs in the round or in relief, as by chiseling marble, modeling clay, or casting in metal 雕刻(術）
Step One Listen to the news and decide whether they are true or false.
1.The US Art Auctionhouse Sotheby&aposs is gearing up for one of its biggest sales of the year, an auction of impressionist and ancient art to be held next week.
2.There are 55 major works up for grabs but all the attention is on this one—Claude Monet&aposs Jeune File Dan Le Jardin painted in 1980.
3.David Norman, Sotheby&aposs Director of Impressionist Art says that his feelings now are very positive based on the quality of collec tors who have come to see the art works who have been calling in advance of this exhibition which opens today.
4.The presidential elections are not affecting people&aposs desire to buy the art works.
5.All the works going under the hammer have already been exhibited in Paris, Zurich, Los Angeles and Tokyo.
Step Two Complete the following blanks with the exact words from the news.
1.Its expected to fetch a total of around____million. Sotheby&aposs may hold an____twice a year but this time there&aposs a real buzz about____.
2.The organizers said it&aposs one of the last great paintings of Monet that&aposs very____to come onto the____. Not just painting, but sculpture is also on____.
3.I think there&aposs still____I believe Americans will continue to be the____majority____ at the sale so Im feeling very____ but always cautiously so for the sale.