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听力文本Footballs?world?governing?body?FIFA?will?elect?a?new?president?on?Friday.?It?will?also?vote?on?apackage?of?reforms?intended?to?bring?to?an?end?the?corruption?that?contributed?to?thedownfall?of?the?former?president?Sepp?Blatter.?More?than?200?delegates?will?choose?hissuccessor?from?five?candidates.?The?two?front-runners?are?Sheikh?Salman,?the?president?of?theAsia?Football?Confederation,?and?UEFAs?Gianni?Infantino.?The?chairman?of?the?English?FootballAssociation?Greg?Dyke?said?it?was?an?important?moment?for?world?football.?Who?knows?whathappens?with?the?cases?thats?already?in?chain.?But?hopefully,?we?passed?reform?program?whichis?the?more?important?part.?We?elect?new?president?and?FIFA?goes?back?to?some?sort?ofnormality.?That?isnt?so.?There?wont?be?more?investigations?following?allegations?that?has?beenmade.?But?thats?about?the?past?hopefully.Iranians?are?going?to?the?polls?in?the?first?national?test?of?public?opinions?since?Tehran?signed?anuclear?deal?with?world?powers.?Voters?are?electing?a?new?parliament?as?well?as?selectingmembers?of?the?assembly?of?experts?that?appoints?Irans?supreme?leader.?Heres?JamesRobbins.?The?regime?derives?legitimacy?from?the?electoral?system?although?that?system?isrigidly?controlled?to?exclude?candidates?seen?as?an?outright?threat?to?dominance?by?theclerics.?This?time?the?election?outcomes?are?particularly?intriguing.?Will?the?people?of?Iranreward?modernizing?politicians?who?overcame?conservative?hardliners?to?conclude?the?historicnuclear?deal?last?year,?or?will?the?extraordinarily?large?number?of?floating?voters?in?Iran?prefer?toapply?the?brakes?and?endorse?more?conservative?candidates?to?limit?the?power?of?presidentRouhani.?James?Robbins?reporting.The?leading?US?Republican?presidential?contender?Donald?Trump?has?come?under?attack?from?histwo?main?rivals?during?a?heated?television?debate.?Marco?Rubio?and?Ted?Cruz?are?fighting?tostop?Mr.Trump?from?running?away?with?the?nominationin?the?Super?Tuesday?state?primaries.They?questioned?bot