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听写 Section D Directions: In this section the passage is printed in the test paper but with some words or phrases missing. The passage will be read three times. During the second reading you are required to put the words or phrases that you hear on the answer sheet in order of the numbered blanks. The third reading is for you to check your writing. Yitzhak Rabin fought in the Israeli army for 27 years rising to the rank of General. In 1992 he became 1 _____ Minister. He was committed to the peace process and 2 _______ with the Palestine Liberation Organization PLO. He and Yasir Arafat 3 _______ to work together for peace. Although this accord was 4 _______ agreed to be a very good thing there were some 5 ______ hardliners who did not agree with the idea of working together with the PLO. In his last 6 _______ Yitzhak Rabin states his conviction that peace is possible and 7 ________ the role that Egypt Morocco and Jordan had 8 _______ in the negotiations. He makes a plea for peace and asks the Israeli people to 9 _______ the peace process. Ironically he was assassinated by a young Jewish hardliner 10 _______ after giving the speech 阅读 ENVIRONMENT REPORT - Pygmy Elephants of BorneoBy Caty WeaverScientists have identified the elephants that live on the island of Borneo in Malaysia as separate from other Asian elephants. The group Worldwide Fund for Nature, or W-W-F, announced the finding. This follows genetic tests on waste from Borneos Pygmy Elephants, as they are called. The Sabah Wildlife Department in Malaysia permitted researchers to collect droppings from forests on Borneo. They sent the material to Columbia University in New York City. There, the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology carried out the tests.Scientists compared the D-N-A to the genes of elephants that live in mainland Malaysia and in Sri Lanka, India and other Asian countries.The research shows that Borneo elephants were separated from other Asian elephants about three-h