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B CONVERSATION
10. W: I want to find a part-time job during the summer vacation and earn some money. How about you?
     M: I’m going to take a few summer courses so that I can graduate early next year.
11. W: Excuse me, I want some dictionaries. Where can I find them?
     M: The regular-priced ones are here and on that table in the corner of the room we have some on discount.
    W: Thank you.
12. W: I wonder where I can take my girlfriend for dinner after work tonight.
     M: Have you been to the Chinese Restaurant near the school?
13. M: Hello, the pipe in my bedroom is leaking. Can you come and get it repaired right away?
     W: Well, it depends on how soon I can finish the drains at the office building.
14. W: Do you think you can play the music tape another time, dear? I’ve got a slight headache.
     M: Of course. Sorry. I didn’t realize you could hear it. You want me to call the doctor?
    W: No, thanks. I’ll be OK in a minute.
15. M: Lisa, how are you getting along with our term paper?
     W: I’ve been writing and rewriting it. I simply don’t know if I will ever get it finished.
16. W: I must go to the library, the one near the laboratory, because I have to finish my research project by tomorrow. But if I could, I prefer to go with you to the theatre.
     M: I wish you could come along.
17. M: Why did Jack suddenly decide to quit his job?
     W: He said he wouldn’t break his back working for such low pay.
     M: I see.
18. M: Are you sure you can remember the name of the film you saw last week?
     W: It’s just on the tip of my tongue.
SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST
News Item One (19-20)
     Commonwealth leaders agreed to lift Nigeria’s 3-5 years’ suspension on May 29, the day the military government hands over power to the elected president, the organization secretary general announced yesterday.
    Nigeria was suspended from the 54 nation group of mainly former British colonies in 1995 after it executed 9 minority rights activists including writer Ken Thawrawiwa. But now that the country has embarked on the return to democracy, Commonwealth heads of government have agreed to end this estrangement. Secretary general chief Ormiga Anyaco said in a statement: “I’m delighted an unfortunate episode in Nigeria Commonwealth relations will now come to an end and Nigeria is resuming its rightful place in the Commonwealth.”
News Item Two (21-22)
    The Space Shuttle Discovery made a real night landing at the Kennedy Space Center early on Thursday. The night landing, the 11th in the centre’s 94 shuttle missions, ended a 10-day mission to outfit the orbiting international space station. Although the space craft created a solid boom that can be heard along much of Florida’s eastern seaboard, witnesses on the ground could not see the orbiter until it was directly over the one-way lights. Scattered showers off the Florida coast had threatened to postpone the shuttle’s return. But broadcasters gave a green light when they decided no rain will fall within 48 kilometres of the space centre.
News Item Three (23-24)
    Five people