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Item 1. Multiple choices.

1978, three years after Franco's death.

1. Franco died in ______.

A. 1978 B. 1975 C.1981

2. According to our view, democracy means that

___________________________________________________.

A. the constitution allows you to seek independence

B. you have to adapt yourself to the laws

C. you have to adapt your laws to the real situation, the real democratic

situation of the countries and the nations.

Item 2. Blank-filling.

The US Secretary of State John Kerry and the Russian Foreign Minister

Sergei Lavrov

___________________________________________________________.

Talks took place at the UN General Assembly. Barbara Plett Usher has the

details.

The two men discussed how

________________________________might affect chances of a political solution to the civil war, said the US official. The Russian say their aim is

simply to ______________________________fight Islamic State

militants.

Item 3. Questions.

1. How many people have the judge been sentenced more than five

hundred years in jail?

2. Why were the three men sentenced more than five hundred years?

3. When were their bodies found?

SCRIPT

Hello, I am Iain Purdon with the BBC News.

1. 0:05

Political parties pushing for independence from Spain have won a

majority of seats in Catalonia's regional parliament, although they failed

to secure 50% of the popular vote. The leader of the main separatist

alliance Artur Mas together F said the result represented a mandate to

seek independence, even that the Spanish government insist this would be

unconstitutional.

It is quite clear that the constitution doesn't allow territory to be separated from the rest but the constitution was 1978, three years after Franco's

death. And according to our view, democracy means that you have to

adapt your laws to the real situation, the real democratic situation of the

countries and the nations.

2. 0:51

The US Secretary of State John Kerry and the Russian Foreign Minister

Sergei Lavrov have met in New York as part of a push for political

solution to the Syria crisis. Talks took place at the UN General Assembly.

Barbara Plett Usher has the details.

The two men discussed how Russia's military built up in Syria might

affect chances of a political solution to the civil war, said the US official.

The Russian say their aim is simply to help the Syrian army fight Islamic

State militants. But this will almost certainly bolster their ally, President

Bashar al-Assad. The American insists President Bashar has to go. But

lately they have been emphasizing his departure could be part of a

longer-term strategy.

3. 1:30

A judge in Mexico City has sentenced three men to more than 500 years

in jail each for their roles in the kidnapping and murder of 13 young people two years ago. The victims were kidnapped from a bar called

Heaven in the centre of the capital amid a dispute between rival drug

gangs. Their bodies were found three months later in a mass grave

outside the city after family members organized large street protests.

4. 1:58

Pope Francis has ended his six-day visit to the United states with an

open-air Mass in Philadephia. An audience of hundreds of thousands had

urged them to be open to miracles of love for the sake of all the families

of the world.

I will pray for you and your families. And I asked you please to pray for

me. May God bless you all. God bless Americans.

Earlier the Pope met victims of sexual abuse by priests and their words

can not express his sorrow for what they suffered.

5. 2:40

Thousands of protesters in Congo's capital Brazzaville against plans by

the President Denis Sassou-Nguesso to try to extend his rule. He was the

biggest rally since President Sassou-Nguesso returned to power in 1997.

Some eye-witnesses said the C people stretched for almost a kilometre.

World news from the BBC.

6. 3:02

Britain is to send more than 300 troops to South Sudan and Somalia to

support international peace-keeping operations. Most will go to South

Sudan to provide combat training and engineering advice to the UN

Mission. Up to 70 will provide medical and logistical support to African

Union forces in Somalia. The British Prime Minister David Cameron said

the deployments will help reduce terrorism and migration.

7. 3:29

The Chinese President Xi Jinping has come in for strong criticism after

cochairing a high-level UN meeting to promote women's right. President

Xi told the meeting, marking the 20th Anniversary of the UN Women's

Conference in Beijing, that China would do more to enhance gender

equality. But human rights group accused him of hypocrisy as Nick