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     This is News on the Hour, Ed Wilson reporting. The president and First Lady will visit Africa on a good

will tour in May. They plan to visit eight African countries.

     Reports from China say the Chinese want closer ties between China and the U.S. and Western Europe.

A group of top Chinese scientists start its ten-nation tour next month.

     In news about health, scientists in California report findings of a relationship between the drinking of coffee

and the increase of heart diseases among women. According to the report in the American Medical Journal, the

five-year study shows that: women who drink more than two cups of coffee a day have a greater chance of

having heart disease than women who do not. That's the news of the hour. And now back to more easy

listening with Jan Singer.

1. To improve the ties between China and the U.S. and Western Europe, ______.

A. China has expressed its strong wishes

B. China has given many reports to improve the ties

C. China will send some scientists to visit the U.S. only

D. some Chinese scientists will visit the U.S. and Western Europe

2. The news about health tells us that ______.

A. no one should drink more than two cups of coffee a day

B. no heart disease will be found if people don't drink coffee

C. women's heart disease has a lot to do with their drinking coffee

D. the more coffee people drink, the more chance they'll get to have heart disease

3. The passage is probably from ______.

A. a book

B. a radio station

C. a diary

D. a Medical Journal