News Cloze 9
Listening: A B C D E

January 1 - 20, 2002

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A.The between youths and the police happened as a record 310,000 people turned out outside the Cultural Centre in Tsim Sha Sui for the new year countdown. Celebrations ended in a mess as 2,000 pots of plants along the promenade were .

B. Police are concerned that some people might use bankruptcy as a means of cheating banks out of money. Bankruptcy provisions allow to their responsibility and start again with a clean slate after four years.

C.Hong Kong people are the most in Asia, according to the results of an poll. The same survey conducted a year ago rated people here as among the most optimistic in the region.

D. The Equal Opportunities Commission is conducting a study of stereotyping in teaching materials and textbooks and finds that students are using books that women as housewives and men in professional and historical roles.

E. A spokesman for the Customs and Excise Department to the public, in particular young people, not to provide any pirated files for downloading in their websites as they may a criminal offence under the Copyright Ordinance.