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LISTENING COMPREHENSION
PART 2 You are going to hear Mr. Kevin Rudd, the Australian Prime Minister, in the address to the nation on Australia Day 2008. For questions 1 - 5, choose the option (a, b or c) that best answers each question, as in the example (0 - B). You will hear the recording twice. Example (0) How does the Prime Minister define Australia? A. A country with a still short heritage. B. A country with great possibilities for the future. C. A country well placed in Asia. 1. What does he say about the aborigines? A. Their culture is the oldest in the whole of mankind. B. Their culture needs to be developed. C. They are the oldest inhabitants in parts of Australia. 2. Immigrants have A. contributed to race equality. B. given vitality to Australia. C. stimulated Australian economy. 3. Which challenge/s does Australia face? A. Growing immigration. B. Increasing birth rates. C. Worldwide competition and reconciliation. 4. Australia has survived its challenges in the past because A. its such a large continent. B. of a strong set of positive values. C. of the British traditions. 5. Australia may have a great future because Australians A. are able to work together for the common good. B. are optimistic. C. make up a large population.

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1NA L P2: AUSTRALIAN MP SCRIPT Australia Day is a time to celebrate our nation's past achievements and is a time to embrace our nation's future. This is a great country, rich in heritage and unlimited in its possibilities. We should be deeply proud of our country: proud of aboriginal culture, which represents the oldest continuing culture in human history; our explorers and our pioneers, brave men and women who settled this vast continent; our men and women in uniform, who've given their life and their service to defend Australia; our farmers, factory workers, business leaders, those who've fought for the rights of working families, our artists, our sporting heroes; our immigrants, who have contributed so much to the diversity and vitality of Australia. And then there's the family: the core and continuing unit of our society, which has underpinned so much of our national life together. I'm proud of this nation's past achievements and as Prime Minister, I'm optimistic, supremely optimistic, about what our nation can achieve in the future. As we look to the future, our task together is this: to build a modern Australia, an Australia capable of making the challenges that are being thrown at us for the future, because the challenges we face are great: - an uncertain economic outlook, globally - an increasingly competitive world, where we now face highly educated, highly trained, highly skilled workers right around the world. - new threats to our security - unprecedented pressures on our health system - our aging population - the great challenge of climate change and how to achieve effective reconciliation so that we all can move forward together, aboriginal and non-aboriginal Australia. These challenges are great, but as a country we've faced great challenges in the past and as a people we have always prevailed. We've prevailed because of an enduring set of values that have shaped us as a country: values of independence, values of freedom, of resilience, enterprise and hard work. At the same time, values of looking out for one another, of makeshift and compassion and the value of a feared God for all, that great Australian value. These values remain the bedrock of our nation, they forged our past and they'll fortify our future. As we go forward into the future we must draw on these values to build a modem Australia. A modern Australia capable of meeting head on the challenges of the future. A modem Australia, secure, competitive, compassionate and creative, that becomes even more the envy of the entire world. And why? Because in one country we are capable of combining two ideas: That working for working for ourselves and our families is not incompatible with working for our community and our country. This is the great ethos that is Australia. But the truth is we can only build a modem Australia by doing it together. We must draw together the nations' talents, the nation's ideas, the nation's energies to imagine what the nation can still become. Government is not the fountain of all knowledge. If we are to build a modem Australia to face the challenges of the future, we need to harness our best brains, our best ideas and all for the national good. And that is what we must now do. I'm an optimist about Australia's future. Let's together seize the opportunities that lie before us to realize Australia's potential as a nation, and the individual potential of every member of the Australian family. Theresa and I and our family would like to wish everyone a very happy and a very safe Australia Day 2008.

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CLAVE DE RESPUESTAS Example 0: B 1: A 2: B 3: C 4: B 5: A