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     m: hi, mary. how's everything?w: fine. you know, john, i'm planning to go to las vegas for a holiday and would like to stay in a large hotel. anything to recommend?m: er? the hilton hotel there is quite a large one. it has ? er ? 3,174 bedrooms. it also has 12 restaurants and about 125,000 square feet of convention space. there're a 10-acre recreation deck and a stage show dining hall. over 3,600 people now work for it.w: oh, great! is it the largest hotel in the u.s.?m: yes, it is. but it may not be the largest in the world. er ? as far as i know, the hotel rossiya in moscow is larger than hilton. it is a 12-story building that has 3,200 rooms. it can provide accommodation for 6,000 guests. it takes nearly 8 years and a half to spend one night in each room. besides, there's a 21-story "presidential tower" in the central courtyard. it has 15 restaurants and 93 elevators. and it employs about 3,000 people. the ballroom is known as the world's largest. russians are not allowed to live in that hotel. and foreigners are charged 16 times more than the very low rate charged russian officials.w: it's unbelievable ?[fade out]
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that is the end of part a.

      part b you will hear a radio weather forecast. answer questions 6-10 while listening. use not more than 5 words for each answer. you will hear the recording twice. you now have 40 seconds to read the questions.
     when will showers reach south-west england and the southern coast of wales? 　

      what will the minimum temperature be in the south during the night? 　

     on what day of the week do you think this weather forecast was given? 　

     what will be the general feeling about the weekend in the netherlands? 　

     what part of england will be cloudy and dry over the weekend? 　

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      w: hello. it's been another warm and fine day for most of us. temperatures in south-east england reached twenty-six degrees centigrade by mid-afternoon, and brighton had fifteen hours of lovely sunshine. but already the weather is beginning to change, i'm afraid, and during the night showers will slowly move in from the atlantic to reach south-west england and the southern coast of wales by early morning.the rest of the country will have a very mild, dry night with minimum temperatures no lower than fifteen degrees in the south, a little cooler ? eleven degrees or so ? in the north. any remaining showers in northwest scotland will pass quickly, to leave a mild, dry night there too.and now, the outlook for friday and the weekend. well, southern europe will once again get the best of the weekend weather, and if your holiday starts this weekend, then southern spain is the place to go, with temperatures of thirty-four degrees along the mediterranean coast. at the eastern end of the med, too, you can expect uninterrupted sunshine and temperatures of up to thirty-two degrees centigrade in greece and south-east italy, but further north the weather's not so settled. much of france, belgium and the netherlands will be cloudy with occasional rain and maximum temperatures will be around twenty-two degrees ? very disappointing for this time of the year.scotland and northern ireland will have heavy rain for much of the weekend and temperatures will drop to a cool seventeen degrees. across most of england the weather will be cloudy but mainly dry with sunny periods. and when the sun does come out temperatures could rise to a maximum of twenty-three degrees.