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		<phrase isaudiomp3="1" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1.0.mp3"></phrase>
		<question isaudiomp3="1" rationale="0" picture="images/question1.jpg" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1150-1" exercise_type="" questionmode="" choicemode="" answerbankid="" answerbankmode="" rationalemode="" playonload="" mp3speed="" ttsspeed="" passage="1" show_passage="" show_passage_audioplayer="" passage_audio_type="" showvideo="" video="" enable_audio_recorder="" recorder_mode=""><![CDATA[]]></question>
		<saythis><![CDATA[]]></saythis>
		<answer isaudiomp3="1" picture="images/c1.jpg" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1150-1" isrationalemp3="1" rationalemp3="AUDIO_REPOS/right.mp3" rationaleimage="images/rationale/1.1.jpg" rationale="Right" value="1" choicesay=""><![CDATA[As early as next spring, the boom of seismic cannons will sound under the Atlantic Ocean as the first oil and gas exploration allowed off the East Coast in three decades gets underway.]]></answer>
		<answer isaudiomp3="1" picture="images/c1.jpg" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1150-1" isrationalemp3="1" rationalemp3="AUDIO_REPOS/right.mp3" rationaleimage="images/rationale/1.1.jpg" rationale="Right" value="1" choicesay=""><![CDATA[Political leaders in North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia lobbied President Barack Obama to approve the seismic testing to assess how much oil and natural gas lies off the East Coast, with the hope that Obama will allow offshore drilling that brings jobs and money.]]></answer>
		<answer isaudiomp3="1" picture="images/c1.jpg" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1150-1" isrationalemp3="1" rationalemp3="AUDIO_REPOS/right.mp3" rationaleimage="images/rationale/1.1.jpg" rationale="Right" value="1" choicesay=""><![CDATA[But in coastal towns that rely on tourism, such as Nags Head on North Carolina's Outer Banks, the idea of drilling into the ocean is hugely contentious.]]></answer>
		<answer isaudiomp3="1" picture="images/c1.jpg" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1150-1" isrationalemp3="1" rationalemp3="AUDIO_REPOS/right.mp3" rationaleimage="images/rationale/1.1.jpg" rationale="Right" value="1" choicesay=""><![CDATA[The Outer Banks economy relies on the visitors who rent vacation homes for weeklong vacations and relax on wide golden beaches along the windswept Atlantic Ocean.]]></answer>
		<answer isaudiomp3="1" picture="images/c1.jpg" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1150-1" isrationalemp3="1" rationalemp3="AUDIO_REPOS/right.mp3" rationaleimage="images/rationale/1.1.jpg" rationale="Right" value="1" choicesay=""><![CDATA[A spill would devastate the local tourism industry, said Paul Manning, who owns the Front Porch Cafe on the Outer Banks, where the employees roast coffee and serve up mugs to tourists plotting their day at the beach or where to find the best seafood along the shore.]]></answer>
		<answer isaudiomp3="1" picture="images/c1.jpg" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1150-1" isrationalemp3="1" rationalemp3="AUDIO_REPOS/right.mp3" rationaleimage="images/rationale/1.1.jpg" rationale="Right" value="1" choicesay=""><![CDATA[Manning argues that the cash from opening up the Atlantic Ocean to drilling would largely go to ports like Wilmington, North Carolina, or the more industrialized Hampton Roads area of Virginia, leaving places like the Outer Banks with the risks of energy development and no reward.]]></answer>
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		<phrase isaudiomp3="1" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1.0.mp3"></phrase>
		<question isaudiomp3="1" rationale="0" picture="images/question1.jpg" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1150-1" exercise_type="" questionmode="" choicemode="" answerbankid="" answerbankmode="" rationalemode="" playonload="" mp3speed="" ttsspeed="" passage="1" show_passage="" show_passage_audioplayer="" passage_audio_type="" showvideo="" video="" enable_audio_recorder="" recorder_mode=""><![CDATA[]]></question>
		<saythis><![CDATA[]]></saythis>
			<answer isaudiomp3="1" picture="images/c1.jpg" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1150-1" isrationalemp3="1" rationalemp3="AUDIO_REPOS/right.mp3" rationaleimage="images/rationale/1.1.jpg" rationale="Right" value="1" choicesay=""><![CDATA[George Ioup, a physics professor at the University of New Orleans, has studied the effects of the seismic blasts in the Gulf of Mexico.]]></answer>
		<answer isaudiomp3="1" picture="images/c1.jpg" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1150-1" isrationalemp3="1" rationalemp3="AUDIO_REPOS/right.mp3" rationaleimage="images/rationale/1.1.jpg" rationale="Right" value="1" choicesay=""><![CDATA[He said there are many unanswered questions, but that whales and dolphins in the Gulf tend to operate at frequencies far higher than the sound waves from seismic cannons.]]></answer>
		<answer isaudiomp3="1" picture="images/c1.jpg" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1150-1" isrationalemp3="1" rationalemp3="AUDIO_REPOS/right.mp3" rationaleimage="images/rationale/1.1.jpg" rationale="Right" value="1" choicesay=""><![CDATA["They probably don't even hear them very well," Ioup said.]]></answer>
		<answer isaudiomp3="1" picture="images/c1.jpg" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1150-1" isrationalemp3="1" rationalemp3="AUDIO_REPOS/right.mp3" rationaleimage="images/rationale/1.1.jpg" rationale="Right" value="1" choicesay=""><![CDATA[It's different in the Atlantic, though, Ioup said.]]></answer>
		<answer isaudiomp3="1" picture="images/c1.jpg" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1150-1" isrationalemp3="1" rationalemp3="AUDIO_REPOS/right.mp3" rationaleimage="images/rationale/1.1.jpg" rationale="Right" value="1" choicesay=""><![CDATA[Species of large Atlantic whales, including endangered right whales, operate at low frequencies and will hear the booms.]]></answer>
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