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		<question isaudiomp3="1" rationale="0" picture="images/question1.jpg" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1152-1" 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>
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		<answer isaudiomp3="1" picture="images/c1.jpg" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1152-1" isrationalemp3="1" rationalemp3="AUDIO_REPOS/right.mp3" rationaleimage="images/rationale/1.1.jpg" rationale="Right" value="1" choicesay=""><![CDATA[NAGS HEAD, North Carolina  -  The boom of seismic cannons will soon sound under the Atlantic Ocean as companies look for oil and gas.]]></answer>
		<answer isaudiomp3="1" picture="images/c1.jpg" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1152-1" isrationalemp3="1" rationalemp3="AUDIO_REPOS/right.mp3" rationaleimage="images/rationale/1.1.jpg" rationale="Right" value="1" choicesay=""><![CDATA[It will be the first time oil and gas exploration has been allowed off the East Coast in 30 years.]]></answer>
		<answer isaudiomp3="1" picture="images/c1.jpg" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1152-1" isrationalemp3="1" rationalemp3="AUDIO_REPOS/right.mp3" rationaleimage="images/rationale/1.1.jpg" rationale="Right" value="1" choicesay=""><![CDATA[It will start as early as next spring.]]></answer>
		<answer isaudiomp3="1" picture="images/c1.jpg" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1152-1" isrationalemp3="1" rationalemp3="AUDIO_REPOS/right.mp3" rationaleimage="images/rationale/1.1.jpg" rationale="Right" value="1" choicesay=""><![CDATA[Government officials and the oil and gas industry say the exploration is harmless.]]></answer>
		<answer isaudiomp3="1" picture="images/c1.jpg" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1152-1" isrationalemp3="1" rationalemp3="AUDIO_REPOS/right.mp3" rationaleimage="images/rationale/1.1.jpg" rationale="Right" value="1" choicesay=""><![CDATA[Bob Edwards disagrees.]]></answer>
		<answer isaudiomp3="1" picture="images/c1.jpg" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1152-1" isrationalemp3="1" rationalemp3="AUDIO_REPOS/right.mp3" rationaleimage="images/rationale/1.1.jpg" rationale="Right" value="1" choicesay=""><![CDATA[He is the mayor of Nags Head, a coastal town on North Carolina's Outer Banks.]]></answer>
		<answer isaudiomp3="1" picture="images/c1.jpg" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1152-1" isrationalemp3="1" rationalemp3="AUDIO_REPOS/right.mp3" rationaleimage="images/rationale/1.1.jpg" rationale="Right" value="1" choicesay=""><![CDATA[Edwards is worried about what the intense sound waves can do to dolphins and endangered North Atlantic right whales.]]></answer>
		<answer isaudiomp3="1" picture="images/c1.jpg" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1152-1" isrationalemp3="1" rationalemp3="AUDIO_REPOS/right.mp3" rationaleimage="images/rationale/1.1.jpg" rationale="Right" value="1" choicesay=""><![CDATA[There are only about 500 right whales left.]]></answer>
		<answer isaudiomp3="1" picture="images/c1.jpg" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1152-1" isrationalemp3="1" rationalemp3="AUDIO_REPOS/right.mp3" rationaleimage="images/rationale/1.1.jpg" rationale="Right" value="1" choicesay=""><![CDATA["I just can't understand how anybody would propose something that's going to be ... endangering whales and dolphins and turtles and fish," he said.]]></answer>
		<answer isaudiomp3="1" picture="images/c1.jpg" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1152-1" isrationalemp3="1" rationalemp3="AUDIO_REPOS/right.mp3" rationaleimage="images/rationale/1.1.jpg" rationale="Right" value="1" choicesay=""><![CDATA[The seismic surveys are done with air guns.]]></answer>
		<answer isaudiomp3="1" picture="images/c1.jpg" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1152-1" isrationalemp3="1" rationalemp3="AUDIO_REPOS/right.mp3" rationaleimage="images/rationale/1.1.jpg" rationale="Right" value="1" choicesay=""><![CDATA[They blast out sound waves every 10 seconds or so for weeks at a time.]]></answer>
		<answer isaudiomp3="1" picture="images/c1.jpg" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1152-1" isrationalemp3="1" rationalemp3="AUDIO_REPOS/right.mp3" rationaleimage="images/rationale/1.1.jpg" rationale="Right" value="1" choicesay=""><![CDATA[The waves bounce off rocks and return.]]></answer>
		<answer isaudiomp3="1" picture="images/c1.jpg" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1152-1" isrationalemp3="1" rationalemp3="AUDIO_REPOS/right.mp3" rationaleimage="images/rationale/1.1.jpg" rationale="Right" value="1" choicesay=""><![CDATA[Echoes from the blasts are used to produce three-dimensional maps.]]></answer>
		<answer isaudiomp3="1" picture="images/c1.jpg" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1152-1" isrationalemp3="1" rationalemp3="AUDIO_REPOS/right.mp3" rationaleimage="images/rationale/1.1.jpg" rationale="Right" value="1" choicesay=""><![CDATA[The 3-D maps help companies figure out if there is likely to be any oil and gas in the rock formations.]]></answer>
		<answer isaudiomp3="1" picture="images/c1.jpg" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1152-1" isrationalemp3="1" rationalemp3="AUDIO_REPOS/right.mp3" rationaleimage="images/rationale/1.1.jpg" rationale="Right" value="1" choicesay=""><![CDATA[The government approved opening an area of the Atlantic Coast from Delaware to Florida for the blasts.]]></answer>
		<answer isaudiomp3="1" picture="images/c1.jpg" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1152-1" isrationalemp3="1" rationalemp3="AUDIO_REPOS/right.mp3" rationaleimage="images/rationale/1.1.jpg" rationale="Right" value="1" choicesay=""><![CDATA[They said there is no scientific evidence that blasts harm marine animals.]]></answer>
		<answer isaudiomp3="1" picture="images/c1.jpg" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1152-1" isrationalemp3="1" rationalemp3="AUDIO_REPOS/right.mp3" rationaleimage="images/rationale/1.1.jpg" rationale="Right" value="1" choicesay=""><![CDATA[Yet even government scientists are worried about what the extreme sound can do to the hearing and communication of whales and other marine life.]]></answer>
		<answer isaudiomp3="1" picture="images/c1.jpg" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1152-1" isrationalemp3="1" rationalemp3="AUDIO_REPOS/right.mp3" rationaleimage="images/rationale/1.1.jpg" rationale="Right" value="1" choicesay=""><![CDATA[Many marine animals use sound to find food and mates, and to keep track of their young.]]></answer>
		<answer isaudiomp3="1" picture="images/c1.jpg" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1152-1" isrationalemp3="1" rationalemp3="AUDIO_REPOS/right.mp3" rationaleimage="images/rationale/1.1.jpg" rationale="Right" value="1" choicesay=""><![CDATA["It's been pretty well documented that seismic surveys have disrupted animal behavior and animal communication," said Danielle Cholewiak, a government scientist.]]></answer>
		<answer isaudiomp3="1" picture="images/c1.jpg" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1152-1" 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 pushed President Barack Obama to approve the seismic testing.]]></answer>
		<answer isaudiomp3="1" picture="images/c1.jpg" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1152-1" isrationalemp3="1" rationalemp3="AUDIO_REPOS/right.mp3" rationaleimage="images/rationale/1.1.jpg" rationale="Right" value="1" choicesay=""><![CDATA[They want to see how much oil and natural gas lies off the East Coast.]]></answer>
		<answer isaudiomp3="1" picture="images/c1.jpg" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1152-1" isrationalemp3="1" rationalemp3="AUDIO_REPOS/right.mp3" rationaleimage="images/rationale/1.1.jpg" rationale="Right" value="1" choicesay=""><![CDATA[They hope that Obama will allow offshore drilling that will bring in jobs and money.]]></answer>
		<answer isaudiomp3="1" picture="images/c1.jpg" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1152-1" isrationalemp3="1" rationalemp3="AUDIO_REPOS/right.mp3" rationaleimage="images/rationale/1.1.jpg" rationale="Right" value="1" choicesay=""><![CDATA[In towns such as Nags Head, some people support drilling while others do not.]]></answer>
		<answer isaudiomp3="1" picture="images/c1.jpg" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1152-1" isrationalemp3="1" rationalemp3="AUDIO_REPOS/right.mp3" rationaleimage="images/rationale/1.1.jpg" rationale="Right" value="1" choicesay=""><![CDATA[The area gets much of its money from visitors.]]></answer>
		<answer isaudiomp3="1" picture="images/c1.jpg" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1152-1" isrationalemp3="1" rationalemp3="AUDIO_REPOS/right.mp3" rationaleimage="images/rationale/1.1.jpg" rationale="Right" value="1" choicesay=""><![CDATA[Tourists rent homes for vacations and relax on the area's beaches.]]></answer>
		<answer isaudiomp3="1" picture="images/c1.jpg" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1152-1" isrationalemp3="1" rationalemp3="AUDIO_REPOS/right.mp3" rationaleimage="images/rationale/1.1.jpg" rationale="Right" value="1" choicesay=""><![CDATA[Paul Manning owns a cafe on the Outer Banks.]]></answer>
		<answer isaudiomp3="1" picture="images/c1.jpg" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1152-1" isrationalemp3="1" rationalemp3="AUDIO_REPOS/right.mp3" rationaleimage="images/rationale/1.1.jpg" rationale="Right" value="1" choicesay=""><![CDATA[He said an oil spill would ruin businesses that rely on visitors.]]></answer>
		<answer isaudiomp3="1" picture="images/c1.jpg" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1152-1" isrationalemp3="1" rationalemp3="AUDIO_REPOS/right.mp3" rationaleimage="images/rationale/1.1.jpg" rationale="Right" value="1" choicesay=""><![CDATA[Yet Allen Burrus, a grocer in Hatteras, North Carolina, said offshore drilling would bring money to the Outer Banks.]]></answer>
		<answer isaudiomp3="1" picture="images/c1.jpg" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1152-1" isrationalemp3="1" rationalemp3="AUDIO_REPOS/right.mp3" rationaleimage="images/rationale/1.1.jpg" rationale="Right" value="1" choicesay=""><![CDATA[He suspects the environmental fears are being overblown.]]></answer>
		<answer isaudiomp3="1" picture="images/c1.jpg" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1152-1" isrationalemp3="1" rationalemp3="AUDIO_REPOS/right.mp3" rationaleimage="images/rationale/1.1.jpg" rationale="Right" value="1" choicesay=""><![CDATA[Government officials say they will put limits on when the seismic cannons are fired during whale migration.]]></answer>
		<answer isaudiomp3="1" picture="images/c1.jpg" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1152-1" isrationalemp3="1" rationalemp3="AUDIO_REPOS/right.mp3" rationaleimage="images/rationale/1.1.jpg" rationale="Right" value="1" choicesay=""><![CDATA[They will also require sound tests to search for marine animals.]]></answer>
		<answer isaudiomp3="1" picture="images/c1.jpg" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1152-1" isrationalemp3="1" rationalemp3="AUDIO_REPOS/right.mp3" rationaleimage="images/rationale/1.1.jpg" rationale="Right" value="1" choicesay=""><![CDATA[People on board will keep watch as well.]]></answer>
		<answer isaudiomp3="1" picture="images/c1.jpg" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1152-1" isrationalemp3="1" rationalemp3="AUDIO_REPOS/right.mp3" rationaleimage="images/rationale/1.1.jpg" rationale="Right" value="1" choicesay=""><![CDATA[If whales or other animals get too close, the cannons will be stopped.]]></answer>
		<answer isaudiomp3="1" picture="images/c1.jpg" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1152-1" isrationalemp3="1" rationalemp3="AUDIO_REPOS/right.mp3" rationaleimage="images/rationale/1.1.jpg" rationale="Right" value="1" choicesay=""><![CDATA[The American Petroleum Institute represents oil companies.]]></answer>
		<answer isaudiomp3="1" picture="images/c1.jpg" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1152-1" isrationalemp3="1" rationalemp3="AUDIO_REPOS/right.mp3" rationaleimage="images/rationale/1.1.jpg" rationale="Right" value="1" choicesay=""><![CDATA[It said the seismic blasts are safe.]]></answer>
		<answer isaudiomp3="1" picture="images/c1.jpg" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1152-1" isrationalemp3="1" rationalemp3="AUDIO_REPOS/right.mp3" rationaleimage="images/rationale/1.1.jpg" rationale="Right" value="1" choicesay=""><![CDATA[The government is putting too many limits on the blasts, it said.]]></answer>
		<answer isaudiomp3="1" picture="images/c1.jpg" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1152-1" isrationalemp3="1" rationalemp3="AUDIO_REPOS/right.mp3" rationaleimage="images/rationale/1.1.jpg" rationale="Right" value="1" choicesay=""><![CDATA[Oil companies "already take great care to protect wildlife," the group said in a statement.]]></answer>
		<answer isaudiomp3="1" picture="images/c1.jpg" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1152-1" isrationalemp3="1" rationalemp3="AUDIO_REPOS/right.mp3" rationaleimage="images/rationale/1.1.jpg" rationale="Right" value="1" choicesay=""><![CDATA[Science and years of experience prove that there is no danger to marine animal populations, it added.]]></answer>
		<answer isaudiomp3="1" picture="images/c1.jpg" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1152-1" isrationalemp3="1" rationalemp3="AUDIO_REPOS/right.mp3" rationaleimage="images/rationale/1.1.jpg" rationale="Right" value="1" choicesay=""><![CDATA[George Ioup is a professor who has studied the effects of the seismic blasts in the Gulf of Mexico.]]></answer>
		<answer isaudiomp3="1" picture="images/c1.jpg" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1152-1" isrationalemp3="1" rationalemp3="AUDIO_REPOS/right.mp3" rationaleimage="images/rationale/1.1.jpg" rationale="Right" value="1" choicesay=""><![CDATA[He said that in the Gulf, whales and dolphins tend to hear and communicate at frequencies far higher than the sound waves from seismic cannons.]]></answer>
		<answer isaudiomp3="1" picture="images/c1.jpg" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1152-1" 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/1152-1" isrationalemp3="1" rationalemp3="AUDIO_REPOS/right.mp3" rationaleimage="images/rationale/1.1.jpg" rationale="Right" value="1" choicesay=""><![CDATA[It is different in the Atlantic, he said.]]></answer>
		<answer isaudiomp3="1" picture="images/c1.jpg" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1152-1" isrationalemp3="1" rationalemp3="AUDIO_REPOS/right.mp3" rationaleimage="images/rationale/1.1.jpg" rationale="Right" value="1" choicesay=""><![CDATA[Species of large Atlantic whales operate at low frequencies and will hear the booms.]]></answer>
		<answer isaudiomp3="1" picture="images/c1.jpg" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1152-1" isrationalemp3="1" rationalemp3="AUDIO_REPOS/right.mp3" rationaleimage="images/rationale/1.1.jpg" rationale="Right" value="1" choicesay=""><![CDATA[Companies must take a huge amount of care near spawning or feeding grounds of such whales, Ioup said.]]></answer>
		<answer isaudiomp3="1" picture="images/c1.jpg" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1152-1" isrationalemp3="1" rationalemp3="AUDIO_REPOS/right.mp3" rationaleimage="images/rationale/1.1.jpg" rationale="Right" value="1" choicesay=""><![CDATA[In addition, blasts can be heard for more than 2,000 miles underwater, said Doug Nowacek, who is a professor.]]></answer>
		<answer isaudiomp3="1" picture="images/c1.jpg" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1152-1" isrationalemp3="1" rationalemp3="AUDIO_REPOS/right.mp3" rationaleimage="images/rationale/1.1.jpg" rationale="Right" value="1" choicesay=""><![CDATA["If there's a survey in Virginia you're going to hear it in southern North Carolina, easily," Nowacek said.]]></answer>
		<answer isaudiomp3="1" picture="images/c1.jpg" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1152-1" isrationalemp3="1" rationalemp3="AUDIO_REPOS/right.mp3" rationaleimage="images/rationale/1.1.jpg" rationale="Right" value="1" choicesay=""><![CDATA[He said there has been far too little information collected on the effects of the seismic cannons.]]></answer>
		<answer isaudiomp3="1" picture="images/c1.jpg" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1152-1" isrationalemp3="1" rationalemp3="AUDIO_REPOS/right.mp3" rationaleimage="images/rationale/1.1.jpg" rationale="Right" value="1" choicesay=""><![CDATA[He dismissed oil companies' arguments that the booms are harmless.]]></answer>
		<answer isaudiomp3="1" picture="images/c1.jpg" mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/1152-1" isrationalemp3="1" rationalemp3="AUDIO_REPOS/right.mp3" rationaleimage="images/rationale/1.1.jpg" rationale="Right" value="1" choicesay=""><![CDATA["I would say show me the evidence that there's no harm," Nowacek said.]]></answer>
		
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