News Item 3:

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News Item 3:

1. Fill in the blanks with the information according to what you have heard on the tape.
(1) Date of Announcement:
(2) Title of the Prize:
(3) Name of the Winner:
(4) Age of the Winner:
years old
(5) Number of Books completed:
(6) Central Theme of His Works: His
in
and on
(7) US Address:
, New York City
(8) Place of Birth:

2. Choose the best answer (a, b, c, or d) to complete each of the following statements.
(1) Wiesel said that the honor belongs to all the survivors who have tried to do something ____________.

a. with their lives b. with their silence c. with their pain d. a, b, and c
(2) Elie Wiesel and his family were sent to a Nazi death camp, but ____________. a. only he and his younger sister survived b. only he survived c. only he and his two sisters survived d. only he and his father survived

3. Fill in the blanks with detailed information concerning Elie Wiesel.
(1) He has been a
for
years.
(2) He said he would dedicate his Prize to
of the
and
.
(3) After the war, Wiesel went first to
, then to
.
(4) He is
with the first use of the word "Holocaust" to describe the
of
.

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News Item 3:

1. Fill in the blanks with the information according to what you have heard on the tape.
(1) Date of Announcement:
(2) Title of the Prize:
(3) Name of the Winner:
(4) Age of the Winner:
years old
(5) Number of Books completed:
(6) Central Theme of His Works: His
in
and on
(7) US Address:
, New York City
(8) Place of Birth:

2. Choose the best answer (a, b, c, or d) to complete each of the following statements.
(1) Wiesel said that the honor belongs to all the survivors who have tried to do something ____________.

a. with their lives b. with their silence c. with their pain d. a, b, and c
(2) Elie Wiesel and his family were sent to a Nazi death camp, but ____________. a. only he and his younger sister survived b. only he survived c. only he and his two sisters survived d. only he and his father survived

3. Fill in the blanks with detailed information concerning Elie Wiesel.
(1) He has been a
for
years.
(2) He said he would dedicate his Prize to
of the
and
.
(3) After the war, Wiesel went first to
, then to
.
(4) He is
with the first use of the word "Holocaust" to describe the
of
.