Directions: The following is a News report. After reading it, you should give brief answers to the 5 questions(No. 56 through No. 60)that follow. The answers(in no more than 3 words)should be written after the corresponding numbers.
Hello, welcome to “This Week’s Sports”. It will be 9:00 a. m. when the Los Angeles Lakers and Philadelphia 76ers tip off the NBA Finals tonight in Los Angeles. But the early hour has not discouraged students at Beijing University from organizing a special viewing party to watch the live. The young Chinese basketball fans will be joining an estimated 2.5 billion viewers worldwide who will be turning in to the s. up the biggest global audience for any basketball in the history of the .
More than 90 broadcasters from international networks have set up operations at Staples Center for tonight’s opening joust(比赛). Among them are CCTV from China, Supersport cable channel from Greece, DSF from Germany, C Plus from France, NHK from Japan, and Israel’S Channel 5. Coming to the Finals for the first time are MTV from Lebanon and ITV from Korea. Broadcasters will give their local viewers play-by-play accounts of the in 41 languages, including Arabic, Bosnian, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, Maltese and Mandarin.
This year is by far the biggest international audience for the Finals. The number of countries signing on for the NBA Finals has risen from 100 seven years ago to 295 this year. Directions: in no more than 3 wordsWhich are the two opposing teams ______