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Abel Xavier, Middles rough’s Portuguese defender, has failed a drugs test an

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问题     Abel Xavier, Middles rough’s Portuguese defender, has failed a drugs test and been suspended from all football by FIFA, football’s world governing body. Xavier’s urine【B1】______after Boro’s UEFA Cup tie in Xanthi, Greece, was found to be positive. Xavier is protesting his【B2】______to the club. Xavier is believed to have been taking a supplement to【B3】______a virus.
    For the time【B4】______Middlesbrough are【B5】______by Xavier, though they are making no public statements, but a further test will now follow on Xavier’s sample and, if that is found to be positive, then the defender, who turns 33 next month, may be banned for a【B6】______period that his career is effectively over. UEFA is overseeing the investigation as the test was taken after a game under its【B7】______and the relevant【B8】______is due to meet and report next Monday.
    Boro would confirm only that Xavier had failed one test. An UEFA spokesman said: "The next step would be to examine the B sample. If that was positive, he would face sanctions laid out in the protocol passed between FIFA and Wada(World Anti-Doping Agency)."
    【B9】______,  although Edgar Davids,  now of Tottenham,  was banned four years ago for eight months having been found with nandrolone in his system while at Juventus.【B10】______. Shortly after Jaap Sram left Old Trafford he was banned for three months and fined? 50,000 for testing positive for nandrolone.【B11】______(Rio Ferdinand) [br] 【B10】
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答案 The ban was cut to four months on appeal。
解析 此题考查听单句的能力，此题的关键在于听懂连读，此句意为‘由于呼吁，禁令降至4个月’。
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