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A．The asylum seekers were stopped by Australian Navy this week．

B．Indonesia has trouble rescuing its persecuted refugees in Australia．

C．Sri Lankan asylum seekers try to get back to their homeland to escape persecution abroad．

D．Australia has to make a decision how to deal with Sri Lankan asylum seekers．

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[ 30 ] Australia has said that it won't send a group of Sri Lankan asylum seekers back to their home country ifthey are at risk of persecution. The 83 Sri Lankan Tamil men were stopped by the Australian Navy last week ontheir way to Australia from Indonesia. [ 30 ] Australia has a policy of keeping potential asylum seekers away fromthe mainland and now has to decide whether to send them back to Indonesia, to Sri Lanka or to an offshoreprocessing camp in the South Pacific.
【听前预测】
根据选项中出现的Sri Lankan asylum seekers可以判断本篇新闻报道了与斯里兰卡难民有关的事件。
【新闻导读】
澳大利亚声称，如果那些来澳寻求庇护的斯里兰卡难民有被迫害的危险，政府是不会将他们遣送回国的。但根据澳大利亚的法律，他们必须作出处置决定。
【试题解析】
D。本题考查新闻的主旨。新闻开头提到，澳大利亚政府宣称如果那些寻求庇护的难民有被迫害的危险，政府是不会将他们遣送回国的，而新闻结尾处又提到，根据澳大利亚法律，他们必须作出决定，是将那些寻求庇护的难民遣送回印度尼西亚、斯里兰卡还是送至南太平洋海岛上的过渡营。由此可见，新闻主要是关于澳大利亚政府需要决定如何处理来自斯里兰卡的寻求庇护的难民的，故D项为答案。

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