Question 2 is based on the news report you have just heard.

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        (1) [Operations at one of Australia’s largest gold mines had to be temporarily suspended on Friday after a partial wall collapse at one of the mine's dams.] The wall collapse at the Cadia Mine came just a few days after two earthquakes hit the area. The damage to the dam wall was noticed in the late afternoon on Friday, when workers found a section of the northern dam wall had collapsed into the southern dam. The dams contain waste products of mining and can contain materials which are harmful to the environment and human health. The dams are generally constructed using earth-fill, and are gradually raised over time. The company was unable to confirm whether the recent earthquakes had contributed to the dam’s wall collapse, but said it was conducting a thorough investigation. (2) [A company spokesperson said that operations at the site had been halted] while the investigation is ongoing, and that the break had posed no safety threat to workers.

2. What did the spokesperson say about the incident?（关于本次事故，发言人说了什么？）

解析：D。录音结尾提到，一位公司发言人表示，在调查进行期间，现场的作业已经停止。D项与此内容相符，其中的brought...to a halt是对录音中had been halted的同义替换，operations原词复现，故D项为正确答案。

错项排除：录音结尾提到，此次坍塌事故并未对工人构成安全威胁，A项与此相悖，故排除。B项在录音中无依据，故排除。C项利用录音中的earthquakes设置干扰，但录音中说的是墙体倒塌是在两次地震之后，C项混淆了先后顺序，故错误。