A、Sydney. B、Sudan. C、America. D、Britain. D

W: Mike, what are the stories we’re looking at for the page 5 News Section today?
M: Well, Tess, we’ve got an update on America about the presidential elections there. (12)But we’ve run into problems in getting a live report from the White House in Washington.
W: Never mind. We’ll just put some pictures there and let Mary fill in the details on the news itself. Now what about the story that is breaking in Germany?
M: Well, (13)it’s still quite difficult to make out exactly what is going on there. It seems that the President and the Prime Minister have seriously fallen out and it is possible that the Prime Minister may be thinking of leaving office.
W: Have we got anything to back up this story?
M: No, nothing yet, (14)but we can run the interview again in tomorrow’s paper.
W: Fine. Now let me just run through the other stories we’ve got. Check them off as I go through them. Famine in Sudan, storms in America’s Midwest, economic problems in Japan, a big fire at the World Health Organization building in Geneva, bombs in Northern Ireland, a new computer from China that understands spoken Mandarin, and (15)a new world record by a British athlete in Sydney.
M: What about putting in the story on the growing number of homeless people living on the streets of Mexico City?
W: No, I don’t think so. That’s not really hard news. Mike, let’s settle down and go through the materials at hand first.
12. What problems do they have with the presidential elections?
13. What’s the matter with the news about Germany?
14. What will they do about the story happening in Germany?
15. Where does the athlete who broke the world record come from?