Water Problems
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Task One: Water Supply Suspension in Taizhou, Zhejiang Meanwhile continuous rain has lifted reservoirs’ water level in South China’s Taizhou, Zhejiang Province. Most reservoirs, including the largest Changtan reservoir
of Taizhou, passed the alarm level.
High water pressure burst a pipeline on Sunday which caused a water supply suspension in Taizhou. The water shortage was resolved Tuesday afternoon but the crisis is still causing concern for local citizens.
Last Sunday night, a main water supply pipeline at the Changtan Reservoir burst. 7000 cubic meters of water was wasted hourly. The water supply in many areas was suspended.
(Yan Chuanhua, Head of Changtan reservoir)
“Changtan reservoir’s water line has reached nearly 35 meters, which surpa sses
the alarm line. The pipelines have been used for more than 15 years. Now we are trying to replace the broken pipeline as soon as possible.”
After the pipeline burst, rescue teams made great efforts to make a replacement. Meanwhile, water supply downtown was severed. More than 300 thousand people lacked drinking water. The local government adopted various methods to guarantee people’s basic requirements.
Taizhou firehouse sent out fire engine filled with clean water to communities and hospitals.
Officials dispatched water 4 to 5 times a day.
Schools took measures to tackle water shortages. The Headmaster of the Huangyan Experimental Middle School says they started using their back-up water facility right after the water suspension.
(Kong Qingzhou, Huangyan Experimental Middle School)
“I asked all teachers to tell their students to save water as much as possible.”
2 In Jiufeng Park, a one thousand year old well serviced hundreds of people. A sense of urgency overwhelmed the crowd as people competed with their barrels, buckets and water bottles for the precious water.
(Mrs. Zhao, Citizen)
“In the past only 10 people get water from here.”
Older people are going to the front of the line when it comes to water. This lady surnamed Wang, is in her 70s, and in only 2 hours’ time she was able to get a whole tricycle of water.
(Lady Wang)
I bring all the barrels in my home to here to get the water.
Luckily the crisis was over quickly. On Tuesday afternoon the broken pipeline was replaced and the water supply returned to normal.
Task Two: Water Pollution in China Alarming
The theme of China’s Water Week Campaign is to secure sustainable development through a strict water management system. Water pollution in China poses a huge threat to the development of a sustainable water management.
Statistics of a joint report from several Chinese universities show more than one third of the country’s industrial waste water flows directly into rivers and lakes.
The water environment in most cities around the country is declining.
An official report from the Ministry of Environmental Protection shows among
the investigated 131 rivers that flow through cities, 36 are severely contaminated, and nearly 60 others polluted.
Since the Songhua River benzene pollution incident in 2005, over 140 pollution cases have been reported.
The Yellow River, an important water resource for North China, is suffering from serious pollution. Nearly 40 percent of its mainstream has been severely affected.
The country’s longest river, the Yangtze, is being thr eatened by a continuous flow of billions of tons of polluted water.
And situation is no better for the Huaihe River, in which the country has invested
most. It remains a severely polluted river.
3 Water pollution has resulted in enormous economic losses. Experts point out that water pollution is a joint result of human factors, society and economic development. Task Three: Agricultural Pollution in Focus
Agricultural pollution is another feature of the first national census on pollution sources. Rather than m any people’s impression, waste water from agriculture and people’s daily lives greatly exceeds the amount of polluted water produced by urban factories and industries.
Untreated waste water running into the river. This has become a common sight in China’s large rural areas.
As many counties focus much on agricultural production, efforts on environmental protection have long been ignored.Many regions lack basic waste disposal systems, and facilities to treat polluted water.
But the long-term threat is highlighted by the newly released national census on pollution sources. It shows that more than 80% of the country’s water pollution comes from agricultural production and people’s daily lives. This means water pollution in rural areas is much worse than in urban areas. In terms of chemical pollutants such as nitrogen the same picture.
Much of the agricultural pollution comes from farms. Plastic materials used for greenhouses are not biodegradable ( 生物所能分解的). And booming rural enterprises are also devastating the fragile environment. Mine exploration triggered a number of pollution and poisoning cases last year.
Environmental protection authorities are determined to pay more attention to rural pollution. (Zhuang Guotai, Official of Ministry of Environmental Protection) “We should not only focus on environmental problems in the cities and urban industries, but we also need to focus more on rural environmental problems.”
The central government has set up a special fund for environmental protection in rural areas. More than 4.5 billion yuan is expected to be spent this year, to deal with rural pollution, and provide technical support.
Some villages in affluent ( 富裕的) provinces have introduced environmental
facilities and methods. Farmers in this Zhejiang village are using flush toilets. Waste
4 water flows to a local water purification center for recycling. Farmers are learning to classify their garbage.
(A farmer)
“I put all the garbage from the kitchen in one pack, and put plastic bottles in another pack for recycling.”
More effort is needed to set up a complete waste disposal system. And it could be
a long term task to improve the habits of hundreds of million farmers.
What’s Wrong with the Climate
In the summer of 2007, the Huai River valley experienced its heaviest flooding
in over fifty years. The Anhui Flood Control Headquarters opened 9 flood diversion and storage areas in order to protect the 1.2 million people living along the river’s banks.
The Ni River is one of the diversion rivers 分流河道；改道河流；导流for the Huai River. Usually, water flows from the Ni into the Huai. When the Huai is diverting flood water, the sluice gate 水闸leaving from the Ni to the Huai is closed. Thus, water flows from the Huai to the Ni. Liulong Village, located next to the Ni River becomes an indirect diversion area.
After the heavy rain on July 7 and 8, Liulong Village was like a pot full of water.
The flood water came so rapidly that the villagers could only take what they could carry as they were evacuated.
In temporary tents, the villagers tried to continue as normally as possible.
The village entrance is a dividing line between homes and the refugee tent. The villagers’ flooded homes are inside this line. Every day, some people row a small boat
to see whether their houses are still there. Mr. Li went every 2 or 3 days. At this time
the streets have become streams, and familiar entrances of their courtyards are now docks.
Villagers are helpless in the face of flooding. They never imagined that extreme
climatic events caused by global warming would make them homeless.
5 In the summer of 2007, villagers beside Dongting Lake weren’t victims of floods, but something just as destructive hit them. Beginning in late June, they found their rice fields were infested with rats. Stretching a long rope across the field, they were able to drive out large numbers of rats.
In the peanut field, the plants above ground looked fine, but once you pulled on
the stalk, all the peanuts at the roots had been eaten. Water melon, pumpkin, sugar cane and corn crops had all been destroyed, including even the lotus seeds grown in water. The rats also destroyed the roots of the willow trees.
The rats are reed 芦苇voles 野鼠，鼹鼠，called water mice by the locals. They live in soft soil and lake beaches. In recent years, the Dongting Lake area received little rain, and lake sides were high and dry for much more time than before. The 700,000 acres of beach area around the lake became a suitable home for the rat population.
But in the middle of 2007, heavy rainstorms hit the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and the Dongting Lake beaches were flooded once again. The rats were forced
to move out.
A war between man and rodent ( 啮齿类动物) broke out.
They used every method available including acctacking the rats, trying to flood them out, digging and poisoning them. Man was finally victorious. But the villagers were not sure if the rats would return. Experts warned people that there were still rats remaining on the floating trees and weeds. Extreme weather may trigger a chain reaction.
When one area is hit by floods, another place has a drought. Tongjiang City at
the junction of the Songhua and Heilongjiang Rivers was such a site. 280,000 out of a total of 300,000 acres of crops dried up. In Chenzhou, Hunan, rice fields were punched to the point of cracking.
Jiangxi Province was also experiencing a serious drought. The farmers there set their hopes on drought resistant chemicals and waited for rain. But the rain brought by monsoons had already gone. Could it rain again? However, the typhoons in 2007 didn’t bring rain but disasters instead.
In Fuzhou, the streets are flooded and violent wind storms are destroying
6 everything in sight. In Zhejiang, an 8 kilometer long and 800 meter-wide tornado toured through Longgang Township, and destroyed 156 houses. Finally, typhoon Sepat swept over seven provinces in the south, and caused a loss of 10 billion RMB.
But, a later typhoon was no less ferocious. On October 6, the super typhoon Krosa entered the Taiwan Straits at a speed of 15 kilometers per second. It hit Taiwan twice then landed the third time at the junction of Zhejiang and Fujian bringing torrential rains. In Cangnan County, Zhejiang Province, hundreds of people were stranded by floods. It took over 3 hours for soldiers to evacuate the victims. Torrential rains hit Fuzhou, Fujian and Lianjiang. In Daguangban District of Liangjiang,
17million acres of reclaimed land were flooded again.
The growing number of extreme climate events can be ascribed to global warming, and the ultimate responsibility rests squarely with us. By wastefully burning fuels, we’re sending more and more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. If we’re ever
to slow, and perhaps even reverse climate change, we must conserve energy and reduce carbon dioxide emissions. That’s all for Nature and Science on CCTV international. I’m Dang Bing, by for now.
练习答案
Unit Four Water Problems
Task One: Water supply suspension in Taizhou, Zhejiang
1. Multiple Choices
1) C 2) C 3) B 4) B 5) A
2. Spot Dictation
1) burst 2) suspended 3) alarm line 4) 15 years
5) replace 6) rescue 7) downtown 8) guarantee
9) sent out fire engines filled with clean water to communities and hospitals
10) they started using their back-up water facility right after the water suspension
Task Two: Water pollution in China alarming
1. Multiple Choices
1) BD 2) ABD 3) CD 4) ACD 5) CD
2. Spot dictation: numbers
1) 131 2) 36 3) 60 4) 140 5) 40
Task Three: Agricultural pollution in focus
Multiple Choices.
1) ABCD 2) ABCD 3) ABD 4) BCD 5) ABCD
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Unit 3 UN Activities SectionA Warming Up 1. A summit-level meeting of the UN Security Council has formally urged all member nations to outlaw incitement to terrorism. 2. The United Nations is setting up a special fund to help it deal with some of the biggest natural or man-made disasters as soon as possible after they happen. 3. Senior diplomats from the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany gathered in New York today to map out a strategy to deal with Iran' s suspected nuclear weapons program. 4. The UN Security Council is expected to hold closed-door consultations today on a British-U.S. peacekeeping plan for Sudan' s Darfur region. 5. Hollywood movie star and United Nations Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie is appealing for international help in repatriating millions of Afghan refugees now living in Pakistan. 6. Meanwhile the United Nations Security Council is to hold an urgent meeting at the request of Lebanon today on the crisis. 7. (The) United Nations General Assembly has opened in New York with forceful calls for action in the Sudanese region of Darfur. 8. The United Nations is reporting signs of some progress in meeting global antipoverty goals set in 2000. 9. The United Nations Human Rights Committee has called on the American government to immediately close all secret detention facilities and grant access to the Red Cross to anybody detained in connection with an armed conflict. 10. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the United Nations' resolutions against North Korea leave Pyongyang no choice but to return to the negotiating table. Section B Tapescript 1. (The) United Nations has released new data showing that rich countries have made little overall progress in reducing the output of the gases blamed for climate change. 2. Qatar has become the first Arab country to pledge troops for a UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon, offering to send up to 300 troops to monitor the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. 3. In a speech to the 191-member General Assembly, Mr. Annan urged an enlargement of the Security Council by adding six new members. 4. World leaders speaking on the second day of the United Nations World Summit have called for reform of the international body and have urged it to play a key role in the fight against terrorism. 5. The United Nations has launched its biggest annual appeal for humanitarian assistance, asking for 4.7 billion dollars to help the victims of war, famine and natural disasters around the world.
Unit 5 Disasters and Calamities Section A warming up 1. snowfalls blizzards disputed 2. worsening drought 3. struck aftershocks 4. collapsed 5. debris trapped crushed 6. relief supplies devastating 7. tornado forecasters 8. locusts 9. tropical storm hurricane 10. battling toxic spill spill Section B 1. C 2.C 3.D 4.B 5.A Tapescript: 1.An Air France passenger plane has skidded off the runway and burst into flames on landing at Pearson Airport in Toronto, Canada. 2.In Nigeria at least 12 people were reported drowned after an overcrowded dugout canoe capsized in a remote creek in the oil-producing Niger Delta. 3.A full-scale relief operation is underway on Indonesia’s Java Islan d where a tsunami hit Monday, killing at least 340 people. 4.The bodies of 10 New Jersey senior citizens killed in this week’s tour bus crash in the mountains of northern Chile are being flown home. 5.Hurricane John has been downgraded to a tropical storm after hitting the Baja California Peninsula on the west coast of Mexico. The storm struck the tourist port city of Lepas, bringing down trees and power lines and flooding streets. It had earlier inundated the seaside resort of Los Cabos. Section C Item 1 1—(H) 2—(G) 3—(D,F) 4---B 5---(J) Tapescript: Iraqi police say more than 640 people have been killed in a stampede that broke out today near a Shiite shrine in Baghdad. Authorities say some 300 were hurt in ths stampede that erupted on a Tigris River bridge when thousands of people crushed a railing and plunged into the river. Officials say bodies are still being recovered from the river and that the final death toll could rise. The incident occurred when a rumor spread that a suicide bomber was in the crowd. Item 2 Task 1 1. T 2.F 3.T 4.T 5.T
Unit 1 Task 2 M: Come in, please. W: Good morning, sir. I’m Karen Yang. M: Good morning, Miss Yang. I’m Kevin Carter, the Administration Manager. Take a seat, please. W: Oh, is that your wife, Mr. Carter? She is so beautiful. M: Thank you. Ah… Miss Yang, I’ve gone through your resume. I’d like to ask you some questions now, if you don’t mind. W: Of course not. please go ahead. M: Well, can you tell me why you would like to work as a medical representative with us? W: I really like this kind of work, and having been a doctor for three years, I want to apply for this position for a change. M: Don’t you think it’s a pity for you to leave your present job? W: To some extent, it is. I have learned a lot in the hospital. But I would like to try a different kind of life. W: By the way, could you tell me how much the new job pays? M: Sure. There is a five-month probationary period and you can only get RMB2,000 for each month. After that, we’ll determine your salary according to your performance. W: Oh, I see. Then, what about the paid holidays, insurance, and things like that? M: Every employee in our company enjoys life insurance and unemployment insurance. In addition, they enjoy two-week paid holidays. W: That sounds fine. How much time will it take for me to be promoted here? M: I’m not sure. It depends on your ability and performance. Maybe we’ll send you to one of our branches, if you like. W: No problem. I hate staying at one place all the time. But in which cities do you have your branches? And, where is your company based? M: Our company is based in New York, with branches in many cities, such as Philadelphia, Beijing and London. Follow-up practice Cai: May I come in? Ms. Smith: Yes, please. Cai: Good morning, Madam. My name is Cai Ning. I am coming to your company for an interview, as requested. Ms. Smith: Fine, thank you for coming, Miss Cai. Please sit down. I am Anne Smith, Assistant Manager for the Personnel Department. Cai: Nice to see you, Ms. Smith. Ms. Smith: Nice to meet you, too. Would you like to have a cup of coffee or tea? Cai: Tea is fine. Thank you. Ms. Smith: I’ve read your CV. It looks good. Now, I wonder if you can tell me more
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商务英语视听说听力原 文 Modified by JACK on the afternoon of December 26, 2020
Unit 1 Task 2 M: Come in, please. W: Good morning, sir. I’m Karen Yang. M: Good morning, Miss Yang. I’m Kevin Carter, the Administration Manager. Take a seat, please. W: Oh, is that your wife, Mr. Carter She is so beautiful. M: Thank you. Ah… Miss Yang, I’ve gone through your resume. I’d like to ask you some questions now, if you don’t mind. W: Of course not. please go ahead. M: Well, can you tell me why you would like to work as a medical representative with us? W: I really like this kind of work, and having been a doctor for three years, I want to apply for this position for a change. M: Don’t you think it’s a pity for yo u to leave your present job?
大家好!我是2008年11月2日参加的广外考试.介绍一点个人经验及建议给大家吧!希望对大家有帮助 先说说广外吧！我是11/1下午到广州的，但因为我有亲威在广州，所以没有住旅馆.不过据朋友说，离广外不远的地方有个叫陈田村的，那里一晚上80元.是比较便宜的.如果你到广外考试，要早点订旅馆，因为考生多，而且大多数是外地的.如果晚了，有可能订不到.关于到广外的乘车路线，在考试前你可以上6684网,上面有乘车路线，你把它打印出来.带着去广外考试.这样方便些.我今年就是这样.广外离广州火车站不远，有9站路，车费是2元（无人售票）.所以要先准备好零钱哦.广外那个站叫外语学院.下车之后要往前走约100米，不用过马路.到时你就可以看到广东外语外贸大学几个字了. 再说口语.首先你先找到相应的考试教学楼及候考室（不是试室哦）.在那里找个位置随便坐上来，与别的同学聊聊天（用英语）.让自己早一点进入状态.我今年与一男生同坐，他的发音很不准，我一点都听不懂他说什么.后来就演变成基本上是我说，他听了.大约8：15分，会有老师进来给一张签到表你签.这个时候你要注意了，看看你的名排在第几，你的上一个与下一个是谁.因为这意味着你很有可能与她（他）成为PARTNER.今年考试是按姓氏排的.而且是从Z往上排的（这是我这个试室的排序方式，有的是从A开始排）.轮到你时，老师会叫你及你的PARTNER一起到教室外面的走郎上，那里会有老师分别发一张图给你及你的PARTNER.有一个为A，有一个为B.我今年拿到的图纸是关于垃圾食品的.就是讲越来越多的学校售物机出售健康食品，远离垃圾食品.其实说实话，售物机里售的那些东西英文名我基本上看不懂，我记得有个GREEN TEA.但下面一句英文写的内容大意是讲越来越多的学校售物机出售健康食品，远离垃圾食品.其实你全部看不懂都可以,但你一定要看懂那一句关键的提示性的英文.老师让你与你的PARTNER 5分种各看各的图纸,5分种后她就会收走,然后你们就在那里等,试室里的考生出来就可以进去考试. 接下来就进入试室正式开始考试了.进去后首先要有礼貌地说声GOOD MORNING.今年我说了,但我的PARTNER没有说.考试一开始,老师问了我一个问题:WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE TRAFFIC IN GUANZHOU? 说实话,我考前没有准备过任何问题.一问起这个问题,我全部是用自己的话说的.IN MY OPINION,AT FIRST, THEN, LAST.按照这样的顺序说的.说实话,这个问题我的PARTNER比我回答地要好,因为她是广州的.第二题就是给你一段文字,让你与你的PARTNER分A,B读.我这次考试,本来老师让我读A,可能是因为我没有听到,出于礼貌,我让我的PARTNER读A,我读B.这段文字会有5-10字左右的生词.不过不要紧,你要按照发音规则把它读出来.读时发音要清晰要准确.停顿要及时.我记得我PARTNER读完第三句后,我正准备读,老师让我停了,接下来进行第三部分考试.这时老师会将你们在走朗上看过的图纸再给你们.老师先将A图纸给我,要求描述图片中所发生的事情及我的评论.因为之前有准备过5分种,所以我说得很快.接下来老师将我的图纸给我的PARTNER.只给5秒锺给她准备.因为之前她没有看过我的图片,5秒锺时间又太短,她一下子说不出来.老师问了3次,CAN YOU START?在第三次,她才开始说.才说了一句,就不知说什么了.结果老师说停.然后把B图纸给她,让她描述图片上所发和的事情及她的评论.因为准备过,她说得还不错.只不过我完全没有听懂她说什么.后来老师又把她的图片给我,5秒锺准备,让我描述.我看了一下,就开始说了,其实我当时也时也理解错了.我说石油涨价了,司机们很生气,所以在打石油站的工作人员,后来120车来了.其实应该是石油涨价了,有司机看了就吓倒了,石油站的工作人员在把他抬上120车.说完这个这之后,老师就说:THIS IS THE END OF THIS EXAM. 然后我们就离开了.离开之后,我的PARTNER跟我说,有一个打了50分.她说她看到老师们在说.我的PARTNER 认为是我打了50分,因为第二部分朗读时,老师让我读A,我偏要让她读A. 不过现在成绩出来了,我的还不错,是个良好.我也不知道她考得怎样?基于此,建议大家最后一题,不论自己是完全看明了,还是没有看明,都一定要发表意见,不要不说话,那一题可是40分呀.
Unit I Shopping and Banking Online Spot dictation. Fill in the blanks with the words you hear. Listen to a news report. Supply the missing information. Consumers who want to shop online are suggested to bear the following things in mind: Evaluate the site. Always buy goods from well-known and trustworthy companies. Deal with companies which offer customer service, a complaints procedure and have a refund policy. Talk to merchant. E-mail and wait for responses. Take down the addresses and phone numbers of those companies and make sure they are real by calling them up before buying any products and services. Ensure secure connection. Since buyers must submit personal information like number and
精心整理 LISTENING SCRIPTS Module 1 1.1 Working from home (page 8) I=Interviewer M=Michela I OK,Michela.You work from home now.Can you tell me about a typical day? M R=Richard W=Woman M=Marek R Hello? W Hello,Richard.I ’d like to introduce you to Marek. R Oh,yes.Hello,Marek.How do you do?Nice to meet you at last. M Hello,Richard.Pleased to meet you too. W Oh,do you two know each other already? M Well,we ’ve spoken on the phone a few times. R But we ’ve never actually met.Anyway,take a seat.Would you both like a coffee? Conversation 2 A Would you like a coffee? B Oh,thanks.
A Milk? B Yes,please,and a sugar…thanks. A So have you enjoyed this morning? B Yes,it was very interesting.The first speaker was particularly good. A Is this your first time at one of these events? B Yes,it is.And you? A No,I’ve been coming for years.The company pays and if the location is good then I come.I remember the best year we had was in Monaco… Conversation 3 M=Marie W=Woman M May I join you? M You’ W That W this A That all Norway with for E=Examiner C=Candidate E And where do you live exactly? C I’m from a small town in northern Switzerland but at the moment I’m studying for a business degree so I live in Zurich. E What types of business are most successful in your town? C Err,well,I suppose that tourism is quite important to the area and there are many small farms so agriculture also.Zurich,where I study,is more famous of course for banking and financial services. E How is working life changing in your country? C Sorry,can you repeat the question,please? E Yes,how is working life changing in your country?
UNIT 4 Statements and Comments Section A concern remarks charges warned for accused troubled baseless the importance Section B 1. The Canadian Prime Minister Steven Harper has announced the construction of two military faci lities in the Arctic and a move to assert his country’s sovereignty over the contested region, which is estimated to contain billions of dollars of oil and gas deposits. 2. A speaker purporting to be al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is accusing the US and the European Union of backing a war against Islam. 3. The former president of Iran Mohammad Khatami says American attempts to impose western-style democracy on the Middle East are flawed because democracy is not something that can be exported. 4. The Pentagon has issued a memo to rebut the criticism from several retired generals who called for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to resign. 5. British Prime Minister Tony Blair says his country is taking tough new measures to figh t extremism following last month’s deadly terrorist attacks in London. Answer：3A 4D 5C Section C Item 1Russian President Vladimir Putin says his country is prepared to help Kyrgyzstan’s new leaders establish stability in the wake of a pol itical upheaval. Mr. Putin made these comments today following a telephone discussion with Kyrgyzstan’s opposition leader Kurmanbek Bakiyev who was appointed by parliament to lead an interim government. Kyrgyzstan’s new leaders are trying to restore order after two days of massive looting and street violence that left at least three people dead and injured many more. Answer：1-(B,D) 2-(A,D) 3-(G) 4-(E) Item 2 British officials in Iran have denied allegations of any British involvement in violence in the southwestern province of Khuzestan where at least four people were killed in two bomb attacks on Saturday. The British embassy in Tehran condemned the attacks and said Britain rejected allegations linking it to terrorist outrages. Several Iranian officials have made statements implicating British troops stationed across the border inside southern Iraq in the bombings and in previous attacks earlier this year which killed 10 people. Answer：Task1：1F 2F 3F 4T 5F Task2: rejected linking to officials implicating bombings previous attacks Item 3 For the first time, President Bush has said it could be accurate to compare the recent escalation of violence in Iraq to the 1968 Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War. The Tet Offensive marked a strong downturn in public support for both the Vietnam War and then-President Lyndon Johnson. Mr. Bush spoke in an ABC TV interview in which he addressed increased violence in Iraq. The comparison of the insurgency in Iraq to the Tet Offensive in Vietnam was made in a column by Tom Friedman in the New York Times.
《商务英语听力I 》课程标准 一、课程基本信息 课程代码：180020 适用专业：商务英语学时数：36 学分：2 先修课程：无 后续课程： 《商务英语听力II》、《商务英语口语II》、《英语口译》 课程归口：商务英语专业 二、课程性质 本课程是商务英语专业的专业必修课。通过系统而专门的商务英语听力单项和综合训练，培养学生的快速反应、归纳、记录等能力，使学生掌握基本的听力技能，了解相关背景知识，为后续课程《商务英语听力II》和《英语口译》以及将来从事的涉外活动打下良好的听力基础。 三、课程教学目标 1、能力目标 ①能听懂英语国家人士就学生熟悉的题材所作的较为浅易的讲话和日常生活的交谈，要求学生能够抓住讲话和交谈的中心大意； ②能利用网络资源进行英语听说训练；能利用网络搜索、阅读相关资料； ③能基本听懂英语语速为每分钟150-200个词的商务英语涉外业务活动包括商务旅行、产品介绍、会展、接待、宴会等的一般交谈和简短讲话，辨别商务活动中讲话人的态度和语气，理解特定情景中
语言的含义； ④能选择听力材料中关键的词和句子并做简要笔记； ⑤能归纳并复述所听材料的大意; ⑥能快速反应所听材料中的数字、时间、地名等关键性信息； ⑦能在15 分钟内听写根据已学知识编写或选用的录音材料（词数140-160 个，共念四遍。第一、四遍的语速为每分钟80-100 个词，第二、三遍根据分句或句子停顿），错误率不超过10%。 2、知识目标 ①掌握英语听力训练的方法和途径； ②掌握预期、猜测、抓住要点和连贯记忆等基本的听力技能； ③了解从事商务活动中的文化差异，如饮食文化差异； ④掌握英语的连读方法和易混淆的音素； ⑤掌握和商务会议、商务旅行、商务宴请、产品推介等相关的商务英语术语和交际功能语言； ⑥掌握所听材料的背景知识。 3、素质目标 ①具备良好的自我学习与提升的能力； ②具备良好的理解能力、沟通能力和团队协作能力； ③拥有良好的职业道德，具备良好的抗压能力。
Unit 6Public Health Section A warming up 1. life expectancy 2. regulators abortion 3. rabies 4. infected with cases 5. bird flu immune 6. outbreaks-borne 7. prescription medicines 8. AIDS 9. antiviral10. Medicare Section B 1. B Tapescript: 1. The problem of obesity is spreading into many different aspects of Americans ’ lives. Now researchers have confirmed that some children are so fat they can’ t fit into car safety seats designed fordski. 2. Two more Indian states have banned the sale of soft drinks produced by . giants Coca-cola and Pepsi-cola after a test by an environmental group showed high pesticide levels. This brings the total number of states to six where there is a partial or full ban of the soft drinks. 3.An Asian expert says disease and natural disasters may pose a great security threat to the region than conventional political conflicts. 4.The United Nations say opium cultivation in Afghanistan has declined for the first time since 2001 as tens of thousands of farmers have given up opium poppies for legal crops. 5.The authorities in Iran have warned that if the dangerously high level of air pollution in the capital‘’ Teheran continues, there could be thousandsiesof. casualt Section C Item 1 1. A Tapescript: The number of people infected with HIV, the virus that can lead to AIDS, is still rising and has passed 14 million worldwide for the first time. The United Nations said there had been five million new infections this year and warned that AIDS was outstripping global and national efforts to contain it. Sub-Saharan Africa remains the worst affected region. In Asia, where more than eight million people are infected, the UN says infection rates are rising sharply. It warned that Pakistan, in particular, was on the verge of a serious epidemic. Item 2 Task 11. T Task 2 1. international conference malaria West African state scientific findings in lost GDP 3. world population’s is transmitted Tapescript: The biggest ever international conference on malaria has begun in the West African state of Cameroon to discuss the latest scientific findings on the disease which kills more than million people worldwide each year. 75 percent of those victims are African children. Of the 2,000 delegates meeting in the capital Yaounde, 80% are from Africa. The disease costs the continent more than 12 billion dollars in lost GDP each year. The latest research suggests that 41% ofthe world ’ s population live in areas where malaria is transmitted. Item 3 1. Whether more than one food company is responsible for an outbreak of E. coli bacteria. 2. Bad spinach from Natural Selection foods 3. Earth Bound Farm 4. It has recalled the spinach. 5. get rid of any fresh spinach in bags or other containers. 6.