乌鲁木齐农业大学地址-藏羚羊跪拜
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Task 1
News Item 1
The
United States central bank, the Federal Reserve,
has raised interest rates for the third time
this year. The Federal Reserve raised
the overnight bank lending rate by 0.25 percent
(one fourth
of one percent) to 5.5
percent. It raised the discount rate also by 0.25
percent to 5 percent. The
Federal
Reserve
said
it
had
no
plans
to
raise
interest
rates
again
any
time
soon.
It
said
the
increase today
should reduce the danger of inflation.
News Item 2
The
Commerce
Department
says
the
American
economy
has
shrunk
for
the
first
time
in
eight
years. The total value of
goods and services produced in the United States
fell by four tenth of
one
percent
(0.4
percent)
in
the
period
of
July
through
September.
A
recession
is
commonly
defined as at least six
months where the economy shrinks.
News Item 3
A fall in the New York market had been
widely predicted following Friday's better than
expected
US
employment
figures.
US
bonds
from
which
the
government
funds
long-term
borrowing
fell
nearly
two
points
on
the
news
that
more
jobs
had
been
created
in
March
than
had
been
expected. The Dow Jones Index was
closed on Friday for the Easter holiday, so today
was the first
chance for the share
market to react.
News Item 4
And
we
go
straight
to
Wall
Street
where
share
prices
closed
higher.
The
Dow
Jones
Industrial
Average was up nearly
1 percent or 89 points at 10,205. Shares made up
for some of the losses
they incurred in
the past week, thanks to what was interpreted as
control
Task 2
News Item 1
China has launched a manned space
flight, becoming the third country to do so 40
years after the
Soviet Union and the
United States. A single astronaut was on board the
Shenzhou V
Craft,
which
took
off
from
the
Gobi
Desert.
It's
expected
to
go
round
the
earth
14
times
during
a
24-hour period before landing in Inner
Mongolia. President Hu Jintao watched the launch,
a sign
of the importance China attaches
to its space programme. Francis Marguez reports
from Beijing.
Half
an
hour
after
the
spacecraft
blasted
off,
China's
state
television
showed
footage
of
the
launch,
the
rocket
climbing
slowly
into
the
clear
blue
sky.
And
many
Chinese
will
feel
their
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country has
taken a proud step towards modernity.
News Item 2
China's first man in space has returned
to Earth. Reports say Chinese officials declared
the space
flight a success. Astronaut
Yang Liwei is also reported to be in good health.
On Tuesday, China
became
only
the
third
nation
to
send
a
person
into
orbit.
Astronaut
Yang
and
his
spacecraft
landed in China's Inner Mongolia early
Thursday. He had orbited the earth 14 times in
about 20
hours. The United States and
Russia praised China for the launch. Russia and
the United States
were the first two
nations to send people into space.
Task 3
Negotiators have agreed to the wording
of a proposed international treaty on tobacco
control.
Delegates
from
more
than
170
countries
approved
the
final
wording
earlier
this
month
in
Switzerland.
This
came
after
four
years
of
negotiations.
The
proposed
treaty
is
called
the
Framework Convention on Tobacco
Control. It will be presented in May at the yearly
meeting of
the World Health
Organization, a UN agency. The final version
approved there will also require
individual approval by WHO members.
Once 40 nations have approved it, the treaty will
go into
effect in those countries.
Member
states
cannot
make
any
amendments
once
the
WHO
approves
a
final
version
of
the
treaty. They must either accept or
reject the agreement as it is written. The
proposed Framework
Convention on
Tobacco Control is part of the efforts to reduce
deaths and diseases from smoking.
The
WHO
estimates
that
almost
five
million
people
die
each
year
from
lung
cancer
and
other
tobacco-related
diseases.
That
number
could
rise
to
ten
million
a
year
by
2020.
Developing
nations are the
biggest growth areas for tobacco-related diseases.
These nations are calling for
the
strongest
laws
possible
to
control
tobacco.
The
treaty
would
ban
advertising
and
other
marketing
campaigns
for
tobacco
products,
where
doing
so
would
not
violate
a
country's
constitution. It also calls for high
tobacco taxes. It would even require companies to
make public
all the substances they use
to make cigarettes.
In addition, tobacco companies would
have to place health warnings on at least thirty
percent of
their products. These
warnings could not include information that might
lead people to believe
that
some
cigarettes
are
less
harmful
than
others.
In
addition,
governments
would
have
to
support
treatment
programs
to
help
people
stop
smoking.
And,
there
would
have
to
be
education campaigns
to get people not to start. The proposed treaty
also calls for measures to
protect non-
smokers from secondhand smoke, that is, smoke from
other people's tobacco.
Task 4
Thank
you. And thank you for asking me to share in your
weekly address to the American people.
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Britain and
America have so much in common: language, values,
belief in family and community,
in a
real sense of national pride. We share many
problems, too. And it has been clear from our
discussions that we are agreed, in
general terms, about some of the solutions.
You took the tough
decisions needed for long-term economic stability.
We are doing so. You have
focused
on
education,
welfare
reform,
a
new
approach
to
crime.
So
are
we.
Together,
we
are
breaking down boundaries of left and
right and creating a new politics of the radical
centre.
Task 5
Each
year,
the
Nobel
Committee
in
Oslo,
Norway
announces
the
winners
of
its
famous
Nobel
Prizes.
Most
winners
of
the
Nobel
Peace
Prize
have
been
men.
Only
ten
percent
have
been
women since the prize was first
presented in 1901.
Now
the
United
Nations
Development
Fund
for
Women
and
the
human
rights
group
International Alert have presented a
new award to honor women peacemakers. It is
called the
Millennium Peace
Prize for Women. Officials will present the award
every three years. The award
recognizes
women's actions in building peace, protecting
women's human rights and supporting
community life during and after war.
Experts say women
are usually not as involved in the peace process
as men are. However, their
work
to
reestablish
normal
community
life
after
peace
has
been
reached
is
very
important.
Because of this, International Alert
says women also need to be recognized as leaders
in peace
building.
Earlier this month, six women and
organizations received the Millennium Peace Prize
for Women.
One of the winners is the
Colombian group
Peace.
This
group
has
organized
protests
against
the
violence
between
rebel
groups
and
the
Colombian government.
The group
the
peace process between the military and rebel
forces in Papua New Guinea. Another winner is
the
group
in Black
It
is
an
international
organization
that
organizes
protests
against
violence, aggression and
war.
Flora
Brovina
also
received the
peace
prize.
She
organized
the
of
Albanian
Women
of
Kosovo
Asma Jahangir and Hina Jilani are also
peace prize winners. They worked to support human
rights
and women's rights in Pakistan.
And the leader of the women's movement in Rwanda
also won
the Millennium Peace Prize,
after her death. Veneranda Nzambazamariya helped
rebuild Rwanda
after the mass killings
in 1994. She died in a plane crash last year.
Task 6
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