洛林大学工程师学院-搞笑诗句
Unit 15
Task 1
【答案】
A.
1)→
e),
2)
→
h),
3)
→
g),
4)
→
b),
5)
→
c),
6)
→
i),
7)
→
d),
8)
→
a),
9)
→
f)
B.
2)
Tiger Woods
?
new championship in Europe.
3) Pope
?
s apology to Orthodox Christians.
4)
Zimbabwe
?
s acceptance of the genetically engineered food.
5)
Tightened security measures for Iranian
President
?
s visit.
6)
Illinois governor
?
s visit to Cuba.
7) Conference in the prospects of the
peace talks on Northern Ireland.
8)
Efforts being made to fight the
world
?
s serious health problems.
【原文】
1) V
oters in Pe
ru Sunday elected Alejandro Toledo as the country?s next president.
2)
American
golfer
Tiger
Woods
has
won
the
European
Tournament
Players
Championship
in
Heidelberg, Germany.
3)
Pope
John
Paul
has
apologized
to
Orthodox
Christians
for
wrongs
done
to
them
by
Roman
Catholics over the past 1,000 years.
4)
Earlier
this
month,
President
Robert
Mugabe
announced
that
Zimbabwe
would
accept
genetically engineered maize from the
UN World Food Programme.
5)
France
has
taken
strict
security
measures
for
the
visit
by
President
Khatami
of
Iran
on
Wednesday.
6) The governor
of the American State of Illinois, George Ryan,
has concluded a visit to Cuba, the
first by a US governor since President
Fidel Castro came to power 40 years ago.
7)
The
chairman
of
the
peace
talks
on
Northern
Ireland,
the
former
American
Senator
George
Mitchell, says he?s increasingly
confident that the current deadlock can be
broken.
8) The head of the World
Health Organization, Gro Harlem Brundtland, says
important efforts are
being made
t
o fight the world?s serious health problems.
Task 2
【答案】
News Item 1
A.
1) T,
2) F,
3) F,
4) T
B.
The legislation provides:
a) Suffering patients can make the
request to end their lives if they have no chance
of surviving
their sickness.
b) The request must be examined and
approved by an independent group.
I
believe living itself can be a torture for some
patients and that people have the right of
deciding
whether they should live or
die.
News Item 2
C.
1) A food crisis in southern Africa.
2) Almost thirteen million people there
need emergency food aid.
3) No.
4) The US Agriculture Secretary said
opponents of genetically engineered food have
limited the
ability of the US to send
food.
5) A lot of food we eat today
contains genetically engineered ingredients and
usually without our
knowledge.
Although
GE
food
can
increase
food
production,
it
doesn
?
t
provide
a
potential
solution to the world hunger problem
which is
essentially the poverty problem.
【原文】
News
Item 1
The
Dutch
Senate
has
approved
a
bill
that
permits
doctors
to
end
the
lives
of
very
sick
patients in some cases. The lower house
of Parliament had approved the measure in
November.
The
vote
Tuesday
makes
the
Netherlands
the
first
country
to
openly
let
doctors
help
suffering
patients
end
their
lives.
The
measure
says
patients
may
ask
to
die
if
they
have
no
chance
of
surviving their sickness. It also says
that an independent group must examine the
patient
s?
request
to die.
News Item 2
A food crisis in
southern Africa has added to the decade about the
use of genetic engineering
in
agriculture.
The
United
Nations
says
almost
thirteen
million
people
in
southern
Africa
need
emergency food aid. UN
officials have urged other countries to provide
food and money. The UN
said only one-
fourth of the money needed to provide food
assistance has been offered.
America?s
top
agriculture
official
reacted
to
the
UN
report
with
a
statement.
Agriculture
Secretary Ann Veneman noted that the
United States is the largest provider of food aid
to southern
Africa. But Ms. Veneman
said opponents of genetically engineered food have
limited the ability of
the United
States to send food.
Task 3
【答案】
neither,
majority, Social Democrats,
minority, correspondent, agreement, opposition,
integration,
policies, interest,
high
【原文】
General
elections
are
being
held
today
in
Portugal
with
opinion
polls
suggesting
that
neither
of the two main parties will obtain an absolute
majority in Parliament. After eight years
of government by the Social Democrats,
the election could produce a minority or a
coalition
government.
Our
correspondent
in
Lisbon
says
that
there
?
s
broad
agreement
between
the
governing
party
and
the
opposition
Socialists
on
many
issues
including
European
integration
and economic
policies. This convergence has reduced interest in
the elections and the abstention
rate
could be high.
Task 4
【答案】
A.
1)
b,
2)d,
3) b,
4) c
B.
1)
Some government officials sell their influence, or
try to hide their illegal activities. Such misuse
of power is corruption.
Literally
transparency
means
permitting
light
to
pass
through
unrestricted.
In
this
context,
it
means
activities
are
carried
out
in
the
open,
clear
for
all
to
see
and
that
wrongdoings
of
some
government officials are difficult to
hide.
2) Generally speaking, the more
transparent a society is, the less likely
corruptions will occur.
3) Transparency
International (TI) is an international movement to
curb corruptions. Particularly,
it
collects, analyses and spread information and
raises public awareness on the damaging impact
of corruption.
As a non-
government organization, TI can play a meaningful
role in countering corruption by
increasing the transparency and public
awareness about corruption.
【原文】
Around the world, almost every day,
reports appear in the news about government
officials
accused of wrong doing. They
may have sold
their influence, or they
tried to hide
other illegal
activities. Such misuse of power is
known as corruption.
Five years ago, a
group began to ask business people and others how
corrupt they consider
the different
governments around the world. The group is called
Transparency International. It is
based
in
Berlin.
It
uses
the
information
gathered
to
produce
a
yearly
list
called
the
Corruption
Perceptions Index.
This list rates countries by how corrupt they
seem. The most recent one came
out
in
October.
Transparency
International
used
the
results
of
seventeen
studies
to
produce
it.
Ninety-nine countries are on the list.
Those seen as least corrupt include Denmark,
Finland, New
Zealand and Sweden.
Transparency
is
a
word
commonly
used
by
those
involved
in
the
fight
against
corruption.
Something transparent, like window
glass, permits light to pass through unrestricted.
The idea of a
government operating
transparently suggests that wrong doing would be
difficult to hide. It means
that
activities
are
carried
out
in
the
open,
clear
for
all
to
see.
Peter
Eigen
started
Transparency
International with Frank V
ogel in 1993. They met at the World Bank, where they both worked, and
which
now
has
joint
efforts
for
honest
government.
Transparency
International
says
corruption
damages
a
country?s
development.
It
says
corruption
reduces
growth
and
scares
away
foreign
investment. And it says corruption puts
loans and aid into projects that only help the
corruption
decision-makers themselves.
Task 5
【答案】
A.
1)
b,
2) d,
3) a
B.
1) escape, in spite of,
personal, trial, latest generation, power,
responsibility
2) cause, devotion,
vain, freedom, of, by, for
【原文】
In 1942, orchestra conductor Andre
Kostelanetz asked composer Aaron Copland to write
a
piece of music about Abraham Lincoln.
Copland was one of the best modern American
composers.
Aaron
Copland
wrote
Lincoln
Portrait
to
honor
the
president.
Here
is
the
Seattle
Symphony
playing
part of
Lincoln Portrait
.
Aaron
Copland
added
words
from
President
Lincoln?s
speeches
and
letters
to
his
Lincoln