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2021年1月25日发(作者：perpendicular)


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Unit 3
N1
The world
”
s largest online retail company,Amazon,has launched its first shopping website in
India. The company hopes to make use of India
”
s economic geowth to expang its online business.
The Amazon website in India offers seven million books and 12,000 movies and television
plans to add more products in the coming American company will not sell
its
own
products
in
India
as
Indian
laws
bar
companies
that
carry
goods
from
more
than
one
manufacturer from selling directly to people on the d the Amazon website serves as
a
marketplace
for
local
i
Das
is
with
the
market
yearly
growth
of
nearly
17
percent in the next five years.
does the Amazon website in India offer ? B.A wide selection of commodities.
is the estimated annual growth rate of online shopping in India in the next five years?
17 percent.
N2
The French are calling the day
“
Black Thursday
”
as a massive strike has partially shuttered
the

workers
are
venting
their
concern
about
the
giobal
economic
crisis
that
has
taken
its
toll
here,with
the
country
teetering
on
the
edge
of

are
also
expressing
their
angar
at
education
and
other
reforms
proposed
by
the
center-right
government
of
French
President Nicolas Sarkozy.
For those commuters who went to work,getting around on public transportation has posed a
major
challenge.
Only
a
fraction
of
the
metros
in
Paris
and
France
”
s
second
largest
city,
Marseille,were French hitchhiked,biked,walkedor rollerbladed to took
their
chances
with
the

the
Val
de
Fontenay
metro
station
outside
Paris,loudspeakers
blared announcing the next train
—
due to arrive in 20 minutes.
1.

What has severely disrupted transportation services across France?C.A nationwide strike.
2.

Where were only a fraction of the metros running?IA..In Paris and Marseille.
N3
Slowing economic growth around the world is endangering the World Bank
”
s goal of ending
extreme poverty by the year is what World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said recently.

Mr. Kim said the goal remains within he thinks extreme poverty willdisappear only if
world leaders and financial and development agencies do their part.
What exactly is extreme poverty?The United Nations says extreme proverty is acondition in
which basic human needs are not being satisfied or eeds include having ciean drinking
Water,food and an education.
Jim Yong Kim said there is good said the world had made some progress toward

Reaching the goal.
“
Over 25 years,we
”
ve gone from nearly two billion pepple living in extreme poverty to fewer
than one billion.
”

1.

When does the World Bank plan to remove extreme poverty? the year 2030.
2.

What do basic human needs contain? the year 2025.
N4
This week,we look back on a few of the year
”
sbiggest economic recent years,home
building
ang
buying
have
increased,helping
expang
the
American

this
year
,the
housing
market
has

home
building
dropped
by
more
than
25
percent
since
last
experts blame the housing market for the slow economic growth of two perceng
in
the
three- month
period
ending
in

response,the
Federal
Reserve
left
interest
rates

followed
the
Federal
Reserve
”
s
decision
on
interest

housing
declined,giving money to good causes ssman Warren Buffett announced a gift of
about 3.7 billion dollars to the Bill ang Melinda Gates Buffett,an investor,is chief
of Berkshire is the world
”
s second richest man Bill Gates is the richest.
1.

What leads to the slow economic growth in the United States according to the experts?
cooled housing market.
2.

What is Warren Buffett
”
s gift?A.A huge endowment.
N5
The United States says it will provide an additional 180 million dollars to help feed the people of
South Sudan who are threatened by White House urged the country
”
s president and its
former deputy to assume their responsibilities and prevent further needless suffering.
This rises to more than 600 million dollars,a total amount that the United States has so far
provided in humanitarian assistance to South White House says the South Sudanese are

Suffering
a
lot
because
of
the
inability
of
the
country
”
s
leaders
to
put
their
people
”
s
interests
above
their
own.A
power
struggle
between
its
president
Salva
Kiir
and
his
former
deputy
Riek
Machar has plunged the country into renewed

warfare,leaving thousandds dead and nearly two
million refugees.
1.

What is the purpose of the United States in providing economic aid to South Sudan? fight
against famine.
2.

Why are the South Sudanese suffering a lot according to the White House?
e of their leaders
”
indifference to people
”
s interests.
N6
The American economy is improving ,but the rate of growth remains a
”
s jobless
rate fell in 2012 to its lowest level in four
e home prices are no longer falling,and
money
has
been
flowing
into
financial

as
the
year
ends,most
observes
say
the
economic recovery has not beem as strong as they had hoped.
One reason for the recovery is federal spending,Like many other countries,the United States

is spending more money than it is receiving in countries are spending money they do
not have in an effort to get their economies growing again
Richard Rahn is an economist with the Cato Institude.
”
If countries had only been spending
within their
means in keeping spending growing no faster than the rate of economic growth,we
wouldn
’
t have the global economic mess.
”
But other economists say
the mathematics is not that
d
Lachman
is
with
the
American
Enterprise

notes
that
deep
budget
cuts
in
Greece
have
produced
a
deep
recession.
”
Because
what
we
”
re
doing
is,we
’
re
really
applying
Very
stringent
austerity
measures.
”
The
IMF
concedes
that
the
austerity
hasn
”
t
worked
yet.
fell to a four-year low in 2012 in America?

jobless rate.
contributes to America
”
economic recovery? l expenditure.
does the IMF think about the austerity? is ineffective.

.
Unit4
4N1
Beidou,which
meams
the
Big
Dipper
in
Chinese,has
been
providing
accurate
and
stable
services to Asia-Pacific users China launched it a year has improved its accuracy to an error
margin as iow as five meters,down from 10,and can be further improved to be within centimeters.
That will make it competitive with the US Global Positioning System.
Ran Chengqi,director of the China Satellite Navigation Office,says Beidou has functionality
and performance
”
comparable
”
to the GPS is cheaper.
It is estimated that the market for transportation,weather,and telecom spin-off services from
Beidou could be worth 200 billion yuan,or more than 30 billion US dollars,by 2015.
Meanwhile,China is encouraging other countries in Asia to adopt the free service.
will make Beidou competitive with the US Global Positioning System?
Its accuracy can be further improved to be within centimeters.
much is Beidou
”
s estimated market worth by 2015?

Two hundred billion yuan.

4N2
University of Washington researchers said they used a laser to turn hot water into cool
engineers from the university are the first in the 50-year history of the laser to refrigerate liquids
under normal conditions with light beams.
The
geoup
used
a
simple
approach
to
the

are
known
for
producing
hot
sity
of
Washington
said
they
”
essentially
ran
the
laser
phenomenon
in
reverse.
”

The discovery has a future in the computer and medical er interiors could be
cooled by a medical laboratory,individual cells could be cooled to see how they react
“
Few
people
have
thought
about
how
they
could
use
this
technology
to
solve
problems
because
using
lasers
to
refrigerate
liquids
hasn
”
t
been
possible
before,
”
said
researcher
Peter
Pauzauskie.
The
cool
laser
concept
can
also
be
used
in
manufacturing,telecommunications
or
national
defense.
The group has an interest in hearing from businesses or scientists who may have eneryday
applications of the cool laser.

The
findings
were
published
this
month
in
the
Proceedings
of
the
National
Academy
of
Sciences..
is the news mainly about?
B. The successful experiment of the cool laser.
can the new discovery be used in the computer field? B. to cool computer interiors.
fields can the cool laser concept be used in?
D. Manufacturing ,telecommunications or national defense.

4N3
Three university students in Santiago,Chile have developed a plant-powered device to charge
their mobile phones.
The three engineering stydents got the idea for the idea for the device while sitting in their
school
”
s

inyention
is
a
small
biological
circuit
they
call
E-Kaia.
It
captures
the
energy plants produce during photosynthesis.
A plant uses only a small part of the energy produced by that rest goes into the
soil.E-Kaia collects that device plugs into the ground and then into a mobile phone.
One
of
the
student
inventors,
Camila
Rupcich,says
the
device
changes
the energy
released
from the plant into iow-level power to charge phones.
The E-Kaia is able to fully recharge a mobile phone in less than two hours.
does E-Kaia produce power?
captures the energy plants produce during photosynthesis.
long does E-Kaia take to fully recharge a mobile phone? C. Less than two hours.

4N4
Apple,Google and other tech companies have spent years gathgering information about your
purchasing
habits,
entertainment
preferences
and
social

want
to
know
what
makes
you tick. Now they also want to know about your actual tech firms are targeting your
vital signs with health apps and online date repositories.
Apple
”
s new Heaith app will gather blood pressure,heart rates,and stats on diet and exercise
from any number of mobile apps and fitness devices,including Nike+ may even
start
selling
its
own
wrist
watch- like
health-monitoring
device
this
fall,alongwith
the
lines
of
Samsung
”
s Gear Fit and its upcoming Simband
Meanwhile,Microsoft,which
may
soon
offer
its
own
heart- monitoring
smart
watch,has
offered its similar Health V ault service since 2010.
These systems encourage the purchase of more products and services that promote a healthy
lifestyle,which,of course,ups the odds that their custormers will stick around for a while.
is the news mainly about?
-tech firms are targeting your vital signs with health apps.
does Googlew use to challenge Apple? Health.
company developed the Health Vault service? oft
.
4N5
We
don
”
t
like
to
think
about
it,butmost
of
us
share
our
beds
with
thousands
of
tiny,
0.3-millimeter- wide creatures called dust mites,Even more disagreeable is the fact that,along with