Unit Ten For Peace and for Development

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Unit Ten For Peace and for Development
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Part I Economic development

• Task A. Listen to some statements about Chinas
  economic development and fill in the blanks with
  numbers.
• Focus comprehension of and skills of taking down
  numbers

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Words and expressions

• exports
• (business or action of) exporting
• surplus
• amount by which money received is greater than
  money spent

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• gross
• total
• His gross income is 50,000.
• ???????????
• domestic
• relating to a person's own country
• domestic airlines/flights
• Domestic opinion had turned against the war.

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• annual
• every/each year
• annual income
• reserves
• things put aside or kept for later use
• We still have a reserve of food/food reserves in
  case of emergency.

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• fold having the stated number of parts, or
  multiplied by the stated number
• ???????,????
• threefold /fourfold
• The problems are twofold - firstly, economic, and
  secondly, political.
• capital
• wealth or property that may be used to produce
  more wealth
• The corporation has enough capital to build
  another factory.
• ???????????????????

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Keys

• US 183.76 billion
• US 140.17 billion
• US 43.6 billion
• 7th
• 6,000 yuan

• 9.6
• US 40 billion
• Second largest
• US 151.51billion

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Task B News Headlines.

• Training Focus
• News headlines Its the most important sentence
  in a news broadcast. It mainly tell us wh-
  questions, such as what, who, when, why, how,
  etc, though it does not mean that every lead
  should include all of them.

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• The US Federal Reserve has raised rates by a
  quarter percentage point to 2.25 - its fifth
  increase since June. Encouraged by the country's
  economic performance, the Fed's policy-makers
  voted unanimously for the move.
• http//www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-12/1
  5/content_400279.htm

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• WASHINGTON (AP) -- Microsoft Corp. disclosed
  plans Thursday to offer frustrated users of its
  Windows software new tools within 30 days to
  remove spyware programs secretly running on
  computers. But it might cost extra in coming
  months.
• http//www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/12/16/micros
  oft.spyware.ap/index.html

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• expand trade
• cause trade to become greater in size, number, or
  importance
• OPEC
• The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
• an organization of countries formed in 1961 to
  agree on a common policy for the production and
  sale of petroleum
• ???????

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production quotas

• maxims number or amount of production
• unemployed rate
• The rate of the amount of how many persons who
  dont get a job
• share prices
• share any of the equal parts into which the
  ownership of a company may be divided

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average

• also known as the Dow-Jones index, is an index of
  the relative price of stocks based on the daily
  average common stock price of selective lists of
  30 industrials, 20 transports and 15 utilities
• ???????

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stabilize

• (cause sth/sb. to) become stable
• stock
• money lent to a government or company at a fixed
  rate of interest
• stock exchange/market
• the place where stocks bought and sold

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• Listen to some news headlines and supply the
  missing information.
• 1. an unrestricted trade area
• 2. roads, airports and water supplies
• 3. expanding trade in the area
• 4. ease the debt
• 5. 7
• 6. 7.1 /one trillion dollars
• 7. 5.3
• 8. 276 /2.7

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Task C. Dictation

• Listen to a news headline and write down every
  word you hear.
• transfer
• move sth./sb. from one place to another
• To preserve the farm intact, he transferred it to
  one heir.
• ???????????,???????????

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The Panama Canal

• a ship canal 40 miles long across the
  Isthmus(??)of Panama built by the United States
  and after nearly 100 years involvement, the
  waterway was shifted to Panama control in Dec.
  31, 1999
• ?????(????????)

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hoist

• raise (sth.) by means of ropes, special
  apparatus, etc.
• A flag was hoisted on top of the building.
• ???????????
• handover
• transfer from one person to another

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• The United States has formally transferred the
  Panama Canal to Panama. Thousands of flag-waving
  Panamanians cheered the hoisting of Panamas flag
  over the Canal Commission headquarters, ending
  nearly a century of U.S. control.

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Part II The Panama Canal Handover

• Training focus Summarize the main idea of each
  paragraph
• hard labor
• ????,??
• cut off
• to disconnect
• Many villages have been cut off by the heavy
  snow.
• engineering marvels
• an astonishment or wonder in engineering

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• relinquish
• give up
• swamp
• (an area of) soft wet land
• jungle
• a tropical forest too thick to walk through
  easily
• malaria
• a disease caused by the bite of a certain type of
  mosquito, in hot countries
• ??

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swamp
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Jungle
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• deposit
• to place in a bank or SAFE
• toll
• tax
• coincide
• to happen at or near the same time
• My holiday coincides with John's.
• ?????????????????

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• Listen and summarize the main idea of each
  paragraph.
• Key to Ex. A
• Ic
• 2a
• 3b

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• Task B. Listen to a news item about the handover
  of Panama Canal and complete the summary and
  details.
• Key to Ex. B
• Summary Panama taking ownership of Panama Canal
• Details a. Panama takes the ownership from the
  U.S. at noon Friday, ending more than 90 years of
  U.S. control of the waterway.
• b. panamanians are planning celebrations to mark
  the event.

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Part III Financial News

• Training Focus News Summary
• Information about Asian Economy

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• rebound
• a quick recovery from or reaction to
  disappointment or depression
• a rebound from the economic crisis
• ??????(from)
• collapse
• the sudden failure of a system, organization,
  business, etcI don't know what caused the
  collapse of her marriage.
• A poor economy has caused the collapse of
  thousands of small businesses

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• reversal
• when something changes to its opposite
• He demanded a reversal of the previous
  decision/policy.
• decline
• when something becomes less in amount,
  importance, quality or strengthindustrial
  decline
• revival
• rebirth , reviving

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• IMF
• International Monetary Fund
• a United Nations agency to promote trade by
  increasing the exchange stability of the major
  currencies
• ????????

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• Task A. Listen to a news item and complete the
  summary and the details.
• Summary An IMF officials analysis of world
  economy.
• Details
• World/good
• Economy/Asia/good
• Economic conditions/Brazil

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Key

• 1g
• 2f
• 3e

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• 4ad
• 5c
• 6b
• 7h