现代大学英语听力2Unit 8
Task 1
News Item 1
没那么简单简谱 The United States central bank, the Federal Rerve, has raid interest rates for the third time this year. The Federal Rerve raid the overnight bank lending rate by 0.25 percent (one fourth of one percent) to 5.5 percent. It raid the discount rate also by 0.25 percent to 5 percent. The Federal Rerve said it had no plans to rai interest rates again any time soon. It said the increa 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 rvices 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.
干煎毛蟹 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 clod on Friday for the Easter holiday, so today was the first chance for the share market to react.
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And we go straight to Wall Street where share prices clod higher. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up nearly 1 percent or 89 points at 10,205. Shares made up for some of the loss 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 Dert. 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.
芹菜的种植方法 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 Chine will feel their
东张西望的近义词 country has taken a proud step towards modernity.
News Item 2
China's first man in space has returned to Earth. Reports say Chine officials declared the space flight a success. Astronaut Yang Liwei is also reported to be in good h
ealth. On Tuesday, China became only the third nation to nd 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 praid China for the launch. Russia and the United States were the first two nations to nd people into space.初中地理顺口溜
Task 3
Negotiators have agreed to the wording of a propod 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 propod treaty is called the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. It will be prented 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 tho countries.
爸爸的爱 Member states cannot make any amendments once the WHO approves a final version
意志的英文of the treaty. They must either accept or reject the agreement as it is written. The propod Framework Convention on Tobacco Control is part of the efforts to reduce deaths and dias from smoking.
The WHO estimates that almost five million people die each year from lung cancer and other tobacco-related dias. That number could ri to ten million a year by 2021. Developing nations are the biggest growth areas for tobacco-related dias. The 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 u to make cigarettes.
In addition, tobacco companies would have to place health warnings on at least thirty percent of their products. The 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. An
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d, there would have to be education campaigns to get people not to start. The propod treaty also calls for measures to protect non-smokers from condhand smoke, that is, smoke from other people's tobacco.
