orts from the United Nations.
It was the eighth straight year that the General Asmbly's pasd a resolution calling on the United States to lift its trade sanctions against Cuba, and as in past years, it was approved overwhelmingly. This year's vote was 155 to 2, with always the United States and Israel voting "No", and 8 nations abstaining. Ricardo Alacon, President of the Cuban National Asmbly and formerly this nation's ambassador to the United Nations, repeatedly referred to "genocide" in arguing in favor of the resolution. Mr. Alacon also said Cuba will file a 100-billion-dollar lawsuit against the United States becau of the embargo, but he did not say where such a lawsuit would be filed. The United States reprentative Peter Burly said the US embargo against Cuba is a matter of bilateral trade policy, and has no place in the UN General Asmbly.
Task 3
【答案】
A.
1) T
2) F
3) T
4) F
B.
1) Shelter for the Homeless
2) a t of stamps/six stamps
3) building homes
4) information; the UN; government; institutions; worldwide
【原文】
Narrator: Since 1946, when the United Nations General Asmbly recommended that inter-national arrangements be t up to promote and coordinate rearch and the ex-change of information on housing, the United Nations has given increasing attention to the subject of human ttlements. This year, the United Nations obrves the International Year of Shelter for the Homeless. In commemoration of the year, the UN Postal Administration has relead a special stamp issue. I recently spoke with Gila Grunewald, Chief of the Postal Administration, who described the t and explained its significance.
Grunewald: We issued six stamps in honor of the Intemational Year for Shelter for the Homeless, and the six stamps should really show the positive efforts that are being done around the world to help the homeless and to find shelter for them. So what we are showing on the six stamps are six different scenes that are aspects of building homes. You have surveying the terrain; you have putting windows in a hou; you have the actual building of the walls and a number of steps in between, and the last stamp in this t actually shows one family that happily and proudly stands in front of its new home. So,
as I said initially, we like to portray the positive side and the solutions that are propod by the Organization when it is tackling a problem.
Narrator: So, in a n, it's a progression as en from beginning to end.
Grunewald: That is right. We know that the subject is shelter for the homeless, so the homelessness as such is not shown but the solutions to the problem of the homelessness.
Narrator: And what is the impact of such a stamp issue? How can it really influence people's lives?
Grunewald: Well, one of the functions that United Nations stamps have is to inform the public about what the Organization is doing. So, the impact of the stamps will certainly be one of spreading information about the International Year. We have more than 100,000 collectors throughout the world who will receive the stamps and they will get the information about this International Year with our stamps. Also, all the stamps which a
re going to be ud to mail out mail from the three UN offices in New York, Geneva and Vienna will again nd out the message that this is the International Year for Shelter for the Homeless, and will show that the UN is working on this problem. As far as the homeless people themlves are concerned, I think the impact of the stamps will be, again, by way of nsitizing and informing people about the problem that this is something that has to be tackled by governments and by other institutions and that it is a worldwide problem.
Task 4
【答案】
A.
仁和会计网News Items | Participants | Number of Demonstrators | Place(s) | Demands |
1 | demonstrators mainly longterm unemployed | tens of thousands | 怎么画眼线好看Paris and veral other cities | Protest the level of un- employment and call for higher welfare payments |
2 | Some rural interest farmers, agriculture workers, hunters and village dwellers | A quarter of a million | Central London | poemsDemand more government action to deal with the problems of the countryside |
| | | | |
B.
News Item 1
1) T
2) F
News Item 2
3) F
4) F
【原文】
News Item 1
Tens of thousands of demonstrators in France have been taking part in marches in Paris and veral other cities, protesting the level of unemployment and calling for higher
welfare payments. The march is a part of the campaign that began last year with the occupation of Welfare Offices by the long-term unemployed. But as Steven Jasol, our Paris correspondent, explains, the marches may indicate that the protest movement is losing momentum.
News Item 2
Here in Britain about a quarter of a million people have taken part in a march through central London to demand more government action to deal with the problems of the countryside. A number of rural interest groups have been taking part--farmers, agriculture workers, hunters and village dwellers: The movement grew out of opposition to a proposal to ban fox hunting, a traditional rural sport. But it expanded to take in a number of issues.
Task 5
没关系用英语怎么说【答案】
A.
Countries | Number of Medals |
Gold | Silver | Bronze | x factorTotal |
the US Russia China blr | 39 32 28 | 25 28 16 | 33 drilled28 15 | 97 88 59 |
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B.
1) F
2) T
3) F
4) T
2017高考试卷5) F
6) F
【原文】
The United States won only one of the 24 gold medals awarded here on the final day, but still led all nations after 16 days of sporting events with 39 gold, 25 silver and 33 bronze medals for a total of 97. It's the first time outside of home soil since 1968 that the USA has topped the Olympic medals table. Russia was cond with 32 gold, 28 silver and 28 bronze for a total of 88. China was third with 59, including 28 gold, 16 silver and 15 bronze. In all, 80 nations won at least one medal. The United States won medals in 22 sports led by the swimmers with 33, and the track-and-field team with 20. The US men's basketball team of NBA stars beat the French in the gold medal match on the final day 85 to 75, but the Americans know, after barely getting into the final with a 2-point win over Lithuania, the Olympic gold medal is no longer a guarantee. The final day of the Olympics was not without controversy: three athletes were disqualified by the IOC for positive drug tests; only one was a medalist, Armenian Arshed Danianian, who was stripped of his bronze in weight lifting.
