黔东南大学-幼儿园安全计划
orts from the United
Nations.
It was the eighth straight year that the General Assembly's passed 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
formerly
this
nation's
ambassador
to
the
United
Nations,
repeatedly
referred
to
in
arguing in favor of
the resolution. Mr. Alacon also said Cuba will
file a 100-billion-dollar lawsuit
against the United States because of
the embargo, but he did not say where such a
lawsuit would
be
filed.
The
United
States
representative
Peter
Burly
said
the
US
embargo
against
Cuba
is
a
matter of bilateral trade policy, and
has no place in the UN General Assembly.
Task
3
【答案】
A.
1) T
2) F
3) T
4) F
B.
1) Shelter for the
Homeless
2) a set of stamps/six
stamps
3) building homes
4) information; the UN; government;
institutions; worldwide
【原文】
Narrator:
Since
1946,
when
the
United
Nations
General
Assembly
recommended
that
inter-national arrangements be set up
to promote and coordinate research and the
ex-change
of
information
on
housing,
the
United
Nations
has
given
increasing
attention
to
the
subject
of
human
settlements.
This
year,
the
United
Nations
observes the International Year of
Shelter for the Homeless. In commemoration of
the year, the UN Postal Administration
has released a special stamp issue. I recently
spoke with Gisela Grunewald, Chief of
the Postal Administration, who described the
set and explained its
significance.
Grunewald: We
issued six stamps in honor of the Intemational
Year for Shelter for the Homeless,
and
these
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
these
six
stamps
are
six
different
scenes
that
are
aspects
of
building
homes.
You
have
surveying the
terrain;
you
have
putting
windows
in
a
house; you
have the actual building of the
walls and a number of steps in between, and the
last
stamp in this set 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 proposed by
the Organization when it is tackling a
problem.
Narrator: So, in a sense, it's a progression as seen 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 these 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 these stamps and they will
get
the
information
about
this
International
Year
with
our
stamps.
Also,
all
the
stamps which are going to be used to
mail out mail from the three UN offices in New
York,
Geneva
and
Vienna
will
again
send
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 themselves are concerned, I think the
impact of the stamps will be, again, by
way of sensitizing 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.
News Items
1
Participants
Number of
Demonstrators
Place(s)
Demands
demonstrators
mainly
tens
longterm unemployed
thousands
of
Paris and several
Protest
the
level
of
other cities
un-
employment
and
call
for
higher
welfare payments
Demand
more
government
action
to
deal
with
the
problems
of
the
countryside
2
Some
rural
interest
A
quarter
of
a
Central
groups
.
farmers,
million
London
agriculture
workers,
hunters
and
village
dwellers
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
several
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
【答案】
A.
Countries
the
US
Russia
China
B.
1) F
2) T
3) F
4) T
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 second 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.
Number of Medals
Gold
39
32
28
Silver
25
28
16
Bronze
33
28
15
Total
97
88
59
Task
6
【答案】
A.
1) A strategic partnership
agreement.
2)
It
strengthens
ties
between
the
two
countries
in
a
variety
of
areas
including
security
cooperation, diplomatic activity at the
UN and trade and finance.
3) A
package of arms deals.
4) First,
they have agreed to an accord that will allow
India to buy more diamonds from Russia.
Second,
India
will
get
some
advanced
nuclear
technology
from
Russia
for
its
nuclear
power