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News 1
A
9-year-old girl in New Mexico has raised more than
$$500
for
her
little
brother
who
needs
heart
surgery
in
Houston
Texas
this July.
Addison
Witulski's grandmother Kim Allred said
Addison probably overheard a
conversation between family
members
talking
about
the
funds
needed
to
get
her
little
brother
to treatment.
I
guess
she
overheard
her
grandfather
and
me
talking
about
how we
’
re worried
about how we
’
re going to get
to Houston,
for my
grandson
’
s heart
surgery,
”
said Allred. She
decided
to
go
outside and
have
a
lemonade
stand
and make
some
drawings
and pictures and sell
them.
”
That
’
s
when
Addison
and
her
friends
Erika
and
Emily
Borden
decided to sell lemonade for 50 cents a
cup and sell pictures
for 25 cents
each.
Before Allred knew it, New Mexico State
Police Officers
were
among
the
many,
stopping
by
helping
them
reach
a
total
of
$$568. The family turned
to social media expressing their
gratitude
saying,
“
From
the
bottom
of
our
hearts,
we
would
like
to deeply thank each
and every person that stopped
by!
”
Q1: Who did Addison raise money for?
Her little
brother
Q2: How did Addison raise money?
By selling lemonade and pictures.
今年七月,新墨西哥一名
9
岁女孩为她在休斯敦德克萨斯进行心
脏手术的弟弟筹集了
500
美元。
Addison
Witulski
的祖母
Kim
p>
Allred
说,
艾迪生可能无意中听到家
人之间的谈话,
谈论她弟弟需要治疗的
资金。
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Allred
说:
“我猜
她无意中听到了我祖父和我在谈论我们担心我
们将如何去休斯敦,因为我的孙子心脏手术
。”她决定到外面去喝一
杯柠檬水,制作一些图画,然后卖掉它们。
就在这时,艾迪生和她的朋友埃里卡和
Emily Borde
n
决定卖一
杯
50
美分的柠檬水,每卖
25
美分。
在艾利德知道之前,
新墨西哥州的警察是其中的一员,
通过帮助
他们达到总共
568
< br>美元。一家人转而向社会媒体表达他们的感激之
情,说:“从我们内心深处,我们
要深深感谢每一个路过的人!“
Q1
:艾迪生为谁筹集资金?
她的小弟弟
< br>Q2
:
艾迪生是如何筹集资金的?
通过卖柠檬水和图片。
News 2
Last
week,
France
announced
that
the
country
will
pave
621
miles
of
road with solar
panels over the next
five
years, with
the goal of providing
cheap, renewable energy to five million
people.
Called
“
the
Wattway,
”
the roads will be
built through
joint efforts with the
French road-building company Colas and
the National Institute of Solar Energy.
The company spent the
last five years
developing solar panels that are only about a
quarter of an inch thick and are strong
enough to stand up to
heavy
highway
traffic
without
breaking
or
making
the
roads
more
slippery. The panels are also designed
so that they can be
installed directly
on top of existing roadways, making them
relatively cheap and easy to install.
France
isn
’
t
the
first
country
to
kick
around
the
idea
of
paving its roads with solar panels. In
November 2015, the
Netherlands
completed a 229-foot-long bike path paved with
solar panels as a test for future
projects. However, this is
the first
time a panel has been designed to be laid directly
on top of existing roads and the first
project to install the
panels on public
highways.
Q3:
What
was
France's
purpose
of
constructing
the
Wattway?
Providing clean energy to five million
people.
Q4: What is special about the solar
panels used in the
Wattway?
They can be laid right on top of
existing highways.
上周,
法国宣布该国
将在未来五年铺设太阳能板
621
英里的道路,
目标是向五百万人提供廉价的可再生能源。
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/p>
所谓的“
WATWTAY
”,道路将通过
与法国道路建设公司科拉斯和
国家太阳能研究所共同努力。
该公
司在过去的五年中开发了太阳能电
池板,其厚度仅为四分之一英寸厚,并且足够坚固,能
够在不中断或
使道路变得更滑的情况下,
经受住公路的繁忙交通
。
面板也被设计成
可以直接安装在现有的巷道顶部,使它们相对
便宜和易于安装。
法国并不是
第一个用太阳能板铺设道路的国家。
2015
年
11
月,
荷兰完成了一个
22
9
英尺长的自行车道铺设太阳能板作为未来项目
的测试。
然而,
这是第一次设计一个面板直接铺设在现有道路的顶部,
以及第一个在公共公路上安装面板的项目。
Q3
:法国建设
WATWAY
的目的是什么?
向五百万人提供清洁能源。
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/p>
Q4
:太阳能电池板的特殊用途是什么?
它们可以被放置在现有公路的顶部。
News 3
Lions
have
disappeared
from
much
of
Africa,
but
for
the
past
few
years
scientists
have
wondered
if
the
big
cats
were
hanging
on
in remote parts of Sudan and Ethiopia. Continuous
fighting
in the region has made surveys
difficult. But scientists
released a
report Monday documenting, with hard evidence, the
discovery of
A team with Oxford
University
’
s Wildlife
Conservation
Research Unit, supported
by a charity organization, spent two
nights in November camping in the
National Park in northwest
Ethiopia,
on
the
Ethiopia-
Sudan
border.
The
researchers
set
out
six
camera
traps
capturing
images
of
lions,
and
they
identified
lion tracks.
The
scientists
concluded
that
lions
are
also
likely
to
live
in the neighbouring
National Park across the border in Sudan.
The International Union for
Conservation of Nature had
previously
considered the area a
species,
and
local
people
had
reported
seeing
lions
in
the
area,
but no
one presented convincing evidence.
Q5: What has made it
difficult to survey lions in remote
parts of Sudan and Ethiopia?
Endless
fighting in the region.
Q6: What was the main
purpose of the research?
To find evidence of the existence of
the
Q7: What
did the researchers find in the National Park?
Lions' tracks.
狮子从非洲的大部分地区消失
了,但是在过去的几年里,科学家
们一直想知道这些大猫是不是出没在苏丹和埃塞俄比亚
的偏远地区。
该地区持续的战斗使调查变得困难。
但是科学家星
期一发布了一份报
告,用确凿的证据记录了“失落的狮子”的发现。
一个由牛津大学野生动物保护研究小组组成的小组
,
在一个慈善
组织的支持下,
在十一月
在埃塞俄比亚西北部的国家公园,
在埃塞俄
比亚
-
苏丹边境露营了两个晚上。研究人员设置了六个捕捉狮子图像
的相机陷阱,并确定了狮子的踪迹。
科学家们得出结论,
狮子也有可能生活在苏丹边境的邻国国家公
园。国际自然保护联盟曾认为该地区是“可能范围”的物种,当地人
曾报
道该地区有狮子,但没有人提出令人信服的证据。
Q5
:调查苏丹和埃塞俄比亚偏远地区的狮子有什么困难?
该地区无休止的战斗。
Q6
:研究的主要目的是什么?
寻找“失落的狮子”存在的证据。
Q7
:研究人员在国家公园发现了什么?
狮子的足迹
Conversation 1
M: I bet you're
looking forward to the end of this month.
Are you?
W: Yes, I am. How did you know?
M: David told
me you had a special birthday coming up.
W:
Oh
…
yeah that's right. This
year will be my golden
birthday.
M: What does
that mean? I've never heard of a golden
birthday.
W: I've actually just learnt this
concept myself.
Fortunately, just in
time to celebrate. A golden or lucky
birthday
is
when
one
turns
the
age
of
their
birth
date.
So,
for
example, my sister's
birthday is December 9th and her golden
birthday would have been the year she
turned nine years old.
Come to think of
it, my parents did throw her a surprise party
that year.
M: Interesting. Too bad I
missed mine. My golden birthday
would've
been four years
ago.
I
assume
you
got big plans
then.
W:
Actually
yes.
My
husband
is
planning
a
surprise
holiday
for the two of us next week. I have no
idea what he's got in
mind, but I'm
excited to find out. Has he mentioned anything
to you?
M: He might have.
W:
Anything
you'd
like
to
share?
I'm
dying
to
know
what
kind
of trip he has planned
on where we're going.
M: You know nothing at all?
W: Not a clue.
Hard to imagine, isn
’
t it?
Though I must
say I think he's been
having even more fun keeping the secret
from me in the past few weeks.
M: I'm sure
both of you will have a fantastic time. Happy
golden
birthday!
I
can't
wait
to
hear
all
about
it
when
you
get
back.
Q8.
What is the woman looking forward to?
Her 'lucky birthday'.
Q9.
What did the woman's parents do on her sister's
lucky
birthday?
Threw her a surprise party.
Q10. What is
the woman eager to find out about?
The trip her husband has
planned.
Q11.
What does the man
say
at
the
end
of
the
conversation?
He is eager to
learn how the couple's holiday turns out.
M
:我敢打赌,你很期待这个月底。
你是吗?
W:
是的,我是。你怎么知道的?
M
:戴维告诉我你过了一个特别的生日。
W
:哦……没错。今年是我
的黄金生日。
M:
那是什么意思?我从来没有听说过金色的生日。
W
:其实我自己也学过这个概念。幸运的是,及时庆祝。一个金
色的
或幸运的生日是当一个人轮回出生日期的时候。
举个例子,
我妹妹的
生日是
12
< br>月
9
日,她的金色生日将是她九岁的一年。想想看,那年
我父母确实给她办了一个惊喜派对。
M:
很有趣。可惜我错过了。我的黄金生日是四年前的事了。我
想你当
时有很大的计划。
p>
W
:事实上是的。我丈夫计划下周给我们两个人一个惊喜的假期。我
不知道他脑子里想的是什么,
但我很兴奋地想知道。
他跟你提过什么
了吗?
M
:他可能有。
W
:你有什么要分享的吗?我很想知道他计划了什么样的旅行。
M
:你什么都不知道?
W
:没有线索。难以想象,不是吗?尽管我必须说,我认为他在
过去
几周里一直对我保守秘密。
M
:我相信你们两个都会度过一段美好的时光。祝你生日快乐!
等你
回来的时候,我迫不及待地想知道一切。
Q8
:这个女人期待什么?
她的“幸运生日”。
Q9
:在她妹妹的幸运生日那天,她的父母做了什么?
给她一个惊喜派对
Q10
:女人渴望知道什么?
她丈夫计划的旅行。
Q11
:在谈话结束时,这个人说什么?
他急于想知道这对夫妇的假期是怎样发生的。
W: Mr. Green,
what do you think makes a successful
negotiator?
M: Well, that
’
s
hard to define. But I think successful
negotiators have several things in
common. They are always
polite and
rational people. They are firm but flexible. They
can recognize power
and
know how to
use it. They
are
sensitive
to
the
dynamics
of
the negotiation.
The way of rises
and
falls
and how
it may change direction. They project the image of
confidence, and perhaps most
importantly, they know when to
stop.
W:
And, what about an unsuccessful negotiator?
M: Well, this
is probably all of us when we start out. We
are probably immature and over-
trusting. Too emotional or
aggressive.
We
are unsure of ourselves
and
we
want to
be
liked
by
everyone. Good negotiators learn fast. Poor
negotiators
remain like that and go on
losing negotiations.
W:
In
your
opinion,
can
the
skills
of
negotiation
be
taught?
M: Well, you can teach someone how to
prepare for a
negotiation.
There
are
perhaps
six
stages
in
every
negotiation.
Get
to
know
the
other
side.
第
15
题
State
your
goals.
Start
the
process. Clarify areas of disagreement
or conflict. Reassess
your position.
Making acceptable compromises. And finally,
reach
some
agreement
in
principle.
These
stages
can
be
studied.
And strategies to
be used in each can be planned beforehand.
But
I
think,
the
really
successful
negotiator
is
probably
born