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AY2010-2011-S1
Bns
Interpretation
Supplementary-W2
Theme: Deverbalization / Idea
identification / Language K enhancement
1. Read the passage and
tell its meaning in Cn:
For
Norway
China
is
becoming
a
major
partner
in
East
Asia.
Several
visits
on
government
level
between two
countries bear
witness
to
an
ever closer
relationship
between our
nations.
When the Norwegian
government
so strongly
promotes closer
cooperation with China,
it is precisely because we believe we too have a
lot to learn
from increased contact,
exchange of experiences and broad cooperation.
2. Read the
story and give the TOPIC + MAIN IDEAS (= a sum-up
/ gist) in Cn
(in as few words as
possible but with the whole skeleton presented):
Digoxin,
marketed
as
Lanoxin
and
Digitek,
is
used
by
people
with
heart
failure
or
with abnormal heart beats. But it can
also act like the female hormone estrogen in the
body, leading researchers to wonder if
it might up cancer risk the same way estrogen
treatment does in older women.
About two percent of the women who took
digoxin at any point during the new study
eventually developed breast cancer.
Former users had the same risk as those
who had never taken the drug, while those
currently on it were about 40 percent
more likely to get breast cancer.
That
extra
risk
is
noting,
said
Dr.
Timothy
Lash
of
Aarhus
University
Hospital in
Denmark, a breast cancer expert who was not
involved in the study. But
he
added
that
it's
less
impressive
when
you
consider
how
few
women
actually
developed the
disease.
In the U.S., about one in
eight women develop breast cancer at some point,
according
to the American Cancer
Society.
For the new study, researchers
led by Dr. Robert Biggar of Statens Serum Institut
in
Copenhagen,
Denmark,
tapped
into
two
different
country-wide
databases
-
one
that
includes all
prescriptions filled in Denmark and another that
contains all cancer cases.
About
100,000 women age 20 and older took digoxin at
some point during the course
of the
study, which tracked women for an average of 12
years.
The chance of getting breast
cancer was highest in women who were in their
first year
of taking digoxin. Then it
dropped off, but slowly crept up again after 3
years or more
on the drug.
Digoxin is often added on top of other
heart drugs, such as beta blockers and statins.
There was no extra breast cancer risk
linked to those drugs, however.
GlaxoSmithKline, which markets digoxin,
was not available for immediate comment
on the study.
The
study
can't
prove
that
digoxin,
also
known
as
digitalis,
actually
causes
breast
cancer in
some women. And
even if it does,
the heart benefits
might
still
outweigh
that risk, the
researchers write in the Journal of Clinical
Oncology.
So
the
findings
don't
mean
women
should
avoid
taking
digoxin,
Lash
told
Reuters
Health. Those who are on the drug
fairly serious chronic
disease,
3. Read (in the way
that you hear yourself and understand what
you
’
re reading,
but not too slowly) this English speech
and then check with the reference version
anything you
’
re
not quite sure about.
诵读这篇英
语讲话，注意在读的过程中应确保明白词句中的意义，但不要过慢。
然后对照中文译本，进一步学习相关表达互换。
Party Secretary Zhang,
Governor Huang, ladies and gentlemen,
Good morning. Thank you for inviting BP
to contribute once again discussions of the
Advisory Board.!
It
has
been
a
fascinating
experience
for
us
to
be
a
part
of
the
extra
or
growth
and
development
of
Guangdong
over
the
last
few
years.
This
is
a
province
that
has
become a leader in many
respects:
-
leading
China
in
a
range
of
industries,
from
electronics
to
plastics,
watches
to
footwear;
-
leading the programme of reform and openness to
world markets; and
- leading in
economic growth, with the Pearl River Delta being
the growing part of the
fastest growing
province in the fastest growing large economy in
the world.
So
the
question
now
is
this:
What
next
for
Guangdong?
How
can
we
build
on
this
success?
Can we recreate the economic miracle of the last
two decades in the years
ahead?
These
questions
are
addressed
in
a
paper
which
we
are
presenting
to
the
Advisory
Board today.
We
have
commissioned
the
paper
from
Professor
Michael
Enright,
who
is
a
world
authority
on competitiveness, and who has spent seven years
studying the economy of
the Pearl River
Delta.
The report describes
Guangdong as an economy that has been completely
transformed
in
a
little
over
two
decades,
but
where
officials,
managers
and
employees
are
not
satisfied to rest on their laurels and
where there is a realization that additional work
is
needed if the province is to
continue its phenomenal growth.
Two overall messages come through
clearly. The first is that some of this additional
work
needs
to
be
radical
in
its
nature.
There
comes
a
point
in
the
growth
of
any
organization or region when future
development cannot be secured simply by 'more of
the same'. New approaches, new
solutions and new thinking are required.
This is the case, for
example, when a manufacturing company has reached
the limits
of its capacity. It has to
invest in new plant if it is to continue growing
strongly.