1、Unit 11. 在美國，大學教育的費用會很貴。2. 費用的上漲使越來越多的美國家庭通過借錢來支付上大學的費用。3. 有各種各樣的聯邦貸款和私人貸款可供學生挑選。4.在這些貸款品種中，有些品種的利率將從7 月 1 日起上調。5. 人們越來越擔心，很多學生將背負沉重的債務從大學畢業。? News Item 1A: about China s ambitious space program.B:1. Landing spot: in the remote grasslands of Inner Mongolia2. Significance: a source of national pride

2、and international prestige( ) Future plan1. 1) Time: 20072) Goal: The astronauts will attempt a space walk.2. Focus of further development: the capability to rendezvous and dock with other spacecraft3. Recruitment of astronauts:to recruit female astronauts in the near future.? News Item 2There are s

3、till question marks though over the stability of the recovery. The property* sector* is showing signs of overheating. The government this week announced measures to try to cool it. At the same time officials decided toextend tax subsidies* for purchases of small vehicles and appliancesuggesting that

4、 some here still believe Chinese manufacturers need government support.Growth was strongest in heavy industries such as coal, steel,power generation and automobiles. Consumer prices rose in November for the first time since February. But the rise was small and probably reflected higher food prices c

5、aused by early snowstorms which destroyedcrops and disruptedtransport.A: about the growth of Chinas economy.? News Item 3A: about Chinas large and growing trade with and aid to Africa. B1. In many African capitals, the main football stadium is likely to have been built with Chinese aid money.2. It i

6、s estimated that Sino-African trade, and aid, amounts to as high as 12 billion dollars a year.3. The links between China and Africa could grow to challenge the post-colonial links between Europe and Africa.4. On the meeting in Addis Ababa, China promised to cancel debts, grant duty-free access into

7、China for African products and increase Chinese investments in Africa.1Unit 21. 有些人擔心他們并未從所吃的食物中獲取足夠的維生素。2. 因此他們服用大劑量維生素制劑。3. 他們認為這些維生素制劑能夠增進健康、預防疾病。4. 醫學專家沒有發現多少能證明這些制劑中的絕大多數能保障或增進健康的證據。5. 但是他們注意到其中一些確實有助于預防疾病。? News Item 1A: about a meeting in Hong Kong trying to reach a new agreement on global tr

8、ade.B:1. Representatives of nearly 150 countries meeting in Hong Kong are still trying to reach a new agreement on global trade.2. For many countries the biggest prize they realistically hoped for was a date for ending the European Union subsidies to help farmers sell their produce on world markets.

9、3. An EU senior official says they are prepared to name the date as part of a wider deal.4. The earliest possible date will be 2010, and 2013 will be the latest date if an agreement is not reached on this meeting.5. The United States trade representative Rob Portman says he is trying to beaccommodat

10、ing, which means the United States will possibly accept the new date. ? News Item 2A: about a new consensus reached by the G20 in tackling global problems.B:Total amountwell over a trillion dollarsResources available toto treble to seven hundred and fifty billion dollarsSpecial drawing rights increa

11、sea tenfold increaseRegulation on financial firms curbs on executive pay and new oversight of large hedge funds? News Item 3A: about the opening of Copenhagen(哥本哈根 ) climate summit.B: FFTTFUnit 31. 幾乎在所有的國家里， 女孩子都比男孩子得分高。2. 男女差異一直是激烈爭論的焦點。3. 文化和經濟的影響起著重要作用。4. 但是最新的發現提示，答案也許在于男女大腦的差異。5. 這些包括學習速度上的差異。

12、? News Item 1A: about the Somali piratesstrike.B:1.Whether this latest attempted hijacking was the promised revenge for the killing2of three Somali pirates by the US navy isntclear.2. No, the pirates haventbeen deterred.3. Because the financial rewards for a successful hijacking remain so great and

13、Somalia remains so lawless.4. At any one time there are only fifteen to eighteen international warships in the area to police an expanse of sea covering more than a million square kilometers.5. It may be because of the relatively small scale of the problem.? News Item 2A: about Obamas military plan

14、in Afghanistan.B:FTTFFT? News Item 3There were traffic jams on the road north, families heading to Gaza City to reunite with friends and relatives. Long lines of cars backed up at the makeshift* roadblocks the Israelis have left behind. But the tanks are gone, only thedeep tracks remain.There were b

15、uildings pitted with* Israeli tank rounds*; from the holes that have been punched in the walls it was clear there had also been snipers*waiting for them. North of Khan Younis we saw some of the Qassam fighters returning home, their rifles slung* lazily around their shoulders.For three weeks the Isra

16、elis pounded thetunnels that run beneath the perimeter* wall but last night we met people who insist that some of these tunnels are still open and still some fuel is being pumped from the Egyptian side. If the border crossings remain close, say the Palestinians, these tunnels are their only link to

17、the outside world.A: about fragile (脆弱的，易毀的 )peace that returns to Gaza.B:traffic jamsreunite with friends and relativesdeep trackstank roundswaiting forreturning hometunnelsopenfuelonly linkUnit 41. 克拉拉·巴頓極大地改變了許多人的生活。2. 她前往戰場護理傷員。3. 她寫信支持建立美國紅十字會組織。4. 美國國會簽署了國際紅十字公約。5. 今天，她的工作對于成千上萬遭遇困難的人來說仍然

18、很重要。? News Item 1A: about a bomb attack in Russia. B:Incident:a bomber drove a truck loaded with explosives local police headquarters were standing to attention receive their ordersImpact:set the building alight the vehicles bringing the region under controlThe presidents claim: the West blast recla

19、im its status as a world power3? News Item 2A: about Malaysias street crime problem.B:1. Malaysias Prime Minister, Najib Razak, announced ambitious targets last week to tackle street crime.2. He wants a 20% fall by this time next year.3. Retired policemen are being brought back and members of Malays

20、ias peoples volunteer corps are being enlisted to fight on the frontline. They ll join police on street patrols.4. Of 500 volunteers who were sent for assessment, just 142 were fit enough.5. The rest were too fat, unfit or had poor overall presentation and grooming.6. Street crime, particularly mugg

21、ing, is seen as a serious problem in Malaysias major cities.7. The opposition has called for the countrys top policeman to be replaced because of the failure to tackle the issue.Unit 51. 股票，債券，土地 人們由于不同原因進行不同的投資。2. 但是所有的投資者都有一個共同的目標。3. 他們希望通過投資獲得比投入的資金更多的貨幣回報。4. 他們今天的投資為將來經濟的發展提供了資金。5. 投資者必須決定自己在多長的

22、時間范圍內承受多大的風險。News Item 1Scientists have produced evidence showing dramatically that the current temperature rise there is highly unusual. For most of the last two thousand years, the Arctic slowly cooled, a consequence of variations in the Earth's orbit.But over the last century, the cooling abr

23、uptly reversed, and the region is now warmer than at any time in the 2,000-year record. Writing in the journal Science, the researchers say this shows how quickly the Arctic responds toclimatic changes.A: about the fact that Arctic is the warmest in two millennia.? News Item 2A: about WWF s accusati

24、on against European toilet and tissue papermanufacturers of contributing to global deforestation by not using enough recycled material.B:1. More than a quarter of a million trees are being discarded as tissue paper each day.2. The report found alarmingly low levels of recycled fibers in the vast maj

25、ority of products by European toilet and tissue paper manufacturers.3. The fibers are taken from natural forests in South Africa, Asia, Europe and across the Americas.4. Most of the companies have failed to take effective measures to prevent illegal or controversial timber from being used in their p

26、roducts.4? News Item 3A: about the warnings from scientiststhat climate change can drive some species of migrating animals towards extinction.B:Findings: Climate change can drive some species of migrating animalstowards extinction.Reason:difficult to f ollow their usual migration patterns.Example:1.

27、 The spreading Sahara Desert make their epic journey from Southern Africa.2. Rising sea levels many coastal habitats.3. some turtle species becoming entirely female.Unit 61. 老師們對于博客的使用越來越多。2. 現在很多因特網服務商都提供免費、便捷的制作個人網頁的方式。3. 教育工作者并不是從一開始就涉足博客的。4. 很多人擔心隱私和安全問題。5. 但是現在在因特網上可以找到成千上萬個教師博客網頁。? News Item 1

28、A: about the worlds first commercially cloned dog.B: FTFFT? News Item 2A: about US future space travel.B：Five years ago President Bush set out his lofty vision (極高的設想 )of sending astronauts back to theMoon by the year 2020. It was meant to be the staging post*(中轉站 ) for the next frontier a manned la

29、nding on Mars. Now a panel of space experts says that's pretty muchpie in the sky*( 空想的計劃 ).Their report, commissioned by President Obama, says the current US human spaceflightprogramme appears to be on an unsustainable trajectory*. It suggests the only way forward is to increase the fundingof N

30、ASA ( 美國國家航空航天局 ) by billions of dollars, or to cooperate with private companies now embarking on commercial space flights.The panel says visits to Near-Earth Objects such as asteroids* are far more realistic too. The experts also argue for keeping the International Space Station going till 2020, ra

31、ther than pulling the plug in six years' time.? News Item 3A: about the research that shows working protects against dementia.B:1. The study looked at nearly 400 men who developed Alzheimer s disease. It assessed the time they spent in full-time education, the type of work they did and the point

32、 at which they retired.2. No, the researchers detected no link between the onset of dementia and education or occupation.53. Every extra year at work was associated with a six week delay in Alzheimers.4. To lower dementia risk.5. Much more research is needed in order to understand how to delay or pr

33、event dementia.Unit 71. 每年在美國有兩百多萬對新人結婚。2. 這些婚慶要花去八百多億美元。3. 這還不包括新人的蜜月旅行。4. 根據一項古老的傳統，新娘在結婚那天必須穿戴一樣舊的東西、一樣新的東西、一樣借來的東西和一樣藍色的東西。5. 據說這四樣東西可以帶來好運。? News Item 1A: about the decline of this years seal hunt in Canada.B:1. Because of the sharp decline of market price for seal pelts.2. 100 dollars3. The de

34、pressed value of the Russian rouble and the subsequent erosion of one of Canadas largest markets for seal products, is partially to blame for the decline in numbers.4. The prospect of a European Union ban on seal products and growing international disdain for the hunt is becoming a major factor in i

35、ts near collapse.5. The European parliament passed the ban in May.? News Item 2A: about the produce price index and its indications for economy.B：The producer price index is a measurement of prices paid for produced or manufactured items here in the United States. And this number came out today indi

36、cating a growth that was greater than we've seen dating back to1990 and it also tends to reflect the growth in the consumer price index(消費價格指數 )that we saw on Friday. That also indicated that the inflation is heating up( 加劇 ) and it is higher than we've seen sinceJanuary of 1991. And now inv

37、estors are worried that the Fed* could have to be more aggressive aboutraising interest ratesto slow inflation which in fact might end up slowing corporate earnings 公(司收益 ).? News Item 3A: about the dispute over the cut of government subsidies the European farmers receive for growing sugar beet.B:1.

38、 The German farmers are arguing that a better deal for sugar farmers in Africa is going to cost them their livelihoods.2. The European Union agreed to reduce by almost 40% the guaranteed price currently paid to Europes sugar producers.3. They argued that their own sugar industries were being adverse

39、ly affected by the distortions in the world market caused by European subsidies.64. The EU plan has unsurprisingly proved very unpopular with Europe s sugar beet growers.5. Germanys Food Industry Union said the plan would spoil the ante of 46,000 sugar beet farmers and threaten more than 26,000 empl

40、oyees in the sugar industry.Unit 81. 年齡最大的一批在美國二戰后生育高峰出生的人今年將滿六十歲。2. 美國和許多工業化國家的退休人口都在增長，而這種增長預計還將持續。3. 當這一代人到達傳統退休年齡 65 歲時，他們的人數將占美國人口的百分之二十。4. 戰后生育高峰年代出生的人擁有住房的比例高于全國平均水平，其中四分之一的人擁有一處以上的房產。5. 很多戰后生育高峰年代出生的人覺得自己現在還很健康，并且相信如果繼續保持積極的心態，他們將更加長壽，生活得更愉快。? News Item 1A: about a research which has found c

41、hemical evidence to support the view that those deprived of affection when young find later life much harder to cope with .B:Hypothesis: Children deprived of affection when young find later life much harder to cope withMethod:an orphanage being taken in by families withtheir family-raised peersFindi

42、ngs: 1. very depressed regulating stressmanaging social interactions2. far lesscuddledadoptive parentsrelaxing? News Item 2A:aboutthe successo f HarryPotter series and its impact on thepublishing industry.B:1. Because theHarry Potter fans are waiting for the arrival of the latest book in the series,

43、Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince .2. They are people from different parts of Britain, including the young and not so young, and some teenagers who have traveled over from the Netherlands.3. Bloomsbury, the bookspublishers, are also excited about the newest Potter tale.4. Bloomsburys profit for

44、ecast is 35 million dollars for this year.5. The previous five books in the series have sold more than 250 million copies worldwide and have been translated into 62 languages.6. According to Lesley Miles, marketing director of the book chain Waterstones, there has been a 10-fold increase in children

45、s book publishing across the board,and thats largely thanks to Potter.? News Item 3A: about Slumdog Millionaire, the winner of the Golden Globe.B: TFFFTT7Unit 91. 超市是那些能夠提供大量可供選擇的食品和其他商品的大型商場。2. 自從 2000 年以來，美國人從超市里購買的有機食品比從其他類型的商場里購買的要多。3. 在美國，傳統的超市正面臨著來自更大的商場的競爭。4. 它們還面臨這來自那些能提供更多新鮮、天然的食品品種商店的競爭。5.

46、 新的競爭對手正在經營中取勝，因為它們比超市更大，價格更便宜。? News Item 1A: about the evidence that night working causes ill health.B: For years evidence has been mounting that night working causes ill health, fromdisturbed sleep patternsto increased accidents. / The International Agency for Research and Cancer nowranks night w

47、orking as a probable cancer risk, just one category below known carcinogens* like asbestos*. / The Danish authorities acted following a decision by The agency. / But these are the first government payments to women who've developed breast cancer after long spells on the night-shift. Ulla Mahnkop

48、f, a former flight attendant, is one of them.Union leaders say that the UK government isn't doing enoughto deal with the dangers. The Health and Safety Executive says it's commissioned its own study but its conclusionsaren't expected foranother two years. ? News Item 2A: about hunger and

49、 pverty in India.B:1. India may be one of the world s fastest growing economies but the benefit of its growing prosperity is not reaching everyone.2. According to the ActionAid report, 46% of its children are malnourished and the number of people growing hungry is increasing instead of coming down.3

50、. Yes, India grows enough foodin fact it s a major exporter of farm produce.4. The problem is that many people, especially poor communities, cannot access it for a variety of reasons, including rising food prices and poor distribution.5. Yes. A landmark rural jobs programme launched four years ago i

51、s showing some signs of success in battling poverty.6. Analysts say it now needs to be persisted with and spread out to more parts of the country.? News Item 3A: about the impact of climate change and disasters on Peru.B: FFFTTUnit 101. 今年秋季，美國一些最好的大學的新生錄取率反常地低。2. 大學的招生官員說，主要原因是高三學生申請報考的大學數量比往年多。3. 很多報考頂尖學校的學生被列入等候批準的申請人名單。4. 他們的申請結果要等學校知道有多少已經被錄取的申請人同意前來報到后才能知道。5. 招生官員說引入等候批準的申請人名單機制是因為很難知道究竟哪些申請人真的希望進入他們的學校。8News Item 1A: about a new arms control treaty between the US and Russia .B:1. Friday is the deadli