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在这个节目里,海豚宝贝会给大家提供一篇文章
文章会比较长,这是肯定的,呵呵,但是也只是给大家泛读一下。
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本节目每周两期,时间为周一和周四
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大家可以做以下工作:
1、挑出你不会的单词,以方便一会儿查字典。
2、复述一下文章的大意,告诉大家,你认为,这篇文章说了写什么。
3、如果时间多的话,挑选一段翻译一下也是可以的哦,嘿嘿
不用精读,只是泛读说出大意即可哦
仅此而已,此所谓泛读,(*^__^*) 嘻嘻……
这么简单,大家应该没问题的吧?
字体我放了大号的,这样方便大家看,(*^__^*) 嘻嘻……,但是也会显得比较多哦,不要害怕
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★挑出你不会的单词哦~
★说一下文章的大概意思哦~
India's Economy Hits the Wall
本文过长,故分为四个部分,参加四期活动,即可完成全文阅读
Just six months ago, India was looking good. Annual growth was 9%, corporate profits were surging 20%, the stock market had risen 50% in 2007, consumer demand was huge, local companies were making ambitious international acquisitions, and foreign investment was growing. Nothing, it seemed, could stop the forward march of this Asian nation.
acquisition: n. 获得,所获之物
But stop it has. In the past month, India has joined the list of the wounded. The country is reeling from 11.4% inflation, large government deficits, and rising interest rates. Foreign investment is fleeing, the rupee is falling, and the stock market is down over 40% from the year's highs. Most economic forecasts expect growth to slow to 7%—a big drop for a country that needs to accelerate growth, not reduce it. "India has gone from hero to zero in six months," says Andrew Holland, head of proprietary trading at Merrill Lynch India (MER) in Mumbai. Many in India worry that the country's hard-earned investment-grade rating will soon be lost and that the gilded growth story has come to an end.
reeling: 摇纱,轧管机均整
flee: v. 逃避,逃跑,逃走
proprietary: a. 专利的(所有的)n. 所有权(所有人)
Global circumstances—soaring oil prices and the subprime crisis that dried up the flow of foreign funds—are certainly to blame. But so is New Delhi. Much of the crisis India faces today could have been avoided by skillful planning. India imports 75% of its oil to meet demand, which have grown exponentially as its economy expands. The government also subsidizes 60% of the price of such fuels as diesel. In 2007, when inflation was a low 3%, economists such as Standard & Poor's Subir Gokarn urged New Delhi to start cutting subsidies. Instead, the populist ruling Congress government spent $25 billion on waiving loans made to farmers and hiking bureaucrats' salaries.
circumstances: n. 情况,情形,环境(常用复数)
subsidize: v. 给与补助金,给与奖助金,贿赂
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