单词注释:
1. loan n贷款,vt 借出
2. interest rate 利率
3. go up 上升,增长
4. borrowing 借款
5. concern顾虑
6. growing增长中的
7. full picture全貌
8. push up增加, 提高
9. correct for 做...的校正
10. Inflation通货膨胀
11. Right adv. 立刻
called me right after dinner. 饭后立刻给我打电话
12. lender n. 出借人,贷方
语言点分析:
1. 合成形容词
1) 数词+名词构成的合成形容词
four-year 四年的
2) 由数词,名词,形容词构成的合成形容词
A sixteen-year-old girl 一个16岁的女孩
2. DO 用作代动词
Do you like English ? --你喜欢英语吗?
Yes, I do. 是的,喜欢。(do用作代动词,代替like English)
3. as well as
表示都
1) 由as well as 连接的复合主语并不影响谓语
单词注释:
1. fresh adv.刚刚
(同义词: just)
2. in debt负债
3. costly adj. 昂贵的, 贵重的
(同义词: expensive)
costly jewelry 昂贵的珠宝
4. private adj. 私人的, 私有的,
private car 私家车
5. lead to 导致
Sometimes emotional problems might lead to
serious results.
有时候情绪问题会导致严重的结果
语言点分析:
1. pay 的用法
1) pay for付款
I paid five dollars for that book.
Japan Awaits
Final Tests before End to Ban on U.S. Beef
I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English
Agriculture Report.
Japan agreed last week to import beef from the
United States again. But first, Japanese officials will inspect
American meat processors as a final step to be sure the beef is
safe.
The Japanese government banned American beef in
December of two thousand three. At that time, the United States
reported its first case of mad cow disease. The official name is
bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or B.S.E. Scientists link the
brain disease in cows to a rare version in humans.
The Japanese government eased its import ban
last December, after two years. But the discovery in January of
backbone material in a shipment of meat led officials to renew the
ban. Experts say spinal c
Study Finds Only Five Percent of
Tropical Forests Are Being Protected
This is Shep O'Neal with the VOA Special English
Agriculture Report.
A major study has looked at efforts to save the
tropical forests that remain in the world. Researchers found that
less than five percent of the forest land is being
protected.
The study examined the use of sustainable
management plans by forest operators. Such a plan seeks a
continuous flow of forest products, without damage to the future of
the forest or its environment.
The International Tropical Timber Organization
did the study. The researchers studied the supervision of more than
eight hundred million hectares of forests in thirty-three
countries. This land represents two-thirds of all the natural
tropical forests in the world.
Tropical fo