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（）卫生健康类

News Item 001世界 422 亿成年患糖尿病
The World Health Organization reports 422 million adults are living with diabetes（糖尿病） a fourfold（四倍）
increase over 1980 figures Lisa Schlein reports
The release of this report in advance of World Health Day is meant as a call to global action to halt（遏止）the rise of
type 2 diabetes which is killing one and one half million people a year The World Health Organization estimates 43 percent
of these deaths occur prematurely（早） before the age of 70 The WHO says the highest rates are in the Middle East
Southeast Asia and the western Pacific The WHO report says the dramatic rise of this deadly disease is largely due to the
increasing number of overweight and obese（肥胖）people Lisa Schlein Geneva（日瓦）

News Item 002寨卡病毒
The World Health Organization reports there is growing scientific evidence that the Zika virus is linked with several
severe disorders of the central nervous（神）system Lisa Schlein reports
The body of scientific knowledge about the virus is building rapidly WHO DirectorGeneral Margaret Chan says the
more that is known about the Zika virus the worse things look A pattern has emerged in which initial detection of virus
circulation（传播）is followed within about three weeks by an unusual increase in cases of Guillain Barre syndrome（格林
巴利综合征） Detection of microcephaly（头畸形）and other fetal malformations comes later’ WHO reports 6480
cases of microcephaly are suspected mostly from northeast Brazil Lisa Schlein Geneva

News Item 003全球肥胖数飙升
A new report says there are now more obese people in the world than there are underweight people
Researchers from Imperial（皇家）College London wrote the report Their findings were published in the British
medical journal The Lancet（柳叶刀）
The researchers examined health records from about 20 million people for what they called the world’s biggest
obesity study
Obesity is a condition in which the body stores large unhealthy amounts of fat Obese individuals are considered
overweight
For the study the researchers compared the body measurements of almost 20 million adults They found that from
1975 to 2014 global obesity rates for men increased from 32 percent of the population to 108 percent For women it rose
from 64 percent to 149 percent They estimate that in 2014 there were 266 million obese men and 375 million obese
women worldwide That represents about 9 percent of the more than 7 billion people alive today
The study found that more than 23 percent of men and 5 percent of women are considered severely obese A severely
obese individual has a body mass index (or BMI) of over 35 kilograms per square meter BMI is a way to measure a
person’s height compared to their weight
The study also found that about 1 percent of men and 2 percent of women are considered morbidly（病态）obese
Such people have difficulty with simple activities because they are overweight

News Item 004脑部肿瘤治疗方法突破
Neurosurgeons（神外科医生）have been using lasers（激光）to treat brain cancer since 2009 but now they say the
technique may also allow them to deliver chemotherapy（化疗）drugs directly into the brain
The key is getting past the protective bloodbrain barrier（血脑屏障） which does its job so well it also keeps out
potentially lifesaving chemotherapy drugs
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Kathy Smith has ovarian（卵巢）cancer that spread to her brain a type of brain cancer called glioblastoma（胶质细
胞瘤）
Doctors insert a tiny probe into the brain directly to the cancer where it burns up the tumor from the inside out
According to Washington University Neurosurgery Professor Eric Leuthardt during the procedure it was discovered
the therapy had an unintended effect on the bloodbrain barrier
We are basically able to show that this bloodbrain barrier is broken down for around four weeks after you do this
laser therapy So not only are you killing the tumor you are actually opening up a window of opportunity to deliver various
drugs and chemicals and therapies that could otherwise not get there
In Kathy’s case a powerful experimental chemotherapy drug called doxorubicin（阿霉素） which has been
notoriously hard to get past the barrier was delivered directly into her brain
I think what’s interesting is that the bloodbrain barrier is a twoway street that by breaking it down you can get
things into the brain but also by breaking it down now things can go from your brain out into your circulation to your
peripheral（神末梢）system which includes your immune system And the immune system helps fight cancer

News Item 005脑震荡新型检测法
A new blood test can tell doctors whether a person has suffered a concussion（脑震荡）up to a week after he or she was
injured
People who suffer a head injury should rest soon after they are hurt Doctors say rest is important in helping the brain
to heal after the injury Individuals who have suffered a concussion do not always show symptoms Experts say those
warning signs can be delayed especially in children
A concussion can lead to a feeling of dizziness headaches and an inability to sleep These problems can exist for a long
time Some concussion patients have experienced loss of memory trouble thinking and feelings of anxiety
Doctors at Orlando Health System in Florida developed the new blood test It shows if a biomarker（生物标记）is
present in a person’s blood The biomarker is called glial fibrillary acidic protein（胶质原纤维酸性蛋白） or GFAP The
protein is only found in the brain and nervous system after a person suffers a concussion
Researchers examined the blood of 600 patients They found the biomarker in the blood of those who had suffered a
head injury
Concussion is a common injury in contact sports A blood test soon after a head injury could show if an athlete has
suffered a concussion Without the test sports team officials may not know whether the player has a concussion and may
return him or her to the game

News Item 006换环境睡着存科学
Have you ever had trouble sleeping in a new place Lots of people do And now researchers from Brown University in
Rhode Island think they know why They found that onehalf of the brain remains more awake than the other half when
people are trying to sleep in a new place This appears to be a case of the brain keeping people ready for trouble in a new
place the researchers said
In their report the researchers said many people report they have a harder time sleeping the first night at a hotel or
other places outside their home They call it firstnight effect In Japan they say If you change your pillow you can’t
sleep said Yuka Sasaki one of the report’s authors You don’t sleep very well in a new place We all know about it
The researchers measured brain waves for 35 volunteers over two nights in a laboratory The two nights were a week
apart
They found during the first night the left hemisphere（半球）of the brain was more active than the right hemisphere
This was during the first deepsleep period the researchers said Sasaki said a lot of questions remain
Researchers did not keep measuring brain waves all night long So they don’t know if the left hemisphere keeps
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watch all night Or whether it works in shifts with the right hemisphere later in the night They also do not know why
the extra brain activity at least during the first phase of deep sleep is always on the left hemisphere
For some this research may be calming It is good to know that our brain is looking out for us in a new place
But it may not help with sleep That extra brain activity at least according to this new research makes it harder to get
the sleep people need to wake up well rested in the morning

News Item 007美国杀率呈升趋势
A new study by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows suicide rates increased 24 percent
between 1999 and 2014 The study showed that the number of suicides increased sharply after 2006 Economic conditions
in the US began to worsen at that time A recession began in 2008
The suicide rate increased for men under the age of 75 by 43 percent between 1999 and 2014 For women under the
age of 75 the greatest rate of increase was among those between 45 and 64 The suicide rate among those women was 80
percent higher in 2014 than in 1999 Men are much more likely to kill themselves than women However the study showed
the rate of women who took their own lives grew much faster than among men
Experts say most people who try to kill themselves are not successful They say taking steps to try to convince
someone not to kill themselves is important Researchers say removing the methods people use to kill themselves such as
guns or poison can help for a short period This can give longterm treatment time to take effect

News Item 008糖尿病诊治新成果
Two factors are critical for the successful treatment of diabetes（糖尿病）patients
First is a correct diagnosis（诊断）of the type of disease and second—administering a dosage of appropriate drugs A
misdiagnosis and consequently the wrong treatment can cause many problems If you label someone who actually has
Type II diabetes as Type I they’ll be left on insulin（胰岛素）for the rest of their life when they don’t need it Even worse if
someone with Type I diabetes is mislabeled as having Type II diabetes then they may not be treated with the insulin they
need and they may suffer lifethreatening complications
A new less expensive test developed by the University of Exeter Medical School measures 30 genetic variants（变体）
of the patients’ DNA and calculates the risk for Type I or Type II Individual diagnoses can be completed with a commonly
used test for antibodies（抗体） Scientists are now trying to develop an even simpler DNAbased test that could be done
with as smartphone app
In the meantime researchers in South Korea are developing a nanotechnology（纳米技术）based adhesive strip（医
橡皮膏）that takes away pain and stress of daily injections（注射） for diabetes patients

（二）社会现象类

News Item 009乞丐残障士食力
These men are waiting for food from a local charity（慈善机构） It may be their only meal today Disabled most rely
on street begging to sustain them Unlike the others queuing here 18yearold Aliyu Yakubu is learning to fix tricycles（三
轮车）and do other metal work to earn a living Yakubu remembers the moment he decided to quit begging
My former class prefect（级长）saw me begging on the street and didn’t recognize me He gave me some money
When I stretched my hand out to collect it then he saw my face I felt ashamed and since then I decided not to beg again
Instructor Isiaka Maaji himself physically disabled helps people like Yakubu get off the streets and learn a trade He
got his own skills from a staterun vocational rehabilitation（业）training program and has been training others since
2002
Five years ago he began encouraging physically challenged people to abandon begging
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We encourage people like us to learn skills they can use to become selfreliant to support themselves and their
families because being in the streets as beggars is a disgrace to all of us
So far he has helped and trained 30 people Some of whom now have their own metal workshop

News Item 010女孩早婚现象
Russian law bans forced underage and polygamous marriages（重婚） But in Russia’s remote Caucasus region tribal
laws and traditions carry more weight than state law And so on Saturday 47year old Nazhud Guchigov married a 17year
old bride
Despite laws against child marriage in developing countries one in every three girls is married before reaching age 18
One in nine is married under age 15 The problem was discussed at a symposium（研讨会）in Morocco this week
Bangladesh（孟加拉国） India and Niger（尼日尔）are the most affected countries with three in every four girls getting
married before age 18 The practice continues mostly due to persistent poverty and gender inequality and is often arranged
by a girl’s parents So it is at this level that we must first intervene（介入） And the second level is at the community level
for the community to start perceiving these dangers
This fourteenyearold girl in India was able to avoid the marriage her parents arranged by appealing to her school
principal
Today was to be my wedding day I’m not getting married I want to study
Experts say governments in the affected countries need to do more to keep girls in the educational system and protect
them from abuse and violence

News Item 011紫色瀑布般
The death of music superstar Prince shocked and saddened the world yesterday In his honor many famous monuments
turned purple The color was chosen in memory of his hit song Purple Rain
Yesterday even Niagara Falls in Canada turned purple People on social media were impressed that such huge
waterfalls could turn purple in such short notice But the purple color was not in fact meant to honor Prince The agency
that manages Niagara Falls had been planning to make the falls purple on April 21 in honor of Queen Elizabeth II’s 90th
birthday Purple is the color of royalty Canada is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations The Canadian travel site
Canoecom wrote on Twitter Niagara Falls goes purple for the Queen’s birthday And inadvertently（意） for Prince
Another Canadian landmark the Toronto Tower also glowed purple Thursday night That too was for the Queen’s
birthday A Toronto politician tweeted the reason The confusion has made Niagara Falls a trending topic on social media
And even though it is now clear that officials planned to make the falls purple to honor the Queen’s birthday many people
are choosing to believe it was also in memory of Prince

News Item 012政府求苹果解锁恐怖分子手机
Apple chief executive Tim Cook told the firm’s customers Monday that a recent demand by the US government is
chilling（令胆寒） The government wants the technology company to build a backdoor into an encrypted（加密
）Apple phone used by one of the terrorists who launched an attack last year in California In an open letter to Apple
customers Cook said if Apple complies with（遵）the request it would open the door to countless future searches of
Apple customers’ phones This is VOA news

News Item 013印度街头童编撰报纸
From poverty to child labor underage marriages sexual abuse and drugs—there is no shortage of topics for
Balaknama When reports arrive and the team sits down to select the story lots of fights break out They argue this story
will have more impact than that story So there’s a lot of debates before the final selection goes to print The newspaper has
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70 reporters in several states 14 of them reporting regularly from the capital
All of the writers editors and managers are homeless children I used to beg do drugs and sometimes go rag（破烂）
picking Then I learnt about Balaknama and began to work for it First I was a junior reporter then a reporter and now I’m
all set to become the editor
Many of the children have jobless and illiterate（识字）parents As budding（初获成功）reporters they now earn
money and many are enrolled in distance learning programs that may help advance their careers What I couldn’t do at
least my daughter is doing She’s helping others and she’s also helping us The monthly eightpage newspaper began in
2002 as a quarterly（季刊） It has changed the lives of the children who publish it and aims at improving the livelihood of
thousands of others It is supported by NGOs and charity groups

News Item 014科特迪瓦女子突破社会传统组建乐队
The nine women of Bella Mondo win over yet another audience The group is one of just a handful of allwomen
ensembles（乐团）in Ivory Coast It all started in 2007 Prisca Allou was a music student A music producer came to see her
He said he wanted to make an allfemale orchestra（乐队）to fulfill a promise to his late（已）mother
Allou got on board and was charged with recruiting all the members
It wasn’t easy at first Some parents were against it You know in Africa the place of women is often seen as being
either in an office or at home That was the stereotypical（带成见）image
Allou spread the word and took out ads in local papers Most of the girls she found were not professional players
I just played some tamtam（铜锣） I learned to play drums when I joined Bella Mondo
The girls spent the next four years learning to play their instrument Many gave up along the way but eight of them
soldiered on with Allou and Bella Mondo was born The band plays original songs and covers Their music spans a wide
range of styles funk reggae pop music
They released their first album in 2013 and have performed in Paris Dakar Cotonou（科托努）and of course here at
home in Abidjan（阿） You can see them nearly every Thursday at this bar the same venue that gave the band its start
years ago
Oh yes I was surprised at first A woman singing—you see that everyday But an entire band playing all the
instruments and everything It was extraordinary I was dumbstruck（惊呆）
The women are now working on their second album（专辑）

News Item 015非洲饥荒
Somaliland is one of the poorest African regions Its rural population is struggling to make a living in the best of times
but drought（干旱）makes it impossible
I am 80 In the 80 years of my life I’ve never seen such severe drought It has killed so many animals and caused so
much famine（饥荒） Our lives are in danger The situation is similar in the neighboring Punt land region and parts of
Ethiopia The United Nations last month called for urgent aid to save 17 million people in the affected parts of Somalia
Communities are losing their means for survival and we need to stop this loss of lives and forced displacement（迁移）
as people have no other option than to move in search of food water and income
But when there is no food and water for miles and miles around moving may be futile（徒劳） Some Ethiopian
farmers have crossed the border to try to escape famine
The drought has been raging（严重）for three years in Ethiopia We were told that there were pastures（草）on the
other side of the border But when we got here we found nothing

News Item 016题星期日：社区贡献力量
Students and parents are pitching in（做贡献）at Ramona Elementary School removing dead vegetation and
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beautifying the building
School Principal Guillermo George says a donation from Big Sunday organizers provided 500 for supplies
So we are doing a little bit of gardening putting in some new plants and also a cleanup for the school And we are
also doing a little bit of painting
For many in Los Angeles and in cities around the country Big Sunday has become an annual tradition of helping
with community projects
Each year on this weekend people find new friends and help their neighborhood in ways that may continue through the
year
Ana Lopez is this school’s volunteer coordinator
From here parents who have never really interacted interact today and then from there they just get to know each
other
While these volunteers are hard at work others are at Big Sunday’s headquarters helping to organize projects at sites
across Los Angles and more than 100 other towns and cities around the United States They are all making a contribution
says Big Sunday founder David Levinson
Whether it’s fixing up a school whether it’s cleaning the beach whether it’s taking a group of veterans（老兵）
horseback riding we find a way for everybody to find what they are really good at and their way that can give back
He says the volunteer effort is good for the community and also for the people who get involved He says that in a
world that often defines us it’s a way to bring people in the communities together

News Item 017卡塔尔指强迫劳工建造 2022 年世界杯场馆
Amnesty International（国际特赦组织）is accusing Qatar of using forced labor to build venues（场馆）for the 2022
World Cup In a report released Thursday the Londonbased organization said it interviewed 132 construction workers at
the Khalifa International Stadium（体育场） one of the several being built to host the games The workers all migrants
reported abuse The rights group blasted（批评）FIFA for (what it called) its indifference to the abuses FIFA said it was
fully aware of risks facing construction workers but stressed it believes Qatar is taking steps to improve worker
conditions

（三）政治外交类

News Item 018美防长召开会议宣布击 IS
US Defense Secretary Ash Carter has announced a meeting of 26 ministers in Brussels（布鲁塞尔）in three weeks to
discuss military operations against Islamic State militants Earlier Carter said he wanted to tell his counterparts（相身份
）from France Australia Germany Italy Britain and the Netherlands how to speed up the effort

News Item 019女性政界位
The US Congress a place of power that is still dominated by men
Women only got the right to vote since 1920 and government moves very slow
Yet women are making gains says freshman Congresswoman Mimi Walters though not enough Walters was part
of a panel discussing why more women are not in Congress or public life
One reason is the negative perception of government says Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii There is a
disconnect especially from the millennial（千禧年）generation from highly successful highly talented people great
innovators who are saying why should I get involved with this dysfunctional entity（实体）called government
Even if women are interested in running for office they may not have the tools to win an election campaign
You can’t get your message out if you don’t have any money and I think part of the problem for women in raising
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money is a lot of times women will be in the workforce and do what I did leave their job and stay home with their kids and
then they lose that network of people
And it’s those networks that fund a campaign While some challenges women face do not have simple solutions the
panelists（专家）say there are things that can be done to get more qualified women to successfully run for office

News Item 020乌克兰总理宣布辞职
Ukraine’s Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said Sunday he is resigning His decision may permit a new government
to be formed possibly ending the country’s political crisis
Yatsenyuk spoke on television and wrote on the social networking site Twitter He said he will give his resignation（辞
呈）to parliament on Tuesday He said he hopes his decision to leave office will permit Ukraine to make changes to its
constitution（宪法）and to its electoral and judicial（司法）systems He said he hopes the country can then join the
European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization（北约）
Yatsenyuk has been criticized for not being able to improve the country’s economy and for not moving fast enough to
make political changes If members of parliament are unable to choose a new prime minister a new election could be held
But President Petro Poroshenko does not want another election He believes a new vote could worsen the country’s security
situation

News Item 021潘基文访问布隆迪
United Nations Secretary General Ban Kimoon is in Burundi for a visit aimed at calming a political crisis that has
embroiled（陷入）the country for almost a year Mr Ban arrived in the capital Bujumbura（布琼布拉） Monday ahead of
scheduled meetings with the country’s politicians and civil society groups His visit comes a month after a UN Security
Council delegation（安理会代表团）travelled to the country to press for（迫切求）negotiations between President Pierre
Nkurunziza and his opponents Ahead of the visit four people were killed in two grenade（手榴弹）attacks in the capital
Burundi has been mired（陷入）in a sometimes violent political crisis since April of last year when Mr Nkurunziza sought
and won what is widely seen as an unconstitutional（违宪）third term

News Item 022乌克兰问题影响该国 58 万童
The UN children’s fund is calling the situation of more than a half million children caught up in two years of conflict
in Ukraine intolerable Lisa Schlein reports
The UN children’s fund considers the many children affected by the conflict in eastern Ukraine as much more than
just collateral（附属）damage It says the deprivation（剥夺）and trauma（创伤）experienced by those who are most
affected—some 580000 children living near the front line—will have lifelong damaging consequences UNICEF
representative in Ukraine Giovanna Barberis says these children are being deprived of their basic rights including education
housing and the right to play Lisa Schlein Geneva

News Item 023喀布尔市郊绿洲
On Fridays the traffic stretches（延伸）for kilometers Groups of young men couples and families make their way to
the lake on cars and motorcycles as street vendors（摊贩）sell their wares（商品） In the past business was bad Now it is
picking up I work here every Friday and go to school the rest of the week This could be any popular place anywhere
Except Qargha Lake is on the outskirts（郊区）of Kabul a city that regularly faces deadly violence and where men in
uniform with guns are the most common sight Out here a policeman directs traffic carrying a whistle（口哨） not an
AK47
Three decades of war coupled with the strict rule of the Taliban destroyed almost all recreational（娱乐）facilities in
Afghanistan That is why people flock here despite the dangers
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News Item 024美俄意停止叙境敌行动
I’m Dave DeForest reporting The United States and Russia agree on a cessation（停止）of hostilities（敌状态）in
Syria The move could pave the way for an expansion of humanitarian aid（道义援助）to besieged（包围）cities and
set the stage for a resumption（恢复）of talks on a political transition In a joint statement on Monday the US and Russia
proposed that the ceasefire（停火）began on February 27

News Item 025林肯遇刺 150 周年纪念活动
150 years ago on this windswept spot near Lake Michigan in Chicago the coffin（棺木）holding the remains of
assassinated（刺杀）President Abraham Lincoln began a somber（肃穆）return to his hometown of Springfield
Dan Weinberg of the Abraham Lincoln Book Shop in Chicago says a concerted effort was made to remain faithful to
the past while planning the 150th anniversary commemoration（纪念）
The replicated（复制）coffin and hearse（灵车）that traveled through Springfield’s downtown streets drew thousands
of onlookers young and old many who dressed in ornately（华丽）designed period military uniforms and costumes like
Diane and Charles Sanders Sanders says the massive turnout for this event 150 years later is a testament（证明）to Lincoln’s
lasting legacy as The Great Emancipator（救星） who ended slavery in the United States

News Item 026德国民众满政府接收百万移民
In German elections Sunday the antiimmigration Alternative（代）for Germany Party gained significantly in
elections held in three areas of Germany A party leader addressed a group of cheering supporters as exit polls（选测验）
indicated the party had elected delegates to regional parliaments in all three areas The previously tiny fringe party（边缘
派）was expected to do well due to public discontent with the government of Prime Minister Angela Merkel since the
country opened its doors to a more than a million migrants last year

News Item 027阿富汗首遭遇杀式炸弹袭击
A suicide bomb blast targeting a major police facility in the Afghan capital has killed at least 20 police officers and
wounded 29 other people An Afghan official said security guards first identified the bomber as he moved toward the
Afghan National Civil Order Police Headquarters When guards tried to stop him he blew himself up The Taliban claimed
responsibility

News Item 028巴黎气候变化会达成协议
US President Barack Obama is hailing（欢迎）the climate change agreement reached in Paris as a potential turning
point for the world
This agreement sends a powerful signal that the world is firmly committed to a lowcarbon future And that has the
potential to unleash（释放）investment and innovation in clean energy at a scale we’ve never seen before
In an eightminute statement Saturday Mr Obama said by approving the agreement nearly 200 nations have shown
the world has both the will and the ability to take on the challenge of climate change

News Item 029维护叙利亚安定必性
UN Special Envoy（特）for Syria Staffan de Mistura says the attack shows the importance of gaining a settlement in
Syria
The message we are drawing out of it we need to extinguish the fire of war in Syria We need to find a political
solution
The US embassy in Brussels has recommended Americans stay where they are and avoid public transportation in the
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Belgian capital

News Item 030美古两国应跨越分歧创未
Appealing directly to the Cuban people in Havana President Barack Obama said it’s time for the US and Cuba to
move beyond their Cold War differences and begin a new journey toward a future that will benefit both nations
It’s time for us to look forward to the future together And it won’t be easy and there will be setbacks（挫折） It will
take time
Mr Obama spoke in a televised address from El Gran Teatro de Havana as Cuban President Raul Castro sat nearby Mr
Obama next traveled to the US embassy（馆）where he met with Cuban dissidents（反派）and members of civil
society hours before he departed the island nation

News Item 031二战战机复飞致敬退伍老兵
More than 50 World War IIera planes flew in formations（编队）over the World War II Memorial in Washington Friday
marking the 70th anniversary of the end of the conflict in Europe
The flyby called Arsenal（军工厂）of Democracy was organized by the General Aviation（航空）Manufacturers
Association Its president and CEO Peter Bunce says restoring（修复）old airplanes is a slow and painstakingly hard
process done mostly by enthusiasts
Many of the planes such as this Boeing B17 Flying Fortress（堡垒） called Texas Raiders（编队） belonged to a
Texasbased nonprofit organization called Commemorative Air Force
Civilian corporate（民营企业）pilot Buddy Cooksey has been flying its vintage（老式）planes at air shows for more
than 40 years He says the group has over 11000 members but is always looking for new fans ready to devote time and
work to restoration and upkeep of old planes
We are looking for young ladies young men And race color creed（宗教）does not matter to us They got the
enthusiasm—we want them Cooksey says despite their age the planes are still in very good shape Strangely enough
the airplanes are quite durable（耐久） they were meant to be that durable And there’s a lot of redundancy（冗余）in the
systems and so the problem that we have is the parts are not easily come by

News Item 032美国立法机构高法院空位争夺战
The legislative（立法）fight over a US Supreme Court vacancy（空位）begins Monday Michael Bowman reports
For weeks or possibly the remainder of the year the Senate will be ground zero for a ferocious（激烈）battle to
replace Justice Antonin Scalia who died nine days ago With the ideological tilt（落锤）of the Supreme Court at stake（
危险中） Republicans want the vacancy filled by the next president not Barack Obama They have the power to withhold
confirmation of any Obama nominee and run out the clock on the administration Senate Democrats are crying foul（犯规）
and have the power to block almost all legislation indefinitely in protest effectively grinding（逼迫）Congress to a halt
Michael Bowman the Capitol（美国国会厦）

News Item 033英国退欧公投
British Prime Minister David Cameron says the results of a referendum（公投）on Britain’s exit from the European
Union will be final Speaking to parliament Mr Cameron dismissed calls for a second referendum He said the Western
world needs to remain united
The challenges facing the West today are genuinely threatening Putin’s aggression in the East Islamist extremism（极
端分子）to the South In my view this is no time to divide the West


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News Item 034美政府寨卡病毒防治引入资金
Senior White House officials say the Obama administration will redirect nearly 600 million in funds—the majority
from existing Ebola resources—to fight the spread of the Zika virus The Office of Management and Budget said those
funds are not enough to support a comprehensive（综合性）antiZika program and can only temporarily address what is
needed until Congress acts on an emergency supplemental request

News Item 035英国前首相布莱尔伊拉克战争道歉
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has apologized for what he calls mistakes made during the USled
invasion of Iraq In an interview with CNN Blair also cites the invasion as a trigger for current conflicts in the region
including the rise of the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria While critical of the flawed information on weapons of mass
destruction（规模杀伤性武器）that led to the invasion Blair said he finds it hard to apologize for removing Iraqi dictator
（独裁者）Saddam Hussein

News Item 036移民遣返需性化
I’m Dave DeForest reporting EU officials move to make the migrant return process more humane European Union
officials are pledging（保证）that there will be no automatic return for the migrants before they are given a chance to apply
for asylum（避难） The announcement follows angry protests by international human rights activists who have accused the
EU of denying migrants the basic rights of refugees to seek asylum JeanPierre Schembri is a spokesman for the European
Asylum Support Office
So every individual every case is different OK Because everyone has specific things which needs to be looked into
so that’s what I want to highlight that this won’t be a blank decision to send everyone back Meanwhile Turkey is to
receive a second group of migrants deported（驱逐出境）from Greece

News Item 037门难民涌入索马里兰
Wasiim Said Mohamed arrived in Somaliland in February with his wife and two sons
They fled Yemen after Houthi militants attacked their home in Aden This is the only country where the cost of living
is cheap and there is good security and I can live with the people
Mohamed works at a bakery（面包房）owned by his uncle’s Syrian friend Abdulrahman Darwish He had been living
in Yemen since the 1980s but brought his family to Hargeisa last year The situation here is very good but I’m lacking
some materials and support I want to leave and go to another country but it’s very difficult I cannot take the risk at sea with
my wife and two daughters If I can get some legal way to Europe or elsewhere I’ll be willing to do that
Options for Yemeni refugees are limited Most don’t have the money to pay smugglers（偷渡船）or attempt the long
dangerous route（路径）to Europe which involves crossing the Gulf of Aden（亚丁湾） then going by land through Egypt
to access the Mediterranean（中海） And even then many can’t get visas（签证）in Europe or even Turkey Somaliland
may be safe and welcoming but it is poor Unemployment is high

News Item 038总统候选提名竞选
There were 16 state Republican nominating（提名）contests to go extending into early June Trump would have to win
more than 60 percent of the remaining delegates（候选）in order to claim the nomination at the national convention（
会）next July Republicans have not had a contested convention since 1976 In the Democratic race former secretary of state
Hillary Clinton is facing growing competition from her sole challenger Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders Sanders has
defeated her in six of the last seven state nominating contests including Tuesday’s primary in Wisconsin


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News Item 039法国郊区问题
Market day in ClichysousBois—a time to chat and to buy items from the home country Many residents and their
forefathers（祖先）immigrated here from North and subSaharan Africa They were looking for better opportunities
Not everybody found them In 2005 this Paris suburb exploded into violence after two teenagers were electrocuted（电
棍致死）as they hid from police
Most people here say pentup（压抑）anger about the lack of jobs and a future helped fuel the riots（激起暴乱）
that spread across the country
ClichysousBois today looks very different The state has invested massively in infrastructure（基础设施） Oldtimers
like Yaya Jaiel from Algeria praise the results They demolished（拆）all those old buildings the towers they replaced
them with the small ones you see over there There are lots of things that have changed
But some things have not just as 18yearold Mehdi Hassani who’s studying to be an electrician（电工） It’s really
hard to find a job especially when you come from here we are still identified by the 2005 riots we are still considered
delinquents（违法青年）and druggies（瘾君子） Nearly half of Clichy’s population is under 25 More than a third of them
are jobless A tramway（轨电车）is under construction but for now the only easy way out of here is by car

News Item 040意利海警援救 2000 移民
The Italian Coast Guard said Tuesday it has rescued more than 2000 migrants in dangerous seas off the coast of Libya
over the last two days Meanwhile Austria says it is planning to bring back tighter controls on its border with Italy fearing a
new influx（涌入）of migrants

News Item 041印度暴力抗议首陷入供水危机
Violent protests（抗议）in northeastern India have plunged the capital of New Delhi into a water supply crisis Haryana
state has been the scene of a week of demonstrations by members of the rural Jat class Jats are demanding federal and state
benefits including guaranteed government jobs and university placement The protests turned violent Friday when
demonstrators set fire to houses and railway stations and damaged equipment that transports water to New Delhi This is
VOA news

（四）文化教育类

News Item 042美国掀起韩语热
Thanks to the Internet and websites like YouTube pop music and dramas from South Korea have caught on outside of
Asia It’s a phenomenon called the Korean wave
David Schaberg is dean of the Division of Humanities at University of California Los Angeles As a dean of
Humanities to look at a country that’s creating its reputation globally through cultural production that’s very exciting Of
course it attracts students Of course it means that more Americans who may have had nothing at all to do with Korea will
now be gravitating（吸引）to the study of Korean language and culture
Korean entertainment is one reason why Korean language enrollments have increased by almost 45 percent over four
years Many students say they really want to get inside the culture and they want a better understanding and so clearly
language gives us access into culture and cultural expression
That’s the case for Korean language student Persida Radu I actually first got into Korean pop and then the dramas
they show and then learning it Another reason is that the children of Korean immigrants want to learn the language of their
ancestral（祖先）homeland


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News Item 043法航飞伊朗航线空姐采取愿报名
France’s national airline will allow female staff to volunteer for a new route to Iran rather than require them Air France
announced that female flight attendants（服务员）must wear a headscarf（头巾） also known as hijab on arrival in Iran
Some flight attendants objected The union representing crew members said they worried that females would face discipline
if they refused to work the flight The airline now says female participation on the route to Iran will be on a volunteer basis
The airline begins three flights a week between Paris and Tehran（德黑兰）on April 17 The headscarf issue puts the
two cultures in conflict Women in Iran have been required to wear hijab since a revolution in 1979 In France religious
headscarves are not allowed in some schools and offices It is also against the law to wear the fullfaced veil in public in
France

News Item 044学霸时 8 常春藤名校录取
For the second time in two years all eight Ivy League schools have offered admission to a teenager from Nigeria（尼日
利亚）
Augusta UwamanzuNna is in her final year at Elmont High School in Long Island New York She is at the top of her
game academically speaking Few Americans are able to get accepted into every one of the Ivy League schools The eight
are Brown University Columbia University Cornell University Dartmouth College Harvard University the University of
Pennsylvania Princeton University and Yale University
In addition the teenager was accepted at four other schools in the United States They are Johns Hopkins University
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology New York University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute The 17year old is
valedictorian（致辞者）of her high school class She has a grade point average of 1016
In a press release UwamanzuNna credited her success to the ideals of the town of Elmont New York her supportive
parents and her teachers She said she is elated（高兴）and thankful

News Item 045爱尔兰纪念复活节起义 100 周年
Two events in Dublin to mark the 100th anniversary of what’s known there as the Easter Rising In 1916 the city
center was occupied by revolutionaries set on the violent overthrow（推翻）of the hated occupiers the British They failed
But as Peter Hunt reports the rising was still seen as an important step towards the creation of the Irish Republic

News Item 046女孩受教育权利
Romina Kola’s family moved from a village in Albania where the closest school was two hours away to the city of
Shkodra so she could get an education
Many of my friends can’t attend the school because of distance and poverty Schools are too far away from the village
where we live
What her parents didn’t know was that by doing so they kept her from being one of the sixtytwo million girls around
the world who were not in school
Susan Markham of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) says distance and risk of
violence are only some of the barriers to a girl’s education
Whether it’s child marriage or economic pressures because of school fees we want to address those
A threat to girls’ education anywhere is a threat to progress everywhere
The Obama administration has launched a campaign called Let Girls Learn
First lady Michelle Obama went to Japan and Cambodia（柬埔寨）in March to promote it along with Peace Corps
director Carrie HesslerRadelet
The First lady is incredibly passionate about this topic She looks at her own life and her husband’s life President
Obama’s life and they see how important education was in them achieving their life goals And they want to make sure that
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every girl has the same chance that they had
Peace Corps volunteers like these in Tirana Albania will help implement the program in many countries
These volunteers work mostly in remote areas their initiatives（初步活动）include programs to promote gender
equality and empower young women says volunteer Mary Quandt
It is about starting a dialogue and increasing expectations of these girls Let them know that they can achieve this and
they can grow in their sense of self and their capabilities of leadership and experience And as soon as you plant that seed in
them they are gonna nurture it and it’s gonna grow
USAID’s Susan Markham points out that educating girls benefits the entire society
Women who stay in school young girls who stay in school till womanhood are likely to be healthier They are more
likely to get married later bear children later and they are more likely to keep their own kids in school for longer So it has a
great ripple effect（连锁效应）across the whole community

News Item 047库尔德足球队
Fans are celebrating another victory for their beloved Amedspor But it’s not just winning that makes this club so
special
Amedpor is more than a sports team In its essence it represents resistance and a sports culture that aims to reflect
people’s freedom It is in a way becoming a voice of resistance（抵抗）against unfairness violence and pressure in an
environment of war
It is a very important representation of the people of this city And especially after changing the name to Amedspor last
year it became more important for the people in the region
Amedpsor is important for reflecting all the emotions of the Kurdish（库尔德）people on the football field For us it
became a place where we can pour out all our emotions We can’t do all the things we wanna do But thanks to Amedspor
we can express ourselves

News Item 048英女王 90 岁寿
Queen Elizabeth is celebrating her 90th birthday on Thursday Three photographs of the Monarch（皇室）taken by
Annie Leibovitz have been released to mark the occasion Our royal correspondent（通讯员）Peter Hunt reports After
celebrating her silver golden and diamond Jubilees（周年纪念） the now 90year old longest reigning（统治）monarch in
British History will go and walk about in Windsor and light a beacon（明灯） As she enters her 10th decade Buckingham
Palace has released three pictures taken by the American photographer Annie Leibovitz the Queen’s captured with her
corgis（柯基犬） with her daughter Ann and with two of her grandchildren and her five great grandchildren BBC news

News Item 049公开演讲力
Students in American schools learn from an early age to give presentations as part of their regular classroom activities
Children as young as five years old often give brief talks about objects they bring into school—called show and tell This
training is a basis for later public speaking
Even so many native Englishspeaking adults are afraid to speak or give presentations in front of a large group
Speaking English in public meetings is necessary for many students and employees The best way to improve is to
practice public speaking in a friendly environment Learners need to receive feedback about what they are doing well and
about their mistakes One group that gives members the chance to practice is Toastmasters
Toastmasters is an international organization that holds weekly meetings At the meetings members each give a speech
and give others advice about their speeches and speaking style


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News Item 050中国学生赴美留学热
Students from China have a long history of coming to the United States for education And this month American
educators expect high schools across the US to enroll more Chinese students than ever
Many of the students are from China’s growing middle class they want a good education and an advantage a better
chance to compete for places in America’s most respected universities
Attending schools outside China also means an escape from the intense competition at schools inside China Chinese
students in the US do not face the Chinese examination Gaokao It is designed to measure a student’s ability to do college
work Many students in their home country worry about this difficult test
The number of international students attending university in the United States is also reaching record numbers
800000 foreign students were studying at American colleges in 2012

News Item 051美式英语开始香港流行
People in Hong Kong speak a rich mixture of languages Hong Kong was a British colony for more than 150 years
before was returned to Chinese control in 1997 English was the only official language until 1994
Most people in Hong Kong today speak Cantonese（粤语） but Mandarin and other dialects also are heard and English
as the British used it is still widely spoken and taught here Now however many people are choosing to learn English as it is
spoken in the United States
Victor Chan for example has children who attend a school called Nature EQ on Saturday and Sunday they are
learning to say words the American way Mr Chan says he wants his sons to learn American English because he plans to
send them to the United States for further study
Student Sam Yu has another reason for studying English spoken in the American way
The thing is getting more and more important and maybe it’s taking over the dominance（导）of British English
Yes So I’m willing to learn
Public schools in the former British colony still teach mostly British English But the number of private language
schools teaching American English is growing
Some observers say American English is becoming the language of international business Increased contact with
American culture like movies television programs computer games and the Internet is spreading American expressions
and accents in areas other than business
Language teachers in Hong Kong say wealthy people who live in mainland China are helping to increase the demand
for classes in American English Mainland Chinese are crossing into Hong Kong because it has more educational choices
But for now people hearing English in the streets of Hong Kong are mainly hearing traditional British English

News Item 052适量咖啡益健康
Today we have more good news for all of our coffee drinkers around the world Another new study finds that drinking
coffee can help you live longer
Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health recently discovered that drinking between three and five cups of
coffee a day may prevent certain illnesses They found that coffee can protect against heart disease brain diseases Type II
diabetes and suicide
Walter Willett is a nutrition researcher at Harvard and coauthor of the study Willet says the findings extend to both
caffeinated（含咖啡）and decaffeinated coffee—or decaf as Americans often call it
So the health benefits come not just from the caffeine in coffee but from the compounds in the beans
The large study of about 200000 subjects included data from three ongoing studies Subjects in the study had to
answer questions about their coffee drinking habits every four years over a 30year period
Researchers found that moderate coffee drinking was linked with a reduced risk of death from many diseases These
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diseases include cardiovascular（心血）disease diabetes neurological（神方面）diseases such as Parkinson’s and
suicide
However the researchers found no link between coffee drinking and cancer

News Item 053唱出更助记忆
Have you ever found yourself in this situation You hear a song you used to sing when you were a child—a bit of
nostalgia（怀旧）
But it is not a distant childhood memory The words come back to you as clearly as when you sang them all those years
ago It seems there is a scientific reason for this
Researchers at the University of Edinburgh studied the relationship between music and remembering a foreign
language They found that remembering words in a song was the best way to remember even one of the most difficult
languages
This study provides the first experimental evidence that a listenandrepeat singing method can support foreign
language learning

News Item 054久坐危健康
If you are sitting down listening to this Health Report stand up Move your legs Touch your toes if you can Do
anything but sit
If you cut down on the time you spend sitting you might live longer New research shows that sitting less than three
hours a day might extend your life by two years
The human body is designed to move But modern lifestyles and office jobs rarely give us the chance to move around
Just the opposite says Peter Katzmarzyk He is a scientist at the University of Louisiana in the southern United
States He says that sitting is ubiquitous（普遍存）in our lives meaning it is something we do all the time everywhere
But he adds that does not make sitting good for us
Sitting is ubiquitous in our lives today You know we sit while we’re eating we sit in the car we sit while we watch
television And many of us sit for many hours at work So on average Americans report they sit between four and a half to
five hours a day
Mr Katzmarzyk says you may exercise often But he says even that does not mean you can sit for the rest of your
waking hours
We can’t throw away physical activity It’s extremely important We have 60 years of research showing us that But
sedentary（久坐）behavior is also important So even if you exercise for 30 minutes a day You know what goes on in the
other 23andahalf hours of the day is also very important

News Item 055首位黑女性取代前总统亮相 20 元新美钞
An escaped slave who freed hundreds of people from bondage（奴役）is to be the face of a redesigned 20 dollar bill
（钞票）in the United States James Cook has the details
Harriet Tubman was an American hero a former slave who helped hundreds of others follow her path to freedom at
first being a secret network known as the underground railroad and then as a union spy in the civil war After the war Ms
Tubman who struggled in poverty into the end of her life fought for women suffrage（选举权） She replaces the
slaveowning president Andrew Jackson on the front of the 20dollar bill although he will continue to feature on the back




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（五）灾难事件类

News Item 056美国东海岸暴风雪
The American East Coast is gradually recovering from a winter storm US government offices in Washington were
closed for all but emergency employees as the city clears snow covered streets Schools in the capital and the surrounding
suburbs are closed Washington’s subway system is partially running after being closed for two days There was limited air
service（航空服务）returning to Washington New York City Baltimore and Philadelphia

News Item 057法国高铁恐怖袭击事件
French prosecutors（检察员）announced Tuesday they have launched an investigation into last week’s terrorist attack
in a highspeed train Paris Prosecutor Frederic Molins said the man detained（拘押）in connection with that attack Ayoub
ElKhazzani is being investigated for attempted murder connected to terrorism Khazzani was subdued（压制）by a group of
passengers—three Americans and a Britain Khazzani’s lawyer denied the suspect has terrorist motives telling Lemond
Newspaper he only intended to rob the passengers

News Item 058土耳发生爆炸
I’m Dave DeForest reporting A large explosion rips（撕裂）through the main square in Ankara（安卡拉） The blast
Sunday in Turkey killed at least 34 people and wounded more than a hundred Officials said the blast occurred in Kizilay
square a key shopping and transportation hub（枢纽）near foreign embassies The Turkish government says the attack was
carried out by a Syrian man with links to Kurdish militia（民兵）groups

News Item 059斐济遭飓风袭击
At least five people were killed Saturday when a cyclone（飓风）struck the South Pacific nation of Fiji Authorities
have deployed（部署）storm teams and cleanup crews throughout the island chain to deal with the damage from Cyclone
Winston a strong five category storm

News Item 060日震
A second powerful earthquake struck southern Japan early Saturday
The quake caused the Japan Meteorological（气象）Agency to give and then cancel a tsunami（海啸）warning for the
area
The magnitude（震级数）70 earthquake struck near the city of Kumamoto on the island of Kyushu Magnitude is a
measure of the energy released during an earthquake
Rescue workers have been searching wreckage（残骸）from an earlier 65 magnitude earthquake that hit the same area
Thursday More than 100 aftershocks（余震）have been felt since then
An eightmonthold baby girl was trapped in a house damaged by the earlier quake Nearly 50 rescuers were involved
in the effort to pull the child from the rubble（瓦砾）early Friday About 1600 soldiers have joined nearly 2000 police
officers and 1300 firefighters in the recovery（恢复）effort
Japanese government spokesman Yoshihid Suga said Friday that the quake killed at least nine people and injured more
than 800 others The quakes have destroyed houses and damaged roads Damage was severe in the town of Mashiki Eight
of the dead lived in the town which is about 1300 kilometers southwest of Tokyo
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News Item 061救援机构诊遭导弹袭击
At least four people were killed Sunday in northern Yemen when a missile（导弹）hit a medical clinic operated by the
aid group Doctors Without Borders The group says the missile struck the Shiara Hospital in Saada province The charity
（慈善组织）says 10 people were wounded in the shelling（炮击） including three staff members

News Item 062均温度史高年
US government scientists reported Wednesday that last year’s temperatures—on average—were the warmest ever
recorded Deke Arndt is a US Scientist
2015 compared to the longterm record was more than a degree and a half Fahrenheit（华氏）warmer than the
twentieth century average which is quite a bit
The US weather and space agencies say temperatures recorded in 2015 were the highest in 136 years of record
keeping Scientists say the increased temperatures are the result of the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere

News Item 063两名色列杀害巴勒斯坦少年判刑
A Jerusalem court sentenced two Israeli teenagers to long prison terms for murdering a Palestinian youth an incident
that Israeli officials described as Jewish terrorism One Israeli got life in prison and the other 21 years while a third suspect
is still awaiting a verdict pending（悬未决）psychological examinations The assailants burned 16yearold
Mohammed Abu Khdeir alive in July 2014 It was revenge for the abduction（绑架）and murder of three Israeli teens by
gunmen from the Palestinian militant group Hamas Robert Berger Jerusalem

News Item 064婴困废墟 4 天奇迹生
Rescue crews in Nairobi（罗毕）have pulled a live baby from the wreckage of an apartment building that collapsed
last Friday
Kenyan officials say the baby girl was found on Tuesday She has no injuries but needs food and water Doctors are
treating her for dehydration（脱水）
The girl was identified as Dealeryn Saisi Wasike She is almost six months old On Monday a 1yearold girl was
found in the collapsed building She was also unharmed but dehydrated Rescuers are still searching for other survivors
Officials say 23 people died in the apartment building collapse 93 others were reported missing
The building collapsed in Huruma a crowded poor neighborhood in Kenya’s capital The building fell down after
heavy rains caused flooding and landslides（滑坡）in the area Officials had already declared the building unsafe It was
unclear why apartment residents had not left it Police detained（拘留）the two owners of the building as well as several
government officials after it collapsed
Last year eight buildings in Kenya collapsed The Architectural Society of Kenya estimates that half the buildings in
the country do not meet rules for building safety

News Item 065刚果（布）首发生武装突
People opposed to the government exchanged gunfire with police in the Republic of Congo capital of Brazzaville（布
拉扎维）Monday
A police station and a government building were attacked in the Makelekele district of the city according to the BBC
Violence also occurred in the Bacongo neighborhood of Brazzaville
The Associated Press reported that police battled militia（民兵）fighters Reuters news agency said that young male
Congolese who opposed President Denis Sassou Nguesso battled police There are no reports of injuries or deaths from
Monday’s shootings
A government official told the Associated Press the militia are known as the Ninjas They take their name from an
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antigovernment group in the 19981999 civil war The violence comes a month after Nguesso won reelection Some
accused him of massive fraud in the 2016 election He ruled the Republic of Congo from 1979 to 1992 He won disputed
elections in 2002 and 2009

News Item 066法国民众抗议劳工制度改革
More than 20 police officers have been injured in France in clashes（突）with protestors opposed to planned labor
reforms Some of the worst violence was in Paris Clashes also erupted in Nantes Lyon Marseille and Toulouse France’s
powerful CGT union says the labor reform bill（法案）which should be debated in parliament next week will let employers
bypass（绕开）regulations on basic workers’ rights


News Item 067全球变暖威胁中东 5 亿生存
Climate change may make parts of the Middle East too hot for human beings according to a new study
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry and the Cyprus Institute studied weather conditions in the
Middle East since 1970 The researchers say very hot days in the area have doubled over that period Right now over 500
million people live there In the future the climate in large parts of the Middle East and North Africa could change says
Jos Lelieveld director at the MaxPlanck Institute and a professor at the Cyprus Institute He added that because
temperatures could get so high those living in the area could be at risk
Researchers say temperatures in summer in the Middle East and North Africa will continue rising The nights and days
will be hotter too
The researchers believe that by 2050 temperatures will not fall below 30 degrees Celsius at night in the hottest part of
summer During this period daytime temperatures could rise to 46 degrees Celsius（摄氏）
Extreme heat could continue past the middle of the 21st century Researchers think temperatures in the middle of the
day could reach as high as 50 Celsius Heat waves could increase and those hot periods are likely to last longer

News Item 068加森林火
A vast wild fire in the Canadian province of Alberta is continuing to rage out of control（失控） Three days on the
blaze（火焰）has grown in size defying（挑战）the efforts of firefighters with helicopters and air tankers to contain it More
than 80000 people have already fled their homes in the Fort McMurry area and an emergency worker Chad Morrison says
the flames are fueled by powerful winds
Late yesterday the wild fire grew rapidly due to the increased winds We had winds recorded on site （） up to
70 kilometers an hour And those winds came from the northwest The fire blew out to the southeast corner late last night
And hours late as the Premier said the fire was estimated to be 85000 hectors（公顷）
The Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told parliament it was the largest evacuation（撤离）in the province’s
history He said the footage（长度）of cars racing down highways as far as spread around them was nothing short of
terrifying

News Item 069前国际足联副席承认腐败指控
A former senior executive of world football’s governing body has pleaded guilty（认罪）to four charges of corruption
The former vice president of FIFA Alfredo Harwit told the judge in the United States that he had accepted hundreds of
thousands of dollars in bribes（贿赂） The payments were linked to marketing in broadcast rights for tournaments（锦标
赛）and matches He faces a prison sentence of up to 20 years for each count


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News Item 070印度寺庙火灾
An explosion caused by fireworks（烟火）killed more than 100 people at a temple in the southern Indian state of Kerala
early Sunday
Thousands of people had gathered at the temple near the coastal town of Paravur to watch the fireworks part of a
yearly religious celebration Officials said some of the fireworks fell on a building where a large number of fireworks were
being stored causing explosions and a fire that spread quickly Many more people were injured as they ran from the fire A
government official said the temple had not been given permission to hold the fireworks display Prime Minister Narendra
Modi brought a special team of doctors to the area to help those who were injured
In a tweet Modi called the fire heartrending（痛心）and shocking beyond words He added My thoughts are
with the families of the deceased（已）and prayers with the injured

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News Item 071类需柔软机器
Many of today’s robots resemble people—some only in parts while some are almost lifelike Others look like animals
from insects and fish to snakes and birds
But most of them are hardsurfaced machines designed to do heavyduty work
Soft robots such as this cuddly（想拥抱）baby seal（海豹）called Paro used to comfort the elderly in Japanese
assisted living homes are rare But researchers at Carnegie Mellon University say we need more of them
Ten years ago people were doing robotics people were building robots But people were more interested in building
robots using rigid materials and strong materials and powerful machines
Since many robots have to interact with people YongLea Park and his colleagues say making robots softer will make
them safer for humans
Robotics professor Charles Atkeson says a robot’s rigid structure could be covered with inflatable（充气）segments
that could change shape as needed
He says researchers were inspired by Baymax（白） a robot in the popular Disney movie Big Hero 6

News Item 072农场走数字化
When it comes to food it’s said that we are what we eat And what we eat is getting fresher and healthier I think it’s
very clear people want good food that’s sustainable that’s traceable and is good for them
Kakaxi is a social farming platform that we’re building to bring the story of food production to the table We have
internal sensors（感应器）that can measure the weather data such as temperature daily humidity（湿度） Adam Smith is
showing off Kakaxi’s farmmonitoring device Farmers install it to harvest vital data while consumers connect by an App to
see crops growing in real time Seeing how food is transformed from nothing into something is a miraculous（思议）
story When we see food at the supermarket that story is gone Kakaxi works with local communitysupported agriculture
groups or CSAs Farmers get member feedback along with advertising they may not otherwise be able to afford We’re
not promising 5 increase in yields（收益）if they use it but what they all need is better ways to generating content and
marketing assistance

News Item 073西班牙智城市
Santander is a port（港口）on the Northern Atlantic coast of Spain that spreads along a bay Parking is easy to find
As one car drives away an underground sensor registers that a parking space is now free Four hundred sensors send
messages to signs at street intersections（路口） and GPS devices direct drivers to the nearest available parking spaces
reducing traffic congestion（拥堵）
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A smart phone app makes the payment easy and eliminates the problem of finding coins to feed the meter（计费器）
Most Santander businesses use scannable（扫描）barcodes in their windows to save their customers’ time
When we are closed they can find out about our opening hours our products and where our other shops are They can
also learn about any sales and special offers we have
In Santander trash is collected only when the bins are full and bus stop signs show exactly when the next bus is
coming The public parks are watered only when the soil gets dry All this is made possible by 20000 sensors installed on
buildings street posts and even buses They are part of the smart city project launched by the University of Cantabria
seven years ago
University researchers regularly meet with locals to discuss how to make their city even smarter

News Item 074台程序消耗手机电量
Does your mobile phone’s battery（电池）die more quickly than it once did Apps may be the problem Even if you did
not add new apps to your phone an app update alone can use lots of battery power
But you can check your apps to see how much battery they have been using If an app you do not use much requires a
lot of battery power you might want to remove it from your phone
To check an iPhone or iPad open the Settings app then go to Battery Recent battery use percentages for each app will
appear The device measures use in the last 24 hours and last seven days
Android phones can show you which apps have used the most battery recently Note that different versions of the
Android operating system may have different settings Each app has a percentage to show you how much battery it has used
lately You may see an app that has used a lot of battery although you have not used the app much You can force a stop to
that app to prevent it from using more battery

News Item 075天文远镜
The mirror of the Hubble（哈勃）Space Telescope that gave us the stunning（惊艳）pictures of deep space is only
about 45 square meters
The primary mirror of the James Webb Space Telescope will be 25 square meters so astronomers（天文学家）expect
even higherquality results
But both will be dwarfed（）by the Giant Magellan Telescope under construction in Chile’s（智利）Atacama
Desert Its mirror array（镜数组）covers about 368 square meters
By looking at different parts of the visible and infrared spectrums（红外线光谱） the two new telescopes will
complement each other says Magellan Telescope director Patrick McCarthy
The two working together I think will give us a complete picture whether we are looking at planets around nearby
stars black holes in the centers of other galaxies（星系） or back to that early universe that we call the First Light when we
see the first stars in the first galaxies
To isolate it from vibrations（振动） the 1200ton telescope will rest on an oil flotation bearing system completely
free of any friction（摩擦力） A range of cameras and spectrographs（光谱摄制仪）will record and dissect（分析）the
received light looking for signatures of atoms（原子）and molecules（分子） And the light coming from billions of
kilometers away may be impossibly faint
The photons（光子）come in one every 15 to 20 minutes so it takes a long time to collect that light In our case we
think we’ll get a few photons a minute but you need hundreds to get a good signal so it just takes patience

News Item 076耐热玻璃餐具
The characteristic sound of putting the lid（盖子）on a Pyrex dish is recognizable to many as it can be heard in kitchens
all over the world
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Heat resistant glass was invented in Germany at the end of the 19th century but was used mostly in lanterns（灯笼）and
in jars to hold telegraph and telephone batteries（电池）
Its usefulness as cookware was discovered by accident A scientist from the Corning Glass Works manufacturing
company in New York brought to his wife a sawedoff（锯开）battery jar made of the socalled borosilicate glass（硼硅
酸盐玻璃） resistant to heat and mechanical abuse
She proceeded to bake a cake a sponge cake in this battery jar And she discovered that the baking was much more
efficient and much more even（）than baking in ceramic（瓷）or metal was
Kelley Elliott of the Corning Museum of Glass says that when it finally appeared on the market in 1915 Pyrex
dishware became an instant hit At first dishes were made of clear glass but the company soon started offering it in colors
popular at that time

News Item 077新装置飞行员保驾护航
Two different physiological（生理）situations can lead to a pilot’s loss of consciousness says Elbit Systems senior
research and development director retired fighter pilot Yaron Kranz One is GLOC or G Loss of Consciousness and the
other one is hypoxia（缺氧）which is lack of oxygen to the brain
GLOC happens during sharp turns and highspeed accelerations when centrifugal（离心）force reduces the normal
flow of blood to the pilot’s brain At that speed loss of control of the aircraft proved fatal（致命）for many pilots Hypoxia
or lack of oxygen can affect anyone at high altitudes（高空） which is why passenger planes are equipped with oxygen
masks deployed（应）in case of loss of cabin pressure Current devices for preventing these dangerous situations are
bulky（笨重）so Elbit Systems and a startup（新兴公司）called Life BEAM developed a system called Canary It uses
small noninvasive（非侵入）sensors built into the pilot’s helmet（头盔）
The pilot doesn’t have to do anything in order to activate those sensors and they are small enough and wise enough to
give the information in order to gather the physiological data that is required
When the danger is imminent（危急） the system flashes an alert message on the helmet’s visor If it senses that the
pilot has lost consciousness it signals the plane’s computer to activate the autopilot（动驾驶）

News Item 078模块化机器
For years researchers at Carnegie Mellon University experimented with a snakelike robot that could crawl（爬行）
through pipes and climb up trees
Gradually their robot evolved into motorized modules（模块） each with its own processor that can be assembled in
various configurations（构造） such as this sixlegged insectlike machine they call the Snake Monster
Howie Choset is a professor at the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute We are able to put the modules together as
easy as Lego but there is a lot going on underneath the hood（引擎罩）to allow that to happen What happens under the
hood is the most interesting part The modules are able to communicate with each other in order to coordinate（协调）the
robot’s movements And the modules with wheels instead of feet allow the robot to move faster on smooth surfaces
Modules may also be equipped with a camera that can survey the surroundings
Another feature is a socalled masterandslave system through which an operator can manipulate（操）a robotic
twin remotely controlling it and even feeling the resistance it encounters Choset says the robot is ready for reallife testing
That robot is fielddeployable（支配） You can take that robot—throw it around It’s robust（精力充沛） You can
kick it and it’s still gonna work

News Item 079通意念控制假肢
It looks very natural when Gummi Olafsson moves his prosthetic leg（义肢） It took me about 10 minutes to get
control of it I could stand up and just walk away Olafsson says it feels as if he’s moving it with his own muscles
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Last year tiny sensors developed by the USbased Alfred Mann Foundation were implanted in the muscle tissue left
over when his lower right leg had to be removed ten years ago We put sensors into the muscles They would pick up the
signal and then in fact the signals move their way into the prosthetics and then the prosthetics react as your brain actually
wants
Implanted sensors have been used before but Ingvarsson says this is the first time the amputee（截肢手术者）has been
able to move the bionic（仿生学）leg without intensely focusing on the task Olafsson says with practice he is increasingly
getting better control of his artificial limb（造肢体） Every day you’re learning more about how to walk properly with
the foot how to use it going downhill uphill downstairs upstairs even sitting down and standing up from a chair

News Item 080亚马逊机送货申请专利
According to the patent（专利）application published by the US Patent Office Amazon plans to use the Global
Positioning System or GPS not only for deliveries to homes around the country but directly to purchasers wherever they
may be
Focusing on the location of the customer’s mobile device usually a smart phone the drone（驾驶飞机）will be
able to avoid both living things and inanimate（生命）obstacles identify areas safe for landing and deliver the package
within 30 minutes For security reasons the Federal Aviation（飞行器）Administration requires the drones in this
experimental test period to remain within sight of their operators which severely limits their reach
Amazon is working on solutions says Loretta Alkalay from Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology in New
York speaking by Skype
I think that they are going to have to work on those in parallel with advancing the new technology So I don’t see the
security problems as being something that should stop the technology
Amazon is still not advertising the drone deliveries but Alkalay is optimistic that they will happen I do think that in
the reasonably foreseeable future they are going to start doing deliveries We have already seen deliveries being done in
disaster areas and remote areas I think there is a huge demand for that type of delivery
There are still a number of concerns regarding possible collisions（碰撞）with various objects as well as vandalism（
意破坏）and theft of the drones and goods but Alkalay says the media has assumed incorrectly that deliveries would be
made to people’s front doors
If you think of a drone delivery perhaps to your rooftop then you would have an opportunity to separate the
pedestrian（行）and the vehicular traffic and at the same time separate it from air traffic
Alkalay says even though American homes are not set up for rooftop deliveries it is possible that future homes will
have special platforms for air deliveries of small merchandise

News Item 081新型降落伞着陆火星做准备
After several weather related delays the world’s largest helium balloon（氦气球）was launched from a military base in
Hawaii to test a saucerlike（碟形）device called the LowDensity Supersonic（超音速）Decelerator（减速器）
The LDSD is designed to investigate and test breakthrough technologies for landing robotic and human missions on
Mars and safely returning large payloads（装备）to Earth This new technology is required to land five metric tons（公吨）
for human missions maybe 30 and beyond metric tons to the surface So the parachute（降落伞）we’re using today can
improve the performance of landing mass by 100 to 200 percent and that’s really critical for not only future enhanced
robotic missions but human exploration of Mars
Scientists say the thin atmosphere around Mars requires especially strong parachutes for landing heavy and
fastmoving spacecraft As we started thinking about the next generation of more capable more exciting more bold
missions to Mars we started realizing that we didn’t have the technologies in place to land them and we had to start today
to start developing those technologies
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The balloon tested Monday was 30 meters in diameter A flying saucer it was carrying weighed more than 3000
kilograms about twice the weight of the kind of robotic rover（漫步者）spacecraft NASA can currently land on Mars
Late Monday a NASA spokeswoman said the test failed when the balloon deployed but did not inflate（充气）

News Item 082防盗监控搭载面部识
A French company has designed a camera that recognizes faces and tells people if a stranger has entered their home
Many homes now have security cameras that tell owners if someone has entered But the cameras do not know if the
person is a family member friend delivery person or a criminal
But a new camera made by a company named Netatmo has facial recognition software that can tell parents at work that
their children have returned from school or that a package has been delivered to their home It can also tell them if a
stranger has entered their home
Janina Mattausch is a product marketing manager for Netatmo
Current security cameras are not that smart So they can tell you if something is moving but they don’t necessarily
know if it’s a human being or ah if it’s your kids They don’t know the difference so they will alert you all the time
When family members enter a home the smart camera recognizes them and sends information to the owner’s smart
phone The owner can choose to see the video then or later But if an unknown person enters a home the camera will send
the owner an alert that will cause an alarm to sound on the owner’s smart phone

News Item 083工智类利弊
From a personal assistant to doing searches on the Internet to the autopilot（动驾驶）function simple artificial
intelligence or AI has been around for some time but it’s quickly getting more complex and more intelligent
Computer science professor Stuart Russell says many present jobs that are labor intensive or require data analysis
such as in the financial industry will be replaced by machines with artificial intelligence The future will require
everybody to work with these learning reasoning machines So I think the skill set for many of these jobs will end up being
different in the future
Russell envisions（预见）that AI will change the economy and the current way of life Artificial intelligence is already
transforming the health care industry AI can process huge amounts of data and have the most uptodate research to help
doctors diagnose（诊断）and treat patients IBM’s Watson technology is already in the hospitals in North and South America
Europe and Asia
But there is also a dangerous side of artificial intelligence—autonomous（性）weapons out of drone technology
The risk with autonomous weapons is that people will use them as a kind of poor man’s weapon of mass destruction a
poor man’s nuclear weapon
Russell says the international community needs to create treaties（法规）to ban this type of weapon

News Item 084新型风力发电机
In 2002 Spanish inventor David Yanez saw a short film about the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in the US collapsing in
strong wind That gave him the idea for a new type of windenergy generator The initial philosophy or spirit was to create
a generator of dreams that had all the qualities one would want It should be as cheap as possible need as little maintenance
（维护）as possible and the setup as simple as possible Yanez and his friend Raoul Martin took the idea to an engineering
firm where they were told it would never work Undiscouraged（未气馁） they started experimenting on their own in
a small wind tunnel（隧道）they built
Good initial results were repeated by a larger working model called Vortex installed in the nearby field What we have
is a mast（桅杆） which is the top piece and acts as a blade（叶片） It’s constructed from the same material as a conventional
generator（发电机） and what it does is it oscillates（摆动） transmitting the oscillation to a conventional alternator（交
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流发电机） which by its own oscillation converts the wind’s energy into electric energy
Yanez says the generator’s output was better than expected The Vortex generator creates about 30 percent less energy
than a comparable bladed wind turbine but it’s lighter and cheaper to build and maintain It is made mostly of reinforced
（强化）plastic and has very few moving parts

News Item 085APP 帮助解决交通问题
At the Los Angeles public transit system known as Metro these workers monitor buses on their routes to look for
delays or other signs of trouble The system uses information from its cameras and sensors and will soon use data from the
social media application Waze sent by drivers who note realtime traffic conditions Kali Fogel of LA Metro says the transit
system needs uptodate information Data is king so to have a lot of data is very important We have a lot of infrastructure
（基础设施）data What crowdsourcing and apps like Waze allow us to do is to fill in the gaps
Waze owned by Google has partnered with cities from Rio to Jakarta to better understand urban traffic problems
Drivers like Freda Sideroff of Los Angeles rely on Google Maps and other navigation apps to get through the traffic It is
so useful I use it every day
The California Department of Transportation known as Caltrans also communicates with drivers through messages on
freeways its highway mapping site called Quick Map and social media sites like Twitter
Caltrans spokesman Patrick Chandler says traffic managers see millions of trips each day Still it’ll be easy to move a
lot of people but the system is old It’s 60 70yearsold so we try different things to maximize capacity beyond just
building new freeways or interchanges or widen the freeways We try different ways to inform travelers of the conditions
that are ahead of them

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News Item 086微软控诉美司法部
Computer technology company Microsoft has brought a legal case against the US government Microsoft says a law
that permits agencies to demand to read emails or online files without their owners’ knowledge violates（违反）the
Constitution（宪法） The Reuters news agency reports that the company believes the government’s actions violate the
Fourth Amendment（修订案）to the Constitution That amendment bans unreasonable searches and seizures（罚没）
Reuters also reports that Microsoft says the law violates the company’s First Amendment right to free speech
The law in question is the Electronics Communications Privacy Act of 1986 It permits government investigators to
examine emails and other electronic files without telling the owners of the documents In most cases a judge must give the
investigators permission to do so
Microsoft says the law was written before distant computer data storage（存储）centers known as the cloud were
developed Microsoft is a major operator of cloud storage for computers It says the government is using the new
technology to increase its power
The Justice Department says it is studying the lawsuit（诉讼案件） Daniel Rosenthal is a former US attorney（律师）
He told the Associated Press news agency that forcing the government to tell the owners of files that they are being
examined could hurt law enforcement efforts He says doing so would let child molesters（骚扰者） domestic abusers
violent criminals and terrorists know that their emails and files are being read

News Item 087iPhone 销量滑
Apple is the world’s most valuable company Its yearly growth trend started in the early 2000s with exciting new
computers and a portable music player known as the iPod
The company continued to grow with the introduction of the iPhone smartphone Then it introduced the iPad tablet
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Sales of Apple products grew every year for 51 straight quarters That all changed on Tuesday when the company reported
a drop in sales Sales for the first quarter of 2016 dropped 13 percent
Sales dropped to 506 billion from 58 billion during the same quarter in 2015 The news caused Apple’s stock（股票）
to drop too The company’s shares were down by about 8 percent in afterhours trading
The company’s report shows sales were down in China by a combined 26 percent Apple’s Chief Executive Tim Cook
says the smartphone market is not growing because of the slowing economies in some countries But other experts say
Apple is no longer regularly producing exciting products People who bought new Apple laptops or smartphones in the last
two or three years do not feel like they need to buy the latest products

News Item 0882016 年首季度中国济增长放缓
China’s economic growth slowed during the first three months of 2016
Chinese state media reported Friday that the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew at 67 percent between
January and March GDP represents the value of all goods and services produced within a country
China is the world’s second largest economy The 67 growth rate was the slowest there since the start of the world
financial crisis seven years ago In the final three months of 2015 the Chinese economy grew 68 percent The National
Bureau of Statistics said the economy is still within range of the central government’s expectations The official fullyear
target for economic growth is 65 to 7 percent
China’s GDP has averaged nearly 10 percent a year since 1978 according to the World Bank The economy has slowed
over the past five years The government has reacted by cutting interest rates and increasing spending on public works
projects The government is also trying to get the public to buy more Chinesemade goods and services
Economist told the Associated Press a construction slump（降）and weak exports are reasons for the slower growth
economy Economic forecasters expect China’s economy to grow at a slowerthannormal rate this year according to the
Associated Press The news agency said an expansion of just 63 percent is expected in 2016

News Item 089美国通胀率略回升
A key measure of US inflation（通货膨胀）rose slightly in October boosting the chances the central bank will raise
interest rates soon A government report says prices gained twotenths of one percent in September Apart from energy and
food US consumer prices rose 19 percent over the past year close to the Federal Reserve’s（美联储）target of two percent
On Wall Street US stock indexes（指数）were down at the close of trade today

News Item 090三菱油耗测试造假
It is not just Volkswagen（众）trying to manipulate（操）testing of its cars This time it is a Japanese company
Mitsubishi The Japanese automaker received a visit Thursday from the country’s chief cabinet（阁）secretary The
government wants to investigate Mitsubishi’s fuel efficiency claims
On Wednesday Mitsubishi president Tetsuro Aikawa admitted that his employees used higher tire（轮胎）pressure
during fuel economy tests for small car models The more air in a tire the better it will perform on a fuel economy test The
test recorded 10 percent better fuel economy than consumers were seeing on the road
The cheating affects over 600000 cars produced for Mitsubishi and Nissan The models are the eK and Dayz Roox
passenger cars The Japanese government promised to deal with Mitsubishi in a strict manner Mitsubishi’s stock price
dropped significantly on Wednesday and Thursday after the news of an investigation came out

News Item 0914 月份美国业市场回弹
The US job market rebounded（反弹）in April with strong growth in business services health care and construction
After the weak job gains in March fewer than 100000 hires Bankratecom’s chief financial analyst Greg McBride
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says the second quarter is off to a good start Adding to the optimism average hourly earnings increased but just barely At
just 3 cents more per hour McBride says it’s a step in the right direction but not enough to significantly boost growth

News Item 092IMF 首席济学家称全球济增速太慢
I’m Dave DeForest reporting The International Monetary Fund’s（国际货币基金组织）Chief Economist Maurice
Obstfeld says global economic growth has been too slow for too long He says this disappointing growth rate could
worsen
Now we’re not presently in a crisis as Managing Director Lagarde pointed out a short while ago We’re not in a state
of alarm but in a state of alert
Economic and financial officials from around the world plan to gather in Washington this week for meetings of the
World Bank the IMF and the G20

News Item 093非洲广告业崛起
Western advertising and public relations agencies are increasingly joining with African advertising companies They
are working together to attract international businesses that want to advertise products or services in Africa The continent
（洲）has been considered the last frontier or undeveloped territory for consumer markets
Advertising agencies are now helping international companies become well known in Africa After all the continent is
home to six of the 10 fastest growing economies in the world
Many overseas companies have little experience dealing with Africa They do not know much about the culture or the
way things are done on the continent Also there is a lack of information to help with the marketing So having employees
who are experts in the area and culture is helpful for companies

News Item 094咖啡产埃塞俄亚
An international group of coffee experts has rated Ethiopia’s coffee as the best in the world Coffee is a top export for
the country But at home it is a source of national pride Ethiopians feel good about their coffee and enjoying a drink with
friends is a longstanding tradition
International coffee experts travel the world to find the best tasting cup of coffee They keep returning to Ethiopia
Some people say the climate produces quality beans Morton Wennersgarrd is a coffee importer
They are grown in places with perfect soil perfect altitude（海拔） and micro climates that are really suitable for
coffee processing such as drying and things like that
Ethiopia is making big profits on its coffee reputation with export to more than 120 countries The country has an
export revenue of more than 840 million a year
But not all the best coffee leaves Ethiopia Forty percent of the coffee grown in the country stays there It remains an
important part of everyday life at work at home and at ceremonies just to celebrate that special cup

News Item 095互联网济发展重性
The World Bank says 9 billion electronic devices are connected to the Internet today Yet the bank says more than half
of the world’s population is still not connected
Technologists and government officials say getting connected to the Internet is critical to improving the lives of
millions of people
Technology experts say businesses and governments need to come together to bring the Internet to developing areas to
drive economic growth O’Brien says broadband is not a secondary need Any country that wants to create investment and
be a location for investment to create employment the first thing you need is broadband
But others do not think technology is a cureall for economic growth Kentaro Toyama is Associate Professor of
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Community Information at the University of Michigan He has a warning for developing nations that see modern
technology as the solution for economic growth Toyama says the world has changed over the past 45 years because of
developments in technology But all this digital innovation did not reduce differences between rich and poor people in the
United States

News Item 096中国出境游数持续增加
Over the past five years the number of Chinese travelers has grown to 120 million people One in 10 international
travelers is from China
New airports and better infrastructure have made travel easier for Chinese citizens Young Chinese citizens are
benefiting from reduced visa restrictions around the world James Roy a business analyst at China Market Research Group
said Chinese travelers are going to many more destinations than they did in the past
You know in the past where it was more about buying an expensive watch or a bag and showing that off Now it’s
much more about sharing on social media all of the exotic（国外）places that you’ve been to Roy said
The World Travel and Tourism Council says that the number of Chinese tourists grew by 53 percent in 2015 Last year
travelers from China spent 215 billion outside the country
Some countries have benefited from tourism from China Iceland a popular destination for Chinese tourists saw its
tourism industry grow by 19 percent in 2015 Japan had 37 percent growth in visitor spending
The growth in the number of Chinese travelers is contributing to the global growth of the tourism sector which has
added 72 million jobs worldwide

News Item 097电商求买家删差评
In 2009 John and Jen Palmer posted a critical online comment about a business The Palmers said they ordered and
paid for a small toy and a keychain（钥匙链）for 20 from KlearGearcom but never got the items They said they could
never reach anyone at KlearGear to fix the problem They posted their complaint on RipoffReportcom
Three years later Jen Palmer said her husband received an email from KlearGear demanding they remove the post If
not he was told he would have to pay a 3500 fine
KlearGear said the Palmers violated the company’s policy that bars（禁止）customers from posting critical comments
Jen Palmer said she and her husband tried to remove their critical post but could not get Ripoff Report to take it down
They refused to pay the 3500 fine demanded by KlearGear They said they did not believe the company had the right to
demand it
Two years later a judge agreed with them He said the company was wrong to demand money and to report the
couple’s refusal to pay to a credit rating agency That hurt the Palmers credit rating and made it impossible for them to
finance the purchase of a furnace（火炉）and car Jen Palmer said The judge awarded the couple over 300000 in damages

News Item 098民币 IMF 指定货币
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) added China’s yuan to its group of key global currencies this week a historic
development that gives new status to the world’s secondlargest economy
It is a sign that China is rising ever faster and further on the global economic stage reported the BBC China now
accounts for more than 15 percent of the global gross economic output nearly three times what it was a decade ago said the
Wall Street Journal
The IMF said the yuan also called the renminbi will be added to the group of reserve currencies（储备货币） Those
include the US dollar Europe’s euro the Japanese yen and the British pound These currencies are in the IMF’s Special
Drawing Rights group The IMF uses this group of reserve currencies to make emergency loans to its 188 member nations
The new IMF designation（指定）will take effect at the end of September 2016
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News Item 099创业 16 岁女孩
Like many people Bree Britt once dreamed of starting her own business But unlike many people the 16yearold
American did not wait until she grew up to become an entrepreneur（企业家） With a sense of purpose a plan of action and
the help of her mother she opened Bree’s Sweet Treats in Accokeek Maryland
For Bree Britt nothing is more enjoyable satisfying and calming than preparing food in the kitchen
Being a baker is like being an artist—the food has to be cooked just right She says baking enables her to be innovative
and creative Bree Britt started cooking with her greatgrandmother when she was five years old When she was 12 Bree
told her mother she wanted to open a bakery（面包房）
Charmaine Britt is Bree’s mother She told Bree to sell her baked goods online first to see if her daughter was serious
I thought it was gonna be fly by night something that she just would to get tired of eventually once she saw how
much work it would be So my deal was we’ll start online you can bake and I’ll deliver on weekends
The baked goods made enough money through Internet sales that Charmaine Britt became her daughter’s business
partner
Going to school is not easy when operating a business However Bree says doing both taught her how to make good
decisions about how she spends her time

News Item 100双 11 购物狂欢节
What’s the biggest online shopping day in the world Not Valentine’s Day Not Cyber Monday or Black Friday They
are the days that follow Thanksgiving in the US and usher in the start of the holiday shopping season The winner is
China’s Singles’ Day celebrated November 11 or 1111
Singles’ Day began as a day for unmarried or uncoupled people to celebrate their lives Single students looking for an
excuse to buy themselves presents started it on November 11 1993 reported The Guardian
It is symbolized by the four number ones in the date of November 1th (1111) and is also called Double Eleven in
reference to the day it was started said the BBC
It became a major shopping day in 2009 The CEO of an online shopping site Alibaba sought to increase sales at the
ecommerce company The CEO Daniel Zhang launched an annual online sale that day said Fortune
When it first began Singles’ Day was very much an offline solace（安慰）for actual single people It quickly became a
cultural phenomenon Today Singles’ Day is a retail blockbuster（风靡事物） Analysts predict that this year sales on China
Singles’ Day will soar to a new high

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