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The haze usually clears by lunchtime. vocabulary break: if the weather breaks, it suddenly changes and bees cold or wet: (指天氣)(持續(xù)一段時間之後)突然起變化 The following day the weather broke and we had ten days of solid rain. ?scattered: [39。sk230。t?d] adj. 分散的 , 稀疏的 There will be some scattered showers (=short periods of rain) in the afternoon. 零星(陣雨);偶有(陣雨) Listen to the passage and choose the best answer to plete each of the following sentences. ?1. D 2. C 3. A 4. B ?5. D 6. A 7. B 8. C Section Three News News Item 1 ? Focus: ? World economy Words ? Group of Eight 八國集團 ? Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. ? futures market期貨市場;期貨交易 ? spot market 現(xiàn)貨市場 ? speculation [?spekju?lei??n] : an investment that is very risky but could yield great profits 投機 ? financial speculation 金融投機 ? IEA =International Energy Agency 國際能源署 ? IMF= International Moary Fund國際貨幣基金組織 ? barrel [?b230。r?l] 。一桶的量 Headquarters in Washington, International Moary Fund ? Ex A. Listen and plete the news summary ? This news item is about __________________________________________________________________ concerns of the GEight finance ministers over high oil prices ?Ex B. Listen again and decide whether the following sentences are true or false. ? 1. T. Future markets now largely set the price of oil. ? 2. F. Most oil is traded on what is called the spot market or through other contracts between producers and users. ? 3. T. ? 4. F. But they also called on the International Moary Fund and the International Energy Agency to jointly examine the recent price rise. ? 5. F. How important it is and what influence it has on the market will be investigated, he says. ? 6. T. News Item 2 ? Focus: ? US economy ? Vocabulary: ? package [?p230。kid?] n. 一攬子計劃 ? a set of proposals or measures for dealing with something ? Democratic [?dem?39。kr230。tik] 民主黨 ? Republican [ri?p?blik?n] 共和黨 ? House of Representative 眾議院 ? Senate參議院 ? Congress [?k??gres] 國會,議會 ? recession [ri‘se??n] , (經濟)不景氣 Ex. A: Listen to the news and plete the summary. The news is about ______________