【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 r customers choose to buy homes in spite of their inability to pay for them. 3 The above practice undoubtedly leads to putting shortterm self interest ahead of longterm consequences.Part IIDictation:6. Now times are changing and the Inuit, known as Eskimos down south, are adapting to the new living environment.7. Their barren homeland became a Canadian territory, Nunavut, in 1999, and this gave them more say in their affairs.8. To the Inuit, polar bears have special significance. This archetypal symbol of the majesty and threat of the Arctic graces the government logo and license plates of Nunavut.9. They now are a “species of special concern” due to past overharvesting, which rose with the introduction of snowmobiles, and environmental threats.10. The Nunavut Wildlife Management Board sets a yearly hunting quota. It was 408 for last season, though just 385 bears were killed.Exercise 1: D B A C D A C BExercise 2:1. Her advice includes: brush the snow off your caribou skin parka quickly don’t push yourself too fast or hard avoid any kind of moisture, which can be deadly in the Arctic cold the pack ice must be strong enough out near the water to support dog sleds or snowmobiles dunking means death for polar bear hunters.2. They generally go out for food at night or daybreak and sleep in the afternoon.3. They have to scan wide expanses of ice for bears or their tracks, and then work in teams to trap them on the ice between the open water and the shore.4. They are now a “species of special concern” because of past overharvesting, which rose with the introduction of snowmobiles, and environmental threats such as global warming.5. The foreign sport hunters have to pay US$20,000 or more for each polar bear they kill.Unit 14Section I11. 和其他西方國(guó)家，如加拿大、德國(guó)的政府不同，美國(guó)政府不向其公民提供由公共財(cái)政支出的醫(yī)療保障。12. 公民必須購(gòu)買(mǎi)健康保險(xiǎn)，每年人均花費(fèi)需要幾千美元。13. 如果一個(gè)公民沒(méi)有這種保險(xiǎn)的話(huà)，那他必須要么支付醫(yī)療費(fèi)用，要么到別的價(jià)格低廉、有時(shí)是三等醫(yī)療機(jī)構(gòu)或縣醫(yī)院就診。14. 各種州政府援助計(jì)劃可以涵蓋一些急診或長(zhǎng)期治療的費(fèi)用。15. 在美國(guó)，醫(yī)療費(fèi)用是造成個(gè)人破產(chǎn)的最常見(jiàn)的原因。Section IIDialogue 1. emergency rockets/save the lives/20 minutes/fire/unstrap/climb out/lift/get away/top/occupants2 blueness/brilliant white/brickred/roads/darkness/lights3 medical experiments/taking measurements/color/salt/water/vegetation4 dangerous/launch/physically harder/a thin layer of very hot air/crushing her lungs/four and a half times/breathe/this big bump/hit the ground/parachutes5 plant a tree/launch site/flies/a good 40 feet high/the very end/cosmonauts/watered/soldiersPassage 11. Poverty trends vary significantly from country to country, but one feature is constant: figures for rural poverty are well above the level of average poverty.12. Most of those countries that have failed to embark on an agricultural revolution remain trapped in poverty, hunger and economic stagnation.13. A main reason for the inefficiency of farming in Africa is that the crops grown on the great majority of small farms are not the high yielding varieties in mon use on other continents.14. While sustainable rural development is essential to achieve the broader development agenda, the former cannot be realized without adequate munity empowerment and participation.15. Consequently, the ruralurban education gap is increasing – making the task of sustainable development even more difficult and challenging.C D D A B C B ASection IIIItem 1: D. the impact of oil price increases on major oil producers and the consumers.E. 1 It has had a spectacular impact on the bottom line at the major oil producers.2 They are Shell, America’s Exxon Mobil and BP.3 Consumers are struggling with near record fuel prices. Predictably this has stoked plaints of profiteering by the oil firms.4 They have talked about tougher rules on pany mergers and abuses of market power within the US oil sector.5 They say healthy profits are needed to fund investment in finding and developing new energy sources.6 Becau