【正文】 Fire attracts 1 million visitors each year, and brings business to downtown restaurants, hotels and entertainment venues. It brings more than 33 million dollars in business to the city annually. 2) It sets a good example to other riverfront cities.Part IIDictation:1. A new study published in the current issue of American Journal of Public Health suggests that men’s behavior may be to blame.2. It has been reported that at every age American males have poorer health and a higher risk of mortality than females.3. As if that weren’t enough, men tend to work in more dangerous settings than women, and thus account for 90% of onthejob fatalities, mostly in agriculture.4. In lowlying flood zones, men are more likely to drive around barricades and drown in high water.5. These reasons alone would certainly contribute to a shorter life span for men, but the problem may be even more profound.C A B D D B A DUnit 13Section I6. Avian influenza, or “bird flu”, is a contagious disease of animals caused by viruses that normally infect only birds and, less monly, pigs.7. While all bird species are thought to be susceptible to infection, domestic poultry flocks are especially vulnerable to infections that can rapidly reach epidemic proportions.8. The current outbreak of bird flu is different from earlier ones in that officials have been unable to contain its spread.9. Rapid elimination of the H5N1 virus among infected birds and other animals is essential to preventing a major outbreak.10. The World Health Organization remends that infected or exposed flocks of chickens and other birds be killed in order to help prevent further spread of the virus and reduce opportunities for human infection.1. 禽流感是一種由病毒引起的動物接觸性傳染病，通常只感染禽類，在少數(shù)情況下也會感染豬。3. 目前爆發(fā)的禽流感與早些時期的禽流感不同，因為官方還無法控制它的傳播。5. 世界衛(wèi)生組織建議捕殺所有受感染和有接觸史的雞群和其他禽類，以防止病毒的進一步傳播和減少人類受感染的機會。:1. Her advice includes don’t push yourself too fast or hard the pack ice must be strong enough out near the water to support dog sleds or snowmobiles12. 公民必須購買健康保險，每年人均花費需要幾千美元。14. 各種州政府援助計劃可以涵蓋一些急診或長期治療的費用。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 neede