【正文】 l to American optimism, emphasising that the problem can probably be solved after all, and cheaper and faster than anyone what about conservatives? George Bush has recently conceded that America is addicted to oil , but he still argues about the causes of global McCain, another possible presidential contender in 2008, has been out in has sponsored legislation for cap and trade emissions of greenhouse gases, and declared in a recent speech in Phoenix that Climate 可銳教育官網(wǎng)change is real and is having a major impact on our way of ．Senate inquiry in loan case is studying stock transferAn Education Department official and financial aid directors at three universities received stock in a student loan pany from the pany s current president in what may have been a violation of securities law, Senate aides looking into the transactions various documents that have been turned over to staff members working for Senator Edward , the president of the pany described the transfers as at least one recipient of the shares has said he paid for the the executive, Fabrizio Balestri of Student Loan Xpress, had acquired the shares in a private placement of stock that restricts how it can be transferred, the giftsor salemay have run afoul of federal securities laws, said , the Massachusetts Democrat who heads the Senate education he called on federal regulators to investigate the senator s staff has been investigating relations between loan panies and disclosures last week that the financial aid administrators owned the stock have prompted concerns that they had an incentive to steer students to the loan government official helped oversee lenders in the federal student loan documents describing the transfers of stock as gifts were signed by and his contradict what one financial aid director said in an interview last official, Lawrence Burt of the University of Texas at Austin, said he had paid $1,000 for 1,500 could not be reached for ment last transferred stock not only to but also to David Charlow, financial aid director for Columbia s undergraduate college and its engineering school。and Matteo Fontana, general manager in a unit of the Office of Federal Student Aid at the Department of recent days, all four have been put on leave by their aides said that for each $10,000 in the private placement, investors had received 10,000 shares and 5,000 warrants, or options to purchase additional stock before a certain date, in Education Lending Group, which was then the parent of Student Loan obtained $80,000 worth of stock and kept none of it, according to the a personal list called memorandums of gift , he wrote that he gave away 80,000 shares to 16 people on , was one day before he began work at the pany as its The 2001 private placement raised $ million for Education Lending and was authorized by that pany s chief executive, Robert the time, the stock was trading between $1 and $2 a is not clear who purchased the rest of the shares or whether anyone else at the pany had knowledge of s , 違背, 妨礙, 侵害, [體]違例afoul，, 碰撞著securities law證券法steer，掌舵[真題例句] Much of the language used to describe monetary policy, such as steering the economy to a soft landing or a touch on the brakes , makes it sound like a precise science.[1997年閱讀5][例句精譯] 很多用來描述貨幣政策的詞，如 引導(dǎo)經(jīng)濟(jì)軟著陸、經(jīng)濟(jì)剎車，使貨幣政策聽起來像是一門精確的科學(xué)。②許可證，委任狀。it is vicarious all wish preuniversity gap years had been the fashion in our can see how much tougher our kids bee。一套東西，一套建議，一攬子交易，如a benefits ~一套福利措施an aid ~綜合援助計(jì)劃backpack背包旅行 go ~ing 可銳教育官網(wǎng)umbrella綜合體，總體，整體，如an ~ group/fund綜合團(tuán)體/基金fork out大量花錢，大把掏錢slob懶惰而邋遢的人slob out/around游手好閑，無所事事structure結(jié)構(gòu)，構(gòu)造。發(fā)出，發(fā)送at short notice隨時(shí)，沒有提前很長(zhǎng)時(shí)間通知，at two week’s notice提前兩周通知hangover遺留的感覺，如the insecure feeling that was a ~ from her childhoodcounterbalance抗衡，抵消。平衡抵消物，抗衡全文翻譯與度過了新奇的學(xué)業(yè)間斷年的孩子的父母交談，他們的眼神中會(huì)有一種含糊不清的東西。父母眼中的含糊不僅僅是因?yàn)樽屗麄兊暮⒆映墒炱饋淼拿篮媒?jīng)歷，也是因?yàn)樗麄冏约洪g接感受到的生活方式。我們能看著孩子們變得更堅(jiān)強(qiáng)，更好地準(zhǔn)備從上大學(xué)中有所收獲或者積極地決定他們將做一些除了獲得學(xué)歷之外的事情。威廉王子在智利吃苦的事情發(fā)揮了作用，但這種趨勢(shì)十年來一直在加強(qiáng)。然而，隨著這種趨勢(shì)而來的也有危險(xiǎn)。按照學(xué)業(yè)間斷年公司綜合機(jī)構(gòu)“走出學(xué)業(yè)間斷年團(tuán)體”的負(fù)責(zé)人理查德他說，“這可能是公司或?qū)W生的責(zé)任，但是最保險(xiǎn)的方法是作好審慎的準(zhǔn)備。學(xué)業(yè)間斷年的意義在于它應(yīng)該是離校生開始做自己喜歡做的事情的時(shí)候。如果18歲時(shí)變成熟的方式是在倫敦漢普斯泰德石南園中無所事事地曬太陽(yáng)，或者花上一年時(shí)間和康沃爾郡的漁夫一起工作，那么對(duì)于另外一個(gè)人來說將是有所收獲的?？射J教育官網(wǎng)如果18歲的年輕人兩周前得到父母的通知，被派去加拿大花5,800英鎊學(xué)習(xí)成為一名滑雪教練，回來后可能只會(huì)留下很少的感覺。四、生態(tài)環(huán)境恐怖主義Islamic terrorism may be a distant threat for Shearer Lumber Products, a timber pany based in ecoterrorism is a very real November, the Earth Liberation Front , an underground organization, gave warning that it had“spiked”trees in the Nez Perce national forest to protest against involves hiding metal bars in tree trunks, thereby potentially crippling chain saws and hurting such attacks are do they fit into America’s war on terrorism?The nation’s forests have seen a sharp increase in violent incidents—equipment vandalized, people intimidated—over the past ten now carefully inspects every tree before cutting and has been using metal detectors to check every trunk being Ihor Mereszczak, of the Nez Perce Forest Service, says it has been hard to get the FBI’s attention, and investigations have got ELF is only one thread in a web of underground radical aim is to inflict as much financial pain as possible on organizations or people who, by its lights, are exploiting the ELF, though made up of anonymous cells, nonetheless operates a website offering tips on how to cause fires with electric recently, it also had a public with the Animal Liberation Front , which operates along the same lines, the ELF is estimated to be responsible for over $45mworth of damage in North America over the past few 1998, it caused fires that did $12mworth of damage in Vail, Colorado, to make the point that the ski resort’s expansion was threatening places where lynxes this year, the ELF burned down the offices of a lumber pany in September 11th, the ALF and ELF have claimed responsibility for starting a fire at a primate research center in New Mexico, releasing mink from an Iowa fur farm, a