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每日英语阅读 篇1

【Grandpa Wen bows out】

FOR HIS tenth and final time, China’s outgoing prime minister, Wen Jiabao, on March 5th rose to speak at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People at the opening of the annual plenary session of the National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s parliament. As he did on the previous nine occasions, Mr Wen (pictured) delivered a full reading of his lengthy “government work report,” to nearly 3,000 delegates, outlining achievements of the year past and priorities for the future.

Among his key announcements were several important economic targets for this year. China, he said, would aim for economic growth of 7.5% while limiting inflation to “around” 3.5% and adding more than 9m urban jobs.

In a separate budget report, the government called for a 10.7% increase in defense spending to 720 billion yuan ($115.7 billion) in 2013. The rise comes at a time of persistent tension with Japan and other neighbours, but at a press conference a senior official repudiated the suggestion from one Japanese reporter that the move signalled an “aggressive” foreign policy.

"We strengthen our defence forces to safeguard ourselves, security and peace, instead of threatening other countries," said Fu Ying, who is China’s vice foreign minister and also the spokesperson for this year’s NPC session.

By the time this year’s session ends, on March 17th, the defence increase will almost certainly have been approved, together with the rest of the budget report, several other government reports (including Mr Wen's), and nominees for many top government posts. Though it calls itself a legislature and votes on motions, the NPC has never rejected anything put before it. Notwithstanding the important work the NPC does outside of the plenary sessions, the annual meeting remains heavily stage-managed and is far from shaking free of its well-deserved label as a rubber-stamp.

It is likewise nearly certain that Mr Wen will be replaced at the end of this session by Li Keqiang, currently deputy prime minister; and that outgoing president Hu Jintao will be replaced by Xi Jinping, who has already taken over as the top leader of the Communist Party and currently holds the state position of vice-president. These are the final touches on the contentious leadership transition that unfolded over the course of last year and culminated in November, at China’s 18th Communist Party Congress.

During his ten years as premier, Mr Wen's cultivated his image as an avuncular figure full of concern for the common people, earning for himself the nickname "Grandpa Wen." In his final work report, Mr Wen was frank and forthcoming about many of the serious problems the new leadership duo is about to inherit.

“We are keenly aware that we still face many difficulties and problems,” Mr Wen said, citing corruption, environmental degradation, inequality, unbalanced growth and social tension. His government's final budget included increased spending on health care, social security and environmental protection. Many in China will surely welcome this, even if they remain unimpressed with the shopworn prescriptions he proposed for China's systemic ills.

"We should unwaveringly combat corruption, strengthen political integrity... and ensure that officials are honest, government is clean and political affairs are handled with integrity," he said. That may be hard to argue with. But it will also be hard to implement.

每日英语阅读 篇2

MANILA, Aug. 23 -- The Philippine economy is expected to have grown by 5.9 to 6.9 percent in the second quarter on back of the global recovery and election related spending, a senior official said Monday.

The second quarter GDP growth was "fostered by the recovery of the global economy which fueled strong growth in international trade," Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Cayetano Paderanga said in a press briefing.

He said that improved consumer and investor confidence, the peaceful of the national elections in May and election-related spending also contributed to the GDP growth. But the El Nino- induced dry spell, which reduced farm production, limited the GDP expansion.

Paderanga said this will put the GDP growth in the first half at 7 percent. In the first quarter, Philippine GDP expanded at 7.3 percent.

Paderanga is optimistic that the economy will continue to grow in the next few months. He said that increased investments and exports will support growth, pushing the GDP to expand beyond the 5 to 6 percent estimate for the full year.

每日英语阅读 篇3

As Gilbert White, Darwin, and others observed long ago, all species appear to have the innate capacity to increase their numbers from generation to generation. The task for ecologists is to untangle the environmental and biological factors that hold this intrinsic capacity for population growth in check over the long run. The great variety of dynamic behaviors exhibited by different population makes this task more difficult: some populations remain roughly constant from year to year; others exhibit regular cycles of abundance and scarcity; still others vary wildly, with outbreaks and crashes that are in some cases plainly correlated with the weather, and in other cases not.

To impose some order on this kaleidoscope of patterns, one school of thought proposes dividing populations into two groups. These ecologists posit that the relatively steady populations have density-dependent growth parameters; that is, rates of birth, death, and migration which depend strongly on population density. The highly varying populations have density-independent growth parameters, with vital rates buffeted by environmental events; these rates fluctuate in a way that is wholly independent of population density.

This dichotomy has its uses, but it can cause problems if taken too literally. For one thing, no population can be driven entirely by density-independent factors all the time. No matter how severely or unpredictably birth, death, and migration rates may be fluctuating around their long-term averages, if there were no density-dependent effects, the population would, in the long run, either increase or decrease without bound . Put another way, it may be that on average 99 percent of all deaths in a population arise from density-independent causes, and only one percent from factors varying with density. The factors making up the one percent may seem unimportant, and their cause may be correspondingly hard to determine. Yet, whether recognized or not, they will usually determine the long-term average population density.

每日英语阅读 篇4

In some ways, the United States has made some progress. Fires no longer destroy 18,000 buildings as they did in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, or kill half a town of 2,400 people, as they did the same night in Peshtigo, Wisconsin. Other than the Beverly Hill Supper Club fire in Kentucky in 1977, it has been four decades since more than 100 Americans died in a fire.

But even with such successes, the United States still has one of the worst fire death rates in the world. Safety experts say the problem is neither money nor technology, but the indifference(无所谓) of a country that just will not take fires seriously enough.

American fire departments are some of the world's fastest and best-equipped. They have to be. The United States has twice Japan's population, and 40 times as many fires. It spends far less on preventing fires than on fighting them. And American fire -safety lessons are aimed almost entirely at children, who die in large numbers in fires but who, against popular beliefs, start very few of them.

Experts say the error is an opinion that fires are not really anyone's fault. That is not so in other countries, where both public education and the law treat fires as either a personal failing or a crime(罪行). Japan has many wood houses; of the 48 fires in world history that burned more than 10,000 buildings, Japan has had 27. Punishment for causing a big fire can be as severe as life imprisonment.

In the United States, most education dollars are spent in elementary schools. But, the lessons are aimed at too limited a number of people; just 9 percent of all fire deaths are caused by children playing with matches.

The United States continues to depend more on technology th

每日英语阅读 篇5

The summer before fifth grade, my world was turned upside down when my family moved from the country town where I was born and raised to a town near the beach. When school began, I found it difficult to be accepted by the kids in my class who seemed a little more sophisticated, and who had been in the same class together since first grade.

I also found this Catholic school different from the public school I had attended. At my old school, it was acceptable to express yourself to the teacher. Here, it was considered outrageous to even suggest a change be made in the way things were done.

My mom taught me that if I wanted something in life, I had to speak up or figure out a way to make it happen. No one was going to do it for me. It was up to me to control my destiny.

I quickly learned that my classmates were totally intimidated by the strict Irish nuns who ran the school. My schoolmates were so afraid of the nuns’ wrath that they rarely spoke up for themselves or suggested a change.

Not only were the nuns intimidating, they also had some strange habits. The previous year, my classmates had been taught by a nun named Sister Rose. This year, she came to our class to teach music several times a week. During their year with her, she had earned the nickname Pick-Her-Nose-Rose. My classmates swore that during silent reading, she’d prop her book up so that she could have herself a booger-picking session without her students noticing. The worst of it, they told me, was that after reading was over, she’d stroll through the classroom and select a victim whose hair would be the recipient of one of her prize boogers. She’d pretend to be praising one of her students by rubbing her long, bony fingers through their hair! Well, to say the least, I did not look forward to her sort of praise.

One day during music, I announced to Sister Rose that the key of the song we were learning was too high for our voices. Every kid in the class turned toward me with wide eyes and looks of total disbelief. I had spoken my opinion to a teacher― - one of the Irish nuns!

That was the day I gained acceptance with the class. Whenever they wanted something changed, they’d beg me to stick up for them. I was willing to take the punishment for the possibility of making a situation better and of course to avoid any special attention from Pick-Her-Nose-Rose. But I also knew that I was being used by my classmates who just couldn’t find their voices and stick up for themselves.

Things pretty much continued like this through sixth and seventh grades. Although we changed teachers, we stayed in the same class together and I remained the voice of the class.

At last, eighth grade rolled around and one early fall morning our new teacher, Mrs. Haggard― - not a nun, but strict nevertheless― - announced that we would be holding elections for class representatives. I was elected Vice President.

That same day, while responding to a fire drill, the new president and I were excitedly discussing our victory when, suddenly, Mrs. Haggard appeared before us with her hands on her hips. The words that came out of her mouth left me surprised and confused. “You’re impeached!” she shouted at the two of us. My first reaction was to burst out laughing because I had no idea what the word “impeached” meant. When she explained that we were out of office for talking during a fire drill, I was devastated.