时间:2018-12-31 作者:英语课 分类:新西兰英语


英语课

   Twenty-five years ago, in 1987, New Zealand became nuclear-free. The Nuclear-Free Act was passed by the Labour government when David Lange was the Prime 1 Minister. The Act would not allow any ships which were nuclear powered or had nuclear weapons to enter our ports. As a result of that, the US could not bring any of its military ships into New Zealand. Before that, our country had been on friendly terms with the US who sometimes wanted to bring ships here for their crew to have a break from being at sea. The US therefore refused to allow New Zealand navy 2 ships to visit any US military facilities around the world.


  Last Friday, this policy changed. The US Defence Secretary, Leon Panetta, visited New Zealand and said the US would be happy to work with the New Zealand navy and would allow our ships to visit US military ports.
  The background to the nuclear-free policy was partly because of the French nuclear tests in the Pacific in the 1970s and 80s. New Zealanders were strongly opposed to these tests. Listen to July 9th 2010 to hear about the nuclear tests and the bombing of the Greenpeace ship, The Rainbow Warrior 3.
  Now, however, the US is more interested in the Asia-Pacific region 4. Leon Panetta has just visited China and Japan. New Zealand also is more interested in working with the US. We have sent 180 soldiers to Afghanistan since 2009. Ten of these have been killed, five in last month including the first New Zealand woman soldier. We now share some of the pain with the US.
  Grammar
  ?Past perfect tense – ‘Before that, our country had been on friendly terms with the US’. We use past perfect to show one action happened in the past before another action in the past. However, it is not a common tense and in speaking we often use simple past, especially if there is a time expression like ‘before that’.
  ?Present perfect tense – ‘We have sent 180 soldiers … since 2009.’ This started in 2009 and continues today.
  Vocabulary
  ?An Act is a law passed by Parliament 5
  ?facilities – ports and buildings
  ?policy – government beliefs and action
  ?oppose (to) – against
  Questions
  1.Why is the US more interested in the Asia Pacific region today?
  2.Why is New Zealand interested in a friendship with the US?

adj.首要的,主要的;最好的,第一流的
  • The prime minister spoke of the general insecurity in the country.总理谈到了全国普遍存在的不安全。
  • He met with the Prime Minister of Japan for an hour.他和日本首相会见了一个小时。
n.海军,海军人员,海军军力,藏青色
  • My brother is in the navy.我兄弟在海军服役。
  • He has transferred from the army to the navy.他从陆军转到海军。
n.勇士,武士,斗士
  • The young man is a bold warrior.这个年轻人是个很英勇的武士。
  • A true warrior values glory and honor above life.一个真正的勇士珍视荣誉胜过生命。
n.地区,地带,区域;范围,幅度
  • The students went to study the geology of that region.学生们去研究那个地区的地质情况。
  • It is unusual to see snow in this region.这个地区难得见到雪。
n.议会,国会
  • She won a seat in Parliament at the election.她在选举中赢得了议会中的席位。
  • The drug was banned by an act of parliament.议会的法案明令禁止该药品。
学英语单词
5GL
acrogamy
amerco
anelastic
aquarelles
bacteriological sterility
barrier complex
beam warping machine
bender and cutter
boundary compact space
capture velocity
Cebera
chief superintendent
complexification of a Lie algebra
craniocaudad
crece
crisis counseling
data terminal function
development support library
dextran-75
dies communes in banco
docible
dole out alms
doubty
drum coating
eka-radium
elastomeric property
etheredge
euler column formula
falling off the wagon
fat lava
film-processings
fizzling out
flat jack test
Flemish bends
get sb back
gigot sleeve
glossocatochus
hinge point
Hisyah
human information processing
income tax returnblank
jumping out
lift an embargo
Linnaeus's two-toed sloth
Lloyd's of London Press
mean avoiding speed
metadiscussion
moving half-lines
multiple eaves
musculus ischiourethralis
mutual interference
myzostoma
naval academies
nickel matrix cathode
No bottom sounding!
non-congression (darlington 1937)
open circular
orthofelsite
osipovich
pedunculus cerebellaris caudalis
peyotists
plasticviscosity
pre-committed
proximal contact
put one's heart into
rapid reading
re-lines
refrainment
relay assembly
Rocky Mountain oysters
Samilp'o
seasonal lake
second category gassy mine
semioccasionally
sex temptation
Shikar R.
sidecar wheel
sprayer jet arc
statistical differential enhancement
Stierlin's sign
stotting
struma cystica ossea
sub-arm
systat
telodynamic
tension-shear fault
the ecliptic
three-centered arch
throws obstacles in way
transduce pulse delay
truetone
two-minded
two-way automatic distributor
ultra-high pressure apparatus
vitol
vowless
wadis
washed
washwater
wire relaying