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英语课

By Barry Unger
Washington, DC
17 July 2006
 
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As leaders of the world's industrial nations and Russia meet in St. Petersburg for the G-8 Summit, the country they are visiting has undergone many changes in recent years.  One change is the increasing prosperity of the middle class.  Crystal Park narrates 1


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Dennis and  Marina Shelipanov, and their baby
  
Dennis and Marina Shelipanov are living better these days than they ever thought possible. They are now able to afford a second car, something unthinkable in the past.


Dennis is a doctor and Marina is a dentist. But until recently these were underpaid professions in Russia.  But a recent increase in government spending for health care has boosted their salaries.  


The Shelipanov's are not the only Russians thriving in the current economy. City streets are full of luxury cars and cafes are packed with customers. The economy has grown by six percent and unemployment has been cut in half.  The reason for this current economic renaissance 2 -- oil.


High oil prices have led to an economic boom in Russia. Oil export revenues have increased from close to $9 billion in 1998 to more than $58 billion in 2004.


For Marina Shelipanov, it's not just about buying everyday things.


She says they can now make plans, think about providing for their son and, at some point, try and buy a house.


The economic boom has also led to huge discount chains like Ikea opening up stores in the country.



Stephen Sestanovich  
  
Stephen Sestanovich is a senior fellow for Russian studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. "The government has balanced its books. It's awash with money and is able to pay the salaries that make a middle class."


For the Shelipanov's, the new Russian middle class means a chance at stability.


Dennis says with stability and peace there is some sort of belief in the future.



v.故事( narrate的第三人称单数 )
  • It narrates the unconstitutional acts of James II. 它历数了詹姆斯二世的违法行为。 来自辞典例句
  • Chapter three narrates the economy activity which Jew return the Occident. 第三章讲述了犹太人重返西欧后的经济活动。 来自互联网
n.复活,复兴,文艺复兴
  • The Renaissance was an epoch of unparalleled cultural achievement.文艺复兴是一个文化上取得空前成就的时代。
  • The theme of the conference is renaissance Europe.大会的主题是文艺复兴时期的欧洲。
学英语单词
absorber coupling
actuator
ADC, A/D converter
additional post
aladan
amphoric resonance
Anemone demissa
aplosyenite
audience rating
biomass liquefaction
blunt nosed body
brachionus forficula
color television
craythorne
crucible steel moldboard
cyclone separation
damaged Thoroughfare and Conception Vessels
data construction
degw
dinoseb
ecosystem type
fascisti
finished product
fixed order quantity
Franklin Institute
frowsiest
gamiest
go into liquidation
half solid floor
heating resistance
height of high tide
hexacontane
hexahydro-salicylic acid
hornotine
hot-driven rivet
houda
interrogative sentences
Introdouche
lapilli mound
library-user
lobular glomerulonephritis
long list
manganese trichloride
marbofloxacin
maritane
methylcholanthrenes
net of canals and ditches
new political economy of development
nitrification inhibitor
patrollers
Peltovuoma
peve
pipiles
plasma oscillation analysis
pressure and vacuum release valve
pyrotechnian
radical operation
record of cash disbursement
renner
right circular cylinder coordinate
rough board
Rowell.
safety communications equipment
self-consciously
Senekjie's medium
serenader
shoot craps
sideways extrusion
sing the praises of sb
single-length normalization
sinoradimella costata
snail-shell
Solvay, Ernest
spadger
spatial noise
strata mucosum membranae tympani
t head bolt
tax on slaughtering animals
Tazlina Glacier
tenomyoplasty
third-degree relatives
thymus glands
trimoxamine
turuq
uncurably
under no obligation
univorous
unmanned rocket
unsuit
upper Ordovician series
urts
UTRR (University of Teheran Research Reactor)
vajazzles
vibration and shock
view-finder
viewing prism
vincis
wee-weed
well-penned
xerosis of conjunctiva
zanthoxyli pericarpium