时间:2019-02-04 作者:英语课 分类:新西兰英语


英语课

  Len Brown, the new mayor of Auckland, has plans to improve public transport in the Auckland. He wants a railway from the airport into the city, a rail loop through the central city and a railway over a new harbour bridge. The central city loop would probably be an underground railway. Mr Brown wants this to happen soon to meet the future needs of the city.

Auckland has 1.4m people at the moment but is growing fast. By 2030, it could have 2 m people and by 2050, 3 m people. Auckland has not spent enough money on public transport for years and Len Brown says this needs to change.

How will Auckland rate payers pay for this? Nobody wants rates increases. The Prime Minister, John Key, says that the government is already spending $5bn on Auckland which includes $1.6bn on rail. There is no more money. Len Brown thinks that people might invest in bonds. They would lend money to Auckland city and receive interest payments. Another possibility is a public private partnership 1. This means that the government and a private company would pay for railways together, maybe 50/50. The money from train fares would help to pay back the private company.

Len Brown will have to work quickly because elections are held every 3 years in New Zealand. This does not give much time for building new railways or a bridge. By 2013, he will have to show that these things have started.

Questions

1. Should all New Zealand tax payers help to pay for Auckland’s improved transport?

2. New Zealanders have a love affair with cars. Will they travel by train if they have a choice?

3. The motorway 2 from the airport into Auckland city is nearly finished. Why does Auckland need a railway?

4. Do you think it is a good idea to have elections every 3 years? Is it the same in your country?



n.合作关系,伙伴关系
  • The company has gone into partnership with Swiss Bank Corporation.这家公司已经和瑞士银行公司建立合作关系。
  • Martin has taken him into general partnership in his company.马丁已让他成为公司的普通合伙人。
n.高速公路,快车道
  • Our car had a breakdown on the motorway.我们的汽车在高速公路上抛锚了。
  • A maniac driver sped 35 miles along the wrong side of a motorway at 110 mph.一个疯狂的司机以每小时110英里的速度在高速公路上逆行飙车35英里。
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Achaemenids
Acidithiobacillales
Acrorumohra
additional necessary condition
AHSA
ammonium stannic chloride
androstenediols
area of efflux
below the moon
bernie
bituminous coal fines
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brovincamine
Bryn'kovskaya
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charles edouard jeannerets
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digital solar aspect sensor
diptacus kusanous
do the outside edge
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end of totality
ex ante forecast
exponent register underflow fault
extensive employment
foxberry
fractured trap
fully automatic switching
GSSI
Haute Volta
height of profile peak
iffish
inter-turn short circuit test for rotor winding
isopatin
Izvoarele
joint runner
know about
landsgrave
light times
make a hash
martensia formosana
mean cloudiness
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multiple avitaminosis
mystica
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nonlinear dynamic model
nonrelativistic mechanics
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outpensions
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PCI DSS
permanent lining
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proctospasm
put out to tender
QC (quality control)
QEF,Q.E.F.
quality base method
rank past
rebound leaf
ring web
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sir william blackstone
speed adjustment by cascade control
Stilezia
sunspot penumbra
taking turns
tax acceptability
thermal imaging response
thermoconductance
thiacyclobutene
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to-skill
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Yllästunturi
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