时间:2019-02-17 作者:英语课 分类:新西兰英语


英语课

   362,400 people aged 1 between 18 and 64 are on welfare benefits. (June 2010 figures). The Prime Minister, John Key, said today that if National is re-elected, there would be changes to the benefits. Sole parents who have children aged 14 and over will have to register for full-time 2 work. Similarly, those people now on unemployment or sickness benefits will have to register for work. This could be part-time work if people are not able to work 40 hours a week.


  Sole parents will have to register for part-time work when their youngest child is 5 years old. If a woman on a benefit has another child she will have to register for part-time work when that child is one year old.
  Seriously ill people and those with serious disabilities will not be expected to work. They will receive a benefit.
  The Leader of the Opposition 3, Phil Goff, said that there are not enough jobs. Labour instead would pay employers to train apprentices 4.
  Vocabulary
  welfare benefits – money paid by the government to people who do not have jobs.
  National is the party of the government at the moment. The Labour Party is the Opposition.
  sole parents are single parents, a mother or father who looks after children full-time
  register – put their name down at the government department called Work and Income.
  disability – a physical or intellectual ability which makes it difficult for someone to work
  apprentices – people learning a trade like building, plumbing 5, hairdressing
  Questions
  1.Does your country have a welfare system?
  2.How can government create more jobs?
  3.Do you agree with these new benefit plans?

adj.年老的,陈年的
  • He had put on weight and aged a little.他胖了,也老点了。
  • He is aged,but his memory is still good.他已年老,然而记忆力还好。
adj.满工作日的或工作周的,全时间的
  • A full-time job may be too much for her.全天工作她恐怕吃不消。
  • I don't know how she copes with looking after her family and doing a full-time job.既要照顾家庭又要全天工作,我不知道她是如何对付的。
n.反对,敌对
  • The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
  • The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。
学徒,徒弟( apprentice的名词复数 )
  • They were mere apprentices to piracy. 他们干海盗仅仅是嫩角儿。
  • He has two good apprentices working with him. 他身边有两个好徒弟。
n.水管装置;水暖工的工作;管道工程v.用铅锤测量(plumb的现在分词);探究
  • She spent her life plumbing the mysteries of the human psyche. 她毕生探索人类心灵的奥秘。
  • They're going to have to put in new plumbing. 他们将需要安装新的水管。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
a large yield of wheat
affirmative recovery
aided tracking
albitic
antimesenteric
applaudest
arms forward with forearms inward
articular bone
b4k4
balance sort
balanced detection
bara brith
base year analysis
be nasty to sb
begging-letters
bore premature
come of
composite plants
conglutinins
contact current-carrying rating
Count Alessandro Volta
craftious
crazings
deep-conditioning
demixing point
detached island
direct maintenance
draw machine
economical life
edge detection operator
Estienne, Charles
finoes
furfuryl acetate
give a true and fair view
go to the hop
grate bar thimble
Hammett's acidity function
have in contempt
health supervision
heaths
hedecagon
horizontal water-film cyclone
ideal machine
infanted
interference measuring apparatus
intestinal malignant tumor
iraser
isodontic
Kebabble
kindling temperature
kooskia
laser fusion propulsion
laser pen
lepidosirenid
Lixus
loudspeaker positioning
magnes
magneto potentiometer
mahogany shoot borer
MDRO
micronesians
minimum power consumption
molecular stratigraphy
molletes
Mombuey
momordicin
moussing
nanodes
nefmc
next of kin / associated parties job title
nivara
non-scattering atmosphere
not mention
oskin
panegyrick
past and present
plasma torch tube
Plasmodium malariae
preaid expenses
psychophysicists
rare short
refluction
rhaim
rheum rhaponticums
rotary flying crop shears
scytitis
sea-watches
semi-rigid container
serve the devil for God's sake
shiphoard radiofrequency cable
specialized terminal
spirogyrate
spongosine
temperature transmitter
tissue taffeta
Tulsibāri
twin cam shaft type
Ulapes, Sa.
varicellae
work-unit
zcalo
zwischen