时间:2018-12-06 作者:英语课 分类:吉姆老爷.Lord.Jim


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Helen Clark (born in 1950) is the 37th Prime Minister of New Zealand. She was in office between 1999 and 2008 and won three consecutive 1 national elections. She is the second longest serving prime minister in NZ’s history. In 2008, she won the UN Environment Programme Champions of the Earth award for her plan to make NZ the world’s first carbon zero nation.


Clark grew up in a farming family and she developed a great love for the land. As a teenager, she became politically active. She protested against the Vietnam War and foreign military bases in New Zealand. She graduated from university with a Master’s degree in politics in 1974. Her research was based on politics in the countryside.


Clark won her first election in 1981. She rose up through the ranks and served in different posts as Minister of Housing, Conservation, Health, and finally as Deputy Prime Minister. She has significantly reformed her country’s welfare system. She introduced many popular measures, including raising the minimum wage six times and abolishing interest on student loans.


In 2008, Clark signed a landmark 2 agreement that handed back land to the indigenous 3 Maori population. She was a fierce opponent of the invasion of Iraq and criticized American actions. She has forged strong relations with China, whose president calls her an “old friend”. She believes that “it’s inevitable 4 that NZ will become a republic” and “reflect the reality that NZ is a…21st century nation”.



1 consecutive
adj.连续的,联贯的,始终一贯的
  • It has rained for four consecutive days.已连续下了四天雨。
  • The policy of our Party is consecutive.我党的政策始终如一。
2 landmark
n.陆标,划时代的事,地界标
  • The Russian Revolution represents a landmark in world history.俄国革命是世界历史上的一个里程碑。
  • The tower was once a landmark for ships.这座塔曾是船只的陆标。
3 indigenous
adj.土产的,土生土长的,本地的
  • Each country has its own indigenous cultural tradition.每个国家都有自己本土的文化传统。
  • Indians were the indigenous inhabitants of America.印第安人是美洲的土著居民。
4 inevitable
adj.不可避免的,必然发生的
  • Mary was wearing her inevitable large hat.玛丽戴着她总是戴的那顶大帽子。
  • The defeat had inevitable consequences for British policy.战败对英国政策不可避免地产生了影响。
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active clearance control
agednesses
ammonium antimonylfluoride
anode tapping point
appositus
aptos
articles of trade
asphalt waterproofing
audit notebook
be packed to capacity
beckler
besparage
bind on
bird-hunting
bodycare
Boeica fulva
cab radio communication
can annular type combustor
cancer in situ
capitalist commodity economy
Capparis fohaiensis
Chirita gueilinensis
claim against underwriter
collective index
colletotrichum tabaci
compatibilization
computistic
concentric rings
conjugate axial point
curie symmetry principle
current and accrued liabilities
defence diplomacy
direction of chain saw
donja zelina
Easter offering(s)
effective alignment
electro-anaesthesia
electrochromic dye
filling procedure
finish milling
fire back
frequency-modulated jamming
funds raised
gateway GPRS support node
gleichenias
guaranteed arrival
handed-down
hexadepsipeptides
hollain'
homophobophobia
Hoxtonian
ily
imbarred
intra-arc basin
invariant integration on group
invoice system
island-type geosyncline
isophones
jovis
kadsura root
liquor picis alkalinus
localized carburizing
low-achieving schools
mail payment
market ability
maximum boring diameter
membrana duddeliana
mhz (mega-hertz)
minimum en-route altitude (mea)
Mosander
nightbreed
numerical ability tester
organic hieroglyph
ortho state
otocic
papillary thyroid carcinoma
phenylpiperazine
piteira fibre
power - assisted steering
presettable i/o conditions
pseudo contouring
re-orders
Rhodiola litwinowii
riced
rotulid
sensitive printer
sharing data set
sief
sirri
solder leveling
Soudanese
spatio-temporal
superpowers
sus scrofa taiwanus
suspension height boom length ratio
system services control point
tenacious consistency
test specimen tube
Vault Receipt
waited around
zabillion
zain