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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-shouldered
admissions supervisor
alcanet
all the amount
anoikis
antiparties
artillery reconnaissance and fire-directing radar
asahinea chrysantha
beet cossettes
bucking hammer
Chi, Mae Nam
chlorosuphonated-polyethylene
clairvaux
commercial height
computers and science network
concrete tank
cut-purse
disci ovigerus
distant echo
distress position
Dorbid
Emicholin
forge work
greenfield project
hard adder
hop-scot
Howard, Leslie
indraught
infiled
insisteth
Intel CPU
labeled series-parallel network
labo(u)r productivity of the entire body of industrial workers
land-roller
landed mould
Langerbans' insula
lymphatic abscess
macro-instruction complier assembler
magnesium titanate porcelain
major division
marine pollution monitoring technology
master bath
microbit
mineral assessory
mineralogize
moisture-content control
monoalphabetic subsitution cipher
Naenwa
non-orienting force effect
nonmeaty
not a cheep
nuclearises
open-circuit curve
operation description
Ophiomyxina
orbit inclination
organic crystal chemistry
orthogonal transformations of random vectors
pachytrichous
padding thread
parasthesia
passive business of a bank
phallacidin
pig-iron barrow
PMed
pneumobacterin
postantennal tubercle
power-amplifier tube
primitive canal
Prince Rupert's drops
priorissas
proferens
proportional liquid sampler
psettina gigantea
reaction-kinetic spectrometer
reclamp
regulating qi-flowing for relieving pain
remainss
rev down
rock-fill
rottack
Saint Venant's principle
salt water contamination
schuppen structure (imbricate structure)
serratures
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sir james paul mccartneys
slab with ribs turned-up
steel guardrail
synchronous demodulation
system with variable utilization
telobionts
the laws
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thiacetazone
to decrease
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US dollar stocks
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zero bracket amount