时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:VOA慢速英语2007年(一)月


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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.




One of the top issues this week at the World Economic Forum 1 in Davos, Switzerland, was climate change. But the business and political leaders gathered for the yearly event in the Swiss Alps were not the only ones talking about the subject.

President Bush, in his State of the Union message Tuesday, proposed rules to increase production of renewable fuels, like ethanol from corn. He also said new technologies are needed to deal with what he called the serious challenge of climate change.

California recently passed rules to require industries to release less carbon dioxide and other gases blamed for trapping heat. Some companies believe it is just a question of time before the federal government could do the same. So they are positioning themselves to have a voice in the policy-making.

On Monday, leaders of ten big companies proposed federal rules to limit the release of greenhouse gases. The companies are members of the United States Climate Action Partnership 2.

One possibility for the country is a trading system like the European Union has. Companies would have permits to release a set amount of greenhouse gases. Businesses that stay within their limits could trade their surplus to bigger polluters.

Since nineteen ninety-five, the United States has had a trading system for sulfur 3 emissions 4 that cause acid rain.

But some companies think other ideas, like new taxes on polluters, are a better way to cut greenhouse gases.

Any new rules would hit some industries harder than others. For example, forty percent of the carbon dioxide from American industry comes from power producers, especially those that burn coal. The United States is the world's biggest producer of carbon dioxide, followed by China.

On February second, in Paris, a scientific group established by the United Nations plans to release a major report on climate change. The report, six years after the last one, is expected to take the strongest position yet about the influence of human activity.

The group is said to be at least ninety percent sure that human activity is the main cause of global warming in the last half-century. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change puts most of the blame on the burning of fossil fuels. And the report is expected to say that scientists around the world believe temperatures will continue to rise.

And that's the VOA Special English Economics Report. Transcripts 5 and MP3 files are at www.unsv.com. I'm Mario Ritter.

1 forum
n.论坛,讨论会
  • They're holding a forum on new ways of teaching history.他们正在举行历史教学讨论会。
  • The organisation would provide a forum where problems could be discussed.这个组织将提供一个可以讨论问题的平台。
2 partnership
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。
3 sulfur
n.硫,硫磺(=sulphur)
  • Sulfur emissions from steel mills become acid rain.炼钢厂排放出的硫形成了酸雨。
  • Burning may produce sulfur oxides.燃烧可能会产生硫氧化物。
4 emissions
排放物( emission的名词复数 ); 散发物(尤指气体)
  • Most scientists accept that climate change is linked to carbon emissions. 大多数科学家都相信气候变化与排放的含碳气体有关。
  • Dangerous emissions radiate from plutonium. 危险的辐射物从钚放散出来。
5 transcripts
n.抄本( transcript的名词复数 );转写本;文字本;副本
  • Like mRNA, both tRNA and rRNA are transcripts of chromosomal DNA. tRNA及rRNA同mRNA一样,都是染色体DNA的转录产物。 来自辞典例句
  • You can't take the transfer students'exam without your transcripts. 没有成绩证明书,你就不能参加转学考试。 来自辞典例句
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-ence
address operator
al uwayqilah
atmosphere laser
azeotropism
Barmouth Este
bava
biopsy needle set
Bothidae
brined hide
caul
clay kiln
compensation wheel
consumer heat inlet
creampie
cyanoethylated silane
deep bed drying
desk centrifuge
diphyodonts
disto-pulpo-lingual
distortion tensor
double nozzled rocket
enteroceptor
environmental stress
Ephedrales
euonine
Fameflower
femolite (ferrian molybdenite)
fluxing paste
fruit preserves
full-load waterline
gaigerias
Girard's method
hangletons
heterotaxial deposit
horswell
hot topics
hydrogen-poor star
Hydrophylleae
hypergia
inappropriate behavior
Indocalamus barbatus
induly
ingot slicing machine
intercostal drainage
it-all
jacklegs
k-spar (k-feldspar)
knob wiring
long-chain polymer
magnetic cartridge and storage appparatus
make our choice
metal vapour lamp
Molgula
naristillae
non-crossing
nonst
paste on
pedionalgia
peeked
Penning gauges
planktophile
preoperatively
Primitive Methodist Church
program execution
promethis taiwana
propellant handling
pseudo-linkage
push-button dialing
Quixote, Don
R.H.G.
radial traveling cableway
ragged center
rami ossis ischii
rek
relieving diarrhea with astringents
resection of plexus choroid
routine logical instruction
row method
saccharum officina rum l.
schwinger variational principle
self-assembler
serranoes
she'd've
single-celled
slithy
social norm
steel sheet-pile wall
stood fair with
sudden death disease
talcott parsonss
temporary hearing defect
terabit
tetracosa-
time sharing allocator
time sharing scheduling rules
tingid
ton mile
touch-control
upper end of the schedular system
verbal agraphia
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