Unit 4 Visiting A Factory

Visiting A Factory 参观工厂 Brief Introduction 了解对方客户的商品生产主体——工厂——是对外贸易中必不可少的一环。工厂的设备、规模和工人的素质以及决策

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By Kane Farabaugh New York City 10 September 2007 Ground Zero construction It is some of the most controversial real estate on the planet. The 16 acres of land in New York that is known as Ground Zero draws hundreds of thousands of visitors each year

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By Phil Mercer Sydney 03 October 2007 Australians have suffered a dramatic loss of confidence in the ability of the United States to manage international affairs. The first survey of attitudes by a center set up by the Howard government to improve re

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By Peter Fedynsky Moscow 20 September 2007 Estonia has refused permission for a geological survey in its territorial waters for a proposed gas pipeline under the Baltic Sea. But VOA Moscow correspondent Peter Fedynsky says the Russian-German project

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Indian carmaker, Tata Motors, plans to launch the world's cheapest car, the Nano, in October. But the Nano plant in West Bengal has run into serious trouble from protests by local activists. VOA's Raymond Thibodeaux reports from Barispada, near the

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A survey conducted in predominantly Muslim nations shows an overall embrace of globalization, trade, and integration into the world economy. From Washington, VOA's Michael Bowman reports. For those who view Muslims as generally insular, inward-looki

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Hairstylist Jackeline Aguilera operates a power screwdriver as she learns how to hang a door in a classroom at CASA de Maryland, a non-profit organization that operates vocational training and employment placement programs in the Washington, D.C., ar

VOA常速英语2007年-US Survey Finds Blacks More Pessimistic About P

By Cindy Saine Washington 16 November 2007 An independent survey on racial attitudes in the United States shows a growing number of African Americans say they are worse off now than they were five years ago, and that they don't expect their lives to

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A new survey by the British Red Cross finds most Britons are unaware of major conflicts in the world, besides Iraq and Afghanistan where the British military is engaged. Less than one percent of those surveyed identified the major African conflict z

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每日一词【255】survey：调查

今天我们要学的词是survey。 Survey, 是调查的意思。有些调查很正式。比如说，A comprehensive survey shows that support for suicide bombing against civilians has fallen sharply across the Muslim world since 2002, 一项综合调

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BEIJING, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- China will continue its regulation of land supply for housing use in 2013 to promote the stability of land market and healthy economic growth, a senior land and resources official said on Friday. Xu Shaoshi, minister of l

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摇滚单曲:工厂女孩 Factory Girl I am a factory girl, won't you pardon me? See I can make my whole world in a backseat Lost point, want a joint, show me how to treat a john Someone save me, save me from what I'm on Wait a minute girl, can you s