第三课
1. China has joined the multilateral group controlling the export of nuclear materials and technology in an important step to bring its policies on proliferation in line with those of Western powers.
2. Beijing, China's capital, has become the latest of several industrial centres to fall victim to electricity shortages, with authorities preparing to impose rolling blackouts on some 6,400 factories from yesterday until the end of August.
3. The rate of increase in China's car sales slowed dramatically in June, sending the market into potentially more perilous territory for the local and multinational manufacturers that have recently committed more than $l0 billion to new capacity in the country.
4. Chinese industrial output growth rebounded in August after months of decline, challenging hopes that the government is successfully engineering a smooth economic "soft landing" and fuelling speculation that Beijing will soon order an interest rate rise.
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5. Despite this backwardness (in the communications) -or perhaps because of it-China hopes to leapfrog into the digital era by bypassing many of the costly transitional technologies that industrial nations are now seeking to replace with more advanced digital systems.
6. Today's teachers know they have to make lessons fast-moving and entertaining for children raised on television and computer games.
7. China's fixed-asset investment in October was up 26.4 percent from a year earlier, down from the previous month but at a level analysts said was still high enough for Beijing to keep a tight grip on credit.
8. In March, the US filed its first WTO complaint against Beijing, over what the US says is a discriminatory tax on semiconductors. With the EU about to follow the same path, China could soon be embroiled in trade disputes with two of its biggest trading partners and investors.
第三课
1．中国加入了控制核材料和技术出口的多国集团。这是中国为在核扩散问题上的政策与西方列强相一致而迈出的重要一步。
2．中国首都北京最近也加入了饱受缺电之苦的几个工业中心的行列。与此同时，政府准备从昨天开始到八月底对大约6，400家工厂实施轮流停电的措施。
3．六月份中国的轿车销售进度大幅度放缓，这使得国内和一些跨国汽车制造企业面临可能更大的风险，因为这些企业最近在中国专门投入100多亿美元来新增生产力。
4．中国工业产量的增长在经历几个月的下滑后，八月份出现反弹。这激起了人们这样的期待，即政府正成功地实施经济“软着陆”，同时这也加剧了对中国马上要出台加息措施的猜测。
5．尽管中国的通讯落后，或者说正是由于这种落后，中国希望跳跃式地进入通讯数字时代，一下子越过耗资巨大的过渡技术阶段。这个过渡技术，工业化国家正在寻求用先进的数字系统取而代之。
6．今天的教师懂得，他们给孩子们上课节奏要快，而且还要有情趣，因为这些孩子是在看
电视和玩游戏机的环境中长大的。
7．十月份中国固定资产投资比上一年增长26.4%，虽然比前一个月有所下降，但是分析家们说这种投资仍然处于高增长水平，需要中国继续收紧信贷。
8．三月份，美国就其所说的对半导体进行歧视性征税一事首次向世贸组织投诉中国。现在欧盟也要做出类似的举动，中国因而有可能卷入与这两个最大的贸易伙伴和投资者之间的贸易争端。
第四课
1. A settlement and peace will remain elusive.
2. In the age of information, we are open books.
3. The nest egg for old age is absolutely critical.
4. This country's economy remains in intensive care.
5. In California, hundreds of billions of dollars ride on the success of earthquake prediction.
6. Several million of people have lived near or below the breadline for almost two decades.
7. Many of the soldiers are inadequately trained, badly equipped and poorly motivated militiamen.
8. At this stage in his difficult transition to private life, Gorbachev may have more celebrity than influence.
9. It has long been known that schizophrenia often runs in families, but solid and direct links to heredity have been elusive.
10. He worked his way through the ranks, eventually becoming managing director responsible for the chain's operations in southern England.
11. Reality didn't catch up with US policy until 1972, when Nixon went to China to make peace with Chairman Mao.
12. When they are old enough to move out on their own, many of them will certainly choose Tokyo-if only for the shops, as one high school girl explains.

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