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VOA常速英语听力2012年09月合辑（文本）：Angolas-Economic-Boom-Has-Winners-and-Losers LUANDA — As Angola is experiencing one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, its capital city, Luanda, is facing a dramatic transformation. It has become a land of opportunity for some westerners, but for some Angolans, the development of the city has a bitter taste. The city has become a big construction site. Everywhere in Luanda, new buildings are rising from the ground, as a ballet of cranes is shaping the new skyline of the capital. Luanda is busy leaving the past behind - burying 27 years of civil war and devastation under mountains of petrodollars. With an annual growth rate of 11 percent, the second biggest oil producer in Africa is attracting companies and western workers - many fleeing economic crises elsewhere. Like Sylvia Soares, the young Portuguese architect who has lived in Luanda for two years. She says she would not have had the same opportunities, had she stayed in Portugal. There is no job in Portugal. Not even for the renowned architects, so you can imagine how it is for young architects who have just graduated from university, she said. Soares says her parents approve of her choice to come work in Angola. [My parents] have seen it as a short-period thing to do, because by the time I come back to Portugal, Ill have a better financial situation than if I had stayed in Portugal, she said. And Luanda is a good place for a young architect, as it transforms itself to meet its ambition of becoming a world-class city. A few of the changes include the new parliament that is a replica of the American congress and the newly inaugurated waterfront. Geographer Chlo?Buire says the social composition of the city is also changing. There is a whole rescaling of the city actually, Buire said. And its not only that there is a special sprawl, like, expansion, but also a whole social reshaping of the central city being emptied of its poorest communities [which] were evicted in the periphe