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Washington, December 2 (Xinhua)—President George Bush’s approval rating with Americans has fallen below 50 per cent for the first time since he took office, according to a poll released on Saturday by Time magazine. The poll of 500 Americans conducted on November 26 found Bush’s popularity at 46 per cent. Bush’s rating was as high as 91 per cent in some polls during the January-February Gulf War but has steadily declined because of the country’s economic recession. 第二十章综合练习(1) 及参考答案 【译文】（新华社华盛顿12月2日电）据星期六《时代》周刊公布的民意测验结果，美国人对布什的赞成率自他就任美国总统以来首次下降至50％以下。11月26日在500美国人中进行了测验，支持者仅占46％。在1—2月海湾战争期间进行的几次民意测验中，布什的赞成率高达91％，但后来由于美国国内经济的衰退而不断下降。 第二十章综合练习(2) 及参考答案 Negotiators for most nations agreed Monday to terms for applying and enforcing a treaty for reducing global warming. The United States was not one of them. And while supporters of the treaty were urging President Bush to reconsider, his administration wasn’t budging. 【译文】周一，大多数国家的代表都同意了关于如何实施并执行一项缓解全球暖化现象的条约的条款内容，就美国不同意。即使这项公约的支持者一直试图敦促布什总统重新考虑，但他所领导的政府并不打算让步妥协。 Deal Reached in Global Warming Talks (全球变暖问题会议上各国达成了协议) 第二十章综合练习(2)及参考答案 “Almost every single country stayed in the protocol,” said the European Union’s negotiator, Olivier Deleuze. “There was one that said the Kyoto Protocol was flawed. Do you see the Kyoto Protocol flawed?” 【续】欧盟谈判代表奥利维尔德洛茨说：“几乎所有国家都愿意遵守这项议定书，却有一个国家声称这个京都议定书有缺点。有谁能指出京都议定书的缺点吗？” 第二十章综合练习(2)及参考答案 When a compromise was introduced on Saturday, Japan became the last nation to agree to the treaty. They were objecting to how nuclear power would be factored into the treaty and how to treat violators of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. 【续】周六，当妥协方案提出后，就只剩日本还没同意这项公约的条款了。日本反对的是核能在这项条约中究竟应该怎么看待以及该如何处置那些违反1997年京都议定书的成员国。 第二十章综合练习(2)及参考答案 European representatives stressed that while the treaty wasn’t going to be as tightly enforced as they had hoped, it kept the treaty alive. “I prefer an imperfect agreement that is living to an imperfect agreem