福阅读机经背景：非洲与中国.docxVIP

智课网TOEFL备考资料托福阅读机经背景：非洲与中国 中国人正大量的涌入非洲，他们发现非洲是一个舒适的旅行地、工作地和贸易场所。历经数千年的发展，非洲目前约有100万居民，将来还会更多。中国人在南非的游客量中徘第四位。中国新任主席，习近平，也将到访南非。作为新任领导人的首次外访，他还将到坦桑尼亚和刚果民主共和国进行访问。 Africa and China 非洲与中国 More than minerals 矿产之外 Chinese trade with Africa keeps growing; fears of neocolonialism are overdone 中非贸易额持续增长，新殖民主义的担忧过头了 A GROUP of five tourists from Beijing passes low over Mount Kenya and into the Rift Valley in their private plane before landing on a dusty airstrip surrounded by the yellow trunks and mist-like branches of fever trees.They walk across a grassy opening where zebras and giraffes roam, snapping pictures while keeping an eye out for charging buffaloes. When they sit down at a table, they seem hungry but at ease. “Last year I went to the South Pole with some friends,” says one of two housewives, showing off iPhone pictures of a gaggle of penguins on permafrost. 五名来自北京的游客乘坐他们的私人飞机，穿过肯尼亚低山，进入东非大裂谷，在一个尘土飞扬的机场着陆，机场被那些有着红色树干和雾一样的树枝的蓝桉树树林包围着。他们走过一片开阔的草地，那儿有斑马和长颈鹿在散步，他们拍照时一只眼睛紧盯着正在进食的水牛。当他们在餐桌边坐下来，他们看起来很饿但却很安心。“去年我和一些朋友去南极”，两名妇女中的一位一边翻着iphone里那些企鹅照片，一边说。 Chinese are coming to Africa in ever greater numbers and finding it a comfortable place to visit, work in and trade. An estimated 1m are now resident in Africa, up from a few thousand a decade ago, and more keep arriving. Chinese are the fourth-most-numerous visitors to South Africa. Among them will be China’s new president, Xi Jinping, who is also going to Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of Congo on his first foreign outing as leader. 中国人正大量的涌入非洲，他们发现非洲是一个舒适的旅行地、工作地和贸易场所。历经数千年的发展，非洲目前约有100万居民，将来还会更多。中国人在南非的游客量中徘第四位。中国新任主席，习近平，也将到访南非。作为新任领导人的首次外访，他还将到坦桑尼亚和刚果民主共和国进行访问。 The origin of China’s fascination with Africa is easy to see. Between the Sahara and the Kalahari deserts lie many of the raw materials desired by its industries. China recently overtook America as the world’s largest net importer of oil. Almost 80% of Chinese imports from Africa are mineral products. China is Africa’s