Lesson1中国经济快速增长,既是机遇,也有风险.ppt

Lesson OneChina’s Growth Poses Opportunity and Risk中国经济快速增长既有机遇又有风险 Threat to U.S. economic might is seen Keith Bradsher Keith Bradsher was Detroit bureau chief of The New York Times from 1996 to 2001. During that time he won the George Polk Award乔治波克纪念奖（George Polk Memorial Award）and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Princeton University, and has been a Times reporter since 1989. He is currently the papers Hong Kong bureau chief. Paragraph one Pre-reading question: What’s the reason for the seven-year trade battle between Japan and the United States? GUANGZHOU, China：When Japan ,at the zenith of its economic power, built a huge airport in Osaka in the late 1980s, it set off a seven—year trade battle with the United States over the nearly complete exclusion of non—Japanese companies from the project. Zenith: The upper region of the sky 天空的较高区域 The point of culmination; the peak; the point of highest achievement, most complete development, or greatest power: 指最大的成就，最完善的发展或最强大的力量： the zenith of her career她事业的顶峰 set off: To give rise to; cause to occur:发生：引起；导致发生： set off a chemical reaction.发生化学反应 译文： 当日本经济力量达到顶峰而于20世纪80年代末要在大阪建大型机场时，它几乎将所有的外国公司都排除在此工程之外，因而与美国爆发了长达七年之久的贸易战。 Osakas airport ---Kansai International Airport (新关西国际机场)  Kansai airport is an international airport in Japan, located on a man-built island south of Osaka Bay. Construction started in 1987, the sea wall was finished in 1989 , 3 mountains were excavated for earth , 10,000 workers, 10 million work-hours, 3 years, 80 ships, 30 meter layer over the sea floor , 3 km bridge built to connect the island . The airport is completely located in the ocean and far away from beach, which opened on 4 September 1994 ,it has sunk by 12 meter as of 2 February 2003. It handles both international and domestic traffics. Total cost, $15 bn, 40% over budget (mostly due to sinking problems), . In the meantime, Tokyos Narita exp