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第 PAGE 页码 页码 页 / 总页数 NUMPAGES 总页数 总页数 页 有关气候的英语课外阅读 导读：我根据大家的需要整理了一份关于《有关气候的英语课外阅读》的内容，具体内容：提高英语的水平往往可以看一些英语的新闻和阅读，还有英语的电视剧和电影，这样可以很快的提高我们的英语口语，接下来我给大家带来英语新闻，需要的同学们可以看一看。英语课外阅读1　... 提高英语的水平往往可以看一些英语的新闻和阅读，还有英语的电视剧和电影，这样可以很快的提高我们的英语口语，接下来我给大家带来英语新闻，需要的同学们可以看一看。 英语课外阅读1 Few would give the Bank of England top marks forbeing ahead of events when the credit crunchbegan. Having been slow to respond to one globaldisaster, it is determined not to be caught flat-footed in another. To this end its PrudentialRegulation Authority has written to 30 large insurersto probe the robustness of their business models inthe face of extreme weather. 信贷危机发生时，英国央行(Bank of England)对事态作出的反应不是十分令人满意。在一场全球性灾难中反应迟钝的它，决心不能再毫无准备地面对另一场全球性灾难。为此，该行旗下的审慎监管局(Prudential Regulation Authority)致函30家大型保险公司，想探知在遭遇极端天气时它们商业模式的稳健性。 Insurance companies may well feel like rolling their eyeballs at being prodded in this way. Theywere at the sharp end when events like Typhoon Haiyan or Hurricane Katrina caused a hugeincrease in insurance claims. 面对这种鞭策，保险公司很可能会想报以白眼。在像台风海燕或飓风卡特里娜(Katrina)这样的事件导致保险索赔大幅增加时，保险公司是有切身体会的。 In 2012, weather-related disasters cost about $150bn, of which over a third was insured. People who only see the sunny side of life seldom rise far in the insurance industry. Withexposures lasting decades, most insurance CEOs will claim to have thought deeply about therisks posed by extreme weather to their business. 2012年，与天气有关的灾害造成约1500亿美元损失，其中三分之一以上有保险。只看到生活中阳光一面的人在保险业很少能够高升。考虑到这方面的敞口已经存在了数十年，大多数保险公司的首席执行官都会声称，他们已深思熟虑过极端天气对其业务构成的风险。 Yet there are good reasons for the Bank of England to turn up the volume. The main one is thetussle between regulator and industry over the levels of capital needed to insure certain risks. Anything related to climate needs to be examined regularly. UK rules demand that insurershave enough capital on hand to withstand the sort of shock that only happens every 200 years. This is a high bar, but appropriate given that global temperatures may withi