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1、The?European?Union?What?Is?the?is?an?organisation?of?countries.?countries?are?independent?and?governed?in?different?ways.?In?United?Kingdom,?for?example,?head?state?a?king?or?queen.?France,?on?other?hand,?president.?But?each?them?sends?representatives?to?Parliament,?which?has?some?control?over?what?

2、happens?member?How?Did?It?Start?idea?began?1950s.?first?members?were?Germany,?Belgium,?Luxembourg,?Netherlands?Italy.?Little?by?little,?number?increased?during?second?half?twentieth?century.?By?year?2000,?there?15?new?Austria,?Denmark,?Finland,?Greece,?Ireland,?Portugal,?Spain,?Sweden?Kingdom.?Many?

3、Countries?Belong?Now?2004,?25?members.?Czech?Republic,?Estonia,?Hungary,?Latvia,?Lithuania,?Poland,?Slovak?Republic?Slovenia,?plus?Mediterranean?islands?Cyprus?Malta?all?became?expanded?population?more?than?billion?people,?twice?as?big?States.欧盟?什么是欧盟呢？欧盟是欧洲国家的一个组织。各个国家都是独立的而且管理方式也不同。例如，在联合王国（英国），国家

4、的首脑是国王或女王。另一方面，在法国，国家的首脑却是总统。但是每个国家都向欧洲议会驻派代表，来控制在每个成员国所发生的事情。欧盟是怎样创建的呢？创建欧盟的想法是在20世纪50年代开始的。最初的成员国为法国、德国、比利时、卢森堡、荷兰和意大利。在20世纪的下半叶，成员国逐渐增加。到2000年为止，已经有15个成员国。这些新的国家是奥地利、丹麦、芬兰、希腊、爱尔兰、葡萄牙、西班牙、瑞典和联合王国。现在有多少国家属于欧盟呢？在2004年，欧盟的成员国增加到了25个。捷克共和国、爱沙尼亚、匈牙利、拉脱维亚、立陶宛、波兰、斯洛伐克共和国和斯洛文尼亚，还有地中海的岛国塞浦路斯和马耳他都成为成员国。扩大的欧

5、盟人口达到5亿多，是美国人口的2倍。Module?2?Reading?Human?Development?Report?147?world?leaders?agreed?work?together?reduce?poverty?2015?earlier.?From?this?agreement?came?Report.?One?most?important?sections?report?Index.?This?examines?achievements?175?index?measures?countrys?three?ways:life?expectancy?（how?long?peopl

6、e?usually?live）,?education?income.?surprises.?Norway?at?top?list,?while?US?7.?five?are:Iceland?（2）,?（3）,?Australia?（4）,?（5）.?UK?thirteenth?position,?China?middle?list.?bottom?ten?African?countries,?with?Sierra?Leone?（in?West?Africa）?describes?eight?development?goals.?goals?to: reduce?hunger;make?sur

7、e?that?children?have?up?age?11;fight?AIDS?diseases;improve?environment?poor?e.g.?they?safe?drinking?water;ncourage?developed?give?help?2003?gives?examples?Successful development.For example,?nine?years?（19531962）,?13?years.?last?China,?150?million?moved?out?poverty.?However,?challenges?still?great.?

8、Every?day?799?developing?hungry.?Over?these?South?Asia?Africa.?Although?80%?go?primary?school,?about?115?not?being?educated.?More?1?do?drink?water.?regions?world,?Eastern?Europe,?water?now?mostly?drink.?shows?we?making?progress?but?need?greater?efforts.?financial?help,?much?more.?Interestingly,?mone

9、y?Netherlands,?Sweden.?These?among?richest?so?it?right?should?so.人类发展报告?在2000年，来自世界各国的147位领导人一致同意共同努力到2015年或在更早的时间减少贫困。由此产生了人类发展报告。这份报告一个最重要的部分是人类发展指标。它审阅了175个国家的发展成就。指标从三个方面衡量一个国家的成就：寿命、教育和收入。这项指标显示了一些令人意外的情况。挪威高居榜首，而美国则排在第七。位于前五位的其他国家是：冰岛（2），瑞典（3）澳大利亚（4）荷兰（5）。英国位居第十三位，而中国处于中等地位。处于末端的十个国家均是非洲国家，塞拉利

10、昂（西非）排在最后。报告描述了八个发展目标。其中最重要的是：减少贫穷和饥饿；确保所有儿童11岁之前都能接受教育；对抗艾滋病和其他疾病；改善穷苦人民的环境，例如，确保他们有安全饮用水；鼓励发达国家给予其他国家更多的帮助。2003年人类发展报告列举了一些成功发展的例子。譬如，在九年（1953-1962）的时间里，中国的人均寿命增加了13岁。过去的十年之内，中国有1.5亿人脱贫。然而，挑战仍很严峻。在发展中国家，每天有7.99亿人在挨饿。其中一半以上的人来自南亚或非洲。虽然发展中国家80%以上的儿童能上小学，但仍有1.15亿的孩子得不到教育。发展中国家里十多亿的人喝不上安全的饮用水。当然在世界的其它

11、地方，例如东欧，现在的饮用水大多是安全的。报告显示我们正在进步，但是我们必须做出更大的努力。虽然发达国家提供了一些经济援助，但是提供援助的数量应该大大增加。有趣的是，捐钱最多的国家是荷兰、挪威和瑞典。它们都属于世界上五个最富的国家，所以他们这样做是合情合理的。Module3 ReadingWhat is a Tornado?A tornado（龙卷风） is a rotating column of air from a thunderstorm to the ground. The most violent have winds of more than 400 kilometres per

12、 hour. Almost all of them occur in the US, in the area from Texas in the southeast to South Dakota in the north.Tornadoes can pick up cars, trains and even houses and put them down in the next street - or even in the next town. They can take the fur off the back of a cat and the feathers off a chick

13、en. They can destroy houses, but leave the furniture inside exactly where it was.On average, there are 800 tornadoes in the US each year, causing about 80 deaths and 1500 injuries. The worst tornado of all time occurred in 1925, affecting three US states : Missouri, Illinois and Indiana. By the time

14、 it ended, more than 700 people had been killed and 2700 had been injured.What is a Hurricane?Hurricanes（飓风） are strong tropical storms, and they usually occur in the southern Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. There are violent winds of 120 kilometres per hour or more, which

15、cause huge waves, heavy rain and floods. There are on average six Atlantic hurricanes each year and they usually affect the east coast of the US from Texas to Maine.The worst hurricane disaster of all time occurred on the 8th September 1900 in Galveston, Texas. Winds of 200 kilometres per hour and f

16、ive-metre-high waves hit the city. The disaster killed 6000 people in a population of 37000 and destroyed 3600 buildings.An Extraordinary EventThis is a story about the 1900 Galveston hurricane.Charles Coghlan was a nineteenth-century Irish actor who went to live in Canada. He then moved to New York

17、, where he became famous. By the late 1890s, he had moved to Galveston, where he died in 1899, a year before the hurricane struck. The cemetery（墓地） where Coghlan was buried was destroyed by the hurricane and Coghlans coffin（棺材） ended up in the sea. Eight years later, the coffin was found by fisherme

18、n in the sea near his home on Prince Edward Island in the east of Canada. The Gulf Stream had carried it 3000 kilometres up the eastern US coast to Prince Edward Island. Coghlan travelled back to Canada - after he had been buried in Texas!什么是龙卷风？龙卷风是指一个从空中的雷暴延伸到地面而生成的旋转气柱。最厉害的一次风速达到每小时400公里。几乎所有的龙卷风

19、都发生在美国，从东南部的德克萨斯州直到北部的南达科他州。龙卷风能卷起汽车、火车甚至房子，把它们卷到旁边的街道甚至能卷到邻近的城镇。龙卷风可以卷走猫背上的皮毛、鸡身上的羽毛。它们能毁掉房子，却把房内的家具留在原处。平均来说，美国每年发生800次龙卷风，造成大约80人死亡、1,500人受伤。最恶劣的一场龙卷风发生在1925年，波及到了美国的三个州：密苏里州、伊利诺斯州和印第安纳州。等到风停时，已有700多人死亡，2,700多人受伤。什么是飓风？飓风是强劲的热带风暴，通常发生在南大西洋、加勒比海和墨西哥海湾。飓风发生时，风暴速度达到每小时120公里或者更快，引发巨浪、暴雨和洪灾。每年平均有六次大西洋飓风，通常会影响到从得克萨斯州到缅因州的美国东部海岸。最恶劣的一次飓风于1900年9月8日发生在德克萨斯州加尔维斯顿。时速高达200公里的狂风和五米高的巨浪袭击了加尔维斯顿城。37,000人口中有6,000人遇难，3,600幢大楼被摧毁。一个离奇的事件?这是关于1900年加尔维斯顿飓风的故事。查尔斯科格伦是十九世纪一位定居加拿大的爱尔兰演员。后来他移居纽约，并在那里