【英專八級(jí)聽(tīng)力訓(xùn)練】News Broadcast (Test 9)
來(lái)源:滬江聽(tīng)寫酷
2014-03-24 16:14
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Renren? 人人網(wǎng)
Javier Sicilia? 西斯利亞(墨西哥詩(shī)人)
Cuernavaca? 庫(kù)埃納瓦卡
One of China's biggest social networking websites has made its stock market debut on the New York Stock Exchange for more than 700 million dollars. Renren has about 30 million regular users in China.
Renren was set up by three classmates at a Chinese university in 2005. Its site resembles Facebook, and its origins are also similar. But is it really worth 5 billion dollars? The opening price was set higher than seemed likely a few days ago, and the shares shot up nearly 40% from that level in the first hour of trading. This despite the fact that Renren was forced to backtrack on claims that it has over 100 million subscribers.
Thousands of demonstrators marched in silence toward Mexico City's central square Sunday, carrying banners and signs that demanded an end to the country's drug war.
Well-known Mexican poet Javier Sicilia led protesters on their 80-kilometer journey, which began Thursday in the central city of Cuernavaca.
Speaking before a sea of demonstrators at the large plaza in the heart of the nation's capital Sunday afternoon,
activists read a list of demands that they said were part of a "national pact." They gave government officials a deadline of June 10 to sign on to the deal.
Their proposed agreement included "demanding an end to the strategy of war," the removal of corruption from all three levels of government in less than six months, and the quick solving of several notable high-profile cases.
Protesters also said that the authority should budget just as much money for education and youth programs as they do for security.
中國(guó)最大的社交網(wǎng)站人人網(wǎng)已在美國(guó)紐約股票交易所上市,其交易已超過(guò)7億美元。人人網(wǎng)在中國(guó)有3千萬(wàn)用戶。
2005年,中國(guó)某大學(xué)3個(gè)同學(xué)建立人人。這個(gè)網(wǎng)站很像臉書,起源也非常相似。但人人真的值50億美元嗎?幾天前,該股票的開(kāi)盤價(jià)格似乎較高,但是在前幾個(gè)小時(shí)的交易中,股票就有了近40%的漲幅,除去人人被迫承認(rèn),自己擁有超過(guò)1億訂戶的事實(shí)。
周日,成千上萬(wàn)的示威游行者舉著旗幟和標(biāo)語(yǔ)默默地向墨西哥城市的中心廣場(chǎng)行進(jìn),他們要求停止毒品戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)。
著名墨西哥詩(shī)人西斯利亞帶領(lǐng)著示威者進(jìn)行8萬(wàn)米的游行。這次游行始于周四,始發(fā)地在庫(kù)埃納瓦卡市中心。
說(shuō)起在周日下午這個(gè)國(guó)家的首都中心廣場(chǎng)的一群示威者前,激進(jìn)人士宣讀要求書,聲稱這些要求是“民族憲章”的一部分。他們給政府官員限定日期。要他們?cè)?月10號(hào)在要求書上簽字。
他們提出的約定包括“停止毒品戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)”、在六個(gè)月內(nèi)清楚各級(jí)部門的腐敗和快速解決備受矚目的案件。
示威者還說(shuō),當(dāng)局應(yīng)該在教育和青少年計(jì)劃問(wèn)題上做出和防衛(wèi)相同的經(jīng)費(fèi)預(yù)算。