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[00:02.00]Part III
[00:07.18]Financial news
[00:13.84]Key words:
[00:18.91]economy of the world rebound
[00:25.08]Vocabulary:
[00:30.54]rebound collapse reversal
[00:37.90]decline turnaround revival
[00:45.17]Seattle
[00:47.91]A:Listen to a news item.Complete the summary and the details.
[01:36.05]B:Now listen to this news report.Match Column A with Column B.
[02:56.80]Part IV
[03:04.37]Language study and language appreciation
[03:12.31]Listen to the following statements.
[03:16.26]Pay special attention to the parts in bold type.
[03:21.51]Learn to appreciate and use the language.
[03:26.18]1.to increase...fold
[03:31.54]Over the last 20 years,GDP has increased 16-fold.
[03:41.20]2.to total.../to be worth...
[03:47.37]In 1998,Chinese exports totaled US$183.76 billion.
[04:01.14]Its imports were worth US$140.17 billion.
[04:11.40]3.to average
[04:15.76]Since 1980,annual growth has averaged 9.6%.
[04:25.93]4.second only to
[04:31.07]Since the beginning of the 1990s
[04:38.05]China is second only to the U.S.in terms of foreign investment.
[04:44.50]5.to cheer the hoisting of Panama's flag over...
[04:51.74]Thousands of flag-waving Panamanians
[04:57.90]cheered the hoisting of Panama's flag over the Canal Commission headquarters,
[05:04.07]ending nearly a century of U.S.control.
[05:08.51]6.much thought was given to...
[05:14.07]During the first half of the 19th century,
[05:20.63]much thought was given to building the Panama Canal.
[05:25.90]7.to take the ownership of... to relinquish control of ...
[05:36.07]And Panama takes the ownership of the Panama Canal from the United
[05:43.43]States at noon friday,ending more than 90 years of U.S. control of the waterway.
[05:50.28]This month the United States relinquished control of the Panama Canal.
[05:58.74]8.to show signs of growth
[06:04.20]Mr Fisher also says Indonesia is showing signs of growth.
[06:14.67]9.to make a turnaround from.../rebound from.../reversal from...
[06:25.83]Mr Fisher praised Brazil,
[06:31.78]saying it's made an extraordinary turnaround
[06:36.15]from its financial crisis of only one year ago.
[06:40.59]Mr Fisher says Asia's rebound
[06:47.04]from the near economic collapse in the late 1997 has been remarkable.
[06:53.28]That's an amazing reversal from an even larger decline.
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