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1、LessonOneChina’sGrowthPosesOpportunityandRisk中国经济快速增长既有机遇又有风险ThreattoU.S.economicmightisseenKeithBradsherKeithBradsherwasDetroitbureauchiefofTheNewYorkTimesfrom1996to2001.DuringthattimehewontheGeorgePolkAward乔治波克纪念奖(GeorgePolkMemorialAward)andwasafinalist
2、forthePulitzerPrize.HeisagraduateoftheUniversityofNorthCarolinaatChapelHillandPrincetonUniversity,andhasbeenaTimesreportersince1989.Heiscurrentlythepaper'sHongKongbureauchief.ParagraphonePre-readingquestion:What’sthereasonfortheseven-yeartradebattlebetwee
3、nJapanandtheUnitedStates?GUANGZHOU,China:WhenJapan,atthezenithofitseconomicpower,builtahugeairportinOsakainthelate1980s,itsetoffaseven—yeartradebattlewiththeUnitedStatesoverthenearlycompleteexclusionofnon—Japanesecompaniesfromtheproject.Zenith:Theupperreg
4、ionofthesky天空的较高区域Thepointofculmination;thepeak;thepointofhighestachievement,mostcompletedevelopment,orgreatestpower:指最大的成就,最完善的发展或最强大的力量:thezenithofhercareer她事业的顶峰setoff:Togiveriseto;causetooccur:发生:引起;导致发生:setoffachemicalreaction.发生化学反应译文:当日本经济力量达到顶峰而于2
5、0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。Osaka'sairport---KansaiInternationalAirport(新关西国际机场)KansaiairportisaninternationalairportinJapan,locatedonaman-builtislandsouthofOsakaBay.Constructionstartedin1987,theseawallwasfinishedin1989,3m
6、ountainswereexcavatedforearth,10,000workers,10millionwork-hours,3years,80ships,30meterlayerovertheseafloor,3kmbridgebuilttoconnecttheisland.Theairportiscompletelylocatedintheoceanandfarawayfrombeach,whichopenedon4September1994,ithassunkby12meterasof2Febru
7、ary2003.Ithandlesbothinternationalanddomestictraffics.Totalcost,$15bn,40%overbudget(mostlyduetosinkingproblems),.Inthemeantime,Tokyo'sNaritaexpandsandtheeconomicvalueofKansaiisbeingundermined.Paragraphtwo-threePre-readingquestions:Doyouknowthenameoftheimm
8、enseairportinGuangzhou?WhatarethedifferencesbetweenChinaandJapaninbuildingtheirairports?China,heirtoJapanastherisingstarofAsia,isnowcompletingitsownimmenseairportinGuangzhou,thesprawlingcommercialcenterofaffluentsou