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AceJ

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我们始终坚信，每一次阅读，都应是一次美妙的旅程
而工作组的使命就是带领大家领略阅读中的极致美景
本期开始Ace想尝试一些改变,不再以某个话题作为主题,而是以特有领域为主题,这样改变的好处是1,有大量新鲜的材料可供挖掘,紧跟实事; 2,文章内容不再固定,增加趣味性和难度; 3,尽可能贴近GMAT的考察角度
Speed部分每个单篇尽量控制在150-200字; 文章类型包括与经济相关的News, Markets, Finance, Politics and Culture; 越障则以研究型经济类文章为主,类型不限.
希望这样的改进能更加符合大家的需求,也欢迎大家给我提供建议和想法.
今天的Speaker部分依然是推荐我十分推崇的ESL(上下班路上必备之物啊); Speed部分,除了一篇跟中国二胎政策相关的短文章外,特意选了两篇非主流的几乎没什么逻辑性的市场状况报告文章;越障部分则是重点推荐,长且有难度,但是希望大家都能够细细品读

Part I: Speaker

Article 1

Having a backup plan

[Rephrase 1]

[Speech, 17:52]



Jerome: This is a very dangerous undertaking. Do you have a backup plan if anything goes wrong?

Sandy: It’ll work. I’ve come up with contingencies for every possible setback.

Jerome: It’s just that I’d like to know we have some recourse if anything goes wrong.

Sandy: My plan is foolproof. Failure is not an option.

Jerome: But don’t you think we should consider some alternatives? If, God forbid, anything goes wrong, it would be good to have an escape hatch, don’t you think?

Sandy: That won’t be necessary. If anything goes wrong, it’s every man for himself.

Jerome: What?! I thought we were in this together? What happened to, “Stick with me and you can’t go wrong”?

Sandy: That was before I realized what a liability you are.

Jerome: A liability?!

Sandy: In a dangerous plan like this, there are bound to be some casualties – a sacrificial lamb or two.

Jerome: Yes, but I didn’t know you’d double- cross me before we even got started!


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse

Source: ESLPOD
http://www.eslpod.com/website/show_podcast.php?issue_id=14715842

yinghua9122

好吧，二环。。。。

Time 2 1'12
Whitebread company reached its sales peak point which is higher than analysts estimated. It is benefiting from an economic recovery led by London.

Time 3 1'24
Beijing reward couples who forgo their legal second child. China is faced with an aging population and declining labor force.

Time 4
The situation in Ukraine encourages bond yields in the developed markets to edge lower and it’s moving the euro down toward to low end of the recent trading range against the dollar. investors should  haven’t lost hope that a diplomatic solution can be found.

Time 5
Russia is conducting a check of the combat-readiness of central and western military districts as well as a test of air defense, airborne troops and aviation. Ukraine's situation has a large effect on the whole world economy.

Time 6
the asset of the countires and companies has climbed.

Obstacle  实在是看的云里雾里的，查了一下这方面的资料。
Ukraine: 乌克兰。
乌克兰政治危机的直接导火索虽然是乌政府去年１１月决定暂停与欧盟签署联系国协定，但最根本原因还是国内民众在“向东走”还是“向西走”问题上的深度对立。
　从人口和地理因素分析，大约三分之一的乌克兰人口讲俄语，大多生活在靠近俄罗斯的东部地区，主张与俄罗斯保持密切关系；大约三分之二人口讲乌克兰语，主要生活在中西部地区，倾向于更亲近欧盟。无论谁当选总统，都会被其中一派视作“自己人”，而被另外一派视为“敌人”或者某一境外势力的“代言人”。这种对立情绪始终没有得到缓解，从而成为酝酿更多危机的温床，在出现诸如财政危机恶化、政府立场突变的事件后发酵成政治动荡。

现任总理亚努科维奇（Yanukovych）， 是“亲俄党”。曾许诺一旦他当选，将致力于发展同俄罗斯的关系，使俄语成为乌克兰的第二语言，允许乌克兰人拥有俄罗斯和乌克兰双重国籍。
反对派“我们的乌克兰”政党联盟领导人尤先科（Yushchenko）， 是“亲欧党”。 曾承诺他将致力于乌克兰加入北约，与欧盟发展更加密切的关系。

醒醒Shine

[Time 2]
Whitbread Plc rose to the highest in more than 22 years after the owner of Premier Inn budget hotels and Costa Coffee shops reported sales that beat analysts’ estimates.
[Time 3]
The city of Beijing is offering a cash incentive of at least 1,000 yuan ($163) to couples who are qualified to have a second child and decide against it, the Beijing News reported yesterday.
The United Nations has estimated that the number of 15- to 24-year-olds, the mainstay of factories that drove growth for two decades, will shrink by about 67 million by 2030.
[Time4]
The yen strengthened and European bonds gained amid rising tension in Ukraine and signs inflation is slowing in Germany.
the impact in the market suggested investors, while concerned, haven’t lost hope that a diplomatic solution can be found.
[Time5]
Russia is conducting a check of the combat-readiness of central and western military districts as well as a test of air defense, airborne troops and aviation.
[Time6]
Most of the assets industries's stocks have climbed.
[Paraphrase 7]
A REVOLUTION has taken place in Ukraine.
A lot of people died during this revolution.
A new pro-European government is being formed, while the economy is collapsing.
Lviv’s sense of its own belonging in Europe was supported by its architecture and its history of resistance to the Soviet rule.
The people in Kiev want Ukraine to stay as one country.
In many ways Kharkov remained as much of a Soviet city as Lviv a Galician one.
The biggest danger for Ukraine’s integrity is not federalization, but that Russian interferes and exploits it.


今天的obstacle真是好多别扭的城市名称和人名。。。
不过听猴子的话，还是认真的读完了。
economist的语言还是很优美的，比如这句：
It jubilantly（欢欣地，喜气洋洋地） supported the Orange revolution in 2004 and was bitterly disillusioned（大失所望的） by the failure of that revolution’s leaders, notably（显著地） Viktor Yushchenko to modernise and reform the country in the years that followed.
前面and连接一正一反的对比，后面跟上一个 Yushchenko现代化的结果表伴随状语。语法没话说，句子结构清晰地给出了作者的逻辑。
对于以往小白的我，只会因为所以自然道理的写句子，真是受益匪浅。谢谢今天推荐的文章啦。：）

AceJ

Part II: Speed

Article 2

Whitbread Jumps After Quarterly Sales Beat Analysts’ Estimates

By Andrew Blackman

[Time 2]
Whitbread Plc rose to the highest in more than 22 years after the owner of Premier Inn budget hotels and Costa Coffee shops reported sales that beat analysts’ estimates.

The shares climbed as much 5.7 percent in London trading. Like-for-like sales at Premier Inn rose 8.3 percent in the 11 weeks to Feb. 13, the Dunstable, England-based Company said today in a statement. Analysts expected an increase of 5 percent, the median estimate of nine analysts in a Bloomberg survey.

Whitbread is benefiting from an economic recovery led by London, which is helping to lift revenue at the company’s hotel and coffee-shop businesses. Costa’s sales also exceeded estimates and Whitbread said it’s on course to report full-year results “towards the top end” of expectations.

London’s economy is “very strong,” Chief Executive Officer Andrew Harrison said by phone. “Outside of London it’s a much more mixed picture.”

The shares were up 3.8 percent to 4,351 pence at 9:45 a.m., the highest since January 1992. That brought the gain for the past six months to 39 percent.
[176 words]

Source: Bloomberg
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-27/whitbread-jumps-after-quarterly-sales-beat-analysts-estimates.html

Article 3

Beijing to Reward Couples Forgoing Second Child, News Says

[Time 3]
The city of Beijing is offering a cash incentive of at least 1,000 yuan ($163) to couples who are qualified to have a second child and decide against it, the Beijing News reported yesterday.

The newspaper cited rules issued by the local government and didn’t provide more explanation.

Any incentive for forgoing a child would contrast with the Communist Party’s pledge last year to loosen China’s one-child restrictions to counter an aging population and declining labor force. Couples can have two children if either parent is an only child, the party said November 15, after a meeting in Beijing to set policies under President Xi Jinping.

The report comes days before the annual meeting of the National People’s Congress, where the nation’s leaders will outline goals and polices for this year.

The family-planning measure, put in place three years after Chairman Mao Zedong’s death in 1976, was intended to alleviate poverty. While containing population growth, the policy has saddled the nation with a shrinking labor force. The United Nations has estimated that the number of 15- to 24-year-olds, the mainstay of factories that drove growth for two decades, will shrink by about 67 million by 2030.
[196 Words]

Source: Bloomberg
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-27/beijing-to-reward-couples-forgoing-second-child-news-says.html

Article 4

Emerging Currencies Slide With Hryvnia; Commodities Fall

By Stephen Kirkland and Nick Gentle

[Time 4]
The yen strengthened and European bonds gained amid rising tension in Ukraine and signs inflation is slowing in Germany. Stocks fell for a second day and Ukraine’s currency tumbled to a record.

Japan’s currency appreciated 0.4 percent to 101.94 per dollar at 10:15 a.m. in London. The Swiss franc climbed to the strongest level since April versus the euro, while the Hryvnia slid 7.7 percent to 11 per dollar. The Stoxx Europe 600 Index lost 0.7 percent and Standard & Poor’s 500 Index futures slipped 0.2 percent, erasing earlier gains. Germany’s 10-year yield fell three basis points to 1.58 percent, touching a seven-month low.

Gunmen occupied parliament and the government building in Ukraine’s Crimea region, lawmakers in the capital met to approve a new cabinet and Russia put fighter jets on alert. In Germany’s Saxony region, annualized inflation slowed this month, fueling speculation the European Central Bank will expand monetary stimulus. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen testifies before the Senate today as the U.S. issues data on jobless claims and durable goods orders.

“The situation in Ukraine encourages bond yields in the developed markets to edge lower and it’s moving the euro down toward to low end of the recent trading range against the dollar,” said Kit Juckes, a global strategist at Societe Generale SA in London. “That said, the impact in the market suggested investors, while concerned, haven’t lost hope that a diplomatic solution can be found.”
[239 words]

[Time 5]
Combat-Readiness

Interior Ministry troops have cordoned off the block around parliament, Ukraine’s acting minister Arsen Avakov said. Russia is conducting a check of the combat-readiness of central and western military districts as well as a test of air defense, airborne troops and aviation, according to a statement on the Defense Ministry’s website.

The yen gained against all of its 16 major counterparts. The franc appreciated 0.2 percent to 1.2166 per euro, the strongest level since April. The euro dropped 0.3 percent to $1.3651 after weakening 0.4 percent yesterday, the most since Jan. 31.

Three shares fell for every one that gained in the Stoxx 600, with trading 7.3 percent above the 30-day average, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

WPP Plc (WPP) lost 5.6 percent after the world’s largest advertising company said currency moves hurt its profit margin. Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc (RBS) fell 5.2 percent after posting its biggest full-year loss since receiving a government bailout in 2008.
[161 words]

[Time6]
Assets Climb

Man Group Plc jumped 9.3 percent after the world’s largest publicly traded hedge fund said assets rose 3 percent in the fourth quarter and it will buy back $115 million of stock. Veolia Environment SA climbed 6.1 percent after the biggest European water and waste company said it aims to increase adjusted operating cash flow by 10 percent and post “significant growth” in profit this year.

Kohl’s Corp., Best Buy Co., Ross Stores Inc., Gap Inc., Salesforce.com Inc. and Monster Beverage Corp. are among S&P 500 companies reporting earnings today. About 74 percent of those that have posted results this season beat analysts’ profit estimates, data compiled by Bloomberg show.

Government bonds rose across the euro area amid signs of slowing inflation, which boosts the value of payments on fixed-income assets. Ireland’s 10-year securities advanced for a 10th day, pushing the yield five basis points lower to 3.10 percent, the least since 2005. Portugal’s two-year note yield declined eight basis points to 1.83 percent before the nation buys back bonds due in October 2014 and October 2015.

Australia’s dollar lost 0.6 percent to 89.17 U.S. cents after business investment in the nation slumped. New Zealand’s currency climbed 0.3 percent to 83.41 U.S. cents as Fonterra Cooperative Group Ltd., the world’s biggest dairy exporter, increased its forecast milk payout to farmers to a record.
[225 Words]

Source: Bloomberg
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-26/dollar-holds-advance-as-won-forwards-slip-gas-tumbles.html

AceJ

Part III: Obstacle

Article 5

A tale of two countries

By A.O. | KIEV, KHARKIV AND LVIV

[Paraphrase 7]
A REVOLUTION has taken place in Ukraine. It still lacks a name, but the events and their traces are unmistakable: the burnt buildings on the Maidan (Kiev’s central square), more than 80 dead, barricades that had withstood government forces for months, the lingering acrid smell of burnt rubber, and in anger, hatred and tears for the dead. As befits a revolution, events unfold with neck-breaking pace.

Viktor Yanukovych, the thuggish, ineffective and corrupt president of Ukraine is gone—nobody knows where. The new interior minister has issued an arrest warrant for him. His erstwhile supporters, including his own party, have dumped him. His Russian backers denounce him as a traitor for his failure to drown the revolutionaries in their own blood.

For their part, the protesters—a varied grouping under the banner of EuroMaidan—are commemorating the heroes of the revolution and demanding retribution to those who used snipers against them. On a hill where many died from gunfire, candles spell “Glory to Heroes”. Flowers are everywhere.

Yulia Tymoshenko, Mr. Yanukovych’s arch-rival, who spent the past two years in jail, is back and was cheered by hundreds of thousands on Maidan. Alexander Turchinov, her right-hand man, has been elected the speaker of parliament and acting president. A new pro-European government is being formed, while the economy is collapsing.

The revolution represents the victory for those who came out on the streets three months ago after Mr. Yanukovych ditched a European deal—which is not everyone. A large part of the population in the ethnically Russian east and south of the country are enraged that power in Kiev has been seized by a rival political camp: Ukrainian pro-European nationalists. A huge question is whether the revolution presages Ukraine’s disintegration. In search for the answer, your correspondent travelled to cities which represent two different Ukraines: Lviv in the west of Ukraine and Kharkov in the east (see map).


A large banner decorates the classical 19th façade of Lviv’s city hall that dominates an Italianesque square: “Vilne Mesto Vilnikh Liudei” [Free City of Free People] it proclaims. The banner appeared few weeks ago when protests in Kiev evolved into a revolutionary movement. Western Ukraine—and Lviv as its spiritual and cultural center—was one of the main factors behind recent events. Its resolve not to submit to the corrupt and authoritarian rule of Viktor Yanukovych sustained EuroMaidan not only spiritually, but physically. Thousands travelled to Kiev to defend it.

On Friday night many returned in coffins. A moving ceremony was held on Lviv’s own Maidan for two of its sons. Priests intoned prayers. Thousands held candles and chanted in deep and sometimes choked voices: “Glory to the Heroes” and “Heroes do not die”.

One of the most important European trading and university cities since the 14th century, modern Lviv has been Soviet Lvov, Polish Lwów and Austro-Hungarian Lemberg in the past 100 years. It was seized by the Soviet Union in 1939 but guerilla resistance was intense, and broken only in the 1950s. Lviv’s sense of its own belonging in Europe was supported by its architecture and its history of resistance to the Soviet rule. It jubilantly supported the Orange revolution in 2004 and was bitterly disillusioned by the failure of that revolution’s leaders, notably Viktor Yushchenko to modernise and reform the country in the years that followed.

In the election of 2010, most Western Ukrainians simply did not turn up to vote, letting the Russian-speaking eastern and southern part of the country elect Mr. Yanukovych against another failed Orange candidate, Mrs. Tymoshenko. Yet Mr. Yanukovych never really controlled Lviv. Every governor he appointed was soon kicked out; his Party of Regions had no presence in the local parliament. Riot police and internal troops from Lviv refused to disperse protesters. In fact, says Andrei Sadovyi, the mayor of Lviv, the local riot police asked the citizens to block their unit to disable them from leaving their barracks. As fighting raged in Kiev, several police stations, a prosecutor’s office and a military base were sacked in Lviv and a 1000 pieces of firearms were seized. After an explosion inside a military unit, two charred bodies, one in riot-police uniform, were found.

But as the regime disintegrated, Mr. Sadovyi, a native of Lviv, asserted his authority and brought order to the streets within hours. Although uniformed police are nowhere to be seen, some 2,000 men including some plain-clothed officers are preventing looting or mischief. Also patrolling the street are members of Right Sector—a block of several nationalist organizations which has a political as well as a military wing to it. It was the Right Sector in Kiev that radicalized the protest and led the revolution. Lviv displays formidable discipline and self-organization in its self-policing: taxi drivers use their radios to report anything suspicious.

Speaking in his elegant office decorated with a map of Galicia, the former Austro-Hungarian province of which Lemberg was once the capital, Mr. Sadovyi says Ukraine can function as one country only if economic powers and political responsibilities are decentralized to city level. This would not split the country but ensures that it stays together, he says.

“There is no separatism in Lviv. We want Ukraine to stay as one country—this is what our men were dying for in Kiev,” he argues. In the past two days, Lviv’s Maidan made its own demand to Kiev, including exposure and investigation of those associated with the killings and complete overhaul of the entire political system, not merely a change of leaders. Mr. Sadovyi says the best way to achieve this overhaul, given the inherent weakness of Ukraine’s own elite, is an immediate association deal with the European Union.

On the face of it, the mood in Kharkov—the first capital of Soviet Ukraine—could hardly be more different. Much of its Russian-speaking population sees the revolution in Kiev as a coup by the Western-sponsored Ukrainian nationalists who will suppress the rights of the Russians. (The provocative vote by Ukrainian parliament to drop Russian as one of official languages in the country did little to dissuade them).

The first capital of Soviet Ukraine, Kharkov is twice as large as Lviv and was home to some of the Soviet’s largest military and industrial complex plants. It is not just a predominantly Russian speaking city. In many ways it remained as much of a Soviet city as Lviv a Galician one. Appropriately the fight in Kharkov between pro- and anti-Maidan revolution forces unfolded around the statue of Lenin, the leader of the Bolshevik coup of 1917. A night before, a group of young and aggressive radicals from the pro-Maidan camp tried to topple the giant statue but met resistance from the equally aggressive goons—former policemen, sportsmen and criminals—who differ from them more in affiliation than in style.

Over the past months many of them were brought to Kiev to fight alongside the government forces, beating up and shooting protesters. They were chased out from Kiev, but they are determined to defend their own city. The leader of a militant anti-Maidan organization, Evgeny Zhilin, called on the government to arm his men. Luckily nobody did and instead an arrest warrant has now been issued for him.

The fight around Lenin statues bespeaks the lack of a new post-Soviet narrative in Ukrainian politics since independence in 1991. On February 23rd, Russia’s Red Army Day, several hundred people, deeply Soviet in their rhetoric and their appearance, gathered at the feet of the giant Lenin statue calling for confrontation with the NATO-sponsored “fascist collaborators” who overthrew the government in Kiev. On the opposite side of the square young and fairly aggressive radicals from the pro-Maidan camp occupied the building of the local administration, banging baseball bats on their metal shields. In between a thin line of policemen tried to keep the peace.

The main authority in the city, for now, is in the hands of Gennady Kernes, a popular mayor of Kharkov and until recently one of Mr. Yanukovych’s staunch supporters. When Mr. Yanukovych’s government fell, Mr. Kernes along with the region’s governor, Mikhail Dobkin, vanished from the country. The new interior minister, one of Mr. Kernes’s predecessors and foes, opened criminal investigation against both men.

Yet two days later after the regime fell, Mr. Kernes was back, landing in a Kharkov airport in a private jet from what he described as a business trip to Geneva with a stop-over in Moscow. It was clear he did not come back to fight for Mr. Yanukovych but to preserve his own power. “Mr. Yanukovych is now history,” Mr. Kernes said to the dozens of cameras which greeted his arrival. Riding to the statue of Lenin in his black Land Cruiser with bodyguards in bulging coats, he told your correspondent that he recognized the victory of Maidan and his only priority now was to defuse tension in the city.

As a legitimately elected mayor, Mr. Kernes has much to trade for his safety and his post in Kharkov, including the support of the population and the Russians. Yet, he has no interest in Kharkov splitting off from the rest of Ukraine or becoming a Russian vassal. For all their differences Mr. Kernes is as popular in Kharkov as Mr. Sadovyi is in Lviv, and they are after the same thing: a decentralization of economic and political power. Zurab Alazania, the head of the Mediaport news agency in Kharkov, says that for all of Mr. Kernes’s faults the worst thing that the new government could do would be to arrest him on trumped-up charges. “If the new government did this, we would know that it is no better than the old one.”

While politicians in Kiev are scared to mention federalization because of its separatist undertones, in reality it is already happening. The biggest danger for Ukraine’s integrity is not federalization, but that Russian interferes and exploits it. That could involve an attempt to annex Crimea, carelessly given to Soviet Ukraine by Nikita Khrushchev in 1954. Over the weekend 20,000 people were out on the streets in Crimea, welcoming back riot police from Kiev as heroes. Russian armored vehicles have already been spotted around Sevastopol, home to the large Russian naval base.

Mr. Putin clearly has no interest in defending Mr. Yanukovych. He may have also decided that since Ukraine’s shift towards Europe now looks all but inevitable, grabbing Crimea quickly is the best Russia can do.
[1739 words]

Source: Economist
http://www.economist.com/blogs/easternapproaches/2014/02/ukraines-crisis

AceJ

现在流行把沙发连带坐了

Having a backup plan
Escape hatch: a door that would allow you to escape
Every man for himself: get out of this situation yourself
Bound to be: definitely to be
sacrificial lamb: something that needs to be killed or destroyed in order to be successed at plan
Double-cross: trick or betray someone, the act of cheating another person

Whitbread Jumps After Quarterly Sales Beat Analysts’ Estimates
Time2: 1'17" Hotel and coffee business beats estimations because of economy recovery in London

Beijing to Reward Couples Forgoing Second Child, News Says
Time3: 1'24" Beijing offer an incentive to encourage couples who decided not to have a second child

Emerging Currencies Slide With Hryvnia; Commodities Fall
Time4: 2'10" The situation in Ukraine encourages bond yields in the developed markets to edge lower, indicating investors haven't lose hope to find a diplomatic solution
Time5: 1'29" The situation in Ukraine affected economies seriously in the developed countries
Time6: 1'42" Assets climbs, companies and countries

A tale of two countries
Time7: 17'00"
The revolution put Ukraine into a collapse, but the huge question is whether the revolution presages disintegration? Different places have different answers
Lviv demands for decentralization of power into city level, asserting that the best way to achieve this overhaul, given the inherent weakness of Ukraine’s own elite, is an immediate association deal with the European Union
In Kharkov, much of its Russian-speaking population sees the revolution in Kiev as a coup by the Western-sponsored Ukrainian nationalists who will suppress the rights of the Russians
In many ways Kharkov remained as much of a Soviet city as Lviv a Galician one
The biggest danger for Ukraine’s integrity is not federalization, but that Russian interferes and exploits it

xiaofan0205

那我就坐板凳吧！

Time2: 1'16"
Whitbread jumps after quarterly sales beat analysts' estimate, it is benefiting from an economic recovery led by London.

Time3: 1'43"
The city of Beijing offering a cash incentive of at least 1000 yuan to couples who are qualified to have a second child after Comunist Party loosen China's one-child restrictions.

Time4: 1'57"
The situation in Ukraine encourages bond yields in the developed markets to edge lower and it's moving the euro down toward to low end of the rencent trading range against the dollar.

Time5: 1'16"
The situation in Ukraine affected economies seriously in the developed countries.

Time6: 1'48"
The author gives several examples to indicate that the assets of different company and country increase.

Obstacle: 14'35"
Read it twice, it is difficult
A revolution has taken place in Ukraine. To search for the answer of the question whether the revolution presages Ukraine's disintergration, you need to know the cities which represent two different Ukraines: Lviv in the west of Ukraine and Kharkov in the east.

疏离无罪

32系列最后一期来个地板
吐槽下，今天不是经管么，怎么来政治文了。各种 东欧的人名完全记不住。
另，字太小 看着有点晕。

Speaker: Today's topic is about the backup plan before a dangerous undrtaking.Sandy seems to sacrifice Jerome even before they start.

00:59
Whitbread Plc's share raised 5.7 percent,higher than analysists' estimates.Thanks to the recovery of economy.

01:17
Beijing is offering a cash incentive to urge more couples who are both single child to have two children.

01:49
The yen strengthened and European bonds gained amid rising tension in Ukraine and signs inflation is slowing in Germany.

00:56
Russia is in combat-readiness because of the situation in Ukraine.And other exchange rate and share market were affected seriously by Ukraine.

01:26
The value of assest is raising which gain more profits than analysists have estimated.Discuss the government bonds across euro area and exchange rate of Austrilia and Newzealand.

10:53
Main Idea:Two cities in Ukraine reveal two different apsects of the country.
The recent revolution in Ukraine succeeded to build a new pro-european government while collapsing the economy.There are two rival political camps in this revolution.These two camps can represent different Ukraines: Lviv in the west of Ukraine and Kharkov in the east.
People in the Lviv are main factors of the protest and always think that they belongs to europe even since Soviet Union.And in this revolution,the citizens,mayor and government officers are all support protesters.Ukraine can function as one country only if economic powers and political responsibilities are decentralized to city level.Because the regime is disintegrated,espcially in Lviv.Citizens want to change the current politicak system and so they went to Kiev.
When we come to Kharkov,the first capital of Soviet Ukrain,the situation is totally different.Most people of the city are Ruusian-speaking and support the old government.Some of the citizens went to Kiev to support the government.And the mayor of the city went to Russia when the revolution happen.
The biggest danger for Ukraine’s integrity is not federalization, but that Russian interferes and exploits it.

黑咖啡d

前排占座

Time2 167 words 2:49

W rose to 22 years high after sale report P in hotel and Costa Coffee shop announced.

W rose 5.7% in Lodon, beat eastimated 5% by average of 9 inverstor.
P inn hotel sale increased 8.3%
Costa coffee also increase 3++ %, 11 weeks high

The increase from hotel and coffee shop bussiness , because London led the economic recovery

CEO said outside London,the picture is mix
Share rose xxx to new high since 1992

Time3 176 words less than 2min
Beijing's incentive plan for ppl who have the right to have second child but decide to give up their right.
China's one child police was introduce in 1976, three year after china'first president dead.
The intention is to contain the population and alleviate poverty.
But recently years, the size of laborforce is shirking. estimate to 67min in year 2030


Time4 239words 3min
Ukraine's raising tension and impact to Europe economic

Time5 161words 2min
Ukrian is testing its combat readiness, cordoned off parliment, test air force and aviattion
Yen raise, a lot company stock fell, because currency changes hurt their profit margin

Time6 225words 2min
The stock market raising
Goverment bond raising
Aus to US dollar felling

Obstacle 1739 words 13min

rockrain13

可以提个意见吗，这个字体实在是看得眼睛花啊

time2 1'11
whitbread stock price jumps after quarterly sales beat analysts expectation.

time3 1'10
Beijing is offering a cash incentives for couples who decide not to have second child.This is contrast with Communist party's pledge last year to loosen china's one-chile restrictions


time4  1'33
Ukraine's chaos has a great impact on currency exchange rate and stock market.


time5 0'56'
Russia is conducting a check of the combat-rediness of central and western military disctricts.

The figures of currency market and stock market.


time6 1'04
A few companies stock price rised after their earning's resulty beat analysts' expectaion.

Government bonds rose amid signs of slowing inflation.




obstacle 12'24

The deep reason behind Ukrine's revolution.

MAGGIEHE1993

占。。。。。。。。。。。。谢谢楼主~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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为什么一跟政治搭边的文章我脑子就自动断路了！！！速度文都看傻了各种金融汇率神马的不懂啊TAT
Speaker: backup plan
         undertaking: project; something you are doing that is a little difficult
         backup plan: what you'll do if the first plan didn't come out
         contingencies: things might happen
         setback: difficulty; obstacle
         recourse: something you can do to make things better; have recourse of something
         foolproof: no possibility of anything going wrong
         Failure is not an option.
         alternative: another possible way of doing something
         God forbid: emphasize you don't want something to happen but it might happen
         escape hatch: door that allow you to escape in an emergency; an alternative/plan that allow you to do
         every man for himself: each one is responsible for his future; each person has to save himself
         in this together: working as part of a team
         what happen to: What about the idea you told me before?
         stick with someone: stay close to someone; learn from someone
         liability: represent a disadvantage; prevent someone from being successful
         casualties: people who die or who are hurt
         sacrificial lamb: something that should be killed in order for you to succeed
         double-cross: trick; betray someone; cheating

time2: 57"
       Whitbread Plc rose to the highest in more than 22 years after the owner of Premier Inn budget hotels and Costa Coffee
       shops reported sales that beat analysts' estimates.

time3: 1min 15"
       The city of Beijing is offering a cash incentive of at least 1000 yuan to couples who are qualified to have a second
       child and decide against it.

time4: 2min 18"
       The yen strengthened and European bonds gained amid rising tension in Ukraine and signs inflation is slowing in Germany.

time5: 1min 24"
       The yen gained against all of its 16 major counterparts. Three shares fell for every one that gained in the Stoxx 600.

time6: 1min 56"
       Some companies' changing stock price and the reasons behind them.

lishuan1

Time2 00'53"80
The Whitbread Plc rose to the highest in 22 years, which, said by CEO, was lead by London's economic recovery.

Time3 01'37"93
Beijing issued policy to reward 1000 yuan to the couples which were allowed to have the second child but reject to do so. The couples that either of them is single child are allowed to have the second child.
The only child policy was made in 1973 to alleviate poverty but in the same time it decrease Chinese labor force.

Time4 3'19"80
Ukraine's currency depreciated to a record which made gunmen occupied parliament.

Time5 1'45"78
The yen gained against almost all of its 16 counterparts. Many corporations were influenced by the currency value changing.

Time6 1'43"46
Many big corporations' profit beat estimates, in the same time, bond prices are droping significantly.

Time7 15'21"40
Ukraine's coup may cause the country disintegrating to 3 different countries, but now the leaders are trying to find consensus to discentralize economic and political power.
The main two part, Lviv and K...., one is inclined to Europe and one is apt to Russia.

最后一篇真心长......各种奇怪的人名地名看几个就晕了.........
终于做完啦一天做了两个半作业快疯掉了