今日英语新闻材料

The Positive and Negative Aspects of Sports 1.体育运动的好处. 2.体育运动可能带来的副作用. 3.我参加体育运动的体会. 范文： To a Chinese, the task of learning English well is not easy. So I, like many other English learners, have met with difficulties in learning English during the past seven years. But I managed to overcome them and made much progress. The spelling and meaning of words can be said to be the first difficulty I met as a beginner. But I found our my own way to deal with them. As to spelling, I never copied a new work again and again to remember it, but tried to find its relevance to the sound. In fact, as long as I can read the word out, I can write it out. As to the meaning, I rarely recite its Chinese translation but often put the word into the sentence to learn its meaning. Moreover, if you use a word quite often, its spelling and meaning will be no problem. After all, we are learning English in order to use it. Grammar and idioms may be another difficulty. But I have also got over it. I have not read lots of grammar books. But I spent much time reading the articles written by native speakers or specialists in English. By doing so, I came to gain “a sense of English language”. I began to gain a feel for which sentences are “good English” and which are not. Finally, I want to say that overcoming all these difficulties requires perseverance. In the past seven years I spent at least an hour on English each day. I believe this is an important reason why I am able to make progress in learning English.

1.China Monday expressed "serious concern" over Kosovo's declaration of independence and called for "proper solution through negotiations" between Serbia and the breakaway province.2.Foreign direct investment (FDI) in China more than doubled last month from a year earlier despite concerns over the impact of increased corporate income tax on foreign investors which took effect this year.3.China's Ministry of Health on Monday confirmed a human case of H5N1 bird flu in the central Hunan Province.A 22-year-old man surnamed Li in Jianghua County, Yongzhou City, suffered fever and headache on January 16 and was hospitalized on January 22. His symptoms worsened despite treatment.4.The recent record high of global wheat prices has nothing to do with China, a senior researcher with the State Administration of Grain (SGA) said Monday."China is not a precipitator of the mounting increase in global wheat prices, but an important stabilizing factor for it," Ding Shengjun said in Beijing.5.Chinese New Year 2008 in London 伦敦的中国新年庆典Welcoming the Year of the Rat 庆祝鼠年的到来This week, London will be full of celebrations to welcome the Year of the Rat. Every year, London's Chinatown holds a spectacular event to celebrate Chinese New Year, the largest event outside of Asia. 6.Federer and Henin win top sports awardsSAINT PETERSBURG, Russia - Roger Federer and Justine Henin made it a double for tennis at the Laureus World Sports awards for 2008 on Monday.Belgian tennis player Justine Henin displays the Laureus Sportswoman of the Year award in the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg February 18, 2008. Tennis world number one Roger Federer won the prestigious Laureus Sportsman of the Year award for a record fourth year in a row on Monday. [Agencies] Swiss star Federer took the World Sportsman of the Year award for a record fourth straight year, while Belgium's Henin won the women's equivalent award for the first time.7.China concerned about US bid to shoot satelliteBEIJING -- China has expressed concern about Washington's decision to shoot down a damaged satellite, urging the US Government to fulfill its international obligation.8.Taliban set new deadline for hostagesGHAZNI, Afghanistan - Taliban kidnappers will kill their remaining 22 South Korean hostages unless the government releases eight rebel prisoners by noon (0730 GMT / 3:30 a.m. EDT) on Friday, a spokesman said. 9.Heroes come in many colorsBEIJING -- The results of China Central Television's annual "People Who Moved China" competition were announced with Space program father Qian Xuesen among the winners.10.Snow returns to haunt YunnanThe return of snow and freezing weather has stranded about 180,000 people in Yunnan province.Heavy snow blocked about 14,000 km of roads, disrupting more than 12,000 passengers' on Sunday alone, a provincial transport department spokesman said. Many areas have been suffering from power outages, too.

英语时事短篇新闻：

When the earthquake occurred in Japan, 130 kilometers northeast of Fukushima Prefecture, a huge tsunami was formed due to the earthquake, and it invaded the port at a very fast speed.

Hundreds of people died. The earthquake is the strongest in Japan in more than 100 years, causing huge losses.

日本地震发生的时候，距离福岛县东北方向130公里处的海上，因地震而形成了巨大海啸，并以极快的速度向港口侵袭。

数百人丧生。这次地震是日本100多年来最强烈的一次地震，造成了巨大的损失。

重点词汇：

海上：at sea ; on the sea ; seaborne。

海啸：bore ; tidal wave ; seismic sea wave ; seaquake。

侵袭：make inroads on ; invade and attack ; smite ; hit。

数百：hundreds of ; several hundred ; people lost their jobs。

丧生：meet one's death ; lose one's life ; get killed。

多年来：over the years ; for years ; through the years。

以上内容参考 百度百科-日本地震

中英对照读新闻》nigerian 'ritual murderer' lynched by mob 奈及利亚“仪式杀人犯”遭暴民私刑处决 a nigerian who confessed to taking part in the ritual murders of three women was beaten to death by an irate mob, police said recently. 一名供称参与三位妇女之仪式谋杀的奈及利亚人，被愤怒的暴民活活打死，警方最近说。 the remote northern town of bakori had been living in fear after mutilated corpses of three women were found with some of their body parts removed, apparently for use in magic ceremonies. 奈及利亚偏远的北部小镇巴叩里，先前一直生活在恐惧之中；三位妇女的尸体被人发现，她们部份的身体部位被割除，似乎是供作法仪式之用。 one day passers-by heard a woman screaming in a field outside the town and ran to her aid, grabbing a man called lawan hassan as he attacked her, police spokeman salisu sirajo said. 有一天，几位路人听到镇外的农田里传来一位妇女的尖叫声，便跑过去帮她，结果在一个名叫拉旺．哈山的男子攻击她时将他抓住，警方发言人沙力苏．席拉卓说。 “they took him to the office of the traditional chief of the town where he confessed to taking part in the ritual murders of three women in the town in the last two weeks,” sirajo said. “他们把他带到镇上传统长老的办公室，他在那里坦承在过去两个星期里参与了对三名镇上妇女的仪式谋杀行为”，席拉卓说。 “but when news of the arrest went round, a mob besieged the chief's office demanding for the man to be surrendered to them. the chief had no option but to oblige the mob, which burnt a part of his office. the man was killed on the spot,” he said. “但是当他被捕的消息传开后，一群暴民包围了长老的办公室，要求交出这名男子。暴民焚烧长老办公室的一部份，长老不得不顺从暴民。这名男子当场被杀死”，他说。