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1、News Item 1联合国气候变化大会在巴黎召开The United Nations Conference on Climate Change has opened in Paris with world leaders all describing global warming as an urgent threat. Leaders of the countries, most vulnerable to drought and rising sea levels said immediate action was required to prevent catastrophe. Neg
2、otiators have 12 days to reach agreement on limiting the rise in global temperatures to two degree Celsius about pre-industrial levels. Nigerias environment minister Amina Mohamed said there was an air of optimism around the conference on its first day. “Everybody is pretty upbeat here. The pressure
3、 is to keep the momentum and the ambition and I think people are hopeful. And certainly we are having conversations here in Paris that havent happened over the last few years. A lot is already on the table. It is really for us to try to put that into agreement.”News Item 2发现马航 MH370 疑似残骸The French a
4、uthorities will fly a piece of aircraft debris from an Indian Ocean island to France later today where it will be examined to see if it comes from a missing Malaysian airliner. Experts say it appears to be a wing component from a Boeing 777. Jennifer Park reports from Kuala Lumpur.“Malaysias Prime M
5、inister Najib Razak says initial reports on the debris show it was very likely from a Boeing 777 but that it is too early to speculate whether it belongs to MH370 until his investigators can examine it. One Malaysian team has been sent to where the debris was found and another to the French city of
6、Toulouse for the inspection. Officials say it may be several days before they have any answers.”A top Australian official has told the BBC hes increasingly confident that the wreckage found in Reunion is from the missing Malaysian airliner. Martin Donald heads the Australian Transport Safety Bureau
7、which is leading the search for the plane in the Eastern Indian Ocean. He said he still believed the search would eventually find the passenger plane.“The analysis that weve done with the satellite data is highly reliable, and the search vessels, equipment and cruise we have had on the Indian Ocean,
8、 covering the area very thoroughly also are of high quality highly reliable. So we think we are looking into right place to a high degree of certainty and we are confident that we have the quality research to cover that area and find the missing aircraft.”News Item 3欧元区财长为解决希腊债务危机提出新方案Euro zone trea
9、sury officials have begun assessing the latest Greek proposals for a way out of the debt crisis. The package that Athens submitted on Thursday to its international creditors includes the kind of austerity measures that Greek voters rejected in a referendum last Sunday. Chris Morris reports from Brus
10、sels. “The proposals include tax rises, pension reforms, spending cuts and promises of privatization. Measures rejected in last Sundays referendum will now be conceded. But this is no capitulation by the Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras. In return, he is asking for far more than was offered last month
11、. Greece wants a new three-year bailout from the Euro zone. It wants more support to promote economic growth, and it wants its huge debt burden to be restructured. In that, it now has support from the IMF, the U.S. Treasury and the President of the European Council, Donald Tusk.”News Item 4尼泊尔发生大地震
12、The government of Nepal says it believes at least fifteen hundred people have been killed by a devastating earthquake. The Information Minister, Minendra Rijal, says that number could triple in the next 24 hours, as many people are still thought to be buried in the debris of collapsed buildings. Mr.
13、 Rijal said it was a calamity of enormous proportions. The epicenter of the quake was between the capital, Kathmandu and the city of Bokhara. A BBC journalist in Kathmandu says thousands of people are spending the night outside in the open, fearing further tremors.The earthquake triggered avalanches
14、 in the Himalayas, and a number of climbers are known to have died on Mount Everest. Neil Norton, whos leading a team of climbers on the north side of the mountain, said the fate of climbers on the southern side was uncertain.Many countries and international charities have offered aid to Nepal to de
15、al with the disaster. Neighbouring India was the first to send several aircrafts, carrying medical supplies and a mobile hospital. Bailly Sames is from the British Red Cross. “Certainly, shelter and food is something that we are hearing is really urgent. Even if the homes havent collapsed completely
16、, they are still having aftershocks at the moment, so people are camping out in the open air. And some people, theyve just lost their homes entirely. But theres whole neighbourhood we havent even heard from yet. Especially towards the epicentre, theres been landslides. We cant get to them. We are not hearing from them. And we fear when we do reach these places, the situation is going to be much worse.”1. urgent adj. 紧迫的，紧急的，急迫的2. catastrophe
