教学PPT Chapter 10课件.pptVIP

Business English Reading;Chapter Ten;单元教学目的;本章阅读技巧提示;以下技巧可供参考： ;第二，要仔细查看原文是怎么说的。与原 文相关的几句话，应”瞻前顾后”，不能只看对 应的一句话。;第三，要仔细推敲问题是怎么问的。很多读者只看文章是怎么说的，但是往往忽略题目是怎么问的。提问方式，提问的重点就显得格外的重要，很多读者原文看懂 了，但是题解错了，因为题目没有仔细看，提问的重点没有看明白。;第四，要结合平时积累的基础知识，反复推敲句意，”去伪存真”，判定句子在文中的准确意思之后再解题。;Step One; For most of the 217 years since its founding under a buttonwood tree on Wall Street, the New York Stock Exchange was the high temple of American capitalism. Behind its Greco-Roman facade, traders raised a Dante-esque din in their pursuit of the almighty dollar. Good times or bad, the daily melee on the cavernous trading floor made the Big Board the greatest marketplace for stocks in the world. ; But now, even as the Dow Jones industrial average topped 10,000 for the first time since the financial crisis sent it tumbling, the exchange and its hometown face an unsettling truth: the Big Board, the symbolic heart of New York’s financial industry, is getting smaller. Young, fast-moving rivals are splintering its public marketplace and creating private markets that, their critics say, give big banks and investment funds an edge over ordinary investors. ; Some of the new trading venues — “dark pools,” the industry calls them — are all but invisible, even to regulators. These stealth markets enable sophisticated traders to buy and sell large blocks of stock in secrecy at lightning speed, a practice that has drawn scrutiny from the Securities and Exchange Commission. These upstarts are utterly unlike the old-school Big Board, which is struggling to make its way as a for-profit corporation after centuries of ownership by its seat-holding members. Last year, its parent company, NYSE Euronext, lost $740 million. ; Wall Street’s judgment has been swift and brutal. Since January 2007, the share price of NYSE Euronext has lost nearly three-quarters of its value, even though stock trading over all has soared. While the exchange has been under assault since the beginning of