[英语考试]高职高专、高级英语综合教程Unit3-TextA答案.pptVIP

“Parties need to create the tool box that can reduce emissions cost-effectively and enable economic growth, he said. “The final step of the two-year negotiating process will be to define targets and the type of legal instrument that is needed to make the new international deal work,” he added. What is the final step of the two-year negotiating process? To define targets and the type of legal instrument that is needed to make the new international deal work. Main idea: The final step of the two-year negotiating process. Background Text Translation Exercises Language Points 1. The United Nations Climate Change Conference—Bali, 2007 got underway and poised for a breakthrough in international climate change negotiations. The United Nations Climate Change Conference, which is convened in 2007 in Bali, has the possibility of a breakthrough in international climate change negotiations. Language Points get underway: currently in progress poised for: prepared for e.g. The Allies were poised for their invasion of Europe. breakthrough: n. an act of overcoming or penetrating an obstacle or restriction e.g. a military breakthrough/technical breakthrough/strategic breakthrough Language Points 2. The scientific debate has been conclusively laid to rest by the latest scientific findings from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change—climate change is unequivocal and accelerating. The latest scientific findings that climate change is clear and stepped up from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has finally laid the scientific debate to rest. Language Points lay to rest: place sth. not true; bury (the dead) e.g. He is determined to lay to rest these rumors that he is in financial troubles. In profound sorrow and grief, the people lay her to rest in the midst of the mountain peaks. unequivocal: adj. admitting of no doubt or misunderstanding e.g. an unequivocal success The statement was so unequivocal that it excluded all possible arguments.