高三英语培优外刊阅读 房地产话题 学案

1、高三英语培优外刊阅读班级：学号：姓名：外刊精选I从最大房地产商到负债累累,恒大怎么了？恒大这个曾经中国最大的房地产开发商，却在鼎盛时期为了扩张，而大量贷款，导致如 今资金链断裂，债台高筑，负债远超归还能力。购房者们对此会作何反响？债权人和昔日的 商业伙伴们又会如何对待恒大？Evergrande Went From Chinas Biggest Developer to One of Its Worst DebtorsBy Alexandra Stevenson and Cao LiThe company owes hundreds of billions of dollars. Its cre

2、ditors are circling. Its shares have taken a beating. But if anything forces a reckoning for Evergrande, a vast real estate empire in China, it might be the nervousness of ordinary home buyers like Chen Cheng.Ms. Chen, 30, and her husband thought they had found the perfect apartment. It was part of

3、an 18-building complex in the southern city of Guangzhou, near a good school for their daughter and a new subway station. Evergrande was asking for a deposit worth nearly one-third of the price before the property was completed. After reading headlines about the companys financial difficulties and c

4、omplaints about construction delays from recent buyers, Ms. Chen walked away. We dont have a lot of money,* she said. We were really afraid this money would evaporate.During the boom years, Evergrande was Chinas biggest developer, creating economic activity that officials came to depend on while the

5、 country opened up. Now Evergrande owes more money than it can pay off. Its stock price has lost three-quarters of its value in the past year, and creditors are panicking.On Chinas internet, buyers describe waiting months or even years for their Evergrande apartments. By one estimate, Evergrande owe

6、s more than $300 billion. Creditors are not sure it can pay the bills. Business partners have filed lawsuits.【词汇过关】请写出下面文单词在文章中的中文意思。.Evergrande.debtor deta n.creditor kredi to n.circle S3 ： ksl v.vast va： st adj.nervousness n3 ： vosnos n. plex kD mpleks kom pleks n.subway sa bwei n.deposit di pD zi

7、 t n.evaporate i vaeparei t v.boom bu： m n.v.panic paeni k v.estimate estl mot n.file fai 1 v.【词块学习】请从文章中找到下面中文相对应的文词块。.从某种状态/身份变成另外一种状态/身份.数以千亿计的.被打败/遭遇重大损失.对施加某种不可抗力/让付出代价5从某种局面里抽身.仰仗；依赖.还清；收到回报等.商业合作伙伴拓展练习 阅读理解Businessmen in New Zealand are working with American creators of some of Hollywoods mos

8、t famous creatures to develop animatronic dolphins that look almost the same with their living counterparts （相对应的事物）.A robotic dolphin that can nod an answer to a child might sound unappealing or disturbing. But as marine parks around the world face increasing pressure to abandon exhibitions featuri

9、ng real whales and dolphins, the creatures provide an appealing choice, their creators say.But with a price tag of about NZ$40m （20.8m） per dolphin, the biggest difficulty for the creators of the animatronic creatures is proving to potential clients that the robotic sea creatures will work out to be

10、 cheaper in the long run than the real thing.Li Wang, a business developer for Edge Innovation, the New Zealand-based company making the case for the robots, said they do cost four times more than normal dolphins but would last longer.Melanie Langlotz, one of the businessmen behind the project said,

11、 the prototype （原型）for the dolphin is indiscernible from the real thing. A test audience had been unable to guess the dolphin was not real, she added.Animal rights advocates also welcomed the change. They hoped robotic dolphins would replace real ones in marine parks worldwide. In nature, dolphins s

12、wim up to 40 miles a day and live in close family groups, but in marine parks animals were limited to pools filled with chemically treated water and forced to interact with strangers. Ifs hoped that in the near future, advanced technology might allow us to experience nature without harming it.What i

13、s the biggest problem for the creators of the animatronic creatures? A.To make robotic creatures that are cheaper than real things in the future. B.To prove the robotic sea creatures will be cheaper than real things in the long term. C.To make people believe the robotic sea creatures will be the che

14、apest in the future. D.To convince ordinary people to buy the robotic sea creatures.Which of the following word means the closest to the underlined word in Paragraph 5?A.different.B.identified.C.indistinguishable.D.noticeable.What can we learn from the last paragraph?A.The robotic dolphins have repl

15、aced the real ones in marine parks.B.Dolphins live freely and happily in nature.C.The dolphins are well treated in the marine parks.D.Were experiencing nature without harming it.What is the purpose of this passage?A.To introduce a robotic sea creature一animatronic dolphin.B.To introduce the current t

16、hreats of the sea creatures.C.To introduce the difficulty of creating the robotic sea creature.D.To introduce the development of advanced technologies.外刊精选答案【词汇过关】请写出下面文学词在文章中的中文意思。.Evergrande恒大集团.debtor det。 n.债务人.creditor kredl U n.债主.circle S3 ： koi v.盘旋，绕圈子；围成一圈.vast va: st adj.规模巨大的.nervousness

17、 n3 ： vosnos n.紧张情绪 plex kD mpleks kom pleks n.建筑综合体.subway sa bwei n.地铁.deposit di pD zi t n.预付款，订金，首付；存款.evaporate I vaeporei t v.蒸发；逐渐衰减，慢慢消失.boom bu： m n.突然的增长v.迅速增加.panic paeni k v.恐慌.estimate esti mat n.对的估计.file fai 1 v.正式提交【词块学习】请从文章中找到下面中文相对应的文词块。.go from.to.从某种状态/身份变成另外一种状态/身份.hundreds of

18、billions 数以千亿计的.take a beating被打败/遭遇重大损失.force a reckoning for对施加某种不可抗力/让付出代价.walk away从某种局面里抽身.depend on仰仗;依赖.pay off还清；收到回报.wait for 等.business partners商业合作伙伴【全文翻译】恒大地产从中国最大开发商变成了最大债务人之一恒大欠债数千亿美元，债权人们蜂拥而至，它的股票也遭受重挫。但如果说有什么东西 能迫使这个中国房地产巨头付出代价的话，那可能是来自像陈诚这样的普通购房者的紧张情 绪。30岁的陈女士和她的丈夫以为他们找到了完美的公寓。这座公寓坐落于南方城市广州, 是一个18栋综合建筑群的一局部，靠近一所好学校，他们的女儿可以就近入学，并且离一 个刚建成的地铁站也不远。在该楼盘完工前，恒大地产要求购房者缴纳近总价三分之一