英语报纸读书笔记.docx

英语报纸读书笔记
【篇一: 英语报纸读后感】

oct. 28th page1
city hopes for greener rooftops
recently i read several newspapers. today, i appeal to an essay about a new proposal. it’s a very long report, so i spent lots of time reading it. after reading it, i got many new ideas and thought more about it.
to beautify our environment and make us live a better life, the greener rooftops begin to come to our life. it’s a big project and needs the support of law enforcement departments, approval from the municipal people’s congress and public opinions, so the plan is currently under discussion. although it’s not universal in everybody’s life, it would also encourage residents to grow plants, grass and vegetables on their rooftops. it’s good for our environment.
when it comes to environment, the word pollution appears in my mind. because the human-beings didn’t take good care of the surroundings, wasted the resources, cut the trees casually, pour the polluted water into the river and threw the litters everywhere. our environment became worse and worse. with the development of rooftop greening techniques, we can improve our environment and more and more land can be green. what’s more, rooftop greening projects are generally designed to combat the “urban heat island effect”. it’s beneficial to our city.
i call on everybody
taking actions to green our rooftop and spare no effort to protect our environment.
【篇二: 英语小说英文报纸读书笔记reading report】

reading report 1 (weeks 1 – 4)
name:梁静丹 class:4 student number: 022
【篇三: 英语报刊阅读课后阅读笔记1】

1swapping gems for cash
what next for south africas foremost mining family?
most people would be overjoyed to pocket $5.1 billion. but nicky oppenheimer, the chairman of de beers, said that it was with a heavy heart that his family had decided to sell its remaining 40% stake in the worlds biggest diamond miner to anglo american, a mining behemoth. the deal marks the end of an era for south africas foremost mining dynasty.
the oppenheimers have been in the diamond business for more than a century, including over 80 years with de beers. nickys grandfather ernest settled in south africa in 1902, having been posted to the diamond-boom town of kimberley at the age of 22 as an agent for a london-based firm of gem traders. by 1917 he had set up his own mining company, anglo american. a few years later he won control of de beers, a diamond miner that had been founded in 1880 by cecil rhodes, a british-born colonialist. by the time rhodes died in 1902, de beers controlled 90% of the worlds diamond production. rhodess immense fortune still pays for people like bill clinton to study at oxford.
since 1929, when sir ernest (knighted for war services in 1921) took over as chairman, the oppenheimers have led de beers almost without interruption, massaging the price of diamonds by hoarding them and occasionally selling part of the firms stockpile. the family has wielded political influence, too, mostly bankrolling liberal causes. both ernest and his son harry served in south africa’s parliament: ernest for 14 years in the run-up to the second world war, and harry for nine years as a member of the anti-apartheid opposition.
of late, however, the familys influence has waned. some wonder whether nicky and his son jonathan have the same drive and acumen as their swashbuckling forebears. and anglo american, the firm their family founded (and in which it now has a stake of 2%), moved its headquarters to london in 1999. nicky oppenheimer insists that the family will stay connected with south africa: they are still based in johannesburg.
what will the oppenheimers do with their new pile of cash? the deal will take months to complete, so they have time to ponder. under its terms, they are barred from dabbling in diamonds for two years. but other possibilities abound.
the family has two investment arms. one, called stockdale street capital, invests largely in medium-sized firms in south africa. the other, tana africa capital, is a joint venture with singapores sovereign-wealth fund, temasek, and invests in the
rest of africa. among other things, it holds a stake in a nigerian firm that sells powdered milk, and it plans to build up five to ten substantial firms over the next decade.
at the moment, tana is focused on fast-moving consumer goods and agriculture, and to a lesser extent on building materials, health and education. the new money could go into any or all of these areas, says james teeger, a family spokesman. and the oppenheimers may also look at infrastructure and energy, two of the hottest businesses south of the sahara. nicky oppenheimer is said to be furiously jetting around looking for shrewd places to inject his cash.
宝石交易
南非最有影响力矿业家族, 下一步会怎样？
在大多数人眼里, 取得51亿美元是一件快乐事。然而对于尼克 奥本海默而言, 这位德比尔斯（全球最大, 历史最悠久钻石矿业企业）主席却不那么轻松。其家族海默家族已经决定向矿业巨头英美资源集团出售剩下40%德比尔斯股份。而这次交易也标志这个南非矿业巨头辉煌时代结束。
海默家族涉足钻石业已超出一个世纪, 其中80年在德比尔斯工作。尼克祖父欧内斯特在19定居在南非。在她22岁那年, 作为一家总部在伦敦钻石交易企业代理, 她外派到钻石业繁荣小城金伯利。19, 她已经有了自己矿业企业, 英美资源集团。几年以后, 她又掌控了德比尔斯, 一家由英国殖民者塞西尔? 罗兹于1880年创建企业。19, 也就是罗兹逝世时间, 德比尔斯钻石产量占据世界份额90%。至今, 罗兹巨额财富仍在支付美国前总统克林顿在牛津大学学习费用。
1929年, 欧内斯特爵士成为德比尔斯主席。自此以后, 海默家族一直经营着德比尔斯, 并经过控制库存量来调控钻石价格。与此同时, 海默家族为部分南非自由事业提供资助, 在政界也有一定影响。另外, 欧内斯特和儿子哈利也曾为南非议会服务: 欧内斯特在里为二战提供支持, 哈利也是种族主义支持者。
最近, 海默家族影响力却日渐衰弱。部分人就质疑尼克和她儿子是否拥有先驱进取心和洞察力。而且英美资源集团, 这个曾经海默家族一手打造企业也在1999年把总部迁到了伦敦。而尼克 奥本海默却坚持家族应该要立足于南非: 其总部仍在约翰内斯堡。
奥本海默家族又怎样利用这笔钱？这次交易历经数月才能完成, 所以海默家族有着足够时间来考量。条款要求, 她们在2年内严禁从事钻石行业。但不排除有其她可能她们将再次干起老本行。
海默家族有2个投资分部: 斯托克代尔街资本, 关键投资南非中型企业。非洲塔纳资本, 这家与新加坡淡马锡（主权财富基金企业）成立合资企业则负责其它非洲业务。除了这些之外, 家族还拥有一家尼日利亚奶粉厂, 并计划在近十年中投资在新建5到10个新工厂。 与此同时, 塔纳资本愈发重视投资日益繁荣消费品和农产品行业。同时, 也在慢慢涉足建筑材料领域、 健康领域和教育界。娜塔丽珍, 这位家族讲话人声称, 家族取得资金会投
资到这些行业中。除此之外, 基础设施和能源领域是作为撒哈拉沙漠南部最热门行业, 海默家族也在考量着对这两个领域进行投资。听说, 尼克四处打探消息, 寻求能够投钱最好场所。
2 climate change
good news at last?
the climate may not be as sensitive to carbon dioxide as previously believed
if that were true, disaster beckons. but a paper published in this week’s science, by andreas schmittner of oregon state university, suggests it is not. in dr schmittner’s analysis, the climate is less sensitive to carbon dioxide than was feared.
existing studies of climate sensitivity mostly rely on data gathered from weather stations, which go back to roughly 1850. dr schmittner takes a different approach. his data come from the peak of the most recent ice age, between 19,000 and 23,000 years ago. his group is not the first to use such data (ice cores, fossils, marine sediments and the like) to probe the climate’s sensitivity to carbon dioxide. but their paper is the most thorough. previous attempts had considered only small regions of the globe. he has compiled enough information to make a credible stab at recreating the climate of the entire planet.
before you take the suv out for a celebratory spin, though, it is worth bearing in
mind that this is only one study, and, like all such, it has its flaws. the computer model used is of only middling sophistication, dr schmittner admits. that may be one reason for the narrow range of his team’s results. and although the study’s geographical coverage is the most comprehensive so far for work of this type, there are still blank areas—notably in australia, central asia, south america and the northern pacific ocean. moreover, some skeptics complain about the way ancient data of this type were used to construct a different but related piece of climate science: the so-called hockey-stick model, which suggests that temperatures have risen suddenly since the beginning of the industrial revolution. it will be interesting to see if such skeptics are willing to be equally skeptical about ancient data when they support their point of view.
sensitive adj. 敏感
estimate v. 估量, 判定
beckon v. 示意, 召唤
sensitivity n.敏感
consensus n. 一致; 舆论
comprehensive adj.全方面
气候改变
最终来了好消息？
气候对二氧化碳敏感性可能低于先前预期
现有相关气候敏感性研究关键基于气象站搜集数据, 能够追溯到公元1850年左右。施密特纳博士采取了另外一个方法。她数据起源于最近一次冰河时期顶峰（介于一万九千到两万三千年前之间）。她团体不是第一个使用这些数据（冰芯, 化石, 海洋沉积物诸如这类）来探测气候对二氧化碳敏感性团体。但她们汇报是最全方面根本。过去研究只考虑了全球小部分地域。而她汇编了足够信息, 能够确凿地尝试一下重建整个地球气候模型。
研究结果给出了气候科学中最为罕见之物——一丁点好消息。该研究组给出最有可能气
不过在你把suv开出去兜风以作庆贺之前, 要记住这只是一项研究而已, 而且——就如同全部这类研究一样——研究本身也有缺点。施密特纳博士认可, 该研究采取电脑模型复杂程度通常。这可能也是她团体试验结果范围较窄一个原因。而且, 尽管这项研究地理覆盖范围是迄今为止同类中最大, 它仍有空白区域——尤其指澳洲, 中亚, 南美和北太平洋地域。另外, 部分怀疑论者对这些远古数据被用来构建一个不一样不过相关气候学分支: 所谓“曲棍球棒模型”（认为气温自从工业革命以后就忽然上升）满腹怨言。看看当远古数据支持这些怀疑论者见解时, 这些人是否还愿意以相同怀疑态度对待, 这一定会非常有趣。
3 technology and civil liberties
don’t shoot
police may not like being filmed, but they had better get used to it
what is the most striking image to emerge from this autumn’s occupy protests? was it the campus police officer in davis, california, casually pepper-spraying a line of seated protesters? or the white-shirted cop in new york, doing the same to a pair of unarmed, penned-in women? perhaps it was a street in oakland, deserted except for protesters and a line of black-helmeted riot police, the silence broken when one of the cops fires a rubber bullet at a protester filming him. protesters have complained, as ever, about police infiltration, but as these videos make clear, protesters and other citizens are keeping their eyes on police, too.
more than two-thirds of americans own digital cameras. around one-third of adults own a smartphone. most of these devices can record and easily transmit audio and video. recording police has never been easier, and thanks to social-media and activist networks such as copwatch, which monitors police activity and posts videos to the web, neither has publicizing these recordings.
that does not always go over well. people peaceably filming police have been handcuffed, beaten, had their cameras seized, and been arrested for obstructing governmental administration, obstructing an investigation, interference, disturbing the peace, or for illegal wiretapping. in taking such action the police are on shaky legal ground. the right to photograph people, including police officers, in public places, is relatively clear.
adding audio, however, raises a new set of legal issues. most states have single-party consent laws concerning audio recording, meaning that as long as one party consents to being recorded, the taping is legal. in most of the 12 states in