研究显示财富地区分布极度不平衡(3)

Study Shows Just How Unequally Divided the World's Wealth Is(3)

      The study found that wealth is more unequally spread than income. Countries where people earn a lot generally have a bigger share of world wealth than of the value of world economic production. The opposite is generally true for countries where income is lower. The director of the institute, Anthony Shorrocks, offered a simple way to think of all these numbers. If the world had only ten people, he says, one person would have ninety-nine dollars. The other nine people would have to share one dollar.

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研究显示财富地区分布极度不平衡(2)

Study Shows Just How Unequally Divided the World's Wealth Is(2)

      Researchers considered possessions, property — all physical and financial assets. They also took debts into consideration. They used information from the year two thousand. And here is some of what they found: Adults worth at least two thousand two hundred dollars were in the top half of world wealth. The richest ten percent were those worth at least sixty-one thousand dollars. And the richest one percent had wealth of at least five hundred thousand dollars. Thirty-seven million people were in that top one percent. More than half lived in the United States or Japan. North America has only six percent of all adults but thirty-four percent of all household wealth. Together, people in North America, Europe and high-income countries in Asia and the Pacific hold almost ninety percent of world wealth.

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研究显示财富地区分布极度不平衡(1)

Study Shows Just How Unequally Divided the World's Wealth Is(1)

      This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. More than half of the world's wealth belongs to just two percent of adults. A new study also found that fifty percent of adults own just one percent of all the wealth. The report is from the World Institute for Development Economics Research, part of the United Nations University in Helsinki, Finland. The institute says the study of personal wealth was the first of its kind to include all countries and all major parts of household wealth.

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关于儿童尿床(4)

Dealing With Children's Bed-Wetting(4)

    Children sometimes think they are bad because they wet the bed. Parents may get angry. Or they may feel guilty, like they have done something wrong. Doctors say it is important to know that how a parent reacts could affect a child's self-image. We will talk more about the subject of bed-wetting next week. We will talk about different ways that doctors suggest to deal with it. And that's the VOA Special English Health Report, written by Caty Weaver. You can download MP3 files and transcripts of our reports at voaspecialenglish.com. And to send us questions, write to special@voanews.com. Please be sure to include your name and where you are writing from. I'm Mario Ritter.

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关于儿童尿床(3)

Dealing With Children's Bed-Wetting(3)

     Urologic and kidney experts at the National Institutes of Health also say some children may not produce enough antidiuretic hormone. The body usually produces more of this hormone at night so less urine is produced during sleep. The bladders of children who produce lesser amounts of antidiuretic hormone are more likely to fill up while they sleep. Experts say feeling nervous and worried can sometimes lead children to wet the bed. Genetics may also play a part. Researchers say some family genes appear to be involved in bed-wetting.

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关于儿童尿床(2)

Dealing With Children's Bed-Wetting(2)

   In most cases, children outgrow it. The academy says twenty percent of five-year-olds and ten percent of six-year-olds wet their bed. By the age of twelve, that number drops to three percent. The National Institutes of Health says experts are not sure what causes bed-wetting. The most likely causes, the experts say, include slower physical development and overproduction of urine at night. Smaller bladders fill more quickly. And some bodies take longer to develop the warning system between the brain and the bladder. Some children may not receive the message to wake up when they need to urinate.

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Dealing With Children's Bed-Wetting(1)

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The scientists examined(调查) the results of thirty-two experiments（试验）and observed （观察）forty-eight protected areas. They also looked at records of catches worldwide. They studied records from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization for nineteen fifty to two thousand three. And they examined archeologica（考古学的）l information and other historical records for twelve coastal（沿海） areas. That research reached back over a thousand years. Boris Worm says the findings were, in his words, "beyond anything we suspected（对…有所察觉）." But he also said the situation is not too late to correct. He said that with good fisheries management（处理）, some species could completely recover in three to ten years. And that's the VOA Special English Agriculture Report, written by Jerilyn Watson. You can learn more about agriculture, and download（下载） transcripts and MP3 files of our reports, at voaspecialenglish.com. I'm Steve Ember.

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Other studies have also warned about the dangers of overfishing(捕捞过渡) and the effects on ocean environments（环境）. But not everyone thinks the oceans are likely to be empty（空的）in fifty years. Some scientists said parts of the world do have problems, but others are doing a good job of protecting（保护）fish populations. Government officials in several countries with large fishing industries（产业）also questioned the research. The study appeared earlier this month in Science magazine. The researchers say damage(损伤) to oceans affects not only fish populations but also the productivity（生产力） of ecosystems. These complex systems help control water quality. The scientists say the loss of different kinds of sea life appeared（发表） to increase the risk of fish kills and beach closures from harmfu（有害的） algae growth.

世界海洋风险警告对海鲜供应的影响研究 (1)

Study Warns of Risk to Seafood Supplies in World's Oceans (1)

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A study has warned(警告) that seafood supplies（供给）from the world's oceans could be almost gone by the middle of the century（世纪）. The researchers say there has already been a collapse（灭绝）in wild populations of almost one-third of currently fished seafoods. The study says that means（方法）their catch has fallen by ninety percent from their highest levels. Boris Worm of Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada, led the international（国际组织）team that did the study. Professor Worm says species have recently been disappearing（消失） from oceans at increasing（越来越多）speed. At this rate, he says, all seafood species could collapse by two thousand forty-eight.

通过新闻学英语是学习英语的重要手段！在你增长见闻的同时，通过时事英语，可以帮助你在两方面提高英语水平：

1.听力。

2.词汇和习惯用法。

一般一则新闻都是围绕一个主题展开的，而每一个主题都会有相关的关键词，比如看过听过一篇有关海啸的新闻后，与有关海啸的一批词汇和习惯用法你都可以学会了，比如地震、海啸、震中心、震级、余震、救援等等，这些词不会很多，一般在十几个左右。等你学会后，再去看两三篇相关新闻，就会觉得很容易很轻松了，这时，马上去听CCTV9, CNN,BBC,VOA，就会觉得听懂这一类新闻太容易了。同时，与一些朋友用英语谈论这一话题时，就会游刃有余了。时事英语的语速是原文播音的正常语速，就是要给你营造真实环境，从而提高你的英语听力能力，如果你坚持按此语速听新闻，一段时间后就会有效果。一定要意识到，这些可是地道英语新闻和发音呀！

为了达到学习目的，将会有2到3篇新闻是围绕同一主题展开的，让你对相关内容有更进一步的理解；对相关的关键词加深记忆，希望看完听完学完这几条新闻后，树立一个信心，就是如果再看到听到有关这一主题的英文，你会觉得基本不会有问题了，也就达到了你学习的目的。

在英语学习的道路上，应该通过各种途径、方式灵活地进行学习，100e为你提供了一种通过时事新闻学英语的环境，祝你在网易的“100e时事英语”中一步步提高你的英语听说水平!