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1、 www.TopwayEnglish.com 1BBC 新聞 新聞 100 篇 BBC News Item 1 政治 政治：英國首相確定大選時間 英國首相確定大選時間 The BBC has learned that the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has decided that the British general election will take place on May 6t

2、h. Mr. Brown will go to Buckingham Palace tomorrow Tuesday to ask Queen Elizabeth to dissolve parliament, and then make a formal announcement of the election date. That will start the official election campaign, which, a

3、 BBC correspondent says, will be dominated by issues of taxation and spending in the wake of the global recession. BBC News Item 2 政治 政治：大選在即 大選在即，布朗遭遇挑戰(zhàn) 布朗遭遇挑戰(zhàn) Less than six months before a general election in Britain,

4、the governing Labour Party is embroiled again in internal strife. Two former cabinet ministers have called for secret ballot of members to decide whether the Prime Minister Gordon Brown should continue as party leader. M

5、r. Brown has called a general election by June this year. Our political correspondent Rob Watson reports. The two former cabinet ministers Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt had stunned everyone at Westminster with their las

6、t-minute efforts to challenge Gordon Brown’s leadership. But Downing Street and Labour Party officials have moved quickly to quash any revolts. Most importantly, current cabinet ministers have come out and backed the pri

7、me minister, orbiting some cases with little apparent enthusiasm. So the latest challenge looks likely to be short lift. Although many within the Labour Party doubt Mr. Brown’s leadership qualities, they also seem to thi

8、nk it would only make things worse to get rid of him before the general election. BBC News Item 3 軍事 軍事：英國核縮減計劃 英國核縮減計劃 The British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is offering to scale back Britain’s nuclear deterrence if an

9、 international agreement is reached to cut the world’s nuclear arsenals. Mr. Brown is expected to tell a special session of the United Nations Security Council on Thursday that he’ll be willing to give up one of four roy

10、al navy submarines that carry Trident nuclear missiles. Officials are insisting that cost isn’t a factor here. Here’s our defence correspondent Nick Childs. Gordon Brown is saying he’ll be ready to throw part of the trid

11、ent force into the port in the context of a much bigger global disarmament deal. He said so in general terms before. This offer though is more concrete. There is a growing sense that to avoid what some fear could be a su

12、dden cascade of new nuclear states, the established nuclear powers need to do more in terms of disarmament to keep the proliferation regime intact. The Prime Minister will hope his move will be seen as an important gestu

13、re. But the key to the process will be the actions of the big players, the United States and Russia. BBC News Item 4 軍事 軍事：英國派軍阿富汗 英國派軍阿富汗 The British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is expected to confirm that he is sending

14、 hundreds more troops to Afghanistan, bringing the total number of British troops there to about 9,500. Britain has the second largest NATO contingent in Afghanistan after the United States. Our defense www.TopwayEnglish

15、.com 3BBC News Item 8 經(jīng)濟 經(jīng)濟：IMF 正努力幫助希臘解決債務(wù)問題 正努力幫助希臘解決債務(wù)問題 The head of the International Monetary Fund says Greece has nothing to fear from the organization. At a news conference in Washington, Dominique Strauss-Kahn sa

16、id the IMF was trying to provide Greece with the advice and resources necessary to help with its debt problem. Andrew Walker reports from Washington. Mr. Strauss-Kahn was responding to a Greek journalist who said the Gr

17、eek public are demonizing the IMF that they fear things will be worse with IMF involvement. The agency has a reputation for requiring borrowing countries to make deep cuts in popular government spending programs. Mr. Str

18、auss-Kahn said the Greek people should think of the IMF as a cooperative organization where the countries of the world work together to help those in trouble by providing resources and advice on behalf of the internation

19、al community. BBC News Item 9 經(jīng)濟 經(jīng)濟：G20 財政部長達成協(xié)議 財政部長達成協(xié)議 Finance ministers of the world’s leading industrialized and developing countries, the G20, have agreed to continue supporting the global economic recovery. In a s

20、tatement released after their meeting in Scotland, the ministers said conditions had improved, but economic and financial recovery was uneven and unemployment a worry. Andrew Walker reports. The communiqué avoids c

21、omplacency. Although economic and financial conditions have improved, they decided they still need to keep up the initiatives intended to restore growth. The meeting was, however, rather overshadowed by a statement from

22、the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, suggesting a tax on financial transactions as one of a number of options for making banks pay for the crisis. His calls have been received politely by the finance ministers but se

23、veral made remarks which suggest that other ways of tackling the problem are rather more likely to be adopted. BBC News Item 10 經(jīng)濟 經(jīng)濟：歐盟達成協(xié)議 歐盟達成協(xié)議，終止了香蕉貿(mào)易爭端 終止了香蕉貿(mào)易爭端 The European Union has initialed an agreement to end

24、 one of the world’s longest-running trade disputes over bananas. The EU, the world’s biggest importer of bananas, is to cut the duty it imposes on Latin American producers of the fruit, while bananas grows in former Euro

25、pean colonies will gradually lose the preferential terms they’ve enjoyed. Andrew Walker reports. The deal signed in Geneva commits the European Union to gradually lowering the tariffs it imposes on bananas imported mainl

26、y from Latin America. The cut will be over a third by 2017. That will reduce the competitive advantage of a group of countries, mainly former colonies of EU states in Africa and Caribbean, which enjoyed tariff-free acces

27、s. The EU plans to provide those countries with some compensation, in a shape of nearly 300,000 dollars in additional aid. BBC News Item 11 科技 科技：太陽能飛機 太陽能飛機 The long-awaited take-off of the Solar Impulse was greeted wit

28、h delight by those who have spent the last seven years working on it. The solar-powered plane has the wing-span of a jumbo jet, but weighs less than a family car. It doesn’t use a single drop of aviation fuel, instead it