(单词翻译:单击)
中英文本
A major supermarket in the UK will soon remove all candy and chocolates from near its checkouts. The supermarket giant Tesco said that from the end of this year, there will be no sweets or chocolates next to customers waiting to pay for their food. This is because it wants its customers to be healthier. Tesco did a lot of research on the best place to put things in its stores. It said that two-thirds of its customers thought it was a good idea to remove candies and chocolates from in front of the checkouts. Tesco's chief executive Philip Clarke said: "We all know how easy it is to be tempted by sugary snacks at the checkout, and we want to help our customers lead healthier lives."
英国的一个大超市很快就会将收银台旁边拜访的糖果和巧克力清除。从今年年底开始，乐购超级市场，在人们等待付款的旁边位置，不会再摆放糖果和巧克力。这是因为它希望客户身体更加健康。乐购超级市场研究了在商店中摆放糖果的最佳位置。据说，三分之二的客户认为将糖果和巧克力从收银台前面的位置移除的主意很棒。乐购的执行总裁菲利普.克里克称，我们都明白收银台旁边的含糖类零食很容易吸引顾客，我们想帮助我们的顾客享受健康的生活。
Britain's Public Health Minister Jane Ellison welcomed Tesco's idea. She said it would help tackle obesity and poor health. She said: "This initiative will help people to make healthier choices, which all contributes to reducing the long-term cost to our nation of obesity and ill-health." A spokeswoman from the parenting website MumsNet.com told the BBC that Tesco's move was "positive" and would make life "that little bit easier". She said: "Popping into a shop with a small child…can sometimes feel like navigating an assault course." She was happy that Tesco listened to people, saying: "It's really positive to see a supermarket responding to the views of their customers."
英国公共卫生部长简.艾莉森很赞成乐购的想法。她说，这可以帮助对抗肥胖以及亚健康。她说，这一创举将会帮助人们做出更加健康的选择，这也会帮助减少我们国家长期在治疗肥胖症和生病方面的费用。育儿网站MumsNet.com的一位发言人告诉BBC,乐购的举动是“积极的”，并将使生活更加轻松她说，出现在一家商店小孩…有时感觉在导航一次攻击过程。她很高兴,乐购公司能倾听顾客的想法，一家超市能够回应顾客的观点，这一行为有很大积极作用。
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重点讲解
1.the end of…的最后
We tacked ourselves to the end of a long movie queue.
我们跟在一长排买电影票的行列的最后。
2.pay for赔偿；为…而付钱；为…付出代价
I'll settle with you, you have to pay for your insulting.
我早晚要找你算这笔账的，你得为你的侮辱行为付出代价。
3.poor health不健康
I also see this commitment as recognition that poor health and poverty are closely tied, as are better health and the prospects for development.
我也认为这种承诺承认健康不良和贫穷是密切相关的，而且改善健康与发展前景也是密切相关的。
4.pop into急急走进
Making a good Web site is hard, so take everything you find here as a rough template to be filtered through your needs and budget rather than a finished design you can pop into production.
打造出色 的网站是一项困难的工作，因此应当将这里学到的所有内容作为一个粗糙的模板，然后根据您的需要和预算进行筛选，而不是将其作为完善的设计直接应用到生产中。
5.respond to响应
How do you respond to skeptics who say there must be some biological or physiological basis for that kind of experience, which you say in the book is medically inexplicable?
对那些无神论者关于濒死体验应该有些生物学的或生理学的基础的说法你如何回应，你在书中说这种体验是医学上无法解释的？
听力试题
1.Where are the supermarkets?
a) the U.A.E.
b) the U.K.
c) Upper Volta
d) the U.S.A.
2.By when will the chocolates be removed?
a) September
b) 2016
c) later this week
d) the end of the year
3.How many customers thought Tesco's idea was good?
a) two-thirds
b) half
c) 152,677
d) several million
4.Who is Philip Clarke?
a) a candy company boss
b) a Tesco customer
c) Tesco's CEO
d) a writer
5.What does Tesco want its customers to lead?
a) singing
b) healthier lives
c) a following
d) a campaign
6.What did a health minister say the idea would tackle?
a) obesity
b) football players
c) calories
d) cashiers
7.What will the initiative help people make?
a) plans
b) tastier food
c) healthier choices
d) time for cleaning teeth
8.What did a parenting website say would be easier because of the idea?
a) life
b) shopping
c) cooking
d) parenting
9.What is like an assault course?
a) shopping with a child
b) the break department
c) obesity
d) surfing the Tesco website
10.Whose views did Tesco respond to that made someone happy?
a) a website
b) mothers
c) chocolate companies
d) customers
听力答案
1.b
2.d
3.a
4.c
5.b
6.a
7.c
8.a
9.a
10.d
