1、必背表达
经济 economy
繁荣boom
零售 retail
促销promote sales
管理management
金融 finance, commerce/commercial
经济全球化economic globalization
可持续发展sustainable development
不正当竞争unfair competition
假冒伪劣产品fake and inferior product
打假crack down on fake commodities
购买力purchasing power
激烈竞争fierce competition
售后服务 after-sale service
生计问题 bread -and -butter issue
企业形象 enterprise image
信用危机 credit crisis
稳定物价 stabilize prices
品牌效应 brand effect
流行的消遣方式 popular pastime2高分热文
2、手机用户数量变化
Developed and developing countries witnessed different rates of growth in mobile-phone subscription from 2000 to 2008. As the bar graph shows, the number of mobile-phone sub-scribers in developed countries rose steadily(稳步增长)from 0.7 billion in 2000 to one billion in 2008. Bystark contrast(突出对比), cell phone users in developing countries soared from 0.4 billion to 4 billion in the same period.
What accounts for this disparity(差距，不同)? The answer involves two factors. The first reason is technology gap. Developed countries generally enjoy advanced technology, which enables them to popularize mobile phone ahead of developing countries. Another contributing factor is the difference in population size. As we know, developed countries usually have a small population but most developing countries a large. As the price of the mobile phone slides(下滑), more and more people in developing countries avail themselves of(利用)this service, which explains thesubstantial increase(大幅增长)in mobile-phone subscription in these countries since 2003.
From the case of mobile-phone subscription, we see that developing countries are quickly catching up(赶追)in science and technology, which is believed to be conducive to closing the gap between developing and developed countries.
3、精彩译文
2000年到2008年间，在发达国家以及发展中国家手机用户有了不同程度的增长。如图所示，在发达国家2000年移动手机用户为7亿，之后稳步增长，2008年到了10亿。相比之下，同期在发展中国家手机用户量从4亿直线上升到了40亿。
怎样来解释这种差异?答案有两点：第一个原因是技术差距。发达国家通常享有先进技术，这就使得手机的普遍性要超过发展中国家。另一个影响因素是人口数量的不同。众所周知，发达国家通常人口数量少，而发展中国家大部分人口数量庞大。随着手机价格的下滑，发展中国家越来越多的人得益于这种服务。这也就解释了自2003年这些国家的手机用户大幅度提高的原因。
从手机用户的例子来看，发展中国家在科技领域快速赶追，我们坚信这对缩小发达国家与发展中国家的差距是有益的。
