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【答案解析】我们的目标是,提倡我国的能源独立,同时使环境得到大幅度改善。我已向你们提交了一份全面的能源计划,旨在提高能源保护,发展更清洁的技术。我向你们提交了一项议案,要求未来的15年内将发电厂的空气污染减少70%。我向你们提交了一项倡议,帮助防止凶猛的大火毁灭宝贵森林。为使我们的环境和经济受益,我敦促你们通过这些提案。
在本世纪,要在环境问题上取得更重大的进步,要靠技术与革新。今晚,我提议拨出12亿美元的研究资金,使美国能够领导世界研制出洁净的氢动力汽车。我们的科学家和工程师将克服障碍,将这些汽车从实验室带入展示厅,这样我们的下一代所开的第一辆汽车可能就是用氢作动力的没有污染的汽车。请同我一起加入这一重要革新,使我们的空气更为清洁。
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Our goal is to promote energy independence for our country, while dramatically improving the environment. I have sent you a comprehensive energy plan to promote energy conservation and to develop cleaner technology. I have sent you a legislation that calls for a 70 percent cut in air pollution from power plants over the next 15 years. And I have sent you an initiative to help prevent the fierce fires that destroy our treasured forests. I urge you to pass the above measures, for the good of both our environment and our economy.
In this century, the greatest environmental progress will come about through technology and innovation. Tonight I"m proposing US $1.2 billion in research funding so that America can lead the world in developing clean, hydrogen-powered automobiles. Our scientists and engineers will overcome obstacles to taking these cars from laboratory to showroom, so that the first car driven by our next generation could be powered by hydrogen and pollution-free. Join me in this important innovation to make our air significantly cleaner.
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【答案解析】共享也是志愿者完成工作的方法。他们从不把他们的价值观或他们的思想强加给别人,而是尽量去了解人们的需要,并与他们一起努力实现目标。他们帮助维护和平、建立民主、向战乱幸存者伸出援助之手;他们帮助实施长期发展计划,保护环境。他们所做的一切是为了社区间的和平与和谐和社会的健康发展。
尽管如此,志愿者所做的重要贡献无论是在发达国家还是在发展中国家都经常被忽视。实际上,大多数国家在计算国民生产的时候并没有将志愿者的贡献考虑在内。根据有些国家的测算,志愿者的工作占本国国内生产总值的8%到14%。拿美国来说,志愿者队伍每年创造价值2250亿美元的社会财富,相当于九百多万全职雇员一年的产出。
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Sharing is also how the volunteers approach their work. They do not seek to impose their values, or their ideas. Rather they find out what people need and want, and they work with them to make it happen. They help maintain peace and build democracy, lend a hand to the survivors of conflict and war, assist with the implementation of long-term development projects, and help preserve the environment. Whatever they do, they do in the interests of peace and harmony within communities; and so they help keep our societies healthy.
Yet, the important contributions that volunteers make are often overlooked in both developed and developing countries. Indeed, most countries do not take their services into account when calculating national output. In the few countries where they have been measured, it is estimated that volunteer activities make up between 8 percent and 14 percent of the Gross Domestic Product. In the United States for instance, the volunteer workforce represents the equivalent of over 9 million full-time employees, at an annual value of 225 billion dollars.