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最新英语新闻解读与练习 24 (学案)
Special Transport Moves Workers toward Reboot
点对点特定交通工具输送务工人员返程复工
Migrant workers from Southwest China's Yunnan province arrive at Jinjiang, East China's Fujian province, earlier this week after taking a charter plane. [Photo/Xinhua]
Step 1 Words and expressions
1. innovate vi. 创新;改革;革新; vt. 改变;创立;创始
2. mode n. 模式;方式
3. migrant worker外来工;外侨工人
4. charter n. (飞机、船等的)租用
5. hub n. 中心
6. Pearl River Delta 珠江三角洲
7. physical check-up n. 健康检查;身体检查
8. designated adj. 指定的
9. resume vi. 重新开始,继续
10. enterprise n. 企业;事业
11. dub v. 给……起别名(或绰号)
12.subsidy n. 补贴;津贴;补助金
13. production resumption恢复生产
14. a customized chartered plane service 定制包机服务
15. the National Development and Reform Commission 国家发展和改革委员会
16. guarantee the smooth running of the economy and society保障经济社会平稳运行
17. ratio n. 比率,比例
18. surpass vt. 超越;胜过,优于
19. medium, small-and micro-sized companies中小微企业
20. impeded transportation and logistics 运输物流不畅
21. insufficient industrial chain support 产业链支撑不足
22. recruitment n. 招收,招聘
23. Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau市人力资源和社会保障局
24. sign a labor contract 签订劳动合同
25. the Bureau of Publicity of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council国务院国有资产监督管理委员会宣传局
26. stabilize vt. 使稳固,使安定; vi. 稳定,安定
27. stabilize employment and economic operations稳定就业和经济运行
Step 2 Read through the news
Governments at various levels in China are innovating several modes of transport to enable workers to return to their jobs after the Lunar New Year holiday that got extended due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
Their spirited efforts appear to be paying off. Tang Qiayou, a migrant worker from Wenshan in Southwest China's Yunnan province, will probably agree. "I am excited to travel back to Guangdong by charter trains," he said.
Tang, who had been working in a hardware factory in Dongguan, a manufacturing hub in the Pearl River Delta, went to a hospital for a physical check-up before he was sent to the railway