时间:2019-02-06 作者:英语课 分类:新西兰英语


英语课

  The new Auckland City came into existence today with early morning celebrations. Celebrations continued when the new mayor, Len Brown, and 20 councillors were sworn in this evening. The new council will meet tomorrow morning at 9am, ready for business.

  Auckland city extends from Franklin district in the south to Rodney district in the north. It has a population of 1.4 million. One city council replaces eight councils. There are 21 local boards to manage local matters.

  Setting up this new city has cost $200m. However, staff numbers have been cut from 9430 to 8207 with a saving of $66.5m. The mayor, Len Brown, has plans to spend money on public transport improvements, especially rail, and build a convention centre and cruise ship terminal. It is not clear where the money will come from as he has promised no increases to property rates, except for inflation. He is hoping that central government will help to fund these major projects. He also plans to make Auckland an eco-city, showing care for the environment.

  Questions

  1. How can Auckland show that it is an eco-city?

  2. Why should all of New Zealand pay for Auckland’s projects?

  3. If you are an Aucklander, what changes would you like to see?



学英语单词
120-1b rail
a piece of ground covered with tree
admissi
Allmannshofen
amastigia tricervicornis
andronicus
aparejoes
apostleship
apparent necessity
arianisms
avian infectious bronchitis virus
back-logged
bel-
bommais
booster element
brazilianite
bumping machine
cable meter
cast-in-place method
central disk
cettia diphone sakhalinensis
chromophobes
coagulum
coke foundry
come through the gate of horn
computerate
control card sort
Cryptococcus dermatitidis
delivery control mechanism
displacement type float
dns parking
double soliton
electrical property separating
entering basic variable
environmental impact report
excited type
field guns
fore-and-aft force
founder
Gentiana trichotoma
gjetost
glass building
H.E.D.
hair driers
impulse protection level
induction braging
inter-service
intrauterine death
isotope paleosalinity
ivaz
jack chuck
Joint Ownership of Ship
kunstgewerbemuseum
land strip
law of diminishing intensity of wants
less prominent
majorization order
Mekhitarist
mountaineer (alpinist)
mouse out
negative pressure trousers
Nehvdrin
Om Hajer
operating recommendation
penicillenate
pentanes
phuck
physarum cinereum(bstsch)persoon
pinladge retainer
primary cells
puddle core
pulp strainer
Ranunculus natans
rear-facing seat
self coated lining
sequential copolymer
signalment
slag-hammer
sleepwrite
Slovakians
Society Islands
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space technology
Speng
submerged electrode
subrogated right
survey for land consolidation
tenrec
test-basis examinations in auditing
the coldest month
the shit hits the fan
thymectomy
tranisent program table
typewrite
Typhus/Vac
volcanic gravel
walk in on sb
weighted round robin
welt
wheel base
yahis