2023復習正是強化復習階段，在考研英語中占了40分，所以考研英語閱讀是英語科目中重要的一項。名師老師曾建議過考研生需要堅持每天泛讀10-15分鐘的英文原刊。強烈推薦了雜志《經濟學人》.雜志中的文章也是考研英語的主要材料來源.希望考研考生認真閱讀，快速提高考研英語閱讀水平。 　　Business in the UAE 　　阿聯酋商業 　　Improving the desert climate 　　提升沙漠氣候 　　A draft companies law in the emirates is a bitdisappointing 　　阿聯酋的公司法草案不孚眾望 　　FOREIGN investment is flooding back, the malls arefilling with shoppers and deals are being struck: business in the United Arab Emirates isbooming once again. The IMF this month upgraded its forecast for the emirates economicgrowth in 2023 from 3.9% to 4.4%. 　　外國投資如潮水席卷而來，商場里顧客摩肩接踵交易量激增：阿聯酋的商業再次繁榮，國際貨幣基金組織對阿聯酋2023年經濟增長的預算從3.9%上調到4.4%。 　　As memories of the crisis recede, companies are remembering the reasons that make theemirates attractive. The high income of the population, 84% of whom are expatriates, isone. Geography is another. The country is conveniently located between Europe and Asia,with two world-class airlines, Emirates and Etihad. 　　隨著金融危機的記憶消退，很多公司正慢慢記住讓阿聯酋有如此吸引力的原因：一方面源于人口的高收入，其中84%是外籍人士。另一方面是阿聯酋地處亞歐之間的地理位置，擁有兩個世界級的航空公司阿聯酋航空和阿提哈德航空。 　　The UAE has done a lot to make life easy for firms, keeping paperwork to a minimum andmoving much of it online. It comes 23rd out of 189 economies in the World Bank s latestranking for the ease of doing business, the highest in a region that has seen a tumultuous fewyears. It takes only eight days to set up a business, three fewer than the average for theOECD, a club of mostly rich states. Two years ago I d have said the UAE does well relative tothe region, says Habib al-Mulla of the Dubai office of Baker McKenzie, a law firm. Today I d say it globally, too. 　　阿聯酋在為讓企業生活方便上做了很多的事情，比如文書工作在線以保持最小化移動。 阿聯酋在世界銀行最新的189個經濟體的商業排行榜上名列第23位，成為混亂的幾年里在該地區中最高的。只需八天的時間，阿聯酋就能夠成立一個企業，用時平均比作為大多數富裕國家的俱樂部的經合的成員國少三倍。兩年前我會說阿聯酋是一個相對的區域。迪拜的一個法律公Baker McKenzie的辦公室人員Habibal-Mulla說，而今天，我要說它一樣是全球化的 　　On April 13th the country s president, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahyan, signed into law ameasure to promote smaller firms by giving them greater access to official contracts andloans. Yet businesspeople are disappointed by a draft of a broader companies law, which isexpected to be sanctioned soon. The bill fails to solve the two big problems hamperingbusiness in the emirates. First is the lack of a proper insolvency regime that makes clearthe duties of a firm s directors and the rights of its creditors if it hits financial trouble. Despiteits high overall rating, the UAE comes 101st on this score in the World Bank s ratings. Suchminor matters as being late paying a phone bill may be treated as criminal offences ratherthan civil matters; businessmen tell tales of colleagues going to the airport only to be toldthey are banned from travelling. 　　四月十三日，國家總統哈利法本扎耶德阿勒納哈揚，簽署相關法律文件，一個重要舉措即通過給予更多的官方合同貸款來促進小型企業的發展。然而，商人們對一個預計將很快批準的公司法草案普遍感到失望。貨幣未能解決的兩大問題阻礙了阿聯酋的業務發展。首先是一個一旦公司陷入財務困境，能夠明確公司董事義務和債權人權利的合適的破產制度。盡管它的總評價較高，但這件事上阿聯酋在世界銀行的排行第101。諸如此類的小事，比如延期支付電話賬單可能被視為刑事犯罪而非民事;比如商人告訴同事去機場，卻被告知他們被禁止旅行的故事。 　　The second issue the proposed legislation leaves untouched is foreign ownership.International businesses that set up local limited-liability companies, as most do, can ownonly 49% of them, and thus must find trustworthy local partners. Dubai has created severalfree zones, where full foreign ownership is allowed, but the other emirates have been slowto follow. Analysts reckon that full liberalisation of ownership would attract morebusinesses. 　　第二個是立法留下不變的外國所有權的問題。國際企業建立在阿聯酋設立有限責任公司，無論做多少，都只能擁有公司百分之四十九的份額，因此，企業必須在當地尋找可靠的合作伙伴。迪拜創造了幾個允許全外資所有權的免費地帶，但其他酋長國照做的速度卻很緩慢。分析師們認為，企業所有權的全面開放將會吸引更多的企業。 　　Investor protection is another worry. The UAE has made progress: its courts tend torecognise the decisions of foreign arbitral tribunals. But enforcing contracts can be tricky, andthe new law does not help much. Its biggest potential benefit is its lowering of thepercentage that companies must float in an IPO from 55% to 30%. This should encouragemore family-owned firms, hitherto worried about losing control, to raise capital to expand. 　　投資者保護是另一個迫在眉睫的問題。阿聯酋已取得的進步：其法院傾向于承認外國仲裁法庭的決定。然而，合同的執行卻是棘手的，并且新法律對此并沒有多大的幫助。其最大的潛在的好處是它降低了公司IPO指數必須浮動在55%到30%之間百分比的。這將給更多一直擔心因為提高資本擴大規模而使的公司失控的的家族企業以信心。 　　Further legislation on insolvency and foreign ownership is promised. But when things gowell in the Gulf, as they now are, the authorities tend to lose interest in reform. Still,businessmen agree that the UAE s advantages far outweigh its handicaps. Fadi Malas, theboss of Just Falafel, a local fast-food operator, says it is ideal not just as a place to dobusiness but as a springboard for expanding across the region and beyond:plans are in handfor the chain, currently 55 outlets, to grow to more than 900 worldwide. Like theLebanese-British Mr Malas, entrepreneurs choose the UAE over neighbouring countries notleast because it has both electricity and stabilitytwo things other places sorely lack. 　　當局在關于破產和外國所有權進一步的立法問題上給出了承諾。但當事情順利發展的時候，當局卻失去了改革的興趣。總是如此，在商人們的心中，阿聯酋的優點遠遠大于它給的障礙。一位當地的快餐店經營者，ust Falafel的老板Fadi Malas說，阿聯酋不僅是一個做生意的好地方，還是一個可以擴展到整個地區甚至地區以外的跳板：他計劃的產業鏈條是，目前55家店成長到超過全球900家的數量。像黎巴嫩籍英國人Malas先生一樣，企業家們選擇在眾多鄰國中選擇阿聯酋，至少是看中了其他國家和地區所缺乏的電力資源和穩定的環境。 　　詞語解釋 　　1.fill with 裝滿 　　Your lungs become leaky and fill with fluid. 　　肺部開始滲漏，充滿液體。 　　Select the cells that you want to fill with a pattern. 　　選擇要用圖案填充的單元格。 　　2.relative to 相對于 　　Or, consider how bad old-line email is for collaboration relative to facebook or twitter ssocial experiences. 　　又或者，相對于Facebook、Twitter上的社交體驗，老掉牙的電子郵件系統在協作方面是多么乏善可陳。 　　They also look cheap relative to gdp per head. 　　相對于人均國民生產總值，看起來也是便宜的。 　　3.access to 有權使用 　　Apple also would instantly get access to a huge swath of tv and movie content. 　　蘋果還可以立刻獲得大量電視和電影內容。 　　For one, open source hardware projects often require participants to have access to toolsand space. 　　比如，開源硬件項目往往要求參與者擁有工具和相應的場地。 　　4.expect to 期許 　　They expect to ship another 50,000 this month. 　　他們預計本月將再發貨50,000只。 　　The answer will help determine what kinds of revenues the industry can expect to earn. 　　問題的答案將幫助確定音樂行業能夠預期獲得哪種類型的收益。

　　2023復習正是強化復習階段，在考研英語中占了40分，所以考研英語閱讀是英語科目中重要的一項。名師老師曾建議過考研生需要堅持每天泛讀10-15分鐘的英文原刊。強烈推薦了雜志《經濟學人》.雜志中的文章也是考研英語的主要材料來源.希望考研考生認真閱讀，快速提高考研英語閱讀水平。 　　Business in the UAE 　　阿聯酋商業 　　Improving the desert climate 　　提升沙漠氣候 　　A draft companies law in the emirates is a bitdisappointing 　　阿聯酋的公司法草案不孚眾望 　　FOREIGN investment is flooding back, the malls arefilling with shoppers and deals are being struck: business in the United Arab Emirates isbooming once again. The IMF this month upgraded its forecast for the emirates economicgrowth in 2023 from 3.9% to 4.4%. 　　外國投資如潮水席卷而來，商場里顧客摩肩接踵交易量激增：阿聯酋的商業再次繁榮，國際貨幣基金組織對阿聯酋2023年經濟增長的預算從3.9%上調到4.4%。 　　As memories of the crisis recede, companies are remembering the reasons that make theemirates attractive. The high income of the population, 84% of whom are expatriates, isone. Geography is another. The country is conveniently located between Europe and Asia,with two world-class airlines, Emirates and Etihad. 　　隨著金融危機的記憶消退，很多公司正慢慢記住讓阿聯酋有如此吸引力的原因：一方面源于人口的高收入，其中84%是外籍人士。另一方面是阿聯酋地處亞歐之間的地理位置，擁有兩個世界級的航空公司阿聯酋航空和阿提哈德航空。 　　The UAE has done a lot to make life easy for firms, keeping paperwork to a minimum andmoving much of it online. It comes 23rd out of 189 economies in the World Bank s latestranking for the ease of doing business, the highest in a region that has seen a tumultuous fewyears. It takes only eight days to set up a business, three fewer than the average for theOECD, a club of mostly rich states. Two years ago I d have said the UAE does well relative tothe region, says Habib al-Mulla of the Dubai office of Baker McKenzie, a law firm. Today I d say it globally, too. 　　阿聯酋在為讓企業生活方便上做了很多的事情，比如文書工作在線以保持最小化移動。 阿聯酋在世界銀行最新的189個經濟體的商業排行榜上名列第23位，成為混亂的幾年里在該地區中最高的。只需八天的時間，阿聯酋就能夠成立一個企業，用時平均比作為大多數富裕國家的俱樂部的經合的成員國少三倍。兩年前我會說阿聯酋是一個相對的區域。迪拜的一個法律公Baker McKenzie的辦公室人員Habibal-Mulla說，而今天，我要說它一樣是全球化的 　　On April 13th the country s president, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahyan, signed into law ameasure to promote smaller firms by giving them greater access to official contracts andloans. Yet businesspeople are disappointed by a draft of a broader companies law, which isexpected to be sanctioned soon. The bill fails to solve the two big problems hamperingbusiness in the emirates. First is the lack of a proper insolvency regime that makes clearthe duties of a firm s directors and the rights of its creditors if it hits financial trouble. Despiteits high overall rating, the UAE comes 101st on this score in the World Bank s ratings. Suchminor matters as being late paying a phone bill may be treated as criminal offences ratherthan civil matters; businessmen tell tales of colleagues going to the airport only to be toldthey are banned from travelling. 　　四月十三日，國家總統哈利法本扎耶德阿勒納哈揚，簽署相關法律文件，一個重要舉措即通過給予更多的官方合同貸款來促進小型企業的發展。然而，商人們對一個預計將很快批準的公司法草案普遍感到失望。貨幣未能解決的兩大問題阻礙了阿聯酋的業務發展。首先是一個一旦公司陷入財務困境，能夠明確公司董事義務和債權人權利的合適的破產制度。盡管它的總評價較高，但這件事上阿聯酋在世界銀行的排行第101。諸如此類的小事，比如延期支付電話賬單可能被視為刑事犯罪而非民事;比如商人告訴同事去機場，卻被告知他們被禁止旅行的故事。 　　The second issue the proposed legislation leaves untouched is foreign ownership.International businesses that set up local limited-liability companies, as most do, can ownonly 49% of them, and thus must find trustworthy local partners. Dubai has created severalfree zones, where full foreign ownership is allowed, but the other emirates have been slowto follow. Analysts reckon that full liberalisation of ownership would attract morebusinesses. 　　第二個是立法留下不變的外國所有權的問題。國際企業建立在阿聯酋設立有限責任公司，無論做多少，都只能擁有公司百分之四十九的份額，因此，企業必須在當地尋找可靠的合作伙伴。迪拜創造了幾個允許全外資所有權的免費地帶，但其他酋長國照做的速度卻很緩慢。分析師們認為，企業所有權的全面開放將會吸引更多的企業。 　　Investor protection is another worry. The UAE has made progress: its courts tend torecognise the decisions of foreign arbitral tribunals. But enforcing contracts can be tricky, andthe new law does not help much. Its biggest potential benefit is its lowering of thepercentage that companies must float in an IPO from 55% to 30%. This should encouragemore family-owned firms, hitherto worried about losing control, to raise capital to expand. 　　投資者保護是另一個迫在眉睫的問題。阿聯酋已取得的進步：其法院傾向于承認外國仲裁法庭的決定。然而，合同的執行卻是棘手的，并且新法律對此并沒有多大的幫助。其最大的潛在的好處是它降低了公司IPO指數必須浮動在55%到30%之間百分比的。這將給更多一直擔心因為提高資本擴大規模而使的公司失控的的家族企業以信心。 　　Further legislation on insolvency and foreign ownership is promised. But when things gowell in the Gulf, as they now are, the authorities tend to lose interest in reform. Still,businessmen agree that the UAE s advantages far outweigh its handicaps. Fadi Malas, theboss of Just Falafel, a local fast-food operator, says it is ideal not just as a place to dobusiness but as a springboard for expanding across the region and beyond:plans are in handfor the chain, currently 55 outlets, to grow to more than 900 worldwide. Like theLebanese-British Mr Malas, entrepreneurs choose the UAE over neighbouring countries notleast because it has both electricity and stabilitytwo things other places sorely lack. 　　當局在關于破產和外國所有權進一步的立法問題上給出了承諾。但當事情順利發展的時候，當局卻失去了改革的興趣。總是如此，在商人們的心中，阿聯酋的優點遠遠大于它給的障礙。一位當地的快餐店經營者，ust Falafel的老板Fadi Malas說，阿聯酋不僅是一個做生意的好地方，還是一個可以擴展到整個地區甚至地區以外的跳板：他計劃的產業鏈條是，目前55家店成長到超過全球900家的數量。像黎巴嫩籍英國人Malas先生一樣，企業家們選擇在眾多鄰國中選擇阿聯酋，至少是看中了其他國家和地區所缺乏的電力資源和穩定的環境。 　　詞語解釋 　　1.fill with 裝滿 　　Your lungs become leaky and fill with fluid. 　　肺部開始滲漏，充滿液體。 　　Select the cells that you want to fill with a pattern. 　　選擇要用圖案填充的單元格。 　　2.relative to 相對于 　　Or, consider how bad old-line email is for collaboration relative to facebook or twitter ssocial experiences. 　　又或者，相對于Facebook、Twitter上的社交體驗，老掉牙的電子郵件系統在協作方面是多么乏善可陳。 　　They also look cheap relative to gdp per head. 　　相對于人均國民生產總值，看起來也是便宜的。 　　3.access to 有權使用 　　Apple also would instantly get access to a huge swath of tv and movie content. 　　蘋果還可以立刻獲得大量電視和電影內容。 　　For one, open source hardware projects often require participants to have access to toolsand space. 　　比如，開源硬件項目往往要求參與者擁有工具和相應的場地。 　　4.expect to 期許 　　They expect to ship another 50,000 this month. 　　他們預計本月將再發貨50,000只。 　　The answer will help determine what kinds of revenues the industry can expect to earn. 　　問題的答案將幫助確定音樂行業能夠預期獲得哪種類型的收益。