19年英语六级备考之时政新闻阅读4

今天坦途网英语六级考试频道为大家分享的是双语阅读，虽然不作为考题，但是这里面也包含英语六级考试知识点，大家在阅读过程中可以反复思考，弄清楚语句表达，因为这不仅对阅读有帮助，在听力模块也会涉及到新闻部分，大家好好体会吧。

CHICAGO, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) -- "I am basically an optimist," Leo Melamed, chairman emeritus of global markets company CME Group, told Xinhua in a recent interview about his view of the U.S.-China relationship.

Noting that the two biggest economies are influential on the direction of other economies in the world, Melamed said he "look(s) at the arguments and discussions between our two nations in the light of optimism."

"There are issues and some of them are difficult to overcome. But I remain an optimist that in the long run we will overcome them," he stressed.

Melamed said there are many areas in which China and the United States can cooperate, and the first one is environment.

"The Chinese and many Americans feel that we should be doing more to preserve the nature of this planet Earth and overcome some of the erosions that are occurring ... because it's in every nation's benefit," he said.

"It is the duty of major nations like us to take that message and carry it and do something together," he added.

Health, Melamed said, is another area for cooperation, as China has made advancement in medical research fields in recent years.

"These are things that both nations can work together. It's for the benefit of the entire planet," he said.

As for the ongoing trade disputes between the two countries, Melamed said the United States has its own set of problems.

"Our population should understand that what China has given us is a higher standard of living. We could not have bought so many iPhones and computers and everything else at the price," he explained.

Melamed is widely acclaimed as a pioneer of financial futures. Under his leadership as chairman of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), the CME created the International Monetary Market (IMM) in 1972, the world's first financial futures exchange, and launched currency futures.

In the following years, Melamed led the CME and IMM in creating a number of financial instruments, and spearheaded the creation and introduction of Globex, the world's first electronic trading system.

Melamed played an important role in advancing China's use of futures markets and application of various financial instruments, including electronic ones.

The financial industry veteran first went to China in the early 1980s. Afterwards, he visited it twice or three times a year.

"China's been (through) a miraculous transformation in matter of three, four decades," he said, adding "that's an incredible achievement."

"Never before in history have we seen this kind of transformation," he noted.

2019下半年的英语六级考试报名也快到来，同学们要把握这次机会，争取在这次考试中发挥好成绩，当然上半年成绩不理想的同学也要利用这次考试证明自己，以前没有掌握的知识点一定要重新背诵记忆，不要犯同样的错误，所有赶快行动起来吧，时间不等人，大家加油。