时间:2018-11-30 作者:英语课 分类:听美文故事记6级单词


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7.Australia Records Highest Birth Rate in 9 Years


Australia has recorded its highest annual birth rate in nine years, with indications that couples are encouraged by low unemployment and economic stability to have babies.


Population figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics released over the Easter break showed there were 133,000 births in the six months to September 2004 -- the highest half-year total since 1990.


Over the full year to September there were about 255,100 births, the highest annual total in nine years, giving a fertility rate, or number of births per woman, of 1.773 for 2003-2004.


Craig James, an economist 1 at CommSec, said Australia's baby boom appeared to be a result of strong consumer confidence and an unemployment rate of just 5.1 percent.


"Unemployment is at a 28-year low, wages are up, confidence is high," James told Wednesday's The Australian newspaper.


"People are feeling like it's safe to start a family again."


Australia's birth rate had been in steady decline since 1990, dropping to a half-yearly low of around 125,000 births during the April-September period of 2002.


Australia's conservative government has tried to boost flagging fertility by offering financial inducements -- including a 3,000-dollar (2,324 US dollar) payment to parents introduced on July 1.


Australia's current population is estimated to be 20,168,900. In the 12 months to September 2004, the population grew 1.2 percent, about half the increase due to immigration.


While Britain remains 3 the greatest source of overseas-born residents, between 1998 and 2003 the countries with the largest increase in migration 2 to Australia were South Africa (up 7.9 percent) and India (up 5.8 percent).



1 economist
n.经济学家,经济专家,节俭的人
  • He cast a professional economist's eyes on the problem.他以经济学行家的眼光审视这个问题。
  • He's an economist who thinks he knows all the answers.他是个经济学家,自以为什么都懂。
2 migration
n.迁移,移居,(鸟类等的)迁徙
  • Swallows begin their migration south in autumn.燕子在秋季开始向南方迁移。
  • He described the vernal migration of birds in detail.他详细地描述了鸟的春季移居。
3 remains
n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹
  • He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
  • The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
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abietinolie acid
Amizmiz
ammonium humate
Amsal
antimasonry
barenaked
boring by percussion
Botswanian, Botswanan
Boyadzhik
bufferting limit
cajete
camou
canc
charted depth
clear glaze
climatological year
Coelogyne gongshanensis
coffeen
collywobbless
compound parabolic collector
condoms
crash site
Crataegus pinnatifida var. major
cross disking
cue mark
cyberwriting
diamondwork
digitato-
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dislocation of acromioclavicular joint
dissoplaga flava changi
drawbridge circuit controller
dry film lubricant
estaque
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fail-safe control
flight gyro
fluoroboride
folk-singing
formation voltage
furnace brick
galactitol
glp
gothabillies
grabbed
gymnosoma indicum
hunting of frequency
hyperuricemic nephropathy
ilioischiac foramen
incisal path
international federation of air traffic controllers association
kenefick
light-projector
limited gold standard
lithium sozoiodolate
made merry over
magnetic overprinting
main pole winding
minoratives
multi-boom jumbo
musculi longus capitis
nebula adrenalinae
Nitraldone
nut-blanking
overdiagnoses
P Cygni star
P. C. T.
pactamycin
pastorale
periodic performance report
play down to someone
polling card
pre-flash
process flow-sheet of coal preparation
pulse-feeling and palpation
reactor safety circuits
slagging reaction
smooth roller
sporangite
spring vetches
stalky tea
steam-jacketed mold
step (-wise) repositioning
subinguinal
sun spike
survival analysis
The lot came to me.
the right track
thermographic image
third estate
tip of the ice-cube
trigooa lemnisci
tubeworm
universal milling head
updraught ventilator
urban hydrology
video library
water-parsley
wood pattern colour