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李武军 发表于 2011-6-25 22:34

Review of the Year 年终回顾

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[color=#3f3f3f][font=Verdana, 宋体, helvetica, arial, sans-serif][size=12px]2008 will be remembered by the British people as a year of [b]economic crisis[/b]. Things have [b]steadily worsened[/b] as the year has gone on with companies [b]going into administration[/b], job losses, falling house prices and the collapse of[b]banking institutions[/b].
[p=21, 2, left]Britain is just one of the many [b]victims[/b]of a wider global financial crisis and sadly the predictions for 2009 do not[b]show any sign of improvement[/b] for the British economy.[/p][p=21, 2, left]2008 also sadly saw the worst earthquake in China in over 30 years. The Great Sichuan Earthquake [b]registered[/b] 8 on the [b]Richter scale[/b] and killed around 70,000 people in May, not to mention the tens of thousands who were injured or went missing.[/p][p=21, 2, left]On a happier note, China also hosted its first Olympic games this summer in Beijing. It was a very successful games with an amazing opening ceremony and a [b]staggering[/b] 43 new world [b]records[/b] and 132 new Olympic records [b]set[/b].[/p][p=21, 2, left]China [b]topped the medals table[/b] with 51 gold medals and Great Britain had its most successful Olympics in over a century with 19 gold medals and 47 medals in total.[/p][p=21, 2, left]2008 will also be remembered in history as the year Barack Obama was elected as the first black President of the United States. This was particularly [b]poignant[/b] in a country where black people were once [b]slaves[/b]and where [b]segregation[/b] existed as little as [b]half a century ago[/b] between black and white people.[/p][/size][/font][/color]

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