US first lady Michelle Obama ranked the world’s most powerful woman in Forbes magazine’s 2010 listing published on October 6.

Kraft Foods CEO Irene Rosenfeld.second . American talk show host Oprah Winfrey was third. German Prime Minister Angela Merkel was the fourth most powerful   woman,US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton rounded out (使圓滿) the top five.

This year Forbesthe way it ranked  women. It is now supposedlyless on wealth and power but more on influence.

“They influenced  , sometimes billions of people,” said Moira Forbes, vice  president and publisher of Forbes Woman.

Forbes said Obama topped the list this year        “she has made the office of first lady her own” while remaining popular.

“She’s also effective: In response to her Let’s Move! campaignchildhood obesity(肥胖), companies        Coca-Cola, Kellogg and General Mills have agreed to cut the calorie content of their foods by 2015,” Forbes said.

【小題1】came

【小題2】while/and

【小題3】changed

【小題4】based

【小題5】the lives of millions

【小題6】because

【小題7】against

【小題8】like


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Welcome to my Message Board!

Subject Slimming down classics?

Mr.

Handsome

2007-5-12&24

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Orion Books,which decides there is a market in creating cut-down classics(經(jīng)典著作),is slimming down some novels by such great writers as L.Tolstoy,M.Mitchell and C.Bronte.Now,each of them has been whittled down to about 400 pages by cutting 30 to   40   per cent of the original,with words,sentences,paragraphs and,in a few cases,chapters removed.The first six shortened editions,all priced at £6.99 and advertised as great reads “in half the time”,will go on sale next month,with plans for 50 to 100 more to follow.The publishing house believes that modern readers will welcome the shorter versions.

Mr.

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Well,I’m publisher of Orion Group.Thanks for your attention,Mr.Handsome.

I must say,the idea developed from a game of “shame”in my office.Each of us was required to confess(承認(rèn))to the most embarrassing blanks in his or her reading.I admitted that I had never read Anna Karenina and tried but failed to get through Gone with the Wind several times.One of my colleagues acknowledged skipping(跳讀)Jane Eyre.We realised that life is too short to read all the books you want to and we never were going to read these ones.

As a leading publishing house,we are trying to make classics convenient for readers but it’s not as if we’re withdrawing the original versions.They are still there if you want to read them.

Ms.Weir

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I’m director of the online bookclub www.lovereading.co.uk.

Mr.Edwards,I think your shortened editions is a breath of fresh air.I’m guilty of never having read Anna Karenina,because it’s just so long.I’d much rather read two 300-page books than one 600-page book.I am looking forward to more shortened classics!

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