Passage 003-里约奥运会面临诸多挑战

1.原文阅读

First up, every city that’s hosted the Olympic Games in recent years has faced considerable challenges. Rio de Janeiro , Brazil, is no exception. 

The cost of hosting the games, which is in the billions, keeping residents and visitors safe, just making sure they can all get around from place to place, and building many of the venues where athletes will compete. These are common obstacles. But there are a number of unique challenges to Rio and Brazil as a whole that officials worldwide are concerned about. 

Despite Rio’s beauty, the city and Brazil as a whole are facing some pretty daunting challenges. A whole series of unexpected setbacks leading some to wonder, are Rio’s Olympics somehow cursed? 

Just days ago, a warning from more than 100 international doctors, calling for the games to be postponed or moved, because the mosquito-born Zika virus could threaten an expected half a million foreign visitors.

 And then there’s the political and economic crisis. Turmoil after Congress suspended Brazil’s elected president in an impeachment process last month, and high-level corruption scandals, during the worst economic recession in generations, which has left more than 10 million Brazilians unemployed, the economic hardship aggravating Rio’s endemic problems with violent crime.
Olympic sailors also worried about Rio’s notoriously polluted bay , a dumping ground for much of the city’s raw sewage . 

“We don’t want to swim in it.” 

Rio’s mayor warns this isn’t a first world city. “Don’t come here expecting that everything will be, you know, perfect. We live in a country that has economic crisis, a country with lots of inequality. With all the problems that we have seen concerning corruption, briberies. But the city will be much better than it was when we got the games.” 

2.精读笔记 

First up, every city that’s hosted the Olympic Games in recent years has faced considerable challenges.

首先, 近年来每个举办奥运会的城市都曾面临过数不胜数的难题。

hosted：host：主人；许多

host city：主办城市

host of sth. 许多；大量

considerable：重要的；相当大的；可观的

易混：

considerate：考虑周全的，体贴的

considerably：相当地；非常地（adv.）

 Rio de Janeiro , Brazil, is no exception.

而巴西的里约热内卢也不例外。

exception：列外，除外

易混：expectation：期望，预期

The cost of hosting the games, which is in the billions, keeping residents and visitors safe, just making sure they can all get around from place to place, and building many of the venues where athletes will compete.

举办奥运会花掉了数十亿美金，那只是为了