1. Before it becomes a retirement village, Silicon Valley may prove a classroom for building a global business.
    在硅谷变成一个退休村之前，它很可能成为建立全球商业的一个教学场地。

2. Why is there the threat of global warming?
    为什么会有全球变暖的威胁？

3. The global weather has been abnormal last week.
    上周全世界的天气都不正常。

4. The great majority of nations concern themselves with economic development, regardless of its effect on the global ecology.
    绝大多数国家只顾经济发展，而不顾经济发展对全球生态环境的影响。

5. To offer peak performance in providing the electronic data and paperless trading global investors expect, Shanghai plans telecommunications networks as powerful as those in Manhattan.
    为了能给国际投资者提供其所期望的电子数据和无纸化交易的出色服务，上海计划建设与曼哈顿的网络同样强大的远程通信网络。

6. Result: the closest thing we have to a global family tree.
    他们的工作结果相当于一份全球家谱。

7. For small pieces of weather----and to a global forecaster, small can mean thunderstorms and blizzards----any prediction deteriorates rapidly.
    对于小片的恶劣天气 -- 对一个全球性的气象预报员来说，"小"可以意味着雷暴雨和暴风雪 -- 任何预测的质量会很快下降。