2016雅思热点新闻阅读素材整理(1)

　　背景阅读：

　　10月11日，三星在官方网站上发表声明，要求所有合作伙伴停止销售和置换Galaxy Note 7手机。声明中还进一步要求Note7用户关机，停止使用，包括持原装手机以及近期已完成更换的用户。

　　Samsung has urged owners of the Galaxy Note 7 to turn off the smartphone while it investigates new reports of the device catching fire.

　　The South Korean firm also said it would stop all sales of the phone.

　　Samsung recalled 2.5m phones in September after complaints of exploding batteries and later assured customers that all replaced devices were safe.

　　But there are now reports that even those phones that had been replaced were catching fire.

　　电池爆炸 exploding batteries

　　最近几年，智能手机市场竞争激烈。各个制造商都在手机电池方面进行“军备竞赛”(arms race)，追求更小的电池，更长时间的续航能力，以及更短的充电时间。

　　据分析人士称，三星这款手机之所以会发生爆炸，就是因为电池的正负极接触导致短路(negative and positive electrodes coming together have caused short circuits)，手机过热，从而引发手机起火和爆炸。

　　召回 recall

　　三星Note7手机起火爆炸事件之后，公司在全球召回了250万台。其中有75%更换了新的Note7手机或者其他机型( replaced with either a Note 7 or another Samsung handset)。

　　停售 stopping all sales

　　召回并更换后的Note7手机仍然发生了多起起火爆炸事故，三星公司发布声明，全面停售该款手机，并要求用户在调查起火原因期间关闭手机(turn off the smartphone while it investigates new reports of the device catching fire)。

　　深度阅读：

　　Samsung's second recall of its Galaxy Note 7 handsets is an unprecedented disaster for the company and the wider mobile phone sector.

　　There have been huge battery-related recalls before - Nokia had to ask consumers to send back 46 million batteries in 2007 because of overheating fears, but because they were removable it did not mean a well-reviewed flagship had to be scrapped.

　　"Stop using your device, back up your data and switch it off," the Samsung told Note 7 owners the day after it confirmed it had shut down its assembly lines following a spate of fires.