高考英语专题阅读：Ban Ki-moonThe UN General Assembly adopted an agreement in October appointing South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon to succeed Kofi Annan as the next UN Secretary General. Ban, 62, will become the eighth Secretary General in the UN’s 60-year history on January 1 when Annan’s second five-year term ends. Ban will oversee an organization with 92,000 peacekeepers around the world and a $5 billion annual budget.Annan praised Ban as “a future Secretary General who is exceptionally attuned to the sensitivities of countries in every continent” and said he would be “a man with a truly global mind at the helm ( 领导地位) of the world’s only universal organization.” Annan recalled that the first UN Secretary General, Trygvie Lie, told his successor, Dag Hammarskjold, “You are about to take over the most impossible job on Earth.” “While that may be true,” Annan said, “I would say: This is also the best possible job on Earth.” John Bolton, US ambassador, said Ban is “the right person to lead the UN at this decisive movement in its history, particularly as the UN struggles to fulfill the terms of the reform agenda (议程).” By tradition, the post of Secretary General follows in turn among the regions of the world and most countries agreed that this time it was Asia’s turn. The last Asian Secretary General was Burma’s U Thant, who served from 1961-1971. Ban Ki-moon, born in 1944, joined in South Korea’s foreign service in 1970 after studying international relations at Seoul University. As a young man, he aspired to be a diplomat when he met President John Kennedy at the White House. Mister Ban later earned a master’s degree from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. In January of 2004, he became foreign minister of South Korea用心 爱心 专心
