英語角-圓桌會議 RoundTable - 中國人的家庭情結(jié)

Topic1 Chinese museum shut over fakes
A museum in northeast China has been ordered to close after thousands of its historical exhibits were found to be fake.

Police shut down the Lucheng Museum, in Liaoning province, after finding that almost a third of the 8,000 items on display were not genuine.

This certainly isn't the first time we've heard of this kind case. Is this a rampant1 problem?

Topic2 People live in containers
Beijing News recently reported that container apartments are becoming more and more in fashion in Beijing's Fengtai district. Altogether nine containers can be found in the Majiapu residential community there.

What are these container apartments and why do more and more people want to live in them?

Topic3 Good Samaritans set to gain extra gaokao points
Students in some regions of China will be awarded extra points for being a good Samaritan in the upcoming gaokao, or national college entrance examination.

Thirty-one provincial level regions in China announced new policies in 2014 for the gaokao, and 13 of them will give bonus points for good behavior.

Beijing-based Legal Mirror has reported that ten provincial-level regions plan to give 10 extra points to students with good morality. Beijing, Shandong, and Sichuan provinces will reward these students with an extra 20 points, the.

Why are they doing this? Is it needed?

Topic4 Gender prediction test papers sold to expecting moms
The latest addition to the ongoing weibo marketing6 craze in China is gender prediction tests that supposed to be able to tell the gender of a fetus as early as 10 weeks into the pregnancy.

The product, said to be available in the US market, is seeing an amazing increase in sales here in China, where the one-child policy has just been relaxed to some families.

What exactly is this test? Why do you think it's so popular?

Topic5 Chinese choose to lie if family has cancer
If one of your family is diagnosed with cancer, would you hide the truth from them?

According to a media report, 70% of the Chinese people choose to lie to spare their relatives from furthering mental suffering.

How often do you think this actually happens? Why do so many Chinese people do so?

Topic6 Chinese value family bonds over private wealth
According to a recent survey of Chinese residents in ten provinces and cities,nearly 60% of urban families are considered to have achieved a satisfactory level of happiness. Surveys show that in China, urban families are happier with their life and more satisfied than rural families.

And whether in urban or rural areas, people agree that five factors determine the happiness of a family. They are "marital9 harmony", "health of family members", "filial children", "reasonable elders", and "basic material requirements.""Family ties" impact much more on family well-being than factors such as "promising children" and "having a car and owning your home".

What does the survey tell us about happiness in China?

1 rampant

adj.(植物)蔓生的;狂暴的，無約束的

參考例句：

Sickness was rampant in the area.該地區(qū)疾病蔓延。

You cannot allow children to rampant through the museum.你不能任由小孩子在博物館里亂跑。

2 residential

adj.提供住宿的;居住的;住宅的

參考例句：

The mayor inspected the residential section of the city.市長視察了該市的住宅區(qū)。

The residential blocks were integrated with the rest of the college.住宿區(qū)與學(xué)院其他部分結(jié)合在了一起。

3 provincial

adj.省的，地方的;n.外省人，鄉(xiāng)下人

參考例句：

City dwellers think country folk have provincial attitudes.城里人以為鄉(xiāng)下人思想迂腐。

Two leading cadres came down from the provincial capital yesterday.昨天從省里下來了兩位領(lǐng)導(dǎo)干部。

4 gender

n.(生理上的)性，(名詞、代詞等的)性

參考例句：

French differs from English in having gender for all nouns.法語不同于英語，所有的名詞都有性。

Women are sometimes denied opportunities solely because of their gender.婦女有時僅僅因為性別而無法獲得種種機會。

5 ongoing

adj.進行中的，前進的

參考例句：

The problem is ongoing.這個問題尚未解決。

The issues raised in the report relate directly to Age Concern's ongoing work in this area.報告中提出的問題與“關(guān)心老人”組織在這方面正在做的工作有直接的關(guān)系。

6 marketing

n.行銷，在市場的買賣，買東西

參考例句：

They are developing marketing network.他們正在發(fā)展銷售網(wǎng)絡(luò)。

He often goes marketing.他經(jīng)常去市場做生意。

7 fetus

n.胎，胎兒

參考例句：

In the fetus,blood cells are formed in different sites at different ages.胎兒的血細(xì)胞在不同時期生成在不同的部位。

No one knows why a fetus is not automatically rejected by the mother's immune system. 沒有人知道為什么母親的免疫系統(tǒng)不會自動排斥胎兒。

8 pregnancy

n.懷孕，懷孕期

參考例句：

Early pregnancy is often accompanied by nausea.懷孕早期常有惡心的現(xiàn)象。

Smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of miscarriage.懷孕期吸煙會增加流產(chǎn)的危險。

9 marital

adj.婚姻的，夫妻的

參考例句：

Her son had no marital problems.她的兒子沒有婚姻問題。

I regret getting involved with my daughter's marital problems;all its done is to bring trouble about my ears.我后悔干涉我女兒的婚姻問題, 現(xiàn)在我所做的一切將給我?guī)頍o窮的煩惱。

10 well-being

n.安康，安樂，幸福

參考例句：

He always has the well-being of the masses at heart.他總是把群眾的疾苦掛在心上。

My concern for their well-being was misunderstood as interference.我關(guān)心他們的幸福，卻被誤解為多管閑事。

11 promising

adj.有希望的，有前途的

參考例句：

The results of the experiments are very promising.實驗的結(jié)果充滿了希望。

We're trying to bring along one or two promising young swimmers.我們正設(shè)法培養(yǎng)出一兩名有前途的年輕游泳選手。