餐桌上的人口老龄化

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餐桌上的人口老龄化

由于人口老龄化，年轻人和老年人对肉类的喜好不同，本是世界上人均鱼类消费量最大的国家，但2006年，日本餐桌上的肉类已超过海产品。

测试中可能遇到的词汇和知识：

tuna 金枪鱼，鲔鱼['tjuːnə]

sashimi 生鱼片['sæʃɪmɪ]

capita 头数（尤指牲口）；总数['kæpɪtə]

stagnant 停滞的；不景气的['stægnənt]

commodity 货物；日用品[kə'mɒdɪtɪ]

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3分19秒母语为英语者的朗读速度 140

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1分7秒母语为英语的大学生的阅读速度 350

0分44秒母语为英语的速读高手 1000

Chinese soap opera sends obscure chemical stock soaring （447words）

By Gabriel Wildau in Hong Kong

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A lossmaking Chinese chemical manufacturer has seen its stock price soar due partly to its resemblance with a fictional company that features as an acquisition target in a popular television soap opera.

Shares in Shanghai-listed Guizhou Redstar Developing Co rose by the maximum 10 per cent daily limit for a third consecutive trading session on Tuesday, a testament to the speculative zeal of Chinese retail investors. Its shares remained suspended on Wednesday and Thursday.

Retail speculators were a major force behind the boom-bust cycle that rocked China’s stock market last year, during which the main index gained 60 per cent through the first roughly five months of the year before falling by 45 per cent in the subsequent nine weeks. By some estimates, retail investors account for 80 per cent of total trading volume.

“Ode to joy”, which premiered on Shanghai-based Dragon TV last month, is something like a Chinese version of “Big Bang Theory” or “Friends”. The show centres around a group of young professional women sharing the same floor of a Shanghai apartment building. A recent storyline feature Andy, a brilliant investor who has returned to Shanghai after working on Wall Street, targeting a fictional company called Redstar Group for acquisition. “You should fully consider Redstar's technological capabilities, especially in the area of 3D multimedia,” she tells employees crafting a takeover plan in episode 37.

The real-life Redstar “primarily provides barium carbonate, strontium carbonate, barium hydroxide, strontium nitrate, strontium chloride, high purity manganese sulphate and sulphur byproducts”, according to its official business description.

Guizhou Redstar's shares have also benefited from rumours in local media that Hong Kong-listed Wanda Commercial Properties was eyeing the company for use as a shell for a backdoor listing on the mainland.

In a filing after market close on Tuesday, Guizhou Redstar, which posted a net loss of Rmb190m last year, denied those rumours, saying that neither the company nor its shareholders were in discussions with Wanda. “The company . . . reminds investors to pay attention to investment risk,” it said, noting that Redstar's price/earnings ratio had reached 434.

So-called “concept stocks” — shares linked to popular investment themes used to drive interest from retail investors — played a key role in last year’s bubble and have a long history in China.

Small-cap companies are favoured targets for speculators because a relatively small amount of investment can produce sharp price movements. Some 53m shares of Redstar changed hands on Tuesday, the biggest day since the stock debuted in 2001. On November 7 2012, following US President Barack Obama’s re-election, shares in refrigerator manufacturer Aucma Co, whose Chinese name resembles the official transliteration of “Obama”, saw its shares spike 4 per cent in afternoon trade.

请根据你所读到的文章内容，完成以下自测题目：

1. What kind of food fell 3 per cent last year by FAO?

A. raw and frozen tuna

B. raw and frozen salmon

C. shrimp

D. semi-finished tuna

2. Which one is not mentioned as the reason of the fall in tuna imports in Japan?

A. younger generation opt for meat

B. the weaker yen

C. pollution of the sea

D. competition from salmon

3. Which country is the leading consumer of fish per capita now?