英语角-圆桌会议 RoundTable - 中国人的家庭情结

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，无约束的

参考例句：

Sickness was rampant in the area.该地区疾病蔓延。

You cannot allow children to rampant through the museum.你不能任由小孩子在博物馆里乱跑。

2 residential

adj.提供住宿的;居住的;住宅的

参考例句：

The mayor inspected the residential section of the city.市长视察了该市的住宅区。

The residential blocks were integrated with the rest of the college.住宿区与学院其他部分结合在了一起。

3 provincial

adj.省的，地方的;n.外省人，乡下人

参考例句：

City dwellers think country folk have provincial attitudes.城里人以为乡下人思想迂腐。

Two leading cadres came down from the provincial capital yesterday.昨天从省里下来了两位领导干部。

4 gender

n.(生理上的)性，(名词、代词等的)性

参考例句：

French differs from English in having gender for all nouns.法语不同于英语，所有的名词都有性。

Women are sometimes denied opportunities solely because of their gender.妇女有时仅仅因为性别而无法获得种种机会。

5 ongoing

adj.进行中的，前进的

参考例句：

The problem is ongoing.这个问题尚未解决。

The issues raised in the report relate directly to Age Concern's ongoing work in this area.报告中提出的问题与“关心老人”组织在这方面正在做的工作有直接的关系。

6 marketing

n.行销，在市场的买卖，买东西

参考例句：

They are developing marketing network.他们正在发展销售网络。

He often goes marketing.他经常去市场做生意。

7 fetus

n.胎，胎儿

参考例句：

In the fetus,blood cells are formed in different sites at different ages.胎儿的血细胞在不同时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. 没有人知道为什么母亲的免疫系统不会自动排斥胎儿。

8 pregnancy

n.怀孕，怀孕期

参考例句：

Early pregnancy is often accompanied by nausea.怀孕早期常有恶心的现象。

Smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of miscarriage.怀孕期吸烟会增加流产的危险。

9 marital

adj.婚姻的，夫妻的

参考例句：

Her son had no marital problems.她的儿子没有婚姻问题。

I regret getting involved with my daughter's marital problems;all its done is to bring trouble about my ears.我后悔干涉我女儿的婚姻问题, 现在我所做的一切将给我带来无穷的烦恼。

10 well-being

n.安康，安乐，幸福

参考例句：

He always has the well-being of the masses at heart.他总是把群众的疾苦挂在心上。

My concern for their well-being was misunderstood as interference.我关心他们的幸福，却被误解为多管闲事。

11 promising

adj.有希望的，有前途的

参考例句：

The results of the experiments are very promising.实验的结果充满了希望。

We're trying to bring along one or two promising young swimmers.我们正设法培养出一两名有前途的年轻游泳选手。