英語(yǔ)角-圓桌會(huì)議 RoundTable - 英語(yǔ)不會(huì)退出高考

Topic 1: China's Fake Urbanization
An article on Sohu Business titled "China's Fake Urbanization" has recently attracted a lot of attention from inside and outside China. It claims that while the urban-to-rural ratio went past 50% in 2012, many of these residents are still treated as second class citizens.

What is Urbanization?

Topic 2: English will not quit Gaokao
The college entrance examination: the bane of every high school student who ever wished to have a normal childhood. However, after much noise from the central and local governments, it does seem that China examination environment is set to change…. That is, at least according to one academic.

At a conference on Saturday, Gu Mingyuan, chairman of the Chinese Society of Education, said that by 2017 English will not be a part of the gaokao.

Why do you think people don't want English as part of the gaokao?

Topic 3: Community Service for the Elderly
Chaoyang District here in Beijing is going to start offering community service for older people over the next three months. By calling community service center hotline 96156, senior people will get help with cooking, laundry, chores, grocery purchase or someone to talk to.

Do we need something like this?

Topic 4: Chinese people's misconception about the US high school education
It used to be that Chinese parents wanted to send their kids abroad for postgraduate degrees. Then it became undergraduate. Now, more and more parents seek to send their children to high school and even earlier. However, it seems that, according to former Peking University Dean, many parents choose the US based on misconceptions of the US academic environment.

Why do parents want to send their kids to the US for high school or earlier?

Topic 5: Lanzhou Parking Management Problems
Earlier this month, Lanzhou government asked that all the parking spaces in the city to be registered and put on official record. This aims to regulate the management of these parking spaces and bring them under official city management.

How serious are the parking problems in the city?

Topic 6: Nurses dressed up as flight attendants
A hospital in Jiangsu Province has taken it upon themselves to dress their nurses up like flight attendants6, in a bid to improve the hospital's service.

As it turns out, it's not all its nurses, but a carefully selected group of 12 nurses have undergone professional training to be a flight attendant.

Is there a problem? Do nurses need to provide better service?

1 fake

vt.偽造，造假，假裝;n.假貨，贗品

參考例句：

He can tell a fake from the original.他能分辨出贗品和真品。

You can easily fake up an excuse to avoid going out with him.你可以很容易地編造一個(gè)借口而不與他一同外出。

2 postgraduate

adj.大學(xué)畢業(yè)后的，大學(xué)研究院的;n.研究生

參考例句：

I didn't put down that I had postgraduate degree.我沒(méi)有寫(xiě)上我有碩士學(xué)位。

After college,Mary hopes to do postgraduate work in law school.大學(xué)畢業(yè)后， 瑪麗想在法學(xué)院從事研究工作。

3 Dean

n.(大學(xué))院長(zhǎng)，系主任，教務(wù)長(zhǎng)

參考例句：

The students much like the new dean.學(xué)生們很喜歡這位新系主任。

Who is the dean of the Foreign Languages Department?外語(yǔ)系主任是誰(shuí)?

4 regulate

vt.管理，控制，調(diào)節(jié)，調(diào)校，調(diào)整

參考例句：

This system can regulate the temperature of the room.這種系統(tǒng)能調(diào)節(jié)室內(nèi)溫度。

They regulate the flow of water by the sluice gate.他們用水閘門(mén)控制水的流量。

5 attendant

n.隨從，跟班，出席者，服務(wù)員;adj.伴隨的，出席的，注意的，在場(chǎng)的

參考例句：

She was interrupted by the entrance of an attendant.服務(wù)員進(jìn)來(lái)，打斷了她的話。

We met the officer attendant on the general.我們見(jiàn)到了隨從將軍的副官。

6 attendants

n.服務(wù)人員( attendant的名詞復(fù)數(shù) );侍者;隨從;伴隨物

參考例句：

Other flight attendants and passengers are believed to have fought. 我們相信其他服務(wù)人員及乘客也都進(jìn)行了斗爭(zhēng)。 來(lái)自時(shí)文部分

Psyche gave ear to the admonitions of her vocal attendants. 普緒喀聽(tīng)從這些有聲無(wú)形的外人的意見(jiàn)。 來(lái)自辭典例句