口译练习Lesson 8.ppt

Lesson 8 Interpreting figures (3) Check your homework (Class A) 1.????? 2000年人口普查反映出我国人口年龄结构发生了较大变化。0－14岁人口占总人口的比重为22.89%，比1990年人口普查下降了4.8个百分点，65岁及以上人口占总人口的比重为6.96%，比1990年人口普查下降了1.39个百分点。 2.????? 在过去50年里，尤其是1978年改革开发以来，宁夏回族自治区（Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region）在政治、经济、社会、文化各方面都有很大发展。1958年自治区的国内生产总值GDP只有7亿多一点，到1997年猛增到了210亿。 3.????? 拉萨Lhasa第一小学是在1952年建立的。学校占地15,000平方米，建筑面积(floor space / area )8,100平方米。学校有41个班，2400名学生，其中西藏班28个，有学生1700人，占总数的70.3%。教师和行政人员中73.3%是西藏人。 4.????? 中华人民共和国建国五十多年以来，有1.1亿文盲妇女学了文化，使女性文盲比例从1949年的90％下降到2000年的18.47%。 Check your homework (Class A) 文盲比例从1949年的90％下降到2000年的18.47%。 5.????? The total number of accidents fluctuated quite a lot during the period of 1982 – 1997. 6.????? If you look at the table, you can see that in 1982 the figure was 360,000, while in 1997, it had fallen to 313,000, a drop of 47,000. 7.????? The best year in the period of 1982 – 1997 was 1984 when it stood at 332,000, after which it rose to a new peak of slightly under 360,000 in 1988. 8.????? We can see that from 1988 to 1992 there was a steady fall in the number of road accidents. 9.????? In China, Buddhism has a history of 2,000 years, Taoism over 1,700 years, and Islam over 1,300 years, while Catholicism and Protestantism became widespread in China primarily after the Opium War. Check your homework (Class A) 10.? At present, China has over 10 million Muslims, about 4 million Catholics and over 10 million Protestants. In regions inhabited by some minority people, such as the Tibetans, the Mongolians / Mongols and the Dai, Buddhism (which includes Lamaism) is the prevailing faith for almost the entire population, while among the Han people, Buddhism and Taoism have remained influential. 11.? Statistics show that there are over 200,000 Buddhist monks, nuns and lamas, 25,000 Taoist priests and nuns, 4,000 Catholic priests and 18,000 ministers working for the Protestant Church. There are 8 national patriotic religious organizations and a number of local ones and 75 seminaries / co