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雅思口语篇 电视相亲席卷中国 朗阁海外考试研究中心 王元 【时事聚焦】 6月30日，美国《时代》周刊以醒目的位置登载了一篇题为《中国电视相亲节目：为爱还是为钱？》的文章。作者贾斯汀·伯格曼撰文指出，对于一小撮中国现代年轻女性来说，真爱都是关于数字的。在要求求婚者必须拥有幽默感、英俊外貌的同时，她们更在乎的是对方是否有房子、房子的大小、银行卡的钱数，当然有豪华轿车更好。至少，这些都是近来中国电视相亲节目中的情景。这些节目吸引了数百万观众的眼球，也招来了批评人士的无情炮轰，批评这些节目导致消极的、非传统价值观在中国城市年轻人中盛行。在如今最为流行的非诚勿扰舞台上因负面言论走红的著名拜金女马诺，在一位爱好骑自行车且无业的男嘉宾问她是否愿意坐在他的自行车后座上欣赏风景时的回应被看作是当今中国80后一代价值观的一个缩影。Chinas TV Dating Shows: For Love or Money? (SHANGHAI)— For a small but increasingly high-profile number of young women in modern-day China, true love is all about the numbers. A potential suitor may have a good sense of humor and reasonable good looks, but what they say really matters is if he owns an apartment and how many square feet it is. A sizable bank account is also a must, and, some say, so is a luxury car. Ma Nuo： At least, thats the way things look if you watch Chinese television these days. Though China was slow to pick up on the reality-programming trend, a host of dating shows and American Idol copycats have emerged in recent years, capturing millions of viewers but angering critics who say the programs promote negative, non-traditional values among urban Chinese youth. The latest reality-TV scandal to transfix the nation involves Ma Nuo, a 22-year-old model from Beijing who appeared on Chinas most popular dating show, If You Are the One. She haughtily rejected an offer from a male contestant to take a ride on his bike, epitomizing the materialism that some say has come to define the nouveau riche of the post-1980s generation. Id rather cry in a BMW car than laugh on the backseat of a bicycle, Ma told her suitor with a giggle. Smackdown： The televised smackdown swept the Internet and made an instant celebrity of Ma, who left the show without a match but has since entertained numerous television offers and become one of the most talked-about women in the country. The backlash among young Chinese was especially severe, reflecting growing anxieties over the widening gap between rich and poor, shifting