英语时文泛读CurrentNewsArticlesforExtensiveReadingBOOKI.ppt

英语时文泛读Current News Articles for Extensive Reading China Report I. Overview In this unit, you will read 3 passages about various aspects of social life of the Chinese people. Take note of the achievements they have made and the problems they are faced with. Structure This unit will give you a glimpse of the development of China in various sectors. Text A All Aboard China is a nation on the move. Migrant workers travel back home during the season of Spring Festival every year. This poses a big problem to the nation’s transport. Text B China has already achieved a quarter century of unprecedented economic growth. Now it needs to keep growing in a more responsible way, emphasizing environmental protection, more energy efficiency and cutting-edge technology. China 2.0 Text C A Chinese government panel announced plans on Friday to revamp the holiday schedule to re-emphasize traditional festivals at the expense of the May Day celebration. The new schedule aims to address the severe overloading of China’s air, rail and road links in the first week of May, when virtually the entire country goes on vacation. But gridlock may remain around the two other major holidays—essentially a week each— at the Chinese New Year and in the first week of October. China Juggles Tombs and Dragon Boats Focus of this session II. Text A All Aboard Main Idea of the Text This article mainly talks about the development of transport in China and existing problems. Background Information Author Melinda Liu joined Newsweek in 1980 and opened the magazine’s Beijing bureau the same year; she returned to New York in 1982 as a general editor for Newsweek International; she was named Newsweek Beijing bureau chief in late 1998. Liu was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and is a magna cum laude graduate of Radcliffe College, Harvard. She is President of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China, and in October 2005 launched a Newsweek Web column titled “Asia Rising.” Background Information Source Ne