Issue 980 Nov. 14th, 2012Issue 980 Nov. 14th, 2012P. 2 BuzzP.6 CultureNew target to avoid trapSingles demand equality Buzz Contents1. Leadin Activity2. Reading Comprehension 3. Word Study4. Assignment New target to avoid trapLeadin ActivityTask 1: What do you think of the following picture? How can this problem be solved ? Please discuss it with your partner first. Leadin ActivityTask 2: Can you list any encouraging news from 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China? Background Information BEIJING - The Communist Party of China (CPC) is scheduled to open its 18th National Congress at around 9 am Thursday at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing to set the tone for the future of the Party and the country over the coming five years. The five-yearly event will elect a new generation of leadership at the meeting. The detailed agenda of the congress have been set as follows: - To hear and examine the report submitted by the 17th CPC Central Committee; - To examine the report on the work of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection; - To deliberate and adopt the amendment to the CPC Constitution; - To elect the Partys 18th Central Committee and Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.A total of 2,325 delegates and specially invited delegates are expected to attend the 18th CPC National Congress.Reading ComprehensionDirection: Go over the passage and answer the following questions :1. How do understand the title? What is the new target in the new? What does “the trap” refer to here? The title means a new target is set to avoid the trap. In the news the new target is “Chinas gross domestic product and per capita income in 2020 should be double that of 2010, for both urban and rural residents. And the trap refers to the middleincome trap.2. What does “A double income ” mean to Chinese people and to the country? It means that people could have more money to travel more and buy more things. But for a country, doubling its populations income is a far more significant matter. It could save a whole country from a “trap” in its development path.Reading Comprehension3. How much did the urban and rural residents of China earn in the year of 2010?According to data from the National Bureau of Statistics, the Per capita net income of Chinas urban residents was 19,109 yuan in 2010, and 5,919 yuan for rural residents.4. Why is improving living standards an urgent necessity?China ranked 77th out of 213 economies last year with a per capita gross national income of $4,940 (30,773 yuan), according to World Bank data. The global average was $9,491 last year.Reading Comprehension5. Please translate the underlined sentence “Policymakers will pay more attention to the quality of development and focus more on improving peoples lives in the future, Li said.更加重视经济发展质量、更加注重改善百姓生活Reading Comprehension6. What does “ the middleincome trap” mean? And what is the situation of China?It describes an economic development situation in which a country that has reached a certain per capita GDP about $3,000(18,690 yuan) to $8,000 gets stuck at that level.Chinas per capita GDP was $5,414 last year, according toInternational Monetary Fund data. This means its economic andSocial development has entered a critical stage of transition.Reading Comprehension6. What are Chinas three advantages to bridge the trap ?China enjoys three advantages: a steady leadership, rich experience accumulated in the past 30 years, and China can learn lessons from theCountries with the same experiences.Reading ComprehensionTrue or False QuestionsIn the 1960s and 70s, the per capita GDP of some countries in the West, Latin America and East Asia went beyond $4,000, that means these countries entered a critical stage of transition. Japan, the Republic of Korea and some developed Western countries succeeded in crossing the threshold by changing from technologyintensive economies to laborintensive. Some Latin American countries stuck to their economic growth models for too long, because they did not pay attention to the importance of fair wealth distribution.Doubling per capita income means multiplying salaries by two.Doubling per capita income doesnt guarantee that everyone will have doubled income.TFTT FBuzz Word PracticeGlossary (This part will be finished by the students. Teachers guide them to do so.)the development objectives gross domestic product per capita income net incomethe quality of development encouraging news Word Study Direction: search these words in the passage and translate them into Chinese according to the context. 发展目标国内生产总值 人均收入净收益发展质量鼓舞人心的消息 Word Study1. In outlining the development objectives for the next eight yearsDirection: Find out the meaning of the underlined words and translate the example. Outline v. describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of概述；略述；描画轮廓此外，还将略述弱视治疗的最新进展情况。e.g. Furthermore, it will outline som