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1、Fauxductivity, faux + productivityGuerrilla proofreading Tony is a college English teacher, and he really enjoys so-called guerrilla proofreading in his spare time. Whenever he sees something wrong on a public sign, he would mark it down and write to the government to complain about it.,Gameboy Back
2、gift-giving anxietyThe living will （advance directive）,is used only if the individual has become unable to give informed consent or refusal due to incapacity. A living will can be very specific or very general. An example of a statement sometimes found in a living will is: “If I suffer an incurable,
3、 irreversible illness, disease, or condition and my attending physician determines that my condition is terminal, I direct that life-sustaining measures that would serve only to prolong my dying be withheld or discontinued.”,Living wills proved to be very popular, and by 2007, 41% of Americans had c
4、ompleted a living will. In response to public needs, state legislatures soon passed laws in support of living wills in virtually every state in the union.,Where is Julie? Is she ghosting on us again?Asian glow,refers to redness on the face or body experienced by some Asian people when consuming alco
5、hol.,Lesson One Chinas Growth Poses Opportunity and Risk 中国经济快速增长既有机遇又有风险,Threat to U.S. economic might is seenBy Keith Bradsher,The reporter,Keith Bradsher,Keith Bradsher is a reporter for The New York Times. He has been the chief Hong Kong correspondent since 2002, reporting on events from greater
6、 China and southeast Asia on topics ranging from news to finance, culture and the environment. He has won numerous awards for his reporting.Keith Bradsher was Detroit bureau chief of The New York Times from 1996 to 2001. During that time he won the George Polk Award乔治波克纪念奖（George Polk Memorial Award
7、）and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.,Bradsher has a public policy masters degree in economics from Princeton University and received his bachelors degree with highest honors in economics as a Morehead Scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.The Morehead-Cain Scholarship is
8、the first merit scholarship (优秀学生奖学金）program in the US, founded at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the first public university in the US. Its named for its benefactors, John Motley Morehead III and the Gordon and Mary Cain Foundation. Modeled after the Rhodes Scholarship, it provides a
9、full four-year scholarship covering tuition, books, room and board, a laptop computer, and four summer experiences known as the Morehead-Cains Summer Enrichment Program. Applicant must be a competitive applicant to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and unmarried and without children.,B
10、radsher joined the Times in 1989. Before his Asian assignment, he was the Detroit bureau chief, a Washington D.C. correspondent, and a reporter covering the airline and telecommunications industries.,The development of China,China has come a very long way in the past several decades. The land of the
11、 Giant Panda is also the land of giant numbers and achievements: Chinas population represents more than one fifth of the worlds population: 1.3 billion people.Between 1978 and 2001 Chinas average growth rate of GDP per capita was at the top of the worlds growth performance in this period.,Chins GDP
12、Growth Rate to Be above 9.5 % This Year CRI (China Radio International) 2008-10-22Many economists estimate that despite the global economic slowdown, Chinese economy will maintain a steady and fast growth for the rest of this year, with an annual GDP growth of more than 9.5 percent. Hu Zuliu, the ge
13、neral manager of the Goldman Sachs Group Asia Limited（高盛集团有限公司），said, “The negative impact of this global financial crisis is unavoidable for Chinese economy. But this years GDP growth could be around 9.5% on average. It will be an amazing and speedy growth under the current global economic environm
14、ent.“ Wang Yuanhong, a senior researcher with the State Information Centre, is even more optimistic about the future economic growth. “We believe with adequate adjustments on the government policies, Chinas GDP growth rate could be about 10% in this year. Its still a relatively high growth rate.“,Si
15、nce the reform and open-door policy started, China kept annual average GDP growth rate of 9.7%, the increasing rate of GDP per capital was 6%-7%, it was a miracle in the history of human economic. At present, the gross of Chinas economy had already ranked the third of world, foreign trade quantity s
16、econd only to USA. However, Chinas GDP per capita ranking was very low all over the world, being 3% of USA. So China still had great potential and space for keeping economic growth at high speed.,(2012年03月05) China plans to lower its GDP growth rate in 2012 to 7.5 percent amid the gloomy world economy and complicated domestic situation, according to a government work report. This is the first time for the Chinese government to lower its economic growth target after keeping it around 8 percent for seven consecutive years.,
