日期：2007-12-21 5. A Room of One's Own A： Have you ever you know sort of Mum's said to you, like, Could you help me clear up？ So you say, Yes, O. K. and you put your brother's or sister's things away, and then they come up and they say, Where's so and so？ （YeahY... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-21 Lesson 14 Does the Younger Generation Know Best？ Text The Younger Generation Knows Best Old people are always saying that the young are not what they were. The same comment is made from generation to generation and it is always true. It has never be... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-21 4. Common Sense about Smoking It is often said, I know all about the risk to my health, but I think that the risk is worth it. When this statement is true it should be accepted. Everyone has the right to choose what risks they take, however great the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-21 Lesson 15 Should Smoking Be Prohibited？ Text Passive Path to Death for Non-smokers Alice Trillin was 38 and thought she was in excellent health. Then this completely crazy thing happened.I coughed and a tiny, tiny blood clot took me to get a chest X... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-21 2. What Did Qi Gong Do with His Money？ Everyone knows how important money is in the world today. But what did Qi Gong do with his hard-earned one and a half million yuan？ Mr Qi Gong, aged 79, is a well-known calligrapher in China. He became famous... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-21 Lesson 16 Is Money the Most Important Thing in Life？ TextThe Only Thing People Are Interested in Today Is Earning More Money.Once upon a time there lived a beautiful young woman and a handsome young man . They were very poor, but a's they were deepl... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-21 4. Dating Pattens in the USA In the traditional dating pattern in the United States,much of the responsibility for a date falls to the young man. In this pattern, the young man must first call fhe girl he wishes to date on the telephone. Usually, thi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-21 Lesson 17 Is Romantic Love the Most Important Condition for Marriage？ Text Choosing a Spouse If you are young and unmarried, you must have in your mind the image of an ideal husband or wife. Most young people like to indulge in fantasies, and your i... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-21 2. Women's Education Should Be Urged Recently, a woman in a factory in Beijing was notified that she was being laid off as part of the optimization work force reductions in State enterprises. To escape humiliation at the hands of her husband and moth... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-21 Lesson 18 Should Women Be Treated the Same as Men？ Text For Women, There Is a Long Way to Go One-third of the people at work in Britain are women. By 1975 they will, by law, be on a footing of equal pay with men. Their prospects of reaching the top,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-21 2. What Kind of City Should Beijing Be？ The C. P. C. Central Committee Secretariat has proposed that Beijing should become：（1） a model in public security, social order and moral standards for the whole country and one of the best in the world；（... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-21 Lesson19 Is it Good to Live in a Large Modern City？ Text I Hate to Live in a Large Modern CityAvoid the rush-hour must be the slogan of large cities the world over. If it is, it's a slogan no one takes the least notice of. Twice a day, with predicta... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-21 Lesson 20 Is Housing Reform Necessary？ Text Housing Reform Faces Obstacles Housing reform, acknowledged by economists and politicians at home and abroad as central to China's economic reform, has reached a critical stage. A recent article in the ove... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-21 Lesson 21 Should People Be Promoted according to Ability？ Text Flattering the Boss Gets You Everywhere In the world of work, flattery will get you everywhere. Employees who flatter their bosses tend to receive better evaluations and move more easily... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-21 Lesson 22 Should Capital Punishment Be a Major Deterrent to Crime？ Text Capital Punishment Is the Only Way to Deter Criminals Perhaps all criminals should be required to carry cards which read： Fragile： Handle with Care. It will never do, these da... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-21 Lesson 22 Should Capital Punishment Be a Major Deterrent to Crime？ Text Capital Punishment Is the Only Way to Deter Criminals Perhaps all criminals should be required to carry cards which read： Fragile： Handle with Care. It will never do, these da... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-21 2. How It Feels to Be Out of Job Xu Peihua, 26, was fired from her job at the Shanghai No 5 Silk Knitting Factory in january 1987 after she became ill. The community committce where Xu lived was supposed to compensate her for 70 per cent of her medic... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-21 Lesson 23 Is It Necessary to Keep the Iron Rice Bowl？ Text Living Without the Iron Rice BowlSince 1987, reform of the Chinese labour system has stepped out of the laboratory and into the real world of employment. For many, the iron rice bowl no long... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-21 In the bus：tling night market of Xidan, one of the busiest shopping centres in Beijing, a young woman was heard commenting on a dress marked at 319 yuan.It would cost three months of my salary, but it's really beautiful, she said. It's very difficul... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-21 Lesson 24 Does Fashion Contribute Anything to Society？ Text Make np, Dress up, Warm up, Brighten'up When 43-year-old Wang I.ongzhu stepped out of a beauty parlour in Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu Province in East China, she felt all the people around... 阅读全文>>