syntax

orientalism

权力寻租腐败

mobile phone dependence syndrome

You" d better take a sweater with you______(以防天气变冷).

医疗改革

城乡差距

社会主义民主

布里斯班

B英译汉/B

bilateral arrangement

The standardized educational or psychological tests, that are widely used to aid in selecting, classifying, assigning, or promoting students, employees, and military personnel have been the target of recent attacks in books, magazines, the daily press, and even in Congress. The target is wrong, for in attacking the tests, critics turn attention from the fault that lies with ill-informed or incompetent users. The tests themselves are merely tools, with characteristics that can be measured with reasonable precision under specified condition. Whether the results will be valuable, meaningless , or even misleading depends partly upon the tool itself but largely upon the user. All informed predictions of future performance are based upon some knowledge of relevant past performance. How well the predictions will be supported by later performance depends upon the a-mount, reliability, and appropriateness of the information used and on the skill and wisdom with which it is interpreted. Anyone who keeps careful score knows that the information available is always incomplete and that the predictions are always subject to error. Standardized tests should be considered in this context. They provide a quick, objective method of getting some kinds of information about what a person has learned, the skills he has developed, or the kind of person he is. The information so obtained has, qualitatively, the same advantages and shortcomings as other kinds of information. Whether to use tests, other kinds of information, or both in a particular situation depends, therefore, upon the evidence from experience, and upon such factors as cost and availability.

维修和置换

Seven years ago Beijing's government set a target of making the city a "livable" one by 2020, with "fresh air and a beautiful environment". Few praise its progress. Complaints abound about its congestion, pollution, desperate shortage of water and hugely expensive housing. Even in the state-controlled media, suggestions are sometimes made that it is time to build a new capital. Beijing has been China's capital for most of the past 600 years. Since the Communist victory in 1949, the Chinese have been taught to revere the city as an embodiment of China's power, the party's might and their country' s glorious history. To propose a move strikes many as heretical. In recent years, however, some have broken ranks. In 2000 even China's then Prime Minister, Zhu Rongji, joined the sceptics. The capital, he declared, might have to move if measures to curb its sandstorms failed. Since then officials have claimed some success in reducing the frequency of these lung-clogging calamities. But other problems have grown. Beijingers fed up with traffic gridlock sometimes pronounce the word "shoudu", meaning capital, in a different tone so that it sounds like "the most congested". For much of the year a grey blanket of pollutants shrouds the city. The rate of birth defects has doubled over the past decade. The environment is thought to be a contributory factor. Several scholars have suggested, in newspapers as well as online, that these and other problems would best be solved by relocating the central government. Beijing's bureaucrats are unlikely to be persuaded. Their privileges, common to all those registered as Beijing citizens (i.e. not migrants from other provinces), include readier access than most other Chinese have to some of the country's best educational and medical facilities. Some local officials in places favored by scholars as potential capital sites have been proclaiming their merits. But given the allure of Beijing's amenities, it is little wonder that the central authorities keep quiet.

B英译汉/B

海峡两岸人民

虚拟现实

The Diaoyu Island and its affiliated islands

循环经济 是一种以资源的高效利用和循环利用为核心，以“减量化、再利用、资源化”为原则，以低消耗、低排放、高效率为基本特征，符合可持续发展理念的经济增长模式。

反腐倡廉