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在全球化的世界，中国需要越来越多具备国际教育背景的人才。

低碳生活 (low-carbon life)倡导人们在生活中减少二氧化碳的排放，是一种低能量、低消耗和低开支的生活方式。它要求人们以更健康、更安全和更自然的方式进行人与自然的活动。如今。这股风潮逐渐在中国一些大城市兴起，不知不觉地改变着人们的生活。为了实行低碳生活，人们需要改变一些生活细节，如节约用电、不使用塑料袋和一次性产品、乘坐 公共交通工具 (public transport)等。低碳生活节能环保，大大有利于减缓全球气候变暖和环境恶化的速度。

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风水的核心思想是人与自然的和谐，建议人们通过顺应自然规律、优化自然环境来提高自己的生活质量。

啃老族 (NEET group)是指那些既没有上学、也没有就业或接受职业培训的年轻人，年龄在20岁至30岁之间。他们主动放弃了就业的机会，赋闲在家，而原因并不是找不到工作。他们的日常生活依靠父母，而且花销往往不菲。啃老族的出现多半是因为父母过于溺爱。调查显示，在中国的城市里，目前约有七成无业青年靠父母养活。如今这一现象已经成为全国性的社会问题，带来了很多麻烦，并严重影响社会的和谐与稳定。

In such a changing, complex society formerly simple solutions to informational needs become complicated. Many of life's problems which were solved by asking family members, friends or colleagues are beyond the capability of the extended family to resolve. Where to turn for expert information and how to determine which expert advice to accept are questions facing many people today. In addition to this, there is the growing mobility of people since World War n. As families move away from their stable community, their friends of many years, their extended family relationships, the informal flow of information is cut off, and with it the confidence that information will be available when needed and will be trustworthy and reliable. The almost unconscious flow of information about the simplest aspects of living can be cut off. Thus, things once learned subconsciously through the casual communications of the extended family must be consciously learned. Adding to societal changes today is an enormous stockpile of information. The individual now has more information available than any generation, and the task of finding that one piece of information relevant to his or her specific problem is complicated, time-consuming and sometimes even overwhelming. Coupled with the growing quantity of information is the development of technologies which enable the storage and delivery of more information with greater speed to more locations than has ever been possible before. Computer technology makes it possible to store vast amounts of data in machine-readable files, and to program computers to locate specific information. Telecommunications developments enable the sending of messages via television, radio, and very shortly, electronic mail to bombard people with multitudes of messages. Satellites have extended the power of communications to report events at the instant of occurrence. Expertise can be shared world wide through teleconferencing, and problems in dispute can be settled without the participants leaving their homes and, or jobs to travel to a distant conference site. Technology has facilitated the sharing of information and the storage and delivery of information, thus making more information available to more people. In this world of change and complexity, the need for information is of greatest importance. Those people who have accurate, reliable up-to-date information to solve the day-to-day problems, the critical problems of their business, social and family life, will survive and succeed. "Knowledge is power" may well be the truest saying and access to information may be the most critical requirement of all people.

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算盘 (abacus／复数形式abaci)是中国传统的计算工具。是中国古代的一项重要发明。现在的算盘形状不一、材质各异。一般的算盘多是木制的，也有用塑料制成的。算盘价格便宜，运算简便，所以在中国被广泛使用。即使现代最先进的电子计算器也不能完全取代算盘。自古以来，算盘都是商人们用来算账的，因此算盘也被当作象征富贵的 吉祥物 (mascot)。另外，由于打算盘需要脑、眼、手的密切配合。所以它被认为是锻炼大脑的一种有效方法。

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王昭君是中国历史上的一个真实人物。西汉时期，为了取得汉朝政府的支持， 匈奴人 (Hun)请求与汉朝政府 和亲 (marriage alliance)。王昭君听说后，请求嫁到匈奴部落。她劝说匈奴人减少战争，并把汉族的文化传给他们，匈奴人民和汉朝人民和睦相处了60年。王昭君圆满完成了“汉匈和亲”的伟大使命，对当时民族关系的缓和做出了积极的贡献。她是实现民族团结、促进社会和谐的典范，两千年来一直为各族人民所称颂。

月光族 (the moonlight clan)是指那些不储蓄、将每月赚的钱都用光的人。月光族主要是年轻的一代，他们可能是收入微薄，仅够维持生活；或是生活压力不大，不需要储蓄。还有相当多的月光族追求时尚和高质量生活，把花钱当作是赚钱的动力。大多数月光族则缺乏正确的理财观念，不会合理地控制自己的开支。虽然享受生活很重要，但是养成良好的节约习惯也十分必要。月光族应该尽量避免冲动购物，学会做预算，树立理性的消费观。

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大学教育是人类文明的体现，大学教育水平则反映社会的文明程度。

食品安全问题是关系到千千万万人民群众切身利益的社会问题。可是在中国，重大食品安全事件频繁发生，食品安全问题日益严峻。某些没有诚信的商人为了追求利润最大化，不惜往人们每天食用的食品当中添加种类繁多的非法化学 添加剂 (additive)，极大地损害了人们的身体健康。食品安全不是一个人的责任，而是国家、社会、企业以及每个人的共同职责。只有全社会共同努力，食品安全问题才能从根本上得到解决。

Fertilizer use has exploded, overloading plants worldwide, likely altering ecosystems for decades to centuries, scientists report Thursday. In the journal Science, a review led by Donald Canfield of the University of Southern Denmark found that fertilizer use worldwide increased 800% from 1960 to 2000. "Given the rising costs of synthetic fertilizer production, this overuse is not only economically expensive, but also initiates a series of large-scale environmental impacts," says the review. Fundamentally, nitrogen from fertilizers has led to an explosion in "dead zones" in seas and oceans, upsetting a cycle of nutrients balanced with growth that has lasted for billions of years, the authors find. As well, the excess nitrogen is forming large amounts of nitrous oxide (一氧化二氨), a powerful greenhouse gas in wetlands, adding to climate change. Agriculture today produces about a quarter of the nitrous oxide in the atmosphere. "The effects of humans have been profound. In the last few decades we have doubled the worldwide biological availability of nitrogen, an element that often limits growth of plants and algae," says Thomas Jordan of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Md., who was not part of the review. The review, "is a very careful analysis of the nitrogen cycle by three of the world authorities in this area," says biochemist Robert Blankenship of Washington University in St Louis, who also was not part of the review. "The concerns they raise for how the nitrogen cycle is now significantly out of balance are important and need to be addressed by changing agricultural practices. The world's food supply depends directly on nitrogen application in the form of fertilizer, but current practices are such that much of the applied nitrogen ends up in rivers and eventually in the ocean where it causes serious problems." "Natural feedbacks driven by microorganisms will likely produce a new steady state over time scales of many decades," say the review authors. "However, because of the projected increase in human population through at least 2050, there will be demand for an increase in fixed nitrogen for crops to feed this population." And that will mean a lot more dead zones, they warn, like the one that blooms yearly, m 2010 about the size of New Jersey, in the Gulf of Mexico. "Several new approaches and a much wider use of more sustainable time-honored practices, however, can decrease nitrogen use substantially," they conclude. The rising cost and environmental toll of fertilizers will increase demand for less use on farms, they add. "However, even with management, the future cycle will likely be different from the one that preceded the Industrial Revolution."

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