宫东风老师精背A计划( 8月1日——8月31日).doc

附件2宫东风老师精背A计划23篇（8月1日8月31日）宫东风老师精背第（1）篇Drainage WorksHeavy rainstorms are now sweeping south China, leaving many cities struggling practically in water. Nowadays, it seems rainstorms are certain to bring floods to cities. This may be partly because of urban developers shortsighted practice of paying more attention to the citys surface while neglecting the underground.City construction is expanding, with mushrooming skyscrapers and romantic European style streets. While cities faces are turning increasingly modern and pretty, rainstorms, even one rainstorm, can easily flush away the shiny powder on the citys face and we have submerged streets and immobilized cars.The measurement of a citys realization of modernization is not its surface, but its underground structure, or its heart. How many Chinese cities hearts can withstand the test of storms?In Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province, drainage works dating back to the Song Dynasty (960-1279) still operate well, ensuring smooth water drainage in various overflows or floods.Todays China is not short of money or advanced technology, but city managers and builders are seriously lacking in a sense of responsibility and far-sighted design concepts. What we see are mostly short-lived projects constructed in a hurry. Urban construction is not supposed to be pushed just by temporary passion, but should be based on farsightedness.宫东风老师精背第（2）篇Charity ProblemsThe Childrens Welfare Home of Yibin in southwest Chinas Sichuan Province recently revealed they had found food and medicine passed their expiry dates in donations, which had to be thrown away. The same situation applies occasionally to donated clothes the institute receives.For people to donate to charity organizations is a virtue, but if donated clothes are dirty and tatty, and food is expired, it not only hurts the beneficiaries, but is also against the spirit of the cause of charity.As for the welfare institutes, they need and welcome social help and love. Thats why they seldom reject social donations, fearing their rejection will hurt donors desire to give. But this does not mean they welcome dirty, worn-out clothes and expired food and medicine in the name of charity.By no means should anyone send rubbish to a charitable organization. Children in these institutions are sometimes more sensitive than normal children, and this sort of rubbish will easily hurt their feelings. Sometimes, they need respect more than other people.On one hand, donors should act more responsibly, and on the other hand, these cases show Chinas charity causes are still weak and underdeveloped and need improvement. 宫东风老师精背第（3）篇Dairy StandardsRecently, at a dairy industry symposium in China, Wang Dingmian, President of Guangzhou Dairy Association, said Chinas dairy quality standards were very low. However, Nada Talmud, Secretary General of the Dairy Association of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, said dairy quality standards of China should be based on Chinas national situation, as 72 percent of milch cows in China are fed by individual farmers.Wang said before 2010, the standard for Chinas milk quality was 500,000 bacteria in a milliliter of raw material and protein content of 2.95 grams in 100 grams of milk. But the standards are slipping. Todays standards show bacteria numbers have increased by 1.5 million a milliliter while protein content has dropped 0.15 gram per 100 grams of milk.If a product cant achieve the standard, lets make the standard lower and if the overseas market refuses it, let it be sold in the domestic market. When a certain industry is so tolerant of itself, its really a sad thing for consumers, especially when dairy product scandals keep emerging now and then.When it comes to food safety, its better for the food industry to look up to world standards, instead of hiding behind the ridiculous shield of Chinas national situation. Its unfair to assume Chinese intestines are immune to unsafe and even toxic food. The demand of Chinese people for food safety wont naturally decline just because this industrys safety standard is set very low.For the dairy industry in China, turning to the countrys national situation as a shield will only aggravate any trust crisis concerning it. 宫东风老师精背第（4）篇University EnrollmentAlthough it has become increasingly easier for middle school students to enter college during the past decade, that does not necessarily mean more chances for them to go to prestigious universities. Now, some of Chinas top universities are sending signals of restricting enrollment, intending to enroll only excellent students, so as to ensure the enrollees better education.Since 1999, Chinese colleges, including the top universities, began to expand enrollment, which resulted in the dilution of the original educational resources and a drop in students quality.But there is an exception. The University of Science and Technology of China resisted various pressures, saying no to enrollment expansion, thus managing to maintain the high quality of its students.The enrollment expansion also involved virtually all the 985 Project universities, the 39 leading universities sponsored by government to promote development of Chinas higher education system. In general, universities are unable to practice elitist education if they enroll too many students. World-class universities such as Harvard, Yale and Princeton never let in more than 2,500 undergraduates a year.Nevertheless, except for University of Science and Technology of China, the remaining 38 of the 985 Project universities kept enrolling more than 2,500 freshmen every year since 1999. To select the best and control the scale of enrollment will get nearer the goal of forging world-class universities.宫东风老师精背第（5）篇Exam ChampionsWith the announcement of the results of this years college entrance examinations, those with the top pass marks throughout China will again attract peoples attention for a certain period. While universities are eager to enhance their status by enrolling as many exam champions as possible, businesses are also trying to tap into their commercial value.We all know there are many examinations in ones lifetime. Doing well in one exam does not equate to a successful life. To overpraise champion students for one success may cause a young student to break down in the future. Statistics show from 1977 to 2008, of the more than 1,000 college entrance examination champions, none of them now leads their fields. They tend to underachieve.When college days draw to an end, those exam champions will finally have to stand on the same starting line as other students, accepting the test of fierce competition. Whether they were college entrance examination champions or not no longer matters.The society should treat exam champions as normal and not affect them with excessive praise or material benefit, or it will hereby hinder their growth.宫东风老师精背第（6）篇World HeritageOn June 24 the West Lake Cultural Landscape of Hangzhou successfully became inscribed on UNESCOs World Heritage List as a cultural property. The Hangzhou Municipal Government has promised to continue to make the West Lake a free-of-charge scenic spot. The government also said it would protect any cultural relics in the area and also prevent real estate development in the scenic area. We should applaud for Hangzhou governments making such promises.In recent years, China has been swept by the trend of bidding for the World Heritage status. In some places, it is actually a kind of profit-driven move. The result is, instead of being preserved, many cultural and historical relics are damaged to different levels in the process of developing local tourism.Maybe because of lessons drawn from others, Hangzhou came up with its own principles to protect the West Lake scenic area. In this way, all people are able to share in the benefits of the successful application.Hangzhous promises have brought forward to prominence once again the common sense that bidding for a world heritage listing is not a final goal and especially is not for the sake of further tourism-oriented development. It is a responsibility of protecting and passing down our culture and tradition. World heritage belongs to all of society. 宫东风老师精背第（7）篇Cultural LifeA Sino-U.S. mens basketball game was recently held in Yongcheng in central Chinas Henan Province. Chinese Basketball Association officials and the players of both teams were surprised by the strong passion for basketball of the residents in this small county. The gymnasium accommodates 6,000 people, and all the tickets for the game were sold out. U.S. basketball players said after the match they felt like superstars. They spoke highly of local residents enthusiasm for the game, which they said they thought was similar to professional basketball audiences in the United States.Two years ago, Yongcheng was listed among Chinas top 100 counties. The residents there have just begun to enjoy relatively well-off lives and now show a greater demand for cultural life. In big cities like Beijing and Shanghai, big sports and entertainment events are common, but in small cities like Yongcheng, watching an international professional game live is a rare and precious opportunity.This poses a problem: Why cant we bring more of these events to small cities in the central and western parts of the country, where better cultural life is anticipated by people? There is wider room for cultural and sports industries development in these places and unexpectedly good economic and social effects will follow. 宫东风老师精背第（8）篇Reclaimed LandIn the name of developing the ocean economy, coastal cities nowadays are expanding coastal areas by filling the sea with earth and most of the new land is being used for real estate development. The risk of overheated development of houses with sea views not only disturbs current property price control policies, but also poses threats to ecological balance, disaster relief and sustainable development of the regions.This is undoubtedly a profit-driven movement. The cost of filling the sea for 1 mu (0.06 hectare) is 150,000 yuan ($23,077) to 200,000 yuan ($30,769), but local governments usually sell the coastal land to property developers at millions and even tens of millions of yuan a mu, and it is therefore an extremely lucrative business for local governments.When a large number of people cluster along the coast, if natural disasters like earthquakes or tsunamis of any degree occur, they will incur serious consequences.Generally speaking, houses can be built up on land reclaimed from the sea 20 to 30 years after reclamation. But in reality, many construction projects begin soon after the land has been reclaimed. This is very dangerous.Its not to say houses with sea views should be forbidden, but construction should be based on the overall sea development schemes and scientific planning, instead of being pushed forward blindly only for profit.宫东风老师精背第（9）篇University RecruitmentHong Kongs universities are continuing their attractive scholarship policy to compete with prestigious universities on the mainland for outstanding high-school graduates this summer.It is reported the three students in Beijing who attained the highest scores in liberal arts in this years college entrance examination have chosen University of Hong Kong (HKU). Each of them will receive a huge scholarship for each year they study. In addition, this years top students of arts of Yunnan Province and Anhui Province also chose HKU. It is believed more top students will leave for Hong Kong this year.The competition for top students with Hong Kong has affected mainland university recruitment in recent years. Greater numbers of high school graduates are applying for Hong Kong universities, and this is especially noticeable among the better students. How can Hong Kong attract so many top students from the mainland? In short, there are two reasons. First, Hong Kong universities offer incomparable scholarships to the best students; second, Hong Kong has an open international education environment, which helps students attain better qualities and abilities for work and future development. In fact, its a tradition among top universities around the world to put in place scholarship policies to attract top students. It provides students from poor families with equal education.Most mainland universities, however, spend too much money on infrastructure, buildings and campus expansion, rather than on scholarships or education itself. Thus, high tuition fees and increasing difficulty in finding a job after graduation further push many top students of the mainland to Hong Kongs universities.宫东风老师精背第（10）篇Income TaxRaising the individual income tax cutoff point from 3,000 yuan ($460) to 3,500 yuan ($538) was a highlight of the second reading of an amendment to Chinas individual income tax law. The raised threshold means a lower taxation burden on many low and middle-income earners. More importantly, this time public opinions played a tangible role in the top legislatures decision on the adjustment.More than 230,000 opinions were collected after the draft of the law. Of those, only 15 percent were supportive of the 3,000 yuan cutoff point while the majority appealed to raise the threshold. The public wanted to let their opinions be known through official channels and this showed their support of and hope for transparent legislation.Behind every opinion is a different individuals expectation for the amendment. The response to these expectations and opinions was a test of the legislatures wisdom.The result in deciding the new tax cutoff point shows the top legislature fully respects the peoples opinions and therefore their enthusiasm for participating in matters related to their immediate interests is protected. Meanwhile, the result is also based on a kind of balance reached from a wide variety of opinion. Its hoped the tax cutoff point reform will set up a good example for other departments, so the public voice will be better heard. 宫东风老师精背第（11）篇High-speed TrainThe Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway officially opened on June 30.Although China was not the inventor of high-speed rail, the Beijing-Shanghai railway is the worlds first long-distance high-speed one in the real sense. Meanwhile, China is working on the worlds first large-scale high-speed rail network.People can benefit a great deal from this railway. It is another artery added to the stressed transportation between Beijing and Shanghai. It will undoubtedly pose a threat to air transportation.Railways were invented in Europe, but history will prove they will find a promising prospect in China. The country will continue to push forward the development of railways. Problems of inter-city transportation in China are facing excellent opportunities to find a good solution.High-speed rail technology is a perfect combination of learning and innovation. China is managing to run to the front from far behind in this field.宫东风老师精背第（12）篇Charity CauseRecently, a young woman who called herself Guo Meimei Baby showed off her extravagant lifestyle on her microblog, including several luxury sports cars and dozens of designer handbags. She claimed to be the general manager of a company named Red Cross Commerce. Guos young age, her lavish lifestyle and her verified title of Red Cross Commerce general manager aroused curiosity among microbloggers.The Red Cross Society of China made a public statement on June 22 saying there was no Red Cross Commerce in the organization and Guo was not its employee. Despite that, it is still hard to stop the spread of rumors that there is corruption inside the organization. Before the Guo Meimei case, the Red Cross Society has already been hit by some negative reports about it, such as extravagant dinners, which has greatly damaged the image of the organization.Charity organizations such as the Red Cross Society are supposed to be totally transparent. A statement alone, without hard evidence, is not enough to remove peoples doubts. More importantly, the Red Cross Society should examine itself and make improvements, so as to restore its credibility among the public.The result of an online survey shows after the Guo Meimei incident, many people say their enthusiasm in donating has been hit. The Guo Meimei case is not only hurting Chinas charity cause, but also the publics enthusiasm for charity.宫东风老师精背第（13）篇Train MalfunctionsThe opening of the Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed Railway has been a source of great excitement for Chinese people. Citizens have high expectations of safety, comfort and environmental protection on this railway. However, since formal operations began on June 30, a series of accidents have taken place.A breakdown occurred on July 10 at the contact network of the Qufu-Tengzhou-Zaozhuang section due to stormy weather, which prevented 19 trains from arriving on time. Two days later, on the afternoon of July 12, due to a malfunction in power supply facilities, some trains were delayed again.Chinas high-speed rail link is now the longest in the world, but high speed on the line is not enough. There are still a lot of problems waiting to be solved. Is the railway able to cope with emergencies related to extreme weather and can it ensure the safety of its technical equipment? Does the train staff know how to comfort and compensate passengers when accidents occur?It seems that the service, security and managerial work of our high-speed trains is falling behind speed. How to develop the railway into a comfortable and safe manner is a matter of urgency facing Chinas advanced high-speed railway. 宫东风老师精背第（14）篇Plastic BagsSix ministries including the National Developme