第二十一天：阅读模拟练习一
今天开始阅读练习。总结的写作词汇是关于社会生活问题的。其中与“假”有关的问题放在前面。以后会专门总结“假研究”一类的问题。
今天的结束语是：Seek truth from facts（实事求是）。
counterfeit certificates伪造证书
counterfeit currency/stamp/ ID card伪造货币/邮票/身份证件
credit-card fraud信用卡欺诈
fake and shoddy commodities假冒伪劣商品
pseudo-science/superstition伪科学/迷信
unlicensed vehicle黑车
smuggled goods黑货/走私货
population explosion/baby boom人口爆炸
population census人口普查
birth/death rate出生/死亡率
family planning计划生育
high blood pressure高血压
heart attack心脏病
cancer癌症
euthanasia安乐死
death penalty/capital punishment 死刑
bring somebody to justice缉拿归案/绳之以法
law enforcement officers执法人员
bootlegging贩卖违禁品
money laundering洗钱
cyber bars/internet café网吧
drug addiction吸毒
epidemic disease传染病
AIDS 艾滋病和性病
campus/family violence校园/家庭暴力
male chauvinist大男子主义者
child abuse虐待儿童
dropout students失学儿童
eliminate illiteracy扫盲
help those in distress and aid those in peril扶危济困
poverty-stricken areas贫困地区
remote and mountain areas边远山区
shake off poverty and set out on a road to prosperity脱贫致富
pornographic books and magazines 黄色书刊
brain drain人才流失
personnel recruitment员工招聘
investment for infrastructure基本建设投资
organization at grass-root level基层组织
institutional reorganization机构重组
corruption phenomenon腐败现象
offer or take bribes行贿受贿
on-line love affair网恋
high divorce rate/single_parent children/only child高离婚率/单亲家庭子女/独生子女
DINK (double income, no kid)丁克家庭
nuclear family核心家庭
generation gap代沟
couch potato长时间看电视的人
cosmetics surgery美容手术
go on a diet节食/减肥
well-balanced meals营养均衡的食物
maintain a low profile保持低调
tendency toward boasting and exaggeration浮夸风
enjoy banquets using public funds公款吃喝
bad construction projects豆腐渣工程
welfare-oriented public housing distribution system福利分房
high-rise apartment building高层住宅楼
down payment首期按揭／首付
middle-class lifestyle中产阶级生活方式
juvenile delinquency青少年犯罪
social stability社会安定
community services社区服务laid-off workers下岗工人
trial period试用期on-the-job training; professional training岗位培训
U.N. Security Council联合国安理会
American dream美国梦
Government-funded personnel studying abroad公费留学人员
racial/sex discrimination种族/性别歧视
traffic jam/ road congestion交通阻塞
drunk driving酒后开车violation of traffic regulations触犯交通法规
rush/peak hour高峰时间
the second/third/fourth ring road二/三/四环路
security personnel保安人员
X-Generation新新人类
globalization全球化
intellectual property right知识产权
infringement on the patent right侵犯专利权
E.T. (extra_terrestrial being)外星人
avant garde（艺术风格）前卫/先锋
quiz show（电视）快速抢答节目
Hollywood blockbuster好莱坞票房大片
preservation of cultural relics文物保护
calisthenics/body-building exercises健身操
bungee jumping蹦极跳
epoch-making event划时代的事件
permanent residence certificate户口本
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Being the founder of the Internet’s largest encyclopedia means Jimmy Wales gets a lot of bizarre e-mail. There are the correspondents who assume he wrote Wikipedia himself and is therefore an expert on everything—like the guy who found vials of mercury in his late grandfather’s attic and wanted Wales, a former options trader, to tell him what to do with them. But the e-mails that make him laugh out loud come from concerned newcomers who have just discovered they have total freedom to edit just about any Wikipedia entry at the click of a button. Oh my God, they write, you’ve got a major security flaw!
As the old techie saying goes, it’s not a bug, it’s a feature. Wikipedia is a free open-source encyclopedia, which basically means that anyone can log on and add to or edit it. And they do. It has a stunning 1.5 million entries in 76 languages-and counting. Academics are upset by what they see as info anarchy. Loyal Wikipedians argue that collaboration improves articles over time, just as free open-source software like Linux and Firefox is more robust than for-profit competitors because thousands of amateur programmers get to look at the code and suggest changes. It’s the same principle that New Yorker writer James Surowiecki asserted in his best seller The Wisdom of Crowds: large groups of people are inherently smarter than an élite few.