Unit 2 传统上,中文里没有隐私这一概念。这是因为在中国，集体主义这一价值观受到高度赞扬。另一方面，中国人喜欢和家人住在一起，他们认为这样显示了和谐的人际关系。我们甚至看到在中国，不同的家庭住在一个大院子里。在这样的居住环境下是没有隐私可言的。因此，中国人觉得凡事不必隐藏。 Traditionally, there is no equivalent term for “privacy” in Chinese. This is because the value of collectivism is praised highly in China. On the other hand, Chinese people enjoy living together with their family members because it is a way to show harmonious human relationship. It is not strange for us to find that even people from different families share a big courtyard in China. With such arrangements, privacy would be hardly possible. So, Chinese people feel that nothing should be concealed. Unit 4 中国中小学生的想象力和创造力相当贫乏。经过对21个国家的调查，中国儿童计算能力排名第一，而想象力排在最后，创造力排名倒数第五。对此，专家们建议通过立法加强中国中小学生的“想象力教育”。儿童缺乏想象力是一个关乎中国科学界命运的问题。中国的考试制度严重制约了学生的想象力和创造力，中国的教育体制的改革应该从解放儿童的好奇心开始。 China's primary and middle school students' imagination and creative ability are quite poor. In a survey of 21 countries, the counting ability of Chinese children ranked No.1, while imagination ranked at the bottom and creative ability ranked fifth from the bottom. Regarding this, experts suggest strengthening imagination-oriented education for China's primary and middle school students through legislation. The lack of imagination among Chinese children is a matter of concern for the scientific world. The examination system in China has severely restricted students’ imagination and creativity, and the reform of China's education system should start with the liberation of children's curiosity. Unit 5 自去年11月以来，中国的通货膨胀持续上扬。据NBS(国家数据局National Bureau of Statistics)表明，由于寒冬的影响，食品价格的上涨是推动-月份CPI上涨1.5%的主因。因为近年来人们的饮食和消费习惯发生了极大的改变，专家认为，为了更清晰实时地反映居民的生活总支出和经济压力的状况，CPI评估标准需要做出与实际情况相符的调整(modification)。 由于房屋支出占收入的比重越来越大，因此相应的调整似乎是有必要，同时，政策的制定者要正确解读CPI及其他指标(metrics)以判断经济运行的状况(economic performance)。 China's inflation has continued to rise since November last year. Its CPI rose 1.5 percent in January, mainly boosted by food price increases due to the cold winter weather, according to the NBS (National Bureau of Statistics). Since people's eating and consumption ha bits have changed greatly in recent years, experts held that the criteria for evaluating CPI needed modification in line with actual conditions to give a clearer and real-time picture of the general living costs and financial pressure of the citizens. Housing costs occupy an increasingly bigger share of incomes, so corresponding modifications seem to be necessary, as policy-makers will read CPI and other metrics for judging economic performance. Unit 8 中国具有丰富的生物多样性(biodiversity),号称拥有世界上数量最多的鸟类与裸子植物( gymnosperm)种类。 但中国的生物多样性面临严峻的形势:百分之十五到百分之二十的高等植物(higher plants)品种濒临灭绝,危及到与它们密切相关的四万种生物体(species of organisms)的生存。作为最早的《生物多样性公约( Convention on Biological Diversity)》的签约国之一，中国一直积极参与涉及该公约的国际事务，并在关系到生物多样性的重要问题方面发言。中国同样也是履行该公约的行动方案为数不多的国家之一。 China has rich biodiversity, boasting the world's largest number of bird species and gymnosperm varieties. But China's biodiversity is faced with a critical situation; 15 to 20 percent of higher plant varieties are endangered, threatening the existence of 40,000 species of organisms closed related with them. As one of the earliest contracting countries to the Convention on Biological Diversity, China has been active in international affairs concerning the Convention and on important issues related to biodiversity. China is also one of the few countries to complete the Convention's action plans. 本文来源：https://www.wddqw.com/doc/1af7bc99bdd126fff705cc1755270722182e5962.html