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【外语学习】趣味英语之新闻播放(之一) Chinese news of Fun Stuff  5th

♪(^∇^*)Hello December♪(^∇^*)
好久不见不知道有没有人想我呢？小木虫上的大家是不是每天埋头和科研打交道没有时间听听新闻放松自己呢，现在我准备做几期关于英语新闻节目考虑接下来节目的走向，希望小伙伴们多多支持呀~~
【活动目的】    听英语练口语  listen and speaking
【活动方式】    各位虫子们可以先听音频然后对照原文练习，最后可以自己尝试录制上传音频。
You could try these tongue twister recordings with your partners or yourself to practice your oral English. And you can try to repeat them and upload your recordings.
【活动奖励】
积极参与认真回复贴 每人奖励2BB，附带录音文件的每段录音 3BB。
To encourage active participation, anyone take seriously part in this activity will gain 2BB, Uploading your own practice audio recordings can get 3BB each.

最近总是感觉很疲惫提不起精神呢，人也懒散了不少，这样是个很严重的问题，求小伙伴们提供方法来激励一下我呐
昨天有好多朋友参加了考试，现在让我们来看一下老外眼里的情况吧

Compared to last year, 3,000 more positions were available for the 2015 National Civil Servant exam, with 11,000 fewer applicants applying to take it. But that has not made the test any less cut-throat.

"The high ratio reflects several problems. Many university graduates do not have a clear career plan and simply follow what most people are doing. A lot of the young applicants want to be a civil servant mostly for the stability and welfare package, instead of a desire to actually be a civil servant. But I think this ratio will continue to drop in the future, because now there are better career services available in universities, more government assistance for entrepreneurs, and, also, the ongoing anti-graft campaign has made many people rethink their choices," said Dr. Wang Yan, National Institute of Education Sciences.

Since the country’s new leadership took office, it has produced detailed new regulations to abolish bureaucratic and extravagant work styles among government workers, requiring frugality practices.

Once considered the ‘iron rice-bowl’ because of its stability and generous benefits, civil servant jobs today are much less associated with social status and power.

While some government attract thousands of applicants, such as custom officers in Shanghai, vacancies in the less developed northwestern parts of the country have much fewer applicants.
"There’s still a huge gap between quality of lifestyles in the more developed urban areas and poorer rural areas of China.
Government jobs in these areas usually are less appealing because the conditions are much harsher. But as the gap continues to narrow as China restructures its economy and more incentive packages including promotion opportunities come out, the situation will slowly change," Dr. Wang said.

The popularity of being a civil servant may be slowly dropping in China, which is good news for people who truly want to take on the job of serving the people. But the still disproportionate ratio of applicant to vacancy needs to be better addressed.

Rather than blindly following trends, experts suggest young people truly explore what they actually want to do with their lives.

今天的天气很冷呀，大家有没有注意保暖呢，来看看天气新闻吧


Winter has come early to China, packing freezing gales and polar temperatures. The lowest readings in Heilongjiang’s Mohe County, known as China’s "North Pole", reached a frosty 36 degrees Celsius below zero.
"Our county normally becomes this cold in December, but this year it’s come a whole month early. It’s really cold now," Li Chunying
Other northern regions -- including Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Hebei and Beijing -- also had their first taste of winter, with temperatures dropping over 15 degrees in some areas overnight.
And icy winds are set to take the cold front eastwards.
"This has been the strongest cold front this fall. It will continue sweeping across eastern, central and southern parts of the country, with the east especially hard hit. Temperatures in certain areas will drop by over 12 degrees," Zhang Tao, chief forecaster with National Meteorological Center said.
The highest temperature in the capital Beijing on Monday will not reach above zero degrees. Snow storm alerts have meanwhile been issued for the next three days in northeast Heilongjiang, Jilin and Liaoning and two other cold fronts are expected to hit the country in the coming week.
Weather authorities have warned people to drive safely, as the rainy and snowy weather could lead to slippery roads.
  我大 天 朝的英语小伙伴们是不是倍感亲切呢，这一期就容我偷个懒就放这些，希望大家多给些建议哦。

这一期准备了两个视频，大家有兴趣的话就练一练吧，如果不知道怎么上传视频，上传附件也可以的，或者私信我，我来帮忙哟~~~又是新的一周，不知道会忙成什么样，不过我会加油的，大家也一起吧 have a good time~~


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