2021-2022学年度第36期总第773期

People get a voice (P4)

北京中学  李萍

Lead-in

50. What can you see in the photo?

50. What do you think the paper will be about?

Free talk

50. What’s your understanding of democracy?

50. What’s the difference between China’s democracy and Western democracy?

 

Predict

How do you understand the title? What do you expect to know from the passage?

 

Reading for the gist

Read the passage and answer the questions:

What is the passage mainly about?

The passage mainly introduces China’s understanding of democracy, how China’s democracy has developed, how the whole-process people’s democracy is applied, how democracy benefits ordinary people in China and what function democracy serves in China.

Reading for details

Read the passage again and draw a mind map to show how the passage is organized.

Show time

Show your mind map

Think and share

What are the most unique features of China's“whole-processes people's democracy”?

Apart from what is mentioned in the passage, in what other ways can people get a voice in China? (Answer in 50 words or less)

 

1. What are the most unique features of China's“whole-processes people's democracy”?

 

50. It enables the Chinese people to broadly and continually participate in day-to-day political activities at all levels, guaranteeing that all State power belongs to the people.

50. Township and county deputies make up 94.5 percent of all China's people's congress deputies. They are directly elected by residents and represent people from all walks of life.

50. Deputies take part in the whole process of national affairs.

 

2. Besides what is mentioned in the passage, in what other ways can people get a voice in China? (Answer in 50 words or less)

As far as I know, our government has set up quite a number of channels for people to have a voice. For instance, people can directly call the government hotline 12345 to get help or a consultation. Furthermore, neighbourhood communities are set up in each community to hear their people's concerns, which has greatly improved the efficiency of China's democracy.

 

Creative writing

Suppose you were chosen to take part in the two sessions this year. What proposal would you put forward to help the people in your neighbourhood to get a voice?

 

Language study

1. Though feudalism (封建主义) suppressed (压制) democratic values in China for centuries, democracy was awakened again when the country was invaded (侵略) in 1840.

虽然民主价值观在中国遭到封建主义压制长达几个世纪，但当1840年中国被侵略时，中国人民的民主价值观再次被唤醒。

awaken: To awaken a feeling in a person means to cause them to start having this feeling. 唤醒，激发起

e.g. The aim of the cruise was to awaken an interest in and an understanding of foreign cultures.

 

2. It enables the Chinese people to broadly and continually participate in day-to-day political activities at all levels, guaranteeing that all State power belongs to the people.

它使中国人民能够广泛和持续参与各级日常政治活动，保证国家一切权力属于人民。

该句中，enable sb to do sth表示“使某人能够做某事；

guaranteeing that all State power belongs to the people为动词-ing短语作状语。

 

3. Making full use of their close connections with the people, deputies take part in the whole process of national affairs.

代表充分利用与人民群众的密切联系，参与国家事务的全过程。

该句中，making full use of their close connections with the people为动词-ing短语作状语。

 

4. China has benefited from this form of democracy, which is evident in the Party’s efficiency in delivering progress to the people and the country.

中国已从全过程人民民主中大获裨益，这从党为人民和国家带来进步的效率中可见一斑。

该句中，which is evident in the Party's efficiency in delivering progress to the people and the country为非限定性定语从句，其中关系代词which指代前半句所有内容。

 

Language study

Key phrases:

1. a shared value

2. a combination of

3. make up

4. all walks of life

5. be capable of doing sth

6. at the top of sth

7. benefit from sth

8. enable sb to do sth

 

1. 共同的价值观

2. ......的结合

3. 构成，组成

4. 各行各业

5. 有能力做某事

6. 在......的顶部

7. 从......中获益

8. 使某人能做某事