2007年12月22日 星期六

My suggestion to Wendy's summaries


Wendy’s:
1st summary http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/09/26/china.3gorges.ap/index.html

China has built a mammoth reservoir, the Three Gorges Dam, in order to solve electrical shortage. Although it has offered electricity to the masses, it has still brought many ecological disasters. And many locals were forced to move to another place. The China’s official knows that they couldn't achieve the economic prosperity at(by) the cost of environment. Therefore, now the government will heighten their guard to it, and work up(come up with) an effective way(solution) to these(those) questions(problems).

Suggestions:
1.”at” is not so appropriately used, “by” will be better.
2.’’work up” means inspire.
3. It’s the way(x) to the question (Actually, people use solution instead).
4. I myself think it’s proper to use those than these, but it’s ok if you think these is better.

5.What the offical of china faces is problems, not questions. In Chinese they all translate into 問題 whereas in English they are used in different situations.

2nd summary
http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20071010/cm_usatoday/thenewhighschool;_ylt=AiWU56XUBrBlugG3eMqnL4f9wxIF

Three decades ago, people who owned(earned) college degree had better development and more opportunities than others. This phenomenon becomes more apparent than before. However, not all people have these kinds(this kind) of background and resource to support themselves for advanced education. Due to these reasons(this reason), many experts consider(bring up) some measures for solving the problems. They advocate college making tuition free and boosting applications. And further, they hope to give students a chance to earn college credits in high school.

Suggestions:
1. earn the college degree
2. “had development” is kind odd indeed, what about had more promising future.
3. I don’t understand why you us plural noun here.
4. In Chinese, the 想 is translated into consider, come up with, think, ponder and so on. But in this case, it weird to use consider, we can use “come up with” or “bring up”.

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