Third year language assignments for HT 2012

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Topics	Reading	Prose composition	Interpreting	Listening comprehension
W1	中国农民运动	China's land grab is undermining grassroots democracy	Corruption in China	The Wukan incident
W2	英国女性每年平均为自己制定两次节食计划	Women plan protest against diet industry outside parliament	Healthy living	Dieting
W3	歐洲困境	Europe's three-dimensional crisis	Credit Crunch	World financial issues
W4	俄罗斯和中国对决议草案投了反对票	Russia under intense pressure not to veto Syria resolution at UN	United Nations	International ralation
W5	英国又有8人因窃听丑闻被捕	Hacking avoids its day in court	Which is more trustworthy, mainstream media or bloggers?	Media
W6	英国政府高级官员宣布即将取消年初制定的关于英国大学的学生提前还清学生贷款的惩罚。	No 10 scraps plan to penalise early student loan repayments	Increase of enrolment in Chinese universities	Education
W7		Measuring China's pollution from space	Global warming
W8		Drink just an act for teetotal Tanya	Drinking And Drug Problems in Our Society