英语角-圆桌会议 RoundTable0527 - 中国人为何习惯对患癌家属隐瞒病情

 Topic1 Chinese museum shut over fakesA museum in northeast China has been ordered to close after thousands of its historical exhibits were found to be fake.

Police shut down the Lucheng Museum, in Liaoning province, after finding that almost a third of the 8,000 items on display were not genuine.
This certainly isn't the first time we've heard of this kind case. Is this a rampant 1 problem?
Topic2 People live in containersBeijing News recently reported that container apartments are becoming more and more in fashion in Beijing's Fengtai district. Altogether nine containers can be found in the Majiapu residential 2 community there.
What are these container apartments and why do more and more people want to live in them?
Topic3 Good Samaritans set to gain extra gaokao pointsStudents in some regions of China will be awarded extra points for being a good Samaritan in the upcoming gaokao, or national college entrance examination.
Thirty-one provincial 3 level regions in China announced new policies in 2014 for the gaokao, and 13 of them will give bonus points for good behavior.
Beijing-based Legal Mirror has reported that ten provincial-level regions plan to give 10 extra points to students with good morality. Beijing, Shandong, and Sichuan provinces will reward these students with an extra 20 points, the.
Why are they doing this? Is it needed?
Topic4 Gender 4 prediction test papers sold to expecting momsThe latest addition to the ongoing 5 weibo marketing 6 craze in China is gender prediction tests that supposed to be able to tell the gender of a fetus 7 as early as 10 weeks into the pregnancy 8.
The product, said to be available in the US market, is seeing an amazing increase in sales here in China, where the one-child policy has just been relaxed to some families.
What exactly is this test? Why do you think it's so popular?
Topic5 Chinese choose to lie if family has cancerIf one of your family is diagnosed with cancer, would you hide the truth from them?
According to a media report, 70% of the Chinese people choose to lie to spare their relatives from furthering mental suffering.
How often do you think this actually happens? Why do so many Chinese people do so?
Topic6 Chinese value family bonds over private wealthAccording to a recent survey of Chinese residents in ten provinces and cities,nearly 60% of urban families are considered to have achieved a satisfactory level of happiness. Surveys show that in China, urban families are happier with their life and more satisfied than rural families.
And whether in urban or rural areas, people agree that five factors determine the happiness of a family. They are "marital 9 harmony", "health of family members", "filial children", "reasonable elders", and "basic material requirements.""Family ties" impact much more on family well-being 10 than factors such as "promising 11 children" and "having a car and owning your home".
What does the survey tell us about happiness in China?