  外刊周阅读 本周外刊阅读素材---经济学人--China-inheritance 本期文章的难度不大，生词不多且有很多实用的表达和句型适用于雅思。 阅读方法： step1: 听音频（纯听） step2：边听边跟读文本 step3：纯看文本一遍（不懂的地方，先不用管，根据文章上下文揣测。千万不能停下来查词典！！) step4：再次阅读文本，勾记出生词及重点，难点词汇，短语及句型 step5：查词典解决疑难点，记录专属笔记（推荐quizlet flashcards、Anki记录词汇，这两种软件可在手机应用市场搜到） step6：抛开笔记，再看一遍文本 （阅读时间因个人程度不一，耗时约在20分钟及以上） 听写方法： step1：纯听文本一遍 step2：按照文中意群，断句听写 step3：边听边写，查落补缺刚漏听的地方 step4：边听边看文本，并补充、订正漏听及错误的地方 step5：分析文本未听出的词汇，句型等，总结文中听写的错误点 step6：影子跟读文本，注意文本语音的弱读，连读，失去爆破等语音现象。 （听力素材3分10秒，听写方法耗时约在1小时左右，可根据个人时间/程度每日分段听写） 以上两种方法，根据自己情况采用。 听力文本   阅读文本 Dividing up the spoils After an explosion in wealth comes a boom in wills IN THE past few decades China's rapid economic growth has enabled many of its people to amass fortunes, big and small.The country is home to nearly 400 billionaires, second only to America. But with the population now ageing, a growing proportion of China's citizens are grappling with a related problem: what should be done with this dosh after they die? China has no tradition of writing wills. Scholars have found only a smattering of examples of ones made during the country's 2,000 years of dynastic rule. After the Communists seized power in 1949, wills became redundant. The wealthy fled or had their assets confiscated. Under Mao,private property was banned. It was only in the 1980s that the Communist Party gave its approval for people to get rich. Will-writing is now coming into vogue. Last year notary offices in Guangzhou, a southern city, handled over 24,000 wills, up 20% from 2016. The numbers have been rising at a similar rate in Shanghai. According to the Ministry of Justice about 1.4m wills are lodged at notary offices around the country, five times as many as there were two decades ago. In imperial China, the first son normally inherited his fathers titles. Property was divided among the deceaseds offspring, with sons getting far more than daughters. These days a common motive forwriting a will is to preserve such patriarchal values in the face ofwhat some people see as an assault by freewheeling lifestyles and soaring divorce rates which have made family relationships more fluid and complex. A study in 2015 by the China Notary Association found that families overwhelmingly favoured sons over daughters in allocating wealth. The Chinese Will Registration Centre, which functions like a national notary office, saysmany parents use wills to try to make it clear that assets should be kept within the bloodline rather than passed on to their childrens spouses. The actual number ofwills may be far higher than official figures suggest because many people choose not to involve notaries. Legally, wills are private. But some people worry that officials could still gain access to them in order to work out how much income taxthey really owe (dodging the tax authorities is a national pastime, see Business). They could also be used one day to calculate death duty, they fear,should the government decide to introduce such a tax. Officials have long been debating whether to do so. For now, they appear reluctant, knowing that levying one would arouse considerable opposition, even if only the richest were affected. The government worries that more people would simply move abroad, taking their wealth and their wills with them.  重点词汇句型解析：(by-EVE)
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