从1997年算起，注射死刑已在中国已经实施了整整10年。在当前死刑数量明显下降的情况下，有关专家建议，逐步用注射死刑替代枪决死刑的条件已经成熟。那么，“注射死刑”怎么说呢？

请看《中国日报》报道：

“Half of the country's 404 intermediate people's courts use lethal injections”, a senior judicial official from Supreme People's Court (SPC) said, "It is considered more humane and will eventually be used in all intermediate people's courts".

最高人民法院一名法官告诉《中国日报》，在全国404个地方中级人民法院中，有半数以上在执行死刑时使用注射死刑替代枪决。他表示，注射死刑更加人道，这项措施将逐步普及到各地方法院。

这里，注射死刑表达为“lethal injection”；使用注射死刑为“the use of lethal injection”另一种枪决死刑表示为“gunshot execution”或“death sentence”。

For the last 30 years since China has opened its door, more and more foreigners have chosen to live in the middle kingdom. Some come here to study, others to work. Now many families are facing a problem: what should they do with their children? Should they put them into a Chinese school? Today we’ll talk to a Canadian family who chose to put their two kids into the Chinese education system.

Johanna is ten years old and she moved to Beijing last summer with her family. Three months later, her parents enrolled her into a local Chinese school.

There are 34 students in Johanna’s class and she is the only non-Chinese. According to her teacher, the school has done a lot to look after her.

Ms. Zhang Wenjun, Johanna’s teacher:

There are some special rules for Yezi (Johanna). She can talk to her classmates in class when she has any questions at any time. The children sitting around her are all good students.

Wang Zewen, Johanna’s classmate:

Sometimes I help her with reading Chinese texts and Yezi helps me with my English.

For similar reasons, Stephane,14, Johanna’s older brother, is also welcomed by his classmates in the secondary school.

Stephane’s classmate:

It’s very good to have a foreigner as our classmate. All of us like to communicate with him.

Mr. Zhang Shuqing, Stephane’s teacher:

It’s true. It’s quite hard to teach a foreign student because his Chinese is not good enough to understand what I’m teaching in class. He can’t raise questions. He doesn’t khow what to ask and how to ask in the language.

Maurice Gallant is the father of the two children. In his opinion, how much kids can learn is not the primary concern.

Maurice Gallant: We just thought it would be the best environment for them to learn, and also a different cultural experience. For our kids we thought it was a very good year for them. Our son was about to enter a senior high school in Canada so we thought this would be the last really good year for him to be able to get away, spending a year somewhere else in a cultural environment and that sounds experienced for him to improve his Chinese. Same thing with our daughter.

Sometimes the different school system is kind of a challenge to both Stephane and Johanna.

Maurice Gallant: Well I think it is more teacher-focused here. There is a lot of lecturing. Students are really not allowed another side where the teacher is in control of the classroom and the students listen. Well, in Canada, it is very much, two-way. And perhaps it is a little too student-oriented sometimes. But it’s a situation and environment which Johanna really thrives. She really misses that here.

Jenny, the children’s mum:

I think it is a right decision still. It’s really worthwhile for the cultural experience and the language learning, too.

Fifty websites signed an agreement initiated by the Movie Copyright Protection Association of China, or MCPAC, on Tuesday - promising not to provide access to pirated movies.

The sites, which include China.com.cn, People.com.cn and 163.com, have said they will no longer offer pirated films via their viewing or download services.

According to the latest figures from the MCPAC, more than 61 percent of netizens watched free movies online last year.

University students topped the audience list, followed by white-collar workers.

The association said there are about 30,000 Chinese websites that specialize in providing access to visual arts, including films.

Li Guomin, vice-chairman of the MCPAC, said the growth of the market for online pirated movies was doing an enormous amount of damage to the country's film industry and was jeopardizing its healthy development.

"The Internet is a revolutionary way to get access to the visual arts, but the public has to be made more aware of the need for copyright protection," he told China Daily yesterday.

Li continued: "If these infringements continue, producers might simply stop making movies altogether.

"And then 162 million Chinese netizens will lose the service they have now." But the authorities have a lot of persuading to do.

Wang Qian, a student at a Beijing university, said she watches movies online because it is easy and free.

"I recently watched the new film, Lust, Caution, online for free. Hardly any of my classmates buy DVDs anymore, and even fewer go to the cinema," she said.

"Even if I show my student card, I still have to pay up to 60 yuan (.25) to watch a movie at the cinema. That's almost all my spending money for the week," Wang said.

Most of the movies are uploaded anonymously by netizens, she said.

In November, Quacor.com, an authorized online movie provider, sued two Chinese websites, Tudou.com and Xunlei.com, for illegally offering downloads of The Sun Also Rises, the latest movie from Chinese director Jiang Wen.

Quacor said it had exclusive online distribution rights to the movie, according to a report by the Xinhua News Agency yesterday.

Questions:

1.MCPAC said how many Chinese websites specialize in providing access to visual arts, including films?

2.What is the price of a movie at a Chinese cinema?

3.What percentage of Chinese “netizens” watched pirated movies online last year?

4. Li argues that Chinese netizens will lose their ability to download if they continue to do it. Why?

Answers:

1.30,000.

2.60 yuan.

3.61 percent.

4.Because Chinese movie makers might stop making movies.