Reading material for W4

Tasks:Read the passage carefully and work on the discussion topic Would you help an elderly person who has fallen?Passage 1Chinese Debate Aiding Strangers After Toddler’sCritical InjuryBy J. DA VID GOODMANThe accident is terrible to watch.A toddler, roughly(粗糙的、概略的) 2 years old, walks absent-mindedly（心不在焉的、茫然的）down a narrow（狭窄的、有限的）street in a market district of Foshan, a large city in southern China, when she is hit by a large white van（卡车）. The van stops with the child underneath（下面的、底层的）— the driver apparently （显然地）only aware（意识到）at that point of what might have happened —but then continues （继续）forward, the rear wheels（后轮）crushing（碾压）the girl a second time.Closed-circuit(闭路式的) camera footage of the horrible（可怕的）accident, which appears（呈现出）to have occurred on Thursday, has been viewed（观察）more than a half-million（50万）times in China.But it was the response（响应、回应）of many Chinese —who walked, drove or bicycled（骑自行车的）past the listless（无精打采的、倦怠的）body of the toddler lying in a busy urban（城市）street — that has created an uproar（骚动、喧嚣）and touched off （触发、引发）a debate（争论、辩论）in China about the proper response of passers-by to tragic（悲剧的）accidents. [Warning: Video of the accident and its aftermath（后果）is extremely（非常）disturbing （烦躁不安、烦扰的）.]The front（头版）page of China‘s Guangzhou Daily featured（使。

有特色、有重要作用）the grief-stricken（极度悲伤的）parents of the girl. The story rocketed（迅速上升的）to the top of Sina Weibo, a Chinese version（版本）of Twitter（微博客）, over the weekend（在周末）, Shanghaiist reported.“This society is seriously ill. Even cats and dogs shouldn‘t be treated so heartlessly,‖ one person posted to Sina Weibo, Agence-France Presse reported.（“这个社会病得很重。

甚至猫和狗不应该这样治疗无情的,”一个人寄给新浪Weibo,Agence-France新电)报道。

）Another poster, named Johnny Yao and quoted by TheDaily Telegraph , writes:（ 海报,名叫约翰姚明和引用《每日电讯报》这样写道:） ―Everyone is praising the rubbish-collecting granny for helping, but isn‘t it normal to help someone who is wounded or dying?（“每个人都赞扬了rubbish-collecting 奶奶帮忙,但是这是不是正常的帮助某人受伤或死亡吗?） This just shows how abnormal is the moral situation in this society! The sad Chinese, poor China, are we even rescuable ?（道德情境在这个社会变得不正常了!伤心的中国人,可怜的中国,我们甚至还能被拯救吗?”）For several minutes the child writhes on the ground as more than a dozen people pass by. Some on scooters （摩托车） stop and glance while others simply drive straight by, avoiding the girl, whose injuries appear evident, but doing nothing to help. （这孩子因为绞痛在地上翻滚了几分钟,,超过十二人通过。

有些骑摩托车的人停下瞥了一眼,而另一些人则只是避开女孩儿继续前行,,她的伤病很明显的,但是没有人做什么帮助。

）At one point （在某时刻）, an even larger truck appears to drive over her again. Still moving, the girl is then ignored by a mother walking with her own child.（一个更大的卡车从她身边飞奔而过。

还是移动,这个女孩被一个和自己的孩子一起走母亲所忽略。

）Finally a woman taking out trash picks up the girl and moves her to the side of the road before her distraught parents arrive. （最后在女孩发狂的父母到达前，一个捡垃圾的奶奶把那女孩移动路边。

）The Daily Telegraph identified the woman who finally rescued Yueyue as a 58-year-old street cleaner namedChen Xianmei. (《每日电讯报》确定最终救了Yueyue的是一个58岁名叫陈Xianmei的马路清洁者。

)While some praised her, others lashed out, saying she intervened only to seek out the spotlight,according to a review of Weibo postings by Storyful.（通过Weibo发帖的人，一些赞美她,其他人对她猛烈抨击,说她只是为了获得公众的关注才出手救人的,）It is not the first time suspicion has fallen on a Go od Samaritan1in China. The Xinhua news agency l inked the episode to a perception of declining mora ls ―as profit and materialism are perceived to be aff ecting society‘s values‖:（新华社发表了一篇关于, “获利和唯物主义被看成是影响社会的价值”:的文章）A strong chorus（合唱的）of opinion on the Internet says laws should exempt（免除）Samaritans from liability（责任）, yet laws themselves cannot solve society‘s morality（道德）dilemma（困境）.（在互联网上一个强大的共同的的意见说应该从法律责任免除乐于施善的人,但自己不能解决社会法律的道德困境。

）Cao Lin, a China Youth Daily commentator, said in a signed article published on Monday that the worry of liability should not be an excuse for not helping, and this case exposes the decline of humanity in Chinese society.1仁慈的撒马利亚人, <喻>好心人, 乐善好施的人。

（中国青年报评论员曹林表示,在周一签署了发表的文章,担心的责任不应该找藉口不帮助他们,而且,此案暴露了人类的衰落中国社会。

）Less than two months ago, a bus driver was falsely accused by passers-by of knocking down an elderly woman in the middle of Nantong city after he stop ped to help the woman, who was lying on the grou nd. The 81-year-old woman apologized to the driver, Yin Hongbin, but the news ricocheted（跳飞）aro und the Chinese press. The state-run China Daily he adlined: ―False charges deter lending elderly hand.‖（不到两个月前, 南通市一位公车司机停下来帮助一位被推倒的老妇人反而诬告。