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China locks radar on JP ship(中国导弹雷达瞄准日舰)

A Chinese military frigate locked its weapons-targeting radar on a Japanese Self-defense Maritime escort ship in the East China Sea on Jan 30, Japan’s defense minister said in a ______ ________ (新闻发布会) on Tuesday night, local media reported. The two ships were just 3 kilometers apart( ), said the Japanese Minister. He also told reporters that, on Jan 19th, a Japanese military helicopter( ) was also locked onto( ) with a similar fire-control radar. Such incidents( ) had never previously happened in the history of the 2 nations’ navies( ), said Onadera(小野)

Housing market revives( )(一二三线楼市集体爆发)

Traded new commercial( ) residential buildings in 20 major Chinese cities surged( ) 269.2% year-on-year( ) in Jan to 10.57 m sqm, revealing a ________（复兴）of the housing market in 1st, 2nd and 3rd—tier cities. Among them, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen reported a jump of 348.6% and 2nd-tier cities( ) rose 221.6% and 3rd-tier cities rose 247%. The market in 3rd-tier cities is more buoyant(热) _______(对比) with 1st and 2nd-tier cities partly because many migrant workers from those cities are returning to purchase( ) properties in their hometowns before the Spring Festival, the report said.

(20个典型城市新建商品住宅成交面积为10.57万平方米，同比增长269.2%，一、二、三线城市楼市全面爆发)

Minister loses doctorate(德教育部长学位取消)

Germany’s education minister was stripped of her doctorate Tuesday after a committee of academics(学术委员会) concluded that she plagiarized(抄袭) substantial(大量的) parts of her 1980 thesis( ), AP reported. Annette Schavan, 57, is the 2nd minister in Angela Merkel’s cabnet(内阁) to lose a doctorate after being accused of ( ) plagiarism. Former defense minister … _________(辞职) from his _________(岗位) in 2011 after it came out that he copied large parts of his doctorial thesis.

From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report in Special English.

Teachers say the______ ______(数码时代) has had a good influence -- and a not-so-good influence -- on this generation of American teenagers. More than 2,000 middle and high school teachers took an online ______(调查) . Researchers also spoke with teachers in focus groups.

Three-quarters of the teachers said the Internet and digital search tools have had a “mostly positive” effect on their students’ research habits and skills. But 87 percent agreed tha t these technologies are creating an “easily _______(分散的) generation with short attention spans.” And 64 percent said the technologies “do more to distract students than to help them ____________(学业).” Many students think "doing research” now means just d oing a quick search on Google.