--Women enjoy equal rights with men relating to their persons. Women enjoy the right to life and health, freedom of the person, the right of portrait, reputation and other rights relating the person; and they enjoy the right of kinship, guardianship, fame and status as a producer. The law prohibits abandonment and drowning of female babies and other forms of infanticide and bans discrimination against and maltreatment of women who give birth to female babies and women who are sterile. It forbids tormenting women with superstitious and violent means and bans maltreatment or abandonment of aged women. It forbids the abduction and kidnapping of women as well as the sale and purchase of such women. It bans actions to organize, force, seduce, shelter or introduce women to engage in prostitution.
-- Women enjoy equal rights with men in marriage and the family. The law states that women enjoy equal freedom in marriage and divorce, and the relations between husband and wife are equal. Women can use their own surnames and given names and participate in production and social activities. Women are subject to special protection with regard to divorce.
While clearly delineating the various concrete rights and interests of women, China's legislation amplifies the responsibilities of state organs in protecting women and clarifies the special status and role of the women's federations and other women's organizations in lawsuits, thus establishing a comprehensive legal mechanism for protecting women. Among the 54 articles of the Law on the Protection of the Rights and Interests of Women, 75 percent list in detail the consequences and legal responsibilities for infringements, thus providing an operational legal basis for enforcement of the law.
At present, China is still at the primary stage of socialism and remains comparatively underdeveloped in economic and cultural development. Therefore, certain provisions on the legal rights of women and guarantee mechanisms need to be further improved. Along with the in-depth development of China's modernization drive, the country's legal system on the protection of women's rights and interests will be perfected.
第四部分 新闻写作 (可用中文或英文回答 35分)（建议时间：50分钟）
Read the following story and the fact sheet. It is full of information, and facts.Select the facts you think are the most important, and write them as a short (500 word) news story.
China's Serious Pollution Problem
Chinese environmental protection consciousness is very low.
Chinese industry is growing rapidly.
Pollution grows more serious daily.
The majority of Chinese are insensitive to the pollution.
China is not alone in having pollution, but the size of the problem is bigger in China than most other developing countries.
Car and motorcycle traffic is increasing dramatically. 20,000 cars a month are sold in Beijing alone where traffic is already gridlocked.
China continues to develop the car industry with encouragement from the Central Government. It is good for the economy and creates a lot of jobs.
The population in China is 1.400 000 000 five times as the population of the US.
China is short of cultivated land.
New highway construction will take up large areas of land.
Traffic accidents increased greatly. In 2003 200,000 people died in traffic accidents in China.
Building development is confusing. In 2003 China poured 44% of the world's cement.
Houses built in China often use more than houses built in western countries because of outdates technology.
These houses make little use of insulation letting heat flow out in the winter and letting the heat in during the hot summer months. House repairs are more difficult, too.
Chinese are concerned with the beauty of their homes, but Chinese are less concerned about the environment around their homes.
Garbage removal is primitive. Very few cities have introduced recycling of garbage. Packaging and plastics are often used instead of recyclable papers.
The Chinese people like to use plastic bags and batteries just once and then throw them away.
Local and Provincial Chinesea authorities often spend heavily on the beauty of their cities yet they pay little attention to garbage classification, collection and recycling.
Most rivers in China are polluted by chemical fertilizer,pesticide,herbicides,chemical synthetic detergent(washing powders),industry waste water,human excrement and urine.
Garbage, waste water, excrement and urine often flow directly into rivers without any sanitary water treatment.
Most river water in China is unsuitable for drinking.
There is little environmental education in China People's understanding and concept of protecting the environment is quite low. China's people are poor, but they are not frugal.
Chinese are concerned about their own health but know and care less about environmental health. They like to inject and swallow more medicines,eat more wild animals, but they don't realize that the polluted food, water and air is threatening their health.
China is imitating the West's pattern of consumerism. Chinese want cars, bigger and better apartments and houses, juts like the people in Western countries. The Chinese government is making effort to realize this aim. China is producing cars, cement and brick. China has the world's largest reserves of coal and is mining more coal every year to help produce more power. China is in the midst of a building boom. More than half of the world's construction cranes are in use in China.
The environment may be China's greatest challenge.
Fact sheet on China
Economic growth in first quarter, 2006 10.2 percent annual rate
Industrial output, driven by booming exports, rose by 16.7 percent while retail sales also increased, the National Bureau of Statistics reported.
In the first quarter, consumer prices rose 1.2 percent.
The government's growth target for 2006: 8 percent,
Growth rate for 2005 -- 9.9 percent .
Total economic output from January through March: 4.33 trillion yuan (US$540 billion; euro430 billion)
Investment in factories, roads and other fixed assets rose by 27.7 percent from January to March, 2006
A 1998 World Health Organization report on air quality in 272 cities worldwide concluded that seven of the world's 10 most polluted cities were in China.
According to China's own evaluation, two-thirds of the 338 cities for which air-quality data are available are considered polluted--two-thirds of them moderately or severely so.
Respiratory and heart diseases related to air pollution are the leading cause of death in China.
Almost all of the nation's rivers are considered polluted to some degree, and half of the population lacks access to clean water.
In March 1998, the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) was officially upgraded to a ministry-level agency,
China is an active participant in climate change talks and other multilateral environmental negotiations.
