社会热点英语话题

1.Higher housing prices Ever-rising price of property(property   英['prɔpəti] 美['prɑpəti]     翻译: 财产n. 1.财产; 资产; 所有物 2.房地产, 不动产; (一处)房地产; 花园住宅；房地产股票 3.性质, 特性, 性能 4.房屋) in China has become cause of worry for an increasing number of people, shows a survey. Despite the measures taken last year to cool down the overhead real estate market, fewer people now believe that the price would stabilize in the near future. Only one fifth of the 2,582 people polled by China Youth Daily’s social research center, sina.com and E-Panel Market Research & Consulting Co were confident that the government’s steps would check the trend. Their percentage was 60 in a similar survey conducted only two years age. The poll results announced yesterday showed another significant change：instead of blaming real estate investors for raising prices to earn huge profits, as respondents had down two years age, more people now blame the government’s vulnerability in macro-control measures for the malaise. The rising demand and the concurrent raising of prices by investors are to blame, said Bao Zonghua, president of China Real Estate and Housing Research Association. “And the macro-control measures need time to take effect.” Almost all the respondents said there was a “bubble” in the real estate market, with nearly half being certain that it would burst in 10 years. But almost 40 percent believe that the “bubble” would never burst. A whopping 80 percent believe that real estate prices would continue to rise this year, and 30 percent fear it would do so at a greater pace. a.1. There is a growing need for cheap housing in larger cities. a.2. When you rent a house, you pay its owner a fix monthly amount to live there.  a.3. There is a wide variety of rental housing in China. In the cities, this mostly means apartment. a.4. The rising demand and the concurrent raising of prices by investors are to blame. a.5. It is unrealistic to help each person purchase an apartment of his/her own. a.6. The real estate industry should focus on developing reasonable priced commercial housing for ordinary people. b.1 A whopping 80 percent believe that real estate prices would continue to rise this year, and 30 percent fear it would do so at a greater pace. b.2 Many people prefer to live near the center of cities, but because houses there are expensive, they often commute from suburbs.  b.3 Mortgage salve is adopted to describe those people whose mortgage payment is more than half of their monthly salary. b.4 Buying a house for most of the people is a once in a lifetime decision, which means people decide to do so only after coming across the house. b.5 When you buy a property for the first time,, it is usually a small flat, simply because you cannot afford a bigger place. c.1 As you get older and have better jobs and higher pay, and perhaps have a family, then you buy a bigger house and sell your small one; you can keep doing this till you retire, it’s like climbing up a ladder.  c.2 About 60 percent of first-time buyers would consider borrowing five times their salary. Four out of five are will to take on extra long term mortgages and nearly 40 percent would sign up for riskier interest-only mortgages. c.3 Nowadays, the proportion of investment into economically affordable housing only accounts for 5 percent of the total, which is far short of the increasing demand for new houses from middle- and low-income families. c.4 After years of frothy price growth, these developers are also facing the prospect of a turning point in China’s broader property market, especially in the south, a stronghold for many of the biggest developers.