英语读书笔记范文

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He little imagined how my heart warmed towards him when I beheld his black eyes withdraw so suspiciously under their brows, as I rode up, and when his fingers sheltered themselves, with a jealous resolution, still further in his waistcoat, as I announced my name.

We crept through a broken hedge, groped our way up the path, and planted ourselves on a flower-plot under the drawing-room window.

It was beautiful - a splendid place carpeted with crimson, and crimson-covered chairs and tables, and a pure white ceiling bordered by gold, a shower of glass-drops hanging in silver chains from the centre, and shimmering with little soft tapers. Isabella - I believe

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she is eleven, a year younger than Cathy - lay screaming at the farther end of the room, shrieking as if witches were running red-hot needles into her.The long light hair curled slightly on the temples; the eyes were large and serious; the figure almost too graceful.

She, supposing Edgar could not see her, snatched the cloth from my hand, and pinched me, with a prolonged wrench, very spitef/wenzi/ully on the arm.

Her eyes began to glisten and her lids to twinkle.

Her lips were half asunder, as if she meant to speak, and she drew a breath; but it escaped in a sigh instead of a sentence.

My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I’m well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.

There was a violent wind, as well as thunder, and either one or the other split a tree off at the corner of the building: a huge bough fell across the roof, and knocked down a portion of the east chimney-stack, sending a clatter of stones and soot into the kitchen-fire.

And her teeth chattered as she shrank closer to the almost extinguished embers.

It had got dusk, and the moon looked over the high wall of the court, causing undefined shadows to lurk in the corners of the numerous projecting portions of the building.

A ray fell on his features; the cheeks were sallow, and half covered with black whiskers; the brows lowering, the eyes deep-set and singular.

第二篇：英语读书笔记范例final

ARTICLE 1

Title Name: Panic driving rush to join license-plate lottery in Beijing

By: Tan Zongyang

Source: China Daily

Published Date: March 28, 2011

Website: Summary:

About 100,000 more residents entered the latest vehicle-license lottery than had in February. A total of 397,543 qualified candidates took part in the city's third

license-plate lottery, which was held in March. The participants will compete in a draw on Saturday for the right to obtain one of 17,600 license plates Beijing issues each month. In February, 292,280 people had taken part in the lottery, giving each participant only a 6% chance of winning. The odds have narrowed even further in

March - to a mere 4%. Earlier reports said about fewer than 20 % of the total - bought new cars in the ten days following the first drawing. Although not in urgent need of a car, people decided to apply for a license plate out of a fear that obtaining one would become even more difficult in the future.

Critical Analysis

Author and source: China Daily has the widest print circulation (over 500,000 per issue, of which a third is abroad) of any English-language newspaper in China. I think it is a reliable source of information

Purpose and objective: The purpose of this article is to present that more and more and more people attend the car-license lottery because of the low chance of win, which is vicious circle.

Commentary:

The author pointed out “people decide to apply for a license plate even not need a car in urgent”. He came to this point just according to data where is from February to

March, actually he do not know the real situation of the future. The situation may be 1)

with the rapid development of public transport, people no longer obsess with private car. 2) Government increase the amount of vehicle license approval to ease the

pressure of huge demand about car. If the above assume become true, people will not rush to attend the car-license lottery. And the vicious circle does not exist anymore. So, the forecast is lack of evidence to support. The prediction without scientific basis often obtains wrong results.

However, use many scientific statistic and relevant and reliable data to analysis the situation which is the chance to get a car-license become lower and lower. The statistic data is good support for the view.

ARTICLE 2

Title Name: Buying of cars should be limited.

By: Xu Kangming

Source: Beijing News

Published Date: February 18, 2011

Website:Summary:

Traffic conditions in Beijing are deteriorating badly as time goes by, and severe traffic congestion occurs not only in rush hours but at any time of the day.The restriction of buying and use of cars is inevitable and just a matter of time for Beijing. The earlier the government takes action, the smaller the price to be paid. Traffic congestion

affects normal function of the entire traffic system. Limiting the number of vehicles guarantees the interests of most people who drive, take a bus or walk.In the first phase of the policy, no instant and huge improvement will be seen. But it will at least stop it from getting worse. The keys to lessening traffic congestion in Beijing are first controlling the situation and then improving it by developing the availability and convenience of public transport.

Critical Analysis

Author and source: This article is the top story of Beijing News-a Beijing local newspaper. The author is a citizen in Beijing.

Purpose and objective: It supports the view of limit car license number.

Commentary:

The argument in this article just represents a part of the Beijing citizen’s view, which those who already own a car or rely on public transport. The policy is no impact on them. But, the policies sacrifice the interest of people who need or want to buy new car in the mean time. As we know, Beijing is a big city. Most people live far from their workplace; it will take then 1-2 hour for travelling with public transport, so they need a private car. The article said “guarantees the interests of most people”; it absolutely is not a neutral opinion.

On the other hand, the article said that “Beijing are first controlling the situation and then improving it by developing the availability and convenience of public

transport.”There is no evidence to show Beijing own step policy for lease transport problem. The conclusion of developing convenience just image by author.

ARTICLE 3

Title Name: Beijing holds 2nd car license lottery

By: CCTV 9

Source: Global Times

Published Date: February 28, 2011

Website:Summary:

As of Wednesday, Beijing's transport authority started February's lottery. Wang

Zhaorong, Committee Member of Beijing Municipal Committee of Comm. Express: Last year, Beijing saw a record 800,000 new cars take to the already overcrowded streets. The congestion costs drivers an average 340 Yuan and 30 hours each month, much more than the cost of jams in other cities. The license plate lottery is a

necessary step for Beijing to limit the number of cars on the road and therefore ease pollution.

Critical Analysis

Author and source: CCTV 9 is the Chinese government's official English Channel. Purpose and objective: This article is on behalf of the government's point about car license-plate lottery.

Commentary:

In my opinion, this article is too biased toward the government’s view on how to ease traffic jam and avoid pollution. Traffic congestion is really biggest problem in Beijing. But, limit number of car is not the only and necessary solution. In fact, there are many other factors cause traffic jam, such as road design, undeveloped public transport and much; especially the official car, however, the policy just limit the private car.

These article just shows how serious of traffic jam, and then said limit number of car is “necessary step”, totally not attention on other factors. All of these is the

government conclusion for support its own policy.

ARTICLE 4

Title Name: License Lottery Winner Choose to Wait

By: Qing Hua

Published Date: February 28, 2011

Website:

Summary:

In January, the sales of new cars totalled 17,900 units and the transactions of

second-hand cars totalled 6,148 units in Beijing, significantly declining compared with the same period of last year as well as last month. After the first round of lottery, only 3,400 of successful applicants decided to buy cars. Beijing Evening News

learned from the news conference held by Beijing Asian Games Village Auto Market that Beijing's auto market had entered into an ice age. Some dealers have also

prepared a number of license plates to meet the demands of consumers outside the fifth ring road and outer suburbs.

Critical Analysis

Author and source: The website of article published is a famous car sale website. Purpose and objective: The purpose of this article is to protest that car license-plate lottery policy cause car sale into a valley.

Commentary:

In my view, the tone of this article is too pessimistic; people win the lottery just wait rather than not buy cars. Actually, imported luxury cars provided supports for auto market. According to my research, in January 17,900 new vehicles were sold in Beijing. About 10,600 of them were sedans. Luxury cars and imported cars have played an increasingly important role in sales, while the sales of low-end cars have declined significantly.

In addition, the treatment of used cars will directly affect the decisions of car owners when they plan to buy new cars .Since the amount of new cars this year has been set, many dealers are still preparing to focus on replacement. It becomes a top priority for auto dealers to attract those consumers. "If we can open up the second-hand car sales channel, then the replacement for new vehicles will be quite successful. It could bring a lot of potential sales." Some dealers said that the year of 2011 is likely to be a

replacement year for Beijing's auto market.

ARTICLE 5

Title Name: Auctioning license plates far better than dodgy lottery

By: Zhou Tao

Source: Shanghai Daily

Published Date: May 4, 2011

Website:Summary:

In China, one auction concerns Beijing's allotment of automobile license plates.

Beijing's traffic congestion problem is getting out of control, and so is the municipal government's series of brute-force measures in response. The quota imposed since the beginning of this year is on course to mow auto sales in Beijing by more than half, killing half of the auto dealer economy worth at least 1 billion Yuan (US$153.8 million) based on my calculation. Dozens of dealers will close their doors, and

thousands of sales jobs will go down the drain. And yet at the same time, the Beijing municipal government is in the process of a 14 billion Yuan giveaway through its disastrous license plate lottery system.

How do I come up with this 14 billion Yuan number? Just look at Shanghai. Shanghai officially started using auctions to issue license plates in 1994. As of 2007, the accumulated proceeds from these auctions over 14 years totals close to 14 billion Yuan. The bulk of the money has been spent on the subway system and the mid-ring freeway project in Shanghai. And for that, I thank each mayor of Shanghai in the last 14 years.

Critical Analysis

Author and source: Shanghai Daily is a local non-official newspaper.

Purpose and objective: To illustrate this article, the license plate auction in Shanghai is much better than Beijing's policy

Commentary:

First of all, I must admire that auction is really a good way to solve the shortage of resources. The fact of the matter is that rights to scarce resources would be monetized anyway, if the government uses non-market-based allocation mechanisms. Secondary and perhaps black market would creep out. Rent seekers in the know would get a

windfall. Corruption would be guaranteed to happen in the process. There are already such signs in the license plate lottery system in Beijing. In the last two months, only 20 percent of the lottery winners actually placed orders for a car, hitting the already beleaguered auto dealer industry with another blow. My guess is that many of those who do not need cars are now rushing to the lottery anyway, which offers fair chances of winning. Many of the winners are now scrambling to find the next car owner to flip to, someone who is really in need of a car. In the meantime, the after-market for license plates has already been born. An aged second-hand boxy Alto, one of the

cheapest cars on earth, fetched 90,000 Yuan last month. Even the price of a brand new one is only a third of that. Guess why the sucker over-pays that much? Obviously it is because of the word “Beijing” on the license plate.

But, the auction theory has been so extensively studied in the economics literature that the joke is there are more auction papers (mine included) than actual auctions happening. On the other hand, there are indeed complaints about the high cost of license plates in Shanghai, which goes for around 30 thousand Yuan, known as the most expensive steel plate in the world.

ARTICLE 6

Title Name: Rent car market grows in Beijing

By: Leiking

Published Date: August 5, 2011

Website:Summary:

The new-year has brought new restrictions for those wanting to buy a car in the Chinese capital. It's been a headache for drivers, but brought about a boom in the

rental market. It finds out if leasing a vehicle for the Spring Festival is all it's cracked up to be. The holiday period is a traditional peak period for renting a car. Ninety percent of available vehicles are being snapped up at medium and small sized

suppliers. The manager of one company explained that some companies rent cars to their clients-while other people hire cars to drive back to their hometowns. A rental car company manager said, the high demand is related to the newly launched

license-plate lottery system. Under the new regulations, the authorities have stopped the free-for-all among would-be drivers, and are limiting the number of new vehicles allowed on Beijing's roads. With such restrictions in place, more would-be buyers are choosing to rent.

Critical Analysis

Author and source: The website built to criticism and discuss current affair. Purpose and objective: Beijing new policy lead to a growth in car rent industry. Commentary:

This article points out that “car rent market grows in Beijing”, this is a fact. But, it is lack of sufficient sources to support the view. Just the word of a manager who is in car rent industry cannot support the argument. There need more evidence, such as

(1) Beijing citizen, they think they do not know when they will be lucky enough to be

selected through the lottery, so they will rent a car until get the chance to apply for a new car license plate.

(2) People who are not live in Beijing, but worked in Beijing. They think "my car is

licensed in other cities and now I have to rent cars to do my business”.

(3) Some people who want to rent a car, the real situation is that there were hardly

any cars available because most had been booked weeks earlier.

(4) The travel agency condition is that Spring Festival is the traditional prime time for

the business and companies usually have no cars available two weeks before the holiday starts.

ARTICLE 7

Title Name: E-car Buyers to 'Skip License-plate Draw'

By: China Daily

Source: CRJ English

Published Date: May 16, 2011

Website:Summary:

Beijing citizen who buy electric cars, or e-cars, could avoid having to take part in the license plate lottery, a spokesman for a Chinese automaker said on Sunday. The

central government has already announced plans to introduce subsidies to encourage drivers to switch to clean energy models, which will likely be boosted by municipal authorities. "People with Beijing permanent residency will not have to enter the (license) lottery," he told “Owners of 100-percent e-cars are not subject to the

(monthly) restriction policy."BYD, a Chinese car company, plans to launch its E6 model in the capital in July, with prices starting at 300,000 Yuan. The Company said with the subsidies, consumers will pay only 180,000 Yuan. After running for 90,000 km, the owner saves so much money that it's like the car is free.

Critical Analysis

Author and source: CRJ is an organization, which related to China Automotive Review

Purpose and objective: The purpose of this article is to support the view- electric vehicle market prospects are very good.

Commentary:

This article omit of potentially relevant information, so there is no sufficient detail to permit reliability of the conclusions. Its calculation is based on the fact electricity is currently priced at 0.76 per kilowatt. However, other costs include regularly replacing the battery. If calculation likes this, the car is still expensive.

In addition, the subsidies mentioned in the article, it is a bargain with governmental subsidies and the easy access to license plates. But people still have concerns of

whether the related infrastructure (charging stations) will be put in place soon. Until that has happened, people would not buy one.

ARTICLE 8

Title Name: In Beijing, car ownership rules drive auto sales

By: Barbara Demick

Source: Los Angeles Times

Published Date: January 24, 2011

Website: Summary:

Under pressure to fix the gridlock problem, Beijing government is now limiting the number of new license plates in Beijing to 240,000 per year — about one-third of the number of plates issued in 2010 — to be awarded through the lottery system. Newly imposed restrictions on car ownership have only further whetted their appetites. In one 24-hour period just before the stricter regulations took effect, up to 160,000 cars were sold, many of them to people who didn't have driver's licenses. The new rules

were announced Dec. 23 at a 3 p.m. news conference and took effect at midnight. That left just nine hours for people to stampede to the automobile showrooms. At a BMW showroom, a buyer used a key to scratch a brand-new car and then announced, "No one wants this car anymore, right? Then I'll take it!"

Critical Analysis

Author and source: Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los

Angeles, California. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in the United States.

Purpose and objective: The purpose of this article is to show the impact of new policy to car retail market.

Commentary:

In my opinion, this article is lack of sufficient sources to support the view. The rapid growth in car sales, it is just the market stress response to new policy. On the contrary, the real situation is car sale drop quickly. According to economic theory-J curve effect, the condition should be sale falls at the outset and eventually rises to a point higher than the starting point.

Others, the author as a foreign people do not understand the thought of Chinese people. So, the view is idealistic and unrealistic. In fact, the real promotion for car

sale is not license-plate lottery. It is psychological impulse to follow other people. Just like Panic buying in late 80s happened in China. This is their last chances to own a car, some people took desperate measures. In China, a purchase-restricting policy always looks embarrassing. The government sees irrational growth in purchases of a certain commodity, like a house or a car, and tries to cool down the market heat by

administrative restrictions. The irony is that buyers just become more passionate later.

ARTICLE 9

Title Name: Car license cap affects Beijing's growth

By: China Daily

Source: China Economic

Published Date: September 5, 2011

Website: Summary:

A government cap on new vehicle purchases led to a slight reduction in the capital's economic growth, it has been revealed."Beijing's economy grew 8 percent in the first half of this year, putting it last in the national rankings," said Yao Jingyuan, former chief economist at the National Bureau of Statistics. "The limit on car purchases cost the city an extra 1 percent at least."He was speaking at the seventh annual

international forum on China's auto industry development, held Friday to Sunday in Tianjin. The so-called license plate lottery was introduced as part of efforts by

authorities to curb congestion and improve air quality. Every month, first-time buyers must enter a draw to win one of 17,600 licenses up for grabs. A record 653,113 people competed in August.

Critical Analysis

Author and source: China Economic is a professional economic journal.

Purpose and objective: This article represents the view that economic downturn caused by license lottery policy.

Commentary:

The resource of this article is reliable, but there is no sufficient detail to permit

reliability of the conclusions. There are many reasons cause the economic downturn, not just the new lottery policy. The following factors should be considered:

(1) The real estate slump, the real estate market in Beijing is now experiencing a

decline both in supply and demand, as developers followed each other to cut

prices. In a survey of about 80 on-sale housing projects, 82 percent of them have seen a price dip, with 38 percent them dropping by 15 percent. GDP mainly

provide by estate transactions, and the decline in the real estate industry will

inevitably lead to slower economic growth.

(2) Relocation of several companies, including Shougang Group, Shougang Group,

the largest steelmaker in Beijing, finally stopped production in the Chinese capital. The old site of the factory opened in 1919 used to employ 200,000 people and produce almost 10 million tons of steel a year. Loss such big company, it must be a huge blow to Beijing economic growth.

ARTICLE 10

Title Name: Southern city of Guiyang introduces new registration plate lottery By: Carmen Lee

Source: Xinhua News Agency

Published Date: July 14, 2011

Website:

Summary:

The southern Chinese city of Guiyang has followed Beijing to become the second city in the country to enact a registration plate lottery. The new policy, which will force buyers of new vehicles to first win a new license plate via a lottery, came into effect officially yesterday. The city will distinguish between 'special' and 'regular' plates.

Special plates will only be limited to residents of the city, while regular plates have no such restriction. However, regular plate holders will not be able to drive within the city's first ring. Guiyang will reportedly only issue 2,000 new plates per month.

According to a report, although the government had no plan to abandon vehicle

purchase limitation policies in Beijing, there was no plan to have similar legislation appears in other cities. "This is something that shouldn't have happened," said

Assistant Secretary of the China Passenger Car Association. He said that Guiyang, as a relatively underdeveloped region, would encourage other cities to consider

implementing similar policies to curb traffic problems

Critical Analysis

Author and source: Xinhua News Agency is the official press agency of the government of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the biggest center for collecting information and press conferences in the PRC.

Purpose and objective: The purpose of this article point out that as an

underdeveloped region, Guiyang is not suitable for the implementation of

license-plate lottery policy.

Commentary:

On my view, this article is obesity and prejudice without sufficient reason. Compared to Beijing, Guiyang is indeed a undeveloped city, but it also has own traffic problems.

A round of urban construction, including two light railway lines, would start soon and probably aggravate the traffic congestion in the nine-square-kilometre old town, crammed with nearly 300,000 cars. By the end of 2010, Guiyang had 616,000

vehicles, nearly eight times as many as 10 years ago. I think the license plate limit can prevent the number of new cars from surging rapidly, and thus ease the traffic congestion in the old town.

In addition, the author just quote the opinion of auto group, they certainly do not hope the new policy even in Beijing. So, it is Lack of evidence to support the view. If author want to more evidence, there would be involved more stakeholders. For example, Guiyang citizens, local government and other cities like Guiyang. All of these people’s view together, so that the whole article more convincing and credible.

METHOLOGY

The organization and policy which I chose to research and survey is XX 4s shop and car license-plate lottery policy in Beijing. In order to address the complexities of the issue from a holistic point of view, I’ve followed an analytical framework in the report part to investigate and analyze the current particularities of the issue step by step following “what is happening”, “why is it happening”, “What are the likely development and consequences” and eventually “what can be done about it”.

On the other hand, I’ve also tried to identify as many as stakeholders that may involve in the issue. And my research was conducted by using secondary data collection methods collected journal articles with continuous time span both from relatively reliable local and international sources in the internet and specialized databases with different angles and viewpoints to avoid research material sourcing bias. In addition, each journal article selected was summarized of its major views and arguments as well as made commends on its justice and contents. In addition, for the sake of minimizing the possibilities of being prejudice, similar articles and updates addressing the contents of each chosen journal article has also been checked and reviewed then followed up by a comprehensive reflection to all the journal articles in order to view the entire issue symmetrically and locate their linkages as well as to facilitate the further analyzing.

Finally, regarding to the focus of this paper, it will be apt to cover more about Chinese government perspectives as most of the policies or its changes are determined by the government which is much likely to influence the business of companies especially those multinationals like XX.

REFLECTION

According to the research and investigation to the car license-plate lottery policy,

I have noticed the complexities of the conflict gradually. And I’ve made use of the analytical framework in order to address the core issues and stakeholders involved in the case and analyze for further recommendation. However, because of the limited time, limitation of my perception to various relevant issues and research and investigation to the numbered journal articles and so forth, some of my opinions may not be very convincing or persuasive and they may even be biased. These include the following aspects:

First of all, the scope of my stakeholder analysis is only based on the Chinese market. Therefore, stakeholders from a wider extent like overseas are missed here, moreover some of them may also be the influential stakeholder or even key stakeholder in some of the issues, in this case, and their impacts are surely missed later in the paper.

Secondly, as the aim for this course is to analyze how business and government react and impact on each other. To understand the issue well demands comprehensive knowledge not only from business expertise, but also acquaintance of the country’s legislation system, relevant regulations law and provisions, political dynamics and so on.

Eventually, due to the research and investigation is only carried out by me mainly from the time January 2011 until July 2011, the evidence which support car license-plate lottery policy trend is not sufficient.