[贴图]中国中学英文课本真这么和谐么？！还是环球时报跟我开玩笑？！

English textbook's "Romeo and Juliet' grow up, don't marry
Source:  Global Times
[02:58 December 08 2009]
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Parody cover of Junior English for China. Photo: Li Miao
By Xu Liuliu
A new edition of English Plus, a textbook for learning English published by the People's Education Press (PEP), has stirred up interest on Chinese Internet forums for the outcome of a supposed relationship between two fictional characters featured in many of the original text's educational dialogues.
"Hello, My name is Li Lei. Nice to meet you!"
"Hello, I'm Han Meimei. Nice to meet you, too!"
These banal sentences from the original version of English Plus, called Junior English for China, were some of the very first English words many 1990s Chinese middle school students would read when studying English for the first time, introducing the characters Li Lei and Han Meimei.
In the new edition of the text, Han Meimei doesn't wed Li Lei, instead marrying and having two children with new-comer Han Gang.
Even freshmen at Peking University took up the topic at a recent campus debate.
"When we got the book, we couldn't help thinking about their relationship. After the first semester, most of my classmates thought they should be a couple," said David Feng, 26, an editor at English language-learning magazine.
"I thought Li Lei was handsome and smart, while Han Meimei was good at studying. Everyone thought they would make the perfect couple," said Lucy Li, 27, who works at a multinational corporation.
The original textbook, produced jointly by PEP and a UK partner, Longman Press, was read by over 100 million students in China but gradually dropped out of rotation after 2000.
"We went on to use different editions of the textbook, but many still miss the original," said Liu Daoyi, 70, who coauthored Junior English for China with Longman Press.
"I don't think so," she said, laughing, when asked if a love affair between Li and Han was hidden in the book. "There was little tension between them. At that time, we managed to prevent puppy love."
Recent posts on tianya.com. cn, written by the same students who grew up with Li Lei and Han Meimei as relationship role models, demonstrate their generation's nostalgia for a long lost era of when they were learning English for the first time:
"Why is it so hard for two people who love each other to be together?"
"Han, at my age, is already a mother of two. We are getting older!"
"Looking at Li and Han, we can see a shadow of ourselves. We are sorry about the years that have passed us by. The people we married are not our first loves."
"Our generation is tired of modern society, we should try to seek out our lost memories of the past joys in the sun."


Han Gang是个什么人= =Han Meimei和Li Lei是分了还是压根没在一起过？

不对，我想表达的不是这个意思！中国的英文课本这么搞笑的啊，剧长篇连续剧？！还探讨谁和谁结婚的问题？Han跟我们同岁啊喂！共同长大。。心情好复杂（因为有柯南这样的不老不死怪物。。。）

P.S.封面这个长着就是京阿姨出品的俩带着呆毛貌似是clannad什么的俩小姑娘是给了肖像权的么你就用喂= =




Li Lei --- Okazaki Tomoya
Han Meimei --- Furukawa Nagisa

=.=!!!!!!!!喷~~

假的

版权所有，翻印不究？

= = wt ..f
这个 - - 干脆 丢进 垃圾筒 算了

咱已经对这种习惯起来了。。
默默不语O(∩_∩)O~

关系图好强大  英语一直都泪目

真的假的啊。。。。

无语了。。。

关系图真美……

貌似我们课本不是这样

笑而不语。。。。。 哈哈

PS过的东西吧。。。CL神作出现在在中国？

这不是真的吧

一张图片而已 要是照片的话咱还可能相信

看不到图！！不能说话~~

我有点无语了

环球时报不是中文的报纸么……

- -....P的吧～这个。。。。

真强大的课文啊

很好……杏被编排到米国去了……

有能力把大学的课本弄成这样就好了

有才 这都联系一块去了

- -这图美啊
这样编辑关系 - -

估计不会这样的说

如果我以前的英语书是这样的我一定会好好学英语的。

貌似我们课本差很多啊
封面似曾相识
关系图就无语鸟

这个是EG物了

如果我的英语书上全是这些的话我以后上英语课就再也不会睡觉了