听一分钟英文：Social Issues-社会问题

There seems to be so many social issues¹ these days. I’m sure the list of issues is ten times bigger than it was a few years ago. I just Googled ‘social issues’ and found a list of 33 different issues. I suppose that’s not a huge amount. One thing that surprised me looking at the list is how common they are. Pretty much all of them appear on the news most days. A few of them weren’t really in the news when I was growing up. I can’t remember hearing about drug abuse², pollution and immigration³ years ago. I hope that the number of social issues on this list goes down and not up, although I suspect there will more problems in the future. I think there’ll be problems about things we don’t even know about today.

1 issues   

（水等的）流出( issue的名词复数 )； 出口； 放出； （特别重要或大众关注的）问题

参考例句：

• Let's start with the more easily addressable issues. 我们先从较容易处理的问题着手。
• Employment and taxation are the bread-and-butter issues of politics. 就业和征税是很重要的政治问题。

2 abuse   

vt.滥用；辱骂；诋毁；n.滥用；恶习；弊端

参考例句：

• You can't make personal abuse on her.你不可对她进行人身攻击。
• She screamed abuse at me.她尖声责备我。

3 immigration   

n.外来的移民，移居入境

参考例句：

• The government has decided to tighten its immigration policy.政府决定实施更加严格的移民政策。
• Do British immigration laws conflict with any international laws?英国的移民法与国际法有抵触吗？