"The meeting of China's legislature - the National People's Congress (NPC) - has opened in Beijing with a speech by the Prime Minister, Wen Jiabao.

"Nearly 3,000 delegates are attending the annual two-week meeting.

"Correspondents say the congress is a symbolic organization with little power, but it offers a guide to issues at the top of the government's agenda.

"This year, these include the growing gaps between rich and poor, and between the cities and the countryside."

Being Chinese and someone who watches news on CCTV 9, you are probably familiar with news on Chinese politics and Chinese politics doesn't get any bigger than the National People's Congress. So therefore, if you hear that piece on the air, you'll probably be able to follow the story through without trouble. Any of the words like "legislature", "National People's Congress", "delegates", "correspondents", even if you have trouble understanding you'll be able to muddle through the whole story satisfied, knowing that, by and large, you've "Got it".

On the other hand, if you heard this earlier top sports story, West Ham 3-4 Tottenham (March 4, 2007), and you knew nothing about English soccer, you would perhaps have had a lot of trouble understanding what all the fuss (names of teams, players and all that jazz) was about.

"Tottenham's Paul Stalteri scored a dramatic injury-time winner as the visitors came from 2-0 and 3-2 down to deepen West Ham's relegation worries.

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