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With the end of the year just around the corner, how would you define the year of 2007? Professors used the word ``deception'' as a keyword to sum up the year in a recent survey. The survey of some 340 professors and academic columnists said about 43 percent selected a four-letter Chinese phrase ``jagigiin'' (自欺欺人) to describe the nation's economic, political and social situation in 2007. The result was published in the Professors' Times Sunday.

The phrase literally means ``deceiving yourself and others,'' which often appears in the analects of Zhu Xi, a famous Chinese Confucian scholar, and Buddhist scriptures. The expression was often used to criticize people who deceive others or mock social morality issues. ``It is like you deceive others so habitually that you reach the point where you even deceive yourself with lies,'' Professor Seong Hwan-gap from ChungAng University said.

It now aptly illustrates a series of scandals of the year, in which politicians, businessmen and other socially well-known figures were involved, the newspaper said. ``The phrase can be used to refer to actions resulting from ruthless desire,'' Professor Ahn Dae-hoe of Sungkyunkwan University said. ``There were so many incidents, to which you can refer the expression.'' He cited the diploma forgery scandal of former Dongguk University Professor Shin Jeong-ah; plagiarism of academic journals of university professors and presidents; and ethic wrongdoings of well-known politicians and businessmen.

Besides the expression, 18 percent of the surveyed picked a phrase ``sanjungsubok'' (山重水複), which literally means that you have a long way to go but cannot see the troubled road ahead, to indicate the nation facing a series of troubles and problems. But some 15 percent selected ``surakseokchul'' (水落石出), meaning revelation of truth after settlement of problems.

When asked to pick the most tragic accident of the year, 23 percent of the respondents picked the oil leakage in waters off Taean, North Chungcheong Province. On a positive note, about 16 percent enjoyed figure skating star Kim Yu-na's winning the title at the World Grand Prix Final for the second consecutive years in a row and the sensational performance of swimmer Park Tae-hwan.

Question
1. How would you define your year of 2007?
2. What events do you remember in 2007? Is there anything impressed?
3. What was the most important thing in your 2007?
   (family, friends, study and so on.) Did you make efforts to that?
4. What will you do in 2008 for self-improvement?

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