岁数: age (number of years old)...
试卷: examination paper, test paper...
地带: zone...
劝说: to persuade, persuasion, to advise...
公约: convention (i.e. international agreement)...
改革开放: to reform and open to the outside world, refers to Deng Xiaoping's policies from around980...
无可厚非: Can't blame too much, It means that although there are shortcomings in speaking and doing things, there are still merits and should be understood...
虚假: false, phony, pretense...
戏曲: Chinese opera...
作对: to set oneself against, to oppose, to make a pair...
