1. According to a recent survey, four million people die each year from diseases linked to smoking.
依照最近的一項調查,每年有4,000,000人死于與吸煙有關的疾病。
2. The latest surveys show that quite a few children have unpleasant associations with homework.
最近的調查顯示相當多的孩子對家庭作業沒什么好感。
3. No invention has received more praise and abuse than Internet.
沒有一項發明像互聯網一樣同時受到如此多的贊揚和批評。
4. People seem to fail to take into account the fact that education does not end with graduation.
人們似乎忽視了教育不應該隨著畢業而結束這一事實。
5. An increasing number of people are beginning to realize that education is not complete with graduation.
越來越多的人開始意識到教育不能隨著畢業而結束。
6. When it comes to education, the majority of people believe that education is a lifetime study.
說到教育,大部分人認為其是一個終生的學習。
7. Many experts point out that physical exercise contributes directly to a person's physical fitness.
許多專家指出體育鍛煉直接有助于身體健康。
8. Proper measures must be taken to limit the number of foreign tourists and the great efforts should be made to protect local environment and history from the harmful effects of international tourism.
應該采取適當的措施限制外國旅游者的數量,努力保護當地環境和歷史不受國際旅游業的不利影響。
9. An increasing number of experts believe that migrants will exert positive effects on construction of city. However, this opinion is now being questioned by more and more city residents, who complain that the migrants have brought many serious problems like crime and prostitution.
越來越多的專家相信移民對城市的建設起到積極作用。然而,越來越多的城市居民卻懷疑這種說法,他們抱怨民工給城市帶來了許多嚴重的問題,像犯罪和賣淫。
10. Many city residents complain that it is so few buses in their city that they have to spend much more time waiting for a bus, which is usually crowded with a large number of passengers.
許多市民抱怨城市的公交車太少,以至于他們要花很長時間等一輛公交車,而車上可能已滿載乘客。
11. There is no denying the fact that air pollution is an extremely serious problem: the city authorities should take strong measures to deal with it.
無可否認,空氣污染是一個極其嚴重的問題:城市當局應該采取有力措施來解決它。
12. An investigation shows that female workers tend to have a favorable attitude toward retirement.
一項調查顯示婦女歡迎退休。
12a. A proper part-time job does not occupy students' too much time. In fact, it is unhealthy for them to spend all of time on their study. As an old saying goes: All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
一份適當的業余工作并不會占用學生太多的時間,事實上,把全部的時間都用到學習上并不健康,正如那句老話:只工作,不玩耍,聰明的孩子會變傻。
14. Any government, which is blind to this point, may pay a heavy price.
任何政府忽視這一點都將付出巨大的代價。
15.Nowadays, many students always go into raptures at the mere mention of the coming life of high school or college they will begin. Unfortunately, for most young people, it is not pleasant experience on their first day on campus.
當前,一提到即將開始的學校生活,許多學生都會興高采烈。然而,對多數年輕人來說,校園剛開始的日子并不是什么愉快的經歷。
16. In view of the seriousness of this problem, effective measures should be taken before things get worse.
考慮到問題的嚴重性,在事態進一步惡化之前,必須采取有效的措施。
17. The majority of students believe that part-time job will provide them with more opportunities to develop their interpersonal skills, which may put them in a favorable position in the future job markets.
大部分學生相信業余工作會使他們有更多機會發展人際交往能力,而這對他們未來找工作是非常有好處的。
18. It is indisputable that there are millions of people who still have a miserable life and have to face the dangers of starvation and exposure.
無可爭辯,現在有成千上萬的人仍過著挨餓受凍的痛苦生活。
19. Although this view is wildly held, this is little evidence that education can be obtained at any age and at any place.
盡管這一觀點被廣泛接受,很少有證據表明教育能夠在任何地點、任何年齡進行。
20. No one can deny the fact that a person's education is the most important aspect of his life.
沒有人能否認:教育是人生最重要的一方面。
21. People equate success in life with the ability of operating computer.
人們把會使用計算機與人生成功相提并論。
22. In the last decades, advances in medical technology have made it possible for people to live longer than in the past.
在過去的幾十年,先進的醫療技術已經使得人們比過去活的時間更長成為可能。
23. In fact, we have to admit the fact that the quality of life is as important as life itself.
事實上,我們必須承認生命的質量和生命本身一樣重要。
24. We should spare no effort to beautify our environment.
我們應該不遺余力地美化我們的環境。
25. People believe that computer skills will enhance their job opportunities or promotion opportunities.
人們相信擁有計算機技術可以獲得更多工作或提升的機會。
26. The information I've collected over last few years leads me to believe that this knowledge may be less useful than most people think.
從這幾年我搜集的信息來看,這些知識并沒有人們想象的那么有用。
27. Now, it is generally accepted that no college or university can educate its students by the time they graduation.
現在,人們普遍認為沒有一所大學能夠在畢業時候教給學生所有的知識。
28. This is a matter of life and death--a matter no country can afford to ignore.
這是一個關系到生死的問題,任何國家都不能忽視。
29. For my part, I agree with the latter opinion for the following reasons:
我同意后者,有如下理由:
30. Before giving my opinion, I think it is important to look at the arguments on both sides.
在給出我的觀點之前,我想看看雙方的觀點是重要的。
31. This view is now being questioned by more and more people.
這一觀點正受到越來越多人的質疑。
32. Although many people claim that, along with the rapidly economic development, the number of people who use bicycle are decreasing and bicycle is bound to die out. The information I've collected over the recent years leads me to believe that bicycle will continue to play extremely important roles in modern society.
盡管許多人認為隨著經濟的高速發展,用自行車的人數會減少,自行車可能會消亡, 然而,這幾年我收集的一些信息讓我相信自行車仍然會繼續在現代社會發揮極其重要的作用。
33. Environmental experts point out that increasing pollution not only causes serious problems such as global warming but also could threaten to end human life on our planet.
環境學家指出:持續增加的污染不僅會導致像全球變暖這樣嚴重的問題,而且還將威脅到人類在這個星球的生存。
34. In view of such serious situation, environmental tools of transportation like bicycle are more important than any time before.
考慮到這些嚴重的狀況,我們比以往任何時候更需要像自行車這樣的環保型交通工具。
35. Using bicycle contributes greatly to people's physical fitness as well as easing traffic jams.
使用自行車有助于人們的身體健康,并極大地緩解了交通阻塞。
36. Despite many obvious advantages of bicycle, it is not without its problem.
盡管自行車有許多明顯的優點,但是它也存在它的問題。
37. Bicycle can't be compared with other means of transportation like car and train for speed and comfort.
在速度和舒適度方面,自行車是無法和汽車、火車這樣的交通工具相比的。
38. From what has been discussed above, we may safely draw the conclusion that advantages of bicycle far outweigh its disadvantages and it will still play essential roles in modern society.
通過以上討論,我們可以得出結論:自行車的優點遠大于缺點,并且在現代社會它仍將發揮重要作用。
39. There is a general discussion these days over education in many colleges and institutes. One of the questions under debate is whether education is a lifetime study.
當前在高校和研究機構對教育存在著大量爭論,其中一個問題就是教育是否是個終身學習的過程。
40. This issue has caused wide public concern.
這個問題已經引起了廣泛關注。