1. Although many people claim that, along with the rapid 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. 尽管许多人认为随着经济的高速发展,用自行车的人数会减少,自行车可能会消亡, 然而,这几年我收集的一些信息让我相信自行车仍然会继续在现代社会发挥极其重要的作用。
2. 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. 环境学家指出:持续增加的污染不仅会导致像全球变暖这样严重的问题,而且还将威胁到人类在这个星球的生存。
3. Using bicycle contributes greatly to people's physical fitness as well as easing traffic jams. 使用自行车有助于人们的身体健康,并极大地缓解了交通阻塞。
4. Despite many obvious advantages of bicycle, it is not without its problem. 尽管自行车有许多明显的优点,但是它也存在它的问题。
5. Bicycle can't be compared with other means of transportation like car and train for speed and comfort. 在速度和舒适度方面,自行车是无法和汽车、火车这样的交通工具相比的。
6. 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. 通过以上讨论,我们可以得出结论:自行车的优点远大于缺点,并且在现代社会它仍将发挥重要作用。
7. 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. 当前在高校和研究机构对教育存在着大量争论,其中一个问题就是教育是否是个终身学习的过程。
8. A large number of people tend to live under the illusion that they had completed their education when they finished their schooling. Obviously, they seem to fail to take into account the basic fact that a person's education is a most important aspect of his life. 许多人存在这样的误解,认为离开学校就意味着结束了他们的教育。显然,他们忽视了教育是人生重要部分这一基本事实。
9. It is commonly accepted that no college or university can educate its students by the time they graduate. 人们普遍认为高校是不可能在毕业的时候教会他们的学生所有知识的。
10. Even the best possible graduate needs to continue learning before she or he becomes an educated person. 即使最优秀的毕业生,要想成为一个博学的人也要不断地学习。
1. ABSENCE: (with/there is) the absence of attempt/ work A.Many medical experts are now agreed that with the general absence of roughage,modem citizens are literally---via heart attacks and cancer--eating and drinking themselves into the grave. 许多医学专家现在一致认为,由于食物中总体缺少粗粮,现代公民们就是这样一日三餐,不知不觉地患上了心脏病和癌症。最终送命,这样说并非言过其实。 B.There seems to have been an absence of attempt at conciliation between rival sects. 似乎没有进行任何尝试去调解对立派之间的矛盾。 C.For large numbers of people, the absence of work is harmful to their health. 对大多数人来说,没有工作对他们的身体反而有害。
2. ACCEPTANCE: have/find/obtain/gain/win (general/immediate/wide) acceptance for/among/of A.Academic dishonesty has had relatively strong peer support and acceptance among some students,partly because we did not make a serious effort to explain why such behavior is contemptible. 学习上的作弊得到同伴相对有力的支持,也被一些学生所接受。部分原因是我们没有真正努力去解释为什么这种行为是可耻的。 B.If that can be done,the high way will serve the purposes users want. Then it will gain broad acceptance and become a reality. 如果做到这一点的话,高架就会达到使用者所希望的目的。这样就会得到广泛的支持而成为现实。
3. ACCESS: gain/get/have/attain/give (ready/easy) access to A.Advances in technology have smoothed access to information, rendering superfluous whole layers of management. 技术的发展使我们能较容易获取信息,也使整个管理层变得有些多余。 B.While it is true that U.S.sources may have better access to the information,they might also have more reason to conceal or alter that information. 美国新闻机构获取情报或许较为方便,但它们也可能有较多的理由去隐瞒或篡改情报。
4. ACQUISITION: acquisition of knowledge/ a language/information A. Newspaper reading,rather than being simply the acquisition of new information,is a kind of passive participation in the life of the national community. 读报不仅仅是获得新的信息,而是一种被动地参与国家生活的活动。 B.But in the past trying to accelerate children's acquisition of academic skills in their early age was seen as evidence of bad parenting. 但在过去,若家长们在孩子还很小时就加快对他们的文化知识的学习,这种做法被认为是不好的教育法。
5. AGREEMENT: there is general agreement that A. There is total agreement that the activity of humans is at least partly responsible for the problem. 有一点大家的意见是一致的:人类的活动对这个问题至少应当负部分责任。 B.To come to agreement on control and reduction of weapons between the superpowers is difficult. 超级大国之间要在控制和削减武器方面达成一致意见是很困难的。