51"Education will be truly effective only when it is specifically designed to meet the individual needs and interests of each student." 51. 只有针对每个学生的需要和兴趣,教育才真正的有意义 \`FpBE_e)
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52"Education encourages students to question and criticize, and therefore does little to promote social harmony." 52. 教育鼓励学生们提问和批评,这样无利于社会的和谐 5<Lal^c D
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53"College and university education should be free for all students, fully financed by the government." 53. 大学教育应该对所有学生免费,全部由政府来承担 C0RnBu
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While, fully financing college and university may exceed the capacity of the government, although this will is valuable. ]J]~i[
Up to now, it is still impossible for government to afford all the expenditure for college and university, but alternative methods are produced to alleviate the burden of students from poor families. Instead of fully waiving the tuition, college and university have established the scholarship, fellowship, loans as well as part-time jobs. 8p91ni'
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54"History teaches us only one thing: knowing about the past cannot help people to make important decisions today." 54. 历史只教会我们做一件事:了解过去并不能帮助今天的人们在重大的事情上做决定 j\/Rjn+:[
History is a part of our development, and provides relevant information of present problems. km 0LLYG
History also serves as a source of precedent and predication, which guide us to avoid or less making false decisions when in face of hard task in present. BEfP#h=hr
Admittedly, there are entirely new problems that we have to cope with on our own without any precedents in history to refer to, but this does not prevent us from making right choices, since learning history has taught us to perceive and analyse the problems with historic perspective. q'% cVM
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55"Competition for high grades seriously limits the quality of learning at all levels of education." 55. 人们为了更高的学历而竞争,严重限制了人们各个阶段的学习。(好象不通?) W%&[gDp
Competing for grades serves as an effective stimulant to urge and conduce to arouse students’ ambition in the process of study. Since under current education system, tests and examination are still mainly method to check the outcome of study, and score is the most important criteria to evaluate the performance of students. Usually, high score means better academic performance. Who rank at the top will obtain acknowledge of their intellect and competence both from teachers and peers, this point also be illustrated by the fact that scholarship will be given to those who have high grades in most of their courses. In such education system, students may be motivated to study hard and assiduously in order to achieving acknowledge of others and the hortation of better performance, and in turn, they have a better master of what they have learnt. In this respect, competition for high grades does promote students learning better. [k<w'n*
While, such competition increasingly expose its negative effects on the quality of learning. ,`su0P\%#.
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56"Governments should focus more on solving the immediate problems of today rather than trying to solve the anticipated problems of the future." 56. 政府应该把更多的精力放到解决眼前实际的问题中,而不要放到未来可能会产生的问题中。 ?gGmJl
Undoubtedly, immediate problems that agonize and afflict people mostly, such as crimes, wars, drag abuse, unemployment and so on, actually need to be addressed by government as soon as possible since their existence extremely danger the normal living of public. ~HM,@5dFC
However, it is misconception that governments can ignore the anticipated problems of the future in favor of the immediate ones, even though the latter may be more urgent. u?a4v \
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57"The depth of knowledge to be gained from books is much richer and broader than what can be learned from direct experience." 57. 书本中学的到的知识远比实际经验中学到的知识多 @`D`u16]i
Books serve as the means of imparting knowledge and adopted as textbooks in schools from elementary school to university. :krdG%r
However, direct experience is also an effective way of learning knowledge and makes complement to that learned from books. $={^':Uh
Besides, direct experience plays important role in testing the knowledge that formulated in the books. X1N*}@:/
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58"The increasingly rapid pace of life today causes more problems than it solves." 58. 快节奏的生活导致了很多无法解决的问题 XW2{I.:in>
It is true that efficiency is the most benefit produced by the increasing pace of life, however, our physical condition does not receive the merited improvement due to the improved efficiency. \0'0)@uziQ
In addition, an even worse situation is that people have become more or less nervous and stressful. P&2/J%@zG
Unfortunately, modern people seem to addict to the past pace of life, and in turn push the society march on more rapidly. H\[:uUK5\
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59"Too much emphasis is placed on role models. Instead of copying others, people should learn to think and act independently and thus make the choices that are best for them." 59. 人们把太多的精力放在模型和范例上。人们应该学会独立思考和行动,而不要照搬别人的东西,这样才能做出最好的选择 c
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We have been brought up with the tales and legends of kinds of heroes and heroines, no matter whether these characters are real persons or fictional ones, these stories serve as our primary enlightened materials that instill us virtues and values the society cherishes commonly in which we are living. ^~65M/
Merely imitating role models may result in laziness and dependence since one dose not suffer himself/herself of thinking and analyzing. )V6<'>1WZ
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60"The media—and society in general—mistakenly expect an individual to speak for a particular group, whether or not that individual truly represents the views of the entire group." 60. 通常情况下,媒体和社会都希望某个个人能代表一个特殊的群体,不管这个个人是否能真正地表达整个群体的意思 zo{WmV7[|
It is reasonable that news reporters or program moderators will resort to the method of choosing individuals to express their regards, evaluations and feelings about certain event, and hope to acquire an overall views of groups or the public that interviewees represent for. }o{6
However, different from conducing a precise and strict quantitative survey, which usually can calculate sampling error, significant level that may circumscribe the accuracy of the representative of the sample, most survey are conducted in qualitative method which lacks the ability to deduce specific outcome from a few individuals to an entire group. to%n2^^K
This reminds us to keep discreet and qualified attitude toward the speech of individuals when they speak on behalf of certain groups. q n2X._`
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61"High-profile awards such as the Nobel Prize are actually damaging to society because they suggest that only a few people deserve such recognition." 61. 高回报的奖金,如诺贝尔奖实际上对社会是有害的,因为只有少数人才能获此殊荣。 6Pzz= ai<
Most of these children farewell these dreams when they grow up for their capability, personal intersets and other factors. The remained few, however, by persistingly pursuing their original aim, attain it in the end. -NgL4?p=
Admittedly not every one has the opportunity to get any high-profile award. There are many realistical limitations such as capability, intellecture, aggression and of course, opportunity. D)my@W0,
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62.”The widespread idea that people should make self-improvement a primary goal in their lives is problematic because it assumes that people are intrinsically deficient." 62. 人们普遍认为应该把自我发展当作生命中一个重要的目标,这样的想法是值得怀疑的,因为它假设人们本身就是有缺陷的61. 高回报的奖金,如诺贝尔奖实际上对社会是有害的,因为只有少数人才能获此殊荣。 z:+fiJB_
We often hear that to err is human. to admit that we are intrinsically deficient is a positive attitude. XFx p ^
Realizing that we are not perfect will help us have an objective and rational evaluation about ourselves, and then instruct us to reshape the personality, correct the error, and reset the goal for our life. p~!UE/V
On the contrary, blindly refusing self-improvement can only result in ignorance and smugness, which imprison people in the illusion that they are perfect enough and virtually trap them into stagnancy. ( It is a well known tale that a prodigy eventually grows into a mediocre narcissist after years of overrated praises. ) DGY?4r7>y
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Everybody on earth is born with certain abilities and talents. Most of us have vowed to ourselves that, in the future, we plan to do this and that, and to do something grandiose. Vows of such nature may not be necessary. In reality we end up chasing after an illusion throughout our life. But down in our hearts we know that, being self-centered, we are trying so hard to attain attention, praise, and fame. All the fast paced ness, anxiety, stress, and pressure in our life stem from our desires for self-improvement. d4]9oi{}
On the other hand, human beings, unlike animals, seem to inherently harbor burning and non-stoppable desires to improve themselves, and to seek new adventures. So, even though we are aware that a pit of anxiety or pressure is in front of us, we cannot help but jumping into it. `r$c53|<u
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63."To truly understand your own culture—no matter how you define it—requires personal knowledge of at least one other culture, one that is distinctly different from your own." 63. 为了真正地了解你自己的文化,不管你怎样定义它,你需要了解至少一种其他的文化,并且这种文化和你的文化完全不同 "F3M m
Just think of a well-trained parrot which can echo human-languague fluently and clearly. It does not follow that the creature understands what that means in that it is rather a reflection than intentionally reaction. {*jo,<4ee
Knowledge of other cultures also makes it possible for one to understand his/her culture from an abstract view rather than the original substential one, or in other words, to build up a systematical perspective of the dissolute congruents of the culture. . },W<1*|
In fact, all kinds of culture, in a sense, are similar. r`8>@2sW1
One of the key factors that differenciate human-beings from other animals is the processing of culture. 6bXP{,}Gp
Tim: I would emphasize on the fact that COMPARISONS help us to understand, but minimize the comments on the fact that there are merits and shortcomings in every culture. E#L"*vh
Nearly every adjective in a language bears no meaning in the absolute sense. It is usually relative. Take for example the adjective, "ugly". A female ape is ugly, when she is compared with a young woman (by us human beings). But to Tarzan, who was brought up in the jungle by an ape and had never seen any other beings, his motherly ape was neither beautiful nor ugly. &0='z
Had I lived in Chinatown in San Francisco throughout my life, I would not have understood the meanings of "dirty, rowdy, and messy". If, by "understanding", we mean that we have acquired a sense of relative-ness for a collection of adjectives, such as good, bad, fair, rich, etc., then only via comparisons, are we able to acquire such a sense. `YinhO:Z
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64"Many people know how to attain success, but few know how to make the best use of it." 64. 很多人知道怎样获得成功,但很少有人知道怎样很好地利用成功。 #,4CeD|(D,
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1. The conception of "success", relatively, is one of narrow sense, not wide-sense. e~+VN4D&b>
2. Limited personal ability result in failing to make best use of the succuss furtherly. ;:/<