128. This defense of excellence and opportunity would disappear if examinations were taken away, and the bright child from a poor family would be a prisoner of his or her school’s reputation, unable to compete for employment with the child from the favored school.

　　如果考试被取消，对优秀和机遇的保护就会消失，来自于贫困家庭的孩子将会因为学校的声誉而受累，不能与名校的孩子竞争就业机会。

　　129. To be frank, even though the central government collapsed, these civilians wouldpreserve in fighting to the end because they couldn’t endure being oppressed and motherland’s being conquered.

　　坦率地说，即使中央政府垮台了，这些平民也会抗争到底，因为他们不能忍受被压迫、祖国被占领。

　　130. A confusing circumstance called “shifting of responsibility” is defined as the fact that the more people there are, the less likely help is to be given because each individual excuses himself by thinking someone else will help.

　　一个令人困惑的现象叫做“责任转移”，定义为围观人越多，可能给予的帮助越少，因为每个人都为自己开脱，觉得别人会帮助。

　　131. Poisonous liquid can cause the symptom such as flu and muscle ache so it is essential to put unique identification label on them according to the directions.

　　有毒液体能引起诸如流感、肌肉酸痛的症状，因此，有必要按照说明给它们贴上独特的识别标签。

　　132. The earnest customs officer took it for granted that he possessed the right to have aroutine check of everyone’s luggage but he had no idea he had offended the leader.

　　那个认真的海关官员理所应当地认为：按常规，他有权例行检查所有人的行李，但是他不知道已经冒犯了领导。

　　133. Some manufacturers, thirsty for more illegal profits, offer the fake goods, which in turn will spoil their most precious wealth——the trust for the brand and leave themselves stranded in trouble.

　　一些企图获取更多非法利润的制造商供应假货，结果会毁了他们最珍贵的财富——品牌信誉，让自己陷入困境。

　　134. Once the consequence of the negotiation conducted by the diplomats is disappointing,on most occasions, it seems inevitable for the governments to adopt the most extreme and frightening measure——war at all costs.

　　一旦外交官协商的结果令人失望，在大多数情况下，政府似乎不可避免地会采取最极端恐怖的手段——不惜一切地发动战争。

　　135. Although some parts of the surface were illegible, the elaborate masterpiece in the exhibition absolutely illustrated a magnificent vivid scene in which our ancestors went hunting and resisted the wild beast.

　　尽管部分表面已变得不能辨认，展会上，这幅精美绝伦的绘画杰作展示了一幅栩栩如生的祖先打猎、与野兽抵抗的场景。

　　136. During the Spring Festival, he designed a flexible schedule where he combined the study with entertainment so that he could accomplish the academic task as well as enjoy a series of annual concerts.

　　春节期间，他设计一个灵活的时间表，把学习和娱乐结合起来，那么他既能完成学术任务，也能享受一系列每年一次的音乐会。

　　137. To celebrate the 60th anniversary of motherland, enthusiastic people gathered at the square, applauding and cheering, and sent sincere wish to motherland that China would reach a new level in every aspect after they appreciated the magnificent military parade.

　　为了庆祝祖国60周年，热情的人们聚集在广场欣赏完壮观的阅兵礼后，鼓掌欢呼，送出最真挚的祝福，愿中国在每个方面都创新高。

　　138. Under the influence of the science fiction, the hardworking technician wasstimulated to acquire more knowledge to invent a portable air conditioner containing electrical fans, which weighed only 2.5 kilograms.

　　在科幻小说的影响下，那个努力工作的技师受到刺激学习更多的知识以发明一种带风扇的便携式空调，重量只有2.5千克。

　　139. Anyone with the common sense will react angrily to the fact that the aggressive one who once hijacked 2 hostages was assigned to aid in a charity fair as an assistant.

　　任何有常识的人对这个事实的反应都是气愤，那个极具攻击性的人曾经挟持了2名人质,居然以助手的身份被派去一个慈善义卖会帮忙。

　　140. To accuse the government of overlooking their criticism, the natives, marching along the street, held a campaign to protest against throwing away the toxic waste on the island at the sacrifice of the natural environment.

　　为指控政府忽视他们的指责，当地民众沿街游行，对在岛上乱扔有毒废料，牺牲自然环境进行抗议活动。

　　141. If you are arriving at an international airport and are not transferring another flight, you must pass through Passport Control and Customs immediately after leaving your plane.

　　如果你到达一个国际机场，而且不转机，下机后你必须立刻通过入境检验和海关。

　　142. The man elected favourite teacher treats teaching as his lifelong career: although he is strict with students, he answers students’ questions patiently, expands students’ horizon, seldom scolds students, and never pretends to know what he doesn’t know.

　　那个荣获最喜爱教师头衔的男人把教书当成终身事业，尽管对学生严格,他总是耐心回答学生的问题,拓展学生视野，很少责骂他们,从不会不懂装懂。

　　143. To prove they themselves were not timid, the participants dared to sail across the Pacific, even though they had predicted they had to strive against different troubles,excluding storms and injury.

　　为了证明自己不是胆小鬼,参赛者敢于横渡太平洋，就算他们已经预计到除了风暴和受伤，他们还不得不和各种各样的麻烦抗争。

　　144. Due to people’s anxiety about hunger issues and shrinking farmland, more fund and technology tend to be invested in the awkward problems associated with starvation and nutrition.

　　由于担心饥荒和耕地面积越来越小，人们趋向于将更多的钱和技术投入令人头痛的饥饿和营养问题。

　　145. His departure apparently meant that he refused to undertake the career his parents hadpaved the way for, because he planned to create a special law agency featuring serving justice for the people in need to realize his personal value.

　　他的离去很明显意味着，他拒绝走父母为他铺好的路而接受那个工作，因为他计划创造一个特殊的法律中介,特色是为有需要的人伸张正义，以此来实现自己的人生价值。

　　146. All of us should be grateful to what nature offers us, obey the natural laws, maintain the balance of nature and ban burning any harmful l substance and giving off carbon dioxide through the chimneys.

　　我们应当用感激的心回报答自然的恩赐,遵守大自然的规律,维护生态平衡，禁止燃烧任何有害物质，严禁烟囱里释放二氧化碳。

　　147. As a mature professional manager, he will accomplish an urgent task in time, even though he is required to solve it in the period of his vacation, which means squeezing his leisure time and pausing his holiday.

　　作为一名成熟的职业经理人，即使要求他在休假期间处理紧急任务，他都会及时完成，就算这意味着休闲时间被压缩，意味着休假被暂停。

　　148. The upset mother can’t stand receiving so many nasty bills that belong to her son because she has been disturbed by them since the son altered his address without sending a notice to the bank.

　　那个忧心忡忡的母亲不能忍受收到他儿子这么多账单，因为自从她儿子换成了地址却没有通知银行，她一直被这些账单骚扰。

　　149. While the leader in business or industry or the college professor occupies a higher social position and commands greater respect in the community than the common labourer or even the skilled factory worker, he may take pains to point out that his father started life in America as a farmer or labourer of some sort.

　　企业的领导或是大学教授拥有较高的社会地位，在社区，他们比普通工人，甚至是工厂技工更受人尊敬，但是，要说出自己的父亲在美国是农民或苦力出身会让他难堪。

　　150. While parents, particularly mothers, have always been attached to their infants, social conditions frequently made this attachment difficult to maintain.

　　尽管家长，尤其是母亲总是和自己的婴儿联系在一起，但社会环境常常使这种联系难以维系。

　　151. In the professor’s view, it is totally nonsense that a man having a clear conscience dares to walk across the cemetery in view of a simple reason: having a clear conscience is irrelevant to having the courage to cross the cemetery.

　　在这位教授看来，一个问心无愧的人敢于走过坟地的说法完全是乱说一通；因为一个很简单的理由：问心无愧与有胆量走过坟地是毫无关系的。

　　152. All the paper that you write with is made from trees which are cut down after spending years growing, so if the value of your writing doesn’t overtake that of the trees, then you’d better stop writing.

　　所有供你写作的纸张都是由那些生长了好几年然后被砍倒的树木制成的，所以如果你的写作价值还不如这些树木的价值，那你最好还是放弃写作吧。

　　153. The careless dumb patient just glanced at the bottle, mistook the button in it for the pill and swallowed it with the boiled water, which is fortunately not fatal.

　　这名粗心的愚钝病人仅仅瞄了下瓶子，错把里面的纽扣当成了药片，用开水服了下去，幸好不致命。

　　154. The pregnant cashier’s absence from the checkout in the chain store aroused the manager’s concern, and he substituted one for her in case the messy situation became worse.

　　这位怀孕的收银员不在连锁店收银处的情况引起了经理的注意，他用另一名员工来代替她以防混乱的情况变得更糟。

　　151. In the professor’s view, it is totally nonsense that a man having a clear conscience dares to walk across the cemetery in view of a simple reason: having a clear conscience is irrelevant to having the courage to cross the cemetery. 在这位教授看来，一个问心无愧的人敢于走过坟地的说法完全是乱说一通；因为一个很简单的理由：问心无愧与有胆量走过坟地是毫无关系的。

　　152. All the paper that you write with is made from trees which are cut down after spending years growing, so if the value of your writing doesn’t overtake that of the trees, then you’d better stop writing. 所有供你写作的纸张都是由那些生长了好几年然后被砍倒的树木制成的，所以如果你的写作价值还不如这些树木的价值，那你最好还是放弃写作吧。

　　153. The careless dumb patient just glanced at the bottle, mistook the button in it for the pill and swallowed it with the boiled water, which is fortunately not fatal. 这名粗心的愚钝病人仅仅瞄了下瓶子，错把里面的纽扣当成了药片，用开水服了下去，幸好不致命。

　　154. The pregnant cashier’s absence from the checkout in the chain store aroused the manager’s concern, and he substituted one for her in case the messy situation became worse. 这位怀孕的收银员不在连锁店收银处的情况引起了经理的注意，他用另一名员工来代替她以防混乱的情况变得更糟。

　　155. In despair, the violent robbers dressed in prison uniforms with powerful weapons steered a jeep along the rough valley road when the police were tracing them, wanting to oblige them to give in before they fled to urban district in panic. 当警方追踪这些穿着囚服携带强力武器的劫匪，想迫使他们在慌张地逃入市区前放弃抵抗之时，这些绝望的粗暴的劫匪正沿着崎岖不平的山路驾驶着吉普车。

　　156. The outstanding athlete stated with an accent that he had to receive several mental therapies to ensure that he didn’t feel nervous or depressed in the shadow of losing the championship and could refresh himself. 这位杰出的运动员带着口音说道，他不得不接受一些精神理疗来确保自己在失去冠军的阴影下不会感到焦虑或抑郁，并能重新振作。

　　157. Without any alarm, the airbus suddenly crashed into the lake when it flew over a forest, some of whose passengers’ bodies still hung on the trees around the bank, for which their relatives burst into tears and couldn’t undergo such a blow. 没有任何警报，这架空中客机在飞越森林的时候，突然坠入湖中。一些乘客的尸体仍挂在岸边的树上，他们的亲戚嚎啕大哭，无法接受这样的打击。

　　158. After captured in the airport, the silly official was still reluctant to confess that he deceived the leader, took the bribe and transferred the tax to his own account, but he was vague about who tempted him to do so. 在机场被捕之后，这名愚蠢的 官员仍不情愿承认他欺骗了领导，接受了 贿赂并把税收转移至自己的银行账号，但是对于谁唆使他，他含糊其辞。

　　159. Before the traveler ended his memorable journey, he wandered the paths of the capital mixed with classical elements at ease, appreciating the landscape and talking with the polite and friendly inhabitants. 在这名旅行者结束他 值得纪念的旅行之前，他在这座融合着古典元素的 首都城市的小道上惬意地闲逛，欣赏着风景和礼貌友好的居民聊天。

　　160. What amazed the generous gentleman was that on such a chilly evening, the trembling teenager with just a loose sweater shook his head, whispering that he was very hungry but he didn’t want to kneel and beg for the bread without dignity. 令这位慷慨的绅士吃惊的是，在这样一个寒风刺骨的夜晚，这个只穿着松松垮垮毛衣、浑身颤抖的年轻人摇着头，低声说虽然很饿但他也不会没有尊严地下跪去乞讨面包。

　　161. During the visit, the magnificence of the polished mansions inspired each volunteer to be ready for the EXPO, which will reveal the comprehensive national strength of contemporary China, and some of them even recalled the glorious moment when the Beijing Olympics began. 参观期间，这些被擦得光亮的大楼鼓励着每一名志愿者为展现当代中国综合国力的世博会做准备，他们中的一些人甚至回忆起了北京奥运会开幕的光辉时刻。

　　162. The fierce flood by which nature take revenge on mankind caused so great distress to those civilians settling in the basin that people began seeking a harmonious way of getting along with nature to avoid the disaster like this. 这场汹涌的 洪水是大自然对人类的报复。它对那些定居在盆地的平民造成了巨大的痛苦，于是人们开始寻求一种与大自然和睦相处的方式来避免类似灾难再次发生。

　　163. Although the owner swore that his tame dog locked tightly around the tree would not scratch or even bite anyone, I was still alert and a little scared every time I cycled past it, especially when it was barking. 虽然这只狗的主人发誓他那温顺的被牢牢拴在树旁的狗不会抓甚至咬人，但每次我骑车经过都会很警惕甚至有一点害怕，尤其是它在叫的时候。

　　164. Every time the film star surfed the Internet, he would omit the articles full of praises for him and the ones filled with insult to him and just browse the content which judged him.

　　每次这位电影明星上网浏览，他都会忽略那些对他充满赞美或侮辱的文章，而仅看那些客观评价他的内容。

　　165. As soon as the clock struck twelve, the cruel intruders invaded the border of the country, and conquered the city, killing thousands of innocent civilians and the whole war zone was in flame. 时钟刚敲响12点，这些残忍的侵略者就对该国的边境发动了进攻，占领了城市，杀死了成千上万的无辜平民，这个战区陷入一片火海中。

　　166. Although it braked, the reversing truck still bumped a woman nearby who was bending and sweeping the street, and crushed the woman’s arm, which was impossible to preserve. 虽然采取了刹车措施，这辆倒退的卡车仍然撞到了旁边正在弯腰扫地的妇女，压碎了她的手臂。这只手臂不可能保住了。167. A gifted debater should always be full of passion and vigour and never interrupts or even quarrels with his opponent, but responds rapidly with remarkable logical argument. 有天分的辩论者总是充满激情和精力，从不打断甚至与他的对手争吵，但是能以出色的逻辑论证快速作出回应。

　　168. Because the ice continues to dissolve, the delicate layer of ice covering the shallow lake implies that it is impossible to hold an amusing skating race. 由于冰在不断融化，覆盖在这片浅湖上的这层薄冰说明不可能在这举行一场充满乐趣的滑冰比赛。