Passage 1

In the United States, boys and girls start school when they are five years old. In some states they must stay in school until they are sixteen.Most students are seventeen or eighteen years old when they graduate from secondary schools. Another name for secondary school is high school.

Most children go to public elementary and secondary schools. The parents of public school pupils do not have to pay directly for their children’s education because tax money supports the public schools. If a child attends a private school, his parents pay the school for the child’s education.

Today about half of the high school graduates go on to colleges and universities. Some colleges and universities receive tax money from the government. A student at a state university does not have to pay very much if his parents live in that state. Private colleges and universities are expensive; however, almost half of the college students in the United States work while they are studying. When a student’s family is not rich, he has to earn money for part of his college expenses.

31、The students in all the states of the U.S. must finish _________ school until they are _________ at least.

我们怎样才能防止这种疾病蔓延?(prevent ... from, disease)

供水条件的改善会给健康带来巨大的影响。(water supply, have an effect on)

由于天气原因，航班已经推迟了一个小时了。(due to, delay)

我们必须尽最大可能地利用我们已有的资源。(make use of, resources)

阅读下面的短文，然后把划线的句子翻译成汉语。

Making the transition to e-business can be daunting. (71) [There is so much to do, so many questions to answer, so many possibilities to explore.] How do you know where to start?

(72) [When you begin planning an e-business, the most important thing to remember is that you shouldn’t try to do everything at once.] Biting off more than you and your team can effectively handle can be as big a problem as doing nothing. Focus your initial ebusiness efforts on those areas that can most immediately gain from the investment. (73) [This lets you pick a targeted starting point, with clear goals and boundaries, so you can build the foundation from which other e-business initiatives will flow.]

Intel took this advice to heart when it began planning the Intel e-business Web site. Rather than attempting to remake the entire Intel business infrastructure — a truly daunting task for a global corporation with over 65,000 employees — the company focused on its direct customers, including OEMs and distributors. (74) [The idea was to focus on customers who already had a relationship through Intel field sales and customer support, and find ways to improve that relationship through the Internet.]

(75) [“We picked one thing we could build very quickly and deploy to our customers,” says Sandra Morris, director of Intel’s Internet Marketing & e-Commerce.]

工业革命改变了整个英国的社会结构。(modify, structure)

global market

supply chains

information network

human resources