1. Carl is studying food science at college and hopes to open up a meat processing factory of his own one day. 卡尔在大学里学习食品科学，并希望有一天开家属于自己的肉类加工厂。(2012安徽卷)

2. “May I help you? You seem to be having some problems.” “It’s all right, thanks. I think I can manage.” “要我帮忙吗？你看上去有些麻烦。”“没事，谢谢。我想我能应付。”(2012安徽卷)

3. Interest is as vital to learning as the ability to understand, even more so. 对于学习来说，兴趣与理解的能力都至关重要，兴趣甚至更重要。(2012安徽卷)

4. I remembered to lock the door before I left the office, but forgot to turn off the lights. 在离开办公室前，我记得锁门，但忘记了关灯。(2012安徽卷)

5. You can change your job, you can move house, but friendship is meant to be for life. 你可以换工作，可以搬家，但友谊意味着一辈子。(2012安徽卷)

6. In order to find the missing child, villagers have been doing all they can over the past five hours. 为了找到失踪的孩子，村民们在过去的5个小时已经做了他们所有能做的。(2012安徽卷)

7. The limits of a person’s intelligence, generally speaking, are fixed at birth, but whether he reaches these limits will depend on his environment. 一般说来，一个人的智力极限是生下来就确定的，但他能否达到这些极限，取决于环境。(2012安徽卷)

8. The athlete’s years of hard training paid off when she finally won the Olympic gold medal. 那名运动员多年的艰苦训练有了回报，她最终赢得了奥运会金牌。(2012安徽卷)

9. A lot of language learning, as has been discovered, is happening in the first year of life, so parents should talk much to their children during that period. 正如所发现的那样，大量语言学习发生在出生后的第一年。因此在那段时期，父母应该对他们的孩子多说话。(2012安徽卷)

10. When asked for his views about his teaching job, Philip said he found it very interesting and rewarding. 当被问及他对教学工作的看法时，菲利普说道，他发现教学工作不仅很有趣味，而且很有收获。(2012安徽卷)

11. Grace doesn’t want to move to New York because she thinks if she were to live there, she wouldn’t be able to see her parents very often. 格瑞丝不想搬去纽约，因为她认为如果在那生活，她就不能经常看望她的父母了。(2012安徽卷)

12. “I love the Internet. I’ve come to know many friends on the Net.” “It’s not the case. Few of them would become your real friends.” “我爱互联网，我已经在网上认识了很多朋友。”“事实并非如此，他们中很少有人会成为你真正的朋友。”(2012安徽卷)

13. Walmart, which is one of the largest American supermarket chains, keeps some of its stores open 24 hours on Mondays through Saturdays. 美国最大的连锁超市之一――沃尔玛，让它的一些商店从周一到周六24小时开放。(2012安徽卷)

14. Queen ElizabethⅡ is often thought to be the richest woman in the world. However, her personal wealth seems rather small. 女皇伊丽莎白二世通常被认为是世界上最富有的女性。然而，她的个人财富似乎相当小。(2012安徽卷)

15. After school we went to the reading-room to do some reading, only to be told that it was