26. The information I've collected over last few years leads me to believe that this knowledge may be less useful than most people think.
从这几年我搜集的信息来看，这类常识并无人们想象的那样有用。
27. Now, it is generally accepted that no college or university can educate its students by the time they graduation.
目前，大家常见觉得没一所大学可以在毕业时候教给学生所有些常识。
28. This is a matter of life and death--a matter no country can afford to ignore.
这是一个关系到生死的问题，任何国家都不可以忽略。
29. For my part, I agree with the latter opinion for the following reasons:
我赞同后者，有如下理由：
30. Before giving my opinion, I think it is important to look at the arguments on both sides.
在给出我的看法之前，我想看看双方的看法是要紧的。
31. This view is now being questioned by more and more people.
这一看法正遭到更多人的质疑。
32. Although many people claim that, along with the rapidly 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.
尽管很多人觉得伴随经济的飞速发展，用自行车的人数会降低，自行车或许会消亡， 然而，这几年我采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要紧有哪些用途。
33. 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：持续增加的污染不只会致使像全球变暖如此紧急的问题，而且还将威胁到人类在这个星球的存活。
34. In view of such serious situation, environmental tools of transportation like bicycle are more important than any time before.
考虑到这类紧急的情况，大家比以往任何时候更需要像自行车如此的环保型交通工具。
35. Using bicycle contributes greatly to people's physical fitness1 as well as easing traffic jams.
用自行车能够帮助大家的身体健康，并很大地缓解了交通阻塞。
36. Despite many obvious advantages of bicycle, it is not without its problem.
尽管自行车有很多明显的优点，但它也存在它的问题。
37. 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，自行车是没办法和汽车、火车如此的交通工具相比的。
38. From what has been discussed above, we may safely draw the conclusion that advantages of bicycle far outweigh2 its disadvantages and it will still play essential roles in modern society.
通过以上讨论，大家可以得出结论：自行车的优点远大于缺点，并且在现代社会它仍将发挥要紧用途。
39. 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.
目前在高校和研究机构对教育存在着很多争论，其中一个问题就是教育是不是是个终身学习的过程。
40. This issue has caused wide public concern.
这个问题已经引起了广泛关注。
41. It must be noted3 that learning must be done by a person himself.
需要指出学习只能靠自己。
42. A large number of people tend to live under the illusion4 that they had completed their education when they finished their schooling5. 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.
很多人存在这种误解，觉得离开学校就意味着结束了他们的教育。显然，他们忽略了教育是生活要紧部分这一基本事实。
43. As for me, I'm in favor of the opinion that education is not complete with graduation, for the following reasons:
就我而言，我赞同教育不应该伴随毕业而结束的看法，有以下缘由：
44. It is commonly accepted that no college or university can educate its students by the time they graduate.
大家常见觉得高校是不可能在毕业的时候教会他们的学生所有常识的。 45. Even the best possible graduate needs to continue learning before she or he becomes an educated person.
即便最棒的毕业生，要想成为一个博学的人也要不断地学习。
46. It is commonly thought that our society had dramatically changed by modern science and technology, and human had made extraordinary progress in knowledge and technology over the recent decades.
大家常见觉得大家的现代科技使大家的社会发生了巨大的变化，近几十年人类在科技方面获得了惊人的进步。
47. Now people in growing numbers are beginning to believe that learning new skills and knowledge contributes directly to enhancing6 their job opportunities or promotion7 opportunities.
目前愈加多的人开始相信学习新的技术和常识能直接帮助他们获得工作就会或提高的机会。
48. An investigation8 shows that many older people express a strong desire to continue studying in university or college.
一项调查显示很多老人都有到大学继续学习的愿望。
49. For the majority of people, reading or learning a new skill has become the focus of their lives and the source of their happiness and contentment after their retirement9.
对大部分人来讲，退休将来，阅读或学习一项新技术已成为他们生活的中心和开心的来源。
50. For people who want to adopt a healthy and meaningful life style, it is important to find time to learn certain new knowledge. Just as an old saying goes: it is never too late to learn.
对于那些想过上健康而有意义的生活的大家来讲，找时间学习一些新常识是非常重要的，正如那句老话：活到老，学到老。
